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esignated Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López announced Tuesday that next week the agency will issue a new administrative order, which will seek to vaccinate more people in Puerto Rico against COVID-19.

Mellado also said that starting Monday the Health Department will begin to vaccinate people between 35 and 49 years old who have chronic conditions.

“As of Monday, I will anticipate what will happen next week, but it will not come into force yet,” Mellado López at a press conference. “We will start with the food, manufacturing and pharmacy industries. … We will lower the age to 35 years [with] patients with chronic conditions … [such as] diabetes, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, cancer or any type of chronic condition.”

He added that the new administrative order will allow anyone over 50 years of age to be inoculated as well, whether or not they have a chronic disease history.

“From 50 years old, any patient [can be inoculated],” Mellado López said.

The next administrative order will also include the food chain, pharmacies, and the communication and financial industries.

On March 31, the Health Department will hold the “Super VacuTour COVID-19” at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in Miramar, San Juan, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mellado López said more than 10,000 people are expected to be inoculated. To make an appointment, people who qualify can access protegetevacunate.com.

The Health chief said more vaccines are arriving on the island this week.

“This week we received 41,500 from Pfizer, 35,500 from Moderna and 3,000 from Janssen [Johnson & Johnson],” he said.

Mellado López also noted that “54% of all vaccinated people are people over 60 years old.”

Regarding bedridden individuals, the Health secretary-designate said seven companies have carried out the vaccination process islandwide.

“We have seven providers to serve the bedridden population,” Mellado López said. “Vaccination is conducted through visits to homes around the island. So far we have assisted 9,988 people and we will continue to go from home to home in collaboration with the municipalities.”

According to the Health Department, to date 824,045 doses of the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have been administered. These are divided into 523,169 people with one dose and 300,876 people with the series of doses completed.

So far, 1,261,910 doses have been received in Puerto Rico, while 1,195,784 have been distributed in the different vaccination centers around the island.

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LGBBTQ+ citizens share experiences after surviving ‘conversion therapies’ Urge parents not to put children through procedure ‘that can damage them’

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

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hey took a happy child, a child who loved poetry, a child with so many dreams, and turned them into an ill

person.”

This is how 66-year-old Justin Jesús Santiago described his experience with conversion therapies, a so-called procedure that attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Santiago, along with other members of the LGBTQ+ community, shared their experiences on Tuesday as part of the discussion that has taken place with Senate Bill (SB) 184, which seeks to prohibit the practice with regard to minors for the purpose of extending physical and mental health protections.

Santiago, who is a trans man, spoke of going through the procedure back when he was 15 years old after the Public Instruction Department (now the Department of Education) asked his parents to allow him to be admitted into a children’s psychiatric clinic in Río Piedras amid an event that outed his gender identity.

“That was the first time that I knew that, for the world, it wasn’t normal for me to feel like a man,” he said.

The activist said his parents were told his attendance at school was conditioned on his getting psychiatric treatment.

“When I arrived at the first appointment with a Dr. Figueroa, I told her to look at what she was going to do, as I am a man trapped in a woman’s body, because that was the vocabulary that was used at that time and I actually felt that way,” Santiago said. “They started prescribing me a narcotic cocktail at the age of 15, at an age when I hadn’t even tasted a drop of alcohol or beer, they were giving me three pills.”

He said that until he was 18, he faced what he described as “torture.”

“I was told to be an invalid person, that my existence was invalid, that this was not right, that I was going to be unhappy, that I was going to be a misfit, that I was going to hurt my family, that God condemned this,” Santiago said.

Santiago said that after leaving the treatment behind, because he felt it was causing him harm, he developed an alcohol dependency at the age of 19 and, he said, had become “a functional alcoholic.”

“Even if I prepared and became a useful citizen for society besides what the psychia-

trist said, the pain and the aftereffects of the damage done to me in that torture are still with me,” he said. “Sometimes they would put me before a panel of various psychiatrists and other doctors, undress me and check me.

There are many things that I have erased as a result of that pain.”

“The reason I’m here, baring my being, is because every time I talk about it, I recreate it; it’s like sticking my finger in a scar or sore that still hurts deeply,” added Santiago. “I ask you, the members of the press, the senators, those who listen to me, do not do that to any child. To the parents who can listen and see me, I beg you, do not do that to your children because you will damage them. Many will die in the attempt; many have committed suicide.”

As for SB 184, the activist said that anyone “with common sense” would pass the bill as it seeks to “defend children and youth, their right to live in peace and harmony in the society of our homeland.”

Meanwhile, Mila García, a trans and non-binary woman whose personal pronouns are “she” and “they,” said she went through conversion therapies from the age of 12 until she was 16.

“At that moment, when I identified as a gay person, my parents found out, when they invaded my privacy, that I was talking to a boy I liked, and that’s where it all began,” she said. “As I was enrolled in a Christian school, and they got to church counseling, and the counselor made me do writing exercises and read bible verses as she told me that being gay was wrong.”

García, who is now a junior at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus, said she felt constantly lost as she would have to attend the counseling service every weekend.

“I did not want to go any longer. I didn’t feel safe,” she said. “I fell into severe depression; I did not know what anxiety was. I wasn’t allowed to have any friends. I would arrive at home crying.”

“This was all before high school,” she said, adding that she tried finding a different counselor, but ended up with similar results.

“As she could not do much as a social worker, she referred me to an establishment that I attended for an entire week after school,” where, García said, she faced a similar experience as she was gaslit for her sexual orientation.

García said her mother stopped intervening after that week.

“I have attempted to commit suicide,” she said.

That attempt, García said, led to newfound support from her mother and school friends.

However, she said, her father did not give up and made her visit an alleged neuropsychol-

Justin Jesús Santiago, who is a trans man, spoke of going through the procedure back when he was 15 years old after the Public Instruction Department (now the Department of Education) asked his parents to allow him to be admitted into a children’s psychiatric clinic in Río Piedras amid an event that outed his gender identity. ogist who “used science and the Bible to tell me why it was wrong to be gay.”

Nonetheless, García said, she was in a better position by that time as she was more aware and had a supportive group of friends.

“I challenged her [the neuropsychologist], and once I did, I never went back or spoke to her again,” she said. “Conversion therapies ruined my relationship with my family. It took a long time to dine with them again, and after being thrown out of my home, I found new people who told me I was not wrong.”

“Thanks to their love, I can now be where I stand, carrying on with my transition,” García added. “All I ask is for this bill to pass.”

As for the legislation, independent Sen. José “Chago” Vargas Vidot said SB 184 aims to be a “humanitarian bill that is born from the love that goes toward love.”

“Our Senate Bill 184 is born with the genuine wish to develop a strategy to protect minors from the so-called conversion therapies, which I find so hard to call them a therapy,” Vargas Vidot said, adding that the bill also seeks to amend the Puerto Rico Mental Health Act and the Safety, Welfare, and Protection of Minors Act to include prohibiting the procedure “in all of its manifestations.”

“Every time something is done in Puerto Rico that breaks away from that scheme where silence becomes an accomplice and, within that silence, all kinds of mistreatment of people are perpetrated because of their fragility, in this case, children, there are always groups that try

to answer this by placing us in an ideology, into an agenda, or receiving money from someone else,” Vargas Vidot said.

According to the legislation, conversion therapy means “that practice or treatment provided by an entity or licensed or certified professional to provide mental health services that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”

“It includes any effort or treatment aimed at changing an individual’s bodily behavior, expressions, or sexual orientation, as well as eliminating or reducing romantic or sexual attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender,” says the bill. “Conversion therapy does not include that practice which provides acceptance, support, and understanding or facilitates obtaining help, support, and exploration, and identity development, including sexually oriented neutral interventions to prevent illegal behavior or inappropriate sexual practices, which could endanger physical or mental health as long as such practice does not seek to change the individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Vargas Vidot said the legislation changes the definition of conversion therapy to one that “the majority of the people around the world agree with.”

“We haven’t ‘creolized’ anything, as we have adopted the words that are defined according to what science says, so that there is no contradiction that invokes or evokes the thought that there is an agenda here, as other people have said,” the senator said.

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CRIM chief: No inventory tax possible Fiscal board to allow until plan to replace funds is available budgeted funds for congressional delegation election, M but there’s a catch

By THE STAR STAFF

unicipal Revenue Collections Center (CRIM by its Spanish acronym) Executive Director Reinaldo Paniagua insisted Tuesday that no changes to the inventory tax are possible until the island Legislature can provide concrete and viable alternatives for replacing the funds that municipalities will be losing if the tax is repealed.

Likewise, Paniagua said the inventory tax provides about $250 million for the municipalities and comes mostly from large businesses established in Puerto Rico and not from the small and medium-sized merchants as opponents of the tax have claimed.

The inventory tax is also used to pay bond issues incurred by municipalities.

“The false idea has been created that the health and permanence of small businesses is directly affected by this tax, when the data shows that this is not correct,” he said in an interview with Foro Noticioso.

The collections resulting from personal property taxes amounted to $430 million in 2019, of which $354 million came from 789 businesses of the 85,570 that constitute that tax base.

“When we look at the inventory tax we see that $257 million was collected, of which $207 million, or 80%, was paid by those 789 taxpayers,” Paniagua said. “Furthermore, official numbers reveal that of those 789 taxpayers who paid the tax, the largest

weight ($123 million), fell on only 82 large businesses that already enjoy exemptions, decrees and tax relief from the government, which when added together are greater than this tax represents.”

The official added that it is important for the CRIM to clearly define who really pays this tax, “since the data has been misrepresented for years.”

He said the CRIM and the municipalities understand the concern of the business sector that pays the inventory tax and from the first day they have presented proposals to address the greater concern of the commercial sector that was based on the recurrence of the tax.

“The mayors, through the CRIM, have presented alternatives to address this issue, which have been constantly rejected, particularly by the representatives of the so-called ‘mega stores,’ which are the ones that actually contribute the greatest proportion to the municipalities with this contribution,” Paniagua said.

He advocated that the alternatives being evaluated include accurate proposals to obtain the $250 million that the municipalities would stop receiving on a recurring basis, as in many cases they will determine the permanence of the municipalities.

“The reality is that until now no one has been able to say where those $250 million will come from, on a recurring basis so that the municipalities can continue to serve the people or how the bond issues that are guaranteed with this tax will be paid,” the CRIM executive director said.

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he federal Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in a letter published Tuesday said it will allow budget funds to be used for a proposed congressional delegation election, but the budget plan will have to be amended.

In that regard, it provided deadlines for the budget revisions.

The oversight board gave Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urritia and the island Legislature until March 26 to provide a revised budget, after which the board will send the governor a notice of violations by March 29.

The oversight board said it will complete the revision of the budget by April 8.

The congressional delegation vote was part of a law that called for a yes-no statehood vote last Election Day. The delegates are supposed to lobby in favor of statehood.

AAFAF has reservations about bill that would stop pension cuts

By THE STAR STAFF

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he head of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials) expressed reservations Tuesday on House Bill (HB) 120, which would create the Law for a Dignified Retirement that would prevent any cuts to government pensions.

The Senate Finance, Federal Affairs and Fiscal Oversight Board, chaired by Popular Democratic Party Sen. Juan Zaragoza, began the evaluation of the controversial bill.

“I want to make it clear that my position is that fighting tools are almost never perfect.

In fact, if we were to find perfect tools to fight we would never do it,” Zaragoza said. “What is needed are tools that are sufficient to pay the way we want to travel. This bill is not perfect. But that cannot be an obstacle to your consideration or approval. This bill in essence presents an alternative as viable as others for debt restructuring, giving particular importance to safeguarding the right to pensions and the establishment of a trust to protect those funds.”

AAFAF Executive Director Omar Marrero said the government’s public policy at all times

has been to reject cuts to public pensions.

“Public policy has been clear and has been expressed on multiple occasions by the governor and by this public servant, which is a public policy of zero additional cuts,” he said.

However, Marrero emphasized that “if the legislative process of this measure, as drafted, continues, the statute would face serious obstacles if it is challenged by the Financial Oversight and Management Board in the pertinent judicial forums.”

“It should be recalled that Judge Laura Taylor Swain has previously decided that, under PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act], the [oversight] board is empowered to request the invalidation of local legislation that is inconsistent with the certified fiscal plan,” Marrero said. “In this sense, we call attention to the communications received, in which the board let it be known that its formal position is that this measure should not be approved as it would be inconsistent with the Fiscal Plan.

Therefore, if this measure is approved as drafted, it will most likely be the subject of litigation in federal court.”

During the discussion of the measure, Zaragoza asked whether the AAFAF’s work team has been able to see the numbers contained in the bill, the economic part and cash flows.

Marrero replied that “we have not seen an actuarial study that can support that this is feasible, from a fiscal point of view, in order to be able to obviously support it and talk and convince the board about the validity of this bill.”

To questions from New Progressive Party Sen. Migdalia Padilla Alvelo about the extent of the economic impact of HB 120 and if the measure is viable, Marrero responded: “Excellent question; we do not have that information.”

“That is why we have asked if there is an actuarial study that motivated the bill in order to be able to account for it,” the AAFAF chief said.

“But that is information that we do not have.”

Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago stated that the position of the government regarding the bill “is very clear” and shows a “total absence of will that is needed to generate an authentic confrontation for a problem that is not only an accounting problem, it is basically a political problem.”

Zaragoza said the bill presents an expres-

sion of public policy of the current Legislature in relation to the path that should be taken in the restructuring of the public debt and should be seen as a pressure mechanism in the negotiation.

“Under that premise, we have accepted the task of evaluating it and holding public hearings and eventually taking it to a vote in the Senate of Puerto Rico,” he said.

The evaluation of the legislation will continue Friday with the testimony of the non-profit entity Let’s Build Another Agreement, the Puerto Rican Union of Workers (SPT) and administrators of the retirement systems for government and judicial employees.

AAFAF Executive Director Omar Marrero

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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging House election

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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an Juan Superior Court Judge Rebecca de León Ríos dismissed on Monday a lawsuit filed by Eva Prados Rodríguez, a former Citizen Victory Movement candidate for the island House of Representatives, against the Rep. Juan Oscar Morales, in which she demanded a new election.

“In discharging the inescapable duty to examine our jurisdiction, we conclude that we are not empowered to adjudicate the controversy over the validity of the election

and subsequent swearing-in to the position of the House Representative Juan Oscar Morales,” de León said. “That function, as we pointed out, was expressly delegated in the Constitution, to the House of Representatives. Neither is the suspension of the proceedings as requested by the petitioner [within the court’s jurisdiction].”

The judge said the Puerto Rico Supreme Court has established that the court lacks jurisdiction; its function is limited to declaring that limitation and dismissing the case.

“There is no room for reserving ‘supplementary jurisdiction’ where there is no origi-

nal jurisdiction,” de León wrote in her ruling.

“On the merit of the above, the Demand for Contest of Election is dismissed, due to lack of jurisdiction over the matter and the closing and filing of the case … is ordered.”

On Monday, the House of Representatives rejected Prados Rodríguez’s request for an investigation into the election and the certification that the State Elections Commission issued in favor of Morales.

Prados Rodríguez alleged a series of irregularities found in the incident record for Unit 77 of San Juan, where the mail-in, absentee and early voting ballots were counted.

Inn owners ready for spring break, Easter

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he members of the Puerto Rico Country Inn Owners and Tourism Association announced that they are ready to welcome the thousands of families who frequently stay in their hostels -- known as “paradores” in Spanish -- over spring break and Easter.

“This year is very special for everyone, and the period of spring break and Easter runs from Friday, March 26 to Sunday, April 11. We know that many schools and municipalities will be giving days off during Holy Week and the following week,” said Jesús Ramos, president of the association and owner of the Parador Villas Sotomayor in Adjuntas. “Since January we have observed a sustained interest in the hostels, and we have prepared our facilities

to provide the quality that distinguishes us, with the best hygiene and health systems for our guests.”

Xavier Ramírez, leader of the association’s marketing committee and general manager of the Combate Beach Resort in Cabo Rojo, said the rate of reservations for those 17 days is much faster than in 2019, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

He noted that they still have rooms left and that many Puerto Rican and foreign families are looking for accommodations that follow safety protocols to vacation in Puerto Rico.

“During the past eight weeks, many reservations have been received from residents of the United States, including Puerto Ricans from the diaspora, which is a very positive sign for the tourism sector, and we recommend reserving now for the months of May to July,” Ramírez said.

The association said it has prepared various packages and offers to accommodate the diverse needs of visitors. For example, the Paradores Combate Beach Resort and Villas Sotomayor have a special offer from Sunday to Thursday: “Stay three nights and the fourth is free,” which represents a 25 percent discount.

Several inns offer all-inclusive packages. Among the paradores with offers that include food, are El Buen Café, Guánica 1929, Maunacaribe, Palmas de Lucia and Villas Sotomayor. Ángel Rodríguez, co-owner of the Parador Boquemar in the barrio of Boquerón in Cabo Rojo, recommended that at the time of booking, prospective guests should ask about the amenities of the parador, the value-added packages and nearby restaurants, as well as health and safety protocols.

“Our rates include free parking and the use of WIFI, a lower price from Sunday to Thursday, and some paradors include the American breakfast as part of their rate,” Rodríguez said.

Claire Ruiz, general manager of the Parador El Faro in Aguadilla, emphasized that in this pandemic year it is

much more important that the public plan their vacations in advance, and ensure their space in a hostel certified by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.

Several studies indicate that, in the era of COVID-19, tourists are more aware of their health and look for cozy accommodation, with rigorous hygiene and security regimens. The paradores are certified and inspected twice a year by the Tourism Company, and at least once a year by the Health and Fire departments. This ensures that they have the staff and quality, hygiene and safety systems to serve their guests, and their family, during their stay and will be present to support guests in case of an emergency.

The Paradores de Puerto Rico program consists of 12 high-quality guesthouses, located in places of recognized tourist interest on the island. More information on the program can be found on its Facebook page.

“We have been promoting local culture, history, music and gastronomy for 47 years, along with Puerto Rican hospitality,” Ramos said. “We are Puerto Rican families, serving other families from throughout the world.”

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U.S. health officials question AstraZeneca vaccine trial results

By REBECCA ROBBINS and SHARON La FRANIERE

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ederal health officials said Tuesday that the encouraging results that AstraZeneca announced about its COVID-19 vaccine may have been based on outdated and incomplete information about the vaccine’s effectiveness, an extraordinary blow to the credibility of an already embattled vaccine.

In a statement released shortly after midnight, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that an independent panel of medical experts that has been helping to oversee AstraZeneca’s U.S. trial had “expressed concern that AstraZeneca may have included outdated information from that trial, which may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data.”

The public airing of a conflict between a pharmaceutical company and a board overseeing a clinical trial is highly unusual. It is almost certain to trigger extra scrutiny of the vaccine by the Food and Drug Administration and other regulators if AstraZeneca seeks emergency authorization of its vaccine in the United States.

“This is really what you call an unforced error,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert, said on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday morning. “Because the fact is: This is very likely a very good vaccine, and this kind of thing does, as you say, do nothing but really cast some doubt about the vaccines and maybe contributes to the hesitancy.”

The friction with the independent monitoring board revolved around how AstraZeneca was determining whether participants in the clinical trial had possible or actual cases of COVID-19, according to a person familiar with the situation. The independent monitoring board twice pushed AstraZeneca to take a more rigorous approach, telling the company it had sufficient information to determine how many trial participants had the disease.

That had the potential to reduce the vaccine’s apparent effectiveness.

But AstraZeneca unveiled its interim results Monday without conducting the full analysis the board requested, possibly casting its vaccine in an overly favorable light.

AstraZeneca on Monday defended the data it released, which it said showed the vaccine was 79% effective at preventing COVID-19. The company said Tuesday that the interim results appeared to be “consistent” with more recent data collected during the trial. AstraZeneca said it would immediately share its latest efficacy data with the monitoring board. The company said it would reissue fuller results within 48 hours.

The results that AstraZeneca announced Monday were a badly needed dose of good news, especially because they came at a moment when concerns about the vaccine’s safety had led more than a dozen countries, mostly in Europe, to temporarily suspend the shot’s use

Health care professionals prepare doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Milan on Monday, March 22, 2021.

