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Nearly 5,000 police walk off the job over the weekend

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olice Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa announced that 30 policemen had not reported for work early Sunday, adding up to 4,989 absences over the weekend to that point.

“Agents attached to specialized units, such as Homicides, Sexual Crimes and FURA [the Spanish acronym for Joint Forces of Rapid Action], among others, have continued to respond uninterruptedly to the different incidents reported throughout the island,” López Figueroa said in a written statement.

He added that the plan for Halloween Night continues in effect with the activation of the officers who are reinforcing the police areas, the municipal police, the federal working groups and in support of the components of the Public Safety Department.

The police commissioner noted that, due to the activation of the alternate plan, a number of shifts and schedules were altered.

“For this reason, we determined to provide an estimated number after the daily closing of work,” López Figueroa said. “Tomorrow we will be providing an update corresponding to the close of today. In this way, the figures will be able to be comparable and with greater detail.”

Meanwhile, Public Safety Secretary Alexis Torres Ríos said personnel from businesses were being activated over the weekend to reinforce security in all police zones.

Meanwhile, Guánica Mayor Ismael “Titi” Rodríguez Ramos announced that, in the absence of commonwealth police, he decreed that the closing time of businesses throughout the municipality would be at 10 p.m. to promote safety in the streets and in communities.

“As my fellow mayors have done, in Guánica we are going to maximize our resources from the Municipal Police and Municipal Emergency Management to deal with incidents that may arise,” the mayor said before the wave of absences in the ranks of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau over the weekend to protest pension cuts and working conditions.

“This whole situation has forced us mayors to make all kinds of adjustments to be able to keep

the streets safe,” Rodríguez Ramos said. “There is a demand from the police and certainly the call is to the Legislature, the state government and in particular the fiscal control board to generate solutions. We, the municipalities, are always willing to collaborate, but resources are increasingly limited.”

Other municipalities such as Caguas, Ponce, Yauco, Quebradillas and Barceloneta declared a state of emergency to address the absence of commonwealth police.

Puerto Rico Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa

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Governor opposes double pay, elimination of ‘flexi-time,’ in Labor Reform bill

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia sent a letter on Sunday to the leaders of the island House of Representatives and the Senate to request amendments to the Labor Reform Bill opposing double pay and the elimination of “flextime.”

“My administration has always sought the balance that is required by promoting changes to strengthen our workforce and, in turn, ensure that the commercial sector, especially small and medium-sized businesses, can continue to create and maintain jobs to contribute to our economic growth,” the governor said in a written statement. “Although many positive aspects of the so-called 2017 Labor Reform can be highlighted, such as additional rights for Gov. Pedro Pierluisi working mothers and the establishment of flexible work for workers who voluntarily choose to considers should be reviewed. do so, the truth is that there are several aspects First, he noted the automatic probationary that must be reviewed to temper them to the period of nine months for nonexempt employcurrent reality of the Puerto Rico labor market.” ees and 12 months for exempt employees and The governor noted that the Legislative indicated that a six-month probationary period Assembly is evaluating several measures that is more reasonable for both exempt and nonpropose amendments to the Labor Reform. exempt employees.

In order to seek consensus on the proposed “This provides uniformity to the adminchanges, contribute to the legislative process istration of human resources and therefore, and achieve the approval of a measure that an amendment to these ends would have my may gain his signature, he said, the governor endorsement,” Pierluisi said. shared the aspects of the Labor Reform that he Regarding the Christmas bonus, Pierluisi

said “I believe it prudent to amend the Labor Reform to standardize the requirement applicable to all private sector employees in order to be entitled to the payment of the Christmas bonus at 700 hours worked.”

Currently, the Labor Reform requires that employees hired prior to Jan. 26, 2017, work 700 hours to be entitled to the payment of the Christmas bonus. However, employees hired as of that date have to work 1,350 hours to be entitled to the payment of the bonus.

Regarding vacation and sick leave, the governor stressed the importance of all workers having an adequate period of rest.

“In this way, a balance between personal and work life is promoted, which, in turn, results in better productivity. Therefore, he supported the amendment of the Labor Reform to decrease the requirement of hours worked per month in order to accumulate vacation and sick leave.

The requirement must be set again at 115 hours per month, Pierluisi said.

“Along the same lines, I support the amendment of the Labor Reform to establish that workers hired as of January 26, 2017 can also accumulate 1.25 days of vacation for each month worked,” he said.

In his letter to the legislative leaders, the governor detailed that those specific amendments address the main concerns that have arisen regarding the changes in the private sector workplace. He added that the amend-

ments aimed at increasing the current pay of time and a half to double pay for time worked in excess of eight hours a day, on rest days and during the meal period, could be harmful for small and midsize companies, so they do not have his endorsement.

Pierluisi also said his administration has implemented a number of measures to benefit workers, among which stand out the staggered increase in the state minimum wage, the increase in credit for work up to a maximum of $6,500 and the increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour on federally funded rebuilding projects.

Meanwhile, the governor said he does not support the elimination of the provisions that allow voluntary agreements for alternate weekly work, or “flexi-time,” agreements for replacement of hours and requests for flexible conditions.

“These provisions did not exist in our legal system prior to the approval of the Labor Reform and have been of special benefit to our workers in times of emergency and during the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.

The governor went on to say that his work team, as well as Labor and Human Resources Secretary Carlos Rivera Santiago, will be available to discuss the amendments suggested by La Fortaleza and that he hopes that the legislative and executive branches can work in consensus for the benefit of the island’s workers.

New P3 Authority Board members represent public interest

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he Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) board has two new members representing the public interest in a move that could have an impact on the fate of future P3s, including the one that seeks companies to manage and operate the generation assets of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).

The new board members are former Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Rep. Eduardo Ferrer Ríos and Liza Ortiz Camacho, a lawyer who was the director of the political campaign for former PDP gubernatorial candidate David Bernier. At deadline, neither Ferrer Ríos nor Ortiz Camacho had answered STAR requests for comments made via social media. They are part of a group of five board members who will decide whether or not to move P3 projects forward.

Their selection, meanwhile, took place under wraps and without public notification. Both new members have been on the job for several months.

The P3A board comprises five members that include the head of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, the Treasury secretary, the Planning Board chairman, and the two members representing public interest, who are chosen by the leaders of the Legislature and approved by the governor, according to the 2009 Public-Private Partnership Act. The two public interest members are chosen for a period of four years. Ferrer Ríos, who is the brother of the late PDP President Héctor Ferrer Ríos, was elected to the island House of Representatives in 2012 but resigned a year later. Ortiz Camacho also resigned as Bernier’s campaign manager.

The votes of the two public interest officials are needed for the approval of P3 contracts. The P3A has several priority P3s: a $400 million contract to replace water meters, a $70 million student housing complex at University of Puerto RicoMayagüez Campus, a call center for the Treasury Department, the modernization and operation of the nine regional airports, and a project to modernize and manage digital telecommunications infrastructure for the Puerto Rico Highways and

Transportation Authority.

The P3A has said it intends to unveil in December the companies that will manage and operate power plants. That contract needs to obtain approval from both the P3A and PREPA boards.

The P3A has also been criticized for its deficient oversight of the contract with LUMA Energy, the private operator of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system.

The two public interest members have close links to the PDP, whose House majority seeks to monitor the LUMA Energy contract more closely. The House sued LUMA Energy recently to obtain information about salaries and payroll, among other information. LUMA also declined to provide information to the U.S. House of Representatives and only did so after threats by members of Congress that they would withhold federal funds for PREPA’s reconstruction.

The P3A has yet to post on its website its report on the performance of LUMA Energy. The most recent public monthly report to be found on the website is from May 2021.

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Title III court to take up requests for exclusion of testimony

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he Title III bankruptcy court is holding a hearing today to discuss the procedures for the debt plan confirmation hearings slated to start Nov. 8, as well as motions in limine, or requests for the exclusion of evidence.

The seventh debt adjustment plan is moving forward after the Financial Oversight and Management Board accepted the plan’s enabling legislation, which is now Act 53 of 2021. The bill in essence bans cuts to pensions for retirees.

The oversight board, however, has requested preemption of laws, including those that may prevent it from implementing the plan. In a letter to the government published Friday, the board said Act 53-2021 does not implement a freeze or prevent a freezing of future pension benefits for public employees.

“The Oversight Board agrees with your assessment of the Act. As you note, the freeze ‘is an issue separate from Act 53-2021’ as the Act ‘does not implement the freeze or prevent a freeze from occurring,’” the board wrote to the governor.

At today’s hearing, the oversight board will seek to exclude expert testimony put forward by one of the creditors. The testimony from

Lizette Martínez contains various calculations and conclusions as to the amount of Act 30-31 revenues. which are excise taxes collected from vehicles and crude oil by the commonwealth, and whether the commonwealth retained those revenues or transferred them to the Highways and Transportation Authority (HTA). According to the board, the testimony is irrelevant. HTA is not part of the debt adjustment plan.

The oversight board also wants to exclude expert testimony from Douglas J. Brickley because it is an opinion that does not meet the

requirements for expert testimony under Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, according to the board.

Meanwhile, some creditors want to exclude the testimony of Marti P. Murray, which was proposed by the oversight board. Murray’s testimony states that the debt adjustment plan that would restructure some $33 billion in debt is sustainable and does not go against the fiscal plan.

The debt adjustment plan contemplates the issuance of new general obligation bonds in the approximate principal amount of $7.4 billion, consisting of $6.7 billion in current interest bonds (CIBs) and $731 million in capital appreciation bonds (CABs). CIBs are bonds whose interest is payable on a semi-annual basis, with principal due at maturity. In the case of CABs, interest accrues and compounds throughout the bond period, and is payable along with the principal at the bond’s maturity. The CIBs and CABs issued under the plan amortize beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2022.

In addition to the bonds, the debt plan also proposes to issue contingent value instruments, or CVIs, that give a holder the right to receive payments if the commonwealth’s sales and use tax collections exceed certain thresholds. In addition to some $21.9 billion in funded debt

claims and $2.75 billion in estimated general unsecured claims, the government has claims relating to legacy pension plans that, as of June 30, 2016, represented an actuarial liability of more than $50 billion.

There are virtually no assets held in reserve to satisfy those liabilities, and as a result, the commonwealth’s pension systems are virtually 100% underfunded and insolvent, and have been for some time, Murray said. The plan calls for a freeze of benefits in defined benefit plans for the Teachers Retirement System and judiciary beneficiaries. Second, it includes an 8.5% reduction in pension benefits for those beneficiaries receiving in excess of $1,500 per month, which was recently raised to $2,000 per month.

Among the conclusions reached by Murray is that the plan will initially result in more expensive pension costs of $38 million in FY 2022 because of increased contributions to Social Security, but then the modifications will result in savings of $36 million to $116 million per year from FY 2023 to 2032, and to over $200 million per year beginning in FY 2037.

He also said the commonwealth is projected to have an annual fiscal surplus after non-contingent debt service through FY 2031, ranging from $319 million to over $900 million.

PIP calls for demonstration Nov. 8 against DAP’s approval

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uerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) Secretary General Juan Dalmau Ramírez, along with Party Organization Secretary Adrián González Costa, called on PIP members and the public at large to demonstrate on Monday, Nov. 8 at 8 a.m. in front of the Federal Court in Hato Rey where a hearing is scheduled for that day in which it is anticipated that Judge Laura Taylor Swain will certify the debt adjustment plan (DAP) contained in the recently approved Law 53.

“Here nobody takes time off, nobody gives up. You can still insist on an agreement that responds to the interests of the country, not the vultures,” Dalmau Ramírez said in a written statement. “The approval of the [Financial Oversight and Management] Board’s Fiscal Plan and consequently Law 53, is the basis for the country to become even poorer. The Fiscal Plan and the Debt Adjustment Plan approved by the Popular [Democratic Party, or PDP] and NPP [New Progressive Party] leadership is what Judge Swain could certify at the Nov. 8 hearing. It is imperative that those of us who condemn the approval of this law come out to repudiate it.”

“The country has hit rock bottom,” González Costa added.

“From the PIP we have insisted that as long as we continue under a colonial system, we will continue to be victims of the United States government and its accomplices in Puerto Rico.

The issue of bankruptcy, we have to solve it in Puerto Rico with Puerto Ricans. It is urgent to raise this discussion with the Congress of the United States, so that a process of decolonization is directed accompanied by a true restructuring of the debt in the terms that are convenient for us as a country. As long as PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act], the Board and the colony that allow it exist, we will continue to be subject to the interests of the bondholders, applauded and endorsed by the most recalcitrant sectors of the PDP and the NPP.” “The colonial forces insist on continuing to impoverish the country. It was already said by a celebrity in a chat, they aspire to a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans. This conspiracy between the Reds, the Blues and the United States government must be repudiated and denounced,” Dalmau Ramírez said.

“They have already mortgaged the [sales and use tax] for 40 years and with the approval of the last Adjustment Plan, now they intend that the next generations face another unpayable debt and without having anywhere to cut it, there the aspiration that Puerto Rico will be left without Puerto Ricans will be

consummated. Both the Board and the Fiscal Plan are a consequence of our colonial condition and the popular leadership and I reject them. We must express that there are more of us who want a better country.”

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Housing: $184 million in federal disaster recovery funds target island’s south

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ousing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez announced a new federal allocation of $184 million by the island Housing Department to continue the process of recovery from natural disasters.

The new allocation will help with the reconstruction of the southern region of Puerto Rico after the earthquakes that struck the island in early 2020.

“Without a doubt, this new assignment shows the commitment of the federal government to the island, the trust in our

Puerto Rico Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez

administration and the good management of funds that have already been assigned to Puerto Rico,” Rodríguez said in a written statement. “We are grateful to the federal government and the direction established

by Governor Pedro R. Pierluisi to continue the reconstruction of the island.”

The agency is now waiting for notification from the Federal Register detailing the instructions on the use of the allocated funds.

Rodríguez added that “the federal government will remove all restrictions on access to recovery funds allocated to Puerto

Rico after hurricanes Irma and Maria.”

“We have worked hard and today we welcome this much needed new assignment for our people,” the Housing chief said, also thanking Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón “for all her work in the search for more funds for the island.”

Over the past few days Rodríguez had attended several meetings in the U.S. capital, while participating with the governor and other officials at the “Puerto Rico Energy Forum” to present part of the plans for the transformation of the island electrical system.

Motorist strikes and kills horse in Arecibo

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n auto accident involving a horse occurred Sunday on the PR-22 expressway at kilometer 69.1 in Arecibo.

According to preliminary information, a vehicle

hit a horse that was on the highway. The horse died on the spot.The driver of the car was unhurt.

Sgt. Herminio García Álvarez, from the Arecibo Highway Division, investigated the accident.

Metropista staff are in charge of removing the horse.

In alleged suicide, woman had additional head wounds

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uthorities are investigating an alleged suicide that reportedly occurred around 9:32 p.m. on Friday in a residence on Calle 2 of the Colinas de Cupey urbanization, in San Juan.

According to the report, the San Juan Municipal Police arrived at the residence and found María Paola Hernández Agosto, 33, dead with a gunshot wound in the head.

José Bobonis, the woman’s husband, alleged that after an argument between the two, Hernández Agosto shot herself.

The report said that in addition to the gunshot wound, the

woman had two head injuries. A 9mm Glock pistol, among other pieces of evidence, were seized at the scene.

Officer José Santiago Santiago, from the Homicide Division of the San Juan Criminal Investigation Corps, took over the investigation of the case along with prosecutor Alfredo Carrión.

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Storm drives record floods along Mid-Atlantic coast

By SOPHIE KASAKOVE

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oastal communities in the Mid-Atlantic states remained under flood warnings or advisories Saturday as they surveyed the damage from the large, slow-moving storm that doused areas of the region and brought some of the highest tidal surges of the past two decades, according to meteorologists.

The storm and flooding affected cities and towns along northern coastal Virginia up through the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay areas, to coastal New Jersey. Waters surged into Annapolis, Maryland, and Alexandria,Virginia, and waterways surrounding Washington and Philadelphia swelled.

Up and down the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, homes and businesses flooded and coastal roads were submerged, turning some coastal areas into islands. But the surges in some areas were not as damaging as some forecasters had feared.

In Baltimore, the Inner Harbor was underwater Friday night, but by Saturday, people in the area were back out walking their dogs and sitting on benches soaking up the sun as the storm clouds rolled out of the region.

Nearby, one section of the historic Fells Point neighborhood remained under water, while workers from the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore and affected businesses cleaned debris off the sidewalks and brick streets where the water had receded.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski toured the county Saturday, surveying the impact of the storm, and said on Twitter that flooding continued in some of the lowlying coastal areas.

“We got very close to having some more significant issues,” James Wallace, director of the Baltimore City Office of Emergency Ma-

People walked past the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial in Annapolis, Md., on Friday. nagement, said, adding that the effects of the flooding were less severe than feared because of wind speeds dying down around high tide.

Widespread precipitation brought 1-2 inches of rainfall to much of the Mid-Atlantic area, with as much as 4 inches in isolated areas along the I-95 corridor.

Flooding could continue through Sunday into Monday morning in some areas, said Kevin Witt, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. As of Saturday evening, there were no reports of storm-related fatalities.

In downtown Annapolis, residents sloshed through a couple feet of water Saturday morning. The water had receded overnight, from a peak of just below 5 feet, according to David Mandell, deputy director of the Office of Emergency Management.

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Maryland’s capital city, which lies on the Chesapeake Bay, confronts regular tidal surge flooding, which prompted the city to develop a pumping system to prevent high-tide flooding.

But it was no match for Friday night’s surge.

“We’re used to flooding, and this is kind of flooding beyond that,” Mandell said.

Around midnight Friday, Mayor Gavin Buckley of Annapolis paddled along downtown’s Dock Street on a kayak, surveying the damage to restaurants and stores.

Floodwaters had overflowed sandbags at the doorways to many businesses, causing “extensive” damage that Buckley worried would have an economic toll.

“We’re only just recovering from COVID, so a lot of those business are only just getting back on their feet,” Buckley said.

Jerry Donahoe, owner of Mills Fine Wine and Spirits, was asked about his store after he checked the soaked sandbags. “It was bad,”

he said. Still, he was optimistic, noting that the flooding proved much less severe than during Hurricane Isabel, when his store was submerged in a foot and a half of water.

In 2003, Hurricane Isabel inundated the city with more than 7 feet of storm surge.

But the latest surge was the highest level of flooding the city has experienced that didn’t stem from a hurricane, Mandell said.

The storm’s severity was caused by a confluence of the high tides, the wind and the rain. “The whole magnitude of all of those factors made it kind of unusual,” Witt said.

Coastal flood records were broken along the shores of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay in Solomons Island and Straits Point in Maryland, and Dahlgren, Virginia.

High tides also caused water levels along the Delaware River and upper Delaware Bay to approach some of their highest points on record. High winds along parts of the Atlantic coast peaked at around 60 mph, according to Alex Staarmann, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, bringing down some trees and power lines. In New Jersey, about 4,000 households remained without power Saturday.

The storm came just days after a Nor’easter battered coastal New England with hurricane force winds, cutting electricity to hundreds of thousands of households. Thousands remained without power in Massachusetts on Saturday.

Witt said the storm was part of a pattern of stronger storms affecting wider areas that were driven by climate change.

From 2000-15, the incidence of high-tide flooding in the Mid-Atlantic doubled to an average of six days per year from three days, according to a 2018 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

“We are on the front lines of climate change,” Mandell said of Annapolis, which has a population of less than 40,000 but contains 17 miles of waterfront. “We see it routinely.”

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Trump lawyer blamed Pence for violence as rioters stormed Capitol

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s a mob was attacking the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” a lawyer who plotted with former President Donald Trump and his allies to try to

AVISO AMBIENTAL SOBRE INTENCIÓN DE OTORGAR UN PERMISO PARA OPERAR UNA INSTALACIÓN DE DESPERDICIOS SÓLIDOS NO PELIGROSOS El Sr. Samuel Morales Vega, representante autorizado de Crist & John Recycling, Inc., sometió ante el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (en adelante, DRNA) una solicitud de permiso para operar una instalación de almacenamiento, procesamiento y exportación de desperdicios sólidos no peligrosos, que consisten en neumáticos desechados. Esta instalación esta ubicada en la Carr. 441 Km. 0.7, Bo. Piedras Blancas, Aguada PR. El Reglamento para el Manejo Adecuado de los Neumáticos, establece en el Capitulo VI el requisito de solicitar un permiso coma condición previa a la operación de una instalación de procesamiento, reciclaje, uso final o exportación de neumáticos desechados, el cual es aplicable a dueños u operadores.

Luego de evaluar los documentos suministrados, el DRNA tiene la intención de emitir el permiso de operación.

Copia de la solicitud de permiso, al igual que el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes al caso, están a la disposición del publico para ser examinados en el Área Contaminación de Terrenos del DRNA, ubicado en la Carr.

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Cualquier persona interesada podrá someter comentarios por escrito sobre el borrador del permiso y podrá solicitar una vista publica. Toda solicitud de vista publica deberá hacerse por escrito y deberá ser debidamente fundamentada y exponer la naturaleza de los planteamientos que se levantaran en la vista.

El DRNA podrá celebrar una vista publica de forma discrecional.

Toda solicitud deberá ser dirigida al Area Contaminación de Terrenos , San Jose Industrial Park, 1375 Ave. Ponce de Le6n, San Juan PR 00926 , no mas tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Aviso.

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overturn the 2020 election sent a hostile message to the vice president’s top lawyer, blaming Pence for the violence.

