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itnesses in the challenge brought by Manuel Natal Albelo, the Citizen Victory Movement candidate for mayor of San Juan, against the election of Miguel Romero Lugo as San Juan mayor described on Thursday what appeared to be a disorganized electoral process in which documents were put in plastic bags and cases carrying ballots lacked the needed documents to identify them.

Superior Court Judge Anthony Cuevas began hearing witnesses on the first day of hearings Thursday after the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals last month overturned his ruling dismissing the challenge for lack of jurisdiction.

On Jan. 14 of this year, Natal challenged Romero’s election as mayor of San Juan citing alleged irregularities in Unit 77 that he said could change the results of the election. The State Elections Commission (SEC) certification for the San Juan mayor’s office indicates that Romero, the New Progressive Party (NPP) candidate, defeated Natal by 3,465 votes, but Natal in his lawsuit had argued that there are “at least 6,593 municipal ballots from Unit 77 that are illegal and whose voters, chain of custody and provenance are impossible to determine.

“This extraordinary number of illegal ballots and excess votes, by itself, and in conjunction with the other irregularities detailed in this appeal, are enough to change the outcome of the election,” the lawsuit argued. “It is a surplus of ballots whose appearance and adjudication, even after the general scrutiny, remain mysterious and indecipherable.”

Cuevas had dismissed the suit arguing that Romero had not been served as established by law, and for that reason, the court lacked jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals disagreed.

Natal’s lawyers focused Thursday on proving that the electoral process was disorganized.

During the hearing, Cuevas tried to limit evidence.

For instance, he told Natal’s legal representatives that he could not submit as evidence some 17 certifications that the lawyers said contained more than 5,000 ballots whose origin could not be identified because they were not submitted by Tuesday’s deadline. Cuevas later said the evidence could be submitted through a motion in the event the lawyers wanted to appeal the ruling. He also limited the number of witnesses.

Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Statistics Officer Hugo Cruz Cruz, and Guillermo San Antonio Acha, a former PDP electoral commissioner and an observer for Natal’s candidacy, were the first to testify.

From the witness chair, Cruz Cruz said documents from early voting arrived with arithmetic errors and with “all kinds of discrepancies.”

He said that whenever he found errors, he would go

to the counting director to have them corrected, but he was unable to indicate how many of the records had to be corrected.

San Antonio Acha testified in response to questions from Natal’s lawyer, Manuel Rodríguez Banchs, that in Unit 77 there were ballot cases for which it was not possible to verify their origin or where the ballots came from.

He said some of the cases containing ballots had broken seals, which fueled doubts about the transparency of the process, as well as misalignment of ballots.

“I called them ghost briefcases, blind briefcases,” San Antonio Acha said. “The briefcases must have documentation like the voters list.”

San Antonio Acha worked as Natal’s observer from the beginning of November to mid-December. He noted that the difference between the 2016 electoral process and that of 2020 was “monumental.”

“There was a lack of controls at the electoral tables.

There was tension in the San Juan precincts because there were questions as to who was the candidate that had won,” he said. “I saw something that I had not seen before -- disputes around the ballots; there were ballots that were objected to because they were not folded. At the table there was a discussion about why there were unfolded ballots and the animosity was such that the officials folded the ballots.”

San Antonio Acha also indicated that ballots were brought in plastic bags and cases whose origin was unknown.

He commented that he was surprised by the lack of controls indicated by the continued appearances of ballot cases when the units and seals had been completed.

At Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Antonio Acha said, he saw vaults that were not protected.

“All this in an environment of disorganization, tension, lack of control of briefcases without the minutes, without the voters’ lists,” he said. “We saw that daily, precinct after precinct.”

He noted that as an observer he could not make decisions about what was happening and that he could only contribute with his knowledge of the problems that existed. San Antonio Acha did not receive pay from Natal as an observer and opted to help him out of respect and to help the flow of the process.

SEC lawyers and those for the NPP questioned San Antonio Acha as to the reasons why he did not raise his concerns about the irregularities he saw.

Romero’s lawyer, Eliezer Aldarondo, sought to have San Antonio Acha’s testimony thrown out of court.

Fermín Arraiza, who acted as an observer for the American Civil Liberties Union, also noted the lack of documentation in ballot cases and the lack of voter lists.

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Governor announces ‘minimal changes’ in new executive order to control coronavirus pandemic Guarantees strategies to better inform tourists on COVID-19 restrictions and rules of conduct

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

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ith islanders expressing concern and complaints through social networks about the behavior demonstrated by tourists visiting Puerto Rico in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia responded Thursday to questions from the STAR, saying he has met with both Puerto Rico Tourism Co. Director Carlos Mercado and Destination Marketing Organization Director Brad Dean to develop strategies for better informing tourists about the rules and regulations established on the island to control the pandemic.

During a virtual press conference in which Pierluisi announced the updated executive order that goes into effect Monday and remains in place until Saturday, April 11, he said he addressed the issue earlier with both officials as they “will be in communication with hotels, inns and lodgings to, once again, ensure tourists are properly informed.”

“The same thing can be done with online marketplaces used to rent properties in Puerto Rico, to alert them that they have to disseminate what the rules of behavior are that we are es-

In the latest version of the executive order, Pierluisi announced that restaurants and movie theaters will be authorized to expand operating capacity to 50%. tablishing by way of this executive order,” the governor said. “[The order] applies to everyone equally. Here no one can think that they are ‘sacred cows.’ Here the order applies to everyone on equal terms.”

Meanwhile, as for mitigating cases of crowding during the coronavirus pandemic, Public Safety Secretary-designate Alexis Torres said the department’s current plans for enforcing the decree are to keep contact with municipal police stations, mayors, and the island Health Department to take action against breaches as soon as possible.

As for San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Bureau Commissioner Antonio López said he is currently “in contact with Col. Juan García to work together on the areas that have been highlighted by the press and social media outlets.”

López added that “through the Human Relations Division, the Police will be providing information to business owners to in turn inform tourists on how to comply with the executive order.”

The police commissioner also told the STAR that he is in communication with capital city authorities about maintaining surveillance in locations such as La Placita de Santurce and La Perla in Old San Juan “so things run as they should.”

Regarding the executive order, in addition to telling members of the press on Wednesday not to expect “major changes” in the latest version, Pierluisi announced that restaurants and movie theaters will be authorized to expand operating capacity to 50%.

In the current executive order, those commercial establishments are authorized to operate at only 30% capacity.

Moreover, Pierluisi said live performance theaters will now be authorized to operate at 30% capacity “to begin opening up cultural activities during the pandemic.”

However, the governor said that “theaters will be subject to compliance with a protocol approved by the Health Department.”

The new decree will also limit the need to request waivers from the Department of State for small activities at locations that are already restricted in the executive order in terms of occupancy capacity.

In other words, small activities may be held as long as they comply with the venue’s COVID-19 safety protocols, which include a limit on occupancy capacity, and a list of attendees and their contact information for tracing purposes.

Aside from this, visits to elderly care centers, long-term care facilities, and prison institutions, including juvenile institutions, will be authorized in compliance with the protocols approved by the Health Department.

Moreover, Head Start, Early Head Start, and child care centers are authorized for “a controlled reopening” to ensure the safety of children and staff members.

To that end, the centers must follow the plans that the Family Department, through its Licensing Office and the Administration for the Comprehensive Care and Development of Children, develops in coordination with the Health Department.

Likewise, the order allows the mayors of Vieques and Culebra to decide on the maritime transportation of tourists to those offshore island municipalities “after more than 60 percent of the population of both islands has already been vaccinated, at least with the first dose.”

Meanwhile, curfew remains from 12 a.m. until 5 a.m. and commercial establishments and restaurants can remain open until 11 p.m.

Bars, coliseums and larger event venues will not be authorized under the new order, however.

Physical distancing and the mandatory use of face masks in commercial establishments remain in effect.

PR Teachers Assn. president: ‘Hasty reopening’ causing ‘instability & concern’ Local union calls on gov’t to develop ‘structured’ back-to-school plan for August

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

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ith some schools in Puerto Rico partially reopening for in-person instruction during the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, Puerto Rico Teachers Association (AMPR by its Spanish initials) President Víctor Bonilla Suárez said Thursday that nobody should be surprised by the poor student attendance because most schools are decidedly unfit to receive either teachers or students.

Bonilla Suárez said AMPR members had the chance to visit several schools in different parts of the island such as Caguas, Bayamón and Humacao, and established that “the reality is that uncertainty and insecurity permeate among both teachers and parents.”

“We are in the midst of a health and safety situation, and to conduct such a hasty reopening has brought a lot of non-attendance, instability and concern among the community,” Bonilla Suárez said during a press conference at AMPR headquarters in San Juan. “We believe that the state should have moved all its machinery and put all its effort to work on a structured plan for August because, according to an internal report, yesterday only 38 out of 95 reopened schools had an attendance of 732 students.”

“After a year, or almost a year and a half after the earthquakes that shook Puerto Rico, only uncertainty, misinformation and worry among teachers persist in what the Education Department has called a reopening,” the AMPR president added.

Bonilla Suárez said further that ventilation in classrooms has been limited, which he said has taken a toll among teachers and students who have attended school this week.

“We live on a tropical island and the heat is intense,” he said. “We have met with teachers

who have expressed their concern mainly for the special education students, because there are classrooms with few windows and, therefore, little ventilation.”

Aside from this, the official said that conducting classes in “very hot rooms while wearing face masks will bring about breathing difficulties.”

“This is inhumane and we hope that [Education] Secretary-designate [Elba Aponte Santos] will take action on the matter as we will be vigilant,” he said. “It is of the utmost importance that each school has a Health and Safety Committee because they are the ones who will ensure that all health protocols are followed.”

“We request that both the State and Education [departments] move to organize a work schedule and plan the return for August and avoid greater chaos, as we must not forget that it has been reported that some 300 schools may not be open for the next school year,” Bonilla Suárez added.

Local Union General Secretary Grichelle Toledo Correa, meanwhile, called on Aponte

Santos to make some school directors cease and desist from summoning teachers to work in schools that are not on the reopening list.

“The only members of the appropriate teaching unit who have to be summoned to work are those K-3, full-time special education classroom, and 12th grade teachers who work in schools that are on the reopening lists and who have a preliminary certification from the Health Department,” Toledo Correa said. “Summoning teachers whose school is not on the list is an arbitrary and capricious action, in addition to placing the health and safety of those teachers at risk.”

Toledo Correa said the start of in-person instruction should have been delayed until August to avoid exposing the school community and to reduce everyone’s anxiety.

“We reiterate that we are available to collaborate in order to achieve a safe, healthy and structured process for all school communities and we request a meeting to set up a work schedule for the next school semester,” she said.

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Dignity Project lawmakers sue governor over gender perspective curriculum

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ignity Project legislators sued Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Thursday to challenge the constitutionality of Executive Order 2021-013, which would implement a gender perspective curriculum in Puerto Rico’s public education system.

Sen. Joanne Rodríguez Veve and Rep. Lisie Burgos Muñiz argued that Executive Order 2021-013, as well as Executive Order 2020-078, declared by former Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced and adopted by Pierluisi, “configured an executive action that exceeds the constitutionally delegated powers of the Executive Branch in ordering the implementation of a gender perspective curriculum throughout the public education system through coeducational schools.”

The lawsuit was opposed by gay rights activist Pedro Julio Serrano, who criticized the lawmakers’ action in written remarks.

“The state has the right to educate boys and girls in accordance with the right to equality and the inalienable dignity of all

Sen. Joanne Rodríguez Veve and Rep. Lisie Burgos Muñiz human beings promulgated in the [Puerto Rico] Constitution,” he said.

A gender equality perspective strives to extend to women the same rights and privi-

leges that men have through identifying areas of unequal treatment and eliminating them.

The lawmakers, however, said the executive order “usurps the prerogatives of the Legislative Assembly established in Act 62-2017.”

Executive Order 2021-013 of Jan. 25, 2021 decreed a state of emergency due to a sharp rise in the number of gender violence cases in Puerto Rico.

In the order, Pierluisi said his administration is committed to “establishing a process to develop a gender perspective curriculum that helps combat the causes that contribute to inequality, discrimination and violence.”

The legislators said Pierluisi’s order kept the provisions of Executive Order 2020-078 in force, through which the Department of Education was ordered to extend to the entire school system the model of specialized coeducational schools implemented as a pilot project through Act 62-2017 by the August 2021 semester with the goal of promoting “gender equality to prevent discrimination between women and men, eliminate ste-

reotypes and fight against gender violence.”

The model of coeducational schools to evaluate curricular strategies for combating gender violence was a project promoted by the island Legislature through the approval of Act 62-2017.

“However, the Legislative Assembly was clear and specific regarding the process of implementation and analysis of the effectiveness of this type of education prior to expanding it through all public educational institutions on the island,” the lawsuit states.

The lawmakers are seeking that the government be “ordered to cease and desist from all and any effort aimed at producing the observance and execution of the normative contents of Executive Order-2020-078 and 2021-013 in everything related to the implementation of a curriculum with a gender perspective in the public education system through coeducational schools.”

In addition, they want “the Governor of Puerto Rico and the Secretary of the Department of Education to be ordered to comply with Act 62-2017,” the document states.

SJ mayor extends cleaning & recovery operations

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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an Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced Thursday that the cleaning and recovery operations that have been carried out in the island capital will be extended at least until April in order to clean up the accumulation of waste caused by a lack of work plans in recent years.

Romero provided updates on the work being conducted by the municipality, noting that over 7,500 tons of debris have already been collected through the elimination of clandestine landfills, removal of scrap metal, cleanups in neighborhoods, parks and recreational facilities, and removal of abandoned vehicles.

The expanded recovery work will include resurfacing and repairing municipal roads, lighting work in public areas, signs, and rehabilitation of abandoned green areas.

“There is still a lot to complete, which is why we are extending the large-scale recovery operation efforts that began last January when I took office as mayor until at least April,” Romero said. “I am

very grateful for the work and effort of our municipal Operations and Beautification employees. Our team is focused on recovering our capital and keeping it in optimal condition for the enjoyment of its residents and visitors.”

The mayor said that “to date, 7,600 tons of debris have been collected in 482 sectors and roadways with 1,673 trips carried out.”

“Also, in three large-scale scrap metal collection operations, our Municipal Police, along with the Operations and Beautification team, have collected 220 units of junk vehicles from our streets,” Romero added.

The recovery efforts also have included the repair of more than 35 sewers in various communities, and more than 100 storm sewers have received maintenance, the mayor said.

Meanwhile, municipal crews have carried out resurfacing work on four main thoroughfares in San Juan — De Diego Avenue and Southeast 9, Southeast 54 and Southeast 52 streets — with the deposit of 1,200 tons of pavement, Romero said. In addition, 125 municipal road signs have been installed; 900 linear feet of sidewalks,

curbs and shoulders have been repaired; and 2,800 linear feet of canals and streams have been cleared. In green areas, 37 roads, municipal streets and avenues, along with 61 parks and the four municipal cemeteries, have received maintenance.

“The revitalization and optimization efforts will continue,” the mayor said. “The

neglect that we suffered in recent years was more than evident. We invite San Juan residents to make good use of our green and recreational areas and we urge them to defend their capital and support our work by keeping the surroundings clean and in good condition. Caring for San Juan is everyone’s responsibility.”

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Friendly reminder: LUMA can leave PR in case of a hurricane

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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omás Torres Placa, the consumer representative to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) governing board, said Thursday in a radio interview that the contract that the island government signed with LUMA Energy to manage PREPA’s transmission and distribution system allows that consortium to leave Puerto Rico in the event of a hurricane, among other scenarios, without any penalty being imposed, a fact reported by the STAR on Feb. 28.

“Any resolution and order of the [Puerto Rico] Energy Bureau that they [LUMA] understand to be adverse to their purpose here, they can go,” Torres Placa said in an interview on Notiuno 630 AM. “If the adjustment plan of the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the decision of the federal court [under] PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability of 2016], does not agree with what they believe, they can leave.”

“This is what the contract says; this is not my opinion. These are the facts,” Torres Placa added. “What happens here is that LUMA, [with] this contract, they hold the

entire electrical system of Puerto Rico hostage because if something happens that does not align with the vision of this operator, if they [regulators or other government authorities] do not agree with how this operator believes that things must be, they [LUMA] can go.”

“And what is the problem?” the consumer rep continued. “That this contract, not Law 120, not Law 17, the contract, [determines what happens] to all employees who go above the fixed rate that LUMA is paid plus incentives of $125 million per year. By the

way, that $125 million per year, which is a fixed rate plus incentives, is for six executives, a LUMA board -- because the PREPA board disappears, LUMA has its own board -- plus administrative expenses and consultant expenses, so all the employees who are not there then become LUMA employees by reimbursement.”

Torres Placa, an engineer, said the $10 billion in federal funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that PREPA will receive to modernize Puerto Rico’s electrical system requires that it “remain a public corporation -- it cannot be privatized.” And to receive federal funds PREPA is not required to make a contract, he added.

“If this contract is executed as written, which would be a serious mistake, especially at the beginning of the hurricane season, since it [PREPA] would practically be handed over to a contractor -- because LUMA is a contractor -- that the Authority is hiring, and it [the island government] cedes all its operating rights of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority,” Torres Placa said. “It cedes practically 80 percent of the Electric Power Authority.”

The consumer rep went on to say that “[t]he contract must be amended in three

fundamental areas: supervision,” followed by costs -- “this is going to increase the rates and it has not been demonstrated how to lower it -- and third, a continuity of service must be guaranteed through the employees of the public corporation.”

LUMA reacted Thursday afternoon on a written statement.

“Force majeure clauses are standard in business contracts. LUMA is fully invested in the transformation of Puerto Rico’s electric power delivery system and remains focused on a June 2021 service commencement date.

During this front-end transition, LUMA has discovered the electric power transmission and distribution system that is very fragile and deteriorating; its transformation must not be delayed. LUMA will be prepared to start delivering on a customer-centric, reliable, and resilient energy system that Puerto Ricans deserve upon commencement, a commitment that includes disaster preparedness in the event of a major storm or hurricane this upcoming season. In fact, LUMA has emergency response equipment on island and ready to deploy in the event of a disaster. It is what we are here to do and what we intend to accomplish over the duration of the 15-year contract period,” the statement reads.

Regulatory Board chairman declines comment on PREPA-LUMA contract

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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en. Ramón Ruiz Nieves said Thursday that during a public hearing of the Senate Government Committee, Edison Avilés Deliz, who chairs both the Public Service Regulatory Board (JRSP by its Spanish initials) and the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, declined to answer questions about the

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contract between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and LUMA Energy by order of the Government Ethics Office and the commonwealth Department of Justice.

“Attorney Avilés is raising an immunity before the Committee, from which he must be given that relevant space, but we publicly state that as soon as the reports from the Office of Management and Budget arrive, he can be cited again,” Ruiz Nieves said in a written statement.

“We have to sit down with him to discuss the advances concerning the legislation, the duties of the Board [JRSP] and everything that has to do with this framework in order to synthesize how cost-effective the reorganization plans have been and on the most important thing, the functions of the Energy Bureau, under this structure,” the senator added.

The Government Committee, chaired by Ruiz Nieves, is investigating the processes of island agencies, departments and dependencies to implement the reorganization plans ordered by Law 122-2017, and by Senate Resolution 25.

As stated in the legislation accompanying Resolution 25, it will be possible to know if the aforementioned plans have been effective and if agencies have reduced spending under the altered government structure, if functions have been consolidated, if the transfer of employees has been facilitated, if dependencies have been merged, and if services have been decentralized as proposed.

The Senate committee also seeks to investigate whether technology has been used to simplify processes and interconnect all public agencies and corporations through the Law 122 reorganizations and, more importantly, how the public employee workforce and their acquired rights have been treated, the senator said.

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Biden signs stimulus bill

By JIM TANKERSLEY, MICHAEL D. SHEAR, THOMAS KAPLAN and KATIE ROGERS

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resident Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion economic relief package on Thursday afternoon, ushering in an aggressive infusion of federal aid in a farreaching effort to address the toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

“This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country,” Biden said, “and giving the people of this nation, working people, the middle class folks, people who built the country a fighting chance.”

Biden had originally been scheduled to sign the bill on Friday, after it had been reviewed again and printed. But the president and his advisers, aware that low- and middle-income Americans are desperate for the round of direct payments that the bill includes, moved up the timeline to Thursday afternoon.

Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff, wrote on Twitter earlier on Thursday that the enrolled bill arrived at the White House on Wednesday night and that the president would sign it a day earlier than planned because they wanted “to move as fast as possible.”

But he added, “We will hold our celebration of the signing on Friday, as planned, with Congressional leaders!”

The president signed the measure in the Oval Office hours before he was set to deliver a prime-time televised address on Thursday night, kicking off an aggressive campaign to inform voters of the benefits that are coming to them through the relief package.

The campaign includes travel by the president and Vice President Kamala Harris across multiple states, events that will feature a wide range of Cabinet members emphasizing the legislation’s themes, as well as endorsements from Republican mayors, according to administration officials.

At press time, it was reported that Biden would “talk about what we’ve been through as a nation this past year.”

“But more importantly, I’m going to talk about what comes next,” he continued. “I’m going to launch the next phase of the COVID response and explain what we will do as a government and what we will ask of the American people.”

The address, which is taking place around the midpoint of Biden’s first 100 days in office, is shaping up to be one of the biggest moments for the new president since his inauguration.

It took place during a week of forward momentum for the new administration, not just from the passage of the aid plan but also from progress in filling out the president’s Cabinet. On Wednesday alone, the Senate confirmed three of his picks: Merrick Garland as attorney general, Marcia Fudge as secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Michael Regan as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The White House’s decision to go out and sell the aid package after its passage reflects a lesson from the early months of the Obama administration. In 2009, fighting to help the economy recover from a crippling financial crisis, President Barack Obama never succeeded in building durable popular

support for a similar bill and allowed Republicans to define it on their terms, fueling a partisan backlash and the rise of the Tea Party movement.

Biden starts with an advantage: The legislation is widely popular in national polling. And it will deliver a series of tangible benefits to low- and middle-income Ameri-

cans, including direct payments of $1,400 per individual, just as the economy’s halting recovery from the pandemic recession is poised to accelerate.

Biden will headline a week long public relations effort. He is set to visit the Philadelphia suburbs on Tuesday, and he and Harris are scheduled to travel to Atlanta next Friday.

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From page 7 A global takeover By the end of 2020, the coronavirus had invaded the last place on Earth believed to be infection-free — Antarctica — and had disrupted or delayed seemingly sacrosanct rituals everywhere else. The U.N. General Assembly did not assemble.

There was no Oktoberfest in Munich in October.

In June, 131 days after Lopez’s death was reported in the United States, Fauci, by then a household name, looked back. He said the coronavirus had turned out to be “my worst nightmare” — a brand-new, highly contagious and potentially fatal respiratory infection. One aspect, he said, was surprising: “How rapidly it just took over the planet.”

In the United States, it took 31 days for the death toll from the coronavirus to exceed the number of people killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks — 2,997. But the winter was worse: On eight days in December, there were more deaths than on Sept.

11. The seven-day average from Jan. 8 to Feb. 3 was much the same, except for Jan. 19, when it dipped to 2,992.

Two hundred thousand was the number the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had discussed in March in internal documents as a low range for a worst-case scenario.