Federal health officials said Tuesday, March 23, that the encouraging results that AstraZeneca announced about its vaccine may have been based on outdated and incomplete information about the vaccine’s effectiveness, an extraordinary blow to the credibility of an already embattled vaccine. over concerns about possible rare side effects. The results not only affirmed the vaccine’s safety but also made the vaccine look more effective than it appeared in earlier trials.

The news sent AstraZeneca shares up about 4% Monday.

But members of the independent monitoring board were surprised by the company’s announcement.

“They got concerned and wrote a rather harsh note to them and with a copy to me, saying that in fact they felt that the data that was in the press release were somewhat outdated and might in fact be misleading a bit and wanted them to straighten it out,” said Fauci, who runs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

That prompted the overnight statement from the infectious-disease institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.

AstraZeneca’s stock fell more than 3.5% in early trading Tuesday.

Companies sponsoring drug or vaccine trials typically wait for the monitoring board to review analyses and conclude that the study has yielded an answer before they announce trial results.

AstraZeneca’s relationship with U.S. authorities has been fraught since last year, when senior health officials

believed the company was not being forthright about the design of its clinical trials, its results and safety issues. That skepticism carried over to last week, when senior officials at a number of federal health agencies grew suspicious about why AstraZeneca had not announced data from its U.S. study.

That U.S. trial, which involved more than 32,000 participants, was the largest test of its kind for the shot.

The results that AstraZeneca released Monday were from an interim look at the data after 141 COVID-19 cases had turned up among volunteers.

The company had not disclosed until Tuesday how up-to-date those data were. That information is important, because sometimes a more current look at clinical trial results can present a different effectiveness and safety.

If the analysis was conducted on data from a month or two ago, it is possible that a more current look would present a different picture of the vaccine’s effectiveness and safety. The company has said it will provide the FDA with a more comprehensive, recent set of data than what it disclosed Monday. Although no clinical trial is large enough to rule out extremely rare side effects, AstraZeneca reported that its study turned up no serious safety issues.

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‘I’ve lost a lot of faith’: Suburban parents push schools to reopen faster

Students in the South Orange-Maplewood school district in New Jersey joined class remotely outside a shuttered elementary building during a protest.

By TRACEY TULLY

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ate Walker, a New Jersey mother of three, says she feels like one of the lucky ones: She enrolled her children in a Catholic school for September before a wait-list started.

But she has held off making a final tuition deposit, hoping that her town’s public school district, South Orange-Maplewood, brokers a lasting solution with the teachers union, which had resisted a planned phased-in return to school, citing coronavirus safety concerns.

“I’ve lost a lot of faith in the district,” said Walker, who participated in a recent sit-in outside her 7-year-old son’s elementary school. “We’ve been stopped and started a dozen times.”

Most districts in New Jersey have partially reopened, but 1 in 4 children still live in a district where public schools are closed. No state in the Northeast had more districts relying on all-virtual teaching in early March than New Jersey, according to Return To Learn, a database created by a conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute, and Davidson College. Nationwide, only seven states had a greater proportion of all-remote instruction.

As the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has accelerated and President Joe Biden has signaled a push for broader reopenings, frustration among parents has grown, particularly in New Jersey’s affluent suburbs, where schools with stellar reputations are a key reason families are willing to pay some of the nation’s highest taxes.

These parents have filed federal lawsuits, held protests, created online petitions and stormed

virtual board of education meetings to demand expanded in-person instruction.

The pressure to open schools more fully comes as the infection rate in New Jersey, which is small and densely populated, remains stubbornly high: With a weekly average of 45 cases for every 100,000 residents, the state leads the nation in new infections, according to a New York Times database.

In Princeton, where schools are among the best in the state, hundreds of parents have joined webinars and school board meetings, many asking for additional face-to-face teaching. In Closter, in northern Bergen County, an online petition urging an immediate return to five days of school gathered hundreds of signatures within hours.

The drumbeat intensified after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a major policy shift Friday, reducing its distancing recommendations to 3 feet from 6 feet for all elementary schools and for middle and high schools in areas where the virus infection rate is not high.

Anger at the pace of reopening has led some families who can afford it to enroll their children in private schools, start home-schooling them or move.

New Jersey’s school districts expect to have an estimated 26,000 fewer students by fall, according to state aid funding records. Experts have warned that an exodus of wealthier families could further weaken public schools at a critical moment: while confronting student learning loss.

In South Orange-Maplewood, enrollment in October had dipped by 327 students. By the

next school year, officials estimate it could drop by another 62 students, resulting in a total decline of about 5%.

“We believe most of it is from people deciding to either move their students into private schools or to keep them home for home-schooling,” Paul Roth, the district’s business administrator, said at a recent board of education meeting.

After lawsuits and the intervention of a mediator, some of the district’s youngest children restarted school in person on March 15, but most students have not been back in class since the start of the pandemic.

If enough children leave a district in New Jersey, it could lead to cuts in state aid, scaledback programming or potentially layoffs. In South Orange-Maplewood, however, the decline in enrollment was not expected to cause a reduction in state funding, a spokeswoman said.

The first lady, Jill Biden, traveled to New Jersey last week to promote the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, which includes $130 billion for schools. Biden’s visit drew attention to the state’s reputation for exceptional schools, which were ranked No. 1 in the country this school year by Education Week and U.S. News & World Report.

Several cities and counties have held vaccine distribution events for educators, who only became eligible for the vaccine in New Jersey about two weeks ago. But the virus’s hold on the state has left teachers and their powerful unions wary of expanded reopening.

Two days after Biden’s visit, Gov. Phil Murphy offered his most unambiguous comments yet about school reopenings, suggesting a shift away from the largely hands-off approach he had maintained since September. He noted that relatively few cases of the virus in New Jersey — 890 out of more than 850,000 total cases — had been linked to in-school transmission.

“It is time to stem this tide before more students fall away,” Murphy said. “A full year out of their classrooms is not how students move forward or how our world-class extraordinary educators move forward in their professions, for that matter.”

Public schools in the state’s largest cities remain closed, though many are preparing to reopen to some students in mid-April.

“It is our complete expectation that every school will be open, and every student and educator will be safely in their classrooms for full-time, in-person instruction for the 2021-22 academic year,” Murphy said.

Marie Blistan, a close ally of Murphy who leads the New Jersey Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, said expanded vaccination access for educators and the infusion of federal funding had put schools in a better position

to reopen more fully.

“I agree with the governor that it’s time for everybody to get back to normal, but to do it safely,” she said, adding that she understood parents’ frustration.

“They’re upset and angry and I absolutely feel for them,” she said. “But in the end our members have advocated for the health and safety of their kids.”

Private schools and the state’s broad network of Catholic schools, some of which were struggling for survival as enrollment declined over decades, appear to be benefiting from decisions made by public school districts.

“We had an influx of students from the public sector wanting to come into our schools quite simply because we were open,” saidVincent de Paul Schmidt, the superintendent of schools in the Diocese of Trenton, which operates 42 schools. A spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Newark said its 74 schools had seen a similar uptick in admissions.

St. Gregory the Great Academy, a Catholic elementary school in Hamilton, New Jersey, near Trenton, has a waiting list for the first time since 2007. The principal, Jason C. Briggs, said 45 new students had registered next year for the school, which charges $5,775 in tuition.

“The interest in enrollment is shocking, to be honest,” Briggs said. “I have not even placed an ad.”

South Orange-Maplewood, a district of about 7,000 students, has had one of the most convoluted reopening rollouts in the state.

Last week, a judge overseeing a lawsuit the district brought against its teachers union, said sixth- and ninth-grade teachers should report to school later this month, joining the kindergarten through second-grade educators who had already returned.

Gina Patterson moved nine years ago to Maplewood, a commuter town about 25 miles from midtown Manhattan. Her 9-year-old daughter, Lily, had not been in class in nearly a year when Patterson said she reached a breaking point in February.

Concerned about academic rigor and limited socialization, she enrolled Lily in a nearby private school, Far Brook School, where tuition is $40,000 a year.

“It was emotionally a very hard decision to make,” Patterson said. “We moved here to participate in the public school system.”

But she said her trust in the district had eroded.

“The kids were really left out of this conversation,” she said, “and that’s been really eye-opening.”

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Mayor ends remote work for 80,000 in signal to rest of New York City

By DANA RUBINSTEIN

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or the past year, New York City has been running in the shadow of a deadly pandemic, with many city and private sector employees forced to work from home, stripping New York of its lifeblood and devastating its economy.

But with virus cases seeming to stabilize and vaccinations becoming more widespread, city officials intend to send a message that New York is close to returning to normal: On May 3, the city will compel its municipal office employees to begin to report to work in person, according to internal planning documents shared with The New York Times. Workers will return in phases over several weeks.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to bring the nation’s largest municipal workforce back to the office signals a remarkable turnabout in the fortunes of a city that served as the national epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, coming to symbolize the perils of living in densely packed global capitals.

The move is meant to broadcast that New York City will soon be open for business, and to encourage private companies to follow suit — lifting the hopes of landlords whose skyscrapers have largely sat empty as office workers stayed home.

The new policy, which was confirmed by an aide to de Blasio, is expected to affect about 80,000 employees who have been working remotely, including caseworkers, computer specialists and clerical associates. The rest of the city’s roughly 300,000-person workforce, many of them uniformed personnel including police officers, firefighters and sanitation workers, have already been reporting to work sites.

The Partnership for New York City, a business group, recently said it expects nearly half of Manhattan’s 1 million office workers to return to the office by September, though “most will continue to work remotely at least part time.” As of early March, only 10% of those workers were back in the office.

“Above all else, this is a major momentum builder,” said Reggie Thomas, a senior vice president with the Real Estate Board of New York.

Yet the move by the city has sparked concern among some workers and union leaders who fear the return to the office is premature. New York City still has among the highest coronavirus case rates in the nation. Many workers will have to commute an hour or more on mass transit.

Facial masks will be strongly encouraged but not required: A March 18 presentation from the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services said agency leaders should “encourage face coverings to be worn at all times even if 6-feet distancing can be maintained.” The provision allows city workers to remove face coverings if they are more than 6 feet apart, according to one agency employee briefed on the rules.

Vaccination will not be mandatory for those returning to the office because of legal concerns, according to a City Hall spokesman. City officials are strongly encouraging their workers to get vaccinated and are trying to facilitate that process. Even so, a survey of the city workforce in January suggested that vaccine hesitancy varied significantly by agency, and City Hall was unable to provide an estimate of how many municipal workers had already received vaccines.

Workers will be encouraged to wear masks and stay six feet apart as they head back to the office.

Henry Garrido, executive director of the city’s largest municipal labor union, District Council 37, expressed particular concern about his members who work in densely packed call centers as well as those in social services offices, where interactions with maskless clients can be common. All city workers who deal directly with the public are currently eligible for vaccination, regardless of age.

About 200 District Council 37 members have died from the coronavirus, a result of what Garrido described as “foggy, unclear” public health guidelines early in the pandemic, a lack of protective equipment and inconsistent city and state policies.

“We don’t want to repeat those mistakes,” Garrido said.

“I want to make sure that those offices are absolutely ready for workers to come back.”

He said the union believes at least 20% of its 100,000 city workers have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine.

The return to municipal office spaces will come with a raft of safety requirements. The total number of occupants of a space may not exceed 50% of the space’s maximum occupancy limit, as defined by the building code, according to presentations reviewed by The Times.

Ventilation systems will have to be adjusted to maximize air flow. Six-foot markers will have to be placed at all entrances and elevators. Agencies will have to incorporate

one-directional traffic flow through their offices wherever possible. There will be limits on elevator occupancy, and offices will have to adhere to strict cleaning standards.

The task is likely to be a heavier lift for agencies that have offices spread throughout the city and serve clients, as compared with those that are concentrated in one office building.

Real estate and business leaders have for months been arguing that a return to the office is key to the city’s economic recovery. Many of the city’s hardest-hit small businesses are in Manhattan’s commercial core, and New York City’s budget is heavily reliant on real estate taxes.

Health experts are less certain that now is the time.

“It certainly may be that May is a good time to think about starting to bring people back,” but thanks to the coronavirus variants, there is no guarantee, said Dr. Ronald Scott Braithwaite, a professor of medicine and population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. “It is a tough call.”

Braithwaite noted that cases were not “on a steep decline in New York,” suggesting that the plateau in case numbers is a function of the tension between the new variants of the disease circulating in the city and the growing numbers of New Yorkers who have been vaccinated or acquired antibodies after infection.

A spokesman for the mayor said that if cases surge again, the return will be delayed.

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Tesla’s autopilot technology faces fresh scrutiny

By NEAL E. BOUDETTE

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esla faced numerous questions about its Autopilot technology after a Florida driver was killed in 2016 when the system of sensors and cameras failed to see and brake for a tractor-trailer crossing a road.

Now the company is facing more scrutiny than it has in the past five years for Autopilot, which Tesla and its chief executive, Elon Musk, have long maintained makes its cars safer than other vehicles. Federal officials are looking into a series of recent accidents involving Teslas that either were using Autopilot or might have been using it.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed last week that it was investigating 23 such crashes.

In one accident this month, a Tesla Model Y rear-ended a police car that had stopped on a highway near Lansing, Michigan. The driver, who was not seriously injured, had been using Autopilot, the police said.

In February in Detroit, under circumstances similar to the 2016 Florida accident, a Tesla drove beneath a tractortrailer that was crossing the road, tearing the roof off the car.

The driver and a passenger were seriously injured. Officials have not said whether the driver had turned on Autopilot.

NHTSA is also looking into a Feb. 27 crash near Houston in which a Tesla ran into a stopped police vehicle on a highway. It is not clear if the driver was using Autopilot. The car did not appear to slow before the impact, the police said.

Autopilot is a computerized system that uses radar and cameras to detect lane markings, other vehicles and objects in the road. It can steer, brake and accelerate automatically with little input from the driver. Tesla has said it should be used only on divided highways, but videos on social media show drivers using Autopilot on various kinds of roads.

“We need to see the results of the investigations first, but these incidents are the latest examples that show these advanced cruise-control features Tesla has are not very good at detecting and then stopping for a vehicle that is stopped in a highway circumstance,” said Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a group created in the 1970s by the Consumers Union and Ralph Nader.

This renewed scrutiny arrives at a critical time for Tesla.

After reaching a record high this year, its share price has fallen about 20% amid signs that the company’s electric cars are losing market share to traditional automakers. Ford Motor’s Mustang Mach E and the Volkswagen ID. 4 recently arrived in showrooms and are considered serious challengers to the Model Y. Tesla, which disbanded its public relations department and generally does not respond to inquiries from reporters, did not return phone calls or emails seeking comment. And Musk did not respond to questions sent to him on Twitter.

The company has not publicly addressed the recent crashes. While it can determine if Autopilot was on at the time of accidents because its cars constantly send data to the com-

A Tesla Model S after a fatal collision with a tractor-trailer in Williston, Fla., in 2016. pany, it has not said if the system was in use.

The company has argued that its cars are very safe, claiming that its own data shows that Teslas are in fewer accidents per mile driven and even fewer when Autopilot is in use. It has also said it tells drivers that they must pay close attention to the road when using Autopilot and should always be ready to retake control of their cars.

While NHTSA has not forced Tesla to recall Autopilot, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the system “played a major role” in the 2016 Florida accident. It also said the technology lacked safeguards to prevent drivers from taking their hands off the steering wheel or looking away from the road. The safety board reached similar conclusions when it investigated a 2018 accident in California.

By comparison, a similar General Motors’ system, Super Cruise, monitors a driver’s eyes and switches off if the person looks away from the road for more than a few seconds. That system can be used only on major highways.

In a Feb. 1 letter, the chairman of the NTSB, Robert Sumwalt, criticized NHTSA for not doing more to evaluate Autopilot and require Tesla to add safeguards that prevent drivers from misusing the system.

The new administration in Washington could take a firmer line on safety. The Trump administration did not seek to impose many regulations on autonomous vehicles and sought to ease other rules the auto industry did not like, including fuel-economy standards. By contrast, President Joe Biden has appointed an acting NHTSA administrator, Steven Cliff,

who worked at the California Air Resources Board, which frequently clashed with the Trump administration on regulations.

Despite their names, Autopilot and a more advanced version, Full Self-Driving, have big limitations. Their software and sensors cannot control cars in many situations, which is why drivers have to keep their eyes on the road and hands on or close to the wheel.

In a November letter to California’s Department of Motor Vehicles that recently became public, a Tesla lawyer acknowledged that Full Self-Driving struggled to react to a wide range of driving situations and should not be considered a fully autonomous driving system.

The system is “not capable of recognizing or responding” to certain “circumstances and events,” Eric C. Williams, Tesla’s associate general counsel, wrote. “These include static objects and road debris, emergency vehicles, construction zones, large uncontrolled intersections with multiple incoming ways, occlusions, adverse weather, complicated or adversarial vehicles in the driving paths, unmapped roads.”

Levine of the Center for Auto Safety has complained to federal regulators that the names Autopilot and Full Self-Driving are misleading at best and could be encouraging some drivers to be reckless.

“Autopilot suggests the car can drive itself and, more importantly, stop itself,” he said. “And they doubled down with Full Self-Driving, and again that leads consumers to believe the vehicle is capable of doing things it is not capable of doing.”

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S&P 500 slips in choppy trade as energy, financials tumble

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he S&P 500 edged lower on Tuesday in seesaw trade on sliding financial and energy stocks that have benefitted recently from a sharp rise in market interest rates, while beaten-down tech stocks rebounded in a reversal of trends the past few days.The VIX was recently down 0.54 points at 19.49, its lowest since Feb. 21, 2020, days before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic.

A pandemic-fueled tumble that shaved about a third of the value off the S&P 500 last March pushed the VIX index to a near-record high of 85.47, a level it only topped during the global financial crisis.“There’s little new money going into the market. It is like everyone has bought in and, at some point, there’s an exhaustion of buyers and the market tends to come down a little bit,” said David Keller, chief market strategist at StockCharts. com.

The index has retreated since then, as the S&P 500 rallied 80% from its March lows to hit a fresh high on Tuesday, led by technology stocks.

Investor appear to have become more optimistic over the pandemic’s trajectory in recent weeks, as a vaccine rollout in the U.S. expands. The United States has administered 110,737,856 doses of COVID-19 vaccines and distributed 142,918,525 doses in the country as of Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fund managers in a monthly survey from BofA Global for the first time in a year did not name COVID-19 as the market’s top “tail risk,” citing inflation instead.

Still, the VIX remains above the 15.4 average seen for 2019.

And volatility futures expiring further out in time still remain relatively elevated, a sign that some investors continue to maintain a cautious stance.

“The coronavirus volatility spike is still lingering in investor’s memories,” Susquehanna International Group’s Chris Murphy said in a note. “Although near term volatility has decreased, the scars from Covid likely leave investors hesitant to bring down medium and longer term volatility. We saw something very similar after the great financial crisis,” Murphy said.

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As Europe’s lockdowns drag on, police and protesters clash more

A demonstration in front of Parliament in London on March 16 calling for an end to violence against women after the killing of Sarah Everard.

By MARK LANDLER and STEPHEN CASTLE

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n Bristol, an English college town where the pubs are usually packed with students, there were fiery clashes between police and protesters. In Kassel, a German city known for its ambitious contemporary art festival, police unleashed pepper spray and water cannons on anti-lockdown marchers.

A year after European leaders ordered people into their homes to curb a deadly pandemic, thousands are pouring into streets and squares. Often, they are met by batons and shields, raising questions about the tactics and role of police in societies where personal liberties have already given way to public health concerns.

From Spain and Denmark to Austria and Romania, frustrated people are lashing out at the restrictions on their daily lives. With much of Europe facing a third wave of infections that could keep these stifling lockdowns in place weeks or even months longer, analysts warn that tensions on the streets are likely to escalate.

In Britain, where the rapid pace of vaccinations has raised hopes for a faster opening of the economy than the government is willing to countenance, frustration over recent police conduct has swelled into a national debate over the legitimacy of the police — one that car-

ries distant echoes of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.