The email, reported by The Washington Post and confirmed by a person briefed on its contents, shows the extent to which Trump and his advisers sought to pressure the vice president, who was presiding over the certification of the election, to defy the will of the voters and keep Trump in office.

“The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened,” the lawyer, John Eastman, wrote to Greg Jacob, Pence’s chief counsel.

Pence and Jacob were in a secure room at the Capitol when Eastman sent the message, the Post said. Outside, rioters were storming the building where Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden’s election, erecting a gallows, hunting for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and forcing lawmakers to evacuate in a scene of violence and mayhem. Police officers recovered guns, knives, Tasers, Molotov cocktails, explosive devices and zip ties in the area.

Eastman rose within Trump’s legal circle in 2020 from a little-known conservative academic to one of the most influential voices in the president’s ear, writing a memo laying out steps he argued Pence could take to keep Trump in power — measures Democrats and antiTrump Republicans have likened to a blueprint for a coup.

The two-page memo written by Eastman and circulated to the White House in the days before the certification was revealed in the book “Peril” by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. In the memo, Eastman argued that as vice president, Pence was “the ultimate arbiter” of the election, essentially saying he had the power to determine who won, and that “we should take all of our actions with that in mind.”

That view was rejected by Pence and his lawyers as illegal and unethical.

Since his memo was made public, Eastman has sought to distance himself from its contents, arguing that the document was taken out of context. He told National Review that the strategy was not “viable” and would have been “crazy” to pursue.

But the email to Jacob undercuts those comments.

Jacob wrote in a draft opinion article that Eastman showed “a shocking lack of awareness” as “a band of thugs who had been sold the lie that the vice president had the power to reverse the outcome of the election” stormed the Capitol.

“Vice President Pence rejected the spurious legal theories that were pitched to him, and he did his duty,” Jacob wrote. “An inquiry should be made into whether the president’s outside lawyers did theirs.”

Through a spokesperson, Eastman declined to comment.

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John Eastman, left, a lawyer who plotted with President Donald J. Trump to overturn the 2020 election, spoke at the rally that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, as did the Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Eastman calling Pence an “establishment guy” and standing by the contents of his memo. “These guys are spineless,” he said of lawmakers who refused to join his plan to overturn the election based on false claims of widespread voter fraud.

In the Oval Office the day before Congress’ electoral vote certification, Trump pushed Pence to join the plot in a string of encounters, including one meeting that lasted at least an hour. Eastman was in the office and argued to Pence that he had the power to act.

Just before Pence headed to the Capitol on Jan. 6, Trump called the vice president’s residence to push one last time.

“You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Trump told him, according to two people briefed on the conversation, “or you can go down in history as a pussy.”

Eastman spoke at the rally that preceded the Capitol assault and pushed baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. As outrage grew in the days after the riot, he abruptly retired from his job as an endowed professor and constitutional law scholar at Chapman University.

The House committee investigating the attack has demanded that the White House turn over documents and communications concerning Eastman. Investigators also plan to ask him, potentially under subpoena, to sit for an interview as they scrutinize the circumstances surrounding the largest assault on the Capitol since the War of 1812. About 140 officers were injured in the violence, which claimed several lives.

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Old power gear is slowing use of clean energy and electric cars

By IVAN PENN

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even months after workers finished installing solar panels atop the Garcia family home near Stanford University, the system is little more than a roof ornament. The problem: The local utility’s equipment is so overloaded that there is no place for the electricity produced by the panels to go.

“We wasted 30,000-something dollars on a system we can’t use,” Theresa Garcia said. “It’s just been really frustrating.”

President Joe Biden is pushing lawmakers and regulators to wean the United States from fossil fuels and counter the effects of climate change. But his ambitious goals could be upended by aging transformers and dated electrical lines that have made it hard for homeowners, local governments and businesses to use solar panels, batteries, electric cars, heat pumps and other devices that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Much of the equipment on the electric grid was built decades ago and needs to be upgraded. It was designed for a world in which electricity flowed in one direction — from the grid to people.

Now, homes and businesses are increasingly supplying energy to the grid from their rooftop solar panels.

These problems have become more urgent because the fastest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions is to move machinery, cars and heating equipment that run on oil and natural gas to electricity generated by solar, wind, nuclear and other zero-emission energy sources.

Yet the grid is far from having enough capacity to power all the things that can help address the effects of climate change, energy experts said.

“It’s a perfect violent storm as far as meeting the demand that we’re going to have,” said Michael Johnston, executive director of codes and standards for the National Electrical Contractors Association. “It’s no small problem.”

Electric grids are also under strain from climate change itself. California imposed rolling blackouts last year during a heat wave. In February, more than 200 people died after the Texas electric grid collapsed during a winter storm. Then in

August, Hurricane Ida toppled electric lines across Louisiana, leaving millions without power for days.

‘Failing’ Infrastructure Garcia and her husband, Quin, bought their home in Portola Valley a little more than a year ago. They invested in solar because Garcia, a 37-year-old biotech lawyer, and her husband, a venture capitalist, wanted to do their part to fight climate change.

The Garcias are not pioneers. About 1 in 10 utility customers in the state has solar power, according to the California Solar and Storage Association.

So, the Garcias were surprised when their utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, would not allow them to fully use the panels.

The problem is that on sunny days, rooftop solar panels can produce a lot more electricity than is being used in the neighborhoods where they are installed.

That can overload electrical transformers, which help regulate and direct the flow of electricity within a neighborhood, forcing them to shut off or blow up. Such problems can be avoided by installing newer transformers that have greater capacity.

Barry Cinnamon, CEO of Cinnamon Energy Systems, the company that installed the panels on the Garcia home, said such problems are far too common. “My experience and understanding of the way utilities do things is they just wait until the neighborhood is overloaded, and then the transformer blows up,” Cinnamon said.

PG&E apologized for the delay in upgrading the transformer outside the Garcia home, noting that it can take workers up to six months to do so if they are swamped with projects.

During a heat wave in August 2020, an aging transformer at an electrical substation in downtown San Jose, California, which is about 25 miles from where the Garcias live, blew up. That blacked out the homes of about 18,000 people, some for days.

The city’s mayor, Sam Liccardo, expressed frustration with PG&E, saying the company’s dated equipment was hampering San Jose’s plan to increase the use of solar panels, electric cars and other new devices. To achieve its climate goals, the city has already banned the use of natural gas in new buildings, the largest

Theresa Garcia near her home and solar panels, which she cannot use until a nearby transformer is upgraded, in Portola Valley, Calif., Oct. 14, 2021. local government in the country to do so.

“It’s an infrastructure that’s failing,” Liccardo, a Democrat, said. “We’re very ambitious. The question is whether there will be a grid ready when we get there.”

Mark Esguerra, senior director of electric asset strategy at PG&E, said the company planned to upgrade a lot more of its equipment. Since the failure in San Jose last year, the company has replaced 400 transformers in and around that city, of a total of 62,000 in Santa Clara County.

The company added that it supports the use of solar panels by nearly 600,000 of its residential customers and electric cars owned by 360,000 customers.

“We know that our grid is going to look different in a few years,” Esguerra said.

How Much? How Fast?

The big challenge for policymakers and the utility industry is figuring out how quickly to invest in the grid while keeping the energy affordable.

It would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrade the distribution networks across the country to meet the country’s clean energy goals, said Ben Hertz-Shargel, global head of Grid Edge, a division of Wood Mackenzie, a research and consulting firm. That does not include spending on long-distance transmission

lines and power generating equipment like solar and wind farms.

Hertz-Shargel has personal experience with the shortcomings of the electric grid. When he was recently charging his Tesla at his home on Long Island, the electrical equipment that connected the utility’s power line to his home became so hot that it melted.

“I’m the only EV on my block, and even that modest use was enough to overwhelm the secondary side of the grid on my house,” he said. “It just shows how many weak links there are in the utility distribution system.”

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COVID shots are a go for children, but parents are reluctant to consent

By JAN HOFFMAN

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he Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 on Friday makes 28 million unvaccinated children in the United States suddenly eligible for the shot and offers the country an opportunity to make big inroads in its efforts to achieve broad immunity against the coronavirus.

But in a nation that has already struggled with COVID vaccine hesitancy, getting shots into those little arms may present health authorities with the toughest vaccination challenge yet.

Even many parents who are themselves vaccinated and approved the shot for their teenagers are churning over whether to give consent for their younger children, questioning if the risk of the unknowns of a new vaccine is worth it when most coronavirus cases in youngsters are mild.

In announcing its authorization of a lower-dose shot made by Pfizer and BioNTech for the age group, the FDA said clinical trial data showed the shot was safe and prompted strong immune responses in children. The most common side effects were fatigue, fever and headache.

Infectious disease experts say that with approaching holiday travel and family gatherings, widespread vaccination of younger children could help keep classes in person, reduce the likelihood of quarantines and lessen the risk of transmission to older, vulnerable adults — as well as protect the children from what has become the eighth-biggest killer in their age group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To date, nearly 2 million children ages 5-11 have been infected with the virus, and 8,300 have been hospitalized. One-third of those hospitalized were admitted to intensive care units, and at least 170 have died.

But a report this month from researchers at Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers and Northwestern universities found that parental concerns around the COVID vaccination had increased “significantly” from June through September. Chief among them, researchers said, were the newness of the vaccine, whether it has been sufficiently tested, efficacy, side effects and long-term health consequences.

According to a survey released Thursday by Kaiser Family Foundation, scarcely 1 in 3 parents will permit their children in this newly eligible age group to be vaccinated im-

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for emergency use in children 5 to 11 on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, people familiar with the agency’s planning said. mediately. Two-thirds were either reluctant or adamantly opposed. An Axios-Ipsos poll found that 42% of parents of these children said they were unlikely to have their children vaccinated.

Erin Gauch, of Middletown, Rhode Island, got herself and her two older children, ages 14 and 12, vaccinated this summer.

But she is worried about the potential side effects of the shots for her son. One of those side effects is myocarditis, a weakening of the heart muscle, that has been reported in a very small number of teenage boys and young men after getting a COVID shot.

“I’m looking at a 9-year-old, and if I make a bad decision and he ends up with some debilitating side effects or lifelong adverse reaction, I don’t think I could live with that,” she said.

This vaccine dilemma occurs at a turbulent cultural moment for parents of young children, who are often judged harshly on social media for their decisions. The choice can appear freighted with political affiliation.

A decision can signify, intentionally or not, compassion or disregard for others and a willingness to follow or ignore advice from their pediatrician.

“If we ultimately decide not to get my youngest vaccinated right now, I guess I’ll be subjected to mommy shaming, but I’ll just have to deal with it,” Gauch said.

Many parents, like Gauch, are focusing on some research that suggests the rare possibility that young men and boys will develop

myocarditis, but the clinical trial data the FDA reviewed showed no cases in the 5-11 age group. Many experts say that the conditions usually improve quickly and that COVID presents far greater risk of severe myocarditis.

The Biden administration recently announced that the shots would be given predominantly by pediatricians, community health centers and children’s hospitals, plus pharmacies and schools, which will carry the burden of persuading parents.

But a Kaiser policy brief noted that schools and pharmacists in regions where COVID vaccination rates are low may be reluctant to participate. Access in rural areas and for working parents will be considerable challenges, the authors said, and they noted that achieving equity will also be a concern; more than half of those newly eligible are children of color.

After what is expected to be an initial rush of eager parents (as happened with adults and teenagers), pediatricians say they are bracing for conversations they anticipate to be among the thorniest they have ever had.

“I know parents are probably bombarded with misinformation about vaccines, even within their social circles: ‘My friend said this. My mother-in-law said that,’” said Dr. Katherine Williamson, a pediatrician in Orange County, California. “I’m hoping I can make a difference.”

The decision is particularly hard for parents to make on behalf of their first child, said Emily Brunson, a medical anthropologist at Texas State University who researches parent vaccination choices. Because vaccine decision-making is so personal and complicated, she said, many parents are likely to put it off.

At heart, the decision is about which unknown — COVID or the vaccine — parents fear more. They may stack factors such as social routines, older relatives, school protocols and the likelihood of severe illness to confirm their intuitive bias about whether to allow their child to get the shot.

Parents who were predisposed not to vaccinate their child tended to dismiss the threat of serious illness from COVID as minuscule, saying that children who became seriously ill most likely had underlying conditions.

The argument that vaccinating children contributes to the community’s overall health does not get much traction, either.

Parents’ paramount focus is the well-being

of their own child. Although health officials contend an important reason to vaccinate is to protect the child, some parents said they believed that their healthy children would be injected with a novel vaccine largely to safeguard older adults, who had already lived full lives.

In interviews, some parents said that if the vaccine gained full approval for children (as the adult dose has) and schools required it, they would consider withdrawing their students. Dr. Cynthia Bader, a pediatrician in the Seattle area with an 8-year-old son, said that if her school district issued a vaccine mandate, she would clap her hands with joy but “then cringe at the idea of all the parents who will be coming to me seeking counseling for vaccine exemption forms.”

(Many parents will be difficult to persuade. The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics have published talking points for pediatricians and other proponents of the COVID vaccine for children.

Consensus: First, address the parents’ questions. But if they do not want to hear The Talk, do not force it.

Consensus: Fear tactics — generalized descriptions of children suffering in COVID wards — do not work.

Consensus: Emphasize the benefits of the COVID vaccine to the child in terms of emotional and physical well-being, including some semblance of pre-COVID social life. Invoke quarantines, remote learning.

Kim Cobb hopes that her family’s COVID ordeals will show others the benefits of vaccinating all eligible family members. She, her husband and their two older daughters, 14 and 12, got vaccinated quickly. But in August, her unvaccinated 10-year-old twins came down with COVID. Soon after, Cobb, a climate scientist at Georgia Tech, and her husband tested positive for breakthrough infections. Their two vaccinated children remained healthy.

The parents became miserably ill but did not require hospitalization, which they believe is because they were vaccinated.

All recovered, but Cobb and one twin have lingering respiratory distress.

“We’re in the third month post-infection, and we have to see pulmonologists, we have inhalers, we’re on medication, and we’re still having breathing difficulties,” Cobb said. “And this is not a kid who ever had respiratory symptoms.

“It was not foreseeable,” she continued.

“If you could avoid it, you would.”

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The transformation of the fitness industry

By MARK A. STEIN

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ike restaurants, retailers and other businesses normally conducted in crowded locations open to the public, the health and fitness industry in Europe is scrambling to recover and get its business back on track — as soon as it figures out what its business will look like.

The orders by public health authorities to close health and fitness clubs several times have had a profound effect on the industry. The consulting firm Deloitte estimates that clubs in Europe lost 15.4% of their members, or more than 10 million people, even when closures were relatively brief. Industry revenue fell twice as much, by almost 33%, as clients froze their accounts or requested refunds.

While the pandemic drags on, club executives are trying to fully understand how fundamentally COVID-19 has transformed their industry, which generated $96.7 billion in global revenue in 2019.

“For a long time now, I believe that too many health club leaders around the world assume they have the full and undivided attention of the exercising consumer,” said Ray Algar, a global fitness industry business adviser and analyst with Oxygen Consulting in Brighton, England. “That the gym sits at the top of some exercise industry hierarchy.”

“The gym may have once had this temporary monopoly, but this is over, and the pandemic has demonstrated that consumers can capably locate and enjoy many different gym substitutes,” he said.

“What the pandemic has done has made these gym substitutes more visible. So, this does represent a significant inflection point, because never has this global industry been challenged to demonstrate its right to serve and support the exercising consumer.”

Stefan Ludwig, a Deloitte partner and leader of the Sports Business Group, said that the lockdowns had indeed had a “significant impact on both consumer behavior and operator offerings.”

A report by ClubIntel, a marketing research and consulting firm, found that

closed clubs led many people to lose the habit of exercising regularly and caused others to try alternatives, such as biking, joining a walking club, signing up for video classes (dance and boxing are popular options) or buying an interactive device like a Peloton or Mirror.

Many customers, the report found, have chosen remote options offered by providers other than a fitness club. To retain or recoup pre-pandemic clientele, clubs need to increase those kinds of options and build a business model with diverse offerings like on-demand and streaming video. Many have already begun.

ClubIntel found that 27% of the 2,000 people who participated in an online survey said their fitness clubs offered digital fitness during COVID closures; that rose to 58% after clubs reopened.

“Many brick-and-mortar operators were quick to adapt their digital offerings, and these remain key to their success,” Ludwig said.

Customers seem open to remote workouts. MindBody, a fitness-software company, said 7% of customers it surveyed in 2019 used livestreamed workouts; during the pandemic the figure climbed past 80%. While three-fourths of those customers said they intended to return to a club when they could, many added that they also would continue virtual workouts.

“While digital offerings are here to stay, they are unlikely to replace the traditional brick-and-mortar services,” Ludwig said. “Operators are well-advised to integrate a comprehensive digital experience into their offerings while maintaining their on-site facilities.”

Tracking COVID-19 transmission rates, reconfiguring clubs and creating coronavirus protocols are important steps to rebuilding trust that gyms are safe environments and persuading clients to return to gyms. “The industry’s efforts, especially in Europe, has led to an encouraging member return rate,” Algar said.

PureGym, Europe’s second-largest gym brand with around 500 gyms cross the United Kingdom, Denmark and Swit-

Social distancing protocols are one area where fitness clubs like the Nuffield Health Sunbury Fitness and Wellbeing Gym outside of London are learning to adapt as businesses reopen. zerland, recently said it had 1.6 million members at the end of June 2021, which is about 94% of its June 2019 level.

To be competitive, fitness clubs cannot rely on what worked in the past.

Clubs must learn to bundle different options delivered via a variety of ways, such as live, streaming and on demand, rather than continue to view the industry as a zero-sum game that pits the gym against Peloton or Apple Fitness+, Algar said.

European operators will find that a diverse approach is easier to adopt because governments in many countries forgave business taxes and made grants to cover payrolls and overhead costs to mitigate the closure of brick-and-mortar clubs, Ludwig said. Only 1.4% of the clubs in Europe have closed since March 2020, compared with about 25% in the United States.

Similar support for the U.S. industry was proposed. The Gym Mitigation and Survival Act would offer grants of as much as $25 million to gym owners. But the bill, which has 157 co-sponsors, including 27 Republicans, has not moved out of the House Committee on Small

Business.

Bankruptcies also have been less common in Europe than in the United States. Two U.S. chains, 24 Hour Fitness USA and Gold’s Gym International, sought protection from creditors in spring 2020. 24 Hour Fitness closed more than 100 clubs, while Gold’s shut 30 before being acquired by RSG Group, owners of McFit, Germany’s largest fitness club operator.

Helen Durkin, executive vice president of public policy for the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association, said it was difficult for fitness clubs to forecast how radically the pandemic was transforming the industry, “but the need to be omnichannel has been talked about for a time and some have been planning for it.”

Durkin said COVID had accelerated innovation, pushing business owners to open more studios — that is, smaller locations devoted to a single discipline, such as yoga or Pilates — or offer dropin classes for which clients pay by the session rather than by the month. “The industry is looking at different pricing models,” she said.

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Union for John Deere Fed chair expects supply workers reaches tentative chain woes well into 2022 deal to end 2-week strike T T

By JEANNA SMIALEK AND MATTHEW PHILLIPS

By NOAM SCHEIBER

he United Automobile Workers announced Saturday that it had reached a tentative agreement with agriculture equipment maker Deere & Co., potentially ending a strike that began in mid-October and involved about 10,000 workers. The agreement must still be approved by the union’s members.

Deere workers primarily in Iowa and Illinois had gone on strike after rejecting an initial agreement with the company earlier in the month. Many workers had complained that the earlier proposed contract produced insufficient wage increases and that it denied a traditional pension to new employees, even though the company was on pace for a record of nearly $6 billion in profits this year.

“The negotiators focused on improving the areas of concern identified by our members during our last ratification process,” Chuck Browning, the UAW vice president who oversaw the negotiations, said in a statement that cited the new agreement’s “enhanced economic gains.”

The statement also said the agreement “continues to provide the highest quality health care benefits in the industry” but made no specific mention of the pension provisions. The union said it would not release details of the agreement until John Deere workers had a chance to review them.

Deere and Co. acknowledged the agreement in a statement but did not provide additional details.

The initial agreement voted down by the membership was announced by the union Oct. 1 and would have increased wages by 5% or 6% this year, depending on a worker’s pay grade, and by 3% more in both 2023 and 2025.

It would have increased pension benefits for many workers, but traditional pension benefits for workers hired after 1997 would have remained well below traditional benefits for workers hired before that year, and new hires would not have received a traditional pension at all.

The labor stoppage came at a moment when the number of strikes had increased relative to the previous several months, including more than 1,000 workers at Kellogg and more than 2,000 hospital workers in New York.

Some Deere workers have grown suspicious of their union leadership amid a series of corruption scandals involving UAW officials and executives at the company then known as Fiat Chrysler that have led to more than 15 convictions. Two recent UAW presidents were among them.

he pandemic-related shortages pushing consumer prices higher are poised to last longer than economists and policymakers expected, Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said on late last week — adding that while officials still expect the rate of inflation to moderate, the central bank is positioning itself to react if it does not.

Supply chain snarls that have slowed deliveries and swelled prices throughout 2021 are “likely to last longer than previously expected, likely well into next year,” The Federal Reserve is prepared to act if inflation is at risk of staying high, Powell said at a virtual confe- the Fed chair, Jerome H. Powell, said. rence held by the Bank for International Settlements-South African Reserve Bank. The the 1970s.