Before that, in the same month, some estimates suggested that fewer than 500 people would die over the course of the pandemic. “More like 60,000,” Fauci predicted in April. “Anywhere from 75,000, 80,000 to 100,000 people,” Trump said in May. The U.S. reached the milestone of 100,000 deaths on May 27.

Of the 527,000 deaths, about a third were reported between Nov. 3 and Jan. 20, when Trump was preoccupied with efforts to “stop the steal,” not stop the virus, after states did not certify him as the winner of an election he had lost.

But the winter surge was so devastating that if another month is added to that time table, stretching it to the end of President Biden’s first month in office, it covers fully half the deaths of the pandemic.

By then, the death toll in the United States stood in troubling contrast to the trend in other high-income countries.

Italy, an early epicenter, kept its seven-day average below its April peak during a surge in November and December. Germany did not fare so well. Its highest single-day death toll in the spring was 294 on April 19. It passed that point on Nov. 17, and on Jan. 13, the country reported more than four times as many deaths.

Decontaminated masks in Columbus, Ohio on April 2, 2020. Against the backdrop of rising vaccination rates, it is almost possible to let what communities endured in those early weeks recede into memory, a blur of missteps and mistakes.

As for case counts, more than 29 million Americans have now been infected with the coronavirus. Devastating as that figure is, it probably presents an incomplete picture.

Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Trump administration, said in June that the number of Americans who had been infected with the coronavirus was probably 10 times the number of cases reported.

A lonely death Lopez, the first person whose death was attributed to the virus, died as it was beginning to bring the world to a halt. He died seven weeks after the first death was reported in China — where the virus had emerged in late 2020 in Wuhan — and roughly a week after the first coronavirus death was reported in Europe.

It was a time of growing uncertainty, when experts were scrambling to figure out how far the virus had already spread, whether it was treatable — and how bad the looming outbreak

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might be. Lopez had been a patient at EvergreenHealth hospital in Kirkland, Washington, where a long-term nursing home nearby was the center of an outbreak. (Weeks later, the Feb. 6 death of a 57-year-old auditor in San Jose, California, was reclassified as a coronavirus death, making her the nation’s first known victim.The auditor, Patricia Dowd, had developed flulike symptoms and died at home, in her kitchen. In King County, Washington, where Lopez died on Feb. 26, two deaths from Feb. 26 were later recategorized. Under cause of death, each was listed the way his was: COVID-19.)

Lopez had lived with kidney disease and had needed dialysis for several years, his brother David said last week. One of Ignacio’s legs had been amputated several years ago and he had been fitted with a prosthetic, David Lopez said. Ignacio had worked in restaurants owned by relatives, his brother added, and had collected old appliances, selling them for recycling.

He had also worked as a carpet installer.

David Lopez said no one in his family knew where or how the coronavirus had found his brother.

“It is what it is,” David Lopez said. “We’re still faced with the loss. But he’s going to be in the memory books forever.”

By the numbers 31Days for the death toll from the coronavirus to exceed the number of people killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks — 2,997.

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‘A ticking time bomb’: City jails are crowded again, stoking COVID fears

By TROY CLOSSON and JONAH E. BROMWICH

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ew York City’s jails were under such threat from the coronavirus last spring that city officials moved swiftly to let hundreds of people out of the crowded, airless, old buildings. The effort shrank the jail population to its lowest point in more than half a century.

But it did not last. A year later, jails are more crowded than they were when the pandemic began. And there has been an increase in infections in recent months that could pose a public health risk even beyond the jail walls.

There are now more than 5,500 people in the city’s jails, slightly more than were detained last March. About three quarters of the people being held have not been convicted. Many are awaiting trial much longer than usual, as the court system continues to operate at a near standstill during the pandemic.

In lawsuits, prisoners and guards alike have called the living conditions inside un-

sanitary and dangerous. Incarcerated people who were recently held at Rikers Island say social distancing has again become impossible in some jail units and that soap, sanitation wipes and disinfectants are scarce or unavailable. Many correctional officers, they say, still do not regularly wear face coverings.

“They haven’t done anything to keep us safe,” said Prakash Churaman, 21, who was released on bail from Rikers Island on Jan. 19. “Imagine how much bacteria, how much germs there is. It’s basically like we weren’t even human.”

Doctors said they feared the uptick of the virus in recent months could set the stage for another major outbreak inside.

“The more people in housing areas, the quicker it will spread,” said Dr. Robert Cohen, a member of the city’s Board of Correction, a watchdog agency that monitors jails. “Every week the number of people in jail increases.

And in most weeks, the number of people who have been exposed to COVID-19 within the jails increases as well.”

Those behind bars are at high risk for contracting and spreading the virus, and

Prakash Churaman stands for a portrait outside his residence in Queens on Feb. 26, 2021. Churaman, who was released from Rikers Island on bail in January, said the threat of the coronavirus behind bars caused his mental health to deteriorate.

correctional facilities have been home to some of the largest outbreaks nationally.

Often, those outbreaks have spread into the community at large, as people shuttle in and out of detention. Few of those being detained in New York have been offered vaccines.

“When we see the numbers start to rise as they have, it’s a ticking time bomb,” said Seth Prins, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. “Inevitably that will spread back into the communities where folks are returning to.”

Data kept by Correctional Health Services, which oversees care in jails, shows that infections and exposures in the jails crept up during January and February to their highest levels since last spring. A Department of Correction spokesman, in a statement, noted that the average test positivity rate in the jails was lower than in the city at large, although experts warn that the virus’s prevalence in jails can be hard to track.

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Their beds were laid out 24 to 36 inches experienced no relief from the pandemic — took to release people were implemented on a continuing basis and the jails population apart, he said, and the tables where he ate no time at which they were able to feel fully meals became increasingly congested. He safe from infection — they were in a state of began to grow anew in the summer.

The population rose as rollbacks to the rarely saw those spaces cleaned or disin- unrelenting anxiety.

“You go to sleep with the mask, you state’s bail-reform law went into effect in July, fected by staff. changes that data from the Center for Court Rigodis Appling, a Manhattan public wake up with the mask and you live with Innovation, a criminal justice nonprofit, defender, said that because her clients in jails this constant fear,” she said. shows contributed to some of the initial rise.

Once people are in jail, they are at the mercy of a court system operating in slow motion. People are spending an average of almost three months more in jail than they did before the pandemic, city data shows.

At least 700 people are jailed whose cases would probably have been resolved if not for the pandemic, according to the city.

An additional 285 who otherwise would have been discharged to state prison to serve sentences are stuck in city jails, as those transfers are currently suspended, the Department of Correction said.

Shawn Dunn, who was released from Rikers Island on Feb. 9 after about four months inside for several minor parole violations, said as the facility’s population rose in the winter, The entrance to Rikers Island in Queens on March 20, 2020. As the coronavirus more than 40 people were often living in pandemic raged last spring, New York City released hundreds of people from jail. the same housing dormitory unit as he was. A year later, the jails are just as full, and the virus is showing signs of returning.

From page 9 that staff members are subject to discipline for not wearing masks. The department also pointed to the ruling in a lawsuit filed by E.E. Keenan, a lawyer representing current and recent detainees at Rikers, in which a judge declined to order city jails to improve their hygiene regimens.

A spokesman for the city’s law department, Nick Paolucci, said the claims in the jails staff members’ suit were unsubstantiated.

Still, public defenders and civil liberties groups have urged a renewed effort to release people from jails.

In the earliest months of the pandemic, public defenders and local officials, led by Mayor Bill de Blasio, pushed for city prosecutors and state courts to release the most vulnerable populations from behind bars and introduced an early release program for people being held on a jail sentence of one year or less.

By late April, after hundreds were released, the total population dropped below 3,900.

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Inflation fear lurks, even as officials say not to worry

By NELSON D. SCWARTZ and JEANNA SMIALEKw

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hile the Biden administration’s ambitious effort to salve the pandemic’s deep economic wounds made its way through Congress, proponents insisted that funneling $1.9 trillion to U.S. households and businesses wouldn’t unshackle a long-vanquished monster: inflation.

Officials at the Federal Reserve, responsible for balancing the job needs of Americans with price pressures that could erode their buying power, have said there is little cause for worry.

Yet as the legislation moved toward the finish line, inflation prospects increasingly influenced political commentary and Wall Street trading.

The worries reflect expectations of a rapid economic expansion as businesses reopen and the pandemic recedes. Millions are still unemployed, and layoffs remain high. But for workers with secure jobs, higher spending seems almost certain in the months ahead as vaccinations prompt Americans to get out and about, deploying savings built up over the last year.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is among those tracking the inflation threat.

“There’s a very good chance you’re going to have a gangbuster economy for the rest of this year and easily into 2022, and the question is: Does that overheat everything?” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television last week.

In addition to the $1.9 trillion about to pour forth, Dimon said, $1 trillion in savings that piled up during the pandemic remains unspent.

The inflation fixation has been one driver behind a sharp sell-off in government bonds since the start of the year, pairing with a stronger growth outlook to push yields on 10year notes up to about 1.5%, from below 1%.

Bonds, like stocks, tend to lose value when inflation expectations grow, eroding asset values.

“I would not buy 10-year Treasurys,” Dimon said.

The volatile bond trading prompted several unnerving days on Wall Street last week.

High-flying tech stocks — previously seen as a haven for those chasing market-beating yields — were particularly upended, though broad share indexes remain near record highs.

A Sinclair gas station in Sinclair, Wyo., Feb. 1, 2021. Gasoline prices rose 6.4 percent in February, the Labor Department said.

“I would suspect there’s a pretty good chance you’re going to see rates going up,” Dimon said. “And people are starting to worry about that.”

Rising bond yields have also caused an uptick in mortgage rates, threatening one of the brightest spots in the coronavirus economy, the housing market. Home prices have been surging, especially in the suburbs, but a sustained rise in borrowing costs would almost certainly undermine that trend.

Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, and other central bank officials have made clear that they are not worried about the expected bounce in inflation. “There’s a difference between a onetime surge in prices and ongoing inflation,” Powell said this month, indicating that he expected the coming increase to be transitory.

Inflation is expected to increase in the coming months as prices are measured against weak readings from last year. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect the Consumer Price Index to hit an annual rate of 2.9% from April through June, easing to 2.5% in the three months after that before easing gradually to year-over-year gains of 2.2% in 2022, based on the median projection.

But those numbers are nothing like the staggering price increases of the 1970s, and evidence of renewed inflation is paltry so far.

On Wednesday, the Labor Department reported that prices rose modestly in February, nudged by an increase in gasoline prices that lifted the Consumer Price Index by 0.4%. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, the index rose 0.1%.

Gasoline prices alone were up 6.4% in February. But overall, the data matched projections, suggesting that inflation remains under control, despite a recent rise in prices for commodities like oil and copper. Stock markets rose on the news, with the Dow Jones industrial average reaching a new high.

“Outside of another buoyant advance in energy prices in February, consumer price inflation remains very tame,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief U.S. financial economist at Oxford Economics.

The inflation concerns among some investors are a turnaround from the aftermath of the 2007-9 recession, which was followed by a decade of frustratingly slow growth in the United States and Europe. For much of that time, deflation, or falling prices, was a leading

cause of anxiety among investors and economic experts.

Now there is a belief that economic growth will ramp up at least temporarily, thanks to relief from Capitol Hill and increased vaccinations across the country.

The about-face was noted Wednesday by economist Bernard Baumohl in a letter to clients. “If you suddenly feel the ground shaking beneath you, it’s not because an earthquake struck,” he wrote. “What you’re experiencing is a wild stampede of Wall Street bulls trampling over their previous softer economic forecasts and now charging ahead with near frothy upward revisions to GDP growth and inflation projections for 2021.”

Powell, the Fed chair, has made it clear that officials will need to see the economy at full employment, inflation above 2% and evidence that it will stay higher for some time before they will raise their key interest rate from rock bottom.

The Fed will meet in Washington next week and release a fresh set of policymakers’ economic projections next Wednesday.

Although the Fed looks at the Consumer Price Index, it bases its policy on a different gauge of price trends, which tends to run slightly lower.

Over the long term, inflation can be a concern because it hurts the value of many financial assets, especially stocks and bonds. It makes everything from milk and bread to gasoline more expensive for consumers, leaving them unable to keep up if salaries stall. And once inflation becomes entrenched, it can be hard to subdue.

But most mainstream economists doubt that a sustained bout of troublesome inflation is on its way.

“The inflation narrative has switched to concerns about rising prices,” said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. “For the Fed, price response to the economy reopening is seen as transitory and is unlikely to cause too much angst, given inflation pressures are not expected to be sustained.”

And Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO, signaled that inflation fears needed to be put in perspective. “I would put that on the things to worry about,” he said, but “I wouldn’t worry too much about it” — certainly not compared with taming the pandemic itself.

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A city ruptured

By ASHLEY GILBERTSON and NELSON D. SHWARTZ

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ew York City, the country’s largest metropolis and an engine of the U.S. economy, is more than just another victim of the coronavirus. It is a canvas upon which nearly every element of the pandemic played out, from the collapse in tourism and employment to the rise in crime and the strain on city services.

We spent months documenting the changing city as its economy frayed and split during the pandemic.

How we shopped, what we ate and how we worked immediately shifted. Office employees learned to take video calls from home, as restaurant and shop owners desperately tried to stay connected to customers, separated by screens and windows and other barriers. Armies of service workers were deemed “essential” but often went unseen and unprotected.

In a city with gleaming penthouses and decrepit slums, the pandemic made the extremes of rich and poor stand out even more.

The most fortunate residents were among the first to abandon the city. Over three months, the residential population in affluent neighborhoods like the Upper East Side, SoHo and Brooklyn Heights decreased by 40% or more.

Midweek felt like the weekend.

But in large swaths of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, there was nowhere to run or hide. The death rate was higher, and hospitals and morgues became overwhelmed as hundreds of people diedevery day across the city during the brutal first wave.

As the months went on, stores closed down one by one. Sometimes you could see

whole neighborhoods seemingly change overnight.

The city’s unemployment rate spiked to 18.3% in May, the highest level in the 44 years that the data has been collected. With no end in sight for lockdowns, a flood of New Yorkers sought unemployment insurance, food stamps and other aid.

Still, life went on. Products moved off the shelves of Amazon and FreshDirect warehouses as quickly as they moved onto them. Vendors hustled their merchandise down the sidewalk, even if there were fewer cars to dodge when they crossed the street. Masked and socially distanced, they were symbols of New York’s enduring resilience amid the carnage.

In a city famous for never sleeping, the subway stopped running 24 hours a day.

It is one of many services that have been cut during the pandemic. Trash began to pile up after $100 million was stripped from the sanitation budget in June. Stuyvesant Cove Park along the East River turned to goats to trim back weeds after it became overgrown following staffing changes.

By summer, the frustrations of shutdowns and economic collapse had burst into the open.

Counterfeit goods, once hawked with an eye out for the police, were sold openly. Robberies and hit-and-runs increased.

The city recorded more than 1,000 shootings by Labor Day, making it the worst year for

Street vendors with counterfet luxury goods on Canal Street in lower Manhattan on Oct. 11, 2020. gun violence since 2015, with four months left to go. Most shootings were concentrated in the areas hit hardest by the coronavirus and unemployment.

“The fact that the court system is not working, the economy is not working, people have been penned up for months and months — so many issues underlying this challenge,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in July about the rise in shootings.

New York City is heavily dependent on

A sports car parked outside of a restaurant in the SoHo neighborhoof of Manhattan on Aug. 17, 2020. New York City, the country’s largest metropolis and an engine of the American economy, is more than just another victim of the coronavirus.

tourism: 66 million people visited in 2019, when the hospitality industry generated $46 billion in spending and supported hundreds of thousands of jobs. The disappearance of this revenue was among the first economic jolts of the pandemic, and this sector has been among the slowest to return.

One day last fall, as a lone pedestrian crossed Times Square, it was quiet enough to hear the sound of the traffic lights changing.

The economy’s downturn has seemed bleakest at the airports, which once throbbed with activity. At various moments, the terminals of Kennedy Airport and La Guardia have felt like grand, forgotten monuments to the age of travel. Unused planes have often been parked on tarmacs in neat rows.

Luxury hotels can still barely fill rooms.

And there is little clue of when the footlights in Broadway theaters will shine again or when the crowds will return fully to destinations like the Bronx Zoo. In December, more than 1 in 10 New Yorkers who wanted to work still didn’t have a job — almost twice the country’s average.

But as the vaccine rollout picks up speed, people have begun trickling back into public life.

Schools are reopening. People have started dining indoors again, albeit with restrictions. And tourists and New Yorkers have begun to rediscover old pleasures, like the view of the Manhattan skyline from the Brooklyn Bridge or the quiet calm of a bench to yourself at the Museum of Modern Art. Or a hug with someone who has been 6 feet away for the past year.

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S&P 500, Dow hit record highs after upbeat jobless claims data

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The S&P 500 and the Dow indexes hit all-time highs on Thursday as worries about rising inflation subsided, while a bigger-than-expected fall in weekly jobless claims reinforced expectations of a labor market recovery.

Mega-cap stocks Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Facebook Inc and Tesla Inc gained between 2.2% and 3.6%, recouping losses from a recent pullback and helping the benchmark S&P 500 surpass its Feb. 16 peak of 3,950.43.

The blue-chip Dow hit an all-time high for the fourth straight session, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq is now about 5% below its Feb. 12 record close after slumping as much as 12% from that level last week.

Fewer than expected Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week as an improving public health environment allows more segments of the economy to reopen.

“The drop in jobless claims is another win for the week, and a solid sign that we’re making some strides toward prepandemic life,” said Mike Loewengart, managing director of investment strategy at E*TRADE Financial.

The benchmark Treasury yields were at 1.53% but below 1.6% ahead of an auction of U.S. 30-year debt later in the day. A weak seven-year auction in late February fueled inflation concerns and sent yields higher.Meanwhile, data showed fewer Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week amid falling COVID-19 infections, but the near-term outlook still remained unclear after winter storms wreaked havoc in the South region in the middle of this month.

Optimism about more U.S. stimulus and a quicker pace of vaccinations at the beginning of the month have positioned the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones indexes for their best monthly gain since November.

However, the lack of significant new developments around the fiscal package and the winding down of the earnings season have caused uncertainty in the market.

“In the beginning of February, the stimulus news was the driving force but now that it has been priced in, there is nothing on the distant horizon for equity investors to be excited about and there is a concern that upside is limited,” said Mike Zigmont, head of trading and research at Harvest Volatility Management.

At 12:27 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 341.74 points, or 1.07%, at 31,620.12, the S&P 500 was down 61.80 points, or 1.57%, at 3,863.63 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 328.82 points, or 2.42%, at 13,269.15.

Tesla Inc fell 5.04% after a media report that the electric-car maker told workers it would temporarily halt some production at its car assembly plant in California.

Best Buy Co Inc slid 9.66% on a weak full-year forecast after missing estimates for holiday-quarter comparable sales.

Moderna Inc jumped 5.37% after the drugmaker said it was expecting to post $18.4 billion in sales from its COVID-19 vaccine this year.

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Mexico set to legalize marijuana, becoming world’s largest market

By OSCAR LÓPEZ

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awmakers in Mexico approved a bill Wednesday night to legalize recreational marijuana, a milestone for the country, which is in the throes of a drug war and could become the world’s largest cannabis market, leaving the United States between two pot-selling neighbors.

The 316-129 vote in Mexico’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, came more than two years after the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that the country’s ban on recreational marijuana was unconstitutional and more than three years after the country legalized medicinal cannabis.

The chamber approved the bill in general terms Wednesday evening before moving on to a lengthy discussion of possible revisions introduced by individual lawmakers. In its final form, though, the measure is widely expected to sail through the Senate before being sent to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has signaled support for legalization.

The measure, as of Wednesday night, would allow adults to smoke marijuana and, with a permit, grow a small number of cannabis plants at home. It would also grant licenses for producers — from small farmers to commercial growers — to cultivate and sell the crop.

“Today we are in a historic moment,” said Simey Olvera, a lawmaker with the governing Morena party. “With this, the false belief that cannabis is part of Mexico’s serious public health problems is left behind.”

If enacted, Mexico would join Canada and Uruguay in a small but growing list of countries that have legalized marijuana in the Americas, adding further momentum to the legalization movement in the region. In the United States, Democrats in the Senate have also promised to scrap federal prohibition of the drug this year.

Lucía Riojas Martínez, a Mexican congresswoman who made headlines in 2019 when she gave a rolled joint to the country’s interior minister, in Mexico City, Dec. 16, 2020. Lawmakers in Mexico approved a bill to legalize recreational marijuana on March 10, 2021. Martinez and other proponents of legalization feel the bill is too limited in scope.

For “Mexico, given its size and its worldwide reputation for being damaged by the drug war, to take this step is enormously significant,” said John Walsh, director of drug policy for the Washington Office on Latin America, a U.S. advocacy group. “North America is heading toward legalization.”

In Mexico, however, the bill has proved divisive. Critics say it is unlikely to make a serious dent in Mexico’s soaring rates of cartel-fueled violence, and argue that it is unwelcome in a country where nearly two-thirds of people oppose legalizing marijuana, according to recent polling.

“It’s a political fad,” said Damián Zepeda Vidales, a senator with the opposition National Action Party and one of the bill’s most vocal detractors. “It’s a matter for politicians, for an elite that’s now empowered in Congress and in government

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that wants to impose a way of life on society.”

Security experts agree that the law’s practical impact on violence will likely be minimal: With 15 American states having now legalized marijuana, they argue, the crop has become a relatively small part of the Mexican drug trafficking business, with cartels focusing on more profitable products like fentanyl and methamphetamines.

“We shouldn’t overestimate the power of this bill,” said Falko Ernst, senior Mexico analyst for the International Crisis Group, a global research organization. The bill will not “substantially change the dynamics and drivers of lethal conflict in Mexico.”

Proponents of legalizing marijuana contend that the bill is too limited in scope, even if it represents a symbolic breakthrough in the push to end a drug war that has cost an estimated 150,000 lives, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.

Legalization “is an important step toward building peace in a country like ours, where for at least a decade or more, we’ve been immersed in an absurd war,” said Lucía Riojas Martínez, a Mexican congresswoman who made headlines in 2019 when she gave a rolled joint to the country’s interior minister, Olga Sánchez Cordero, after delivering a speech in Congress.

“But this bill falls short of achieving that,” she added.

It is also unclear how much the law will benefit Mexico’s poor farmers, who have grown marijuana for decades and often end up in the

middle of conflicts between warring drug trafficking groups.

The bill mandates that small farmers and Indigenous people be given priority in licensing, but stipulates only that these vulnerable groups can be granted more than one license.

And without additional state policies to tackle organized crime, particularly in areas where marijuana is grown, said Ernst, such wellintentioned requirements may be unable to have a meaningful impact for farmers in the regions controlled by cartels.

“For most areas where you have these high-conflict settings,” said Ernst, there are not enough state resources to truly take on organized crime groups.

But many entrepreneurs, at least, are seeing green. With more than 120 million people, Mexico would represent the largest marijuana market in the world by population. The crop could become big business in Mexico, a potential financial lift for an economy badly battered by the coronavirus crisis.