“What we’re seeing is a growing level of discontent among members of our society who see a fundamental illegitimacy in law enforcement under the pandemic,” said Clifford Stott, a professor of social psychology at Keele University and an expert in crowd behavior. “And it has created strange bedfellows.”

Right-wing politicians who bridle at lockdown restrictions are as angry as the left-wing climate protesters who regularly clog Trafalgar Square in London as part of the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations. The traffic snarls from those protests were one of the reasons authorities pushed for greater powers to restrict such gatherings.

Adding to the sense of outrage is the case of Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old woman who was abducted and killed, allegedly by a police officer, while walking home in London. The Metropolitan Police then roughly broke up a vigil for Everard on the grounds that the participants were violating coronavirus rules on social distancing.

The potential for more such confrontations is high, Stott said, citing “the warmer weather, duration of the lockdown and increasing dissatisfaction among sections of the

community about the imposition of control measures.”

In Bristol, the trigger for the clashes was sweeping new legislation that would empower police to sharply restrict demonstrations. A peaceful “Kill the Bill” rally on the city’s College Green turned violent when some of the demonstrators marched to a nearby police station and began hurling fireworks and projectiles at police officers.

The mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, harshly criticized the violence, blaming much of it on outsider agitators who he said seized on a peaceful demonstration as an excuse to pick a fight with the establishment.

But Rees, a Labour Party politician, also staunchly opposes the legislation. He said it was rushed and illconsidered — a cynical bid by a Conservative-led government to “rally their base behind law and order” during a pandemic.

An earlier version of the government’s coronavirus regulations contained a provision that allowed nonviolent protests. But that was removed from a later version, leaving the right to peaceful assembly in a kind of legal limbo. Under the latest draft of the rules, issued Monday, protests would be allowed under limited circumstances, starting next Monday.

These emergency laws were rushed through Parliament without the scrutiny normally applied to legislation.

Lacking a written constitution, Britons who want to take to the streets have had to rely on the less clear-cut protection of a human rights act.

“This pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of our unwritten constitution when it comes to certain rights,” said Adam Wagner, a human rights lawyer and expert on the coronavirus rules. “If you take representative democracy from the process of lawmaking, you miss out on key voices.”

By contrast, the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany last year upheld the right of its citizens to protest, provided that they adhere to social distancing rules.

But even there, the rules of engagement can be murky.

In the city of Kassel, police were criticized for allowing thousands of anti-lockdown demonstrators to gather, unmasked and packed closely together, on public squares. Only later, when some of the protesters attacked officers, did the police move against the crowd, using pepper spray, billy clubs and water cannons.

Outrage surged after images emerged of an officer making a heart-shaped symbol at a protester carrying a banner opposing restrictions, while another officer smashed a woman’s head into her bicycle frame as he battled counterprotesters trying to block the rally. The episode raised questions about whom the police were trying to protect.

“It is a slap in the face of our city,” Kassel’s mayor, Christian Geselle, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. He had tried unsuccessfully to ban the demonstration on the grounds that it would be a superspreader event.

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Some nations could wait years for COVID shots. That’s bad for everyone.

By ABDI LATIF DAHIR and BENJAMIN MUELLER

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he nurse lay in bed this month, coughing, wheezing and dizzy with fever.

It was three months after rich countries began vaccinating health workers, but Kenyans like the nurse, Stella Githaiga, had been left behind: Employed in the country’s largest public hospital, she caught the coronavirus on an outreach trip to remote communities in February, she believes, sidelining her even as Kenya struggles with a vicious third surge of infections.

Githaiga and her colleagues are victims of one of the most galling inequities in a pandemic that has exposed so many: Across the global south, health workers are being sickened and killed by a virus from which doctors and nurses in many rich countries are now largely protected.

That is just the most visible cost of a rich-poor divide that has deepened in the second year of the pandemic. Of the vaccine doses given globally, roughly three-quarters have gone to only 10 countries. At least 30 countries have not yet injected a single person.

Scientists have long warned that such unfair treatment could not only haunt poorer countries, but also rich ones, if the continued spread of the virus allows it to mutate in ways that undermine vaccines. But the greatest human costs will almost surely be borne by less wealthy nations.

Already, unvaccinated doctors and nurses have died this year in countries including Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, depleting health systems that can ill afford to lose any more workers and threatening to diminish the level of care in nations overrun by variants.

The toll in Africa could be especially profound. The continent has 17% of the world’s people, but so far, it has administered roughly 2% of the vaccine doses given globally.

“I don’t think we have the capacity, as a country and even as Africa, to treat our own,” said Hazel Miseda Mumbo, vice chancellor of the Great Lakes University of Kisumu in Kenya, who has studied the country’s health system. “While these countries in the West are still scrambling for vaccines, Africa will have to wait.

It may be a sad situation.”

In a worrisome sign of how uneven distribution is, even Kenya, one of the continent’s wealthier countries, is faring badly.

The first million COVID-19 vaccine doses arrived just before midnight March 2. The elated health minister, Mutahi Kagwe, said that the country had “been fighting this virus with rubber bullets,” but now had finally acquired the metaphorical equivalent of “machine guns, bazookas, and tanks.”

But that arsenal was not all it appeared to be. The doses were a month late, and a quarter of what had been promised.

India recently stepped in with a relatively small, but welcome, addition of 100,000 doses. Kenya has no idea when exactly the next batch of vaccines will arrive.

Even under the best of circumstances, the country is expecting to inoculate only 30% of its people, or about 16 million out of almost 50 million, by the middle of 2023. When the rest of the population will get their shots is anybody’s guess.

Like many developing countries, Kenya is relying on the global mechanism for procuring and distributing vaccines known as COVAX. The program was built on the idea that many coun-

tries, including richer ones, would use it to purchase shots as a way of spreading their bets across vaccine makers. Instead, dozens of wealthy nations bought doses straight from pharmaceutical companies, elbowing the international effort out of the way and delaying shipments to the developing world.

Still, analysts said, poorer countries are in a stronger position than they would have been without the effort. COVAX is aiming to cover at least 20% of people in participating countries by the end of the year.

The pandemic has worsened in Africa since a variant first seen in South Africa, shown to be able to reinfect people, began driving up cases in southern parts of the continent.

“Before that, it was believed that Africa had escaped this pandemic,” said Tulio de Oliveira, a geneticist at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa. “Unfortunately, it didn’t.”

With cases soaring in Kenya, vaccine delays will cost more lives. The number of reported COVID-19 cases — more than 120,000 infections that have led to around 2,000 deaths — is thought to be an undercount.

The country was expecting more vaccine doses from COVAX. But its health officials had also hoped that the country’s close security and trade relations with the European Union and Britain would help it secure vaccines. Kenya had also ignored other countries’ worries about being used as “guinea pigs” and participated in vaccine trials, raising expectations for earlier shipments.

“The clinical trials resulted in vaccines,” said Dr. David Ngira, a postdoctoral researcher in global health law at Cardiff University, who has been tracking vaccine rollouts in Africa. “And on this premise, the Kenyan participants, as well as the surrounding

communities and country at large, should have been given some priority in vaccine access.”

Kenya’s health system was already hobbled last year by mistreatment of doctors and nurses. Many health workers, unpaid for months in some cases and often given inadequate protective equipment, walked off the job, forcing some hospitals to go months without nurses. One had to close its COVID-19 isolation unit and send patients home. In December, a 28-year-old doctor died from COVID-19 after having worked without a salary for months.

“It’s a moral emergency to protect health workers worldwide,” Gavin Yamey, associate director for policy at the Duke Global Health Institute, said. “Sickness and death of health workers in systems that are already weak could exacerbate those problems even further.”

For Nyachira Muthiga, a public hospital doctor who worked on a COVID-19 ward in Nairobi last year, the arrival of Kenya’s first vaccines brought a sense of relief. But the crushing experiences of the last year have made her wary.

Before contracting the illness herself, she lost many patients. Substandard protective equipment left her vulnerable, she said. And reports of corruption that cheated hospitals of muchneeded money, she said, broke something in her.

Though she got the vaccine last week, she worries that those same endemic problems in the health system — combined with vaccine hoarding by rich nations — could put shots out of the reach of ordinary Kenyans for much longer.

“I am still hopeful,” she said, “that the health of our citizens will be a high priority at some point.”

A hospital security guard receiving a vaccine in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, this month.

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Saudi Arabia offers cease-fire in Yemen and lifting of blockade

A billow of smoke after a Saudi-led airstrike in Sana, Yemen, this month.

By RICK GLADSTONE and SHUAIB ALMOSAWA

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audi Arabia proposed what it described as a new peace offering Monday to end the kingdom’s nearly six-year-old war on the insurgency in neighboring Yemen, pledging to lift an air-and-sea blockade if the Houthi rebels agree to a ceasefire.

The offer, announced by Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, came as pressure has escalated on the country to help break a stalemate in the Yemen conflict, which the United Nations has called the world’s worst man-made humanitarian disaster.

Millions of Yemenis, including children, are on the verge of famine, in part because of the blockade, which has choked the delivery of food and fuel to the country, the Arab world’s

poorest.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan was quoted by Arab news media as saying at a news conference that if the Houthis agreed to a cease-fire monitored by the United Nations, his country would allow the reopening of the airport in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and would permit fuel and food imports through Hodeida, a major Yemeni seaport. Both are controlled by the Houthis.

“The initiative will take effect as soon as the Houthis agree to it,” Prince Faisal was quoted as saying.

The Houthis appeared to reject the Saudi proposal. A spokesman for the group, Muhammad Abdussalam, said on alMasirah, a Houthi-affiliated television channel in Yemen, that the Houthis would not agree to discuss a cease-fire until Saudi Arabia first lifted its blockade.

“The ideas put forward have been discussed for more than a year, and there’s nothing new in it,” he said of the Saudi foreign minister’s announcement.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, Abdussalam said, is “trying to have the Yemeni people buckle under tightening the blockade in an attempt to pressure us to accept demands they were unable to achieve militarily and politically.”

Many earlier attempts aimed at halting the conflict have failed.

Farhan Haq, a U.N. spokesman, said the organization welcomed the Saudi announcement, but he declined to specify if it had been made as part of a coordinated move with Martin Griffiths, a special U.N. envoy. Griffiths has been seeking to restart negotiations, with a formula that also includes a monitored cease-fire and lifting of the blockade.

Asked about the apparent Houthi rejection, Haq said Griffiths would “be in touch with the Houthis, as with all parties, to see whether we can go further on this.”

Some diplomatic experts view the Saudi proposal as an attempt to at least look more reasonable in seeking to end the protracted conflict and to portray the Houthi side as the obstacle to a solution.

Gerald M. Feierstein, senior vice president at the Washington-based Middle East Institute and a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen, said the Houthis themselves had up until recently been essentially demanding what the Saudis have proposed.

“The Houthis won’t take yes for an answer,” Feierstein said.

The insurgent group’s position, he said, “leaves the Houthis alone, isolated — and of course, they’ve benefited over the last few years because all the attention in the conflict has been focused on the Saudis, with very little attention to what the Houthis are doing.”

Saudi Arabia began an intense bombing campaign six years ago this week aimed at routing the Houthis, who had forced the Saudi-backed government to flee and still control a vast swath of Yemen. The Houthis are backed by Iran, which Saudi Arabia regards as its regional adversary, and they have frequently responded to Saudi aerial assaults by sending missiles across the border into Saudi territory.

Saudi-led bombings and Houthi attacks have devastated Yemen’s fragile economy and led to widespread civilian casualties. By some estimates nearly a quarter million Yemenis have been killed in the conflict, and millions face acute hunger or starvation. About 80% of the country’s roughly 30 million people require humanitarian help.

The Saudi announcement came just a few weeks after President Joe Biden, breaking with the previous administration of Donald Trump, announced an end to U.S. logistical and intelligence support for the Saudi war effort in Yemen.

U.N. humanitarian officials have been pleading for eased access to vulnerable Yemenis isolated by the war, warning that famine already is beginning to take hold. After a visit to Yemen in early March, David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program, the U.N.’s anti-hunger agency, said “the famine is on a worsening trajectory.”

Six years of war, Beasley said, had “completely devastated the people, in every respect.”

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Shadows on the Biden dream

By ROSS DOUTHAT

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he first two months of the Biden presidency have gone about as well as anyone in a new administration could reasonably hope.

The policy battle over the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill managed the neat trick of simultaneously uniting the Democratic Party, energizing the Biden-skeptical left and putting the Republicans way on the wrong side of public opinion. The vaccination push continues to meet its targets and the “dark winter” wave of new cases receded much faster than the new administration probably anticipated. What will hereafter be known as the “Neera Tanden gambit” appears to have successfully provided cover for the rest of Joe Biden’s Cabinet to win approval, widely or narrowly, without bruising conflicts. The president’s approval/disapproval averages sit around 55%/39%, and you can shave a few points off the average out of poll-skepticism without changing Biden’s fundamentally enviable position.

There’s a possible future where this pattern just continues. The country enjoys a post-pandemic economic boom and an era of (relative) good feelings, with Americans hopping into self-driving cars on their way to nightclubs and wedding chapels. Biden pushes popular economic policies against a Republican Party that can’t agree on what it stands for, let alone offer something that a majority of voters might support. And as in the 1990s, culture war and foreign policy debates stir strong passions but don’t dent the popularity of the Democrat in the White House.

But it’s also possible, already, to see three places where a shadow might fall: three challenges waiting that might dash this

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administration on the rocks.

The most immediate of the three is the crisis on the southern border, where the Biden White House is already facing the same challenges as its predecessors — trying to prevent a humane policy toward asylum-seekers from becoming an open door to all comers — but with unique stresses created by how liberals reacted to the Trump era.

All immigration policy short of open borders involves a certain degree of harshness, in which some sympathetic migrants are denied entry and the promise of detention and deportation persuades others not to make the trip. Before Donald Trump, mainstream liberal politics gave a certain latitude to Democratic presidents to act harshly: For instance, even though Barack Obama took plenty of fire from the left, he was able to run a border crackdown after the migration surges of 2014 without dividing his party.

The specific cruelty of Trump’s child-separation policy, though, forced liberals to confront detention policies and conditions that they had been more likely to ignore under Obama. This in turn established a new standard for the Biden administration: It’s supposed to control the border without recourse to either the tough tactics the Trump White House ultimately settled on — the “remain in Mexico” requirement for asylum-seekers, especially — or the detention policies of the late Obama years, which also placed migrants, including kids, in the cages that caused so much scandal under Trump.

So far the new administration is failing that test. Under the pressure of a new wave of asylum-seekers, the Biden White House is simultaneously reproducing the kind of detention conditions that were regularly denounced in the Trump era and failing to slow the flow of migrants overall — a policy neither notably humane nor notably effective.

Eventually it may find a better balance, but the danger is that there isn’t one: that for the near term, at least, the United States faces a choice between policies that treat migrants, including children, harshly, and kinder policies that regularly overwhelm the asylum bureaucracy and the Border Patrol’s capacities. In which case immigration could once again become a chronic problem issue for the Democrats, returning us — after a pro-immigration shift in public opinion in the last four years — to the political landscape that helped get Trump elected in the first place.

Then beyond immigration on the policy horizon is another of Trump’s issues: the ambitions of the People’s Republic of China. The Trump-era suite of debates, on trade policy and human rights, is likely to be a backdrop to U.S. domestic politics, not an agenda-setter. But Beijing may have more than trade war and domestic repression on its mind. The combination of the Communist regime’s sense of its own post-COVID strengths and the palpable Western desire for a return to normalcy could create a window in which there’s a real danger of war over Taiwan.

Here the Biden White House, to its credit, seems well aware of the danger. If anything the administration is taking a tougher rhetorical line than Trump on some China-related issues (Trump was not exactly a zealous promoter of democracy or self-determination), while seeking a military recalibration that would prepare the U.S. for a possible defense of Taiwan against invasion.

But as Elbridge Colby and Walter Slocombe argue in a new

essay for the online journal War on the Rocks, the recalibration may not keep up with China’s growing strength, and as the China-watcher Tanner Greer pointed out last September, Taiwan’s preparedness is open to question. Even with a White House attuned to the threat, an attempted annexation and a shocking U.S. defeat are within the realm of possibility.

To that longer-term peril for Biden’s presidency abroad, add one at home: the risk that instead of a Biden boom we get a Biden blip, a year or so of fast growth followed by a return to the middling-to-mediocre economy we’ve had for much of the 21st century. (This seems more likely than suddenly skyrocketing inflation; inflation is more likely to build slowly, as a drag on the economy rather than a crisis.)

In the blip scenario, Biden-era economic growth might not feel strong enough to compensate for America’s various forms of social crisis — opioid abuse and suicide, teenage depression and middle-age despair. The coronavirus era has made some of these unravelings worse — through the rising crime rate; the academic and psychological damage to children; the postponement of work, relationships, marriage and kids for young adults; the isolation of the old. The social liberalism of the Democratic Party doesn’t have obvious answers to these problems, should its economic liberalism fail to get growth going faster than before.

You will notice that I haven’t mentioned the current ideological outgrowth of social liberalism, “woke” progressivism, in this list of forces that could weaken or unmake a Biden administration. That’s not because this kind of progressivism is particularly popular: Conservatives are attacking activist excesses and “cancel culture” rather than attacking the relief bill because they know which is more of a vulnerability for the Democrats.

But in a world of strong job growth and relative domestic tranquillity, Biden should be able to maintain some distance between his administration and the censorious left, adapting just enough to satisfy progressives while continuing to avoid the lure of activist jargon and the pitfalls of Twitter fights.

Where the new progressivism could become a big problem for the Democrats is if it seems connected to some specific crisis that’s clearly the Biden White House’s responsibility, in a way that makes “weakness and wokeness” a reasonable line of conservative attack.

For instance, a scenario where it seems like the Biden White House can’t get control of the border because it’s too worried what “Latinx” activist groups will say, even though none of those groups necessarily represent the Hispanic vote writ large.

Or a scenario where the U.S. military spends several years bragging about its commitment to diversity and clapping back at attacks from the likes of Tucker Carlson — and then gets smashed to pieces in the Taiwan Strait.

Or a world where the economy sags and the pan-racial social crisis deepens, and progressivism’s anti-racist fixations become a symbol of privilege in their own right — a “let them read ‘Antiracist Baby’!” signifier of a left that’s completely out of touch.

A fear of wokeness will hold the conservative coalition together no matter what. But that coalition is currently a minority, and for Biden’s coalition a prosperous return to normalcy will probably suffice to hold power no matter which books disappear from eBay or from Amazon, or what the San Francisco Board of Education tries next.

If the Biden administration begins to fail conspicuously, though, wokeness could be the anchor dragging liberalism down to repudiation and defeat.

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Wednesday, March 124, 2021

AMPR espera que asignación millonaria para Educación llegue a comunidades escolares Por THE STAR

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l presidente de la Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (AMPR), Víctor M. Bonilla Sánchez, recibió con beneplácito la noticia sobre la asignación de dinero federal que recibirá el Departamento de Educación.

“Es necesario que esta asignación millonaria llegue a los planteles para beneficio de nuestros maestros y todas las comunidades escolares. Ciertamente la necesidad de recursos para el magisterio y los estudiantes es enorme, además de la carencia de planteles escolares seguros”, dijo Bonilla Sánchez.

Bonilla Sánchez exhortó al gobierno a utilizar de forma responsable este dinero para que esta vez se puedan ver los resultados.

“En esta ocasión el gobierno debe

demostrar que genuinamente hay un compromiso con la educación pública.

Sabemos que históricamente este dinero termina en las manos y en los bolsillos de los amigos del alma y las escuelas y la educación siguen en estado de emergencia”.

El presidente de la AMPR aseguró que estarán atentos al uso de estos fondos y que fiscalizarán que ese dinero llegue a las comunidades escolares y cumplan su objetivo de lograr un mejor y seguro sistema público de enseñanza.

“También les damos las gracias a nuestros colaboradores de la American Federation of Teachers (AFT) que con su ayuda lograron a través del secretario de Educación Federal, Miguel Cardona, que se descongelaran estos fondos que son tan importantes para el futuro de los niños de Puerto Rico”.