But there are signs that bond investors are beginsame is true for upward pressure on wages, he said. ning to worry that the long-lasting nature of the supply In recent months, the measure of inflation that the Fed focuses on has shown prices increasing 4% or shocks could lead to price gains that last. The pace of more from a year earlier. The “most likely case” is still price gains that investors expect is still nowhere near as that inflation will move back down toward the central high as it was in the 1970s, but the trend is notable.

“The longer that those issues continue, the less bank’s goal of 2% as supply chain kinks clear up and job likely that it is that we get a near-term rollover in inflagains improve, resolving short-term labor shortages and tion,” said Michael Pond, a market analyst who specialiallowing employers to stop bidding up pay, Powell said. zes in infl ation-protected bonds at Barclays.

But he signaled that the Fed was closely watching On Friday, one measure of the bond market’s exconsumer and business expectations to ensure that people did not begin to anticipate persistently higher pectations for average annual inflation over the next five prices, something that could prompt them to demand years, known as a “breakeven,” rose to a record high, higher wages and lock in longer-lasting inflation. His briefly topping 3%. Measures of longer-run inflation exremarks, arguably his most cautious yet on the burst in pectations also rose to multiyear highs.

Given the vast uncertainty about what will happen inflation, were in line with comments by several of his next, the Fed needs to be ready to adapt, Powell said. To colleagues in recent days, and came as a gauge of investhat end, he noted that the central bank was “on track” tor price predictions that economic policymakers have to begin a slowdown of its large-scale bond-buying purbeen monitoring carefully began to jump.

“The risk is that ongoing high inflation will begin to chases, a process that is expected to be completed by the lead price and wage setters to expect unduly high rates middle of next year.

Powell said that he was weighing the incomplete of inflation in the future,” Powell said. And if inflation recovery from the pandemic on one hand and inflation seemed likely to stay high, “we would certainly use our pressures on the other, and that striking the right balance tools to preserve price stability, while also taking into was critical. account the implications of our maximum employment When it comes to the service sector, “we want to goal.” give full time for it to come back before we start restraUntil recently, signals from the bond market — where inflation is a key consideration — had indicated ining demand with interest rate increases,” Powell said. little worry among investors that price gains from the At the same time, he said, inflation affects people in “groreopening of the economy would turn into the kind of ceries, and gas purchases, and things like that — we see structural inflation that dominated the economy during that, we know how painful that is.”

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Asian shares, U.S. futures slip after earnings disappointment A

sian shares and U.S. stock futures slipped on Friday, as Amazon (NASDAQ:) and Apple quarterly earnings bucked a recent strong trend and growth and inflation fears continued to weigh.

Investors, particularly in bond and currency markets, are also worried about varied responses by central banks worldwide to rising inflation.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.3% in early trading and was on track for a weekly loss of 1.3%, snapping three weeks of gains. reversed early losses to trade flat.

Asian shares were weighed by a fall in Nasdaq futures, which lost 0.73% as Apple Inc (NASDAQ:) and Amazon Inc posted results after the close that missed expectations. lost 0.4%.

“The background noise hasn’t changed for the last few weeks, people are still concerned around stagflation, slowing growth numbers and rising inflation, but that’s been priced more in the bond market than the equity market right now,” said Kerry Craig, global market strategist at JPMorgan (NYSE:) Asset Management.

Strong profit outlooks earnings have been keeping equity markets afloat and inflation is more worrying for bond investors than equity investors, Craig said. “At the same time, you’re having not exactly clear messaging from the central bank responses around the world.”

Chinese shares fell less than most other markets, with local blue chips trading flat, though the Hong Kong benchmark lost 0.83%, once again weighed by mainland Chinese property stocks.

However, China Evergrande Group’s shares opened up 1.2% following news that the cash-strapped developer had made payments for an offshore bond coupon ahead of Friday’s expiry of a grace period, meeting its second dollar-bond repayment obligation this month.

Overnight the and Nasdaq finished at record closing levels, while the closed just shy of its highest close. [.N] CENTRAL BANKS As inflation concerns grow, central banks’ rate policies remain in focus.

Speculation is rising that the Reserve Bank of Australia will not be able to stick with its guidance that it likely will not raise its 0.1% cash rate until 2024, after the Reserve Bank of Australia again on Friday declined to buy bonds to defend its 0.1% target for the 2024 bond yield.

That target is central to the RBA’s case, and as uncertainty around its prospects grow, bonds have sold off sharply.

Yields on three-year bonds have surged 33 basis points this week alone to 1.08%, the largest rise since 2009. A month ago they were trading at 0.30%.

Eurozone bond yields jumped on Thursday after European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde disappointed investors’ hopes she would calm their concerns over surging inflation and rate hikes.

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Biden, major world leaders face pressure on climate and COVID

President Joe Biden greets President Emmanuel Macron of France, right, and President Felix Tshisekedi of Congo, at the G20 summit in Rome on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021.

By JIM TANKERSLEY, KATIE ROGERS and SHASHANK BENGALI

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resh off a win Saturday with a global corporate tax agreement and some progress toward restoring the nuclear accord with Iran, President Joe Biden returned for the final day of the Group of 20 summit Sunday facing far more difficult challenges, including pressure to take stronger action on climate change and to make concrete progress on delivering COVID vaccines to the poorest countries.

The difficult agenda facing the leaders of 20 of the wealthiest nations, their first in-person meeting since the pandemic began, illustrated a widening divide with developing countries. Those nations have argued that industrialized countries have hoarded vaccines and squandered decades of opportunities to slow the warming of the planet.

After the summit in Rome, Biden and other leaders will travel to Glasgow, Scotland, for a United Nations climate conference, where they will confront demands from scientific experts and many developing countries to rapidly reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for heating the planet. The talks in Glasgow, known as COP26, come as the U.N. warns of a looming climate catastrophe and are shaping up as a test of whether global cooperation is even possible to address a crisis that does not recognize national borders.

A senior administration official told reporters Saturday evening that American negotiators were pushing for concrete progress from the summit on reducing methane emissions, decarbonizing the global power sector and ending international financing for coal projects.

For Biden, who has staked his presidency on his ability to forge consensus at home and abroad, the return to in-person diplomacy presented an opportunity for good news after weeks of negative headlines.

His struggles included the battle to unify Democrats in Congress behind his huge economic and environmental spending plan, as well as trying to manage the fallout from the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He began the weekend in Rome by smoothing things over with President Emmanuel Macron of France, acknowledging that the administration’s handling of a submarine deal had been “clumsy.”

Biden faced a trickier meeting Sunday morning with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, amid tensions over Ankara’s threats to expel ambassadors from the United States and other nations and its purchase of a Russian missile-defense system.

The second meeting between the men since Biden’s inauguration came just days after Erdogan had threatened to expel 10 diplomats, including the American ambassador, for calling for the release of a jailed Turkish philanthropist. That

dispute was resolved with an exchange of diplomatic statements but underlined how volatile the relationship remains.

The meeting Sunday ended without any result except to keep talking, reflecting a recognition of their need to engage despite the breadth of disagreements, largely in view of Turkey’s influence in several critical regions, including Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Turkish media played up the length of the meeting, which lasted more than an hour and reported a government official saying that it was held in a “very positive atmosphere.”

Points of dispute between the leaders remain large, especially over Turkey’s purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system. Erdogan has refused to step back from the purchase, despite sanctions and expulsion from a U.S. defense program to develop the F-35 stealth fighter jet.

But facing pressure at home over a deteriorating economy from a strengthened opposition, Erdogan is looking for a deal to replace the F-35 program and has asked to purchase new, U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to update its fleet with money it had already spent for the F-35s.

A senior Biden administration official said that the president “took on board” Erdogan’s desire to procure F-16s “but made very clear that there is a process that we have to go through in the U.S. and committed to continuing to work through that process.” Congressional authorization is required for the sale.

A U.S. statement released after the meeting said that Biden “noted U.S. concerns over Turkey’s possession of the Russian S-400 missile system. He also emphasized the importance of strong democratic institutions, respect for human rights, and the rule of law for peace and prosperity.”

A Turkish statement said the two sides agreed to boost trade, and continue to strengthen and develop strategic ties.

But with no further bilateral meetings planned, the talks showed that “this is no longer a core strategic relationship for either side,” said Asli Aydintasbas, senior fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations.

“Both want to manage it, and the Biden administration is keen to avoid new crises with Turkey,” she said.

Erdogan has not been able to deflect other disputes that have badly dented his country’s investment climate, including a Justice Department case that accuses state-owned lender Halkbank of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran and the inclusion of Turkey on a global money laundering “gray list” for failing to do enough to curb terrorist financing.

Ahead of the meeting, officials had said that the leaders would discuss regional issues including the conflict in Syria, where Erdogan has threatened another incursion to push back Syrian government forces and allies from an area close to the Turkish border.

Afghanistan, where Turkey has been meeting with the ruling Taliban in an attempt to encourage them to adopt a more moderate stance, and Libya, where Ankara intervened militarily to support the government in Tripoli, were discussed, officials said.

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Protesters march in Rome, chanting: ‘We are not the G-20, we are change.’

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO and EMMA BUBOLA

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everal thousand protesters marched in Rome Saturday afternoon, dancing, drumming and singing “Bella Ciao,” a song identified with the resistance movement during World War II. They vented their rage and disenchantment with the current world order: “You are the G-20, we are the future,” they chanted, as they wound down a Rome avenue, setting off red and green flares.

At least 5,000 people joined the march, according to police officials, although organizers said the number was more than twice that.

This year is the 20th anniversary of the Group of 8 major industrialized nations summit in Genoa, Italy that was marred by rioting. It is also a moment of tension between authorities and opponents of the Italian government’s coronavirus vaccination requirements, which have resulted in violent clas-

hes.

“The level of attention is maximum,” said Giovanni Borrelli, a local government official, adding that 5,500 extra law enforcement officers had been deployed this weekend in response to the protests.

Protesters on Saturday represented a broad range of groups and causes: students and vaccine skeptics, labor union members and climate change activists, Romans opposing the government health pass required for workers and representatives of groups such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International.

“It’s Oct. 30, and it’s super hot. And that scares me,” said Valeria Cigliana, 18, one of the many people voicing discontent over what they see as inaction on climate change.

Wearing a T-shirt on a warm autumn afternoon, Cigliana spoke in front of a banner that read “The alternative to G20 is us.”

That sentiment was expressed time and again by protesters.

Holding a handmade cardboard placard that read “No $ for instruction, no future

Demonstrators march to demand action on the climate crisis during the G20 Summit in Rome, Oct. 30, 2021. for the country,” Sara Degennaro, a 20-yearold archaeology student, said the G-20 leaders did not “represent the concerns we face in our future.”

Naida Samonà, 39, who traveled from Sicily to attend the protest, said, “In a lockeddown city behind closed doors, they decide on our skin.” Sicily was ravaged by a cyclone in the past week, she noted. “The climate crisis is happening under my eyes every day,”

she said. “We are clearly on the brink of collapse.”

Felipe Gonzalez, 27, who came from Spain to join the protest, was dressed in a skeleton costume and held an inflamed paper planet and a banner that read “Capitalism is death.”

“We are destroying the planet, and the leaders do not do anything to address that,” he said.

Some protesters had optimistic views.

Sara Mastrogiovanni, a librarian from Rome, brought her 8-year-old daughter Ambra to the march. “I want her to better understand the world,” she said, adding: “And I want her to see that we all have a right to express our ideas. It’s the only way to arrive at solutions.”

His face streaked with green, Mauro Cioci, a 19-year-old high school student, arrived with friends from the Tuscan city of Pistoia to march. Many days, he said, he is pessimistic about what lies ahead. “But on days like today,” he said, looking around at the thousands in the crowd, “I am optimistic.”

Biden received communion at a church in Rome, a day after the pope’s blessing.

By JASON HOROWITZ

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resident Joe Biden received communion Saturday evening at St. Patrick’s Church in Rome, a day after he announced that Pope Francis had told him during their long private meeting at the Vatican that he should continue taking the sacrament.

Some conservative bishops in the United States have said the president, a Catholic and a regular churchgoer, should be denied communion because of his support for abortion rights.

Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attended Mass at St. Patrick’s, an English-speaking church dedicated to the American Catholic community, after a day of high-level negotiations at the Group of 20 summit.

“It meant a lot to the American church in Rome that he made this special effort to be there to be present and to worship with us,” said the Rev. Steven J. Petroff, the church’s rector, who offered Biden communion.

Petroff had heard of Biden’s remarks about Francis telling him he was a “good Catholic” and that he should keep receiving communion. But that news, the priest said,

changed nothing for him.

“If the pope had said nothing, I would have done nothing differently,” Petroff said.

Still, he said, the pope’s remarks, as relayed

by Biden, were “important and clarifying” and “reassuring.”

The Vatican had declined to confirm or deny Biden’s account, saying it was a private conversation.

Earlier this month, Nancy Pelosi also visited St. Patrick’s, near the U.S. Embassy, but was forced to leave before taking communion because security officials determined that a violent protest nearby over a health pass constituted a threat.

Petroff said he would have given Pelosi communion and was proud to have offered it to Biden. He simply did what he was trained to do, he said, which was offer the Eucharist, which he called a “gift to be shared,” to the president, who was in line with the few dozen other worshippers Saturday evening.

“He was in line like everyone else,” Petroff said. “People in front of him and people behind him.”

At the end of Mass, Petroff acknowledged Biden’s attendance, who stood

in a back pew with his wife. He welcomed him and thanked him — and said he prayed for him and for the work he did.

The parishioners applauded, he said.

As the couple left the church, Petroff joked to Biden, who often talks about his

Irish heritage, that he had no choice but to visit a church named St. Patrick’s. The president, he said, joked back that he had Italian roots, too.

It was as if Biden “had it all covered,” he said.

President Biden leaving St. Patrick’s Church on Saturday in Rome.

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Russia sets record for virus cases as it starts weeklong holiday

By VALERIE HOPKINS

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ussia announced a record number of new infections Saturday before a “nonworking week” that authorities hope will slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Authorities reported 40,251 new infections in the preceding 24 hours, a record, and 1,160 deaths. More than 237,380 have died of COVID-19.

President Vladimir Putin has largely left it to regional governors to implement pandemic-related restrictions but has recently taken a more active role, ordering that all nonessential workers stay home from Oct. 30 until Nov. 7.

Moscow, with 7,267 new infections in the past 24 hours, has been an epicenter of the pandemic. The city began a light lockdown two days earlier. Schools, kindergartens, nonessential shops, restaurants, bars and gyms are closed, while museums and theaters remain open at 50% capacity.

As in other regions, the health care system is being put to the test.

“Health care is working to its limits,” Moscow’s regional governor, Andrei Vorobiev, told the government network Channel One earlier in the week.

He noted that more than 500 people were on ventilators, also a record number. He said that 80% of the 10,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients had not

A worker disinfects a train station in Moscow, Oct. 28, 2021. Russia announced a record number of new infections on Saturday ahead of a “nonworking week” that authorities hope will slow the spread of the coronavirus. been vaccinated.

Anna Popova, the head of Russia’s consumer health watchdog, said the

more contagious AY.4.2 strain of the delta variant had been identified in the Moscow region.

Only about one-third of Russians are fully vaccinated, although the rates in Moscow are higher. Scholars attribute this to mistrust in the authorities and in vaccines. Authorities hope the restrictions will motivate more people to get the shots.

Russia’s statistics agency said Friday that 44,265 people had died of COVID-19 or complications from it in September.

Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, has said he hopes that the city will reopen Nov. 7, despite rumors swirling that the restrictions will be extended for several more weeks, or until the New Year. He has also introduced free express COVID-19 tests and announced stricter enforcement of a mask mandate on the Moscow Metro.

The restrictions have polarized re-

sidents of the capital city. Travel agencies reported unusually high interest in package vacations for the week. Some residents complained about the fact that there is no system in place to allow vaccinated people to live normally and enter venues using QR codes as proof of vaccination, which could be an incentive to get the vaccine. Others complain that recent measures are too little, too late.

“We needed to do this sooner, because the numbers are scary,” said Anna Zhurba, a 33-year-old museum employee. “Today, we have the highest number of new infections yet. How will one week improve the situation?”

Institutions can decide independently to use QR codes, although there is no mandate. Zhurba said that when her museum announced a requirement to show a QR code upon entry, some responded by calling the restriction a “fascist way of dividing people.”

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A world running on empty

By PAUL KRUGMAN

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t’s been a troubled few months on the economic front.

Inflation has soared to a 28-year high. Supermarket shelves are bare, and gas stations closed. Good luck if you’re having problems with your home heating system: Replacing your boiler, which normally takes 48 hours, now takes two or three months. President Joe Biden really is messing up, isn’t he?

Oh, wait. That inflation record was set not in America but in Germany. Stories about food and gasoline shortages are coming from Britain. The boiler replacement crisis seems to be hitting France especially hard.

And one major driver of recent inflation, in America and everywhere else, has been a spike in energy prices — prices that are set in world markets, on which any one country, even the United States, has limited influence. Donald Trump has been claiming that if he were president, gas would be below $2 a gallon. How exactly does he imagine he could achieve that, when oil is traded globally and America accounts for only about a fifth of the world’s oil consumption?

In other words, the problems that have been crimping recovery from the pandemic recession seem, by and large, to be global rather than local. That’s not to say that

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national policies are playing no role. For example, Britain’s woes are partly the result of a shortage of truck drivers, which in turn has a lot to do with the exodus of foreign workers after Brexit. But the fact that everyone seems to be having similar problems tells us that policy is playing less of a role than many people seem to think. And it does raise the question of what, if anything, the United States should be doing differently.

So why does the whole world seem to be running on empty?

Many observers have been drawing parallels with the stagflation of the 1970s. But so far, at least, what we’re experiencing doesn’t look much like that. Most economies have been growing, not shrinking; unemployment has been falling, not rising. While there have been some supply disruptions — Chinese ports have suffered closures as a result of COVID outbreaks, in March a fire at a Japanese factory that supplies many of the semiconductor chips used in cars around the world hit auto production, and so on — these disruptions aren’t the main story.

Probably the best parallel is not with 1974 or 1979 but with the Korean War, when inflation spiked, hitting almost 10% at an annual rate, because supply couldn’t keep up with surging demand.

Is demand really all that high? Real final sales (purchases for consumption or investment) in the United States hit a record high but are roughly back to the prepandemic trend. However, the composition of demand has changed.

During the worst of the pandemic, people were unable or unwilling to consume services like restaurant meals, and they compensated by buying more stuff — consumer durables like cars, household appliances and electronics. At their peak, purchases of durable goods were an astonishing 34% above prepandemic levels; they’ve come down some but are still very high. Something similar seems to have happened around the world.

Meanwhile, supply has been constrained not just by clogged ports and chip shortages but also by the Great Resignation, the apparent reluctance of many workers to return to their old jobs. Like inflation and shortages of goods, this is an international phenomenon. Reports from Britain, in particular, sound remarkably like those from the United States: Large numbers of workers, especially older workers, appear to have chosen to stay at home and perhaps retire early after having been forced off their jobs by COVID-19.

While the problems may be global, the political fallout is local: Shortages and inflation are clearly hurting Biden’s approval rating. But what could or should U.S. policymakers be doing differently?

As I’ve already suggested, energy prices are largely

out of U.S. control.

A few months ago, there were widespread claims that enhanced unemployment benefits were discouraging workers from accepting jobs. Many states rushed to cancel these benefits even before they expired at a national level in early September. But there has been no visible positive effect on labor supply.

Should current shortages inspire caution about Democratic spending plans? No. At this point, the Build Back Better agenda, if it happens at all, will amount to only about 0.6% of GDP over the next decade, largely paid for by tax increases. It won’t be a significant inflationary force; if anything, more spending on infrastructure would help alleviate inflationary pressures over time.

Other things might help. I’ve argued that vaccine mandates, by making Americans feel safer about going to work and buying services rather than goods, could play a role in unclogging supply chains.

What’s left? If inflation really starts to look as if it’s getting embedded in the economy, the Federal Reserve should head it off by tightening policy, eventually by raising interest rates. It’s important to realize, however, that raising rates too soon could turn out to be a big mistake, since the Fed won’t have much room to cut rates if demand weakens.

The most important point, however, may be not to overreact to current events. The fact that shortages and inflation are happening around the world is an indication that national policies aren’t the main cause of the problems. They are, instead, largely inevitable as economies try to restart after the epic disruptions caused by COVID-19. It will take time to sort things out — more time than most people, myself included, expected. But a frantic attempt to restore the status quo on inflation would do more harm than good.

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No del Sector Privado a enmendar las leyes laborales POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Un grupo de asociaciones del sector privado expresaron el domingo insatisfacción ante una posible aprobación del proyecto de la Cámara de Representantes (PC-03), que incluye cambios a las leyes laborales las cuales a su juicio incrementan los costos de hacer negocio en la Isla e iría en detrimento del desarrollo económico en la Isla.

“No podemos continuar cambiando las leyes laborales constantemente. Mantener un patrón de continuos cambios, desestabiliza la economía en momentos en que estamos recuperándonos luego del impacto que ha tenido la pandemia.

Deseamos ser un atractivo para que más empresas inviertan en nuestra Isla y que más personas se unan a la clase laboral”, expresó Iván Báez, presidente de la Asociación de Comercio Al Detal (ACDET).

Mientras tanto, el vice presidente de MIDA, Manuel Reyes, resaltó que “varias de estas enmiendas laborales tienen un impacto negativo en las empresas y aumenta el costo de hacer negocio. Adicional, del aumento de un 35% en las tarifas de transportación terrestre, que impuso el Negociado de Transporte”.