“It’s an excellent economic, natural, ethical and moral solution for a country in need,” said Juan Sánchez Mejorada, chief executive of Ceres Soluciones, a medicinal cannabis company.

“Doing this right could give Mexico an economic surplus,” he said.

This kind of fervor makes pro-marijuana activists nervous.

“It’s a law for the rich, and marijuana should be for everybody,” said Ivania Medina Rodríguez, 18, a local activist. “They’re going for business before rights.”

Dressed as a giant cannabis leaf, Medina was attending a protest last year that began at a small marijuana plantation outside the Senate offices in Mexico City, where locals now regularly come to smoke pot while the police turn a blind eye.

Some activists fear that the law will overly favor large corporations that could obtain what the bill terms an “integral license,” giving them access to the entire marijuana supply chain, from seed to sale, while leaving small-scale producers and vendors locked out of the lucrative market.

The bill in Mexico would allow individual users to carry up to 28 grams of marijuana and grow six cannabis plants at home. Cannabis could also be purchased by adults over 18 at authorized businesses, and grown at larger scale by licensed groups. Medical marijuana, which Mexico legalized in 2017, would be regulated separately by the health ministry, which published rules in January covering the growing and research of medicinal cannabis.

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Under fire over race, British media admit there might be a problem

By STEPHEN CASTLE and ISABELLA KWAI

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n the wake of Harry and Meghan’s explosive interview, an influential professional society speaking for the British news media issued a defiant response, rejecting the idea of racism and intolerance in British coverage of the couple.

On Wednesday the group, the Society of Editors, was forced into an embarrassing about-face after objections from more than 160 journalists of color as well as the editors of both The Guardian and The Financial Times.

On Monday, the society stated flatly that “The U.K. media is not bigoted,” and accused Meghan and Harry of an unfounded attack on the profession. Less than 48 hours later, it issued what it called a clarification, acknowledging that its initial statement “did not reflect what we all know: There is a lot of work to be done in the media to improve diversity and inclusion.”

The fallout from the interview has not just divided Britons and shaken the foundations of the royal family. It has also created schisms in the British news media, an industry that rarely outwardly break ranks, and raised broader questions about racism in British society.

But that unity has come under growing strain as more questions are asked about its treatment of race and mental health issues, as well as coverage of the royal family.

“Normally you would see the printed press standing up for each other, but here they have failed to make common cause,” said James Rodgers, an associate professor of journalism at City, University of London.

“A lot of the divisions in British society about the conduct of Harry and Meghan are mirrored in the media,” he added.

The most spectacular combustion engulfed one of Meghan’s strongest and unrelenting critics, Piers Morgan, a co-host of the ITV news show “Good Morning Britain,” who resigned Tuesday in the wake of his on-air attack on her, saying he didn’t believe that she really entertained thoughts of suicide.

That generated more than 40,000 complaints to a broadcast regulator and a direct complaint to ITV from Meghan herself, CNN reported.

The tabloid papers, which Harry and Meghan have blamed for driving them out of the country with their relentless attacks on her, have been noticeably restrained about the interview, media critics have said, apparently avoiding anything that could be construed as racist. Instead, they have focusing mostly on defending Queen Elizabeth II and the monarchy.

That measure of restraint may be the result of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline website having lost a recent court case involving the couple.

And few analysts were confident this would mark a significant shift either in British media’s complex, symbiotic, relationship with the monarchy or in its approach to the issue of race.

“In terms of the way racism sits in the national debate, Britain is very different from the U.S.,” said David Yelland, a former editor of the country’s high-selling tabloid, The Sun, and founder of Kitchen Table Partners, a communications company.

Though he does not agree that race directly motivated the tabloid criticism of Meghan, Yelland concedes that there is enormous unconscious bias in British newsrooms.

“In this country, we are way behind the U.S. in terms of this

being a topic that is on the lips of people all the time,” he said.

“There is a huge ignorance of what racism is in this country.”

For Yelland, the interview shined an unforgiving light on the relationship between the media and a monarchy with a longestablished tradition of not commenting on news articles.

The unspoken agreement, he said, was “that the monarchy never complains and in return the press is basically supportive but makes a lot of stuff up — some of it very painful to the palace.”

Meghan, he added, has “put a bomb under all that, and everyone is panicking.”

Other experts say the biases of the media largely reflect deeper strains in society. The furor over Meghan and Harry’s claim that a member of the royal family worried about the skin tone of her son Archie was driven by “a very deep denial in Britain as in many other societies about the existence of racism,” said Gavan Titley, a senior lecturer in Maynooth University and author of “Racism and Media.”

While the media and other institutions acknowledge that overt racism is unacceptable, many have a limited understanding of its nuances, he said, with people of color expected to provide “a burden of proof,” along with any accusations of racism. Conversations around racism, he said, moved quickly away from “the substantive discussion of racism to whether it’s racist or not and who gets offended.”

“They make it very, very difficult for people to speak of the experience of racism in British society.”

A 2019 report from the University of Leeds found that, while ethnic minorities received very little general news coverage, they figured prominently in stories about “specific news agendas, notably immigration, terrorism, and crime.”

Research compiled by Women in Journalism, an advocacy group, paints a stark picture of the British media industry: one that is white and predominantly male.

Over the course of a week in the summer of 2020, during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, not a single Black reporter was featured on the front page of any major publications, the report found.

According to Brian Cathcart, professor of journalism at Kingston University London, the accusations of bigoted coverage come at a moment of some vulnerability for Britain’s feared tabloids.

Like traditional print news media globally, Britain’s popular press is suffering a decline in circulation and advertising. It has suffered a proportional decline in influence, analysts say, although it retains significant power to set the agenda for the broadcast media.

Analysts play down the prospect of new media laws, saying Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dropped the idea of new regulation.

Yet the buccaneering swagger with which the tabloids once operated seems to have been much reduced.

“They are very upset at losing the legal case to Meghan and Harry; they were very upset because they were humiliated,” Cathcart said. “They are also worried that Harry and Meghan said that Buckingham Palace is in the pocket of the tabloids.”

Their response, he said, was to play the story relatively straight, and to concentrate on the elements of it that do not focus on the media’s coverage of the royal family.

“They are not sorry, they are not embarrassed, and they are going to brazen this out,” he said. “They are going to hope this dies down.”

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Russia says it is slowing access to Twitter

By ANTON TROIANOVSKI and ANDREW E. KRAMER

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he Russian government said Wednesday that it was slowing access to Twitter, accusing the social network of failing to remove illegal content and signaling that the Kremlin is escalating its offensive against U.S. internet companies that have long provided a haven for freedom of expression.

It was a landmark step in a country where the internet has essentially remained free despite President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule. But it did not go off without a hitch: As media regulators tried to slow access to Twitter, dozens of Russian government websites went offline for about an hour, a crash that some experts said most likely stemmed from a technical glitch in the state’s move against the social network.

Russia’s telecommunications regulator said it was reducing the speed at which Twitter loaded for users in Russia, and pictures and videos indeed at times took longer than usual to load. The regulator, Roskomnadzor, accused the U.S. company of failing for years to remove posts about illegal drug use or child pornography or messages “pushing minors toward suicide.”

“With the aim of protecting Russian citizens and forcing the internet service to follow the law on the territory of the Russian Federation, centralized reactive measures have been taken against Twitter starting March 10, 2021 — specifically, the initial throttling of the service’s speeds, in accordance with the regulations,” the regulator said in a statement.

“If the internet service Twitter continues to ignore the demands of the law, measures against it will continue in accordance with the regulations, up to and including blocking it,” it added.

In a statement, Twitter said it was aware of reports

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Russia’s telecommunications regulator said it was reducing the speed at which Twitter loaded for internet users in Russia. that its platform was “being intentionally slowed down broadly and indiscriminately in Russia due to apparent content removal concerns.”

Twitter said it had a zero-tolerance policy regarding child sexual exploitation, and did not allow the use of its platform for any unlawful behavior or to further illegal activities, including the buying and selling of drugs.

The action against Twitter, a site with a limited following in Russia, was intended as a warning to other U.S. internet companies, Alexander Khinshtein, a member of parliament who helped write a law that allowed the regulator to slow traffic, told reporters Wednesday.

He said that putting the brakes on Twitter traffic “will force all other social networks and large foreign internet companies to understand Russia won’t silently watch and swallow the flagrant ignoring of our laws.”

The companies would have to obey Russian rules on content or “lose the possibility to make money in Russia,” he added.

Twitter — and to a much greater extent, Facebook’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube — have given Russians ways to speak, report and organize openly even though the Kremlin controls the television airwaves.

Those social networks, along with Chinese-owned TikTok, played a pivotal role in the anti-Kremlin protests that accompanied the return and imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny this year. Navalny has some 2.5 million Twitter followers, and his investigation published in January into a purported secret palace of Putin was viewed more than 100 million times on YouTube.

Russian officials claim that Silicon Valley companies discriminate against Russians by blocking some proKremlin accounts while handing a megaphone to the Kremlin’s critics. They have also said that social networks have refused to remove content drawing children into

the unauthorized protests in support of Navalny.

In recent weeks, the Kremlin has led an intensifying drumbeat criticizing U.S. internet companies, painting them as corrupting foreign forces.

“Online, we bump into child pornography and child prostitution, with the sale and distribution of drugs, with children and teenagers as the target audience,” Putin said this month.

The internet must respect “the moral laws of the society in which we live — otherwise, this society will be destroyed from the inside,” the president said.

Twitter has a small user base in Russia, although it is popular among journalists, politicians and opposition activists. A report last year estimated the service had 690,000 active users in Russia, meaning that any public backlash over the move is likely to be far smaller than if the Kremlin imposed similar limits for Instagram or YouTube.

The Russian government’s get-tough message to U.S. companies, however, was blunted when soon after the announcement its own websites went offline for about an hour. Russian officials blamed an equipment failure and said the outage was unrelated to the move against Twitter.

The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media said in a statement that the problem with the government sites arose from an equipment failure at a state-run phone company and internet service provider, Rostelecom.

The Russian agency made the announcement in a Twitter post.

U.S. officials said over the weekend that they planned to retaliate against Russia for a sweeping hacking attack last year that exploited vulnerabilities in government and corporate computer systems in the United States. The officials said the retaliation was planned in the coming weeks, but there was no immediate evidence that Wednesday’s outage of Russian government websites was a sign of the latest volley in this cyberconflict.

Instead, commentators in Russia pointed to another possibility: that Russian regulators had bungled the job of restricting access to Twitter and inadvertently shut down government websites without any outside meddling.

“Russia’s slowing down of Twitter caused the outage,” Andrei Soldatov, a co-author of “Red Web” and an authority on Russian internet policy, said of the crash of government sites in an online post. What was meant to be in part a warning shot at U.S. internet companies, he added, “failed on all fronts.”

While trying to shut down the messaging app Telegram in 2018, Roskomnadzor inadvertently blocked service to thousands of other websites, many belonging to small businesses that used the same web hosting services as the app. Telegram remained widely available in Russia.

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What can Biden’s plan do for poverty? Look to Bangladesh.

By NICHOLAS KRITOF

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ne of the great moral stains on the United States is that the richest and most powerful country in history has accepted staggering levels of child poverty. With final legislative approval of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan on Wednesday, the United States has decided to scrub at that stain.

Most historic in the package are provisions that should sharply reduce child poverty. If these measures are made permanent, a Columbia University study suggests, child poverty could fall by half. By half! Biden will have done for children something analogous to what Franklin Roosevelt did for older adults with Social Security.

This represents a revolution in American policy and a belated recognition that all society has a stake in investing in poor kids. To understand the returns that are possible, let’s look to lessons from halfway around the world.

Bangladesh was born 50 years ago this month amid genocide, squalor and starvation. Henry Kissinger famously referred to Bangladesh then as a “basket case,” and horrifying photos from a famine in 1974 sealed the country’s reputation as hopeless.

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A schoolgirl in her village in Bangladesh. that killed more than 100,000 people, I wrote a bleak article for The Times suggesting that the country was “bountiful primarily in misfortune.” I was right that Bangladesh faces huge challenges, not least climate change. But overall, my pessimism was dead wrong, for Bangladesh has since enjoyed three decades of extraordinary progress.

Economic growth rates rose steadily, and for the four years before the current pandemic, Bangladesh’s economy soared by 7% to 8% per year, according to the World Bank. That was faster than China’s.

Life expectancy in Bangladesh is 72 years. That’s longer than in quite a few places in the United States, including in 10 counties in Mississippi. Bangladesh may have once epitomized hopelessness, but it now has much to teach the world about how to engineer progress.

What was Bangladesh’s secret? It was education and girls.

In the early 1980s, fewer than one-third of Bangladeshis completed elementary school. Girls in particular were rarely educated and contributed negligibly to the economy.

But then the government and civic organizations promoted education, including for girls. Today, 98% of children in Bangladesh complete elementary school. Still more astonishing for a country with a history of gender gaps, there are now more girls in high school in Bangladesh than boys.

“The most dramatic thing that happened to Bangladesh has to do with transforming the status of women, starting with the poorest women,” Muhammad Yunus, the

Nobel Peace Prize winner who pioneered microcredit in Bangladesh and elsewhere, told me. Yunus founded Grameen Bank, which turned women into entrepreneurs — nearly 100,000 became “telephone ladies” over four years, selling mobile phone services — in ways that helped transform them and their country.

As Bangladesh educated and empowered its girls, those educated women became pillars of Bangladesh’s economy. The nation’s garment factories have given women better opportunities, and that shirt you’re wearing right now may have been made by one of them, for Bangladesh is now the world’s largest garment exporter, after China.

Granted, factories in Bangladesh pay poorly by Western standards, have problems with abuse and sexual harassment, and pose fire risks and other safety problems; a factory collapse in 2013 killed more than 1,100 workers.

But the workers themselves say that such jobs are still better than marrying at 14 and working in a rice paddy, and unions and civil society pushed for and won huge though incomplete improvements in worker safety.

Educated women also filled the ranks of nonprofits like Grameen and Brac, another highly regarded development organization. They got children vaccinated. They promoted toilets. They taught villagers how to read. They explained contraception. They discouraged child marriage.

Bangladesh hasn’t had great political leaders. But its investments in human capital created a dynamism that we can all learn from.

The World Bank calls Bangladesh “an inspiring story of reducing poverty” — with 25 million Bangladeshis lifted from poverty over 15 years. The share of children stunted by malnutrition has fallen by about half in Bangladesh since 1991 and is now lower than in India.

You skeptical readers are shaking your heads and muttering: Overpopulation will undo the progress. In fact, Bangladeshi women now average only two children each (down from seven).

In short, Bangladesh invested in its most underutilized assets — its poor, with a focus on the most marginalized and least productive, because that’s where the highest returns would be. And the same could be true in America.

We’re not going to squeeze much more productivity out of our billionaires, but we as a country will benefit hugely if we can help the 1 in 7 American children who don’t even graduate from high school.

That’s what Biden’s attack on child poverty may be able to do, and why its central element, a refundable child tax credit, should be made permanent. Bangladesh reminds us that investing in marginalized children isn’t just about compassion, but about helping a nation soar.

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Tribunal de San Juan ordena que bomberos sean incluidos en Ley de Retiro Temprano Por THE STAR

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l Sindicato de Bomberos Unidos de Puerto Rico (SBUPR), se apuntó otra al lograr un fallo a su favor en el Tribunal de San Juan que llevó contra la Administración de los Sistemas de Retiro y la Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto (OGP) por la exclusión de los bomberos de la Ley de Retiro Temprano (Ley 80 de 2020).

José Tirado, presidente del sindicato, reveló que la decisión del Tribunal fue contundente al destacar en el fallo que tanto “la Administración de los Sistemas de Retiro y la Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto violaron la Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico al excluir unilateralmente a los bomberos de los derechos de la Ley 80”.

El Ejecutivo, a través de OGP y Re-

tiro, en sendas cartas administrativas, había excluido a los bomberos y a otro personal de alto riesgo del gobierno central de la cobertura de la Ley 80. El Sindicato de Bomberos, presentó un re-

curso de interdicto y de sentencia declaratoria ante el Tribunal de San Juan y este resolvió que el personal que fue excluido puede ejercer ese derecho.

La determinación daría la opción a cerca de 400 miembros del Cuerpo de Bomberos de acogerse al derecho que se le otorgó a estos empleados públicos que están acogidos bajo la Administración de los Sistemas de Retiro.

“Esos candidatos de bomberos con más de 20 años de servicio, podrían acogerse al retiro con más de un 50% de su salario y una aportación al plan médico de $100 mensuales una vez la Junta de Supervisión Fiscal y el Gobierno se pongan de acuerdo para la aplicación de esta ley”, explicó el líder sindical.

Un sondeo realizado por el Sindicato de Bomberos reveló preliminarmente

que 210 miembros del Cuerpo de Bomberos estarían dispuestos a acogerse al retiro incentivado.

La Ley 80 concede el derecho a los empleados públicos de reclamar voluntariamente una ventana de retiro temprano, con excepción de los miembros de la Policía de Puerto Rico, los sistemas de retiro de maestros, energía eléctrica y la Rama Judicial.

“Gracias al recurso legal que llevamos en representación del derecho de nuestros bomberos y la determinación favorable del Tribunal, otros compañeros como los del Departamento de Corrección y Rehabilitación, Emergencias Médicas y los vigilantes del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales podrán acogerse al beneficio del retiro incentivado, lo cual nos llena de profunda satisfacción”, expresó Tirado.

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a representante del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), Yashira Lebrón Rodríguez, anunció el jueves, la radicación del Proyecto de la Cámara 401 el cual busca crear un registro actualizado y detallado sobre los partos-naturales y por cesárea- ocurridos mensualmente en Puerto Rico con el fin de monitorear posibles aumentos en procedimientos de cesáreas.

“Esta medida propone que los médicos preparen, mantengan y publiquen un registro estadístico, accesible a través de la red cibernética, sobre la cantidad de partos que realizan mediante procedimiento natural versus partos por cesárea, así como la cantidad de partos inducidos. Al imponer la obligación de divulgar y justificar las cesáreas perseguimos que cada obstetra utilice exclusivamente criterios clínicos para realizar esas intervenciones, además de hacer accesible tal información a las futuras madres para que puedan tomar decisiones bien fundamentadas”, comentó la representante por Bayamón en comunicación escrita.

Puerto Rico ha experimentado un vertiginoso aumento en el por ciento

de nacimientos por cesárea en comparación con partos vaginales. Según las estadísticas del Departamento de Salud, para 1980 la tasa de cesáreas era de un 18.2 por ciento. De acuerdo con las últimas estadísticas disponibles, en el año 2010 el 46.3 por ciento de los alumbramientos en nuestra isla fueron mediante cesárea.

“La resistencia que en el pasado han exhibido algunos proveedores de salud ante esta propuesta debe ponderarse frente al derecho de las mujeres a recibir información clara sobre una de las más importantes determinaciones médicas que tomarán en su vida. Considerando en particular el número de cesáreas que se realizan, no hay justificación para negarles a las mujeres puertorriqueñas, como consumidoras de un servicio de altísima importancia social y personal (y de un costo considerable) acceso a los datos sobre la práctica de la obstetricia del médico con el que contratarán para atender su embarazo y parto”, añadió la legisladora novoprogresista.

En el 2007 se alcanzó lo que hasta ahora es la tasa más alta registrada: un 49.2 por ciento de nacimientos por la vía quirúrgica. La Organización Mundial de

la Salud (OMS) ha fijado como aceptable una tasa de un 10-15 por ciento lo que coloca a Puerto Rico más de tres veces sobre ese nivel, muy por encima de jurisdicciones como el Reino Unido (22 por ciento), España (26.2 por ciento), Estados Unidos (32.8 por ciento) e Italia (38.2 por ciento). Lo más alarmante es que, según el Departamento de Salud, 55 por ciento de las cesáreas realizadas aquí no tienen ninguna justificación médica, y 77 por ciento de las mujeres sometidas a esa cirugía nunca presentaron factores de riesgo en sus embarazos.

Entre los elementos que se señalan para explicar el aumento en los nacimientos por cesárea, está la inducción del parto en madres primerizas, así como la aplicación a destiempo de anestesia epidural.

“Las cesáreas representan un riesgo más alto de mortalidad materna que el parto vaginal, por complicaciones tales como infecciones y embolias. Según la OMS, el riesgo de ingresar en una Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos es diez veces mayor tras una cesárea selectiva que después de un parto vaginal natural.

Además, retrasa el proceso de recuperación y, para algunas mujeres, se convier-

te en un factor que afecta negativamente la lactancia. Por otro lado, el costo de las cesáreas es considerablemente mayor que el del parto vaginal. Un informe publicado en enero de 2013 por Truven Health Analytics Marketscan, reseña como uno de sus principales hallazgos que en los Estados Unidos el promedio total de pagos para cuidado maternal y de recién nacidos por cesáreas es más alto que los pagos promedios por nacimientos vaginales tanto para pagadores comerciales (27,866 vs. $18,329), como Medicaid ($13,590 vs. $9,131)”, agregó Lebrón Rodríguez.

Además, la determinación de la mayoría de las instituciones hospitalarias de prohibir el parto vaginal luego de uno anterior mediante cesárea (conocidos como VBAC por sus siglas en inglés) representa también un aumento en el número de cesáreas, y refuerza, por lo tanto, la importancia de prevenir esa primera intervención quirúrgica cuando no sea médicamente necesaria. En 1995 tan sólo un 27.5 por ciento de las mujeres que tuvieron partos previos por cesárea trataron un VBAC en los Estados Unidos; en Puerto Rico, apenas un 7 por ciento.

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What to expect from the 2021 Oscar nominations

By KYLE BUCHANAN

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n a normal year, we would have had the Oscars by now. Instead, we’re just getting started.

After a marathon awards season lengthened by two additional months because of the ongoing pandemic, the Oscar nominations will finally be announced on Monday at the crack of dawn in Los Angeles. It’s my job to tell you what to expect, but I think even voters aren’t sure what’s in store.

Without the usual circuit of parties, premieres, Q&As, and glitzy award ceremonies, academy members have mostly been left to their own devices. (What good are all those for-your-consideration billboards when you barely leave your house?) Still, some educated guesses can be made about this year’s crop of nominees, which could set records and stoke controversy in equal measure.

Here are five pressing award-season questions that will soon be answered.

— What movies will be nominated for best picture?

If recent Oscar history holds, we should expect eight or nine movies to earn enough votes for a best-picture nomination. (Next year, the academy has resolved to go back to an even 10 nominees. Good!) Five contenders appear all but locked, given how often they have been recognized this season by other awards bodies: “Nomadland,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Minari” and “Mank.”

And then it gets tricky.

Over the last two years, every bestpicture nominee was also nominated by the Producers Guild of America, so the remaining spots could be claimed by the same films nominated for a PGA Award, picks like “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “One Night in Miami” and “Sound of Metal.” Toss “The Father” and “The Mauritanian” into the pile, too, since both made the best-film lineup at BAFTA, the British equivalent of the Oscars, and the academy has a sizable contingent of British voters. And keep an eye on “Da 5 Bloods,” which has underperformed this season but still scored a notable best-cast nomination from the Screen Actors Guild.