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l comisionado del Negociado del Cuerpo de Bomberos, Javish Collazo, anunció el martes, la inversión de aproximadamente $2 millones para renovar la flota de camiones en varios municipios.

“Para el gobernador, Pedro Pierluisi, todo el personal de primera respuesta en emergencias como lo es el Negociado de Bomberos es importante. Es por esto que insistió ante la Junta para que se mantuviera el aumento a los bomberos y no se escatimara en recursos para que tengan el equipo necesario para realizar sus funciones. Esta es la primera entrega de camiones este año y con esto esperamos mejorar las condiciones de nuestras estaciones de bomberos a través de toda la isla. Estas entregas salvan vidas, protegen propiedades y nos permite dar un mejor servicio a los ciudadanos. Confiamos en continuar con la entrega de equipo durante todo el año y así fortalecer el Negociado de Bomberos”, manifestó Collazo en comunicación escrita.

El comisionado informó que se entregaron cinco camiones bomba con capacidad en su tanque de mil galones de agua cada uno. Estos vehículos, con valor de $273,895 cada uno, serán enviados a

las estaciones de Manatí, Quebradillas, Orocovis, Cataño y Juana Díaz. La inversión total de estos camiones asciende a $1,369,475.

Indicó además que se adquirieron dos camiones tipo “mini pumper” que permite almacenar en su tanque 400 galones de agua y cuyo valor asciende a $261,898 cada uno. Uno de estos camiones está destinado a la estación del barrio Mameyes de Jayuya, y el otro a la estación que ubica en el barrio Ángeles de Utuado. Estos vehículos permiten llegar a zonas de difícil acceso, a las que un camión de mayor tamaño podría llegar.

Los funcionarios explicaron que, además, se adquirieron seis equipos conocidos como “Fit Test Equipment” para velar por la seguridad del personal.

“Este tipo de aditamento se utiliza, de acuerdo con los requerimientos de la Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional (OSHA, por sus siglas en inglés) para realizar pruebas de sellado a las máscaras que utilizan nuestros bomberos. Con estos exámenes, se puede validar que las máscaras estén en óptimas condiciones y sean las adecuadas para las funciones que realiza cada bombero. Hemos asignado uno de estos equipos, cada uno adquirido a un costo

de $13,065 a cada una de las seis zonas operacionales del Negociado. Sin duda, la seguridad y el bienestar de nuestros compañeros es un asunto que nos mantiene atentos y comprometidos”, detalló el jefe del Negociado del Cuerpo de Bomberos.

Por último, Collazo indicó que se entregaron diez vehículos tipo pick-up, que

fueron distribuidos a las Divisiones de Operaciones Especiales de Añasco, Ponce, Hato Rey y Barceloneta, así como a cada una de las seis zonas operacionales ubicadas en Aguadilla, Carolina, Caguas, San Juan (Metro), Ponce y Arecibo. La adquisición de estos vehículos había sido anunciada el año pasado, pero no es hasta este momento que pueden entregarse.

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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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Lana Del Rey takes a road trip into the past

By LINDSAY ZOLADZ

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n her sixth major-label album, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club,” Lana Del Rey wants to get away from it all.

After her great, California-centric 2019 epic “Norman _____ Rockwell!” maybe she’s just craving a change of scenery: “I’m ready to leave L.A. and I want you to come,” she announces on the new album’s wanderlustful first single, “Let Me Love You Like a Woman.” Other “Chemtrails” songs name-check stops on an American road trip, from Yosemite National Park to Lincoln, Nebraska, to Tulsa, Oklahoma. But on some of the record’s most stirring moments, Del Rey seems to desire an even greater spiritual sense of oblivion: “I’m in the wind, I’m in the water, nobody’s son, nobody’s daughter,” she sings on the haunting title track, sounding blissfully untethered. During the album’s opening number, “White Dress,” she pirouettes across the upper edge of her vocal register, her airy falsetto evaporating into the space around her like a fleeting, soon-to-be-illegible piece of skywriting.

One of the album’s several stunners, “White Dress” is a melancholic, piano-driven tone poem that conjures the emotional intensity of Cat Power and reimagines a “simpler time” when the narrator was a 19-year-old night-shift server in — of all the places in Norman Rockwell’s America — Orlando, Florida. But she felt happy, capable: “When I was a server, wearing a white dress, like look how I do it, look how I got this.” The tempo is unhurried, and the song saves some of its most affecting revelations — “it kind of makes me feel like maybe I was better off” — for its unsettling final moments.

From the moment she emerged with the semianachronistic torch song “Video Games” in 2011, Del Rey has always branded herself an old soul. Like much of her music, “Chemtrails” often bends backward to grasp at an elusive and irretrievable prelapsarian state. (As she put it on one of her best songs, 2019’s unofficial anthem “The Greatest,” “nobody warns you before the fall.”) Sometimes the past she glorifies is mass-cultural (the muted, subtly auto-tuned “Tulsa Jesus Freak” mines a Manson-family aesthetic similar to Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”), but just as often on this record it is sharply personal, yearning for a lost time when making music was a carefree hobby and not Del Rey’s job.

Throughout, “Chemtrails” finds her meditating on the value of her art, wondering if it’s too late to get back to the garden.

Fame is the album’s recurring boogeyman,

Where Lana Del Rey’s last album seemed to capture a generational malaise, the insights on “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” feel more insular. most explicitly on the languidly guitar-driven “Dark but Just a Game,” which Del Rey has said takes its name from something her producer Jack Antonoff said to her while they were musing about the tragic fates of so many stars. (“Chemtrails” reunites Del Rey with Antonoff, who coproduced “Norman” with her and once again gives her billowing voice the appropriate amount of compositional elbow room.) “The cameras have flashes, they cause the car crashes,” she sings on the gently surging “Wild at Heart” — another highlight. On two other occasions she references “Candle in the Wind,” that masscult elegy that Elton John barely needed to rework to fit the fates of both Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana.

Easy as it can be to forget, though, the particular slab of blue over the country club is hardly the entire sky. This finite perspective makes “Chemtrails” more of a minor offering than “Norman _____ Rockwell!,” which took big swings and often connected, capturing something that had been difficult to articulate about her generation’s larger sense of malaise. Perhaps to avoid repeating herself, “Chemtrails” finds Del Rey scaling back, seeking more insular insight.

When all of its virtues are working in tandem — rich melodies, compositional surprises, only-Lana-would-say-it turns of phrase — Del Rey’s music casts an engrossing spell. But in the moments when its tempos and timbres grow a bit repetitive, as they did on her sleepy 2015 album “Honeymoon” and do for a several-song stretch in the middle of this album, its limitations come into focus. “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” builds a chorus around bumper-sticker wisdom, while vague lyrics like “let me love you like a woman, let me hold you like a baby” lack the specificity of her better songs.

At best, Del Rey’s hyperreferential music convincingly recreates the particular feeling of encountering art in a postmodern age, when the past is so cluttered with worthwhile cultural artifacts that everything new reminds one, at least a little bit, of something old. But as she dances on that fine line between evoking and signifying, Del Rey sometimes risks outsourcing her profundity to things other artists have said more vividly before.

Such is the gamble of ending an album with a Joni Mitchell cover — though here that’s a risk Del Rey pulls off. On a gorgeous, reverent and harmony-enlivened rendition of “For Free,” she is joined by the musicians Zella Day and Natalie Mering (who records as Weyes Blood), and in Mitchell’s lines finds echoes with many of the questions she’s been pondering about the relative value of art and the distortions of fame. The song comes from Mitchell’s 1970 LP “Ladies of the Canyon,” but if “Chemtrails” has a kindred spirit in Mitchell’s discography, it’s 1972’s “For the Roses,” her own “leaving Los Angeles” album, which Mitchell composed in the solitude of her stone cottage on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.

By the end of “Chemtrails,” though, Del Rey has found solace not in solitude but solidarity, specifically with other women. The album regains momentum on its final trio of songs, which are suddenly populated with other female voices and names. (In addition to Day and Mering on “For Free,” Del Rey is joined by the country artist Nikki Lane on a song Lane wrote, “Breaking Up Slowly.”) The cathartic “Dancing Til We Die” finds her doing a late-night Louisiana two-step with an imagined clique of her musical heroes, some of whom (Stevie Nicks, Joan Baez) Del Rey has already toured or collaborated with. “God, it feels good not to be alone,” she exhales, shortly before the faint, lonely sound of a horn drifts into the mix, as if from another bar down the road. Momentarily, it leaves its mark in the blue, and then just as quickly it’s gone.

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Filmmaker’s suit says A&E Networks suppressed ‘Watergate’ series

By JULIA JACOBS and NICOLE SPERLING

“W

atergate,” a four-hour documentary examining the scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, had its world premiere in 2018 at the Telluride Film Festival, an event known to foretell future Oscar nominations. It went on to be shown at the New York Film Festival and several others, collecting positive reviews that highlighted allusions the series made to the Trump presidency.

It aired on the History Channel over three days in early November, just before the 2018 midterm elections.

To the filmmaker’s surprise, it was never shown on U.S. television again.

The award-winning writer and director of the documentary, Charles Ferguson, is now suing the company that owns the History Channel, A&E Networks, asserting it suppressed the dissemination of his miniseries because it was worried about potential backlash to allusions the documentary makes to the Trump White House.

In the lawsuit filed Friday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Ferguson accuses the company of attempting to delay the documentary until after the 2018 midterm elections because a History Channel executive feared it would offend the White House and Trump supporters.

“He was concerned about the impact of ‘Watergate’ upon ratings in ‘red states,’ ” the lawsuit said of the executive, Eli Lehrer, “as well as the negative reaction it would provoke among Trump supporters and the Trump administration.”

Ferguson resisted that plan, and the miniseries ultimately aired shortly before Election Day. But the filmmaker contends the documentary was given short shrift, despite acclaim in the film industry and previous assurances that it would receive “extremely prominent treatment.”

The lawsuit describes the treatment of the documentary as part of a “pattern and practice of censorship and suppression of documentary content” at A&E Networks, and cites several others that it says were subject to attempted manipulation for political or economic reasons.

A&E called the lawsuit meritless and the assertion that the documentary was suppressed “absurd,” saying it has routinely given a platform to storytellers “to present their unvarnished vision without regard for partisan politics.”

“A&E invested millions of dollars in this project and promoted it extensively,” the company said in a statement.

“Among other efforts, we hired multiple outside PR agencies, provided advance screeners to the press, and submitted it to film festivals and for awards consideration.”

Ferguson’s “Watergate” is a deep dive into events set off by the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the cover up by the Nixon administration. It includes interviews with people who were involved in the events — such as John Dean, President Nixon’s White House counsel — as well as reporters who covered them, including Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Lesley Stahl.

The New York Times’ co-chief film critic, A.O. Scott, wrote that the documentary tells a story that is “part political thriller and part courtroom drama, with moments of Shakespearean

The filmmaker who directed “Watergate,” a mini-series about the scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, is charging in a lawsuit that A&E Networks suppressed the dissemination of the series.

grandeur and swerves into stumblebum comedy,” though other reviews panned the film’s re-creations by actors.

Ferguson, who is best known for his Oscar-winning 2010 documentary “Inside Job,” said that when he started pitching the project in 2015, he imagined it as a straightforward “historical detective story.” But, the suit says, a drumbeat of events involving the Trump administration made him realize the documentary’s renewed political relevance.

In 2017, he watched as Trump fired his FBI director, as the Justice Department appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation into ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, and as the potential for impeachment loomed.

The series — which Ferguson said cost about $4.5 million to produce — does not mention Trump’s name, but the documentary’s subtitle, “How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President,” was a nod toward his administration.

The lawsuit hinges on a conversation between Ferguson and A&E executives in June 2018, before the film was released. According to the lawsuit, Lehrer, executive vice president and head of programming at the History Channel, said at that meeting that he would seek to delay the premiere of “Watergate” and “sharply lower” its publicity profile, expressing concern about its relevance to the politics of the moment and the reaction it would provoke from the Trump administration and Trump supporters.

Ferguson has worked to collect pieces of evidence to support his contentions, among them an email he provided to The New York Times in which Lehrer acknowledged discussing the bipartisan nature of the network’s audience.

In the email, Lehrer also denied the network was trying to suppress the documentary, writing that the rationale for exploring different airdates was to avoid the series getting swallowed up by heavy sports programming and election coverage.

Ferguson’s contract did not specify how many times the network would show the documentary or whether it would receive theatrical distribution, though successful ones are typically broadcast multiple times.

Nielsen ratings from the time show that “Watergate” earned only 529,000 viewers when it aired, including seven days of delayed viewing, compared with the History Channel’s other multi-episode documentaries like “Grant” which bowed in May to 4.4 million viewers, or “Washington,” which drew an audience of 3.3 million in February 2020.

A&E noted the documentary is available on several services, which include iTunes, Amazon Prime Video and Google Pay, including its own video-on-demand platform, History Vault.

Ferguson’s lawsuit argues that the company executives interfered with his contract, and defamed him by telling industry executives he was difficult to work with, thereby costing him work. In addition to Lehrer and Stiller, the other named defendants include Robert Sharenow, the network’s president of programming and Molly Thompson, its former head of documentary films. Thompson declined to comment. Lehrer, Stiller and Sharenow did not respond to requests for comment.

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

LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD, PLAINTIFF, v.

AMARILYS SANTIAGO RIOS

DEFENDANT. CASE No. 3:16-cv-02642. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Amarilys SantiagoRios, Defendant 215 Calle Juan L. Ramos, Urb. Fronteras, Bayamon, PR 00961 THE GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: On July 9, 2019 this Court entered a Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD, against Defendant. On November 17, 2019 this Court entered an Order of Execution of Judgment stating that “Defendants defaulted on their repayment obligation to Plaintiff, and as of February 23, 2021, they owe Plaintiff principal amount of $115,124.99, interest which continue to accrue on a daily rate of $20.05, the amount of $11,156.51 in escrow deficiency, and $12,600.00 in contractually agreed-upon attorney’s fees and legal costs, for a total amount of $207,403.53. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to the Defendants will be sold at a public auction: “URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Levittown, Octava Unidad de Plantfzcación, radicado en el Barrio Hato Tejas del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización, con el Número Quince (15) del Bloque “LF”, con una cabida supe1:ficial de 319.184 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar número 14; por el SUR, en 23.00 metros con el solar número 16; por el ESTE, en un arco de 1.4521 metros con Juan Inés Ramos ; y por el OESTE, en un arco de 13.234 metros con los solares número 29 y número 30.

Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa.” Recorded at Page 210 of Book 40 of Bayamón Norte, Property Id 2242 (previously 46,546), Regisfly of the Pro-

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perty of Bayamón, Section 111.

The aforementioned Property is recorded in the Puerto Rico Property Registry, Section of Bayamon, Section III, at page 210, ofBook 40, Property Lot (“Finca”) number 55. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following liens: 1. Junior Lien: A. LIS PENDENS filed on September 23rd, 2010 in the Superior Court of Puerto Rico, Room of Bayamón, in the civil case number 2010-335; about collection of moneys and foreclosure; Citimortgage, !ne., plaintijf v. Amarilys Santiago Ríos, defendant. By said complaint plaintiff claims the payment of $117,256.98 recorded on November 22nd, 2010 at page 109 of volume 252 of North Bayamon, property number 2242, Annotation “A”. B. LIS PENDENS filed on October 2nd, 2015 in the Superior Court of Puerto Rico, Room of Bayamón, in the civil case number 2015-2443 ; about collection of moneys and foreclosure; Citimortgage, !ne., plaintijf v.

Amarilys Santiago Ríos, defendant. By said complaint plaintiff claims the payment of $135, 165.15 recorded on December 141112,0 15 at page 68 of volume 269 of North Bayamon, property number 2242, Annotation “B”. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, ( express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. WHEREAS: The lien executed is the first one over the property and for the purpose of the first judicial sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage <leed will be $126,000.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the above described property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the second judicial sale will be $84,000.00, that is two-thirds the amount of the minimum bid for the first judicial sale. The minimum bid for a third judicial sale, if the same is necessary, will be $63,000.00, that is one-half of the minimum bid agreed upon the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed. (30 PR Laws Ann. § 2721, Mortgage and Property Registry Act, Act.

No. 198, Article 221, as amended). WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the <leed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confinnation, free of all subsequent liens and encumbrances . NOW THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions ofthe Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 13111 day of April of 2021, at 10:35 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 20111 day of April of 2021, at 10:35 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 27111 day of April of 2021, at 10:35 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26th day of February of 2021. Signature Not Eligable, Appointed Special Master.

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

CONDADO 3 CFL, LLC Plaintiff Vs.

HERNAN ANTONIO LÓPEZ LÓPEZ, FATIMA JEANNETTE LÓPEZ MERCARDO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN

Defendants Civil No.: 17-1000. (JAG). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, SS.

To: HERNAN ANTONIO

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

LÓPEZ LÓPEZ, FATIMA JEANNETTE LÓPEZ MERCADO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN: AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $232,360.15 in principal, accrued interest as of January 10, 2020 in the amount of $81,339.87, which continue to accrue until full payment of the debt, accrued late charges of $1,602.99, escrow deficiency in the amount of $110.59, forwarding fee of $20.00, Force Place insurance in the amount of $107.00, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants, and plus costs and attorney’s fees in the amount of $42,675.00 in accordance with the mortgage deed; 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: RUSTICA: Parcela número cuatro (4) radicada en el Barrio Factor I del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos cuarenta y siete punto cinco mil seiscientos sesenta y uno (847.5661) metros cuadrados y en lindes al NORTE, con Francisco Lourido; al SUR, con solar número tres (3); al ESTE, con faja de uso público y viraje provisional, y; al OESTE, con Francisco Lourido. Inscrito al folio 35 del tomo 654 de Arecibo, finca número 29,836 Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera (I) de Arecibo. Physical address: PR-683 KM 0.5 Int., Arecibo, P.R. 00612. PROPERTY B: RUSTICA: Parcela número setenta y cuatro A (74 A) radicada en la Comunidad Animas, Barrio Factor término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos setenta y nueve punto cuarenta y cinco (479.45) metros cuadrados y en lindes al NORTE, con la parcela setenta y tres (73); al SUR, con la Carretera Estatal número dos (2); al ESTE, con la Calle siete (7), y; al OES-

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Wednesday, March 24, 2021 TE, con la parcela diecinueve (19). Enclava una estructura comercial. Inscrito al folio 105 del tomo 1031 de Arecibo, finca número 27,229 Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera (I) de Arecibo. Physical address: PR 2 Km 65.2, Factor Ward, A-74, Arecibo, P.R. 00612. 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 properties will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the APRIL 30TH, 2021, AT THE 10:25 A.M. Property A; and 10:30 A.M. the Property B, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $113,700.00 for Property A and $170,800.00 for 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 THE 10:25 A.M. Property A; and 10:30 A.M. the Property B, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $75,800.00 for Property A and $113,866.67 for 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 THE 10:25 A.M. Property A; and 10:30 A.M. the Property B, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $56,850.00 for Property A and $85,400.00 for 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 March 3, 2021. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPECIAL MASTER.

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

Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. DEMANDANTE VS.

José Luis Alvarado Rodríguez t/c/c José Luis Alvarado Rodríguez; y a los Estados Unidos de América.

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: PO2019CV03265.

SALA: 406. SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: JOSÉ LUIS ALVARADO RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C JOSÉ LUIS ALVARADO RODRÍGUEZ; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, MANUEL MALDONADO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 14 de abril de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, 12 de marzo de 2020, Enmendada el 10 de junio de 2020, notificada y archivada en autos el 7 de octubre de 2020. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 21 de abril de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 28 de abril de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha

The San Juan Daily Star de 11 de diciembre de 2020, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: EE-11 31 St. Jardines del Caribe Dev., Ponce PR 00728, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número once del Bloque EE en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Jardines del Caribe, Segunda Etapa, radicada en los Barrios Canas, Quebrada Limón y Pastillo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cuarentitres punto seiscientos setentiuno metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en veinticinco punto novecientos cincuentisiete metros con el solar número diez del Bloque EE; por el SUR, en veinticinco punto novecientos cincuentisiete metros con el solar número doce del Bloque EE; por el ESTE, en trece punto doscientos cuarenta metros con la Calle número treintiuno; y por el OESTE, en trece punto doscientos cuarenta metros con el solar número veintiocho del Bloque EE. Sobre este solar se ha construido una casa de concreto armado para ser utilizada como residencia familiar.”