Asimismo, Reyes destacó que “es fatal aprobar legislación laboral de manera independiente, por pedazos, sin un análisis de impacto conjunto. Los beneficios

42 casos positivos y dos muertes en informe COVID-19 del DS POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud reportó el domingo sobre 42 casos positivos confirmados y dos muertes.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 15 al 29 de octubre de 2021.

Los fallecidos son dos hombres de 56 y 71 años de la Región de Bayamón y Región Metropolitana.

Hay 38 adultos hospitalizados y 4 menores.

Con una dosis hay al menos dos millones, 540 mil, 783 personas. Con las dosis completadas hay dos millones, 306 mil, 341 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 3,234.

Aviso: Trabajos en la PR-1 en Ponce POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas y la Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación continuarán los trabajos de construcción y depósito de asfalto en la PR-1, kilómetros 123.1 al 124.1 en ambas direcciones entre Ponce Centro y Mercedita.

Las obras continuarán el día de hoy lunes, 1 de noviembre hasta el miércoles, 3 de noviembre en horario de 9:00 am a 3:30 pm. Conllevará el cierre del carril izquierdo en ambas direcciones. Los conductores contarán con dos carriles disponibles mientras duran los trabajos. Podrán utilizar las sali-

das 98B y la 101B. Se anticipa posible congestión vehicular en la zona.

Recomendamos a los ciudadanos utilizar la aplicación WAZE para buscar rutas alternas según su conveniencia y reducir los retrasos en su tiempo de viaje.

Dentro de las zonas de construcción trabajan muchas personas, por lo que exhortamos a los conductores a estar atentos a las señales y otros dispositivos para el control del tránsito a ser instalados en el área, para su seguridad y orientación. Los ciudadanos pueden mantenerse informados sobre los trabajos y proyectos a través de las redes sociales, Facebook/DTOP, Twitter @DTOP y @ACT.

marginales cuestan en función de los salarios y la legislatura acaba de aprobar aumentos sin el debido análisis”.

“Estos nuevos cambios laborales tendrían un impacto nefasto en la industria de los productos hechos en Puerto Rico aumentando los costos de producción”, añadió Aysha Issa, presidenta de Hecho en Puerto Rico.

“Nos sentimos sorprendidos de estos cambios laborales donde no se ha tomado en consideración la opinión del sector productivo del País, en momentos que nos estamos recuperando por los efectos de la pandemia y sobretodo con un Gobierno que está en quiebra”, destacó el presidente de la Cámara de Comercio, Luis Gierbolini.

Asimismo, Jesús Vázquez Rivera, presidente del Centro Unido de Detallista (CUD), puntualizó que “los desaciertos en las enmiendas a la reforma laboral van a mantener una economía inestable luego de todos los esfuerzos en el intento de sacar a flote a los pequeños y medianos comerciantes, quienes ya han tenido el mayor impacto por los cierres durante la pandemia y el terrible impuesto al inventario. Pese al cierre de los comercios por un periodo, le añades los altos costos por energía eléctrica. De aprobarse el PC-03, sería un golpe adicional a los pequeños y medianos comerciantes”.

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Music in the time of COVID: Celebrity piano in Old City

By PEGGY ANN BLISS catbliss40@gmail.com

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ince she was a young girl, Old San Juan denizen Jan D’Esopo has worked in an artistic medium she molds with her hands, conceives with her eyes and creates from her heart.

Now the 87-year-old sculptor/painter and doyenne of the Gallery Inn Boutique Hotel has added another dimension – her ears. And she’s inviting pandemic-starved concertgoers to hear the virtuosi in her 18th-century space.

She has launched a new series – Celebrity Pianists – adding chairs to her second-floor Music Room, baptizing it The Steinway Salon for its grand piano and for the local society she founded in 2015 with island concert pianist José “Kiko” Ramos Santana to carve a legacy for emerging keyboard artists, especially those who cannot afford an instrument.

“This will be something for the next generations,” she said, after opening the new series supported by the society’s Puerto Rico Charitable Trust for the Education of Young Musicians. One of their recent success stories was Conservatory of Puerto Rico graduate Bryan Ojeda, who in 2018 made his debut with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, and who recently gave a pre-season concert at the Gallery Inn with musician colleagues to raise money for his tuition at New York University, where he will undertake master’s degree studies in piano.

The new Steinway season began Sept.

21 with American favorite Michael Lewin offering an impressive interpretation of works by Beethoven, Debussy and Chopin and Scarlatti, among others.

A second concert followed by Ukrainian virtuoso Stanislav Khristenko, called “poet of the piano,” by Belgium’s “Le Soir.”

After more than a year of Zoom presentations, the concert was a high note, said Lewin, in his second live performance since the quarantine began on March 15, 2020.

“I tired of doing virtual concerts and just stopped,” he said with palpable emotion. “I needed to get back to live audiences.”

Not only has the situation devastated

It’s the piano, stupid What is it about the piano that beckons to D’Esopo, who is not a musician?

“I fell in love through my father Giuseppe D’Esopo, a professor of medicine at Yale who actually studied piano at the university Music Department,” she said.

Back in the 1950s, a magnificent Steinway D became available on campus and her father brought it home, where it shared a long and happy life in the D’Esopo living room. It was not until 1989 that the instrument was shipped to the historic mansion where his daughter had already been building her dream since 1961. That year the young divorced mother with two small children arrived from Boston (Bennington College art degree in hand) to rescue the abandoned residence of the Spanish artillery commander of nearby El Morro Fortress. With the help of relatives on the island and restoration funds from the Old City, she “I just had to get back to live audiences,” bought the ruined setting, and set about Michael Lewin told an enthusiastic audienrestoring and embedding it with the jewels ce at the Steinway Series opening. of great European and Puerto Rican painters. As she became inspired by the island, performers financially and artistically, it has D’Esopo contributed hundreds of her own plunged devotees into a cultural void. watercolors, oils and especially sculptures.

“I can’t believe we haven’t heard Just as the artist transformed this sixMichael in a year and a half,” gushed one villa space into a museum with her hands, opening-night fan, who had followed Lewin for 19 consecutive years in the Ponce Art Museum.

“We don’t mind taking over, if Ponce can’t,” said D’Esopo, noting that the cultural icon had not yet resumed its popular concerts after earthquakes and COVID hit in rapid succession.

The series continues Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. with pianist Jorge Luis Prats, a frequent visitor to San Juan. Prats, 66, has been a citizen of Spain since 2005 after a full career in his native Cuba, including as artistic director of the Cuba National Symphony. He studied with the famed Paul Badura Skoda in Vienna, and other master teachers in Paris, Moscow and Warsaw.

British pianist Ian Hobson, whose international festival D’Esopo has hosted for seven consecutive years, will handle the fourth concert Nov. 16 with cellist Ko Iwasaki and violinist Andrés Cárdenes and Ramos Santana will wind up the series Dec. 7.

José & Jan

the beloved family piano conquered the ear space, as music permeated every rafter, and more pianos moved in.

With eight pianos – six of them Steinways – spread throughout The Gallery’s seven-level structure, the sky’s the limit for her latest dream. When no one is practicing, recordings of pianists who have played there fill the air.

The many pianos will “allow those who have no piano to practice on only the best,” D’Esopo says.

Celebrating the launching of the society, a state-of-the-art Spirio moved in under a dazzling chandelier in the new Cannon Room, a superb showcase for Puerto Rican pianists aiming for Carnegie Hall.

In this Venetian-style pub with an entrance on San Sebastián Street, guests, society members and other music lovers can attend live jazz and classical concerts. All profits go to the foundation for pianists.

Dedicated to late co-proprietor (and D’Esopo’s husband) Héctor Manuel “Manuco” Gandía, the intimate space provides an elegant atmosphere to raise money for young pianists.

For information about the Steinway Society, call (787) 433-4015 or visit steinwaysocietyofpr@gmail.com.

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Five international movies to stream now

Yuh-Jung Youn, left, and Kang Mal-Geum in “Lucky Chan-sil.”

By DEVIKA GIRISH

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n the age of streaming, Earth is flat — screen-size — with travel to faraway destinations only a monthly subscription and a click away. We’ve journeyed through the world of options and chosen the best new international movies for you to watch.

‘The Intruder’ HBO Max This Argentine fantasy-thriller shape-shifts so deftly over the course of its 94-minute run time that to summarize it is like trying to pin down an eel. In the film’s opening, we’re plunged into scenes of BDSM only to realize that we’re in the recording studio where Inés (Erica Rivas), the singer and voice actor at the center of “The Intruder,” dubs for trashy foreignlanguage films. In the 20 more minutes that pass before the title card appears, there’s also a drug-induced reverie on an airplane and a romantic tiff that leads to a mysterious death — with quite a few cringe-laughs along the way.

Director Natalia Meta maintains this tricky tightrope walk all throughout the film as Inés, traumatized by the sudden loss of her lover, is soon plagued by strange visions and aural intrusions (brought to eerie sonic life by sound designer Guido Berenblum) that disrupt her choir practice and recording sessions. Another film

might have turned the midlife-crisis-stricken Inés and her malaise into solemn vehicles for allegory. Meta resists this temptation, instead unfurling a wry and kooky genre fable that indulges in the sensuousness of Inés’ otherworldly encounters — particularly with a sexy, mysterious organ tuner played by Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, who slithers around the film like a specter — than in any labored symbolism.

‘Endless Night’ Mubi A superbly inventive seance of the unhealed wounds and fascist phantoms of the Spanish Civil War, Eloy Enciso’s feature unfolds as a series of abstract, talky vignettes adapted from letters, diaries and plays from the era of Gen. Francisco Franco. A sparse and sinuous thread of plot connects these segments: Anxo, a former fighter in the Republican army, returns to his hometown in Galicia and encounters various scenes either as an interlocutor or as a peripheral observer. Some scenes are whimsical, such as a conversation between two beggars about their place in the world, and others are harrowing, as when, in a still, extended shot, a woman recounts memories of imprisonment and torture.

Nonprofessional actors deliver these exchanges, both fictional and real, archly, against a breathtaking Galician countryside thick with mist and intrigue, so that the

horrors of the war feel suspended in time and space — detached from their sources, like unresolved ghosts. Enciso brings these repressed histories to a simmer in the film’s final segment, where Anxo wanders through a dark wood, whispered voices from the past swirling around him, threatening to erupt into a precarious present.

‘Ibrahim: A Fate to Define’ Netflix Part of a newly added collection of movies on Netflix titled “Palestinian Stories,” Lina Al Abed’s autobiographical documentary probes into a familial tragedy both personal and historical in scope: the sudden disappearance of her father, Ibrahim, in 1987, when Al Abed was just 7 years old and living in exile with her family in Syria. Ibrahim was a member of the Abu Nidal Organization, a Palestinian liberation group. At some point, he vanished mysteriously, and the clue that sends Al Abed on her investigative journey is little more than a footnote: a comment in an investigative book by Patrick Seale that contends that Ibrahim was suspected of being a CIA and Mossad spy and killed.

In interviewing her mother, siblings and relatives, who live all over the world, Al Abed confronts questions about filial responsibility, political will and martyrdom. What could compel a father to abandon his family? What makes people fight — even die — for their country? At the heart of “Ibrahim: A Fate to Define” is Al Abed’s struggle to reconcile her own sense of rootlessness with her father’s undying commitment. Her journey becomes less about locating Ibrahim’s fate and more about tracing the threads that connect them both, and, in turn, generations of dispersed Palestinians.

‘Gaia’ Hulu This South African thriller is as schlocky as eco-horror gets, with upsidedown drone shots of a verdant forest; travelers venturing off the beaten jungle path in willful denial of obvious danger; and nebulous elemental villains that signify, vaguely, the revenge of nature against man. Yet there’s something eminently watchable amid the thicket of cliches that make up Jaco Bouwer’s “Gaia.”

Like “Annihilation,” “Gaia” understands that the porosity of the boundaries

between the human body and its environment is as beautiful as it is terrifying.

Loosely following Gabi, a forest ranger, as she’s injured and then taken in by an Earth-worshipping father-son duo of survivalists deep in Tsitsikamma National Park, the film is in essence a procession of images of seductive somatic terror. Fungi sprout through skin; an overgrown corpse resembles a vivid, ash-dusted bouquet; the yonic inside of a tree-trunk gapes wide, emanating a blood-red halo. Even when the tableaux veer into corniness — at one point, a character humps the roots of a tree — the film’s imaginative, CGIenhanced cinematography and haunting sound design evoke a powerful reverence for Mother Earth that draws you in as if into a ritual.

‘Lucky Chan-sil’ Mubi This tender Korean drama enlivens a familiar premise — a woman navigating a midlife crisis after a traumatic loss — with strange and idiosyncratic whimsy. Directed by Kim Cho-hee, who has produced films for Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, “Lucky Chan-sil” opens with an alcoholsoaked scene straight out of Hong’s movies before taking a tragicomic turn: As a film crew unwinds over an evening of drinking and bantering, the director has a sudden heart attack and collapses.

His longtime producer, Chan-sil, finds her life unraveling in the aftermath of this tragedy as she struggles to find jobs (it doesn’t help that she has only ever worked with one director) and contemplates a life without her singular obsession: movies. Characters both real and imagined offer wisdom, respite and comedy: There’s Chan-sil’s curmudgeonly landlady, played

by Yuh-Jung Youn of “Minari” fame, who is dealing with grief of her own; a handsome young filmmaker whose poor taste in movies leaves Chan-sil torn; and the ghost of Leslie Cheung, a legendary Hong Kong singer and actor, who magically appears every now and then in his underwear to offer Chan-sil advice on love and life. A beautifully simple, endearingly silly film about the powers of cinema and the fantasies that both hold us back and propel us forward, “Lucky Chan-sil” shimmers with the charm of its lead actress, Kang Mal-Geum.

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Traveling alone, in groups

By DEBRA KAMIN

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fter Sheila Katz’s husband died of a degenerative nervous system disorder in April, she knew she had to get away. But her husband had been her travel partner, and without him, she was hesitant to travel alone. The pandemic’s ever-shifting travel regulations were intimidating as well.

So Katz, 45, did something she’d never done before: She joined a group tour.

“I wanted to not be totally alone, but also to be able to do my own thing when I wanted,” she said. So in July, she joined a group of 17 fully vaccinated travelers heading to Belize with EF Go Ahead Tours, making friends as she snorkeled, visited Mayan ruins and took chocolate- and tortilla-making classes.

Solo travelers like Katz are joining guided tours at unprecedented rates, say tour organizers, with some companies reporting single bookings up 300% over those from couples, families or clusters of friends. The majority of these lone travelers have never taken a group trip before. After years of planning their own trips and traveling solo or with a partner, the pandemic — with its months of isolation and its Byzantine travel rules for testing, masks and vaccination — has pushed them to change their ways.

Katz, a sociology professor at the University of Houston, had just endured the tenure-review process while also navigating her grief. She was exhausted and had no interest in parsing border regulations or stressing out about potential exposure to the coronavirus.

For her trip to Belize, everyone in the group had to be vaccinated, which lifted a proverbial weight from her shoulders.

“Had it not been a pandemic, I probably would have just gone to lie on a Caribbean beach for seven days,” she said.

‘Even solo travelers want to travel with people sometimes’ The National Tour Association, a professional organization for tour operators, said the group travel industry as a whole has yet to recover from the pandemic’s blow to its business. “Half of our tour operators don’t expect their company to outperform 2019 metrics until 2023,” said Bob Rouse, NTA’s vice president of communication.

But even before the pandemic, group

Group tour companies are accommodating more and more solo travelers, who are looking for company — and someone else to handle the complexities of traveling during the pandemic. travel was gaining a foothold among two key demographics: women and millennials. Travel companies catering specifically to women have increased by 230% over the past six years, while a flurry of new travel startups, including AvantStay and TRIPS by the Culture Trip, have grown by marketing toward those born after 1980.

Women’s interest in group travel is perhaps most notable. Katalina Mayorga, CEO of El Camino Travel, which offers small group tours for women, says that sales for the fourth quarter of 2021 are 200% higher than the same period in 2019, and 65% of those booking are doing so as solo travelers. Contiki’s customers skew 60% female.

Allison Scola, founder of Experience Sicily, says solo women on her tours now make up 66% of guests, while at Indus Travels, 80% of customers booking spots on tours for solo travelers are now women. Ninety percent of Indus’ customers this year are booking for the first time.

“Even solo travelers want to travel with people sometimes, especially people who they have something in common with,” said Amanda Black, founder of The Solo Female Traveler Network, where women can book

individual tickets for group trips across the globe. Black, 35, restarted her tours in May after shutting down at the start of the pandemic, and said bookings have been steadily climbing.

After months of isolation, it seems, many women miss socializing.

“I live alone, so, it’s been a lot of alone time,” said Jes Maxfield, 34, a client service manager in Boston who booked a trip to Greece with FTLO Travel in August. The group included eight women and one man, and the man broke his foot on the second day and had to fly home. By the end of the trip, a sisterhood had emerged. “It was really nice to meet so many similar, like-minded women, and to share a beautiful place with them,” she said.

The idea of safety in numbers also plays a part. “To hike through the woods by myself isn’t exactly the safest thing to do,” said Emily Cardona, 36, a New Yorker who took outdoor group trips over the past 18 months with Outerthere, a New York Citybased tour company. The trips were a refuge, she said, from the stress of her two jobs as a senior care manager and mental health therapist.

The millennial connection “It’s almost as if the difficulties of traveling during the pandemic have helped millennials get over the idea that group tours aren’t cool,” said Tara Cappel, founder and CEO of FTLO Travel, where bookings for 2022 are up 225% over 2019. FTLO caters to 20- and 30-somethings, and first-time customers — many of them joining solo — comprise 82% of those bookings; 75% of travelers booking for 2022 are women.

In many cases, the shift to millennialfocused marketing is redefining the idea of what it means to travel on an organized tour in the first place.

“It was really intimate, and we kind of just looked like some friends who were traveling,” said Autumn Lewis, an attorney in Los Angeles who took her first-ever group tour, a trip to Greece run by Tripsha, in July. “It’s not like you’re having an experience where you just follow the guy with the umbrella.”

The new allure of organized travel “If there’s one thing the pandemic has shown us, it’s that the value of tour operators has increased tenfold,” said Terry Dale, president and CEO of the U.S. Tour Operators Association.

Like travel agents, who are also enjoying a resurgence in popularity, much of that value comes when a traveler can delegate the pandemic mental load: Which vaccine card is valid?

On which day do I need to take my PCR test?

But after months of isolation, the group tour’s strongest draw may be its most obvious: It comes with a built-in community.

“Women who have been booking tours with us have definitely been doing so because they want someone who can navigate the COVID restrictions. But there are a number of other motivations,” said Meg Jerrard, co-founder of Solo Female Travelers, which runs small group tours for women. Safety is a major concern, she said, and “the stigma of being alone is another key motivator.”

Katz, the widow in Texas, had expected that for some meals on her tour, people would go off and do their own thing. She was wrong.

“Our tour guides had to go out of their way because we all wanted to have all of our meals together,” she said. “I think we were all just so thankful to not be in our living rooms, staring at the wall.”

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Monday, November 1, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

How my desire to run again pushed me to walk

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

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only began to understand why I was so stubbornly devoted to running when I couldn’t do it anymore. That’s where I was when I woke up in an emergency room on the morning of April 6, 2020, with a traumatic brain injury sustained during a dumb middle-of-the-night fall.

The last thing I remember I’d gone downstairs to the kitchen at 4 a.m. to get a snack. My husband heard a crash and found me unconscious, blood pooling from a large gash at the back of my head. When I woke up six hours later in an ER, my left side was a bit weak, but more important, my muscles on that side couldn’t properly coordinate basic movements.

At first, my steps were jerky and off balance, like those of a marionette. A tentative snail’s-pace walk was doable, but the faster I moved, the more awkward my gait became. Running was, literally, a nonstarter.

In the two days before the accident — a weekend — I had run 4 miles around Washington’s famous Mall, because, well, I was angry and frustrated and didn’t know what else to do. My mother was dying of COVID-19 in a locked-down elder care community in New York, and a former colleague who was about my age had just died of the disease. My son and his roommates in Brooklyn also had COVID-19. I couldn’t see friends or shop without fear, and I was learning to direct a 60-person newsroom covering the administration’s tepid response to an evolving pandemic remotely and from my bedroom.

But running on the Mall that day, the sky was a glorious blue, and the marble of the Washington Monument and the Capitol glistened. Lockdowns meant there were no tourist mobs. The cherry blossoms, in full bloom, didn’t care that the world was being ravaged by disease and hatred. And in their presence — for 40 minutes — neither did I. At 63, I’d ignored decades of advice from doctors that I should give up running and find a more suitable hobby. That was in part because during a brief career as a college soccer player, I’d had most of the cartilage in my right knee surgically removed after a small tear, leaving me (in theory) at high risk of degenerative arthritis. (At the time, orthopedists considered the medial meniscus a vestigial organ, like an appendix. So once it was damaged, they just whipped it out.)

Over the years, I had tried and rejected multiple exercise

I only began to understand why I was so stubbornly devoted to running when I couldn’t do it anymore writes Elisabeth Rosenthal, a physician turned journalist, after suffering a traumatic brain injury sustained during a middle-of-the-night fall. alternatives — yoga, Pilates, spinning, biking, Zumba, barre, elliptical. But I was as stubborn as a smoker who keeps puffing despite the risk of lung cancer. Running — through marriages, raising kids, job changes, life on three continents — had remained the one constant in my life. Though I never had the slightest desire for a coach or to do sprints to improve my form or get faster. I have only ever signed up for two races, and both were just to accompany friends. Competition and speed were not my thing.