But they can’t all get in. In addition to “Nomadland,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,”

Chadwick Boseman, center, with Michael Potts, left, and Colman Domingo, is as close to a sure nomination bet as there is. But could he get a second posthumous nomination?

“Promising Young Woman,” “Minari” and “Mank,” I’m projecting best-picture nominations for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “One Night in Miami” and “The Father.” If a ninth nominee slips through, it will either be “Judas and the Black Messiah,” which has been building late momentum, or “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” an unconventional best-picture pick with plenty of passionate fans.

— Could female directors make history?

Only five women have ever been nominated for the best director Oscar: Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”), Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”), Sofia Coppola (“Lost in Translation”), Jane Campion (“The Piano”), and Lina Wertmüller (“Seven Beauties”). This year is almost certain to add the “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao to those ranks, and after picking up trophies at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, Zhao may even become the first woman since Bigelow in 2010 to win the Academy Award for directing.

Still, Zhao’s very presence in the category will make history, as no woman of color has ever been nominated for the best-director Oscar. And she may not be the lone woman in her category: The Directors Guild of America also nominated Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”) for the group’s top prize, while the

Golden Globes included Zhao, Fennell, and Regina King (“One Night in Miami”). If two or even three of those filmmakers make it into the final five, it will be the first best-director race to feature more than one woman vying for the Oscar.

— Will Chadwick Boseman earn two posthumous nominations?

The “Black Panther” star died last August at 43, just months before his turn as tortured trumpeter Levee in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” earned him career-best reviews. Boseman will easily cruise to his first best-actor nomination, and after victories at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, I would say he’s the safest bet to win out of all four acting categories.

Voters are so eager to reward Boseman that his name may also turn up in the supporting-actor category for his pivotal performance in Spike Lee’s Vietnam drama, “Da 5 Bloods.”

Still, that nomination is far less certain: The film has had a spotty track record this awards season, and even Boseman’s co-star, the critics’ favorite Delroy Lindo, isn’t guaranteed a nomination. It’s also possible that Boseman’s best-actor win is considered so certain that the academy will try to spread the wealth in the supporting category, welcoming on-the-bubble picks like the “Sound of Metal” standout Paul Raci.

— How diverse will the acting categories be?

Five years after back-to-back seasons of #OscarsSoWhite, people of color could claim nearly half of this year’s acting nominees.

Expect nominations for Boseman, his “Ma Rainey” co-star Viola Davis and Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”) in the lead categories, and in the supporting actor race for Leslie Odom Jr. (“One Night in Miami”), and frontrunner Daniel Kaluuya of “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

Lindo and surprise Golden Globe winner Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”) also have outside shots at making the lead races.

I’m predicting multiple nominations for the cast from “Minari,” including star Steven Yeun and supporting actress Yuh-Jung Youn, although the Oscars have a frustrating track record when it comes to Asian-led ensembles: Even when films like “Parasite,” “Letters From Iwo Jima” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” made the best-picture lineup, their stars were overlooked for individual honors, and buzzy actors like Zhao Shuzhen (“The Farewell”) and Michelle Yeoh (“Crazy Rich Asians”) also found no traction with the academy.

— Will streaming services dominate?

It’s been nearly a full year since movie theaters were open in Los Angeles, so perhaps it’s no surprise that in this pandemic-stricken season, movies that can be safely watched at home will dominate the Oscar conversation.

Netflix and Amazon each have a surplus of best-picture contenders: Netflix is repping “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Mank,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Da 5 Bloods,” while Amazon has high hopes for “One Night in Miami,” “Sound of Metal” and “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Even movies like “Nomadland” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” were more widely seen during their near-simultaneous streaming debuts on Hulu and HBO Max than in the theatrical runs that were once meant to be their primary means of distribution.

The academy suspended its usual restrictions this year to allow more streaming films to compete, and indeed, the best-picture race may be primarily composed of nominees from major streamers. But can big-screen movies mount a comeback after at-home habits were hastened during the pandemic?

This year’s Oscar lineup may make history, but next year’s nominees will provide the true referendum on the future of the movie industry.

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Where is Hollywood when Broadway needs it?

By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

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ear Extremely Famous Friend of the American Theater, You’ve been on my mind a lot lately. I realize the pandemic has turned life upside down, but you’ve gone so quiet that I’ve started to wonder if you ever truly meant it — if all the times you spoke of your love of the stage, if every time you reminisced in an interview about how profoundly it shaped you, you were just … what? Following a script? Trying to fit in with your cast mates while you briefly returned to the theater, this time as a star?

I’d rather not believe that. It was comforting to think of you, out there in the klieg-light glare of screen celebrity, as someone who loved the footlights with a kind of tenderness, the way we do the things we cherish most. And the theater — the people of the theater, the people who built their livelihoods telling us stories in the dark — could really, really use some public cherishing right now.

So it is weird and sad and lonely not to have heard from you amid the real torment of this industry, almost wholly shut down for a year as film and TV production has geared back up.

Because I know you know what sets live theater apart, and that the very things that draw us to it — all of us gathered close in a room, breathing the same air — are the reasons it will be so slow to reopen. Indoor theater largely won’t start inching back until sometime this fall, even if all goes well with the vaccine rollout.

And I know you know, if you think about it even for an instant, that the many theater people thrown out of work, barely hanging on, will need meaningful help if they’re going to make it through. Whether that’s a Federal Theater Project reboot for the 21st Century or financial support for the duration, it’s going to require public understanding.

Which is why I’m coming to you — you who fell in love with the stage as a kid, who sharpened your skills and forged your connections in that top-flight training program, who did regional shows or scrappy downtown stuff (oh, how we loved you in that) until luck and talent and timing worked their alchemy, turning you into a household name.

Because, in one of the more surprising revelations of the shutdown, it turns out that the American theater has no towering figure even attempting to lead it through this crisis, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber has in Britain. The people you might expect to step up — powerhouse produc-

ers, I mean, not stage stars, many of whom have spent the shutdown donating their skills to countless online benefits — seem to have succumbed to a strange, Darwinian torpor.

It’s like watching the horizon for help that never arrives, because the helpers, comfortable enough themselves, have opted out.

In such a scarily perplexing time, there is no one to rally the troops, let alone do what I’m hoping you will: Make the theater’s case to the culture at large.

Admittedly, I’m being a little coy, not calling

you by name. That’s because, in a nation so adept at producing globally famous screen stars, there are quite a few of you. But if you’re wondering whether this applies to you, you can take that as a clue that it probably does.

In any case, I can guess what you’re thinking: It’s too late in the game to step up now, and besides, the situation isn’t as dire as it was, what with the vaccines, the new president and the narrowly flipped Senate. None of that has shortened the shutdown’s projected duration, though. Those socially distanced productions and outdoor popups you’ve read about are more anomaly than comeback.

And when the theater does begin its return in earnest, big, expensive productions employing loads of cast and crew will not be the trend.

There will be no poof-it’s-over restoration for this hobbled industry and the workers whose jobs vaporized because it wasn’t safe to breathe.

It would be a mistake to assume that legislators, who hold the purse strings, will commit to spending what the theater industry’s devastation demands — especially where individuals, not institutions, would get the money. When those individuals are seen by lawmakers and the people they represent as part of some so-called elite, their actual means notwithstanding, they are at risk of being denied aid.

The reality is that a lot of them will continue to need unemployment benefits until the theater is up to speed again — which means that extending them through Sept. 6, welcome news though that is, will not be long enough. If, in your leaner years, you ever had to scrape by on unemployment, you know that the same goes for the supplemental benefits.

The bottom line is that we need theater people to be OK until their places of employment open up again — later than most other industries, because that’s what public health requires. We need the country to have their backs until then.

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Restaurant wine directors worry about the future

By ERIC ASIMOV

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year ago, all was well in Amanda Smeltz’s professional world.

She was the wine director at the Manhattan restaurants Estela and Altro Paradiso, where her selection of hard-to-find, often naturally produced wines was a major attraction. She put together the list, educated and oversaw a staff, and was part of the management team.

Everything changed with the pandemic, and her story is similar to those of many other sommeliers around the country. She has been furloughed, then rehired, twice as New York restaurants cycled through closings, reopenings and transitions to outdoor dining.

Perhaps most worrisome, she contracted COVID-19 in May, before many of the symptoms were understood.

She lost her sense of smell and taste, alarming to anybody who depends on these for a living. (Luckily, her case was mild, and she recovered quickly.)

COVID-19 has posed daunting challenges for restaurants, which were ordered to close or operate at diminished capacity while still paying their rent, often with little governmental support. When the pandemic struck, wine was one of the few resources that could quickly be turned into cash.

Some restaurants converted themselves into retail operations, offering wine to go. Others, like Del Posto, in Chelsea, auctioned off significant portions of their rare and valuable wine collections to raise money.

If anybody still saw the American restaurant business through a romantic haze, the last year has blown it away.

The pandemic, along with national reckonings over racism and sexual harassment, have revealed dysfunctional, fragile businesses that largely depend on workers living paycheck to paycheck, sacrificing any semblance of the “work-life balance” that corporate America professes to want for its employees.

Along with the hard questions that will have to be considered as the restaurant industry resurrects itself, it seems almost frivolous to ask: How will wine fit in when this is over?

During the last 35 years, I’ve watched wine evolve from largely an afterthought in American restaurants to a central component of both their ethos and their bottom line. In the early 1980s, only a handful of the fanciest French restaurants had what were once called “wine stewards.”

Sommeliers have since became restaurant fixtures, instrumental in building American wine culture and exposing consumers to new and wonderful styles and bottles. They’ve even become figures in popular culture and films. Yet sommelier culture has also bred exploitive behavior and sexual harassment.

So, as restaurants reckon with their future, it’s worth

Amanda Smeltz, who was the wine director at the restaurants Estela and Altro Paradiso, in New York, Feb. 27, 2021. Smeltz fears that wine lists will be the first things to go as restaurants become more cost-conscious. exploring the role wine will take. Last month, I spoke to seven wine professionals, including Smeltz, about what this last year looked like and what they felt the future might bring.

Smeltz managed to persuade her bosses to hang on to most of their wine, arguing that a full selection, with the benefit of an added year of aging, would be a tremendous post-pandemic asset. She is concerned that as restaurants try to cut costs, good wine lists may be the first thing to go.

“More complex programs mean more education of staff, more training, more attention — it all translates into more cost,” she said. “It also translates into more revenue.

I’m just not sure how clear that is to people who own businesses. It’s a very panicky situation right now. Everybody’s afraid.”

At Pinch Chinese in SoHo, once a bustling haven for wine lovers, wine director Miguel de Leon has overseen the restaurant’s conversion into a retail storefront, selling food and wine for takeout and delivery. The owners over the last year were to have opened two new restaurants, with de Leon as a partner, but those plans have been scrapped.

His wine list was rich with natural wines that paired

well with the cuisine. At its peak, it had more than 300 selections. He said he is now down to about 60.

“When we reopen, we’re going to have to start over from the beginning,” he said. That will give him the opportunity to devise what most likely will have to be a more streamlined selection.

Just as he is appraising what Pinch will look like on the other side, de Leon is pondering what shape a more humane restaurant model could take. Over the last year, he has thought deeply about the restaurant business, and has written passionately about how to diversify staffs and clientele, achieve more equitable pay and rectify the power dynamic that exists when servers depend on tips to make a living wage.

“We want to nourish people, we want to feed people. The fact that faces light up when they taste our food and drink our wines, that’s gratifying,” he said. “But there’s this notion that, ‘I’m paying for this, I should be able to do whatever I want.’ We want you to understand that you come first, but you’re not always right.”

When Etinosa Emokpae was hired in August 2019 as the sommelier at Friday Saturday Sunday, an intimate American restaurant in Philadelphia, she felt it was a dream job, with the chance to create her own wine list.

When restaurants closed last March, she was furloughed with the expectation she’d be back at work by summer at the latest. Instead, she has been out of a job ever since. The restaurant reopened, but it could not afford to keep on managers like Emokpae.

“I don’t have health care now, and a lot of places never provided me with health care,” she said. “I shouldn’t not have health care, being gainfully employed.”

She has been living on unemployment benefits, she said, with an occasional side job leading a private tasting.

Yet as difficult as this year has been, she feels optimistic about the future for her and for wine.

Partly, she said, it’s because she has had time to reflect on what is most important to her, a luxury that was unavailable when she was working the 70- to 80-hour week that many restaurants demand. She has decided to look for a wine job somewhere other than restaurants.

The Black Lives Matter protests and the implosion of the Court of Master Sommeliers over sexual harassment by its leaders, she said, have led to far more openness and a greater sense of opportunity for people of all races and ethnicities.

“I already see the collaborations, the conversations, seeing this kind of explosion among people who didn’t feel like they had a place in the wine world, the way information is being shared,” Emokpae said of the conversations she is seeing online.

Matthew Conway has overseen the wine list at Marc Forgione, in Tribeca, since the restaurant opened in 2008, building it to almost 700 selections over the years, including many

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He also put together the list at Peasant, in Nolita, after Forgione bought the restaurant in late 2019. Conway is a partner in both restaurants, and handles much of the managerial work.

During the pandemic, he had to auction off half the collection at Marc Forgione. “It was painful, but it was necessary,” he said.

He and his fiancée, Carissa Hernandez, left their Manhattan apartment for Charleston, South Carolina, where his sister, Tracé Conway, is director of operations for the Butcher & Bee restaurant group. He is not sure if he’ll ever move back to New York.

He believes this is a perfect time for restaurant leaders to reinvent the industry, making the sort of structural changes that would permit a more secure existence for workers. “We have operated for a long time with the complete understanding that the system was broken,” he said.

Like Emokpae, he feels that the past year has been a watershed, and that the wine world is finally grappling with its racial and gender inequities.

“We’re taking the view of the profession out of that white Eurocentric box,” he said. “Inclusivity is going to grow.”

As for restaurant wine programs, he imagines that middle-tier places may gravitate toward smaller lists, but that high-end establishments will build back their inventory as soon as possible.

“There will always be rich people,” he said. “And rich people will always want to drink wine.”

Before the pandemic, Popina, on the Columbia Street Waterfront in Brooklyn, had finally achieved a comfortable business after three years of struggle, said James O’Brien, an owner with the chef, Chris McDade. O’Brien’s wine list had built a following for its hard-to-find gems, which went brilliantly with McDade’s singular combination of Italian and Southern American cuisine.

“We had to lay off our staff, and I went into a kind of panic mode,” O’Brien said.

Quickly, they turned the restaurant into a shop, selling pasta kits, sandwiches and much of the wine collection O’Brien had so painstakingly assembled. He estimates that its value fell from $60,000 to $25,000 in a week.

With a huge backyard, Popina was able to do well in the warmer weather, but its tiny dining room is not equipped for socially distanced tables. The business is

Miguel de Leon, a wine director, in New York, Feb. 27, 2021. The pandemic has forced sommeliers from jobs, pared wine lists and raised big questions about the viability of the business and the way it treats workers. back in retail mode again.

The business model now for Popina, O’Brien said, is simply figuring out how to hold on. He remembers the more idealistic days in 2017, when the restaurant opened.

“We wanted to pay a fair wage and give people benefits,” he recalled. “You have a grand idea about how you want to make a restaurant better than the places you’ve worked, but then you do the numbers and find they don’t add up.”

Sabra Lewis left her job as wine director of the Standard, in the meatpacking district, in 2019. The stress of the long hours, and the fact that she was nearing 40 and still in debt, made her feel she was hitting a wall.

She took a job as events manager with Zachys, the big retailer and auctioneer in Westchester County, New York. When the Trump administration placed tariffs on a

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multitude of wines from the European Union in the fall of 2019, they hit Zachys hard. Lewis was laid off the following February, just before the pandemic shutdowns.

After months during which she was mostly unemployed, she managed to land a consulting position at the Island House, a hotel and restaurant in the Bahamas that needed to knock its wine list into shape. After 10 weeks there, she returned to New York, to an uncertain future.

She hopes she’ll be able to expand her consulting work, but wonders how the restaurant industry can be made healthier, given the instability of the business and its workforce.

“It’s the million-dollar question: What structural changes can restaurants make?” she said. “How can we innovate our way out of this?”

The pandemic has meant nonstop innovation at King, an intimate restaurant in SoHo where Annie Shi, a partner, supervises the wine list. The restaurant has opened a takeout window, selling snacks and aperitifs. It has sold meal kits and branded olive oils and blankets. It has even started a wine club with Parcelle, a retailer near Hudson Yards, selling subscriptions for three bottles a month, selected by Shi and sent all over the country.

It’s all been a matter of survival. “It feels like we’ve opened six or seven businesses in the last year,” she said.

With wine, the pandemic has cast the difference between retail and restaurant pricing in sharp relief.

“If you are a guest, you’re more aware than ever you are going to pay twice retail in a restaurant,” she said.

“What is the value you are giving your guests to make it worth that extra amount?”

She would love to reduce that markup, she said, but New York rents make that extremely difficult.

She has looked to France and Britain, whose governments have essentially paid restaurants to stay closed, allowing them to pay their employees and their other bills.

“We were put between a rock and a hard place,” Shi said. “We’re asking people to either don’t make money or come back to work and put your life at risk. I can’t think of any other industry where people had to make these creative, from-the-ground decisions.”

Matthew Conway, who has worked remotely for the restaurants Marc Forgione and Peasant since the pandemic began, in Charleston, S.C., Feb. 28, 2021

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Your morning granola just got an upgrade pretty much alone. My only tweak was pressing the dough into a 9-inch square pan to make bars. It was slightly easier than forming individual cookies, and I liked the softer texture they took on. The bars will also stay fresh a little longer, up to a week rather than a few days.

But then again, since they’re just so easy to snack on from breakfast to bedtime, their keeping qualities may be beside the point.

Filled with coconut and dried cherries, these breakfast treats from Frenchette Bakery are wholesome enough for breakfast, and sweet enough for dessert.

By MELISSA CLARK

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’d never object to eating a regular cookie for breakfast. But I’d always thought a breakfast cookie for dessert would make me sad.

Packed with good-for-you ingredients like whole grains, nuts and seeds, a breakfast cookie is meant to be healthful and substantial, something to fill an empty belly rather than a whimsical sweet to tempt a full one.

Then I brought home some breakfast cookies from Frenchette Bakery in New York, and I saw that I was wrong.

Decidedly not dainty, the cookies were saucer-size pucks — craggy with oats and seeds, flecked with coconut and chewy from dried cherries. Their centers were soft and yielding, but the edges crisped delightfully and even became a little buttery, which is all too rare for a confection of this kind.

Satisfying but not heavy, the first one was perfect for breakfast, dunked into my tea. Then I nibbled on another throughout the afternoon, finally finishing it after dinner, when it made a not-too-sweet dessert along the lines of oatmeal raisin cookies, but with a deep almond flavor from the nut butter mixed into the dough.

And if they were a little more wholesome than our usual after-dinner treats, then all the better for me and my family.

Keeping a supply around the house seemed like a very smart thing to do.

So, I emailed the bakery for the recipe, which was a collaboration between Michelle Palazzo, the pastry chef, and Peter Edris, the head baker.

It turned out to be both gluten-free and highly adaptable.

You can take the basic formula and play with it, substituting raisins for cherries or peanut butter for almond butter, Edris told me.

“It’s a lot like granola,” he said. “Sometimes, in the morning, after the cookies come out of the oven, I’ll crumble them into milk and eat them like cereal.”

Since I adored the cookies as they were, I left the recipe

Breakfast bars with oats and coconut Yield: 18 bars Total time: 1 hour, plus cooling and at least 6 hours’ chilling Ingredients: 3/4 cup/180 milliliters smooth almond butter, at room temperature 1/2 cup/100 grams sugar 1/3 cup/73 grams light brown sugar 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, plus more for greasing 1 large egg, beaten, at room temperature 1 egg white, at room temperature 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 2/3 cups/146 grams rolled oats 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/3 cup/28 grams unsweetened coconut flakes 1/4 cup/37 grams dried cherries (or another soft, plump dried fruit) 3 tablespoons poppy seeds 2 tablespoons shelled sunflower seeds

1 1/2 tablespoons flaxseeds 1 1/2 tablespoons sesame seeds Preparation: 1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or using a handheld mixer and a large bowl, cream almond butter, granulated and brown sugars, and butter on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 4 to 5 minutes. Add egg, egg white, salt and vanilla, and mix until well incorporated, occasionally scraping the side and bottom of bowl, about 1 minute longer.

2. Put oats in a small bowl, sift the baking soda over them, and beat into almond butter mixture. With the mixer on low speed, stir in coconut flakes, cherries and seeds until thoroughly mixed. Press a piece of plastic wrap directly against the surface of the dough (still in the bowl) and refrigerate for at least 6 hours and up to 2 days. (This allows the oats to hydrate.)

3. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a metal 9-inch square baking pan with butter and line it with parchment paper, leaving about 2 inches to hang over 2 sides of the pan and use as handles later. Grease the parchment paper as well.

4. Scrape dough into the prepared baking pan. Lightly grease a large spatula and firmly press the mixture into the pan in an even layer. Bake until the surface is light golden brown and firm, 25 to 30 minutes.

5. Transfer to a rack and allow bars to cool completely in the pan. Once cooled, use a butter knife or small offset spatula to cut along the inside edges of the pan and release the bars. Using the parchment paper overhang, lift bars out of the pan and place them on a cutting board. Cut into 18 bars. Store at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

Tips: To make these into cookies rather than bars, drop 1/4-cup measures of the dough onto parchment-lined cookie sheets and bake until golden at the edges, 10 to 15 minutes.

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

MMG I PR CR Plaintiff, vs.

EDGARDO MARTIN WESTERBAND RODRIGUEZ A/K/A EDGARDO M. WESTERBAND RODRIGUEZ AND HIS WIFE MYRAIDA DIAZ AVILES AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM; JODIVAN MOLINA NEGRON

Defendants CIVIL NO. 18-1475 (PAD). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: EDGARDO MARTIN WESTERBAND RODRIGUEZ A/K/A EDGARDO M. WESTERBAND RODRIGUEZ AND HIS WIFE MYRAIDA DIAZ AVILES AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM; JODIVAN MOLINA NEGRON: AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $167,956.75, plus interest from the 19th day of March, 2019, at a rate of 5.00% per annum per annum, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendant, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and 10% of mortgage note principal balance in attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Jardines de la

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Fuente, Sección Jardines de Casablanca, en el barrio Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de inscripción del proyecto con el número trece del bloque C, con un área superficial de trescientos cincuenta y un metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de trece metros con los solares C-Dos y C-Tres; por el SUR, en una distancia de trece metros con la calle número siete; por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintisiete metros con el lote C-Doce; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintisiete metros, con el lote C-Catorce.

Contiene una casa para fines residenciales. Property number 19,948, recorded at page 51 of volume 395 of Toa Alta, Property Registry of Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Section III. Physical address: Jardines de la Fuente Kennedy, Solar 13-C, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico 00953. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 9th, 2021 at 10:25 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $178,006.42. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the April 16th, 2021 at 10:25 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $118,670.95, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:25 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $89,003.21, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered

Friday, March 12, 2021 by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 2nd, 2021.

AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

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

CONDADO 3 CFL, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

COLEGIO EL ARCO IRIS, INC.; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Defendants CIVIL NO. 18-1832 (PAD). RE: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE IN-REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: COLEGIO EL ARCO IRIS, INC.; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; FIRST FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.; AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $59,133.11 in principal, accrued interest which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 6.98% per annum, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent in attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Lomas Verdes en el barrio Minillas de Bayamón, marcado con el número Uno (1) de la manzana Dos “A” (2A) que mide trescientos cuarenta y siete puntos cincuenta y nueve metros cuadrados (347.59). En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle Power, distancia de catorce puntos cero uno metros; por el

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SUR, con el solar número treinta y cuatro, distancia de catorce punto cero uno metros; por el ESTE, con Centro Comercial propiedad de Minillas Development Corporation, distancia de veinticuatro punto ochenta y uno metros; por el OESTE, con el solar número Dos, distancia de veinticuatro punto ochenta y uno metros. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloque de concreto. Inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 252 de Bayamón Sur, Finca número 11,030. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección I de Bayamón. Physical address: 2A-1 Laurel Ave., Lomas Verdes, Puerto Rico 00961. The property is subject to the following preferential lien: 1.

MORTGAGE: Securing a mortgage note made in favor of First Financial Services Corp., or at its order, in the principal amount of $24,000.00, constituted to Deed number 66, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 1978, before Notary Francisco Pedraza Algarín, recorded at page 33 (vuelto) of volume 252 of Bayamón, Property number 11,030, 3th inscription. The property is subject to the following junior lien: 2. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Presented against El Colegio El Arco Iris, Inc. Social Security XXX-XX-4140, for the sum of $4,468.61, recored at Book of tax garnishments 31 Page 17.

Order number 1658, BAY-142752 dated June 18, 2014, in the Registry of Property, First Section of Bayamón, Property number 11,030. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior lienes. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 9th, 2021 at 10:10 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $171,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudi-

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25 cated, a second public auction shall be held on the April 16th, 2021 at 10:010 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $114,000.00, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:10 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,500.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 2nd , 2021. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

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

MMG I PR CR, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

GRACE MONGE LAFOSSE,

Defendant.

CIVIL NO. 16-02805 (PAD).

RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: GRACE MONGE LAFOSSE ; FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO ; BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA PUERTO RICO; AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $378,982.75 in principal, accrued interest which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 7.95% per annum, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendant, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs and attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United

States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ciento cuarenta y ocho (148) en el plano de inscripción condicionado de la Urbanización San Agustín, radicado en el barrio Sabana Llana, del sitio denominado Rio Piedras, del término municipal del Gobierno de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y uno punto doce (331.12) metros cuadrados y con las siguientes colindancias; por el NORTE, en trece punto cero cinco (13.05) metros, con los solares ciento cuarenta y seis (146) y ciento cincuenta y uno (151) del mencionado plano; SUR, en trece punto veinticinco (13.25) metros con la calle número dos (2) del mencionado plano; ESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros con el solar número ciento cuarenta y nueve (149) del mencionado plano y por el OESTE, en veinticinco punto dieciocho (25.18) metros con el solar número ciento cuarenta y siete (147) del mencionado plano.

Property number 2,218, recorded at page 16 of volume 54 of Sabana Llana, Property Registry of San Juan, Fifth Section.

Physical address: #403 Libran Street, Urb. San Agustín, San Juan, PR 00928: The property is subject to the following junior liens: 1. LAWSUIT ANNOTATION: Executed in the First Instance Court of San Juan, civil case #KCD2009-2190 (508), on June 5th, 2009, for rason of collection of Money and Foreclousure in favor of Firstbank Puerto Rico, by the amount of $35,685.99, plus interests, recorded on July 10, 2015 under abbreviated entry at page 35 of volume 1125 (ágora) of Sabana Llana, property number 2,218, 23th Inscription. 2. LIEN ANNOTATION: Dated September 19th, 2011, executed in the First Instance Court of San Juan, civil case #KCD2009-2922 (807), for reason of Collection of Money by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, plaintiff, versus Grace Monge Lafosse, defendant, by the amount of $29,644.71, plus interests, recorded on July 10th, 2015 under abbreviated entry at page 35 of volume 1125 of Sabana Llana, property number 2,218, annotation A. 3. MORTGAGE: In favor of Firstbank Puerto Rico, in the original principal amount of $41,134.00, with 7.95% annual interests, due on July 1st, 2020,

constituted by deed 169, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 17th, 2005, before Yvannie Arroyo Casillas Notary Public, recorded on July 10th, 2015, under abbreviated entry at page 35 of volume 1125 (agora) of Sabana Llana, property #2,218, 24th 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 or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 9th, 2021 at 10:05 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $388,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the April 16th, 2021 at 10:05 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $258,666.67, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $194,000.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 2nd, 2021.

AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

RIVERA FEBO,

Defendant.

CIVIL NO. 19-1462 (PAD). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: PEDRO RIVERA FEBO A/K/A PEDRO LUIS RIVERA FEBO AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $235,538.69 in principal, plus interest at the rate of $39.19 per diem until full payment of the debt, accrued late charges and any additional disbursements made by plaintiff on behalf of defendants in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs and attorney’s fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following properties: PROPERTY A. URBANA: Finca compuesta de casa y solar señalada con el número cuatro (4) del Plano de la finca en la acera oeste de una calle abierta en terrenos de Antonio Salazar Arces, radicados en el caserío conocido por San Juan Moderno, sito Machuchal en la Sección Norte del Barrio de Santurce de esta ciudad de San Juan, siendo la casa de planta baja, con balcón al frente, construida con madera techada de hierro galvanizado de cinco metros de frente por doce metros de fondo con acometida de acueductos, instalación de luz eléctrica e instalación sanitaria y midiendo el solar 9 metros de frente por 18 metros de fondo, igual a 162.00 metros cuadrados. Linda a la derecha que es el SUR, con la casa número 2 perteneciente a Sabas Centeno Berrios; a la izquierda que es el LEGAL NOTICE NORTE, con la casa número 6, IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- perteneciente a Modesta GonTRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- zález Sofi; a la espalda que es el OESTE, con la casa número TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. CONDADO 3 CFL, LLC 70 de Felicita Estrain; al frente que es el ESTE, con la calle que Plaintiff, vs.

PEDRO RIVERA FEBO radica. Segregada de esta finca una parcela de dos metros con

A/K/A PEDRO LUIS

26 treinta y cinco centésimas de otro (2.35m), a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, quedando la misma con una cabida de 159.65 metros cuadrados. Consta inscrita al folio 77 del tomo 54 de Santurce Norte, Finca número 2,088. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección I de San Juan. • Physical address: Marginal Baldorioty De Castro Esq. Perez #188, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00923. PROPERTY B: URBANA: Solar con casa sito en la Sección Norte del Barrio de Santurce de esta ciudad, siendo la casa terrera de madera y cobijada de zinc de seis metros de frente por catorce de fondo y está marcada con el número seis y el solar mide nueve metros de frente por dieciocho metros de fondo, equivalentes a ciento sesenta y dos metros cuadrados, en colindancia por el frente, ESTE, con la Avenida Pérez y; por el fondo OESTE, con Felicita Estrain; por la derecha NORTE, y por la izquierda SUR, con Antonio Salazar.

Contiene una casa con balcón de concreto y verja de igual material. Consta inscrita al folio 52 del tomo 56 de Santurce, Finca número 3,058. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección I de San Juan. • Physical address: Marginal Baldorioty De Castro Esq. Perez #186, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00923. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 30th, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. to Property A and 10:05 a.m. to Property B, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $135,000.00 Property A and $135,000.00 Property B. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the properties is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the May 7th, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. to Property A and 10:05 a.m. to Property B, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $90,000.00 Property A and $90,000.00 Property B, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said

second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the May 14th, 2021, at 10:05 a.m. to Property A and 10:05 a.m. to Property B, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $67,500.00 to Property A and $67,500.00 to Property B, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 23rd, 2021. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

MMG I PR CR, LLC. Plaintiff v.

CLAUDINA MARÍA GARCÍA BRIZUELA AKA CLAUDIA MARÍA GARCÍA BRIZUELA AKA CLAUDIA GARCÍA BRIZUELA AKA CLAUDIA M. GARCÍA BRIZUELA

Defendants CIVIL NO. 15-2672 (CCC).

Collection of Monies & Foreclosure of Mortgage. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: CLAUDINA MARÍA GARCÍA BRIZUELA AKA CLAUDIA MARÍA GARCÍA BRIZUELA AKA CLAUDIA GARCÍA BRIZUELA AKA CLAUDIA M. GARCÍA BRIZUELA: AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $152,905.20 of principal, plus interest, which as of November 30, 2016, amounts to the sum of $13,172.13 plus $6,625.67 in late charges and fees; and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursement made by plaintiff on behalf of defendant, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue,

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Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el número 16 del bloque FF sita en el proyecto de vivienda de la Urbanización Hacienda Primavera, localizado en el barrio Bayamón del Municipio de Cidra, Puerto Rico, con un área de 337.500 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle Solsticio; por el SUR, con lote 6 bloque FF; por el ESTE, con lote 15 bloque FF; y por el OESTE, con lote 17 bloque FF. Enclava edificación. Inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 464 de Cidra, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda, finca número 17,009.

Physical address: HACIENDA PRIMAVERA, FF-16, CIDRA, P.R. 00739. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 30th, 2021 at 10:10 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $165,720.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the May 7th, 2021 at 10:10 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $110,480.00, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the May 14th, 2021 at 10:10 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $82,860.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 23rd,

2021. AGUEDO DE LA TO- ducir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta RRE, Special Master. el día 20 de abril de 2021, a las LEGAL NOTICE 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficiESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO na sita en el lugar antes indicaDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- do. Que en cumplimiento de un NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado SALA DE AGUADILLA. WILMINGTON SAVINGS por la Secretaría del Tribunal de FUND SOCIETY, FSB, as Primera Instancia, Sala Supede Aguadilla, en el caso de trustee of FINANCE OF rior epígrafe con fecha de 15 de diAMERICA STRUCTURED ciembre de 2020, procederé a SECURITIES vender en pública subasta y al ACQUISITION TRUST mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte 2018-HB1 demandada de epígrafe en el DEMANDANTE VS. Hector Luis Gonzalez inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: #58 3St. Garcia DeveAyala t/c/c Hector L. lopment, Aguadilla, PR 00603, y Gonzalez Ayala t/c/c que se describe a continuación: Hector Gonzalez Ayala; URBANA: Solar de la UrbanizaDaisy Hernandez t/c/c ción García mar cado con el Daisy Vega Hernandez y número catorce (14) en el Plano a los Estados Unidos de de Subdivisión de dicha urbanización, radicado en el Barrio América Victoria del término municipal DEMANDADOS de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, comCIVIL NUM.: AG2019CV00004. puesta de quinientos cuarenta SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y (540.00) metros cuadrados, o Ejecución de Hipoteca por la sea dieciocho (18.00) metros al Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUNORTE, en lindes con los solaBASTA. res números veinte (20) y veinAl: Público en General tiuno (21) de dicha urbanizaA: HECTOR LUIS ción; en dieciocho (18.0) metros GONZALEZ AYALA T/C/C al SUR, en lindes con la calle HECTOR L. GONZALEZ número tres (3) de la misma urAYALA T/C/C HECTOR banización, en treinta (30.0) metros al ESTE, en lindes con GONZALEZ AYALA; el solar número trece (13) de DAISY HERNANDEZ José de Jesús Esteves López y T/C/C DAISY VEGA treinta (30.0) metros al OESTE, HERNANDEZ Y A LOS en lindes con solar número ESTADOS UNIDOS DE quince (15) de la referida urbanización. Finca numero 4879 AMÉRICA Yo, CAROL CHALMERS inscrita en el asiento 171, tomo SOTO, Alguacil del Tribunal de 98 de Aguadilla, Registro de la Primera Instancia, Sala de Propiedad de Puerto Rico, SecAguadilla, a los demandados, ción de Aguadilla. La subasta se acreedores y al público en ge- llevará a cabo para satisfacer, neral con interés sobre la pro- hasta donde alcance, el importe piedad que más adelante se de las cantidades adeudadas a describe, y al público en gene- la parte demandante conforme ral, por la presente CERTIFICO, a la sentencia dictada a su faANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: vor, a saber: 91,473.01, por Que el día 6 de abril de 2021, a concepto de balance de princilas 10:00 de la mañana sita en pal, más intereses acumulados, el Tribunal de Primera Instan- y los cuales continúan acumucia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, lándose a razón del 5.300% por Aguadilla, Puerto Rico en el se- ciento anual hasta su completo gundo piso, la oficina del Algua- pago, más la cantidad de cil, procederé a vender en Pú- $21,750.00, equivalente al 10% blica Subasta, al mejor postor, de la suma principal original la propiedad inmueble que más pactada, estipulada para cosadelante se describe y cuya tas, gastos y honorarios de aboventa en pública subasta se or- gado; más recargos acumuladenó por la vía ordinaria me- dos hasta la fecha en que se diante Sentencia dictada en el pague la deuda; más cualquiera caso de epígrafe, la cual se no- suma de dinero por concepto de tificó y archivó en autos el día contribuciones, primas de segu16 de mayo de 2019. Los autos ro hipotecario y riesgo, así y todos los documentos corres- como cualesquiera otras sumas pondientes al procedimiento in- pactadas en la escritura de hicoado, estarán de manifiesto en poteca, todas cuyas sumas esla Secretaría durante horas la- tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipoborables. Que en caso de no teca a ejecutarse en el caso de producir remate ni adjudicación epígrafe fue constituida meen la primera subasta a cele- diante la escritura número 57, brarse, se celebrará una segun- otorgada el día 31 de marzo de da subasta para la venta de la 2011, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, susodicha propiedad, el día 13 ante el Notario Público Ferade abril de 2021, a las 10:00 de nando E. Doval y consta inscrita la mañana; y en caso de no pro- al folio 35 del tomo 634 de

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, finca número 4879, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla, Sección de Aguadilla. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $217,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $145,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $108,750.00. 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. 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 Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $217,500.00, con intereses al 5.300% anual, vencedero el día 13 de octubre de 2095, constituida mediante la

escritura número 58, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de marzo de 2011, ante el notario Fernando E. Doval, e inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 634 de Aguadilla, finca número 4,879, inscripción 12ª. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le 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 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 4 de enero de 2021.

CAROL CHALMERS SOTO, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE

AGUADILLA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

ALEXIS DE JESÚS GONZÁLEZ, MARGARITA MERCADO RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CG2019CV01877.

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 CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 7 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en CARR. 761 INT. KM 2 HM 9 BARRIO BORINQUEN CAGUAS, PR 0072 y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela número uno: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Borinquén del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, compuesta de tres mil setecientos sesenta y seis punto sesenta y tres noventa y cinco metros cuadrados (3,766.6395 m.c). En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número dos; por el SUR, con Alberto Gutiérrez; por el ESTE, con el camino principal; y por el Enclava residencia de concreto y bloques, que consta básicamente de tres cuartos dormitorios, dos y medio baños, un cuarto de “family”, sala, comedor, cocina, marquesina, laundry y balcón dando fe el notario de haber visto la edificación, con un valor de $80,000.00, según escritura número 35, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de junio de 2006, ante el notario Raúl Muñoz González, inscrita al folio 208 del tomo 1770 de Caguas, finca número 61,667,

The San Juan Daily Star inscripción 2da. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 208 del Tomo 1,770 de Caguas, finca número 61,667, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $145,350.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 14 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 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 $96,900.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 21 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 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 $72,675.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 50 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2007, ante el Notario Héctor L. Torres Vilá, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 108 del Tomo 1770 de Caguas, finca número 61,667, inscripción Cuarta (4ta) en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, 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 $115,412.35 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de julio de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.1/2% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $14,535.00. Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $14,535.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $14,535.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le con-

fiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. 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 CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas.

Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de febrero 2021. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL DE SU-

Friday, March 12, 2021 BASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR.

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BOSCO CREDIT X, LLC, BY FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER Demandante vs.

JESUS OMAR JUSTINIANO VERA, ARLIN ACOSTA NUÑEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NUM. L3CI2017-00118.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE PRENDA E HIPOTECA. 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 LARES, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Lares, el 9 de abril de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “RUSTICA: Comunidad localizada en el barrio Callejones del Municipio de Lares. Tiene una cabida de 3.3600 cuerdas, equivalentes a 1 hectáreas, 32 áreas, 06 centiáreas. Linda: NORTE, Tito Nieves y carretera municipal; SUR, Jesús Ponce; ESTE, Tito Nieves; OESTE, Enrique Vázquez.”. Consta inscrita al folio 110 del tomo 348 de Lares, Finca 17,327, Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado. La hipoteca objeto de ejecución consta inscrita al folio 110 del tomo 348 de Lares, finca 17,327, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Utuado, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: CARR. 454 KM 1.4 BO CA-

LLEJONES, LARES PUERTO RICO 00669. 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 de mínima subasta la suma de $55,250.00, 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 Lares, el 16 de abril de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $ 36,833.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $27,625.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Lares, el 23 de abril de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $51,122.92 de principal, $1,251.45 por concepto de intereses sobre el principal; $50.22 por concepto de cargos por demora; $146.30 por concepto de inspección; $293.64 por concepto de escrow; $5,525.00 por concepto de suma estipulada como liquida, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; mas cualquier otra cantidad de dinero que la parte demandante tenga que desembolsar con relación al presente litigio durante la vigencia de este caso, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo dia has-

ta su total y completo pago. 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 Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de febrero de 2021. Elliot Lopez Quiles, Alguacil Confidencial 241.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante v.

SUHEIL MARIE ACEVEDO SERRANO

Parte Demandada.

CIVIL NÚM.: BY2020CV00211 (403). Sobre: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMON, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUHEIL MARIE ACEVEDO SERRANO y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 30 de septiembre de 2020, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $174,500.00 y al mejor postor la propiedad de la dirección Apt. 8-404 Edificio Flamingo Apartments, Bayamón, PR 00956 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal.

Apartamento Penthouse número 8404. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, localizado en el cuarto nivel del edificio número 8 del Condominio Flamingo Apartments, radicado en los barrios Pájaros y Hato Tejas del término municipal de Bayamón,

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Puerto Rico. El área aproximada del apartamento es de 1569.33 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 145.79 metros cuadrados, la cual está distribuida de la siguiente manera: 178.75 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 16.61 metros cuadrados el área de la terraza techada (covered terrace), 53.63 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 4.98 metros cuadrados el área de la terraza descubierta (open terrace) y 1336.95 pies cuadrados, equivalente a 124.20 metros cuadrados las demás áreas del apartamento. Son sus linderos en el primer nivel, por el NORTE, en una distancia de 24’0” con espacio común aéreo; por el SUR, en una distancia de 23’4” con espacio común aéreo; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 57’10” con el apartamento número 8403, con elementos comunes generales y con espacio común aéreo y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 45’7” con el apartamento número 9401. Son sus linderos en el segundo nivel por el NORTE, en una distancia de 22’11” con elementos comunes generales; por el SUR, en una distancia de 23’4” con espacio común aéreo; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 33’3½” con el apartamento número 8403 y con espacio común aéreo y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 33’3½” con el apartamento número 9401. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Este de su primer nivel. Su primer nivel consta de sala, comedor, una cocina, un balcón en el cual están localizadas las escaleras interiores del apartamento, las cuales dan acceso al segundo nivel del apartamento, un pasillo principal en el cual están localizados un laundry, un linen closet, un baño dos cuartos con closet y un dormitorio principal con closet y un baño el cual tiene un closet adicional. Su segundo nivel consta de un recibidor, el cual da acceso a las escaleras interiores del apartamento las cuales conducen al primer nivel de dicho apartamento, un family y dos terrazas, una techada y una descubierta.

Le corresponden a este apartamento dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número del apartamento. Este apartamento tiene una participación de 0.617033139% en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Finca 78389, inscrita al folio 135 del Tomo 1891 de Bayamón, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, sección primera. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $174,500.00 con intereses al 3.50% anual los prime-

ros 48 meses y 5.875% anual los próximos 432 meses y vencimiento 1 de noviembre de 2051. Constituida por la Escritura 52 otorgada en San Juan el 31 de octubre de 2011, ante la notario Mariana García García, e inscrita al folio 103 del tomo 1909 de Bayamón, finca 78389, inscripción 2ª.

(1341/1//;/296) Sujeta a las disposiciones de la Ley 132 del 2 de septiembre de 2010, Ley de Estímulo al Mercado de Propiedades de Inmuebles. CANCELADA PARCIALMENTE en cuanto a la suma de $6,920.28 y MODIFICADA en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su nuevo principal por la suma de $167,579.72 con intereses a razón 3.850% anual, comenzando el 1 de enero de 2016 hasta el 1 de diciembre de 2016, luego devengará intereses a razón de 5.875% anual, comenzando el 1 de enero de 2017, hasta su vencimiento el 1 de noviembre de 2051, con un pago residual, sin intereses, de $1,672.70, según consta de la escritura 380 otorgada en Guaynabo el 7 de diciembre de 2015 ante el notario Juan A. Martínez Romero. Inscrita el 28 de mayo de 2020 al Tomo Karibe, finca 78389 de Bayamón Sur, inscripción 2ª. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 19 de agosto de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a $157,950.40 de principal (más $2,762.00 debido a la modificación), más intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 5.875% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $184.12 a cargos por demora, más $17,450.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 25 de marzo de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, Piso 5, Sala 503. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $174,500.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 de abril de 2021, a las 3:00 de la tarde, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $116,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TER-

CERA SUBASTA el día 15 de abril de 2021, a las 3:00 de la tarde , en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $87,250.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables.

Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación.

Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lan-

28 zamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En BAYAMON Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de MARZO de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMON. ****

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE LUIS DANIEL NEGRÓN REYES T/C/C LUIS NEGRÓN REYES, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE PILAR HERNÁNDEZ LLERA, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LOUIS ERNESTO ÁLVAREZ BRACERO, SU ESPOSA MIGDALIA ÁLVAREZ RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; EL HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CD2019CV00179.

Sala: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del

Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 10 de febrero de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno identificado como Lote número veinte (20) en el Plano de Inscripción, localizado en la Carretera Estatal ciento setenta y tres (173), kilómetro ocho (km.8), Hectómetro setenta (hm. 70), Barrio Rabanal, del término Municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil metros cuadrados (1,000.00 mc.), equivalentes a cero puntos dos mil quinientas cuarenta y cuatro diez milésimas de una cuerda (0.2544 cda.). En lindes por el NORTE, con área dedicada a Uso Público identificada con el número cuatro (4); por el SUR, con área dedicada a Uso Público identificada con el número dos (2); por el ESTE, con el Lote número diecinueve (19) del mismo plano y por el OESTE, con el Lote número veintiuno (21) del mismo plano.

Inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca #15,267, inscripción 8va. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas.

La propiedad ubica en: Lote 20 SR 173 Int Km 8.7 Rabanal, Cidra PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 7 de octubre de 2019 y notificada el 9 de octubre de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $143,143.56 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.50% desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2018; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $15,300.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $153,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 22 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina

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antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $102,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 29 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $76,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado

en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de marzo de 2021. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOSÉ ENRIQUE DELGADO MONTES, LUZ ZENAIDA LÓPEZ FRANCISQUINI, T/C/C LUZ Z. LÓPEZ, T/C/C LUZ Z. DELGADO LÓPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2019CV02680.