Finca número 8,746 (previamente 34,053), inscrita al folio 122 del tomo 494 de Ponce, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $82,667.30 incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 30 de noviembre de 2019, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.560% por ciento anual, hasta su completo pago; más la cantidad de $12,750.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 197, otorgada el día 11 de octubre de 2010, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Luis E. Andujar Moreno y consta inscrita al folio 10 del tomo 1221 de

Ponce, finca número 8,746, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II de Ponce. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $127,500.00, con intereses al 5.560% anual, vencedero el día 26 de septiembre de 2095 constituida mediante la escritura número 198, otorgada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de octubre de 2010, ante el notario Luis E. Andujar Moreno, e inscrita al vuelto del folio 10 del tomo 1221 de Ponce, finca 8,746 inscripción 5ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $127,500.00 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 $85,000.00; 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 $63,750.00. 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

The San Juan Daily Star ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le 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 compare-

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

cencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 5 de enero de 2021. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE PONCE.

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

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee of Finance of America Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2019HB1 DEMANDANTE VS.

Sucesión de Adriana Rodriguez Gonzalez t/c/c Adriana Rodríguez compuesta por David Antonio Figueroa Rodríguez, Jose Miguel Figueroa Rodríguez, Zaida Figueroa Rodriguez, Ramón Adalberto Figueroa Rodríguez, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de tal; Centro de Recuadaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CA2019CV04315.

SALA: 406. SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: SUCESIÓN DE ADRIANA RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ T/C/C ADRIANA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR DAVID ANTONIO FIGUEROA RODRÍGUEZ, JOSE MIGUEL FIGUEROA RODRÍGUEZ, ZAIDA FIGUEROA RODRIGUEZ, RAMÓN ADALBERTO FIGUEROA RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Yo, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 29 de abril de 2021, a las 1:00 de la tarde en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en

Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, el 25 de noviembre de 2020, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 30 de noviembre de 2020. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 6 de mayo de 2021, a las 1:00 de la tarde; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 13 de mayo de 2021, a las 1:00 de la tarde, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 11 de febrero de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: B-252 9 Street José Severo Quiñones Dev. Carolina, PR 00985, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número B doscientos cincuenta y dos del Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto de Vivienda a bajo costo denominada VBC cuatro, radicado en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos treinta y ocho metros cuadrados con noventa y siete centésimas de metro, en lindes por el NORTE, con Calle nueve; por el SUR, con Solar B-doscientos cincuenta y uno; por el ESTE, con Solar B-doscientos cuarenta y nueve; y por el OESTE, con Solar B-doscientos cincuenta y tres.” Finca Número 21,234 inscrita al folio 225 del Tomo 523 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $183,000.00, por concepto de balance de principal, más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.560% por ciento anual hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $18,300.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la

fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 104, otorgada el día 25 de marzo de 2011, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Jorge Laborde Corretjer y consta inscrita al folio 132 del tomo 1490 de Carolina, finca número 21234, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II de Carolina. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $183,000.00, con intereses al 5.560% anual, vencedero el día 12 de mayo de 2081 constituida mediante la escritura número 105, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de marzo de 2011, ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer, e inscrita al folio 132 del tomo 1490 de Carolina, finca 21234 inscripción 7ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $183,000.00 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 $122,000.00; 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 $91,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor

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

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(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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 24 de febrero de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.

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

HIBISCUSPR 230, LLC DEMANDANTE v.

RICARDO ALBERTO HERNÁNDEZ TARTAK t/c/c RICARDO A. HERNÁNDEZ TARTAK, BEVERLYN DENNISSE FIOLA ESQUILÍN t/c/c BEVERLYN D. FIOLA ESQUILÍN

CODEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: KCD2015-0837.

SALA: 504. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE hipoteca POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 12 de febrero de 2021 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 5 de abril de 2021, a la(s) 10:00 a.m., en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de San Juan, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ciento setenta y uno (#171) en el plano de solares de la Urbanización Hyde Park del término municipal de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos noventa y cinco punto cero cero (495.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con Juan Valdejulli Rodríguez, después Edwin Santiago; por el Sur, en

treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con Calle Flamboyanes; por el Este, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con la Calle Palma Real antes calle siete (7), y por el Oeste, en dieciséis punto cincuenta (16.50) metros, con solar de Francisco Umpierre Lamela.

Finca número 8,039, inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 1236 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de San Juan. Dirección Física: #203 Flamboyán St., Hyde Park Development, San Juan, PR. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Por su procedencia está afecta a condiciones restrictivas de uso.

Por sí afecta a: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Metro Island Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $477,000.00, con interés al 7.95%, y vencedero 1 de junio de 2016, según consta de la escritura #166, otorgada el día 17 de mayo de 2006, ante el Notario Público Jorge Laborde Corretjer, inscrita al folio 127 del tomo 1506 de Río Piedras Norte, inscripción 22ª. MODIFICACIÓN DE HIPOTECA: Es objeto de esta modificación la Hipoteca de la inscripción 22, la cual se reduce a $463,831.07, según escritura número 402 del 30 de noviembre de, 2011 ante la Notario Público Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla, inscrita al folio 128 del tomo 1506 Río Piedras Norte, inscripción 24ª.

ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación la hipoteca que resulta de la inscripción 22ª y su modificación seguido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, caso Civil Núm.

K CD2015-0837 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca a favor de LSREF2 Island Holdings LTD, Inc., según demanda de fecha del 16 de abril de 2015 por la suma de $455,870.00 contra Ricardo Alberto Hernández Tartak y Beverlyn Dennisse Fiola Esquilín, inscrita al folio 26 del tomo 1633 de Río Piedras Norte, Anotación A. Según pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca Núm.

166, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de mayo de 2006, ante el Notario Público Jorge Laborde Corretjer, la cual se encuentra inscrita al folio 127 del tomo 1506 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 8,039, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de San Juan y en la Escritura de Modificación y Cancelación Parcial, servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la Propiedad antes descrita la suma de $463,831.07. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 12 de abril de 2021, a la(s) 10:00 a.m., El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos

terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $309,220.71. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 19 de abril de 2021, a la(s) 10:00 a.m. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $231,915.54. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a HIBISCUSPR 230, LLC al 30 de marzo de 2015, ascendente a $467,587.02 desglosada de la siguiente manera: i. $455,870.00 por concepto de principal; ii. $9,273.98 por concepto de intereses acumulados, más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda a razón de $100.67 por día; iii. $2,291.64 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales se acumulan hasta su total y completo pago; iv. $151.40 por concepto de otros gastos. El Pagaré Hipotecario fue enmendado por el Endoso el 30 de noviembre de 2011, bajo el afidávit número 8,995 de la Notario Público Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla. Mediante dicho endoso se enmendó el Pagaré de la siguiente manera: ii. Se redujo la Hipoteca por la suma de $13,168.93 para que la misma garantice la cantidad total de $463,831.07. iii.

S e modificó la tasa de interés y los pagos mensuales de la siguiente manera: a. Durante los primero doce (12) meses el interés será calculado al 5.5% anual, y los pagos mensuales de principal e interés serán de $2,392.30, comenzando el 1ero de enero de 2012 hasta el 1ero de diciembre de 2012. b. Durante los siguientes doce (12) meses el interés será calculado al 6.5% anual, y los pagos mensuales de principal e interés serán de $2,711.01, comenzando el 1ero de enero de 2013 hasta el 1ero de diciembre de 2013. c. El balance insoluto será satisfecho en los próximos treinta y seis (36) meses, devengando un interés de 7.95% anual, y los pagos mensuales de principal e interés serán de $3,190.54, comenzando el 1ero de enero de 2014 hasta que se pague totalmente la deuda, quedando la deuda vencida y pagadera el 1ero de diciembre de 2016. En adición a lo anterior, la Parte Demandada adeuda $46,383.10 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados expresamente por las partes, según se desprende de los pagarés hipotecarios. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cual-

20 quier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada.

EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 26 de febrero de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN.

TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDIA ELVIRA PÉREZ MUÑOZ T/C/C EDIA PÉREZ MUÑOZ,

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV03518.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA In REM. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. YO, el Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia In Rem, expedido el 21 de enero de 2021 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 12 de abril de 2021, a la(s) 11:00 a.m., en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de San Juan, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar en Urbanización Hyde Park de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos veintitrés punto veinte (523.20) metros cuadrados.

Colindando por el NORTE, en veinticuatro puto cero (24.00) metros con el solar de Abigail Hernández; por el SUR, en veinticuatro puto cero (24.00) metros, con el solar de Elías Hernández; por el ESTE, en veintiuno punto ochenta (21.80) metros, con terrenos de Abigail Hernández y por el OESTE, en veintiuno punto ochenta (21.80) metros, con la calle Madrid de la Urbanización. Contiene un LEGAL NOT ICE edificio de apartamentos de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO concreto armado con techo de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- azotea, de tres plantas, dividido NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en seis apartamentos indepenCENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN dientes que mide 58’-8” frente JUAN. por 59’-7”de fondo. Inscrita al BAUTISTA folio 181 del tomo 157 de Río Piedras Norte, Finca número REO PR CORP., 7,362, Registro de la PropieDemandante v. dad de San Juan, Segunda SUCESIÓN DE EDIA ELVIRA PÉREZ MUÑOZ Sección. Dirección física: 993 Calle Madrid, Urb. Santa Rita, T/C/C EDIA PÉREZ San Juan, Puerto Rico. La proMUÑOZ COMPUESTA piedad descrita anteriormente POR JOBSE IBZÁN está afecta a los siguientes LEBRÓN PÉREZ, Y JOSÉ gravámenes: Por su procedencia está libre de cargas.

ANTONIO LEBRÓN Por sí afecta a: HIPOTECA SOTO T/C/C JOSÉ A. en garantía de un pagaré a LEBRÓN SOTO, POR SÍ favor de EMI EQUITY MORTY COMO MIEMBRO DE GAGE INC., o a su orden, por LA SUCESIÓN DE EDIA la suma de $513,000.00, con ELVIRA PÉREZ MUÑOZ interés al 7½%, y vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2020, según T/C/C EDIA PÉREZ consta de la escritura #478,

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otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de agosto de 2005, ante el Notario Público David Cardona Dingui, inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 1536 de Río Piedras Norte, inscripción 15ta. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta en ejecución de la hipoteca objeto de este caso que grava la Propiedad antes descrita la suma de $513,000.00, conforme a lo estipulado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #478, otorgada el 4 de agosto de 2005 ante el Notario Público David Cardona Dingui. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 19 de abril de 2021, a la(s) 11:00 a.m. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $342,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 26 de abril de 2021, a la(s) 11:00 a.m. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $256,500.00.

Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a BAUTISTA REO PR CORP., ascendente a la suma de $438,394.01 de principal, intereses pactados y computados sobre esta suma al tipo de 7.5% hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y la suma de $51,300.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. 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.

La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas regis-

trales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada.

EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 10 de marzo de 2021. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante, v.

RICARDO TORRES BONILLA

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. CG2019CV01792.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 30 de agosto de 2019, notificada el 5 de septiembre de 2019 y publicada el 10 de septiembre de 2019 y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 31 de octubre de 2019, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, procederá a vender en subasta, por separado, y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el dia 21 de abril del año 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina localizada en el edificio que ocupa la Sala del Tribunal de Pri-

mera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en el barrio Navarro de Gurabo, identificada con el #715, en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Veredas, del barrio Navarro, con una cabida superficial de 613.24 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.1560 de cuerda. En linderos: NORTE, con el solar 699; SUR, con la calle 68; ESTE, con el solar 714 metros y OESTE, con área verde de la urbanización que colinda con la calle Vereda de los Cedros. ENCLAVA: Una estructura de hormigón y bloques destinada a uso residencial. FINCA: Número 17381 inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 452 del Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Dirección física: 715 68 St. Veredas Dev, Gurabo, Puerto Rico 00778.

El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $204,676.00, con intereses al 4.00% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Preferred Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, que vence el 1ro de febrero de 2042. Según escritura #9, otorgada en San Juan, el 18 de enero de 2007, ante Katiria B. Faría Chacón, inscrita al folio 106vto del tomo 452 de Gurabo, inscripción 7ma. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Dictada el 20 de mayo de 2019, dada en el Caso Civil #CG2019CV-01792, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas; seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (demandante) versus Ricardo Torres Bonilla (demandado).

Se reclama el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma., reducida a $183,312.28, más intereses y otras sumas, o la venta de esta finca en pública subasta.

Anotada en el tomo Karibe de la Sección II de Caguas, finca #17381 de Gurabo, anotación A y última, con fecha de 24 de septiembre de 2020. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la siguiente suma: $183,312.28 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 3.5% anual, más recargos por todo pago en atraso, más $20,467.60 como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo, según pactado. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y

demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Caguas, 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 al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable 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. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de DOSCIENTOS CUATRO MIL SEISCIENTOS SETENTA Y SEIS DÓLARES ($204,676.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una segunda subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el dia 28 de abril del año 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CIENTO TREINTA Y SEIS MIL CUATROCIENTOS CINCUENTA DÓLARES CON SESENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($136,450.66) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 5 de mayo del año 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CIENTO DOS MIL TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y OCHO DÓLARES ($102,338.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 11 de marzo de 2021, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante v.

LUIS BONILLA SALGADO, ZULMA DE JESÚS MALAVÉ ambos en su carácter personal y/o como miembros de la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GNANCIALES COMPUEST POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. GCD2009-0060.

SALÓN: 302. SOBRE: cobro de dinero Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. YO, LITZY M. CORA ANAYA, el Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo, en cheque certificado o en cheque de gerente a la orden del alguacil suscribiente en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 6 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 AM, en mi oficina localizada en el CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYAMA, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a las partes codemandadas sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “RUSTICA: Predio de terreno identificado en el plano de mensura como finca número cinco (5) localizada en el Barrio Matón Arriba, Cayey, Puerto Rico, compuesto de catorce punto ocho mil ochocientos setenta y cuatro cuerdas (14.8874cdas.), equivalente a cincuenta y ocho mil quinientos trece punto cuarenta y siete metros cuadrados (58,513.47m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de Luis Pérez; por el SUR, con una quebrada y camino municipal; por el ESTE, con Aurora Malavé; y por el OESTE, con la finca número seis (6). Esta finca se reservará para uso agrícola y no se subdividirá.” La propiedad antes descrita consta inscrita al folio 20 del tomo 477 de Cayey, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas, finca número 19,923. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: CARR. #1 KM 60.8 INT. BARRIO MATÓN ARRIBA, CAYEY, PUERTO RICO 00736. AFECTA POR SU PROCEDENCIA: Libre de Cargas. AFECTA POR SI: CONDICIONES RESTRICTIVAS: A partir de la obtencion de titulo, el adquirente, podra ceder , arrendar, vender, permutar, hipotecar, gravar o disponer de la finca de cualquier forma ermitida por ley. La finca no podrá ser objeto de subdivisión en fora alguna, según inscripción primera (1era). HIPOTECA: En

garantía de un pagaré a favor de BANCO DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO PARA PUERTO RICO, o a su orden, por la suma de $485,000.00, con interés al 15% anual, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta escritura #280, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de septiembre de 2005, ante el notario Jorge L. Mendín, inscripción cuarta (4ta). SERVIDUMBRE: A favor del Municipio de Cayey, servidumbre real para el paso de un puente para uso público. Constituida en virtud de la Escritura Publica número diecisiete (17) otorgada en Cayey, Puerto Rico el 10 de julio de 2015 ante el Notario Público Ricardo Ortiz Morales, inscripción quinta (5ta). ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: A favor de Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico; expedida por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, caso civil número GCD2009-0060 sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca con fecha del 3 de febrero de 2009. Demandante: Banco de Desarrrollo Economico para Puerto Rico vs. Demandados: Luis Bonilla Salgado, Zulma DE Jesus Malave, ambos en su carácter personal y como miembros de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos. Cantidades adeudadas: Varias sumas: $571,233.45 / $9,317.95 / $55,382.57 / $49,738.45.

Presentada y pendiente a inscripción al ASIENTO 2017016461-CA01. El gravamen objeto de ejecución en este procedimiento es la que surge de la Escritura de Hipoteca número 280, otorgada el 1 de septiembre de 2005 ante el Notario Público Jorge L. Mendín, en la cual se establece como precio mínimo para la primera subasta la suma de $485,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 13 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 AM. El precio mínimo para la segunda subasta serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $323,333.33. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 20 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 AM. El precio mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $242,500.00.

Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la Parte Demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado bajo la sentencia en este caso, que al 14 de enero de 2020 ascienden la cantidad total de $767,424.60, más los intereses que se continúen acumulando hasta el saldo total y completo de la deuda,

The San Juan Daily Star y una cantidad adicional de $48,500.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados en el Pagaré Hipotecario que garantiza la deuda. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titularidad que da base a las mismas. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en las fechas, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. SE HACE CONSTAR que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables, bajo el epígrafe de este caso. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos (2) lugares públicos del Municipio dónde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en GUAYAMA, Puerto Rico, a 26 de FEBRERO de 2021. LITZY M. CORA ANAYA #247, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA. ****

LEGAL NOTICE

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

ORIENTAL BANK DEMANDANTE vs.

SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA MARIA PARIS POUPART, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 CONOCIDOS JORGE VALETE PARIS, DAVID VALETE PARIS, ANGEL VALETE PARIS Y GLORIMAR VALETE PARIS; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 9300, SAN JUAN, PR 00908 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 9 de marzo de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Rosa M. Viera Velazquez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

Estado Libre Asociado de PuerDEMANDADA to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL CIVIL NÚM.: CA2020CV02551.

DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriSOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO mera Instancia Sala Superior Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. de SAN JUAN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICMINERVA SILFA BAEZ TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE DEMANDANTE Vs AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE KELVIN DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. APONTE SANTANA DEMANDADO A: SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA MARIA PARIS Civil: SJ2020RF01124. Sobre: NOTIFICACIÓN POUPART, COMPUESTA DIVORCIO. DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DAVID VALETE PARIS y ANGEL VALETE PARIS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN PARQUE DE SAN ANTON B-102, CAROLINA, PR 00987 DIRECCIÓN POST AL: PO BOX 584, CAROLINA, PR 00986-0584.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

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

Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1,578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11,021, usted tiene derecho aceptar o repudiar la herencia. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS

A: SR. KELVIN APONTE SANTANA

EL(LA) SECRET ARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 5 de marzo dc 2021 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 8 de marzo de 2021. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 8 de marzo de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria Regional. ISABEL ORTIZ CRUZ, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

LIME HOME LTD DEMANDANTE Vs

CMFC lNC., ahora CITI MORTGAGE INC., JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE Como posibles tenedores desconocidos

DEMANDADO Civil Num.: CG2020CV02748.

Sala: 801. Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN-

TENCIA POR EDICTO

A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE como posibles tenedores desconocidos

EL(LA) SECRET ARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de marzo dc 2021 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 17 de marzo de 2021. En Caguas. Puerto Rico, el 17 de marzo de 2021.

Carmen A. Pereira Ortiz, Secretaria Regional. f/Eneida Arroyo Velez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE JEFFERSON CAPITAL SYSTEMS, LLC Demandante V.

DAMARIS VEGA RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a) Civil: VB2018CV00348. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: DAMARIS VEGA RODRIGUEZ- URB. EL ROSARIO K5 CALLE C VEGA BAJA, PR 006935720

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican Ia sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 11 de septiembre de 2018 , 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 de circulación general en Ia Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento

sujeta a los términos de Ia Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de Ia cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de Ia publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en Ia fecha de Ia publicación de este edicto.

Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de marzo de 2021. En VEGA BAJA Puerto Rico, el 18 de marzo de 2021. LCDA. LAURA SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. KAREN G. CASTRO MELENDEZ, Sec Auxiliar.

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

Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Vega Alta

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gmail.com. Este caso trata de la cancelación del gravamen hipotecario constituido a favor de la demandante mediante escritura número 11 otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico el día 5 de marzo de 2018, ante el notario Juan Antonio Hernández Cruz, para garantizar el pago de un pagaré por la suma principal de SESENTA Y NUEVE MIL DOLARES ($69,000.00) con intereses al cinco y cuarto (5.25%) por ciento anual con vencimiento al primero de abril de 2048, que es inscripción séptima de la finca 19330 de Vega Alta, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección III de Bayamón. EXTIENDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de marzo de 2021. EXTIENDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de marzo de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria Regional. Yariliz Cintrón, Secretario(a) del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PARTE DE MANDANTE Vs. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFULANO DE TAL NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PARTE DEMANDADA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA CIVIL NUM. CIVIL NUM. VBBAJA. 2021CV00130. Sobre: Pagaré Cooperativa de Ahorro y extraviado.

EMPLAZAMIENCrédito de Vega Alta TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS PARTE DEMANDANTE Vs. UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL DORAL Mortgage PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LICorporation, Doral BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Mortgage LLC, Federal RICO. SS.

Deposit Insurance A: Fulano de Tal Corporation (FDIC), Tenedores desconocidos Banco Popular de Puerto o sea la parte demandada Rico, First Bank de Puerto de epígrafe arriba Rico y Fulano de Tal mencionada.

PARTE DEMANDADA

Por el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez, se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal una demanda sobre pagaré extraviado.

Usted es una parte indispensable en esta demanda. Si usted no formula su oposición, dentro de los treinta días, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante podrá obtener sentencia en rebeldía declarando HA LUGAR la demanda y concediendo los remedios solicitados, sin más citarle, ni oírle. Deberá radicar el original de su Contestación a Demanda a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando las siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. rama judicial.pr; salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría de este Tribunal y enviar copia de por correo regular o electrónico a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuyo nombre y dirección es: Lcda. Migdalia Molina Rivera, Núm. TS -7949, Col. # 9202, P O Box 370933, Cayey, Puerto Rico 00737-0933, TELS. (787) 317-4530, molinarivera.m@

CIVIL NUM. VB2021CV00131.

Sobre: Pagaré extraviado. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: DORAL Mortgage Corporation, Doral Mortgage LLC Sr. Monty Wilkenson, US Attorney General (FDIC) Fulano de Tal, Tenedores desconocidos, personas con interés o sea la parte demandada de epígrafe arriba mencionada.

Por el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez, se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal una demanda sobre pagaré extraviado.

Usted es una parte indispensable en esta demanda. Si usted no formula su oposición, dentro de los treinta días, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante podrá obtener sentencia en rebeldía declarando HA LUGAR la demanda y concediendo los remedios solicitados, sin más citarle, ni oírle. Deberá radicar el original

de su Contestación a Demanda a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando las siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.rama judicial.pr; salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría de este Tribunal y enviar copia de por correo regular o electrónico a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuyo nombre y dirección es: Lcda. Migdalia Molina Rivera, Núm. TS -7949, Col. # 9202, P 0 Box 370933, Cayey, Puerto Rico 007370933, TELS. (787) 317-4530, molinarivera.m@gmail.com.

Este caso trata de la cancelación de un gravamen hipotecario a favor de DORAL Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, constituido mediante escritura número 544 otorgada el día 27 de noviembre de 2001, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el notario Julián Antonio Parrilla Boria, para garantizar el pago de un pagaré por la suma principal de $89,500.00, con intereses al cinco punto cuarenta (5.40%) por ciento de interés anual, con vencimiento a primero de diciembre de 2031, que afecta la finca 9823 de Vega Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de Bayamón EXTIENDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 9 de marzo de 2021. LCDA. LAURA L SANTA SÁNCHEZ, Secretaria Regional. Mayra I. Marrero Marrero, Sec Serv a Sala.

a lawsuit or other legal action against you. You must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Complaint within 45 days from the day after the first date of publication. The demand must be sent or delivered to the court at: Clerk of Court Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N. 9th Street Milwaukee, WI 53233; and to Plaintiff’s attorneys, whose address is: Mark F. Foley von Briesen & Roper, s.c.

411 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1000 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 It is recommended, but not required, that you have an attorney help or represent you. If you do not demand a copy of the Complaint within 45 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Complaint.

A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

Dated this 16th day of March, 2021. von BRIESEN & ROPER, s.c.

Attorneys for Plaintiff BLC Prime Lending Fund II, LLC. Electronically signed by Mark F. Foley Mark F. Foley, SBN: 1005627 Christopher E. Avallone, SBN: LEGAL NOTICE 1095465.

411 E. Wisconsin Avenue STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRSuite 1000 CUIT COURT MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, WI 53202 COUNTY P: (414) 287-1404 (Foley) BRANCH 18 F: (414) 238-6520 (Foley) BLC PRIME LENDING P: (414) 287-1412 (Avallone) FUND II, LLC., F: (414) 238-6664 (Avallone) Plaintiff, vs.

Email: EML OIL, LLC, mfoley@vonbriesen.com PRASHANT NAIR, cavallone@vonbriesen.com

EDWARD MICHAEL LICEAGA, A&E Holding LLC-Euclid SHell, A&E Holding LLC, A&E Holding LLC / A&E Real Estate II, A&E Holding LLC Lewis Citgo, EML Oil, LLC-College Shell, SUbway real estate, llc, AND shree om, inc. C/O pETE PATEL

Defendants Case No.: 21-CV-95. Case Codes: 30301 and 30404. PUBLICATION SUMMONS.

THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, to: Edward Michael Liceaga 377 Dorado Beach East Dorado 00646 Puerto Rico

You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff named above filed

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO EN EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS.

MIRELKA JOHANNYS SANABRIA BURGOS Parte Demandante vs

WALDO FRANCISCO OLIVER MARCANO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2021RF00170.

Sobre: Sobre: DIVORCIO, RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.

A: WALDO FRANCISCO OLIVER MARCANO Carrera 9 Bis 97-33, Apt. 201

22 Bogotá, Colombia 110221

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte Demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal una Demanda de Divorcio por Ruptura Irreparable. Representa a la parte Demandante la abogada cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna a continuación: Lcda. Beatriz Cay Vázquez RUA 18,234 P.O. Box 1809, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-1809 Tel. (787) 731-0526 Email: beatrizcayvazquezgmail.com Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a presentar alegación sobre dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del edicto, podrá dictarse Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda. Por el presente Edicto se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante. POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, expido el presente Edicto en Caguas, Puerto Rico hoy día 17 de marzo de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Sec General.

MADELINE LUGO NAVARRO, Sec Auxiliar.

COMPUESTA POR PERENSEJO DE TAL Y PRESENSEJA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV04613.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACION. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO UBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

AL ALGUACIL DE ESTE TRIBUNAL: A: Rosalinda Rosario Valentín como miembro de la Sucesión de la Finada Maria Valentin Valdés t/c/c Maria Valentín Valdez

sarse dentro de este termino de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá p’or aceptada. También se les APERCIBE que fuego del transcurso del termino de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia de la causante MARÍA VALENTÍN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de marzo de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Sec Regional. JESSICA SOTO PAGAN, Sec Serv a Sala.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN Queda emplazada y notifica- JUAN. MWPRLLC da que en este Tribunal se ha DEMANDANTE v. radicado una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de SUCESION DE MARIA Hipoteca en su contra. Se le noVALENTIN VALDES tifica para que comparezca ante T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN el Tribunal dentro del término LEGAL NOTICE VALDEZ COMPUESTA de treinta (30) días a partir de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO la publicación de este edicto y POR LUIS ENRIQUE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- exponer lo que a sus derechos GUZMAN VALENTIN, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA convenga, en el presente caso.

MARIA ELISA VALENTIN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN Usted deberá presentar su aleVALDES, NORMA IRIS JUAN. gación responsiva a través del ROSARIO VALENTIN, Sistema Unificado de Manejo y MWPRLLC ROSALINDA ROSARIO Administración de Casos SUDEMANDANTE v.

VALENTIN; FULANO SUCESION DE MARIA MAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección DE TAL Y MENGANA VALENTIN VALDES electrónica https://unired.ramaDE TAL COMO T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN judicial.pr/sumac/,salvo que se VALDEZ COMPUESTA presente por derecho propio POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, POR LUIS ENRIQUE y notificando copia de dicha SUCESION DE ALBERTO contestación a los abogados GUZMAN VALENTIN, ROSARIO VALENTIN MARIA ELISA VALENTIN de la parte demandante: Ana J. Zequeira, Fernandez COMPUESTA POR VALDES, NORMA IRIS Bobonis Chiques LLC PO Box 9749 San MENGAO DE TAL Y ROSARIO VALENTIN, Juan, PR 00908; Teléfono 787ROSALINDA ROSARIO 722-3040 dentro del término de MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEDEROS Treinta (30) días de haberse VALENTIN; FULANO DESCONOCIDOS; radicado este edicto, desconDE TAL Y MENGANA tando la fecha de la publicación SUCESION DE PEDRO DE TAL COMO del edicto. Se le advierte que JUAN ROSARIO POSIBLES HEREDEROS si usted deja de presentar su VALENTIN COMPUESTA DESCONOCIDOS, alegación responsiva dentro SUCESION DE ALBERTO del referido término, el tribu- POR ZUTANO DE TAL Y ZUTANA DE TAL COMO nal podrá dictar sentencia en ROSARIO VALENTIN rebeldía en su contra y concePOSIBLES HEDEROS COMPUESTA POR der el remedio solicitado en la DESCONOCIDOS; MENGAO DE TAL Y demanda, o cualquier otro, si MENGANA DE TAL COMO el tribunal, en el ejercicio de SUCESION DE RICARDO ROSARIO VALENTIN POSIBLES HEDEROS su sana discreción lo entiende COMPUESTA POR procedente. Se les ORDENA a DESCONOCIDOS; PERENSEJO DE TAL SUCESION DE PEDRO usted a que dentro del termino legal de treinta (30) días, conY PRESENSEJA DE JUAN ROSARIO tados a partir de la fecha de VALENTIN COMPUESTA la publicación de la presente TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS POR ZUTANO DE TAL Y Orden, acepte o repudie la parDESCONOCIDOS; ZUTANA DE TAL COMO ticipación que Je corresponda ADMINISTRACION POSIBLES HEDEROS en la herencia de MARIA VALENTIN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA PARA EL SUSTENTO DE DESCONOCIDOS; VALDEZ. Se les MENORES Y CENTRO SUCESION DE RICARDO VALENTÍN APERCIBE que de no expre-

ROSARIO VALENTIN

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

DE RECAUDACION DE

INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV04613.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACION. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO UBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

AL ALGUACIL DE ESTE TRIBUNAL: A: Norma Iris Rosario Valentín como miembro de la Sucesión de la Finada Maria Valentin Valdes t/c/c Maria Valentín Valdez

Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal 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.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,salvo que se presente por derecho propio y notificando copia de dicha contestación a los abogados de la parte demandante: Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira, Fernandez Chiques LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908; Teléfono 787722-3040 dentro del término de Treinta (30) días de haberse radicado este edicto, descontando la fecha de la publicación del edicto. Se le advierte que si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción lo entiende procedente. Se les ORDENA a usted a que dentro del termino legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de la presente Orden, acepte o repudie la participación que Je corresponda en la herencia de MARIA VALENTIN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTÍN VALDEZ. Se les APERCIBE que de no expresarse dentro de este termino de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá p’or aceptada. También se les APERCIBE que fuego del transcurso del termino de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia de la causante MA-

RÍA VALENTÍN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de marzo de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Sec Regional. JESSICA SOTO PAGAN, Sec Serv a Sala.

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DEMANDANTE v.

SUCESION DE MARIA VALENTIN VALDES T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ COMPUESTA POR LUIS ENRIQUE GUZMAN VALENTIN, MARIA ELISA VALENTIN VALDES, NORMA IRIS ROSARIO VALENTIN, ROSALINDA ROSARIO VALENTIN; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, SUCESION DE ALBERTO ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR MENGAO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE PEDRO JUAN ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR ZUTANO DE TAL Y ZUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE RICARDO ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR PERENSEJO DE TAL Y PRESENSEJA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV04613.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACION. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO UBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

AL ALGUACIL DE ESTE TRIBUNAL: A: Luis Enrique Guzmán Valentín como miembro de la Sucesión de la Finada Maria Valentín Valdés t/c/c María Valentín Valdez

RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Sec da que en este Tribunal se ha Regional. JESSICA SOTO PA- radicado una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de GAN, Sec Serv a Sala.

Hipoteca en su contra. Se le noLEGAL NOTICE tifica para que comparezca ante ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO el Tribunal dentro del término DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- de treinta (30) días a partir de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA la publicación de este edicto y SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso.

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Sistema Unificado de Manejo y SUCESION DE MARIA Administración de Casos SUVALENTIN VALDES MAC, al cual puede acceder T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN utilizando la siguiente dirección VALDEZ COMPUESTA electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,salvo que se POR LUIS ENRIQUE presente por derecho propio GUZMAN VALENTIN, y notificando copia de dicha MARIA ELISA VALENTIN contestación a los abogados VALDES, NORMA IRIS de la parte demandante: Ana J. ROSARIO VALENTIN, Bobonis Zequeira, Fernandez ROSALINDA ROSARIO Chiques LLC PO Box 9749 San PR 00908; Teléfono 787VALENTIN; FULANO Juan, 722-3040 dentro del término de DE TAL Y MENGANA Treinta (30) días de haberse DE TAL COMO radicado este edicto, desconPOSIBLES HEREDEROS tando la fecha de la publicación del edicto. Se le advierte que DESCONOCIDOS, SUCESION DE ALBERTO si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro ROSARIO VALENTIN del referido término, el tribuCOMPUESTA POR nal podrá dictar sentencia en MENGAO DE TAL Y rebeldía en su contra y conceMENGANA DE TAL COMO der el remedio solicitado en la POSIBLES HEDEROS demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de DESCONOCIDOS; su sana discreción lo entiende SUCESION DE PEDRO procedente. Se les ORDENA a JUAN ROSARIO usted a que dentro del termino VALENTIN COMPUESTA legal de treinta (30) días, conPOR ZUTANO DE TAL Y tados a partir de la fecha de ZUTANA DE TAL COMO la publicación de la presente Orden, acepte o repudie la parPOSIBLES HEDEROS ticipación que Je corresponda DESCONOCIDOS; en la herencia de MARIA VASUCESION DE RICARDO LENTIN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA ROSARIO VALENTIN VALENTÍN VALDEZ. Se les APERCIBE que de no expreCOMPUESTA POR sarse dentro de este termino PERENSEJO DE TAL de treinta (30) días en torno a Y PRESENSEJA DE su aceptación o repudiación de TAL COMO POSIBLES herencia, la herencia se tendrá p’or aceptada. También se les HEREDEROS APERCIBE que fuego del transDESCONOCIDOS; curso del termino de treinta (30) ADMINISTRACION días antes señalado contados a PARA EL SUSTENTO DE partir de la fecha de la notificaMENORES Y CENTRO ción de la presente Orden, se DE RECAUDACION DE presumirá que han aceptado INGRESOS MUNICIPALES la herencia de la causante MARÍA VALENTÍN VALDÉS T/C/C DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV04613. MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ, SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO proceda a notificar la presente Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE- Orden mediante publicación de CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR un edicto a esos efectos una EDICTO E INTERPELACION. sola vez en un periódico de LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE circulación diaria general de la AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE Isla de Puerto Rico. EXPEDIDE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO EL ESTADO UBRE ASOCIADO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 DE PUERTO RICO. AL ALGUACIL DE ESTE de marzo de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Sec TRIBUNAL: Regional. JESSICA SOTO PAA: SUCESIÓN DE GAN, Sec Serv a Sala.

Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal 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.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,salvo que se presente por derecho propio y notificando copia de dicha contestación a los abogados de la parte demandante: Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira, Fernandez Chiques LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908; Teléfono 787722-3040 dentro del término de Treinta (30) días de haberse radicado este edicto, descontando la fecha de la publicación del edicto. Se le advierte que si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción lo entiende procedente. Se les ORDENA a usted a que dentro del termino legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de la presente Orden, acepte o repudie la participación que Je corresponda en la herencia de MARIA VALENTIN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTÍN VALDEZ. Se les APERCIBE que de no expresarse dentro de este termino de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá p’or aceptada. También se les APERCIBE que fuego del transcurso del termino de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia de la causante MARÍA VALENTÍN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una PEDRO JUAN ROSARIO sola vez en un periódico de VALENTÍN COMPUESTA circulación diaria general de la POR ZUTANO DE TAL Y Isla de Puerto Rico. EXPEDIZUTANA DE TAL COMO DO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San POSIBLES HEREDEROS Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 DESCONOCIDOS de marzo de 2021. GRISELDA Queda emplazada y notifica-

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SUCESION DE MARIA VALENTIN VALDES T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ COMPUESTA POR LUIS ENRIQUE GUZMAN VALENTIN, MARIA ELISA VALENTIN VALDES, NORMA IRIS ROSARIO VALENTIN, ROSALINDA ROSARIO VALENTIN; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, SUCESION DE ALBERTO ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR MENGAO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE PEDRO JUAN ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR ZUTANO DE TAL Y ZUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE RICARDO ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR PERENSEJO DE TAL Y PRESENSEJA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV04613.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACION. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO UBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

AL ALGUACIL DE ESTE TRIBUNAL: A: SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO ROSARIO VALENTÍN COMPUESTA POR PERESENJO DE TAL Y PERESENSEJA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal 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.

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,salvo que se presente por derecho propio y notificando copia de dicha contestación a los abogados de la parte demandante: Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira, Fernandez Chiques LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908; Teléfono 787722-3040 dentro del término de Treinta (30) días de haberse radicado este edicto, descontando la fecha de la publicación del edicto. Se le advierte que si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción lo entiende procedente. Se les ORDENA a usted a que dentro del termino legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de la presente Orden, acepte o repudie la participación que Je corresponda en la herencia de MARIA VALENTIN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTÍN VALDEZ. Se les APERCIBE que de no expresarse dentro de este termino de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá p’or aceptada. También se les APERCIBE que fuego del transcurso del termino de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia de la causante MARÍA VALENTÍN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de marzo de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Sec Regional. JESSICA SOTO PAGAN, Sec Serv a Sala.

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DEMANDANTE v.

SUCESION DE MARIA VALENTIN VALDES T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ COMPUESTA POR LUIS ENRIQUE GUZMAN VALENTIN, MARIA ELISA VALENTIN

VALDES, NORMA IRIS ROSARIO VALENTIN, ROSALINDA ROSARIO VALENTIN; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, SUCESION DE ALBERTO ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR MENGAO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE PEDRO JUAN ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR ZUTANO DE TAL Y ZUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE RICARDO ROSARIO VALENTIN COMPUESTA POR PERENSEJO DE TAL Y PRESENSEJA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. SJ2020CV04613.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACION. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO UBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

AL ALGUACIL DE ESTE TRIBUNAL: A: SUCESIÓN DE ALBERTO ROSARIO VALENTÍN COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal 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.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,salvo que se presente por derecho propio y notificando copia de dicha contestación a los abogados

de la parte demandante: Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira, Fernandez Chiques LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908; Teléfono 787722-3040 dentro del término de Treinta (30) días de haberse radicado este edicto, descontando la fecha de la publicación del edicto. Se le advierte que si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción lo entiende procedente. Se les ORDENA a usted a que dentro del termino legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de la presente Orden, acepte o repudie la participación que Je corresponda en la herencia de MARIA VALENTIN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTÍN VALDEZ. Se les APERCIBE que de no expresarse dentro de este termino de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá p’or aceptada. También se les APERCIBE que fuego del transcurso del termino de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia de la causante MARÍA VALENTÍN VALDÉS T/C/C MARIA VALENTIN VALDEZ, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de marzo de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Sec Regional. JESSICA SOTO PAGAN, Sec Serv a Sala.