When friends asked me why I kept running against medical advice I easily ticked off practical reasons: I needed exercise. It was a great way to get a sense of the cities I visited as a reporter. With a busy job and two kids, time was precious and hours unpredictable; I could run whenever I found a window.

When I ran with my girlfriends it was a great way to gossip and catch up, while exercising and being outdoors for a bit each day. (Three birds with one stone — you can’t say that about a spinning class, right?)

But my accident, and not being able to run these past 18 months of pandemic, helped me appreciate the deeper reasons behind my stubborn devotion, which it turns out are more spiritual than pragmatic.

I run because during that one brief interval, in a hectic

world filled with responsibilities and worries, running turns off my thinking brain and allows it to roam free and float in the moment. When I run alone, as I mostly do (or did, and hope to again), I prefer to run the same route, because that way I’m familiar with every random tree root, metal grate and trail segment prone to mud or puddles, so I don’t have to think about being careful. At what pace? No idea and it doesn’t matter.

Physical rehab from a head injury is the opposite of running’s mental freedom. You have to think every single time you plant your foot to walk and consciously strategize how to avoid a small root or rock on a sidewalk. Turn your head to observe the scenery, and it throws you off balance.

You concentrate on each muscle group so that it learns to move properly again. It involves tens of thousands of repetitions to teach your brain a simple movement, and there are hundreds of muscles that need to relearn their proper roles.

Even a walk along the beach isn’t freeing — it involves hard work and concentration: heel strike first, then roll to the ball of the foot. Pay attention to hip muscles and adjust to stabilize for the tilt of the sand and the tiny push of an arriving wavelet.

The good news is that the brain is miraculously pliable, often able to rewire its damaged circuits through intensive training — an ability called “neuroplasticity.” The bad news is that it’s a slow learner, nerves grow at 1 millimeter a day, and the brain takes time to search for workarounds to those circuits irreparably damaged. So healing can take years. My progress is slow but palpable, and I can’t know when or if it will stop.

Today, with care, I can walk (if a tiny bit awkwardly) at a normal speed. I can swim, drive and cook dinner. I can navigate stairs without clutching the banister. Most patients my age might be content. Not me. Being able to run again is my Mount Everest. (And to all the doctors who’ve discouraged my running: Studies in the last decade have shown that running may actually be beneficial to knees, maybe even preventing degenerative arthritis.)

This month, after 18 months of endless physical therapy in hospitals, pools and gyms, I took my first little jogging steps on land, running small circles at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike while waiting for our car to charge. How fast? Not much faster than walking. But for me — and I suspect for most older Americans who cling to what is often regarded as an ageinappropriate habit — that was never the point anyway.

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, November 1, 2021

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A new company with a wild mission: Bring back the woolly mammoth

By CARL ZIMMER

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team of scientists and entrepreneurs announced recently that they have started a new company to genetically resurrect the woolly mammoth.

The company, named Colossal, aims to place thousands of these magnificent beasts back on the Siberian tundra, thousands of years after they went extinct.

“This is a major milestone for us,” said George Church, a biologist at Harvard Medical School, who for eight years has been leading a small team of moonlighting researchers developing the tools for reviving mammoths. “It’s going to make all the difference in the world.”

The company, which has received $15 million in initial funding, will support research in Church’s lab and carry out experiments in labs of their own in Boston and Dallas.

A former researcher in Church’s lab, Eriona Hysolli, will oversee the new company’s efforts to edit elephant DNA, adding genes for mammoth traits like dense hair and thick fat for withstanding cold.

The researchers hope to produce embryos of these mammoth-like elephants in a few years, and ultimately produce entire populations of the animals.

Other researchers are deeply skeptical that Colossal will pull off such a feat.

And if Colossal does manage to produce baby mammoth-like elephants, the company will face serious ethical questions.

Is it humane to produce an animal whose biology we know so little about? Who gets to decide whether they can be set loose, potentially to change the ecosystems of tundras in profound ways?

“There’s tons of trouble everyone is going to encounter along the way,” said Beth Shapiro, a paleogeneticist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of “How to Clone a Mammoth.”

The idea behind Colossal first emerged into public view in 2013, when Church sketched it out in a talk at the National Geographic Society.

At the time, researchers were learning how to reconstruct the genomes of extinct species based on fragments of DNA retrieved from fossils. It became possible

to pinpoint the genetic differences that set ancient species apart from their modern cousins and to begin to figure out how those differences in DNA produced differences in their bodies.

Church, who is best known for inventing ways of reading and editing DNA, wondered if he could effectively revive an extinct species by rewriting the genes of a living relative. Because Asian elephants and mammoths share a common ancestor that lived about 6 million years ago, Church thought it might be possible to modify the genome of an elephant to produce something that would look and act like a mammoth.

Beyond scientific curiosity, he argued, revived woolly mammoths could help the environment. Today, the tundra of Siberia and North America where the animals once grazed is rapidly warming and releasing carbon dioxide.

“Mammoths are hypothetically a solution to this,” Church argued in his talk.

Today the tundra is dominated by moss. But when woolly mammoths were around, it was largely grassland. Some researchers have argued that woolly mammoths were ecosystem engineers, maintaining the grasslands by breaking up moss, knocking down trees and providing fertilizer with their droppings.

Russian ecologists have imported bison and other living species to a preserve in Siberia they’ve called Pleistocene Park, in the hopes of turning the tundra back to grassland. Church argued that resurrected woolly mammoths would be able to do this more efficiently. The restored grassland would keep the soil from melting and eroding, he argued, and might even lock away heat-trapping carbon dioxide.

Church’s proposal attracted a lot of attention from the press but little funding beyond $100,000 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Church’s lab piggybacked mammoth research on to other, betterfunded experiments.

“This set of tools can be used for many purposes, whether it’s de-extinction or recoding the human genome,” Hysolli said.

Analyzing the genomes of woolly mammoths collected from fossils, Hysolli

and her colleagues drew up a list of the most important differences between the animals and elephants. They zeroed in on 60 genes that their experiments suggest are important to the distinctive traits of mammoths, such as hair, fat and the woolly mammoth’s distinctively high-domed skull.

“Frankly, I was planning on slogging along at a slow pace,” Church said.

But in 2019, he was contacted by Ben Lamm, the founder of the Texas-based artificial intelligence company Hypergiant, who was intrigued by reports of the de-extinction idea.

Lamm visited Church’s lab, and the two hit it off.

“After about a day of being in the lab and spending a lot of time with George, we were pretty passionate on pursuing this,” Lamm said.

Lamm began setting up Colossal to support Church’s work, all the way from tinkering with DNA to eventually placing “a functional mammoth,” as Hysolli calls it, in the wild.

The company’s initial funding comes from investors ranging from Climate Capital, a private equity firm that backs efforts

to lower carbon emissions, to the Winklevoss twins, known for their battles over Facebook and investments in Bitcoin.

The scientists will try to make an elephant embryo with its genome modified to resemble an ancient mammoth. To do this, the scientists will need to remove DNA from an elephant egg and replace it with the mammoth-like DNA. But no one has ever harvested eggs from an elephant. In case it doesn’t work, Hysolli and her colleagues will also investigate turning ordinary elephant tissue into stem cells, which could possibly then be coaxed to develop into embryos in the lab.

Heather Bushman, a philosopher at the London School of Economics, said that whatever benefits mammoths might have to the tundra will need to be weighed against the possible suffering that they might experience in being brought into existence by scientists.

“You don’t have a mother for a species that — if they are anything like elephants — has extraordinarily strong mother-infant bonds that last for a very long time,” she said. “Once there is a little mammoth or two on the ground, who is making sure that they’re being looked after?”

In an undated image provided by Colossal, Ben Lamm and George Church.

With $15 million in private funding, Colossal aims to bring thousands of woolly mammoths back to Siberia — some scientists are deeply skeptical that will happen.

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

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee of Finance of America Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2019-HB1 Plaintiff v.

The Estate of Alfonso de la Cruz Then composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; The Estate of Laura Duran Conde a/k/a Laura Duran Conde composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Conjugal Partnership de la Cruz-Duran; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv1787-GAG. COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTAGAGE FORECLOSURE COMPLAINT. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: THE ESTATE OF ALFONSO DE LA CRUZ THEN COMPOSED OF JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE; THE ESTATE OF LAURA DURAN CONDE A/K/A LAURA DURAN CONDE COMPOSED OF JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE; CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP DE LA CRUZ-DURAN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ASUME GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $144,715.88, plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants The Estate of Alfonso de la Cruz Then composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; The Estate of Laura Duran Conde a/k/a Laura Duran Conde composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Conjugal Partnership de la Cruz-Duran to pay Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee of Finance of America Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2019-HB1, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($24,000.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s

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fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintiuno (21) del Bloque “HD” del plano de inscripción de la Tercera Extensión de la URBANIZACION COUNTRY CLUB, Quinta Etapa, situada en el barrio Sabana Debajo de Municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos veintidós punto treinta y siete (422.37) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros con la “Calle 220”; por el SUR, en diecisiete (17.00) metros, con los solares número veintidós y veintitres (22 y 23); por el ESTE, en veintiún punto cincuenta (21.50) metros con la “Calle 254”; y por el OESTE, en veintitrés (23.00) metros con el solar veinte (20); por el NORESTE, en cinco punto cincuenta (5.50) metros con la Intersección de las “Calles 220 y 254”. Enclava una casa. Property Number 4,069, recorded at page 211 of volume 112 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Carolina. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 89 of volume 1,028 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Carolina. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $240,000.00, due on November 11, 2086 pursuant to deed number 59, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 31, 2012, before notary Fernando E. Doval Santiago, and recorded, at page 89 of volume 1,028 of Carolina, property

number 4,069, 7th inscription.

Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the November 16, 2021 at 10:15 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $240,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the the November 23, 2021 at 10:15 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $160,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the the November 30, 2021 at 10:15 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $120,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 18th day of September of 2021. By:

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Spe- no de Inscripción del Proyecto cial Master. specialmasterpr@ de Viviendas a Bajo Costo degmail.com, 787-672-8269. nominado B.V.C. cincuenta y dos, radicado en el Barrio MarLEGAL NOTICE tín González y Hoyo Mulas del UNITED STATES DISTRICT término municipal de Carolina, COURT DISTRICT OF PUER- Puerto Rico, con una cabida suTO RICO. perficial de doscientos noventa y ocho metros cuadrados con Finance of America cincuenta y siete centésimas de Reverse, LLC. otro, en lindes: por el NORTE, Plaintiff v. con el solar FF veintiuno; por Carmen María Suárez el SUR, con el solar FF veintiAristud a/k/a Carmen trés; por el ESTE, con terrenos M. Suárez Aristud a/k/a propiedad de la Corporación de Carmen María Suárez; Renovación Urbana y Vivienda United States of America de Puerto Rico; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número doce.”

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv- Property Number 31,199 filed 02478-PAD. COLLECTION OF at page 203 of volume 776 of MONIES AND FORCLOUSU- Carolina, Registry of the ProRE COMPLAINT . NOTICE OF perty of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage deed SALE. TO: Carmen María Suárez is recorded at page 132 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, Registry Aristud a/k/a Carmen of the Property of Puerto Rico, M. Suárez Aristud a/k/a Section II of Carolina. WHECarmen María Suárez; REAS: This property is subject United States of America to the following liens: Senior Junior GENERAL PUBLIC: WHE- Liens: None.

REAS: Judgment was entered Liens: Reverse mortgage sein favor of plaintiff to recover curing a note in favor of Sefrom defendants the principal cretary of Housing and Urban sum of $138,060.89, plus the Development, or its order, in annual interest rate convened the original principal amount of of 5.060% per annum until the $222,000.00, due on August 1, debt is paid in full. The defen- 2087 pursuant to deed number dant Carmen María Suárez 50, issued in San Juan, Puerto Aristud a/k/a Carmen M. Suá- Rico, on March 27, 2013, beforez Aristud a/k/a Carmen María re notary David Garcia MediSuárez to pay Finance of Ame- na, and recorded, at page 134 rica Reverse, LLC., all advan- of volume 1,508 of Carolina, ces made under the mortgage property number 31,199, 5th note including but not limited inscription.. Other Liens: None. to insurance premiums, taxes Potential bidders are advised to and inspections as well as 10% verify the extent of preferential ($22,200.00) of the original liens with the holders thereof. It principal amount to cover costs, shall be understood that each expenses, and attorney’s fees bidder accepts as sufficient guaranteed under the mortgage the title and that prior and preobligation. The records of the ferential liens to the one being case and of these proceedings foreclosed upon, including but may be examined by interes- not limited to any property tax, ted parties at the Office of the liens, (express, tacit, implied or Clerk of the United States Dis- legal) shall continue in effect it trict Court, Room 150 or 400, being understood further that Federal Office Building, 150 the successful bidder accepts Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, them and is subrogated in the Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pur- responsibility for the same and suant to the terms of the afore- that the bid price shall not be mentioned Judgment, Order of applied toward their cancellaExecution, and the Writ of Exe- tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST cution thereof, the undersigned public sale shall be held on the Special Master was ordered to November 16, 2021 at 10:15 sell at public auction for U.S. am. The minimum bid that currency in cash or certified will be accepted is the sum of check without appraisement or $222,000.00. In the event said right of redemption to the hig- first auction does not produce hest bidder and at the office of a bidder and the property is the Clerk of the United States not adjudicated, a SECOND District Court for the District of public auction shall be held on Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 the the November 23, 2021 at – Federal Office Building, 150 10:15 am., and the minimum Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato bid that will be accepted is the Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sum $148,000.00, which is twosums adjudged to be paid to the thirds of the amount of the miniplaintiff, the following property mum bid for the first public sale.

“URBANA: Solar marcado con If a second auction does not el número FF veintidós del Pla- result in the adjudication and

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Monday, November 1, 2021 sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the the November 30, 2021 at 10:15 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $111,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 15th day of September of 2021. By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@ gmail.com 787-672-8269.

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

APEX BANK

Demandante v.

ESTHER ELIZABETH TORRES ESTRELLA

Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: D2CD2017-0317.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, hago saber a la parte demandada ESTHER ELIZABETH TORRES ESTRELLA, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 30 de agosto de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $114,000.00 y al mejor postor,

pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación, 345 CALLE LOPATEGUI, GUAYNABO, PR 00969: URBANA: Solar 345 bloque P-11, Juan Ponce de León, Barrio Frailes, Guaynabo, compuesto de 347.80 metros cuadrados y colinda al Norte, en 13.00 metros, con solares 307 y 308; por el Sur, igual medida con la Avenida 17; por el Este, en 27.07 metros, con el solar 344; y por el Oeste, en 26.54 metros, con el solar 346. Enclava una casa de concreto que consta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón.

Finca 11889 inscrita al folio 96 del tomo 166 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., o a su orden, por $105,000.00 al 7 718%, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2036, según Esc. #93 en San Juan a 25 de abril de 2006 ante Omar Iván Arill Vizcarrondo, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 7ma. (ii) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Portador, o a su orden, por $12,500.00 al 20%, vencedero a la presentación, según Esc. #69 a 21 de noviembre de 2006 ante Domingo Carrasquillo Diaz, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 8va. (iii) Aviso de Demanda radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón en el caso civil #DCD-071250, sobre cobro de Dinero, Ejecución de hipoteca por la vía Ordinaria, seguido por Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., vs. Esther Elizabeth Torres Estrella, por $104,559.28 más intereses, anotada al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11889 Anotación A. (iv) Modificación de hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma., por el $105,000.00 la cual se amplía por $9,000.00 para un total de $114,000.00 desde el 1 de agosto de 2009 y vence el 1 de julio de 2049, según Esc. #186 en San Juan el 30 de julio de 2009, ante Jose V. Gorbea Varona, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo, inscripción 9na. (v) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, P.R., o a su orden, por $9,887.21 sin intereses, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2012, según Esc. #187 en San

Juan a 30 de julio de 2009 ante Jose V. Gorbea Varona, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 10ma. (vi) Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma nuevamente en cuanto al principal que se cancele por $1,913.59 para un nuevo principal de $112,086.41 con intereses al 5% del 1 de febrero de 2014 al 1 de enero de 2019; y al 7.875% del 1 de febrero de 2019, hasta el 1 de febrero de 2014 al 1 de enero de 2019; y al 7.875% del 1 de febrero de 2019, hasta el 1 de julio de 2049 fecha de su vencimiento, según Esc. #82 en San Juan el 31 de diciembre de 2013, ante Jacqueline J. Martínez Romero, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11889 al margen inscripción 7ma. (vii) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, por $17,701.21 sin intereses, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2049, según Esc. #83 en San Juan a 31 de diciembre de 2013, ante Jacqueline J. Martínez Romero, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 11ma y última. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 29 de enero de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $109,577.57 de principal, más interés al 5% anual que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, $176.74 de escrow balance, $1,339.70 de cargos por atrasos, más $10,500.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 11 de enero de 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $114,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 de enero de 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea,

The San Juan Daily Star $76,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 de enero de 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $57,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuestos al gravamen del actor, y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviene o satisficiera antes del remate el importe del crédito de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados, asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, una vez confirmada la venta o adjudicación, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el

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desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de septiembre de 2021. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE Guaynabo.

SHIRLEY SANCHEZ MARTINEZ, Alguacil Regional.

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

LIME HOMES LTD. Plaintiff Vs.

RODNEY RAMOS QUINTANA; LINETTE SANTIAGO MONTALVO aka LYNNETTE SANTIAGO MONTALVO AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP

Defendants Civil: 17-CV-01010 PAD. Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: RODNEY RAMOS QUINTANA; LINETTE SANTIAGO MONTALVO AKA LYNNETTE SANTIAGO MONTALVO AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP, ANY OTHER PARTY WITH INTEREST OVER THE PROPERTY MENTIONED BELOW, GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the sum of $182,136.05 in principal, interest rate of 6.2500% per annum since April 1, 2015. Such interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. An additional deferred balance of $8,705.70 does not accrue interest at this time. In addition, the Defendant owes the Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full.

Also advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($20,400.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United

States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property (as described in the Property Registrar in the Spanish language): 202 APT Bayside Cove Cond., San Juan, PR 00918.

URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento H-202.

Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la segunda planta del edificio “H” del Condominio Bayside Cove situado en la Avenida Hostos en Hato Rey del municipio de San Juan con un área aproximada de 1,215.2445 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 112.9577 metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos al Norte, en una distancia de 32’11 ½” con pasillo escalera y elemento común exterior; al Sur, en una distancia de 32’11 ½” con elemento común exterior; al Este, en una distancia de 49’4” con pasillo escalera, elemento común exterior y pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento H-201 y al Oeste, en una distancia de 49’4” con elemento común exterior y pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento G-201.

La puerta de entrada está situada en su lindero Norte, consta de balcón, sala, comedor, cocina, lavandería, tres dormitorios y dos baños. PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Estacionamiento #38. Localizado en el tercer nivel Deck I del edificio del estacionamiento #1 del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal denominado Condominio Bayside Cove en la Avenida Hostos en Hato Rey Norte del municipio de San Juan. Es de forma rectangular está construido de hormigón y bloques de concreto a ser utilizado para estacionamiento de dos automóviles colocados uno al frente de otro. Colinda al Norte, en una distancia de 8’3” con el área de acceso a las rampas que a través de los elementos comunes del Condominio conducen a su vez a la vía pública; por el Sur, en una distancia de 8’ 3” con elemento común exterior; al Este, en una distancia de 36’ con el estacionamiento #39; al Oeste, en una distancia de 36’ con el estacionamiento #37. Su área de superficie

neta es de 297 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 27.6063 metros cuadrados. Este apartamento agregado tiene una participación de .39095% en los elementos comunes del condominio. Inscrita al folio 280 del tomo 1403 de Rio Piedras Norte, Registro de Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II, finca #38245. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 280 of volume 1403 of Rio Piedras Norte, property #38245, Property Registry of San Juan, Section II. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Federal Embargo in favor of the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Filed at book 15, page 35, entry 4 of September 29, 2015, serial number 177499315 in the amount of $ 26,474.86 being the debtor R. Ramos Quintana and L Santiago Monta. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 10:00AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $204,000.00 In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 10:00AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $136,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 10:00AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $102,000.00, which is onehalf of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States

currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 13th day of October of 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

ORLANDO GARCIA DIAZ

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: CG2018CV02835. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $101,816.41, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 4.25% anual desde el primero de enero de 2018 hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 4% computado sobre cada mensualidad por concepto de cargos por demora devengados desde el primero de febrero de 2018 hasta su

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total y completo pago, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número diecinueve (19) del bloque B en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Valle de Ensueño sita en el barrio Mamey del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de TRESCIENTOS PUNTO OCHENTA (300.80) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de doce punto ochenta (12.80) metros, con la calle cuatro (4); por el SUR, en una distancia de veintitrés punto ochenta (23.80) metros, con el número trece (13) del bloque B; por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros, con el solar número veinte (20) del bloque B; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros, con el solar número dieciocho (18). Enclava una casa. Finca número trece mil trescientos cuarenta y seis (13,346) de Gurabo, tomo Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Dirección Física: 219 Valle del Toa St. Gurabo, Puerto Rico 00778.

Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta a: La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 12 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $107,808.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 20 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $71,872.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $53,904.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la tota-

lidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico a 18 de octubre de 2021. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, Alguacil Placa #593, Alguacil Del Tribunal.

TRICT OF PUERTO RICO

PUERTO RICO FARM CREDIT, ACA Plaintiff V.