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 ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 13 de noviembre de 2019 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada José Enrique Delgado Montes, Luz Zenaida López Francisquini, t/c/c Luz Z. López, t/c/c Luz Z. Delgado López y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, Compuesta por Ambos. Dirección Física: Valenciano Abajo, Lot. 85, 13 St., Juncos, PR 00777.

Finca 9,923, inscrita al folio 64 del tomo 257 de Juncos, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda

de Caguas. RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento ochenta y cinco en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Valenciano del Barrio Valenciano del término Municipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos setenta y dos punto sesenta y nueve metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela ciento ochenta y seis de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela ciento ochenta y cuatro de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con finca privada de Pedro Borges López; y por el OESTE, con calle trece de la comunidad. Finca 9,923: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Libre de Cargas. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $56,000.00, con intereses al 4.99% anual, vencedero el día 14 de abril de 2044, constituida mediante la escritura número 109, (no expresa lugar de otorgamiento), el día 14 de abril de 2009, ante el notario Leo M. Irizarry Román, e inscrita al folio 1426 del tomo 450 de Juncos, finca número 9,923, inscripción 2da., y última., como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 16 de noviembre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 1 de junio de 2009 al Asiento 624 del Diario 645). b. AL ASIENTO 2019-084919-CA02 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 13 de agosto de 2019, Aviso de Demanda de fecha 22 de julio de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el Caso Civil número CG2019CV02680, sobre Ejecución de Garantias, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus José Enrique Delgado Montes, Luz Zenaida Francisquini también conocida como Luz Z. López y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $50,834.36. c.

De una certificación registral de fecha 4 de octubre de 2019 surge en los Libros Auxilares lo siguiente: Presentación Personal: Asiento 979 Diario 653: INGRID ALVAREZ presenta a las once horas y cincuenta y nueve minutos el dieciséis de Septiembre del año dos mil diez, ESCRITURA número 23/2010, sobre PRIM HIP, otorgada en San Juan el día nueve de Septiembre del año dos mil diez ante el notario EVELYN SANTAELLA ROSA, para que se INSCRIBA a favor de BANCO SANTANDER PUERTO RICO sobre las fincas números 9909, el término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9910, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9911, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9912, del término mu-

nicipal de San Lorenzo, 9913, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9914, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9915, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9916, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9917, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9918, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9919, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9920, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9921, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9922, del término municipal de San Lorenzo, 9923, del término municipal de Juncos, Solar 96-K LOS CAMINOS del BARRIO HATO con cabida de 633.712 m.c. Con un valor la transacción de $ 220,500.00.

Derechos: SIN DERECHOS. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 9,923 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 19 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $56,000.00. HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 109, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 14 de abril de 2009, ante el Notario Leo M. Irizarry Román. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 26 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $37,333.33.

TERCERA SUBASTA: 3 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO:$28,000.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

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

Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 19 de septiembre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 1 de octubre de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 18 de agosto de 2016, la suma de $50,834.36, más la suma de $14,638.99, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterio-

ridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de marzo de 2021. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

LEGAL NOTICE

ante el notario Jose Osvaldo Coll Diaz. La propiedad gravada consta inscrita al folio 59 del tomo 1987 de Ponce, finca m’.1mero 4,599 . Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Primera. Se le emplaza y requiere que dentro del termino de treinta (30) días conteste la Demanda. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la misma dentro del termino antes dicho, presentando su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac /, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Tribunal Superior, Sala de Ponce, con copia al Ledo. Armando J. Martinez Vilella, PMB 458, 100 Grand Paseos Blvd. Suite 112, SAN JUAN, P.R. 00926-5955, E-mail: amartinez@lamvlawpr.com , TEL. 787- 763- 9777 FAX. 787-763-9444 se le anotara la Rebeldía y se le dictara Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin mas citarle ni oírle. Se expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Honorable Tribunal, en Puerto Rico, a 24 de febrero de 2021. Luz Mayra Caraballo Garcia, Sec Regional. Hilda J. Rosado Rodriguez, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN TRM,LLC. JUAN. DEMANDANTE vs.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. PO2019CV00443.

SALA: SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica a usted, que se ha radicado en esta secretaria la Demanda de epígrafe. En dicha Demanda se reclama que usted es el ultimo tenedor del pagare hipotecario a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $55,000.00, con intereses al 10.25%, vencedero a la presentación, y garantizado con la escritura constituida mediante la escritura numero 137, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de diciembre de 1999,

FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY Demandante vs.

DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, antes conocida como DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION; R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, hoy, FEDERAL DEPOSIT lNSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC); SCOTIABANK PUERTO RICO, hoy ORlENTAL BANK; ORIENTAL BANK; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MÁS CUAL

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. SJ2021CV00531.

SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA REPRESENTADA POR PAGARE HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO

The San Juan Daily Star GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- Sección V. El inmueble antes BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- descrito se encontrará afecto a los siguientes gravámenes: A : FULANO DE TAL Y CIA SALA DE SAN JUAN. (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de ORIENTAL BANK MENGANO MAS CUAL pagaré a favor de Doral Bank Demandante v.

Se emplaza y notifica a ustedes por la suma de $71,700.00 que se ha presentado una deJENNIFER MAY intereses al 6.875% anual manda en este caso, en la cual CINTRÓN KENDERISH con y vencimiento 1 de noviembre en síntesis, la parte demandanDemandada te alega que se extravió un pa- CIVIL NÚM.: KCD2016-1480 de 2034. Constituida mediangare hipotecario que estaba en (901). SOBRE: COBRO DE DI- te escritura 410 otorgada en poder de “Doral Mortgage Cor- NERO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE San Juan el 29 de octubre de poration”, y solicita que se orde- AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE 2004 ante el notario Fernando ne la cancelación de la hipote- DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Luis Meléndez López. Inscrita ca que lo garantiza. El pagare EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- el 4 de marzo de 2020 al Tomo de $52,750.00 fue librado por el DO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO Karibe, finca 32182 Sabana Sr. Javier Edgardo Abreu Casti- DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que Llana, inscripción 9ª. (ii) HIPOllo, y su esposa, la Sra. Ivonne suscribe, Alguacil del Tribu- TECA en garantía de pagaré Enid Miranda Albino a favor de nal de Primera Instancia, Sala a favor de Autoridad para el “Doral Mortgage Corporation”, de San Juan, hago saber a la Financiamiento de la Vivienda o a su orden, por la suma de parte demandada JENNIFER de Puerto Rico por la suma $52,750.00, más intereses y MAY CINTRÓN KENDERISH, de $15,000.00 sin intereses y créditos accesorios, según sur- Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL, vencimiento 29 de octubre de ge de la escritura #556, otorga- que en cumplimiento del Man- 2012. Constituida mediante da en Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, damiento de Ejecución de Sen- escritura 411 otorgada en San el día 7 de noviembre de 1991, tencia por Embargo liberado el Juan el 29 de octubre de 2004 ante el Notario Público Wendell 5 de febrero de 2021, por la Se- ante el notario Fernando Luis William Colón. La referida es- cretaria del Tribunal, procederé Meléndez López. Inscrita el critura se encuentra inscrita al a vender y venderé en pública 4 de marzo de 2020 al Tomo folio 217 vuelto del tomo 514 subasta y al mejor postor la Karibe, finca 32182 Sabana de Monacillos, del Registro de siguiente propiedad [1801 Con- Llana, inscripción 10ª. Sujeta a la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, dominio Puerta del Sol, San las disposiciones del Programa denominado Sección Tercera (III) de San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926]: UR- gubernamental Juan, finca #18,758, inscripción BANA: Apartamento residencial “La Llave para tu Hogar”; no 3ra. Pueden ver la demanda en número Dieciocho Cero Uno pudiendo ser transferida ni grasu totalidad en este Tribunal. (1801), de forma rectangular vada por un término de 8 años, Los Abogados de la Parte De- localizado en el piso número a partir de la concesión del mandante lo son: Sandra De Dieciocho (18), del Condomi- subsidio, sin el previo consentiL. Tous-Chevres y Raúl J. Tous nio Puerta del Sol, que ubica miento de la Autoridad so pena Bobonis, Edificio La Electróni- en la Carretera Estatal Numero de la restitución del subsidio ca, 1608 Calle Bori, Suite 205, Ciento Ochenta y Uno (181), concedido. (iii) Al asiento 2017San Juan, PR 00927-6112, te- del Barrio Sabana Llana de 044821SJ05 se presentó el 24 léfonos 751-8834\3824, a quien Río Piedras, Municipio de San de abril de 2017 Mandamiento deberán notificar la contesta- Juan, Puerto Rico, con una ca- de Embargo expedido el 23 de ción de la demanda dentro de bida superficial de Seiscientos marzo de 2017 por el Tribunal los próximos 30 días siguientes setenta y nueve punto ochenta de Primera Instancia, Sala de a la publicación de este edicto. y ocho pies cuadrados (679.88 San Juan, en caso civil número Por la presente se le emplaza p/c), siendo sus medidas linea- KCD2016-1480, sobre cobro de para que presente al tribunal su les treinta y dos pies con diez dinero; Oriental Bank, demanalegación responsiva dentro de pulgadas de largo (32’10”), por dante v. Jennifer May Cintrón los próximos 30 días siguientes veintidós pies con ocho pulga- Kenderish, demandada. Por el a la publicación de este edicto. das de ancho (22’8”); en lindes mismo se ordena el EMBARGO Usted deberá presentar su ale- por el NORTE, en una distancia el Apartamento 1801 del Congación responsiva a través del de veintidós pies ocho pulga- dominio Puerta del Sol, finca Sistema Unificado de Manejo y das (22’8”), con terrenos donde 32182 de Sabana Llana, para Administración de Casos (SU- enclava el edificio; por el SUR, que el mismo responda por la MAC), al cual puede acceder con una distancia de diecinue- cantidad de $59,607.35, más utilizando la siguiente direc- ve pies con ocho pulgadas otras sumas. Complementación electrónica: https://unired. (19’8”), con el apartamento rios: Orden de Embargo dictada ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se Mil Ochocientos Dos (1802); el 15 de marzo de 2017. El emrepresente por derecho propio, por el ESTE, en una distancia bargo objeto de esta ejecución en cuyo caso deberá presentar de treinta y dos pies con diez es el que ha quedado descrito su alegación responsiva en la pulgadas (32’10”), con terrenos en el inciso (iii). La hipoteca secretaría del tribunal. Se le donde enclava el edificio; y por descrita en el inciso (i) está apercibe que si usted deja de el OESTE, en una distancia de relacionada a la ejecución del presentar su alegación respon- treinta y dos pies con diez pul- embargo descrito en el inciso siva dentro del referido término, gadas (32’10”) con el pasillo (iii), ya que al momento que se el tribunal podrá dictar senten- central del piso. Esta unidad re- dictó sentencia en el caso de cia en rebeldía en su contra y sidencial consta de lo siguiente: epígrafe la hipoteca no estaba conceder el remedio solicitado Sala-comedor; cocina; baño: inscrita, ésta será cancelada en la demanda, o cualquier pasillo con closet; y tres (3) como parte de la escritura de otro, si el tribunal, en el ejerci- cuartos dormitorios con su clo- venta judicial producto de la sucio de su sana discreción, lo en- set cada uno. El apartamento basta. Se celebrará la subasta tiende procedente. Dado bajo tiene un porciento de participa- para ejecutar el embargo antes mi firma y sello del Tribunal y ción en los elementos comunes mencionado en el inciso (iii) y por Orden del mismo hoy 19 generales de punto cero cer0 para con el importe de la misde febrero de 2021. Griselda cuatro tres siete cinco siete ma satisfacer la sentencia dicta Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria. (.0043757). A este apartamento el 13 de enero de 2017 a favor Brenda Baez Acaba, Sec Serv le corresponde como elemento de la parte demandante por la suma principal de $59,607.35 a Sala. común limitado el estacionade principal, además de inmiento número 217.

Finca tereses al 6.875%; intereses LEGAL NOTICE 32182 inscrita al tomo móvil ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 975 de Sabana Llana, Regis- vencidos; gastos por demora DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL tro de la Propiedad San Juan, y $7,170.00 estipulados para

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

Friday, March 12, 2021 costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La SUBASTA será celebrada el día 5 de abril de 2021 a las 11:30 de la mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan. El precio ofrecido se pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal o por cheque del gerente librado a favor del alguacil en el mismo acto de subasta y tan pronto se conceda la buena pro al postor agraciado. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables.

Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que puedan tener inscrito o anotado su derecho sobre el bien inmueble hipotecado con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la

venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley en un periódico de circulación diaria en la isla de Puerto Rico, y en los sitios públicos de costumbre, expido el presente Aviso bajo firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de marzo de 2021. f/ PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, DIVISION DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE San Juan.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs.

RAY DAVID RODRIGUEZ COLON, JECENIA SANABRIA PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado (s) CIVIL NÚM. CG2019CV01098 (701). SALON NÚM.: 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, EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia In Rem dictada el 10 de diciembre de 2020, notificada el 11 de diciembre de 2020, de la cual surge que la parte demandada adeuda a la demandante la suma principal de $146.507.81, más intereses vencidos que al 31 de octubre de 2020, ascienden a $24,166.08 y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, la suma de $892.15 por concepto de cargos por demora, la suma de $6,539.96 por concepto de “escrow ”, la suma de $1,122.16 por concepto de otros gastos, la suma de $30.00 por concepto de cheque devuelto, más la suma de $16,219.60 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactados y a tenor con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sen-

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tencia In Rem que se me libró con fecha de 29 de enero de 2021, por la Secretaría de este Honorable Tribunal de Caguas, 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 número cuarenta y uno (41) de la Urbanización “Ciudad Jardín de Juncos”, localizada en el Barrio Gurabo Abajo del municipio de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y ocho punto noventa y siete metros cuadrados (338.97mc). En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de diecisiete punto cero treinta y nueve metros (17,039m) con la calle número dos (2) de dicha Urbanización; por el SUR, en una distancia de quince punto doscientos cuarenta y cuatro y cuatro metros (15.244m),con el solar número cuarenta y dos (42); por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintiuno punto setenta y siete metros (21.077m), con un área verde y con la calle número dos (2) de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintiuno metros (21.00m) con el solar número cuarenta (40), todos estos solares y la Calle pertenecientes al referido desarrollo urbano. El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una sola familia. Inscrita al folio 88 del tomo 447 de Juncos, Finca Número 17,416, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. Por su procedencia está afecta a: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre de Paso; Servidumbre de Equidad; Condiciones Restrictivas sobre Edificación y Uso; Servidumbre a favor de la Junta Reglamentaria de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico.

Sujeta a Condiciones para viabilizar la adquisición del bien inmueble, la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del Programa de Mi Nuevo Hogar, concedió a la compradora la suma de $2,641.80 para sufragar gastos de cierre e impone condiciones por el término de 10 años. Esta propiedad tiene el siguiente número de catastro en el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM):49-201-093-221-81000. La dirección física del inmueble anteriormente descrito es: #41 URBANIZACIÓN CIUDAD JARDIN DE JUNCOS, JUNCOS PR 00777. Sobre la antes descrita propiedad se encuentra inscrito el siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda del día 1 de abril de 2019, expedida en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, en el Caso Civil número CG2019CV01098 (701), seguido por Oriental Bank versus Rey David Ro-

dríguez Colón y su esposa Jecenia Sanabria Peréz, por la suma de $146,507.81, anotado el día 12 de abril de 2019 al tomo Karibe de Juncos, finca número 17,416, Anotación A.” Este Aviso De Demanda Corresponde al caso de epígrafe.

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 12 de abril de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $162,196.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 19 de abril de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $108,130.67. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 26 de abril de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $81,098.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de 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, 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 Caguas 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 Caguas, 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 4 de marzo de 2021. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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Lime Homes, LTD Demandante v.

Luis Armando Malavé Díaz, Haydiris Velázquez Berríos y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos; Luz Lillian Díaz Aponte

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: CG2019CV04801.

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 Caguas, 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 15 de abril de 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. Estancias de Monte Río, K1, Cayey, PR 00736 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA:

30 Parcela identificada en el plano de inscripción como el solar 1 del bloque K de la Urbanización de Estancias Monte Río, localizada en el Barrio Las Vegas del municipio de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 301.5222 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el Norte, con la calle Primorosa; por el Sur, con facilidades recreativas; por el Este, con la calle Heliconia y por el Oeste, con el solar 2 del bloque K. Enclava en dicho solar una residencia de concreto de una planta. Este solar esta afectado por una servidumbre de 1.52 metros a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company que discurre a todo lo largo de sus colindancias Norte y Este. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 65 del tomo 548 de Cayey, finca número 21,937, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $131,900.00. 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 22 de abril de 2021, a las 10:45 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 $87,933.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 29 de abril de 2021, a las 10:45 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 $65,950.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 112, otorgada el día 30 de octubre de 2003, ante el Notario Marilena Román Gandulla y consta inscrita en el folio 65 del tomo 548 de Cayey, finca número 21,937, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, inscripción segunda. El pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca fueron modificados por las partes el 17 de mayo de 2016 mediante el documento titulado Home Affordable Modification Agreement.

En virtud del mismo, se estableció como nuevo principal adeudado la cantidad de $147,722.86, se extendió la fecha de vencimiento al 1 de mayo de 2056, se difirió la cantidad de $14,722.86 y se modificó la tasa de interés anual de la siguiente forma: la tasa de interés anual sería 2.00% desde el 1 de mayo de 2016 hasta

el 30 de abril de 2021; la tasa de interés anual sería 3.00% desde el 1 de mayo de 2021 hasta el 30 de abril de 2022 y la tasa de interés anual sería 3.625% desde el 1 de mayo de 2022 hasta el saldo de la obligación. El 25 de junio de 2017 las partes suscribieron un Deferral Agreement, en virtud del cual se difirió la cantidad de $1,208.28. Dicha cantidad es pagadera a la fecha de vencimiento y no genera intereses.

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 $128,232.34 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 2.00% anual desde el día 1 de enero de 2018. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, se pagará la cantidad de $15,931.14 denominado como balance diferido. 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 $13,190.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $13,190.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $13,190.00 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 Caguas, 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 dere-

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chos 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. EMBARGO ESTATAL: (LEY 12): Anotado sobre esta finca, como perteneciente a Luz L. Díaz Aponte, por concepto de contribución sobre ingresos, por la suma de $4,348.00 y otras cantidades, para un total de $9,140.33, según certificación de fecha 11 de junio de 2010, expedido por Colector de Rentas Internas. Presentada el 17 de junio de 2010, al folio 50, número de orden 200 del Libro de Embargos número 1 de Cayey. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc., vs. Luis Armando Malave Díaz y su esposa, Haydiris Velázquez Berrios y Luz Lillian Díaz Aponte, (soltera), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en el caso civil número CG2019CV04801, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $128,232.34 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 30 de diciembre de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Cayey. Anotación A. 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de MARZO de 2021. FDO. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENE-

RAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de CAROLINA.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MARIA DE LOURDES JIMENEZ FLORES

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2019CV03257 (406).

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE GARANTIAS. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MARIA DE LOURDES JIMENEZ FLORES

(Nombre de las panes a las que se le notifican Ia sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted quo 8 de marzo de 2021 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de Ia misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico do circulación general en Ia Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos do Ia Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de Ia cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término do 30 días contados a partir do Ia publicación por edicto do esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en Ia fecha do Ia publicación do esto edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de marzo de 2021. En CAROLINA , Puerto Rico, el 8 de marzo do 2021. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. JANNETTE RAMIREZ BERNARD, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

DOMINGO TORRES SOTO, su esposa FANNY ROJAS RODRIGUEZ también conocida como FANNY R. TORRES y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. N3CI2016-00564 (002). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: DOMINGO TORRES

SOTO, su esposa FANNY ROJAS RODRIGUEZ, también conocida como FANNY R. TORRES y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Yo, JUAN C. RODRIGUEZ VELAZQUEZ, Alguacil Auxiliar #244, 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 6 de abril de 2021 a las 3:30 de la tarde en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y 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 Fajardo 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 13 de abril de 2021, a las 3:30 de la tarde y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 20 de abril de 2021, a las 3:30 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del Edificio “B” de PORTALES DE RÍO GRANDE, localizado en la Carretera PR guión Tres (PR-3), kilómetro Veintitrés Punto Seis (23.6) en el Barrio Ciénaga Baja del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la escritura matriz de dedicación al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal y en los planos aprobados para este Condominio, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Apartamento número B guión Ciento Quince (B-115). Área total de la vivienda: MIL VEINTICUATRO PUNTO SEIS MIL QUNIENTOS VEINTIOCHO (1,024.6528) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a NOVENTA Y CINCO PUNTO CIENTO NOVENTA Y TRES (95.193) METROS. Los linderos del área de vivienda son los siguientes: por el NORTE, en DIECISÉIS PIES DIEZ Y MEDIA PULGADAS (16’10-

1/2”), con área común; por el SUR, en VEINTIUNO PIES DIEZ PULGADAS (21’10”), con patio posterior; por el ESTE, en TREINTA Y SIETE PIES NUEVE PULGADAS (37’9”), con pared que colinda con el apartamento número Ciento Catorce (114); y por el OESTE, en TREINTA Y CINCO PIES NUEVE PULGADAS (35’9”), con pared que colinda con el apartamento número Ciento Dieciséis (116). Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Noroeste, que da al área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al Edificio. Consta de sala-comedor, un (1) balcón, un (1) pasillo que brinda acceso a las siguientes áreas: un (1) dormitorio con closet, área de lavandería, cocina, un (1) dormitorio con un closet, un (1) baño completo de uso general, un (1) dormitorio principal (“master bedroom”) en el cual ubican un área de closet y un baño completo. A esta unidad de vivienda se le ha asignado dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados con los números Ciento Quince (115) y Ciento Quince guión A (115-A) para uso exclusivo del apartamento aquí individualizado. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de Cero Punto Cero Cero Siete Mil Novecientos Treinta y Siete por ciento (0.007937%). La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca número 29034 de Río Grande, inscripción 2da. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Portales de Río Grande, B, 115, Río Grande, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $76,472.63 de principal, intereses al 5.5% anual, desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2016, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $8,729.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $87,290.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $58,193.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $43,645.00. Si se declara 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 todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad 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. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 5 de marzo de 2021.JUAN C. RODRIGUEZ VELAZQUEZ, Alguacil Auxiliar #244, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.

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Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribuna l se ha radicado Demanda sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato; Cobro de Dinero y Daños y Perjuicios. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Salón 603, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación de este Edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el presente caso. En la demanda radicada la parte demandante reclama lo arriba indicado, como consecuencia de los actos de la parte codemandada. Se le apercibe y notifica que, si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra, radicando los originales de su contestación y enviando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante, a su dirección: LCDO. GABRIEL R. AVILES APONTE, COND. FIRST FEDERAL, 1056 AVE. MUÑOZ RIVERA, STE. 613, SAN JUAN, PR 00927, TELÉFONOS: (787) 764-1430/1530, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará Sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citársele, ni oírsele. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 16 de FEBRERO de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Loyda M Counvertier Reyes, Sec Serv a Sala.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE MATIAS ARROYO MORALES Y LA MARRATHINA TRIGUEIRO SUCESION DE BETZAIDA POMALES MIRANDA ROCHA Y OTROS También concoida como Demandantes v.