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Malden, Massachusetts 6 Venice Ave., Apt. 2, 02148-6704 y en Ecuador Saugus MA 01906 y/o angel69espinoza157@ 8 Brookway RD, gmail.com.

Roslindale MA 02131 o sea la parte demandada o sea la parte demandada arriba mencionada. arriba mencionada.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría demanda, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al abogado de la parte demandante, cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono, son los que se indican a continuación: LCDO. RAMON H. BANUCHI EURITE P.0.BOX475 ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662 TELEFONO: (787) 872-2223 con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de cuya demanda le es servida en este acto, conjuntamente con el emplazamiento, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto y radicar el original de dicha contestación en la Secretaría del Tribunal y se le apercibe a la parte demandada que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicíal.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio; apercibiéndosele que en caso de no hacerlo así, podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demandas in más citarle ni oírle.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA, y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 24 de febrero de 2021. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretaria.

ZUHEILY GONZALEZ AVILES, Sub Secretaria.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría demanda, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al abogado de la parte demandante, cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono, son los que se indican a continuación: LCDO. RAMON H. BANUCHI EURITE P.0.BOX475 ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662 TELEFONO(: 787)8 72-2223 con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de cuya demanda le es servida en este acto, conjuntamente con el emplazamiento, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto y radicar el original de dicha contestación en la Secretaría del Tribunal y se le apercibe a la parte demandada que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicíal.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio; apercibiéndosele que en caso de no hacerlo así, podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demandas in más citarle ni oírle.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA, y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 24 de febrero de 2021. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretaria.

ZUHEILY GONZALEZ AVILES, Sub Secretaria.

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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA AGUADILLA. ÁNGEL LUIS MÉNDEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

ACEVEDO Y GLADYS MATILDE PÉREZ CRUZ

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO ÁNGEL GUSTAVO ÁNGEL LUIS MÉNDEZ DE PENTAGON FEDERAL ESPINOZA MONTERO, ACEVEDO Y GLADYS CLARA VEGA MÉNDEZ Y CREDIT UNION (PFCU) MATILDE PÉREZ CRUZ LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES (PENFED) DEMANDANTES vs.

Parte Demandante Vs. GANANCIALES QUE ÁNGEL GUSTAVO FEDERAL DEPOSIT TIENEN CONSTITUIDA ESPINOZA MONTERO, INSURANCE DEMANDADOS CLARA VEGA MÉNDEZ Y CIVIL NÚM.: AG2021CV00120. CORPORATION (FDIC) LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO COMO SÍNDICO DE Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA GANANCIALES QUE RG MORTGAGE TIENEN CONSTITUIDA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZACORPORATION; MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADEMANDADOS ORIENTAL BANK T/C/C DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, CIVIL NÚM.: AG2021CV00120.

ORIENTAL BANK & EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESSOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO TRUST COMO SUCESOR Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUEREN DERECHO DE RG (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZATO RICO. ss.

PREMIER BANK OF MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTAA: ÁNGEL GUSTAVO DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PUERTO RICO; RAMÓN ESPINOZA MONTERO EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESENRIQUE BURGOS TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO Última postal en Estados GARAY, MARELIS JUDITH LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERUnidos: Exclusive Auto MENDOZA GUEVARA Y TO RICO. ss.

Body, Inc., 30 Charles St., LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL A: CLARA VEGA MENDEZ TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.

DEMANDANTES vs.

DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2021CV00451.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 31 de marzo de 1998, Ramón Enrique Burgos Garay y su esposa Marelis Judith Mendoza Guevara constituyeron una hipoteca en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 217 autorizada por el notario Fénex Torres Torres en garantía de un pagaré por la suma de $64,928.00, bajo el testimonio número 9416, a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation o a su orden, devengando intereses al 7½% anual y vencedero el 1 de abril de 2028, sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 159 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Ingenio del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,031.56 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle Número 2-A; por el SUR, con parcela número 158-A; por el ESTE, con la calle Número 21; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 159-A. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 240 del tomo 362 de Toa Baja, Finca 21,399. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 242 vuelto del tomo 362 de Toa Baja, Finca 21,399. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda. Inscripción séptima. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte

Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 8 de marzo de 2021 en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YARILIZ CINTRÓN COLÓN, SECRETARIA DE SALA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

H.F. INC. T/C/C DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE DORAL BANK; DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC; EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C EMC MORTGAGE, LLC; HÉCTOR ANTONIO ROSA MARTÍNEZ, EVELYN RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00117.

(206). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C EMC MORTGAGE, LLC a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: 909 HIDDEN RDG STE 200, IRVING TX 75038-3817, 2780 LAKE VISTA DR, LEWISVILLE, TX 75067-3884 Y 700 KANSAS LN, MONROE, LA 71203-4774.

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Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 20 de marzo de 1987, Héctor Antonio Rosa Martínez y su esposa Evelyn Rodríguez Rodríguez constituyeron hipoteca en San Juan Puerto Rico, mediante la Escritura núm. 324 autorizada por el notario Raúl Tous Bobonis en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo el testimonio núm. 14,799, a favor de H.F. Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $22,450.00, intereses al 8½% anual, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Mabú del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, marcado en el plano de inscripción con el #1 del bloque D del Desarrollo Extensión Los Rosales, Humacao, con una cabida de 302.125 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros, con el lote D-2; por el ESTE, en 13.25 metros, con el lote D-34; por el SUR, en 25.00 metros, con la calle #1; por el OESTE, en 9.50 metros, con la calle #1. Enclava una casa de concreto y bloques de tres habitaciones. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 45 del tomo 412 de Humacao, Finca 18303. Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 46 del tomo 412 de Humacao, Finca 18303. Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Inscripción segunda. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 8 de marzo de 2021, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. DOMINGA GÓ-

MEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARISOL DÁVILA ORTÍZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC Demandante Vs.

BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA; AHORA ORIENTAL BANK; JANELY ROSA SANCHEZ; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDO

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2021CV00483.

Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A Ia parte co-demandada: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, demandados desconocidos cuya dirección se desconoce.

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCIÓN DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el testimonio núm. 4058 a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, o a su orden, por la suma de $155,925.00, devengando intereses a razón del 5.50% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de septiembre de 2038, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 154 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 28 de agosto de 2008, ante el Notario Omar Ivan Arill Vizcarrondo, Ia cual consta inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 674 de Toa Baja, finca número 30,792, inscripción Segunda. Dicha Hipoteca the modificada según Ia Escritura número 275, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de noviembre de 2011, ante el Notario Luis Yamil Rodríguez San Miguel, para un nuevo principal de $168,363.65, intereses al 4.25% por ciento anual, pago mensual de $828.25 y con vencimiento el 1ro de diciembre de 2041, dicha modificación consta inscrita al Folio 100 vuelto del Tomo 674 de Toa Baja, finca número 30,792, inscripción Tercera (3ra). Modificada nuevamente según la Escritura número 218, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de abril de 2015, ante el Notario Jaime E. Dávila Santini, para un nuevo principal de $128,756.16, intereses al 4.00% por ciento anual, pago

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mensual de $614.70, y con vencimiento el 1ro de mayo de 2045, dicha modificación consta inscrita al Folio 79 del Tomo 747 de Toa Baja, finca número 30,792, inscripción Quinta (5ta) y última. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general.

Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudiciai.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo.

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

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 15 de marzo de 2021, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

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SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC Demandante Vs.

DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION H/N/C H. F. MORTGAGE BANKERS AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y/O FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO; CARLOS RUBÉN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, FRANCÉS ARCE RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDO

Demandados Civil Núm.: UT2021CV00050.

Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE DESCONOCE.

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCIÓN DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el testimonio núm. 11,942 a favor de DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION H/N/C H. F. MORTGAGE BANKERS, o a su orden, por la suma de $57,611.00, devengando intereses a razón del 6.5% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de febrero de 2031, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 43 otorgada en Utuado, Puerto Rico el 31 de enero de 2001, ante el Notario Félix Llorens Santini, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 95 vuelto del Tomo 513 de Utuado, finca número 29,785, inscripción Tercera (3ra). Dicha Hipoteca fue modificada según la Escritura número 72, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de febrero de 2015, ante el Notario Ivonne González Medrano, para un nuevo principal de $44,282.25, intereses al 4.00% por ciento anual, pago mensual de principal e intereses por la cantidad de $211.41 y con vencimiento el 1ro de marzo de 2045, dicha modificación consta inscrita al Folio 34 del Tomo 599 de Utuado, finca número 29,785, inscripción Quinta (5ta). Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la

Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo.

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

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 17 de marzo de 2021, en Utuado, Puerto Rico. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA DE JESÚS VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

JUAN JOSÉ CAMILO, CARMEN MILADY ANGELES HERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C CARMEN MIDADY ANGELES HERNÁNDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV02312 (403). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 21 de fe brero de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Puerto Rico, Carr.

Núm. 3 Km. 11.7, Ave. 65 de Infantería, Carolina, 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 Juan José Camilo, Carmen Milady Angeles Hernández, t/c/c Carmen Midady Angeles Hernández y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, Compuesta por Ambos. Dirección Física: Urb. Eduardo J. Saldana, 36J Calle Ramón Quiñones (D), Carolina, PR 00983. Finca 16,402, inscrita al folio 188 del tomo 428 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Carolina. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número treintiseis de la Manzana “J”, del Plano preparado por la Autoridad Sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico, hoy Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para el Proyecto de Solares denominado Isla Verde Development, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cuarentinueve metros cuadrados con setenta y dos centésimas de metro cuadrado, en lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar J treintisiete de la Urbanización, distancia de setentiun pies con sesenta y ocho centésimas de pie; por el SUR, con el Solar Jtreinticinco de dicho proyecto, distancia de setentiun pie con sesenta y ocho centésimas de pie; por el ESTE, con la Calle “D” de la susodicha Urbanización, distancia de treintisiete pies con cincuentiuna centésimas de pie; por el OESTE, con el Solar J-ocho del mencionado plano Proyecto PRHJ-veintiséis, distancia de treintisiete pies con cincuentiuna centésimas de pie. Enclava una casa de concreto de una planta para una familia. Finca 16,402. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a) Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b) Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $52,233.00, con intereses al 4.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2024, constituida mediante la escritura número 464, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de julio de 2013, ante el notario Néstor Machado Cortés, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 16,402, inscripción 29va. b) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 21 de julio de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV02312, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Juan José Camilo, Carmen Milady Ángeles Hernández, también conocida como Carmen Milady Hernández Ángeles, por la suma de $35,040.07, más intereses y otras sumas,

anotado el día 6 de septiembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 16,402, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 16,402 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 3 de junio de 2021 a las 9:45AM, Precio Mínimo: $52,233.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 464, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 16 de julio de 2013, ante el Notario Néstor Machado Córtes.

Segunda Subasta: 10 de junio de 2021 a las 9:45AM, Precio Mínimo: $34,822.00. Tercera Subasta: 17 de junio de 2021 a las 9:45AM, Precio Mínimo: $26,116.50. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 26 de octubre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 28 de octubre de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma de $35,040.07, más $12,008.09, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de

acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de marzo de 2021. SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN DE AMADO CORTÉS CUEVAS, COMPUESTA POR: GRISELLE CORTÉS CRUZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; JULIA CRUZ RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV01185 (409). SOBRE: INTERPALACION; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 30 de abril de 2020 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Puerto Rico, Carr.

Núm. 3 Km. 11.7, Ave. 65 de Infantería, Carolina, 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 Sucesión de Amado Cortés Cuevas, compuesta por: Griselle Cortés

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Dirección Física: José Severo Quiñones, DD869 Calle Ramos Rodríguez, Carolina, PR 00985. Finca 24,953, inscrita al folio 144 del tomo 621 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Carolina.

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número DD ochocientos sesenta y nueve del Plano de inscripción del proyecto de viviendas a bajo costo denominado VBCtreinta José Severo Quiñones radicado en el Barrio Martin González del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos treinta y nueve metros con cincuenta y dos centésimas de metro cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar DD ochocientos setenta; por el SUR, con el solar DD ochocientos sesenta y ocho y pared medianera; por el ESTE, con el solar DD cincuenta y nueve; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número catorce. Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda, sobre la cual existe una servidumbre por signo aparente establecida por la Corporación vendedora en la pared que divide dicha estructura de la estructura enclavada en el solar número DD ochocientos sesenta y ocho, cuya pared continuara sirviendo a esta estructura y pertenece en común proindiviso en toda su actual extensión y espesor, al propietario de esta edificación y al propietario de la edificación colindante. Finca 24,953. 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 Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $88,500.00, con intereses al 6.1250% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2031, constituida mediante la escritura número 8, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de abril de 2004, ante el notario Oscar Olivencia Font, e inscrita al folio 220 del tomo 1352 de Carolina, finca número 24,953, inscripción 6ta. b) Aviso de Demanda del día 8 de abril de 2019, expedido por el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, en el caso civil CA2019CV01185, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs Amado Cortés Cuevas, Julia Cruz Rivera y la Sociedad Legal de bienes gananciales, por la suma de $59,278.91, más otras sumas, anotado el día 17 de mayo de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 24,953, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 24,953 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 3 de junio de 2021 a las 9:30AM,

Precio Mínimo: $88,500.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 8, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 13 de abril de 2004, ante el Notario Oscar Olivencia Font.

Segunda Subasta: 10 de junio de 2021 a las 9:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $59,000.00. Tercera Subasta: 17 de junio de 2021 a las 9:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $44,250.00. 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 18 de diciembre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 14 de enero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 1 de septiembre de 2018, las siguientes cantidades: la suma principal de $60,956.36, más la suma de $6,109.64, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de marzo de 2021. SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE JAIME JOEL FERRER RIVERA, COMPUESTA POR: JOEL ALBERTO FERRER CRUZ, JOANY MARIE FERRER CRUZ, JIANA MARIE FERRER CRUZ Y FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ANA MARÍA CRUZ COLÓN, EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; LUIS MARZAN OYOLA

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2018CV01876.

(403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 3 de julio de 2019 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Carretera 2 Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Calle Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, 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 Sucesión de Jaime Joel Ferrer Rivera, compuesta por: Joel Alberto Ferrer Cruz, Joany Marie Ferrer Cruz, Jiana Marie Ferrer Cruz y Fulano y Mengano de Tal, como posibles herederos descono-

cidos; Ana María Cruz Colón, en la cuota viudal usufructuaria; Luis Marzan Oyola. Dirección Física: Urb. Doraville, 3ra Secc., 15-1 Calle 1, Dorado, PR 00646. Finca 24,510, inscrita al folio 173 del tomo 488 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Bayamón. URBANA: Lote marcado con el número quince de la Sección tres del Bloque Uno del plano de inscripción de la comunidad Doraville, localizada en el Barrio Higuillar del término municipal de Dorado, Puerto Rico, compuesta de un área superficial de novecientos noventa y tres punto ochenta y cinco metros cuadrados (993.85 m/c). Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinte metros con la calle número uno de la Sección Tres del bloque uno del plano de inscripción de la comunidad Doraville; por el SUR, en una distancia de veinte metros con el lote número cinco de la Sección Tres del bloque uno del plano de inscripción de la Comunidad Doraville; por el ESTE, en una distancia de cincuenta metros con el lote número dieciséis de la Sección tres del bloque uno del plano de inscripción de la comunidad Doraville y por el OESTE, en una distancia de cincuenta metros con el lote número catorce de la Sección tres del bloque uno del plano de inscripción de la comunidad Doraville. Finca 24,510: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a) Servidumbre a favor de Carlos Hugo Irizarry.

Por sí está afecta a: b) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de First Mortgage Capital Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $234,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2038, constituida mediante la escritura número 122, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de febrero de 2008, ante el notario Manuel R. Pérez Caballer, e inscrita al folio 132 del tomo 259 de Dorado, finca número 2,651, inscripción 7ma. c) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 10 de agosto de 2018, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número BY2018CV01876, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Jaime Joel Ferrer Rivera y Luis Marzán Oyola, por la suma de $204,170.79, más otras sumas adicionales, anotado el día 15 de octubre de 2018, al tomo Karibe de Dorado, finca número 2,651, Anotación “A”. d) AL ASIENTO 2019-018125-BY04 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el 22 de febrero de 2019, Orden de fecha 27 de julio de 2018, expedida en la Corte de Distrito de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito de Puerto Rico, en el Caso Criminal número 18-188 (DRD), seguido por Estados

Unidos de América, contra Luis A. Marzán Oyola, sobre Anotación Preventiva sobre Aviso de Confiscación. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 24,510 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 2 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $234,000.00.

HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 122, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 27 de febrero de 2008, ante el Notario Manuel R. Pérez Caballer. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 9 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $156,000.00. TERCERA SUBASTA: 16 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $117,000.00. 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 22 de mayo de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 24 de mayo de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma de $204,170.79, más $23,396.02, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra-

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vámenes 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de marzo de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

EDWIN ALEXIS NEVÁREZ MALDONADO

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2019CV05152.

(403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 19 de febrero de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Carretera 2 Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Calle Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, 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 Edwin Alexis Nevárez Maldonado. Dirección Física: Urb. Jardín Dorado, 13G, Calle Edén, Dorado, PR 00646. Finca 13726, inscrita al folio 4 del tomo 264 de Dorado, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de Bayamón. URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Jardín Dorado, Barrio Higuillar del

término municipal de Dorado, Puerto Rico, marcado con el solar número trece (13) del Bloque G, con un área superficial de trescientos setenta y cinco punto cero cero metros cuadrados (375.000 m.c.). En lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar número catorce del Bloque G, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, según Plano en una distancia de 24.27 metros; por el SUR, con el solar doce del Bloque G, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle Eden, en una distancia de quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, según Plano en una distancia de 15.19 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar cuatro del Bloque G, en una distancia de quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros.

Enclava casa de concreto para uso residencial. Finca 13,726: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a) Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados. b) Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. c) Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. d) Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación de uso. Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage, LLC, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $211,612.00, con intereses al 4.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2039, constituida mediante la escritura número 239, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de mayo de 2009, ante la notario Aurora Montalvo Díaz, e inscrita al folio 4 del tomo 264 de Dorado, finca número 13,726, inscripción 4ta. b) AL ASIENTO 2019-124793-BY04 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 25 de noviembre de 2019, Demanda del día 5 de septiembre de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número BY2019CV05152, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Edwin Alexis Nevárez Maldonado, se solicita el pago de la deuda por la suma de $179,421.72 o la venta en pública subasta. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 13,726 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 2 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $211,612.00.

HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 239, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 26 de mayo de 2009, ante la Notario Aurora Montalvo Díaz.

SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 9 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $141,074.67. TERCERA SUBASTA: 16 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO:

$105,806.00. 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 27 de enero de 2020 y archivada en los autos el 28 de enero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 1 de julio de 2017, la suma principal de $179,421.72, más $33,388.16, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de marzo de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

What we learned from the first weekend of the NCAA basketball men’s tournament

By ADAM ZAGORIA

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he first five days of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in Indiana were filled with upsets and thrilling endings that busted many brackets across the nation. The last perfect bracket was shattered when Maryland knocked off Connecticut in the first round Saturday, according to the NCAA. As the tournament moves toward the Sweet 16 on Saturday and the start of the Elite Eight on Monday, here’s what we have learned so far: Gonzaga is every bit as potent as advertised.

Gonzaga, the top seed overall, averaged 92.5 points in its two games — a 43-point win over Norfolk State and a 16-point win over Oklahoma — as it advanced to the Sweet 16 for the sixth consecutive season under coach Mark Few. Gonzaga will next face No. 5-seeded Creighton, which beat No. 13-seeded Ohio, 72-58, on Monday. But whoever the Bulldogs meet the rest of the way will have their hands full with Gonzaga’s highoctane offense. In wins this season over ranked opponents — Kansas, Iowa, West Virginia and Virginia — the Bulldogs averaged 96.5 points while allowing an average of just under 84.