ECO-PARQUE DEL TANAMA, CORP; IVAN ORTIZ RUIZ, HIS WIFE ANA MARIA SERRANO BAEZ, AND THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM

Defendants Civil No.: 16-01388. (FAB). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES; FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND OTHER COLLATERAL. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: ECO-PARQUE DEL TANAMA, CORP; IVAN ORTIZ RUIZ, HIS WIFE ANA MARIA SERRANO BAEZ, AND THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: On June 14, 2018, judgment (the “Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff Puerto Rico Farm Credit, ACA (“PRFC”) against defendants Eco-Parque Del Tanama, Corp (“Eco-Parque”), Ivan Ortiz Ruiz (“Ortiz”), his wife Ana Maria Serrano Baez (“Serrano”), and the legal conjugal partnership constituted between them (the “Ortiz-Serrano Partnership” and, together with Serrano, Ortiz and Eco-Parque, the “Defendants”). Under the Judgment, this Court concluded that Defendants have defaulted on their loan obligations, have failed to pay the amounts due therein, and have failed to cure the existing defaults, further concluding that, as of October 31, 2016, Defendants owe the sum of $505,294.61, as well as an amount of $38.93 in interest that accrues daily until full payment. On December 17, 2020, this Court entered an order granting plaintiff’s Motion for Execution of Judgment filed on July 20, 2020, and, on December 29, 2020, this Court entered an order granting plaintiff’s Motion to Appoint Special Master, authorizing the appointment of Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as Special Master (the “Special Master”) for the execution of the Judgment. As of October 14, 2020, the amounts owed

by Defendants had increased to $563,754.35, of which $259,745.21 corresponded to unpaid principal, $144,261.51 corresponded to accrued interest, $7,631.91 corresponded to late fees, $142,115.72 corresponded to fees due and LEGAL NOTICE $10,000.00 corresponded to IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- attorneys fees, plus the amouTRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- nt of $25.45 per diem for interests for each day from July 14,

26 2020 through the date of the payment in full of all amounts.

On October 6, 2021, this Court entered an order authorizing the execution of the Judgment (the “Order of Execution”) and a Writ of Execution (the “Writ of Execution”). The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or bank manager check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property (the “Property”/“Property 11,707”) : “RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Santa Isabel, del término municipal de Utuado, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 188.25 cuerdas; equivalentes a 739,897.80 metros cuadrados.

En lindes: NORTE, con Ramon Rivera Candelaria, Sucesión de Emilio González, Antonio Potalatín, América Rodríguez, Elías Vargas, y Francisco González Arbona; SUR, Francisco Ralat, Sucesión de Juana de Fraile, Juan Serrano y Rio Tanamá; ESTE, Rio Tanamá; OESTE, Francisco Ralat y PRRA. Enclava en esta finca una casa vivienda, otra para almacén y maquina y tres casas para agregados.” Property 11,707, recorded at page 49 of Volume 295 of Utuado, Puerto Rico Property Registry for Utuado. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Mortgage securing a mortgage note in favor of P.R. Farm Credit, Aca, or to its order, in the principal amount of TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($292,000.00), bearing an annual interest rate of 9.50%, due on August 1, 2026, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 122 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the seventh (7) of July two thousand six (2007) before Notary Public Carlos Tomassini Ramírez, recorded at page 11 of volume 1,490 of Utuado, 11th recordation, as an abbreviated seat with its lines extended on July 2, 2012, by virtue of Act 216 of December 27, 2010 (Presented on August 3, 2006 on Seat 1,307 from Book 400). Other Liens: A

notice of complaint dated July 3, 2012, which complaint was dated September 16, 2011, issued in the United States District Court for the District Court of Puerto Rico, Civil Case Num. 3:11 CV-01914DRD, followed

by Puerto Rico Farm Credit, ACA against Eco Parque Del Tanamá Corp.; Iván Ortiz-Ruiz, and his wife Ana María Serrano Baez, in the principal amount of $259,745.21 and other sums, which notice of complaint is recorded at page 71 of volume 569 of Utuado, 11th recordation, Property 11,707, Annotation A, last recordation.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 13, 2021, AT 1:30 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $292,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the on DECEMBER 20, 2021, AT 1:30 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $194,666,67, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the on DECEMBER 27, 2021, AT 1:30 PM., The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $146,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the Property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank manager checks, except in case the Property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Order to Foreclose.

Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article

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107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the Property will be executed and delivered by the Special Marshal after delivery of such Order of Confirmation.

Once the Property is adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgage, and the price does not exceed the value thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior creditors be notified of the public sale of said property. For further, reference is made to the Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 14, 2021. Joel Ronda, Special Master, Ronda Legal Services, LLC, rondajoel@ me.com, 787-565-0515.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs.

ISRAEL MATOS TROCHE, THELMA SALGADO MARRERO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado (s) CIVIL NÚM.:DCD-2015-0068 (401). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS: Yo, JOSE MARRERO ROBLES, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia Enmendada dictada el 23 de junio de 2021, enmendada el 9 de julio de 2021 y notificada el 12 de julio de 2021, de la cual surge que las partes demandadas adeudan a la demandante la suma principal de $101,389.54, por concepto de principal, más $26,791.84 por concepto de intereses acumulados desde el 10 de mayo de 2021, hasta su total y completo saldo, la suma de $3,062.25 por concepto de cargos por demora, la suma de $472.57 de balance “escrow”, la suma de $2,404.38 por concepto de otros cargos, más la suma de $12,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactados, y a tenor con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia In

Rem que se libró con fecha de 7 de septiembre de 2021, por la Secretaría de este Honorable Tribunal de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, la siguiente propiedad inmueble, la cual se describe a continuación: RUSTICA” Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Sabana del término de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, compuesto de veinticinco centésimas de cuerdas(25c), equivalentes a novecientos ochenta y dos metros cuadrados (982.00mc), con cinco mil novecientos ochenta y nueve de otro (5,989), en lindes por el Norte, con camino público; por el Sur, con terrenos de Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; por el Este, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; y por el Oeste, con la parcela número tres (3)”. Inscrita al Folio 123 del Tomo 75 de Vega Alta, Finca 4,868, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. Por su procedencia está afecta a: Condiciones Restrictivas. Sobre la antes descrita propiedad se encuentran inscritos los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: HIPOTECA: en garantía de un pagaré a favor Master Mortgage Corpotation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $100,000.00, con intereses al 7.5%, vencedero el día 1 de octubre de 2036, constituida mediante la escritura número 238, otorgado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de septiembre de 2006, ante el notario David E. Vera Umpierre, e inscrita al Folio 140 del Tomo 329 de Vega Alta , Finca Número 4,868, Inscripción 12ma., Como Asiento Abreviado extendidas las líneas el día 12 de febrero de 2015, según la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentada el 4 de diciembre de 2006 al Asiento 315 de Diario 483) . AVISO DE DEMANDA” de fecha 8 de enero de 2015, expedido en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número DCD20150068, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por ORIENTAL BANK, VS ISRAEL MATOS TROCHE, THELMA SALGADO MARRERO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, por la suma de $109,268.67, y otras sumas, anotado el día 6 de febrero de 2015, Folio 140 Tomo 329 de Vega Alta , Finca número 4,868, Anotación “A”. Esta anotación de demanda corresponde al caso de epígrafe. Esta propiedad tiene el siguiente número de catastro en el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM): 10-036000-003-36-001. La dirección física del inmueble anteriormente descrito es: WARD SA-

BANA, PR 690 KM 5.2 VEGA ALTA, PR 00692. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de la subasta. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 16 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021, a las 11:15 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $120,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021, a las 11:15 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $80,000.00. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 30 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021, a las 11:15 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $60,000.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en la sala 503, 5to piso ubicado en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, en cheque certificado, dinero en efectivo o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, siendo éste el mejor postor.

En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la sentencia, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada. Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal, pero si dicho producto resultara insuficiente para cubrir el pago de las antes indicadas sumas, entonces la parte demandada satisfacerá a la parte demandante el remanente insoluto de la deuda. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón durante horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante

la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Colecturía de Bayamón, Alcaldía y Cuartel de la Policía del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de OCTUBRE de 2021. JOSE MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

XUANLU MUSIC, LLC Plaintiff V.

PEDRO JUAN DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ

Defendant Civil No.: 16-cv-2856. (GAG).

COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND PLEDGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: DEFENDANT AND GENERAL PUBLIC:

On March 3, 2020, this Court issued Judgment in favor of Xuanlu Music, LLC. To date, Defendant has not satisfied the Judgment. Consequently, there is an outstanding balance as of July 1, 2020, in the total amount of $959,889.45. This amount is composed by the following: a sum of $624,507.83 in principal; interests in the amount of $237,600.13 which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at $89.93 per diem; accrued late charges and other amounts of $97,781.49; additional principal resulting of Modification I and Modification II in the amount of $40,854.97, plus costs and agreed attorney’s fees in the amount of $65,000.00. Pursuant to the said judgment and/or the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBAN: Plot of land located

in the place known as Monte Flores, at the Santurce Ward of this city, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a surface area of 479.44 square meters. Its boundaries are by the NORTH and EAST, in a diagonal line, with land property of César Cordero; by the WEST, with plot property of Ángel Suárez; and by the SOUTH, with Violeta Avenue.

This plot has diagonal shape and over it there is a 4 level concrete apartment building with garage and service room of the same construction materials. The Property is described in the Spanish language as follows: URBANA: Solar radicado en el sitio conocido por Monte Flores, Barrio Santurce de esta ciudad, San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesto de Cuatrocientos Setenta Y Nueve Punto Cuarenta y Cuatro Metros Cuadrados (479.44) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, y por el ESTE, en línea diagonal con terrenos de Don César Cordero; por el OESTE, con el solar de Don Ángel Suárez, y por el SUR con la Avenida Violeta. Este solar tiene forma diagonal y sobre el mismo enclava un edificio de concreto de cuatro plantas de apartamentos con garaje y cuarto de servicio de igual construcción.

The property described above is recorded at page 52 of volume 925 of Santurce North, property number 1,089, Registry of Property of San Juan, First Section. The property is subject to the following liens: BY ITS ORIGIN: Limited of Construction. BY ITSELF: MORTGAGE guaranteeing a note payable to the order of Doral Bank, in the amount of $650,000.00, with an annual interest rate of 6.95% and due on June 1st, 2014, with a final payment of $561,425.53. As per deed no.

221, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 26, 2005, before Notary Public Reinaldo Segurola Pérez, recorded at page 91 of volume 1119 of Santurce Norte, 27th inscription.

MODIFICATION: The object of this modification is the Mortgage for $650,000.00, which arises from the 27th registration; Appears: HOLDER and DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, as holder of the promissory note, and agree to modify the terms thereof, regarding the following points: The principal is reduced by the amount of $23,931.73, the mortgage being reduced to the sum of $626,068.37 and the due on October 1, 2049. According to deed #418, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 29, 2009, before the Notary Public Magda V. Alsina Figueroa. recorded on page 91 of volume 119 of Santurce Norte, property #1089, entry 27 Marginal Note. MORTGAGE EXTENSION: The mortgage of the recorded #27, is the object

of this entry, modified regardless of the registration. Said holders appear and Doral Mortgage LLC, agree to modify as to the following points: It is expanded by the sum of $39,294.43, for a new principal total of $665,362.80 with an annual interest rate 5.184% and due on September 1st, 2052. According to Deed 275 granted in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 16, 2012, before the Notary Public Ivonne B. González Medrano, recorded in the KARIBE Volume of Santurce Norte, property 1089, 30th inscription.

ANNOTATION OF LAWSUIT: The object of this annotation is the Mortgage in favor of DORAL BANK, for the sum of $650,000.00 that arises from recorded #27. Plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Defendant: Holder, Amount Owed $877,375.62, for principal plus interest, according to Demand issued by United States District for the District of Puerto Rico, in Civil case #16-2856 (GAG), dated October 20, 2016. recorded in volume Karibe, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect.

It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: The amount of $650,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $433,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $325,000.00. Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE ZUNILDA FERNÁNDEZ ALFONSO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESION; LENA MARGARITA ASTACIO JIMÉNEZ T/C/C LENA ASTACIO JIMÉNEZ T/C/C LENA M. ASTACIO JIMÉNEZ

DEMANDADAS CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2019CV02172.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha

18 de septiembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 30 de septiembre de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número Veintidós del bloque “R” de la Urbanización Venus Gardens, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados en colindancias por el NORTE, con los solares treinta y ocho y treinta y nueve del propio bloque, en una longitud de trece metros; por el SUR, con la calle número doce, en una longitud de trece metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número veintiuno del mismo bloque, en una longitud de veinticinco metros; por el OESTE, con el solar número veintitrés del mismo bloque, en una longitud de veinticinco metros.

Enclava sobre el antes descrito solar una casa residencial de concreto y bloques. FINCA NÚMERO: 17,236, inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 403 de Sabana Llana, sección V de San Juan.

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. VENUS GARDENS 22-R (715, CALLE ASTER) SAN JUAN PR 00926-4817. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 16 de noviembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $135,900.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 24 de noviembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $90,600.00.

De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 2 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hi-

Monday, November 1, 2021 poteca, la suma de $67,950.00.

Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y ordenando la venta en pública subasta del inmueble antes descrito. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/ deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio

donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 15 de octubre de 2021.

EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. ***

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 19-04-54482 CA2019CV01874 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JORGE LUIS SOTO TORRES

Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2019CV01874.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en 1741 Buena Vista, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento identificado con el Número 1741, ubicado en el módulo número 7, compuesto de 1 solo nivel, situado en el cuarto piso del Condominio Vista Rocio del Desarrollo Buena Vista Village a su vez localizado en el Barrio Carraizo del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial de 153.9745 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 13.5128 metros con el Apartamento Número 1842 y con área

exterior común; por el SUR, en una distancia de 13.5128 metros con el Apartamento Número 1742, con área común y con área exterior común; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 13.1064 metros con área exterior común; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 13.1064 metros con área común y con área exterior común. Contiene: vestíbulo de entrada, una sala-comedor, terraza, una cocina con ‘breakfast nook’, salón familiar, medio baño, pasillo interior, closet de lavandería, dos habitaciones con sus respectivos closets, ‘linen closet’, un baño completo, habitación principal con baño, y closet vestidor. La puerta principal de acceso de este apartamento se encuentra en su colindancia sur. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de 0.8470% en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio Vista Rocío. Le pertenece el uso y disfrute de 2 espacios para estacionamientos, marcados con los números 124 y 125.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 85 del Tomo 883 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 33959, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $195,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $130,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $97,500.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 60, otorgada el día 11 de marzo de 2011, ante el Notario Mario A. Quiles Rosado y consta inscrita en el Folio 85 del Tomo 883 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 33959, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, inscripción segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $183,247.10 por

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concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.750% anual desde el día 1 de octubre de 2018. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $19,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $19,500.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $19,500.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Comparece La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del Programa Bono de Vivienda, para gastos de cierre, concediendo a la parte compradora la suma de $8,830.45. Sujeta a condiciones de venta por 10 años. Surge de un estudio de título efectuado que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus inte-

reses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico vs. Jorge Luis Soto Torres (soltero), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el caso civil número CA2019CV01874, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $183,247.10 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 28 de mayo de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto. Anotación A. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de septiembre de 2021.

FDO. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL #830.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ALEXANDRA JOSEFINA MEJÍA INFANTE

Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2018CV02969.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: DE Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el

día 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Apto.

4-401, Edif. E-1, Cond. Valle Santa Cecilia, Ave. Espiritu Santo Final, Bo. Tomás de Castro, Caguas, PR 00725 y que se describe a continuación: FINCA A: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, en una planta identificado con el número 04-401, localizado en la cuarta planta del Edificio E-1 del Condominio Valle Santa Cecilia, localizado en la Avenida Espíritu Santo Final, Barrio Tomás de Castro del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con la descripción, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: En lindes por el Norte, en 40’ 10’’ con elementos comunes y con el apartamento numerado 04-402; por el Sur, en 40’ 4’’ con elementos comunes y con el apartamento numerado 03-402; por el Este, en 52’ 9’’ con elementos comunes; y por el Oeste, en 52’ 9’’ con elementos comunes y con el vestíbulo de entrada al apartamento. Tiene una puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Oeste que da hacia el área de pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al edificio. Consta de balcón, salacomedor, cocina una alacena que combina con el área de lavandería, un área de ‘family room’, con closet, un baño completo, dos (2) cuartos con un closet cada uno, dos (2) closets en el pasillo que da acceso a los cuartos y un cuarto principal con su propio baño completo y un área de walk in closet y un closet cuya puerta de hacia el área de pasillo que conduce a la escalera que le brinda acceso al edificio. El área total del apartamento y sus anejos es de 2,085.62 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 193.766 metros cuadrados que se distribuyen de la siguiente forma: Area de del apartamento: 1,797.62 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 167.009 metros cuadrados.

Area del estacionamiento: 288.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 26.757 metros cuadrados. Le corresponde a este apartamento como anejo, dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento descubiertos, separado uno del otro, marcados con el número 4.401 A y 4.401 B, ubicados en las áreas de estacionamiento del condominio, según ilustrados en el ‘plot plan’ del apartamento que se acompaña a la escritura matriz. A este apartamento además le corresponde una participación en los

28 elementos comunes del condominio de 0.42407%.(Esta finca responde por la suma de $180,000.00). La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 99 del Tomo 1741 de Caguas, finca número 60429, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera.

FINCA B: URBANA: Área de almacenaje número C-ST-042.

Propiedad Horizontal: Área para uso de almacenaje de forma irregular de un nivel, identificado con el número C-ST 042, localizado según indicado en el “Plot Plan”, que es debajo de la rampa que provee acceso al segundo nivel del estacionamiento del Condominio Valle Santa Cecilia, localizado en la Avenida Espíritu Santo Final, Barrio Tomás de Castro del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con la descripción, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: En lindes por el Norte, con el área de almacenaje numerada C-ST 028; por el Sur, con elementos comunes y con el corredor de acceso al mismo; por el Este, con el área de almacenaje numerada C-ST 043; y por el Oeste. con el área de almacenaje numerada C-ST 041. Consta de un espacio de almacenaje y tiene su entrada por el lado Sur. El área total de almacenaje es de 44.02 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 4.090 metros cuadrados. A este almacenaje, además, le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de 0.00894%. (Esta finca responde por la suma de $5,183.00).

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al folio 62 del tomo 1748 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca número 60994. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de los inmuebles antes relacionados será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca. FINCA A: Día: Primera Fecha: 1 DICIEMBRE 2021 a las 10:00 de la mañana. Tipo mínimo: $180,000.00. Segunda Fecha: 8 DICIEMBRE 2021 a las 10:00 de la mañana. Tipo mínimo: $120,000.00. Tercera Fecha: 15 DICIEMBRE 2021 a las 10:00 de la mañana. Tipo mínimo: $90,000.00. FINCA B: Día: Primera Fecha: 1 DICIEMBRE 2021 a las 10:15 de la mañana. Tipo mínimo: $5,183.00.

Segunda Fecha: 8 DICIEMBRE 2021 a las 10:15 de la mañana.

Tipo mínimo: $3,455.33. Tercera Fecha: 15 DICIEMBRE 2021 a las 10:15 de la mañana. Tipo mínimo: $2,591.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 209, otorgada el día 3 de mayo de 2012, ante el Notario Reinaldo Segurola Perez. En la FINCA A consta inscrita en el Folio 99 del Tomo 1741 de Caguas, finca número 60429, en el Registro

de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, inscripción cuarta. En la FINCA B consta inscrita en el Folio 62 del Tomo 1748 de Caguas, finca número 60994, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, inscripción cuarta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $167,493.50 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.000% anual desde el día 1 de mayo de 2017. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $18,518.30 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $18,518.30 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $18,518.30 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Condiciones Restrictivas: Comparece La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, concedió al deudor la suma de $9,500.00 para subvencionar el pago de la hipoteca. Sujeta a condiciones por 10 años, según consta de la escritura número 133, otorgada en Caguas, el 3 de mayo de 2012, ante el notario José Antonio Rivero Ayala.

Inscrita al folio 99 del tomo 1741 de Caguas. Inscripción tercera. Surge de un estudio de título efectuado que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que

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tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico vs. Alexandra Josefina Mejia Infante (soltera), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso civil número CG 2018CV02969, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $167,493.50 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 26 de noviembre de 2018. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón. Anotación A. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2021.

FDO. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLAC #593.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

NERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE damente registrada y archivada SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de A: ANGEL MANUEL los términos de la misma. Esta TORRES ROSADO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- circulación general en la Isla cribe le notifica a usted que el de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 13 de febrero de 2020, este 10 días siguientes a su notificaTribunal ha dictado Sentencia, ción. Y, siendo o representado Sentencia Parcial o Resolución usted una parte en el procedien este caso, que ha sido debi- miento sujeta a los términos damente registrada y archivada de la Sentencia, Sentencia en autos donde podrá usted en- Parcial o Resolución, de la cual terarse detalladamente de los puede establecerse recurso de términos de la misma. Esta no- revisión o apelación dentro del tificación se publicará una sola término de 30 días contados a vez en un periódico de circula- partir de la publicación por edicción general en la Isla de Puer- to de esta notificación, dirijo a to Rico, dentro de los 10 días usted esta notificación que se siguientes a su notificación. Y, considerará hecha en la fecha siendo o representando usted de la publicación de este edicuna parte en el procedimiento to. Copia de esta notificación sujeta a los términos de la Sen- ha sido archivada en los autos tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re- de este caso, con fecha de 26 solución, de la cual puede esta- de octubre de 2021. En Ponce, blecerse recurso de revisión o Puerto Rico, el 26 de octubre apelación dentro del término de de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARA30 días contados a partir de la BALLO GARCÍA, SECRETApublicación por edicto de esta RIA REGIONAL. KATHERINE notificación, dirijo a usted esta D. LÓPEZ RIVERA, SECREnotificación que se considerará TARIA AUXILIAR. hecha en la fecha de la publiLEGAL NOTICE cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO vada en los autos de este caso, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcon fecha de 27 de octubre de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto SALA SUPERIOR AGUADILLA Rico, el 27 de octubre de 2021.