Bethzaida Pomales MARIO ALVERIO Merced, compuesta DOMÍNGUEZ Y OTROS por Harold M. Arroyo Demandados CIVIL NUM. SJ2020CV06103.

Pomales, Teresa Arroyo SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO Pomales y Matías E. DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE Arroyo Pomales; John DINERO y DAÑOS Y PERDoe y Richard Roe Como JUICIOS. EDICTO. ESTADOS miembros desconocidos, UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL Centro de Recaudación PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LI- de Ingresos Municipales BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO y Administración para el RICO. SS. sustento a menores A: MARIO ALVERIO Parte Demandada DOMÍNGUEZ; CIVIL NUM. GM2018CV00054.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE IVONNE M. GARCÍA; HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORSOCIEDAD LEGAL DINARIA Y COBRO DE DINEDE GANANCIALES

RO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA.

The San Juan Daily Star El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Guayama, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $93,394.09 de balance principal, el cual se compone de $91,260.94 de primer principal y la suma de $2,133.15 de balance diferido, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 5.625% anual desde el primero de noviembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $12,352.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número treinta y cinco (35) del bloque c de la urbanización vista mar, radicada en el Barrio Machete del término municipal de Guayama, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de cuatrocientos veintiocho metros cuadrados con noventa y dos centímetros cuadrados (428.92m/c). Colindando por el norte, en una distancia lineal de veintiocho (28) metros con veinte (20) centímetros con el solar número treinta y cuatro (34) del bloque C; por el Sur, en una alineación y un arco que totalizan veintiocho (28) metros con veinte (20) centímetros con la calle número cuatro (4) de la Urbanización Vista Mar; por el Este, en una distancia lineal de quince (15) metros con veintiún (21) centímetros con la finca denominada hacienda Santa Elena; y por el Oeste, en una alineación y un arco que totalizan quince (15) metros con veintiún (21) centímetros con la calle número uno (1) de la Urbanización Vista Mar. Enclava una casa de concreto dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio doscientos treinta y siete (237) del tomo ciento ochenta y cinco (185) de Guayama, finca número cinco mil ciento cuarenta y nueve (5,149). Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. Dirección Física: 35-C, #1, Vista-

mar Dev., Guayama, PR 00784.

La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 4 de mayo de 2021 a las 11:00 de la mañana, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $123,520.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 11 de mayo de 2021 a las 11:00 de la mañana y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $82,346.67. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 18 de mayo de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $61,760.00.

El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral,

Friday, March 12, 2021 para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Guayama, Puerto Rico a 23 de febrero de 2021. ANGEL MERCADO QUILES #140, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYAMA.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO Parte Demandante Vs

JOHN KELLY CAMACHO RAMÍREZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: YU2020CV00382.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO.

A: JOHN KELLY CAMACHO RAMÍREZ.

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta ( 30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc-

ción 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 de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Yauco, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de marzo de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante v.

ADA SYLVIA BENÍTEZ GONZÁLEZ

Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: CG2020CV00824.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, hago saber a la parte demandada ADA SYLVIA BENÍTEZ GONZÁLEZ y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 24 de noviembre de 2020, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $95,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal la propiedad que se describe a continuación: [304, 20ST., M 21 Corner Celada WD, Gurabo, PR 00778] RUSTICA: Parcela 304 en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Celada localizada en el barrio Celada del Municipio de Gurabo. Tiene una cabida de 409.9200 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con mil cuarenta y dos diezmilésimas de otra. Linda: NORTE, con parcela número 303 de la comunidad; SUR, con la Calle Número 21 de la comunidad; ESTE, con Calle Número 20 y OESTE, con la parcela número 305 de la comunidad.

Finca 6021 inscrita al folio 229 del tomo 159 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: i)

Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la suma de $95,000.00 con intereses al 3.50% anual y vencimiento 1 de marzo de 2015. Constituida por la Escritura 15 otorgada en San Juan el 18 de febrero de 2010 ante el notario Carlos E. Umpierre Schuck, e inscrita en virtud de la Ley 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010 para Agilizar el Registro de La Propiedad, asiento abreviado y extendido con fecha 30 de noviembre de 2017, al folio 793 del tomo 499 de Gurabo, finca 6021, inscripción 4ª. ii) Al asiento 408 del diario 685 se presentó el 29 de octubre de 2015 la Escritura 99 de Modificación de Hipoteca otorgada en San Juan el 30 de septiembre de 2015 ante el notario Miguel Gabriel Esteva Arroyo, por la cual Ada Sylvia Benítez González y Oriental Bank CANCELAN PARCIALMENTE en una suma de $3,233.44 la Hipoteca de $95,000.00 de la inscripción 4ª antes relacionada, y la MODIFICAN en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su principal por $91,766.56 con intereses al 3.50% comenzando el 1 de noviembre de 2015, posteriormente la cantidad del préstamo que devengará intereses lo hará a razón del 3.50% comenzando el 1 de noviembre de 2020 hasta su saldo y vencimiento 1 de octubre de 2050. iii) Al asiento 2018-047066-CA02 se presentó el 22 de mayo de 2018 la Escritura 24 sobre Consentimiento y Ratificación otorgada en San Juan el 1 de febrero de 2018 ante el notario Luis Yamil Rodríguez San Miguel, por la cual Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, ratifica haber impuesto sobre la finca 6021 de Gurabo condiciones restrictivas bajo el Programa Bono de Vivienda, expresa su consentimiento y ratifica la modificación de hipoteca que consta presentada al asiento 408 del diario 685 antes relacionado. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 13 de octubre de 2019, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $93,060.99 de principal, más $4,816.23 de interés que continuarán acumulándose desde el día 1 de abril de 2019 hasta el saldo total al 6.875% anual, $526.49 escrow balance, $346.88 de cargos por demora, $1,697.20 de otros cargos, $13,200.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de

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conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 12 de abril de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $95,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 de abril de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $63,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 de abril de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $47,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que-

dando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de marzo de 2021.

ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE Caguas.

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COOPERATIVAD E AHORROY CRÉDITO DE CAGUAS Demandantes Vs.

FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: CG2021CV00323.

SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

FUUNO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL

El Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas dictó la siguiente providencia: “ORDEN: Vista la solicitud sobre publicación de edictos, la demanda que se acompaña para cancelar un pagaré a favor de CENTRO HIPOTECARIO DE PUERTO RICO, que se ha extraviado y las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal ordena que se citen por edictos a los demandados desconocidos Fulano de Tal y Mengano de Tal, en su condición de posibles tenedores del pagaré a favor de CENTRO HIPOTECARIO DE PUERTO RICO, o a su orden,

por la suma de OCHENTA Y NUEVE MIL QUINIENTOS DOLARES ($89,500.00), con intereses al seis y siete octavos por ciento (6 7/8%) anual, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura Número Ciento Treinta y Tres (133), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 11 de marzo de 2003 ante la Notario Público Magaly Rodríguez Batista, el cual es vencedero el primero (1ro.) de abril de dos mil dieciocho (2018). Los edictos se publicarán en un periódico de circulación general. En vista de encontrarnos ante demandados desconocidos, se exime a la parte demandante del envío por correo certificado del presente edicto. DADA en Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1 de MARZO de 2021. HON. ANNETTEM .

PRATS PALERM, (Firmado) JUEZ SUPERIOR. Se le notifica que de no contestar, o alegar en contra de la demanda radicada en este caso, previa notificación del demandante, dentro de veinte (20) días si el demandado reside en Puerto Rico, o dentro de treinta (30) días si el demandado reside fuera de Puerto Rico, contados desde la publicación del edicto, se le anotará rebeldía, sin más citarle ni oírle, y oída la evidencia del demandante, el Tribunal dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Leda. Teresa Pacheco Camacho con oficinas en la calle Santiago Vivaldi Pacheco #24B, Yauco, Puerto Rico y dirección postal P.O. Box 5004, PMB 200, Yauco, Puerto Rico 00698. f/ LCDA. TERESA PACHECO CAMACHO COLEGIADA NÚM. 12,713 RUA NÚM. 11,490 P.O. BOX 5004 PMB 200 YAUCO, PUERTO RICO 00698 TELS. 787-267-5784 / 787-594-4144 FAX: 787-267-6328 teresa@nacheco-camacholawfirrn. com Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal para su publicación, hoy día 8 de Marzo de 2021. En Caguas, Puerto Rico.

CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Sec del Tribunal.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORROY CREDITO DE CAGUAS; y AUREA ISABEL GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Demandante Vs.

FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: HU2019CV00962.

SALA:206. SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRA-

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VELEZ, OLGA MARIA com POR EDICTO. ESTADO UBRE ARROYOS Y LA ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Expedido bajo mi firma y el SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE sello del Tribunal para su puRICO. BIENES GANANCIALES blicación, hoy día 5 de marzo FULANO DE TAL Y COMPUESTA POR de 2021. En Humacao, Puerto MENGANO DE TAL AMBOS El Tribunal de Primera Instan- Rico. Dominga Gomez Fuster, Demandados cia, Sala Superior de Humacao Sec Regional. Marisol Davila Civil Núm.: JCD2017-0348. dictó la siguiente providencia: Ortiz, Sec Auxiliar.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO “ORDEN: Vista la solicitud LEGAL NOTICE Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA sobre publicación de edictos, la demanda que se acompa- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVIña para cancelar un pagaré DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL SO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA a ·favor de DORAL FINAN- GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- SUBASTA. Yo, MANUEL MALCIAL CORP., haciendo nego- BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- DONADO, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del cios como H.F. MORTGAGE CIA SALA DE PONCE. BANCO POPULAR DE Centro Judicial de Ponce, a los CORPORATION, que se ha demandados y al público en gePUERTO RICO extraviado y las Reglas de neral les notifico que, cumplienDemandante Vs. Procedimiento Civil vigentes, do con un Mandamiento que se el Tribunal ordena que se citen CARMEN ha librado en el presente caso por edictos a los demandados MERCADO ROSA por el Secretario del Tribunal desconocidos Fulano de Tal y Demandado Mengano de Tal, en su condi- CIVIL NUM.: PO2020CV01577. de epígrafe con fecha 19 de ción de posibles tenedores del Sala 602. SALON: SOBRE: junio de 2019 y para satisfacer pagaré a favor de DORAL FI- COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLA- la Sentencia por la cantidad de $136,473.26 de principal, dicNANCIAL CORP., haciendo ne- ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. tada en el caso de autos el 27 gocios como H.F. MORTGAGE A: CARMEN de marzo de 2019, notificada CORPORATION, o a su orden, MERCADO ROSA y archivada en autos el 28 de por la suma de OENTO DOCE MIL QUINIENTOS DOLARES Por la presente se le emplaza marzo de 2019, procederé a ($112,500.00), con intereses al a usted y se le requiere para vender en pública subasta, al siete y cinco octavos por ciento que dentro del de TREINTA mejor postor en pago de conta(7 5/8%) anual, garantizado con (30) días desde la fecha de la do y en moneda del curso legal hipoteca constituida mediante Publicación por Edicto de este de los Estados Unidos de Améla Escritura Número Treinta Emplazamiento, notifique a la rica, mediante efectivo, giro o y Seis (36), otorgada en San LCDA. GINA H. FERRER ME- cheque certificado a nombre Juan, Puerto Rico el día 26 de DINA, Condominio Las Nerei- del Alguacil de este Tribunal enero de de 2001 ante el No- das, Local 1-B, Calle Mendez todo derecho, título e interés tario Público Edgardo del Valle Vigo esquina Amador Ramirez que hayan tenido tengan o pueGalarza, el cual es vencedero Silva, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico dan tener los deudores demanel primero (1ro.) de febrero de 00680; Apartado 2342, Maya- dados en cuanto a la propiedad dos mil dieciseis (2016). Los guez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, localizada en el Municipio de edictos se publicarán en un pe- Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y Yauco, Puerto Rico, el bien riódico de circulación general. (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la inmueble se describe a conEn vista de encontrarnos ante Parte Demandante, cuya direc- tinuación: B2 Urb. Los Pinos, demandados desconocidos, se ción es la que queda indicada, Yauco, PR 00698. URBANA: exime a la parte demandante copia de su Contestación a la Solar marcado con la letra B-2 del envío por correo certificado Demanda, radicando el origi- del plano de la Urbanización del presente edicto. DADA en nal de dicha Contestación en Los Pinos radicado en el Barrio Humacao, Puerto Ricn, 1 de el Tribunal de Ponce. Copia de Barinas del término municipal MARZO de 2021. f/ANTONIO la Demanda, así como de este de Yauco, Puerto Rico comR. NEGRON VILLARDEFRAN- Emplazamiento, podrán ser ob- puesto de una cabida de CuaCOS (Firmado) JUEZ SUPE- tenidas en la Secretaria de este trocientos ochenta y seis punto RIOR. Se le notifica que de no Tribunal, apercibiéndose que novecientos setenta y cinco contestar, o alegar en contra de en caso de no hacerlo usted así metros cuadrados (486.975 la demanda radicada en este dentro del termino indicado, po- m/c). En lindes por el NORTE, caso, previa notificación del drá anotarse la rebeldía en su en Venitiseis punto cincuenta demandante, dentro de veinte contra concediendo el remedio y siete (26.57) metros lineales (20) días si el demandado resi- solicitado en la Demanda sin con Solar número B-1, por el de en Puerto Ríen, o dentro de mas citarle ni oírle. Expido bajo SUR, en veintiséis punto cintreinta (30) días si el demanda- mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, cuenta y siete (26.57) metros do reside fuera de Puerto Rico, hoy 02 de febrero de 2021. lineales con el Solar B-3, por contados desde la publicación LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO el ESTE, en Dieciocho punto del edicto, se le anotará rebel- GARCIA, SECRETARIA. Por: treinta y tres (18.33) metros día, sin más citarle ni oírle, y BRENDA L. SANTIAGO, SUB- lineales con Yauco Plaza, por el OESTE en Dieciocho punto oída la evidencia del deman- SECRETARIA. treinta y tres (18.33) metros lidante, el Tribunal dictará senLEGAL NOTICE neales con la Calle número 2. tencia concediendo el remedio solicitado. La abogada de la ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Finca 14996 inscrita al folio 296 parte demandante es la Leda. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- del tomo 289 de Yauco, RegisTeresa Pacheco Camacho con NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA tro de la Propiedad de Ponce, oficinas en la calle Santiago SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE Sección II. Con el importe de WILMINGTON SAVINGS dicha venta se habrá de satisVivaldi Pacheco #24-B, Yauco, FUND SOCIETY, FSB, facer a la parte demandante las Puerto Rico y dirección postal cantidades adeudadas, según P.O. Box 5004, PMB 200, YauD/B/A CHRISTIANA la Sentencia dictada en el caso co, Puerto Rico 00698.

TRUST, AS INDENTURE de epígrafe, por el Tribunal f/ LCDA. TERESA PACHECO TRUSTEE, FOR THE CAMACHO de Primera Instancia, Sala de COLEGIADA NÚM. 12,713 CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, Ponce, cuyas cantidades son RUA NÚM. 11,490 MORTGAGE BACKED las siguientes: $136,473.26 de P.O. BOX 5004 NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1 principal; intereses al 8.25%, PMB 200 los cuales continúan acumulánYAUCO, PUERTO RICO 00698 Demandante V. TELS. 787-267-5784 / 787-594-4144 dose hasta el saldo total de la JOSE MANUEL VARGAS FAX: 787-267-6328

deuda y 10% del principal del pagaré, para cubrir costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados.

El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $143,374.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $95,582.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $71,687.00. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 6 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 13 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 20 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce. De Estudio de Título realizado surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores. Aviso de Demanda dictado el 30 de abril de 2010 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, caso civil #JCD2010-0573 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de Puerto Rico vs los esposos José Manuel Vargas Vélez y Olga María Arroyo Ramos donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 1ra reducida a $142,720.23 o la venta en pública subasta, anotado al folio 37 tomo 839 de Yauco finca #14996 el 2 de junio de 2010 anotación “A”. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la

Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. 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 para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 1 de marzo de 2021. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 42253 SJ2020CV00154 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

MTGLQ Investors, L.P. Demandante v.

Sandra Margarita Brito Salcedo, Antonio Moreno Rosa y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: SJ2020CV00154.

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 San Juan, 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 ge-

rente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 7 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. San José, O12 calle 15, San Juan, PR 00923-1601 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número doce (12) de la manzana ‘O’ del plano preparado por la Autoridad sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico, hoy Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para su proyecto de solares denominado San José Development ‘PRHA-12’, radicado en el Barrio Hato Rey del término municipal de Río Piedras, hoy San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 383.11 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar número O guión diez (O-10) de la mencionada Urbanización, distancia de dieciseis punto sesenta y uno (16.61) metros; por el Sur, con la servidumbre de paso de la calle número quince (15) de dicho proyecto, distancia de dieciseis punto cuarenta y seis (16.46) metros; por el Este, con el solar número O guión trece (O-13) de dicha Urbanización, distancia de veinticuatro punto treinta y ocho (24.38) metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar númeo O guion once (O-11) del mencionado proyecto San José Development ‘PRHA-12’, distancia de veintidós punto diecisiete (22.17) metros. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 226 del tomo 752 de Río Piedras Nte, finca número 21,828, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $103,823.99. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 14 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $69,215.99.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 21 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $51,912.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 85, otorgada el día 15 de abril de 2005, ante el Notario Roy R. Sánchez-Vahamonde Dieppa y consta inscrita en el folio 78 del tomo 1,495 (ágora) de Río Piedras Nte, finca número 21,828, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda, inscripción novena. 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 $85,995.55 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.004% anual desde el día 5 de diciembre de 2018. 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 $20,764.79 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $20,764.79 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $20,764.79 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 San Juan, 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. ANOTACION DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por MTGLQ Investers L.P. vs. Antonio Moreno Rosa y su esposa, Sandra Margarita Brito Salcedo, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en el caso civil numero SJ 2020 CV00154, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecucion de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipotecas con un balance de $85,955.55 y otras cantidades, segun Demanda de fecha 10 de enero de 2020.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Rio Piedras Norte. Anotación A. 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de marzo de 2021. FDO. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

ANTONIO TORRES DIAZ, su esposa ROSA MARIA JIMENEZ SALDAÑA y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV04750 (604). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: ANTONIO TORRES DIAZ, su esposa ROSA

The San Juan Daily Star

MARIA JIMENEZ SALDAÑA y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

critura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 1054 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta, finca número 2,742, inscripción décimo Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZA- primera. La dirección física de LEZ, Alguacil de este Tribunal, la propiedad antes descrita es: a la parte demandada y a los Urbanización El Comandante, acreedores y personas con 856 (antes 661, Bloque C-23), interés sobre la propiedad que Calle Carmen Hernández, San más adelante se describe, y al Juan, Puerto Rico. La Supúblico en general, HAGO SA- basta se llevará a efecto para BER: Que el día 12 de abril de satisfacer a la parte deman2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana dante la suma de $65,122.22 en mi oficina, sita en el Tribu- de principal,más intereses al nal de Primera Instancia, Sala 7.25% anual desde el 1ro. de Superior de San Juan, San agosto de 2017, hasta su comJuan, Puerto Rico, venderé en pleto pago; la cantidad estipuPública Subasta la propiedad lada de $9,000.00 para costas, inmueble que más adelante gastos y honorarios de abose describe y cuya venta en gado y recargos acumulados, pública subasta se ordenó por todas cuyas sumas están líquila vía ordinaria al mejor postor das y exigibles y cualquier otra quien hará el pago en dinero en suma que se haga en virtud de efectivo, giro postal o cheque la escritura de hipoteca. Que la certificado a nombre del o la Al- cantidad mínima de licitación guacil del Tribunal de Primera en la primera subasta para el Instancia. Los autos y todos los inmueble será de $90,000.00 y documentos correspondientes de ser necesaria una segunda al procedimiento incoado, esta- subasta, la cantidad mínima rán de manifiesto en la Secre- será equivalente a 2/3 partes taría del Tribunal de San Juan de aquella, o sea, la suma durante horas laborables. Que de $60,000.00 y de ser neceen caso de no producir remate saria una tercera subasta, la ni adjudicación en la primera cantidad mínima será la mitad subasta a celebrarse, se ce- del precio pactado, es decir, la lebrará una segunda subasta suma de $45,000.00. De declapara la venta de la susodicha rarse desierta la tercera subaspropiedad, el día 19 de abril de ta se adjudicará la finca a favor 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana y del acreedor por la totalidad de en caso de no producir remate la cantidad adeudada si esta es ni adjudicación, se celebrará igual o menor que el monto del una tercera subasta el 26 de tipo de la tercera subasta, si el abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la Tribunal lo estima conveniente. mañana en mi oficina sita en el Se abonará dicho monto a la lugar antes indicado. La propie- cantidad adeudada si esta es dad a venderse en pública su- mayor. La propiedad se adjubasta se describe como sigue: dicará al mejor postor, quien URBANA: Solar marcado con el deberá satisfacer el importe número Seiscientos Sesenta y de su oferta en moneda legal y Uno (661) del Bloque C guión corriente de los Estados Unidos Veintitrés (“C-23”) del plano de de América en el momento de inscripción de la URBANIZA- la adjudicación y que las carCIÓN EL COMANDANTE, radi- gas y gravámenes preferentes, cado en el Barrio Sabana Llana si los hubiese, continuarán subde Río Piedras, del término mu- sistentes, entendiéndose que el nicipal del Gobierno de la Ca- rematante los acepta y queda pital, Puerto rico, con un área subrogado en la responsabilisuperficial de TRESCIENTOS dad de los mismos, sin destiCUARENTA Y CUATRO PUN- narse a su extinción el precio TO CINCUENTA (344.50) ME- del remate. La propiedad a ser TROS CUADRADOS y colinda vendida en pública subasta se por el NORTE, en VEINTISÉIS adquirirá libre de cargas y graPUNTO CINCUENTA (26.50) vámenes posteriores. Podrán METROS, con el solar núme- concurrir como postores a toro Seiscientos Sesenta y Dos das las subastas los titulares de (662); por el SUR, en VEIN- créditos hipotecarios vigentes y TISÉIS PUNTO CINCUENTA posteriores a la hipoteca que (26.50) METROS, con el solar se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno número Seiscientos Sesenta o que figuren como tales en la (660); por el ESTE, en TRECE certificación registral y que poPUNTO CERO CERO (13.00) drán utilizar el montante de sus METROS, con la Calle “Street créditos o parte de alguno en número Tres (3)”; y por el OES- sus ofertas. Si la oferta acepTE, en TRECE PUNTO CERO tada es por cantidad mayor a CERO (13.00) METROS, con la suma del crédito o créditos terrenos de Manolo Rodríguez. preferentes al suyo, al obtener Enclava sobre este solar una la buena pro del remate, debecasa de concreto armado de rá satisfacer en el mismo acto, una sola planta que consta en efectivo o en cheque de principalmente de tres (3) dor- gerente, la totalidad del crédito mitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, hipotecario que se ejecuta y la cuarto de baño y balcón. La es-

Friday, March 12, 2021 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9 de marzo de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, Alguacil, DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCION DE SENTENCIAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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

CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Demandante VS.