“They’re a special team, no question about that,” Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger said after his team lost, 87-71, on Monday.

“Baylor is a special team. But those two, through the course of the year, have separated themselves, I think deservedly so.

“Would be an interesting final game if it turns out that way, for sure.”

Drew Timme, who scored 30 points against Oklahoma, and the Bulldogs are on a mission and don’t want to be tripped up like Illinois, Iowa and Ohio State, all of which did not make it to the second weekend of the tournament.

“We’ve got a lot of things we can work on,” he said. “We’re not satisfied with this.

This is not the end goal. We’re excited for the next challenge that presents itself.”

After a strong season, the Big Ten has stumbled in a colossal way.

Coming into the tournament, there were high hopes for the Big Ten to have several teams make deep runs as the conference looked to win its first NCAA championship since Michigan State triumphed in

2000. The Big Ten had nine schools in the 68-team field, including two No. 1 seeds in Illinois and Michigan, and two No. 2 seeds in Iowa and Ohio State. But after the second round, only Michigan remained.

The Wolverines beat Louisiana State, 8678, on Monday, but No. 10-seeded Maryland lost, 96-77, to Alabama.

Michigan State lost a First Four game to UCLA on Thursday, and Ohio State was upset by No. 15 Oral Roberts the next day.

On Sunday, Illinois was outplayed by No. 8-seeded Loyola-Chicago, with 101-yearold Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt looking on from the stands.

Afterward, Illinois coach Brad Underwood, whose team won the Big Ten Tournament championship, was left to summarize his team’s season after an early exit.

“You can’t lose sight of the Big Ten championship,” he said. “You can’t lose sight of the 19 games we won against Big Ten opponents. You can’t lose sight of the growth that this team made through the season.”

The Big Ten’s woes continued Monday when Oregon ran Iowa out of the gym in what proved to be the last college game for Luka Garza, who has won two Big Ten Player of the Year Awards and remains a finalist for the Naismith Trophy as the nation’s top college player.

The Pac-12 is coming on strong at the right time.

Nobody thought much of the Pac-12 coming into the tournament. The so-called conference of champions didn’t have a team ranked in the top 20 of the latest Associated Press poll, but through Monday the league’s five teams in the tournament

were 9-1. Colorado took the Pac-12’s only loss, 71-53, to Florida State on Monday night.

Oregon State, the Pac-12 tournament champion, outplayed Oklahoma State and the projected No. 1 NBA draft pick Cade Cunningham, 80-70, on Sunday night. UCLA, which lost four straight games before the tournament, has now beaten Michigan State, Brigham Young and Abilene Christian to become the fifth team to advance to the Sweet 16 from the First Four.

No. 6-seeded Southern California joined the Sweet 16 by beating third-seeded Kansas, 85-51, on Monday night, with Evan and Isaiah Mobley combining for 27 points.

The coronavirus has taken its toll, but it could have been worse.

Virginia Commonwealth became the first team forced to drop out because of coronavirus issues, a brutal end to the season for the players who dreamed of getting to the tournament. Coach Mike Rhoades called the outcome devastating and said that “there were no dry eyes.”

“We’ve lost two basketball games to this,” he said, referring to the cancellation of the tournament last year.

“Five hundred thousand people have lost their lives,” he added, referring to the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States.

Virginia, Kansas, Oklahoma and Georgia Tech also dealt with positive coronavirus tests. Virginia didn’t lose any players, but after not playing for nine days the Cavaliers lost to a 13th-seeded Ohio team led by guard Jason Preston in the first round.

Georgia Tech lost its first-round game to Loyola-Chicago while playing without Moses Wright, the Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, who had tested positive. Oklahoma won its first game without star guard De’Vion Harmon, then lost to Gonzaga. Kansas defeated Eastern Washington in the first round despite playing without Jalen Wilson, its leading rebounder, and reserve guard Tristan Enaruna.

Cinderella stories serve as a reminder of why this tournament is so great.

Because the tournament was canceled last year because of the pandemic, it had been two years since anyone enjoyed March Madness. Fans were immediately

reminded why this event is considered by some to be the best on the sports calendar. Nine double-digit seeds advanced to the second round, including a No. 15 in Oral Roberts, a No. 14 in Abilene Christian and two No. 13s in Ohio and North Texas.

UCLA and Syracuse, both No. 11 seeds, advanced to the Sweet 16. The Orange have now won nine games across three tournaments as a double-digit seed.

Mighty Texas, coming off winning the Big 12 tournament, lost to Abilene Christian, a Southland Conference program that had never won a game in the NCAA Tournament and had been playing at the Division I level for only eight years after a mediocre Division II history.

“We were the worst D-I team in the country, and we just beat the University of Texas,” Wildcats coach Joe Golding said.

Transfers are playing a key role for many teams.

Kentucky and Duke — and their bushel full of one-and-done prospects — are at home watching the tournament, the first time since 1976 that both schools missed the event. While both teams acutely felt the effects of having young rosters navigating an untraditional preseason, older, more experienced teams are carrying the day in March. And in many cases, transfers have played a key role.

Several of Oregon’s starters came from other schools, with Eugene Omoruyi (Rutgers), LJ Figueroa (St. John’s) and Chris Duarte (Northwest Florida State College) combining for 61 points in the victory over Iowa.

Oregon State’s Maurice Calloo, who transferred from Oklahoma State, scored 15 points in a win over his former team.

Kentucky transfer Johnny Juzang has excelled at UCLA, averaging 22.3 points in three wins.

Gonzaga features Florida transfer Andrew Nembhard, Baylor relies on former Presbyterian guard Adam Flagler and Villanova now has Tulane transfer Caleb Daniels running the point after losing starting point guard Collin Gillespie to injury during the Big East tournament.

Several teams have Ivy League graduate transfers playing key roles, like Michigan point guard Mike Smith (Columbia) and Alabama forward Jordan Bruner (Yale).

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First time? No sweat for teams in San Antonio.

By GILLIAN R. BRASSIL

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he women’s basketball bracket has been largely predictable: The higher-seeded teams — with three exceptions in upset defeats by Brigham Young, Wright State and Belmont — have advanced to the second round. It follows the general trend of the NCAA men’s and women’s tournaments: The men have more upsets while the women’s favorites do well.

But even if their stays are brief, teams making their first or second appearances in the NCAA Division I tournament have put up a fight in an event that looks starkly different from years past because of the coronavirus pandemic. The newcomers seem grateful just to pave the way for their schools, and some have given top seeds a jolt.

“Definitely having a taste of playing in the NCAA Tournament, we’ll be able to reflect and keep growing,” Stony Brook coach Caroline McCombs said after her team lost to Arizona on Monday.

High Point, Utah Valley, Stony Brook and Bradley made their NCAA Tournament debuts in a so-called controlled environment, which is centered in San Antonio and has been set up by the NCAA and local health authorities.

High Point, a No. 16 seed, was able to get good looks for 3-point shots Sunday against UConn, the dominant program in the country for almost three decades.

The Huskies, a No. 1 seed, won by 43 points, a lower margin of victory than UConn had in the first rounds of the most recent tournaments: 49 in 2019, 88 in 2018, and 61 in 2017. The Huskies’ coach, Geno Auriemma, was at home, isolating because he tested positive last week for the coronavirus.

Stanford caused trouble early on the way to an 87-44 win Sunday over 16thseeded Utah Valley, making seven 3-pointers in 11 attempts and taking a 20-point lead at the end of the first quarter. Utah Valley picked up speed in the second half, with 24 points to Stanford’s 34. Josie Williams, a center for the Wolverines, led the team with 18 points and five rebounds.

“They are a very physical team, Williams was an outstanding player for them,”

Stony Brook lost to Arizona in its N.C.A.A. tournament debut on Monday.

Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.

Stony Brook, a No. 14 seed, was defeated 79-44 by Arizona. The Wildcats, a No. 3 seed, had a 27-point lead at halftime. But the Seawolves were able to prevent their deficit from growing too much larger; they were outscored by only 8 points in the second half.

Arizona coach Adia Barnes said after the game that Stony Brook was “a really good third-quarter team, and they are a good second-half team.”

Bradley, a No. 11 seed, fell to sixthseeded Texas 81-62 Monday, but Bradley guard Lasha Petree was the biggest scorer of the night. She finished with 33 points, more than half her team’s total.

Though the Longhorns took an early lead, Bradley fought back in the second and third quarters and was outscored by just two points in the second, and none in the third.

“As you saw in the second quarter, they can really blow up on you and explode quick,” Texas coach Vic Schaefer said.

Five of the teams in the tournament were making their second appearance, including Drexel, and another five were

here for the third time, like Mercer. Drexel and Mercer were ousted in the first round, but not before giving their opponents a scare.

Mercer, a No. 16 seed, fell to topseeded South Carolina 79-53 Sunday.

South Carolina had an 11-point lead after the first quarter, but Mercer bounced back with a 15-4 run at the beginning of the second, briefly tying the game at 27 with a pull-up jumper by guard Amoria Neal-Tysor. Even though the Gamecocks pulled away in the second half, the Bears’ defensive switches kept South Carolina on its toes.

“We knew they were going to junk it up, and one of our keys was offensive execution against their changing defenses,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said.

Drexel, a No. 14 seed, had a 15-10 lead over Georgia after the first quarter and was tied with the Bulldogs at halftime. No. 3-seeded Georgia took the lead in the third and pulled away in the fourth, scoring 27 points to Drexel’s 18 in that quarter.

Some lower-seeded teams have said adieu, but three had advanced by Monday evening, including Belmont, a No. 12

seed that defeated No. 5 Gonzaga 64-59.

There was a close call when 15thseeded Troy, in its fourth tournament appearance, nearly upset Texas A&M, a No. 2 seed. The Aggies came out on top, with an 84-80 win decided amid a series of fouls and free throws at the end.

A No. 15 seed has never won in the women’s tournament; a No. 16 seed famously ousted a No. 1 in 1998, when Harvard defeated Stanford.

BYU, a No. 11 seed, pulled off the first upset of the tournament, beating No. 6-seeded Rutgers with a fourth-quarter reversal on Monday. Both teams had been to tournaments before, most recently in 2019.

The 13th-seeded Wright State, in its third tournament appearance, beat Arkansas, a No. 4 seed, 66-62. Raiders guard Angel Baker had 26 points, 12 rebounds and four steals in the upset.

“I’ve coached the men’s game, gone against some of the best, but some of the women I coach against, they’re better,” BYU coach Jeff Judkins said after the game. “Against a really good team like Rutgers, to perform at our best, it’s hopefully something we can use a long way for our program.”

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By ANDREW KNOLL

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esús López had done play-by-play announcing for several sports before 2017 — but never ice hockey.

As he researched the game, he received a suggestion for his Spanish radio calls: incorporate the established sounds of soccer.

Terms familiar to Mexican soccer broadcasts and the unmistakable call of “gooooooool!” that pervades the sport had already graced the World Cup and just about every other cup competition that exists. The Stanley Cup has joined that list.

The NHL and some of its franchises have made concerted efforts to reach out to Latino audiences. As part of the seven-year rights agreement The Walt Disney Co. announced it had signed with the league this month to bring NHL games back to ESPN starting next season, the network will have international media rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. A league spokesperson said ESPN was expected to make NHL content available on traditional TV as well as on digital and social media platforms in the region, with more details to come.

Before the 2019-20 season, Alex Meruelo of the Arizona Coyotes, a Cuban American, became the NHL’s first Latino majority owner. Xavier A. Gutiérrez of Mexico later became the league’s first Latino team president with Arizona.

The NHL also started a league website in Spanish last season, and three teams — Chicago, Los Angeles and Vegas — regularly broadcast games in Spanish on the radio.

In Los Angeles, the Kings have embarked on a novel partnership. Last year, they expanded the Junior Kings program into Mexico City after starting a Beijing program in 2018. The Kings’ aim is to develop players through high-level training, camps and competitions that seek to close the resources gap between Mexican players and their counterparts elsewhere in North America.

Francisco X. Rivera, a broadcaster from Mexico City who calls Kings games in Spanish, has been heavily involved with the program, which serves boys and girls ages 4 to 18. During the pandemic, he has hosted bilingual vid-

Francisco X. Rivera, left, and Nano Cortes are scheduled to broadcast at least 12 Los Angeles Kings games in Spanish on the radio this season. eo calls with players who compete in a seven-team league with more than 100 participants. Derek Armstrong, a former Kings center who works in the team’s front office, offers instruction during the sessions.

“The ultimate goal would be finding that player, either Mexican-born or Mexican American, who represents the country well,” Rivera, 39, said. “Imagine having that kid from Mexico who was that representative, if he came out of our program. That would be something that no one could take away from you.”

The NBA has had stars, such as Manu Ginóbili of Argentina and Pau Gasol of Spain, who prospered in Latinoheavy markets like San Antonio and Los Angeles, where Kobe Bryant also took to communicating in Spanish regularly.

But the NHL hasn’t yet featured that type of figure among its player ranks.

The league has had, though, several Hispanic players. Scott Gomez, an American of Mexican and Colombian descent, starred for the New Jersey Devils in the 2000s. Bill Guerin, the former Devils wing and current Minnesota Wild general manager, is of Nicaraguan and Irish descent. The former New York Rangers goalie Al Montoya is a fluent Spanish speaker with Cuban heritage and frequently appeared on Spanish radio when he played for the Florida Pan-

thers.

The league currently has players with Mexican roots like Vegas left wing Max Pacioretty, who played on the 2014 U.S. Olympic team, and Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews, a top goal-scorer selected No. 1 overall in 2016.

Despite several teams being in markets with significant Latino populations, there has been a hesitancy to commit fully to Spanish broadcasts.

In South Florida, the Panthers dabbled in Spanish broadcasts on the radio during their first three seasons starting in 1993, while they played in Miami, and again in the middle of the 2010s.

The Kings’ wading into Spanish broadcasting three years ago came on the heels of the ephemeral venture that was Spectrum Deportes, a mirror of the regional English-language cable network that carried the Lakers and the Dodgers before being canceled in 2018 after six years.

The Kings’ radio coverage is more limited in scope than it was on Spectrum Deportes, as well as its 1990s predecessor, La Cadena Deportiva, a network that carried the Lakers, San Diego Padres, Kings and Anaheim Ducks among its other sports telecasts in Spanish in the 1990s.

The Kings also had Spanish radio broadcasts that ended in the 1997-98 season.

“Some of them do it as a PR stunt, doing two games here or three games there. But it doesn’t really go anywhere because they don’t support it financially and don’t give it the time,” said Cesar Sutil, a producer for La Cadena Deportiva during its two seasons (1993-94 and 1994-95) broadcasting the entire home schedules for the Kings and Ducks.

Though the Kings did not use their success last decade to diversify their programming — they won championships in 2012 and 2014, but did not begin Spanish broadcasts until 2018 — the Chicago Blackhawks did. For the past six seasons, their presence in Spanishlanguage media and the Latino community has grown. They now broadcast all of their home games on Spanish radio.

Héctor Lozano, 52, a former Chicago play-by-play announcer, had also

worked with other Chicago franchises, including the Bulls during the Michael Jordan era, and said that he had seen a major uptick in enthusiasm for hockey in Chicago’s Latino community.

“After winning Stanley Cups in 2010, 2013 and 2015, you know, everyone wanted to be associated with a winner,” Lozano said in Spanish.

Vegas had shown a commitment to reaching Spanish-speaking audiences from the outset, having had community outreach and radio broadcasts since its inaugural season in 2017-18. The Golden Knights now broadcast all home games and all playoff games on Spanish radio and provide the option to hear the Spanish audio feed on the English telecast via the SAP function. They reach seven states, including many areas with significant Latino populations. They also feature separate Spanish accounts on Instagram and Twitter.

In 2018, the Golden Knights became the first team to broadcast Stanley Cup Final games in Spanish, with López on the call.

López, 52, who is from Guadalajara, Mexico, said it was difficult to find examples of hockey broadcasts in Spanish when he set out to develop his style.

He found inspiration in a 1945 Disney animated short film called “Hockey Homicide.” He felt the narration captured the spirit of the sport and implemented it into his approach.

“Every sport has its soul, but the soul of hockey is different from anything else,” López said in Spanish. “It’s an artistic sport that can become extremely rough.”

López offers listeners descriptions of action in the “circle of dispute” (faceoff circle) and his vivid characterization of slashing that translates to “he whipped him with his cane!”

Of course, all three play-by-play maestros use the indelible goal call in full throat.

“We’re always going to give our best because this has become like my child. I love him, I want to guide him and do something beautiful with his life,” López said. “To bring something that pleases the people to my community has been an honor, a challenge. But a great honor.”

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

This isn’t the time to hesitate Aries, even if you do have doubts about your course of action. These may not be based on information as much as on baseless fears. As Mercury in a dreamy zone squares off with Mars, your emotions could lead you astray unless you override them. Look at the facts, as doing so might boost confidence and give hope that you can do really well.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Edgy influences are at work, so it might be wise to slow down and take things in your stride. You likely won’t want to though Taurus, as the excitement around an idea that may make you money, can be urging you onward. Don’t jump in too quickly, as other factors could come into play that enrich it, and make it better. How might you save more? Focus on this for now.

You seem to enjoy being around other people, with coming days encouraging you to connect with those whose company you thoroughly enjoy. If there have been issues with a friend or group, the current star map suggests such matters will be forgotten. Need to make a decision concerning a goal or your job?

Don’t hesitate for too long Gemini, as you could miss out.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

With Mercury in Pisces, your mind may be on faraway places, and opportunities that can seem a little out of reach. Are they though? Today brings a positive fount of energy that encourages you to take a leap of faith, and to be bold about going after a dream of yours. Don’t let a fear of failure stop you in your tracks, as once you get going, you’ll realize how perfect this is for you.

Leo

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Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

If a special opportunity opens up for you, then don’t immediately dismiss it. With feisty Mars continuing its journey through your sector of new experiences, saying yes could be so good for you. Even if you haven’t had that much experience Libra, it’s worth taking the risk and moving out of your comfort zone.

There may be a learning curve involved, but you’ll easily cope.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

It’s no good beating about the bush, especially if there’s something that you want. With dynamic Mars continuing in your sector of desire, it could get more and more difficult to pretend that you really don’t need it. You might try to talk yourself out of it, but this won’t make it go away. If you go for it, you’ll have the satisfaction you’ve been craving, even if it doesn’t last for long.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

You may resent it if someone seems to be prying into your family business a little too much, and be inclined to give away as little as possible. But as Mercury angles towards Mars in Gemini, it is possible that they have your best interests at heart, even if you can’t immediately see it. A more direct approach could clear the air, and if they are trying to help, then consider working together.

Crossed wires are possible Capricorn, especially if you’re discussing something that needs attention to detail. Over coming days, it helps to clarify things so that you can power ahead and make your mark.

Concerning family matters, you could find yourself acting as mediator in a tricky situation. Your grounded and practical approach to life might so easily resolve this.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Are you perplexed by someone, Leo? If what they say and what they do don’t match up, you may wonder about their motives. With Mercury in an intense zone angling towards Mars, your thoughts about this person could take on a life of their own, and have you imagining all kinds of things. You might find that reaching out and talking to them resolves this matter very easily.

You are at a creative peak Aquarius, making this a great time to showcase your unique skills in new ways. If you have a special talent, then don’t hide it away, make sure everyone knows about it. If you have to spend a little on ways to advertise yourself, then go for it. Wondering about a budding romance? Keep the conversation going as you gradually get to know them.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

A dynamic Mars/Pluto aspect, encourages you to put Your instincts about a situation are worth paying attention to, especially if someone is giving you confusing advice. With an edgy Mercury/Mars aspect at a peak, they could persuade you to go against your own better judgement. If something is important to you Virgo, then don’t let other people put you off. You know what you want and what you hope to accomplish, so go for it.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Although you may have a lot of fascinating projects on the go and a keen interest in various others, the presence of key planets in a quiet sector, encourages you to make time for yourself as well. The reason for doing so is that you can have a chance to connect with those deeper currents of feeling, and to perceive aspects of your life in way that could change things.

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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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