ISLAND PORTFOLIO LCDA MARILYN APONTE SERVICES, LLC., COMO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. AGENTE DE ACE ONE DAMARIS TORRES RUIZ, SEFUNDING, LLC. CRETARIA AUXILIAR. Demandante Vs.

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EDGAR HANS FRANK COMAS REPRESENTADO POR CAROLINA BOLIBAR FERNANDEZ Parte Demandante Vs.

ción postal es: PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, P.R. 00926, Tel: (787) 792-9595, Fax: (787) 277-6085 y e-mail: jafgrondon@gmail.com. Se le advierte que de no contestar la Demanda dentro del término de (30) días, a partir de la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Por Orden del Honorable Juez del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, expido el presente edicto para su publicación en la forma dispuesta por la Ley bajo mi firma y con el Sello Oficial del Tribunal, hoy 21 de octubre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAIRENI TRINTA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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SUCESION DE JOHANNA BANCO POPULAR DE ROSE MC CONNAUGHY PUERTO RICO COMPUESTA POR Parte Demandante Vs. EDGAR A. FRANK, SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA STEPHANIE FRANK Y DESIREE FRANK Y JOHN ELENA SANTANA COLÓN COMPUESTA POR DOE Y RICHARD ROE ENRIQUE JOEL ORTIZ COMO HEREDEROS SANTANA, CAROLYN DESCONOCIDOS DE MARIE ORTIZ SANTANA, LEGAL NOTICE RICARDO JOHANNA ROSE MC MENGANO DE TAL, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MUNIZ VELAZQUEZ CONNAUGHY POSIBLE HEREDERO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandada Parte Demandada NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Caso Núm.: IS2021CV00103. Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00421.

DESCONOCIDO; TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- Salón Núm.: 302. Sobre: CO- Sala: 201. Sobre: EXEQUADEPARTAMENTO TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZA- TUR Y SENTENCIA DECLADE HACIENDA POR PONCE MIENTO POR EDICTO. RATORIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO CONDUCTO DE LA B. FERNÁNDEZ & POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIA: RICARDO MUNIZ DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PREHNOS., INC VELAZQUEZ. 3 BOX RELICTOS; CENTRO SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL Demandante Vs 33196 AGUADILLA, P.R. PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, DE RECAUDACIÓN DE LUIS LEON ORTIZ H/N/C 00603; URB. MEDINA O 30 SS. INGRESOS MUNICIPALES SUPERETTE HATILLO CALLE 9 ISABELA, P.R. A: EDGAR A. FRANK, (CRIM) Demandado 00662-3816.

STEPHANIE FRANK Y Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2020CV02188.

POR LA PRESENTE se le Sala: 504. Sobre: COBRO DE DESIREE FRANK. 2108 Civil Núm.: YB2019CV00112. emplaza y requiere para que DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SHIREWOOD COURT, Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO conteste la demanda dentro Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTESENTENCIA POR EDICTO. de los treinta (30) días siguien- WINTER PARK, FLORIDA CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. A: LUIS LEON ORTIZ tes a la publicación de este 32792, ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉH/N/C SUPERETTE Edicto. Usted deberá presenDE AMÉRICA. RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE tar su alegación responsiva a HATILLO, PARA SER Por la presente se le notifica LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL través del Sistema Unificado que se ha presentado una DeNOTIFICADO POR ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de Manejo y Administración manda de exequatur y sentenDE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVIEDICTO. de Casos (SUMAC), la cual cia declaratoria en su contra.

SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. P/C LCDA. MARISTELLA puede acceder utilizando la siUsted deberá presentar su ale- El Alguacil que suscribe por SANCHEZ RODRIGUEZ. guiente dirección electrónica: gación responsiva a través del la presente anuncia y hace https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, Sistema Unificado de manejo y PO BOX 11750 constar que en cumplimiento FERNANDEZ JUNCOS salvo que se represente por Administración de Casos (SU- de la Sentencia en Rebeldía derecho propio, en cuyo caso MAC), al cual puede acceder STATION SAN JUAN, Enmendada dictada el 2 de deberá presentar su alegación PR 00910-1750 Tel. (787) responsiva en la secretaría del utilizando la siguiente direc- enero de 2020, la Orden de ción electrónica: https://unired. Ejecución de Sentencia del 9 274-1414 sanchez@ tribunal. Si usted deja de pre- ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se delgadofernandez.com sentar su alegación responsiva represente por derecho propio, de agosto de 2021 y el Manda-

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) ANGEL MANUEL EL SECRETARIO(A) que susTORRES ROSADO cribe le notifica a usted que 7 Demandado(a) de octubre de 2021, este TriCivil: CA2019CV02591. Sala: bunal ha dictado Sentencia, 407. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE Sentencia Parcial o Resolución HIPOTECA - COBRO DE DI- en este caso, que ha sido debiDemandante V.

sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo.

Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de octubre de 2021. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 6 de octubre de 2021. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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 sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su

en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. También debe notificar su contestación al representante legal de la parte demandante: Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón cuya direc-

miento de Ejecución del 10 de agosto de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Humacao,

Sala Superior, en la Avenida Nicanor Vázquez, Humacao, Puerto Rico (frente al Centro de Bellas Artes), al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América cheque de gerente o giro postal todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el Número L guión Cuatro (L4) del plano de inscripción del Proyecto Santa María denominado Santa María, radicado en el Barrio Calabazas del término municipal de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 229.50 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar Número L guión Tres (L3), distancia de 25.50 metros; por el SUR, con el Solar Número L guión Cinco (L-5), distancia de 25.50 metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle Número Seis (6), distancia de 9.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con la Sucesión de Erasmo Rivera, distancia de 9.00 metros. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 230 de Yabucoa, Finca Número 14521, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Yabucoa, Finca Número 14521, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Inscripción cuarta.

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: SANTA MARÍA, L4 CALLE 6, BO. CALABAZAS, YABUCOA, PR 00767. SUBASTAS: PRIMERA: 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $46,604.00.

SEGUNDA: 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $31,069.33. TERCERA: 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $23,302.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $46,604.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el DÍA 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $31,069.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el DÍA 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $23,302.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para

The San Juan Daily Star con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $39,703.68 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.25% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $39.08 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $4,660.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de María Elena Santana Colón compuesta por Enrique Joel Ortiz Santana, Fulana y Mengana de Tal, Departamento de Hacienda y el Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Yabucoa, en el Caso Civil Número YB2019CV00112, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $39,703.68 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 29 de marzo de 2019.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Yabucoa. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon-

Monday, November 1, 2021

dientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de octubre de 2021. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

JORGE COLÓN GONZÁLEZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA NEGRÓN VENTURA COMPUESTA POR JORGE COLÓN GONZÁLEZ, WANDA COLÓN NEGRÓN; YOLANDA COLÓN NEGRÓN Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00113. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, Oficina de Subasta; a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $137,271.18 del balance principal; los intereses vencidos sobre dicho principal computados al 3.50% anual desde el día primero de julio de 2018, hasta su total pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad de $680.17 por concepto de cargos por demora desde el primero de agosto de 2018, a razón de $27.21 mensuales hasta su total pago, más la suma de $15,147.00 como

cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número cuarenta y nueve (49) del bloque CC de la Urbanización Terrazas de Demajagua, radicado en el Barrio Demajagua del término municipal de Fajardo, con una cabida de cuatrocientos cincuenta punto cero cero (450.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con el solar cincuenta (50) del bloque CC; por el SUR, en treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con el solar cuarenta y ocho (48) del bloque CC; por el ESTE, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, con la calle número tres (3), y por el OESTE, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y cuatro (54) del bloque CC. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio ciento tres (103) del tomo quinientos tres (503), finca número diecinueve mil doscientos sesenta y cinco (16,265) de Fajardo. Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Dirección Física: CC 49 Hayuey St. (3st), Terrazas Demajagua, Fajardo, Puerto Rico 00738. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $151, 470.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $100,980.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $75,735.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta

fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Fajardo, Puerto Rico a 17 de septiembre de 2021. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161.

SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO.

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

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

ANDRÉS CARABALLO LUGO, JESSICA ARROYO ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2017CV01273.

Sala: 902. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 25 de febrero de 2020, por la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de San Juan en relación con la Sentencia Sumaria en Rebeldía dictada en 16 de septiembre de 2019, su Notificación en 17 de septiembre de 2019 y publicada la Notificación de Sentencia por Edictos el 24 de septiembre de 2019, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento NUMERO GA GUION UNO (GA-1) DOSCIENTOS TRECE (213), de un nivel, localizado en la Planta Baja del Edificio Número Siete (7), Reina Elizabeth del CONDOMINIO PORTAL DE LA REINA, localizado en la Avenida Montecarlo del Barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de ciento siete punto ochenta (107.80) metros cuadrados y un área de patio descubierta y cercada con un área superficial de dieciocho punto cuarenta y cuatro (18.44) metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y tres pies seis pulgadas (33’6”), con un área común; por el SUR, en una distancia de veintisiete pies cero pulgadas (27’0”), con el Apartamento “GA” guión dos (GA-2), doscientos catorce (214), por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintisiete pies cero pulgadas (27’0”), otra de cinco pies nueve pulgadas (5’9”), otra de trece pies cero pulgadas (13’0”) y otra de diecisiete pies diez pulgadas (17’10”), con un área común; y

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por el OESTE, en una distancia de veinte pies seis pulgadas (20’6”) otra de seis pies cero pulgadas (6’0”) y otra de doce pies cero pulgadas (12’0”), con área común. Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Oeste que da al pasillo exterior y a los caminos que conducen al área de estacionamiento.

Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, lavandería, tres (3) habitaciones, dos (2) baños, terraza y un área de patio descubierta y cercada. Le corresponde a este apartamento los Estacionamientos número Doscientos Cincuenta y Cuatro (254) y Doscientos Cincuenta y Cinco (255), localizadas el área de estacionamiento en la parte Norte del Edificio, así identificados en los plano del edificio, copia certificada de los cuales se acompañan a la Escritura Matriz del Condominio. Este Apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales de cero punto cero cero cuarenta y dos novecientos siete (0.0042907%) por ciento. Consta inscrita al Tomo de Hoja Móvil 972 de Sabana Llana, finca número 32,056-B del Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a.

Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b.

Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de San Juan. d. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $120,190.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $80,126.66. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $60,095.00.

Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas por la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de $94,646.47, por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que al 5 de abril de 2017 ascienden a $535.30, y los que se continúen acumulando al

tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, la suma de $26.00 por concepto de adelantos (corp Advances), la suma de $45.00 por concepto de fondo insuficientes (Bad Check Fees), más la suma de $12,019.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de San Juan, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada. Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Civil Número SJ2017CV01273, de fecha 2 de agosto de 2017, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante) Vs. Andrés Caraballo Lugo (Demandado). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $94,646.47, más otras sumas, presentado al Asiento 2017-091435-SJ05 el día 15 de agosto de 2017, finca número 32,056 B, el cual es objeto de ejecución en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción. La propiedad a ser

ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, durante horas laborables. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 21 de octubre de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SAL MUNICIPAL DE AGUADILLA

COOPEPATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE AGUADILLA Parte Demandante Vs

YARIEL J. QUIÑONES ORTEGA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2019CV00828.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO.

A: YARIEL J. QUIÑONES ORTEGA.

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colon, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de octubre de2021. Yaritza Diaz, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA,

30 SALA MUNICIPAL DE AGUA- SERVICIOS A SALA. DILLA.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V.

MONSERRATE PETRILLI BLAY

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TA2021CV00854.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. EDICTO.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS Demandante v.

SUCESION DE SERGIO MARTINEZ RIVEROS Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. BY2020CV02189.

SALA 504. Sobre: CANCELACION DE HIPOTECA REPRESENTADA POR PAGARE HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MONSERRATE PETRILLI BLAY. Vistas A: GRACE ROJAS de Montecasino AGUILLAR T/C/C GRACE Condominium, ROJAS DE MARTÍNEZ Apartamento 3101, POR SI Y COMO Edificio 3, modelo I, Toa HEREDERA CONOCIDA Alta, Puerto Rico 00953; DE LA SUCESIÓN DE 3101 Apt. Vistas de SERGIO MARTINEZ Montecasino, Toa Alta, RIVEROS T/C/C SERGIO PR 00953; 500 Ave. Norfe MARTINEZ Y FULANO Apt. 3101, Toa Alta, PR DE TAL Y SUTANO DE 00953-3593; Cond. Vista TAL COMO HEREDEROS de Montecasino, 500 Ave. DESCONOCIDOS Y/O Norfe Apt. 3101, Toa Alta, PARTES CON INTERES PR 00953-3593; Secc DE DICHA SUCESIÓN (Nombre de las partes a las que se le Caro BIk 206 8 CalI 51, la sentencia por edicto) Carolina, PR 00985; St 513 ELnotifican SECRETARIO(A) que susBlq 206 8 Villa Carolina, cribe le notifica a usted que el Carolina, PR 00979.

24 de octubre de 2021, este

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo.

Javier Montalvo Cintrón, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAYRA I. MARRERO MARRERO, SECRETARIA DE

Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 60 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de octubre de 2021. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 26 de octubre de 2021.

F/LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). F/VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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Monday, November 1, 2021 PUERTO RICO

DEMANDANTE VS.

JUAN HERNÁNDEZ MARTÍNEZ, SU ESPOSA HILDA DE LOURDES PÉREZ FIGUEROA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: PO2021CV01898.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss.

Morales Saez, Sec Auxliar Trib archivada en los autos de este I. caso, con fecha de 27 de octubre de 2021. En CAROLINA, LEGAL NOTICE Puerto Rico, el 27 de octubre Estado Libre Asociado de Puer- de 2021. MARILYN APONTE to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri- DAMARIS TORRES RUIZ, SEmera Instancia Sala Superior CRETARIA AUXILIAR. de CAROLINA

E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC. Demandante V.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO

CARMEN LYDIA MOLINA OSORIO POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO JOSE FRANCISCO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GONZALEZ MONTERO; MIGUEL FUENTES IRAIDA RODRIGUEZ MATOS, COMPUESTA BARCELO; CAMILA POR CARMEN LYDIA GABRIELA HERNANDEZ MOLINA OSORIO EN A: JUAN HERNÁNDEZ RIVERA LA CUOTA VIUDAL MARTÍNEZ, SU ESPOSA Parte Demandante Vs. USUFRUCTUARIA; HILDA DE LOURDES US SMALL BUSINESS NOELIA FUENTES PÉREZ FIGUEROA Y LA ADMINISTRATION; MOLINA, FULANO Y SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE AURORA BANK; NELIDA BIENES GANANCIALES FULANA DE TAL COMO RIOS MARRERO, POSIBLES MIEMBROS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL DESCONOCIDOS DE LA AMBOS & MENGANO MAS SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE BARRIO SANTO CUAL, MAS TODO DOMINGO PR 132 KM 8.4 RECAUDACIONES DE POSIBLE TENEDOR INGRESOS MUNICIPALES INT. LOTE 8 DESCONOCIDO Parte Demandada (CRIM) PEÑUELAS PR 00624 Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00463.

Demandado(a) -DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: 201. Sobre: PAGARÉ EXMANSIONES DE CAMINO Civil: CA2019CV03311. Sala: Sala: 407. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE- TRAVIADO Y CUMPLIMIENTO REAL, 167 CALLE RO EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE- DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZACASTILLO REAL, CA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN- MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, JUANA DIAZ PR 00795 TENCIA POR EDICTO. POR LA PRESENTE se le A: FULANO Y FULANA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOemplaza para que presente DE TAL COMO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, al tribunal su alegación responPOSIBLES MIEMBROS SS. siva dentro de los treinta (30) DESCONOCIDOS DE días de haber sido diligenciado A: AURORA BANK LA SUCESION DE este emplazamiento, excluyénT/C/C AURORA LOAN dose el día del diligenciamienMIGUEL FUENTES SERVICES, LLC. 277 to. Usted deberá presentar su MATOS, NOELIA PARK AVENUE 46TH alegación responsiva a través FUENTES MOLINA, FLOOR NEW YORK, NY del Sistema Unificado de MaCOMO MIEMBRO DE LA 10172. ESTADOS UNIDOS nejo y Administración de Casos SUCESION DE MIGUEL (SUMAC), al cual puede acceDE AMÉRICA. FUENTES MATOS. der utilizando la siguiente direcSe le notifica por medio del

ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, LEGAL NOTICE FAX: 787-751-6155 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Expedido bajo mi firma y sello NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA del Tribunal, hoy 21 de octubre SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE. de 2021. Luz Mayra Caraballo BANCO POPULAR DE Garcia, Sec Regional. Glorivee

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

presente edicto que se ha presentado en este tribunal una demanda de pagaré extraviado y cumplimiento de contrato constituido sobre una Hipoteca a favor de US SMALL BUSINESS ADMINSITRATION, en garantía de un Pagaré por la suma principal de $42,900.00 al 3.437% de interés anual y vencimiento a 30 años, inscrita al Folio 196 del Tomo 1432 de Guaynabo bajo la finca 22,481 e inscripción octava (8va), según descrita en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico Sección de Guaynabo: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal.

Apartamento número ocho D (8-D), que radica en el edificio gobernado por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal conocido como Colonial Court Condominium, carretera número dos, kilometro seis hectómetro cuatro, Barrio Pueblo Viejo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento es de forma irregular y está localizado en el piso noveno del edificio. Colinda dicho aparta-

mento por el NORTE, en veintinueve pies diez pulgadas con paredes divisoras que lo separa del apartamento numerado ocho C; por el SUR, en veinticinco pies cuatro pulgadas, con paredes exteriores del edificio hacia el área de patio lateral y área de estacionamiento; por el ESTE, en treinta y cuatro pies nueve pulgadas, con paredes exteriores del edificio hacia el área de patio lateral y por el OESTE, en veintidós pies seis pulgadas con paredes divisoras que lo separan del vestíbulo que conduce a los elevadores.

Tiene este apartamento una cabida superficial de novecientos seis punto noventa y siete pies cuadrados. Su puerta de entrada queda en la esquina Noroeste del apartamento y da acceso al vestíbulo que conecta a los elevadores y escaleras para dar salida a la calle a través del vestíbulo de la planta terrera. Se compone este apartamento de sala-comedor, salón de familia (family room), una habitación con armario para guardar ropa (walk-in-closet), pasillo, armario para ropa de cama (linen closet), baño con armario, cocina y balcón.

Le corresponde un porcentaje en los elementos comunes generales del edificio de uno punto ochocientos veintitrés mil cuatrocientos cuarentiseis millonésimas (1.823446) por ciento y el área de estacionamiento marcado con el número dieciséis cubierto. La propiedad antes descrita (en adelante la “Propiedad”) consta inscrita en el Registro al Folio 232 del Tomo 548 de Guaynabo, finca 22481. La obligación antes mencionada garantizada con el pagaré, tenia un balance de cancelación de $31,297.65 al 8 de marzo de 2010, conforme a una certificación provista por AURORA BANK quien fuera el tenedor del pagaré a la fecha del 1 de marzo de 2010; que dicha cantidad fue satisfecha mediante cheque de gerente número 103113100010793 del Banco Popular con fecha 03/08/2010, a la orden de AURORA BANK o Aurora Loan Services, LLC. Por la presente se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación.

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.ramaiudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Guaynabo.

Se le apercibe que, si dejare

de hacerlo, se dictará sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Deberá enviar copia de su alegación responsiva al abogado de la parte demandante, cuya información es la siguiente: Lcdo. Carlos L. Segarra Matos, PO BOX 582 BOQUERON, PR 00622; TEL/FAX: 787-8513582; clsegarra@yahoo.com Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal, hoy 25 de octubre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

noventa (190), Tomo sesenta y seis (66) de Naranjito, Finca cuatro mil quinientos treinta y siete (4,537). Se le emplaza y requiere que dentro de treinta días conteste la Demanda y se le apercibe que de no contestar la misma dentro del término antes dicho , radicando el original en la Secretaría del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, con copia al licenciado Jorge Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, cuya dirección es PO Box 852, Naranjito, Puerto Rico 007190852, teléfono 787-869-4042, se le anotará Rebeldía y se LEGAL NOTICE dictará Sentencia concediendo ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO el remedio solicitado sin más ciPUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE tarle ni oírle. Se expidió bajo mi PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA firma y sello de este Honorable DE BAYAMÓN Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de octubre de CARLOS JAVIER 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA ORTIZ ALVARADO SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REDemandante Vs. GIONAL. NEREIDA QUILES JOHN DOE Y SANTANA, SECRETARIA AURICHARD DOE XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. Demandados LEGAL NOT ICE Civil Núm.: BY2021CV04273.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN PAGA- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTAFIRSTBANK DO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P. PUERTO RICO R., SS. Parte Demandante Vs.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE.