RAMIRO TORRES MARTINEZ, HILDA ALTAGRACIA GARCIA RODRIGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NUM. CA2018CV02670.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 30 de abril de 2021 a las 10:30 de la mañana, todo derecho titulo, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 1-H en el primer piso del Edificio Adel Condominio Pontezuela I localizado en la Avenida Pontezuela, colindante con la Urbanizacion Jardines de Country Club, en el

municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un area superficial de 108.14 metros cuadrados. Por el NORTE, en 1.83 metros con la pared exterior del dormitorio número 2 y en 6.89 metros con el apartamento 1-L; por el SUR, en 8.72 metros con el pasillo de entrada que estáfrente al apartamento 1-G; por el ESTE, en 13.27 metros con la pared exterior este y por el OESTE en 13.27 metros con el apartamento 1-F. Le corresponde un espacio de estacionamiento de marcado Edificio A-1-1-H. Las demas dependencias de este apartamento consta del documento. Consta inscrita al folio 144 del tomo 572 de Carolina, finca número 29084, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Seccion I de Carolina.

Propiedad localizada en: Cond.

Pontezuela, Apt. HI, Edif. A1, Carolina, PR 00983. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: A. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 17 de octubre de 2018 radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina en el caso civil número CA2018CV02670 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca; CitiMortgage Inc., demandante v.

Ramiro Torres Martinez, Hilda Altagracia Garcia Rodriguez y la SLG compuesta por ambos, demandados. Por la misma se reclama el pago del préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $47,022.77. Inscrita el 7 de febrero de 2019, finca 29084 de Carolina I, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Anotación B. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de S69,800.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 7 de mayo de 2021 a las 10:30 de la mañana, y se

establece como minima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $46,533.33, (dos terceras) 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $34,900.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 14 de mayo de 2021 a las 10:30 de la mañana. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacera la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $47,002.77 de principal, intereses al tipo del 7.50000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de julio de 2017 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $6,980.00 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 disponitles 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) dias entre ambas publicaciones, asi como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de febrero de 2021.

Manuel Villafañe Blanco, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR.

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Velez Peña compuesta por Fulano de Tal, Sutano de Tal, Lydia Burgos Caraballo y Ramonita Burgos Caraballo t/c/c Ramona Burgos Caraballo; Ramonita Burgos Caraballo t/c/c Ramona Burgos Caraballo; Estados Unidos; Centro de Recaudaciones de Impuestos Municipales

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CA2020CV02013.

SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: Ramonita Burgos Caraballo t/c/c Ramona Burgos Caraballo

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en Ia Secretaria de este Tribunal Ia Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando Ia ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado a! pagaré suscrito a favor de Urban Financial Group, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $232,500.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.543% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligandose además a! pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $23,250.00, equivalente al 10% de Ia suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidavit número 1,251 ante el notario Maria G. Chévere Mouriño. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 25 otorgada el 15 de julio de 2009, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita a! folio 223 del tomo 399 de Carolina, finca número 15,776 del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Seccion de Carolina, inscripción 5ta. La Hipoteca Revertida grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Cilla Carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe con el nUmero diecisiete de Ia manzana cincuentiuno con un area de trescientos LEGAL NOT ICE setentisiete metros cuadrados ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO con seis centímetros y en lindes DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUpor el NORTE, con los solares NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA dos y tres, distancia de catorce SALA DE CAROLINA. metros; por el SUR, con la caReverse Mortgage lle cuarenticuatro, distancia de Solutions, Inc. catorce metros; por el ESTE, DEMANDANTE VS. con solar dieciséis, distancia Sucesión de Ramon de veintiséis metros noventitres

centímetros; y por el OESTE, con el solar dieciocho, distancia de veintiséis metros noventitres centímetros. Finca número 15,776, inscrita al folio 221 del tomo 399 de Carolina. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudiciaLpr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretarla del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de Ia contestación ante Ia secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve Lopez Stipes, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 60 días a partir de Ia publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diana general en Ia isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal boy 2 de febrero de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn ponte Rodriguez, Secretaria Regional. Rosa M Viera Velazquez, Sub - Secretario (a).

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

Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. DEMANDANTE VS.

Sucesión de Ramon Velez Peña compuesta por Fulano de Tal, Sutano de Tal, Lydia Burgos Caraballo y Ramonita Burgos Caraballo t/c/c Ramona Burgos Caraballo; Ramonita Burgos Caraballo t/c/c Ramona Burgos Caraballo; Estados Unidos; Centro de Recaudaciones de Impuestos Municipales

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM: CA2020CV02013.

SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. MANDAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS

EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: ORDEN: Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787.

Se Ordena a los herederos del causante a saber, Ramonita Burgos Caraballo t/c/c Ramona Burgos Caraballo, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, herederos de nombres desconocidos a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Ramon Velez Peña.

Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguiente, responden por la cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión del causante Ramon Velez Peña incluyen como herederos a Ramonita Burgos Caraballo t/c/c Ramona Burgos Caraballo, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de enero de 2021. FDO. WILFREDO MALDONADO GARCIA, JUEZ. Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Ramon Velez Peña. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en San Juan, Puerto Rico hoy día 2 de febrero de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Rosa M. Viera Velazquez, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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The Yankees will have to get creative in Zack Britton’s absence

By JAMES WAGNER

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he New York Yankees acquired Zack Britton in a trade with the Baltimore Orioles on July 24, 2018.

Two days later, he made his first appearance in pinstripes, and he soon became a mainstay in the bullpen and a leading voice in the clubhouse.

Over the past 2 1/2 seasons, Britton has logged a 2.14 ERA over 111 appearances. Only four other qualified relievers in the major leagues have a lower ERA in that span. And on the Yankees, a team that has dealt with numerous injuries over the years, Britton has been their best and most reliable reliever since his arrival.

His leadership and his dependability made Tuesday a hard day for the Yankees, as the team announced that Britton, a left-hander, would soon undergo arthroscopic surgery in New York to remove a bone chip from his throwing elbow. Although no timetable was provided for Britton’s return, similar injuries have cost pitchers two or three months.

Before Britton, 33, experienced stiffness after a recent bullpen session at the Yankees’ facility in Tampa, Florida, and tests discovered the source, he was already dealing with the aftereffects of another ailment: COVID-19.

“It’s been a pretty frustrating couple of weeks,” he said in a video call with reporters on Wednesday.

Britton, who resides in Austin, Texas, in the offseason, said he thinks he may have been infected at the hospital while his wife was giving birth to their fourth child. He said the disease knocked him out for about 10 days in January, he lost 18 pounds and it ultimately cost him about three to four weeks of throwing because of the lingering impact on his stamina while working out.

The Yankees had been taking it slow in spring training with Britton, who said he had been recently feeling more like himself. Already cognizant of the seriousness of the virus, Britton said his recent bout was a reminder that even a healthy person can still be affected for months.

“The weight still hasn’t come all the way back,” Britton said. “We’re a few months out and I’m still finding my way back from it.”

During the six-month marathon of the regular season, missing the first month or two isn’t terrible, particularly when the Yankees are talented enough on paper to reach the playoffs without Britton. Their sights are set on postseason glory, not on April or May dominance. But losing the best option out of the bullpen, even for a bit, from a unit that has been a team strength over the years, is still a blow.

“If this was during the season, I’m not sure surgery would be the decision,” Britton said. But because it was spring training, Britton said doctors advised that surgery was the best way to pitch again this season at a high level for the Yankees.

Since 2015, Yankees’ bullpens have been among the most valuable in the major leagues and helped them withstand injuries elsewhere on the roster. But during the pandemic-shortened, 60-game 2020 season, the relief corps regressed.

Britton, though, stood tall, posting a 1.89 ERA over 20 games and recording eight saves while filling in for Aroldis Chapman early on. And in the clubhouse during a season unlike any other, Britton took on an even larger role as the representative for the team’s players union.

He organized and communicated with his teammates as the union negotiated with owners over months about the start of the season. He served as a liaison between the front office and the clubhouse on a range of matters, from the health and safety protocols to postponements. Twice last season, the Yankees had their schedule upended because of positive cases on other teams and had to scramble to fit in games or practices.

“He was fantastic in every way, shape or form in terms of performance, in terms of the leadership he provided,” general manager Brian Cashman said after the postseason.

Over the offseason, the Yankees triggered an option in Britton’s contract that turned the three-year, $39 million pact they signed him to before the 2019 season into a four-year, $53 million deal.

Also over the winter, Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and Britton were elected by their peers to a leading players union group, the executive subcommittee — a key position ahead of what are expected to be contentious negotiations over a

Zack Britton has been the Yankees’ most reliable reliever since coming over from Baltimore in a 2018 trade. new collective bargaining agreement between the MLB and its players.

Last month, as spring training was beginning, Britton’s leadership came to the forefront when he spoke frankly about teammate Domingo Germán returning from an 81-game suspension for domestic violence. He gave a brutally honest view of his feelings about the situation — “Sometimes you don’t get to control who your teammates are” — which forced Germán and the Yankees to rethink his reintegration into the team.

Asked on Wednesday about the reaction to his comments, Britton didn’t want to add much beyond saying, “Things have happened behind the scenes that needed to happen.”

While Britton works his way back to the mound, the Yankees will have to lean more on Luis Cessa, Chad Green, Jonathan Loaisiga and Chapman. When they traded Adam Ottavino to their rival, the Boston Red Sox, over the winter, the Yankees used those savings to help sign

right-handed side-armer Darren O’Day and left-hander Justin Wilson, both stout relievers with long track records. But to round out their bullpen, the Yankees may be leaning on less-proven options such as Nick Nelson, Michael King, Kyle Barraclough, Lucas Luetge or others.

Relievers are important early in a season when starters aren’t yet conditioned to pitch deep into games every fifth day.

But they could be even more critical this season: Pitchers didn’t amass their usual workloads last season and will be asked to ramp up to normal this year, a jump in innings that could lead to more injuries.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone has said the Yankees will be creative early on, which could include using a six-man rotation. Britton’s absence will put even more pressure on Boone’s creativity.

“It’s certainly a blow,” Boone said of Britton’s injury, but adding later, “In a weird season, maybe in a way, this could be something that allows him to stay fresher throughout the season.”

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NFL sets salary cap at $182.5 million in 2021

By KEN BELSON

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he NFL has determined the salary cap for the 2021 season, saying each team will have $182.5 million to spend on player payroll, nearly 8% less than in 2020, when revenues were cleaved by the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, the salary cap was $198.2 million, a league record.

A decline in the cap, the maximum amount available for teams to spend on player salaries and bonuses, was expected, but it was less severe than anticipated. Still, NFL franchises will have nearly $16 million less than they had last year to pay players, which is sure to distort how general managers allocate their more limited funds.

Sports Business Journal was first to report the final salary cap figure, which fell for only the second time since the spending limit was introduced in 1994.

With the free-agent market loaded with big-name quarterbacks and other star players looking to relocate, teams seeking to sign those players will have less money left to fill out their rosters.

That could lead general managers to sign N.F.L. franchises will have nearly $16 million less than they did last year to pay players, which is sure to distort how more rookies and free agents who are general managers allocate their more limited funds. willing to play for league-minimum salaries or to sign the biggest names to one- Browns and the New England Patriots, ment, exercised their option in 2008 NBC and other carriers, expire after the year deals, rather than look to veterans will have more than $200 million in pay- to end the deal ahead of schedule as a 2022 season. seeking lucrative long-term contracts. roll to spend in 2021.

The NFL and the NFL Players Asway of prompting both sides to return Of the 500 or so players looking Still, the salary cap is a barometer of to bargaining. The union and league sociation could have faced a far-worse for new deals, many of them are young the health of the league, and the lower failed to reach a new deal, however, situation had they not agreed to a 10players at the end of their rookie con- cap reflects some grim math: The NFL triggering a capless year. When the year labor agreement in mid-March last tracts who are seeking second deals lost about $4 billion in revenue last two sides ultimately agreed, the salary year as the coronavirus pandemic was that reflect their value (think JuJu Smith- season by limiting attendance at games. cap for 2011 was set at $120 million, causing shutdowns in the United States.

Schuster of the Pittsburgh Steelers) or About 1.2 million fans watched NFL less than the $123 million salary cap in That agreement ensured the two sides established players seeking to cash in games in person, down from about 17 2009. would have terms in place to avoid a on longer résumés. Trent Williams, an million in a typical season. Teams lost The final increase does not reflect work stoppage and gave the league eight-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle, tens of millions of dollars because of a revenue that will be generated in new- enough certainty to begin negotiations and Jadeveon Clowney, a three-time Pro decline in sales of tickets, suites, food, ly negotiated broadcast agreements, with its broadcast partners.

Bowl defensive end, are expected to gar- beverages and parking, and a decline which are expected to be completed A person familiar with the league’s ner significant interest, as are midcareer in sponsorships. in the coming weeks. The money from finances said the salary cap could have players such as defensive end Shaquil The league initially set a salary cap those deals is expected to grow by 50% fallen to about $160 million if the labor Barrett, whose stock has risen because of $175 million to make up for the lost to 100% over the next decade or so, a agreement had not been signed March of his role in helping the Tampa Bay Buc- revenue, then raised it to $180 million windfall that is likely to grow the salary 15 and had negotiations spilled into caneers win the Super Bowl in February. before settling on $182.5 million. what was already a chaotic 2020 seacap significantly in the coming years.

As a practical matter, each team’s The only other time the salary cap ESPN’s deal to broadcast games on son. The new labor deal gave the ownsalary cap is subject to adjustments declined was in the 2011 season, in Monday nights expires at the end of the ers the right to add a 17th regular-seabased on rollover amounts from players somewhat of a fluke. In 2010, the NFL 2021 season, as does Fox’s agreement son game, which they are likely to do in under contract that they cut or traded. played without a cap because team to carry games on Thursday nights. 2021, adding another source of revenue Some teams, including the Cleveland owners, unhappy with the labor agree- The league’s other contracts, with CBS, to offset the impact of the pandemic.

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There will be marathons this fall. But what will they look like?

By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

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t is a tradition as much a part of the New York City Marathon as the 26.2mile distance. A singular boom of a cannon — and the start of Frank Sinatra’s “Theme From New York, New York” — sending thousands of runners across the start line and over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

But that flood of humanity may look a bit different this year.

There will probably be thousands of fewer runners, and it may take them much longer to begin their journey. If there are crowds along the roads, they are likely to be smaller than usual, as organizers do all they can to prevent their race from becoming a coronavirus superspreader event.

“Is the marathon going to happen?

Absolutely,” said Ted Metellus, race director for the New York City Marathon, planned for Nov. 7. “It’s what it is going to look like that’s in question.”

Although Metellus was speaking about the New York race, he could have been describing any of the three major marathons in the United States that are crunched into a four-week window this fall, instead of being spread out over seven months.

With the pandemic wiping out major running events for most of 2020 and the first half of this year, race organizers have spent the past few months working with health experts and government officials to plan their return. The process involves trying to predict what the world will look like in seven months, because marathons cannot be planned (or trained for) with a few weeks’ notice.

It is not an easy task, and organizers say that no matter what plans they announce in the coming weeks and months, everything is subject to change.

“Heaven knows what things may intervene between now and the race,” said Tom Grilk, CEO of the Boston Athletic Association, which conducts the Boston Marathon, scheduled for Oct. 11. “What we’ve learned is that the signal feature of this pandemic is uncertainty.”

While every road race is shrouded in uncertainty now, plans for the marathons in New York, Boston and Chicago, scheduled for Oct. 10, have special significance because they are part of the

Wearing a controversial Nike shoe, Eliud Kipchoge, the marathon world-record holder, broke the event’s two-hour barrier last weekend.

World Marathon Majors series. Those races — along with the three major marathons in London, Berlin and Tokyo — offer the most prize money, attract the best marathoners in the world and serve as bucket-list events for runners of all abilities.

The glut of races this fall — the ones in Boston, London and Tokyo usually take place during March and April — has sent runners scrambling. Elite runners, who usually do one race in the spring and one in the fall, must decide which major race to run. The London Marathon is supposed to take place Oct. 3. The Tokyo is scheduled for Oct. 17. The Berlin Marathon is planned for Sept. 26.

Everyday runners are weighing which race will give them the best chance of entry. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Marathon cluttered the schedule further, announcing it would hold its race, which normally occurs in February, on Nov. 7, the same day as New York’s.

In a typical year, the Boston, Chicago and New York events draw a combined total of more than 130,000 runners, generating tens of millions of dollars for their parent organizations and largely covering the budgets for everything else those organizations do. That is unlikely to happen this year, with officials in Boston and

New York making it clear that they plan to significantly reduce the size of their fields.

Carey Pinkowski, CEO for the Chicago Marathon, has not given up hope that his race can produce the nearly 46,000 finishers it did in 2019, but he said this “transition year” was likely to produce an altered event.

“I don’t think anyone expects it to be at the same grand level,” Pinkowski said.

“Is it going to look different? Absolutely.

Is it going to feel different? Absolutely.”

While the particulars vary from city to city, officials are all working from a similar playbook. They are trying to figure out some kind of testing regimen for participants and volunteers. Also, they are running through a series of permutations that account for the size of the roads, space between runners, and logistics at the start line to keep runners safely distanced for as long as possible.

To compete, runners will probably be required to test negative for the coronavirus in the days leading up to the races, although organizers must still figure out when tests would take place, who would pay for them and the consequences for someone who tests positive.

As for the running of the races, they are likely to be a far lonelier experience, at least for the first miles, and to bear little resemblance to the usual surging mass of humanity embarking on a shared mission.

In New York, which typically plans for a field of 55,000 runners who start on Staten Island and run through all five boroughs of the city, officials recently discussed the possibility of a field of roughly 30,000 runners. But even a field cut nearly in half would require longer street closures to allow more spacing between participants.

In the past, it has taken about 6 minutes to release 5,000 runners. Under one scenario that has been discussed, according to people with knowledge of the planning, about a dozen runners would start every 4 seconds, which would mean taking roughly 30 minutes to get 5,000 runners across the start line if the process runs at optimum efficiency.

Metellus said New York Road Runners, the organization that owns the marathon, and city officials were still several weeks away from locking in a plan, and

there are proposals for a race as large as 45,000 runners and for fewer than 25,000 runners.

The complications go beyond the clumping at the start of a big race. To get to the remote start lines in New York and Boston, tens of thousands of runners must load onto cramped buses and ferries.

There is also crowding at the finish, as exhausted runners stumble around trying to hydrate, collect their belongings and reunite with family members, and along the course itself, where spectators stand for hours on end.

“We can produce the marathon,” Metellus said. “It is all a matter of what the state, the city and the federal agencies will allow us to do.” He said officials have not decided whether to require a vaccination.

Mitch Schwartz, a spokesman for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, said officials were committed to planning a safe race. “Building a recovery for all of us means reconnecting with iconic events like the marathon, and we’ll do everything we can to continue this tradition,” he said.

Unlike New York and Boston, organizers in Chicago in January opened registration for the race but have yet to send out notifications of acceptance or announce the size of the field.

The Chicago Marathon has some built-in advantages: Most people can walk or take public transportation to the starting area, which is in a sprawling park in the middle of the city. And the streets in Chicago are wide, compared with, say, Main Street in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where the Boston Marathon begins.

Pinkowski said the size of the Chicago Marathon field might not be finalized until early summer. With vaccinations increasing and infection rates decreasing, it’s possible that the longer officials wait to make a decision, the bigger and more normal the events might be.

Recently, Pinkowski had a conversation with his operations chief about changing the contours of the course to make what is already a fast course even faster. He realized as he was speaking that it was the first time in a while he was not discussing logistics related to COVID-19.

“That felt good,” he said.

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With asteroid Ceres pairing with holistic Chiron in your sign, healing and sustenance may be of importance. What nurtures you most? While certain foods certainly do, this might be more a question of what you take in emotionally and socially. Are you absorbing good vibes or less positive ones? Do you have a healthy support system? If not, put your needs first, Aries.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

You may feel overly sensitive. Even if someone is just making a point, you could take it the wrong way. This is not your natural style, as you can give as good as you get. With ethereal Neptune playing a leading part in the action everything might seem loaded, and because your perception may be skewed, it’s best not to take it personally. Some quiet time could be healing.

The Moon’s edgy angle with Mars may coincide with a conflict of interests. Do you go with the official line, or follow your heart? It could be tricky if you don’t want to fall out with a boss or someone in authority. At the same time, you need to do what is best for you. If you get the chance to resolve this, the first thing to do is listen to them, as a solution might then emerge.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Are you letting insecurities stop you from moving ahead with your plans and goals? The current mashup of asteroid Ceres with celestial body Chiron, could inspire you to take a look at what is going on.

If you lack confidence to take that next bold step, then someone who can support you as you go, may be invaluable. Need a cheerleader? A life-coach or trusted friend might step in.

Leo

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Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

The urge to be generous and helpful, could clash with a need to protect what is yours. These two strands run counter to each other, which can be draining unless you realize what is happening. It’s great to assist others, but you’ll need to draw a line too. Ready for a breakthrough? It’s a question of priorities. Giving is like breathing out. At some point you will need to breath in.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

As two upbeat planets forge a lovely tie with dreamy Neptune, the coming days can see you in pursuit of pleasure. The idea of losing yourself in a novel, movie or other form of entertainment may appeal, as could connecting with that special person. Plus, you may be capable of beautiful artwork that is filled with imaginative nuances. Whatever you want to create, just give it a go.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

No matter how good your ideas are, they may be wasted if you don’t have the confidence to discuss them, Archer. What might be causing you to feel this way? With sobering Saturn in your communication zone, you could question your ability, and wonder if anyone will listen to you. This is the time to move forward step by step, as true brilliance is forged in the fire of experience.

You may feel a lot of sympathy for someone going through difficulties, but that doesn’t mean you should feel bad. Although you might truly empathise with their predicament, you can be more useful if you use your practical and organizational skills to help them find a solution. With some encouragement, they might be able to take the necessary steps to resolving this for good.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today’s Moon/Mercury tie can bring you closer to someone, whether you’re keen to break the ice regarding a love interest, or just want to get to know them better. You may be surprised at how much you have in common, like going to the same school or having similar backgrounds. Share the same interests too?

Becoming good friends could seem like the natural step forward.

With Mercury in your sign, opportunities can open up for you at every turn. The more knowledge you have at your fingertips, the more you’ll be keen to get involved. A sizzling encounter could find you dawn to someone who seems to have a wild side.

Even if they are unpredictable, this might make them all the more attractive, and very a refreshing change, Aquarius.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Want to make something a regular habit? Just repeat it! As not all habits are equal, there may be one or two that you’re keen to get rid of. A lunar link to Mercury can inspire a search for proven ways to do this. The key might to be substitute the bad action with a good one immediately. Through daily repetition, you could soon find this to be your new normal, Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Lovely Venus could inspire you to connect with those who share your ideas and beliefs. But she can also encourage you to volunteer your time to a charity and be there for others. Balance is essential though. Looking for advice on an important matter? Make sure the information comes from a trusted source Pisces, as what seems solid and reliable, might just be hot air.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 37

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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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