Por la presente se le notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe. En dicha Demanda se reclama que ustedes son los posibles Tenedores de un Pagaré extraviado a favor del Portador o a su orden, por la cantidad de cuarenta mil dólares ($40,000.00), según escritura número mil ciento setenta y dos (1,172), otorgado el día diecisiete (17) de septiembre de dos mil siete (2007), ante el Notario Juan Luis Romero Sánchez, sobre el inmueble inscrito al Folio ciento noventa (190), Tomo sesenta y seis (66), Finca cuatro mil quinientos treinta y siete (4,537), del Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, descrita de la siguiente manera: “RÚSTICA”: Compuesta de CINCO PUNTO CUATRO MIL TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y NUEVE CUERDAS, equivalentes a VEINTIUN MIL TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y SIETE PUNTO QUINIENTOS TREINTA Y TRES METROS CUADRADOS (21,357.533 m.c.) situada en el barrio Nuevo del término municipal de Naranjito, Puerto Rico.

En lindes por el NORTE, Encarnación Cintrón; por el SUR, Merced Cosme Varela, por el ESTE, Ignacia Cintrón y por el OESTE, Leonides Cintrón. Enclava una casa construida en hormigón armado y bloques, de dos niveles dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al Folio ciento

IVAN VLADIMIR ORTIZ LOPEZ Y SU ESPOSA SONJA MERCEDES FERNANDEZ MENDOZA POR SI Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: ISCI201701055. (206). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, Oficina de Subasta; a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $156,358.24 de balance principal al 4.99% desde el primero de febrero de 2017 hasta su completo pago; más la suma de $1,738.90 de balance principal diferido; el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad de

The San Juan Daily Star principal e interés por la suma de $780.09 por concepto de cargos por demora desde el día primero de marzo de 2017 a razón de $39.00 mensuales hasta su total pago, más la suma de $16,200.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento numero cuatrocientos doce (412) que ubica en la primera planta del edificio IV según plano, del Condominio Hacienda la Baune II, localizado en el Poblado de Boquerón de Cabo Rojo, el cual consiste de tres (3) dormitorios, dos baños, área de lavandería , cocina, comedor, sala y balcón. Ocupa un área de mil doscientos sesenta y cuatro punto veinticinco (1264.25) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento diecisiete punto cuarenta y cinco (117.45) metros cuadrado. Las colindancias son las siguientes: Norte en treinta y tres (33) pies cinco (5) pulgadas equivalentes a diez punto veintiocho (10.28) metros con pared exterior que da al área de jardín; Sur, en una distancia idéntica con pared exterior que da al área de jardín; Este, en treinta y cuatro (34) pies seis (6) pulgadas equivalentes a diez punto cuarenta y seis (10.46) metros con pared que la separa del apartamento número cuatrocientos trece (413); y por el Oeste, treinta y cuatro (34) pies equivalentes a diez punto cuarenta seis (10.46) metros con pared que la separa del área de escaleras en donde ubica puerta principal de entrada. Le corresponde un porcentaje de participación de los elementos comunes generales de seis punto setenta y ocho por ciento (6.78%) al igual que un veinticinco por ciento (25%) del elemento común limitado identificado como área asignada para instalación de acondicionador de aire la cual ubica en el área de escaleras oeste del edificio. Le corresponde dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados cada un con el numero cuatrocientos doce (412).

Inscrita al folio noventa y nueve (99) del tomo mil treinta y tres (1033) de Cabo Rojo, finca numero treinta y cinco mil ochocientos (35,800). Registro de la Propiedad de San German.

Dirección Física: Hacienda de la Baume Cond., Apartamento 412, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 1RO DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $162,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de

que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $108,000.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $81,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor

Monday, November 1, 2021 ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico a 21 de octubre de 2021. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL PLACA #283, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Mayagüez.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

RAÚL FIGUEROA MERCADO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2019CV00703.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 6 de noviembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 13 de enero de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 22 de enero de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Sala Superior, Ave. Marcelito Gotay esquina Barriada Jerusalén, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Predio de terreno marcado con el Número 431 y en la Calle Fraternidad del término muni-

cipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 176.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 18.18 metros, con terrenos propiedad de la señora Carmen Guadalupe; por el SUR, en 17.75 metros con terrenos propiedad de la Sucesión Hernández Rosario; por el ESTE, en 9.57 metros, con terreno propiedad de la señora Gabriela Cruz; y por el OESTE, en 9.57 metros, con la Calle Fraternidad.

Edificación: Enclava casa de una sola planta construida en bloques de hormigón y hormigón armado que mide 30 pies de ancho por 44 pies de largo, y consiste de medio balcón, marquesina, sala, comedor, cocina, tres cuartos dormitorios, un baño y balcón completo en la parte posterior que mide de ancho 5 pies y 4 pulgadas, con un valor de $20,000.00, según Escritura Número Siete (7), otorgada en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 21 de julio d 1988, ante el Notario Emilio Silva Tulbe.

Inscrita al folio 226 vuelto del tomo 344 de Fajardo, Inscripción tercera y última. La propiedad consta inscrita al Folio 225 del Tomo 334 de Fajardo, Finca Número 14380, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al Folio 227 del Tomo 334 de Fajardo, Finca Número 14380, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción cuarta. La escritura de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al Folio 139 del Tomo 516 de Fajardo, Finca Número 14380, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo.

Inscripción quinta y última. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: BARRIADA ROOSEVELT, 431 CALLE FRATERNIDAD, FAJARDO, PR 00738-4526. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $65,574.06. SEGUNDA: 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $43,716.04. TERCERA: 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $32,787.03. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $65,574.06. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $43,716.04. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $32,787.03. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca

a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia por la suma de $59,281.40 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.75% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $414.05 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,394.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Raúl Figueroa Mercado (soltero), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el caso civil Número FA2019CV00703, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $59,281.40 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 20 de junio de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Fajardo. Anotación A y última. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores,

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de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Fajardo Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de octubre de 2021. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #266. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL PLACA #161, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTRELLA HOMES, LLC Demandante V.

URBAN INVESTMENT, INC.; RAFAEL JOSÉ ARSUAGA DE LOS REYES, EDA LOURDES AGUILAR OLIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA; RAUL MANUEL COLÓN DE LOS REYES, LAURA ELIZA CONDE PARES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03634.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, hago saber a la parte demandada URBAN INVESTMENT, INC.; RAFAEL JOSÉ ARSUAGA DE LOS REYES, EDA LOURDES AGUILAR OLIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA; RAUL MANUEL COLÓN DE LOS REYES, LAURA ELIZA CONDE PARES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 30 de julio de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $123,900.00 y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: [LA MARINA, FENIX STREET R-13, CAROLINA PR 00987].

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 13-R del proyecto La Marina, situado en el barrio

Cangrejo Arriba del término municipal de Carolina, con una cabida superficial de 227 metros con 50 centímetros cuadrados. Linda por el NORTE, en una extensión de 25.00 metros con el solar 12-R; por el SUR, en una extensión de 25.00 metros con el solar 14-R; por el ESTE, en una extensión de 9 metros con 10 centímetros con el solar 19-R y por el OESTE, en una extensión de 9 metros con 10 centímetros con la Calle Begonia. Consta inscrita la finca 33506 al folio 223 del tomo 656 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $123,900.00 con intereses al 7.375% anual y vencimiento 1de abril de 2023. Constituida por la Escritura 174 otorgada en San Juan el 26 de marzo de 2008 ante el notario Raúl J. Vilá Sellés, e inscrita al folio 141 del tomo 988 de Carolina, finca 33506, inscripción 10ª. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 13 de agosto de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $107,435.64 de principal, más interés que continuarán acumulándose desde el día 1 de marzo de 2018 hasta el saldo total al 7.375% anual, $556.27 de cargos por atrasos, $12,390.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $123,900.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $82,600.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:45 DE LA

MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $61,950.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la fin-

32 ca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de octubre de 2021. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

RENE FIGUEROA ORTIZ y su esposa OLGA ESTHER MALDONADO SANCHEZ, ambos por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales por ellos constituida

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: PO2018CV01680.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce, Oficina de Subasta; a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $61,772.01 de balance principal, más los intereses al 7.00% desde el primero de abril de 2017 hasta su completo pago; el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad de principal e interés por la suma de $461.45 por concepto de cargos por demora desde el día primero de mayo de 2017 a razón de $18.46 mensuales hasta su total pago, más la suma de $6,930.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Velázquez

del municipio de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número veinticuatro (24) del Bloque “D” de la Urbanización Estancias de Santa Isabel, con una cabida de TRESCIENTOS TRES PUNTO SEISCIENTOS SEIS (303.606) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el lote número tres (3) en una distancia de doce punto seiscientos cincuenta (12.650) metros; por el SUR, con la calle número cuatro (4) con una distancia de doce punto seiscientos cincuenta (12.650) metros; por el ESTE, con el lote número veintitrés (23) con una distancia de veinticuatro (24.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con el lote número veinticinco (25), con una distancia de veinticuatro (24.00) metros. Enclava una estructura tipo individual dedicada a vivienda construida de hormigón, bloques y otros materiales. Inscrita al tomo Karibe, inscripción quinta (5ta), finca número cinco mil novecientos ochenta y cinco (5,985) de Santa Isabel, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. Dirección Física: D-24 Estancias de Santa Isabel Dev., Santa Isabel, PR 00757. La propiedad se encuentra afecta los siguiente gravámenes: Condiciones restrictivas: A favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la vivienda de Puerto Rico, La Llave para tu Hogar, según consta de la escritura número 220, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 18 de diciembre de 2008, ante el notario Miguel A. Silvestrini Alemañy, inscrito al folio 118 del tomo 156 de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, finca 5985, inscripción 7ma. Hipoteca: En garantía de un pagare a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $22,000.00, sin interés anual Vencedero el 18 de diciembre de 2018, según consta de la escritura numero 220, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 18 de diciembre de 2008, ante el notario Miguel A. Silvestrini Alemañy, inscrito al folio 118 del tomo 156 de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, finca 5985, inscripción 7ma.

Sujeta a condiciones de subsidio. Inscrito en virtud de la Ley Núm 216, asiento abreviado.

La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 2 de diciembre de 2021 a las 10:30 de la mañana y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $69,360.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 9 de diciembre de 2021 a las 10:30 de la mañana y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta,

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o a sea la suma de $46,240.00.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 16 de diciembre de 2021 a las 10:30 de la mañana y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $34,680.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil,

así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Ponce, Puerto Rico a 26 de octubre de 2021. MIGUEL A TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

CARMEN LUCILA RIVERA MARRERO

Demandada Civil Núm.: CD2016-1306. (201 B). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: CARMEN LUCILA RIVERA MARRERO; R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION O SUCESOR EN DERECHO POR TENER AVISO DE DEMANDA ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $52,619.32.

Yo, ROSAMARIE MELÉNDEZ PEÑA, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 13 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Toa Alta, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Toa Alta 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 20 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número Cuatrocientos Seis (406). Apartamento residencial del CONDOMINIO EL ATLÁNTICO, sito en la Urbanización Levittown, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área de MIL CERO CERO CINCO PUNTO CERO CINCO (1,005.05) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a NOVENTA Y TRES PUNTO CUARENTA Y UNO (93.41) METROS CUADRADOS. Ubica en la parte central Sur de la estructura del Condominio en su correspondiente piso residencial. Colinda por el NORTE, en CUARENTA Y SEIS PIES SIETE PULGADA (46’7”) LINEALES, con pared divisora que le separa del pasillo principal de ese piso en cuya pared hay un hueco de TRES PIES SEIS PULGADAS (3’6”) LINEALES, donde se halla la puerta que da acceso del apartamento del vestíbulo de ascensores y a las escaleras y a través de estas al exterior del Edificio y a la vía principal; por el SUR, en CUARENTA Y SEIS PIES SIETE PULGADA (46’7”) LINEALES, con paredes exteriores y huecos de ventanas que dan al patio Sur del Condominio; por el ESTE, en VEINTICINCO PIES SIETE PULGADAS (25’7”) LINEALES, con pared de carga que lo separa de cuarto de almacenaje y exterior del Edificio; y por el OESTE, en VEINTICINCO PIES SIETE PULGADAS (25’7”) LINEALES, con pared de carga que lo separa del apartamento número Cero Cuatro (04). Este apartamento consta de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, closets, sala-comedor, un (1) baño, un vestíbulo interior, cocina, lavandería y terraza que da hacia el Sur. Este apartamento se dedicará exclusivamente para fines residenciales. Su participación en los elementos comunes generales y para fines de votación es de Cero Punto Sesenta y Cuatro por ciento (0.64%), participación en los elementos comunes limitados a Punto Diez por ciento (.10%).

Se le asigna a este apartamento el estacionamiento número Veintiocho (28). La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 129 vuelto del tomo 301 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda, finca número 17,943, inscripción octava. La dirección física de la propiedad

antes descrita es: Condominio El Atlántico, Levittown, Apartamento Número 406, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $38,245.53 de principal, intereses al 7.5% anual, desde el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2015, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $5,360.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles.

Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $53,600.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $35,733.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $26,800.00.

Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda, de fecha (no expresa), expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número DCD 2001-2297 (506), por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por R&G Mortgage Corporation versus Carmen Lucila Rivera Marrero, por la suma de $52,619.32, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 16 de junio de 2003, al folio 66 del tomo 462 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda, finca número 17,943, Anotación A. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que

podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2021. ROSAMARIE MELÉNDEZ PEÑA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESION DE ROBERTO COTTO GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR LUIS COTTO GONZÁLEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ROBERTO COTTO GONZÁLEZ, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: FA2018CV00949. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, Oficina de Subasta; a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $163,995.70 de balance principal al 4.50% anual desde el

primero de diciembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago; el 4.00% computado sobre cada mensualidad de principal e interés por la suma de $969.04 por concepto de cargos por demora desde el día primero de enero de 2018 a razón de $38.76 mensuales hasta su total pago, más la suma de $19,125.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Hacienda Paloma II, localizado en el Barrio Sabana del término municipal de Luquillo, que se describe en el plano de inscripción, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Numero del solar 10, área del solar Setecientos Cuarenta y Cinco punto Setenta y Ocho metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de veintiuno punto cuarenta y cuatro metros lineales y siete punto noventa y cinco metros lineales y seis punto treinta y nueve metros lineales, con la Calle Maori; por el Sur, en una distancia de veintidós punto treinta y nueve metros lineales, con el solar doce; por el Este, en una distancia de veintinueve punto ochenta y cuatro metros lineales y tres punto cincuenta y cuatro metros lineales con la carretera estatal PR guion Nueve Nueve Uno; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de veinticinco punto noventa y ocho metros lineales, con el solar once. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 124 del tomo 281 de Luquillo, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Fajardo, finca número 13,150. Dirección Física: 10 Hacienda Paloma II, Luquillo, PR 00773. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $191,250.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $127,500.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma

The San Juan Daily Star de $95,625.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento

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indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Fajardo, Puerto Rico a 7 de octubre de 2021. Shirley Sánchez Martínez, Alguacil Regional #161. Sandraliz Martínez Torres, Alguacil Auxiliar #737, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Fajardo.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SYLVIA MORALES BETANCOURT

Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2019CV04562.

Sala: 408. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ENRIQUE VERGE HERNÁNDEZ, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 27 de agosto de 2021 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $147,196.36 de principal, dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 7 de julio de 2021, notificada y archivada en autos ese mismo día y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star”, el día 12 de julio de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: APARTAMENTO A-404: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento identificado con el número A-404 el cual está localizado en el cuarto piso del Edificio “A” del Condominio Villas del Mar Beach Resort, ubicado en el Sector El Martillo, Barrio Medianía Alta, Carretera 187, Kilómetro 7.0, Loíza, Puerto Rico.

Tiene una cabida superficial de 1,164.901. pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 108.225 metros cuadrados, que se compone de 1,012.48 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 94.065 metros cuadrados en su nivel inferior y de una terraza en su nivel superior de 153.041 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 14.218 metros cuadrados. Colinda en su primer nivel al Norte, en 30’

3 ½”, con el área común; al Sur, en distancia de 30’ 3 ½”, con el área común; al Este, en 19’ 11”, con el apartamento A-405; y al Oeste, en distancia de 34’ 10”, con el apartamento A-403.

Colinda en su nivel superior Norte, en distancia de 12’ 3”, con el área común; al Sur, en distancia de 12’ 3”, con el área común; al Este, en distancia de 15’ 0”, con el apartamento A-405; y al Oeste, en distancia de 15’ 0”, con el área común.

Su puerta principal de acceso se encuentra en su lado Este la cual comunica con el pasillo interior de su piso. Contiene dos dormitorios, dos baños, sala, comedor, cocina, dos balcones, lavaderos, depósito deportivo y calentador de agua.

La referida terraza localizada en el nivel superior se comunica por una escalera interior. Le corresponde dos espacios de estacionamiento marcados respectivamente con los números A-404-A y A-404-B. Corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes del inmueble una participación de .60%, cuya participación incluye las dos áreas de estacionamiento y el área de la terraza exterior localizada en el nivel superior del apartamento, cuyas áreas han sido asignadas como anejos para el uso exclusivo de dicho apartamento. Número de catastro: 066-025-001-09-864.

Finca#10995 inscrita al folio 56 del tomo 233 de Loiza, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $147,196.36 de principal, 5.875% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $1,094.40 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $185,000.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad antes descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $123,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $92,500.00. Art. 104 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30 L.P.R.A. sec.

2721. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA

MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Li-

brado en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 27 de octubre de 2021. ENRIQUE VERGE HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #960.

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EVELYN FIGUEROA NAZARIO T/C/C EVELYN F. ASHE Y OTROS DEMANDANTES vs.

LILLIAN FIGUEROA DIAZ Y OTROS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. BY2020CV00336 (402). SOBRE: LIQUIDACION DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIOOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.

A: Hector Luis Figueroa Diaz 600 Still water Landing Way Apt. 307 Sneads Ferry, NC 28460; Kevin Louis Figueroa Rodriguez 402 N, Hastings Street Orlando , Florida 32835; Karla Michelle Figueroa Rodriguez 2 Mountain View Terrace Apt. 5234 Danbury, CT 06810; Llilian Figueroa Diaz 6900 Broadway Apt. 1 DC Guttenberg, NJ 07093; Alexis Figueroa Diaz 708 7Th Street Apt. 5 Union City, NJ 07087; PO Box 1546, Toms River, NJ 08754; yJuan del Pueblo y Juana Doe, Demandados con nombres ficticios; y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hacer constar : 1. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamon , en el caso de epígrafe, venderá en publica subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curse legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de America, pagadero en giro postal o cheque de Gerente a nombre del Alguacil de Primera Instancia de Bayamon, todo derecho, titulo, o interés que tengan, las partes litigantes de epígrafe en el siguiente bien inmueble cuya descripción legal es la siguiente: “Urbana: Urbanización residencial San Soucci de Bayamon Sur, solar 6-K. Cabida :469 .56 metros cuadrados: Linderos: Norte, con solar Num. B seis (B-6) con distancia de 25. 7 4 metros; por el Sur, con la calle numero 1 en distancia de 8 metros; por el Este, con el solar numero K- 7

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en distancia de 37.51 metros ; y por el Oeste , con el solar numero K-5, en distancia de 25.93 metros. Enclava una casa para fines residenciales”. -2- El bien inmueble antes descrito consta inscrito como Finca 40830 Karibe de Bayamon Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamon, Sección I. El bien inmueble antes descrito cuenta con el catastro Num. 113-011-550-42001 y su dirección física es en la Urb. San Soucci, K-6 calle 1, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. 2. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están para su inspección en la Secretaria del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. 3. Que la propiedad no se encuentra afectada a gravamen anterior alguno. 4. El importe de la venta se depositara en la Oficina de Alguaciles de este Tribunal para en primera instancia saldar cualquier deuda existente con Centro de Recaudación de impuestos Municipales, posteriormente se pagaran los gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado impuestos y por ultimo se pagaran las participaciones de las correspondientes comuneros litigantes, así coma la sentencia en cobro de dinero en este procedimiento en favor de la parte demandante. 5. El adjudicatario de la subasta será responsable de los costos, gastos, sellos, en el original y la copia certificada de la escritura de venta judicial tales coma honorarios de notario, sellos en el original y copia certificada de la escritura y el arancel correspondiente en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamon. 6. La inspección del bien inmueble, previo a la subasta se coordinara con el Ledo. Carlos I. Ortiz Sancho, abogado de los demandantes, al teléfono Num. 939-645 -7408. El bien inmueble a ser vendido fue tasado en la suma $105,000.00 que será el valor base de venta, aun cuando se pueden aceptar ofertas por una cantidad inferior, con el visto de la parte demandante. La primera y unica subasta, se celebrara el 01 de diciembre de 2021, a la 10:15 de la mañana, en el Salon 4to piso del Centro Judicial de Bayamon. Y PARA QUE ASI CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general por dos ocasiones y por 2 semanas consecutivas y en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 25 de octubre de 2021, en Bayamon, Puerto Rico. JOSE F. MARRERO ROBLES, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa # 131.

BANCO COOPERATIVO DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOSÉ FUENTES COLÓN Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ADA MARITZA CRUZADO PANTOJA COMPUESTA POR ADRIANA FUENTES CRUZADO, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; Y LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES ENTRE ESTOS Demandados

DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Partes Con Interés Civil Núm.: BY2021CV01178.

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

A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ADA MARITZA CRUZADO PANTOJA. PO BOX 2174 BAYAMÓN PR 009602174; XL-11 CALLE 55 URB. ROYAL TOWN, BAYAMÓN PUERTO RICO 00956.

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Kevin Garnett talks missed opportunities, on and off the court

By SOPAN DEB

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t one point in a new Showtime documentary, Kevin Garnett unexpectedly jumps out of his seat during an interview to curse into a boom microphone.

Sitting down has never been one of his strengths, whether on the basketball court or in typically sleepy affairs, like talking about yourself on camera.

The film, titled “Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible,” premieres Nov. 12. It traces Garnett’s life story, from his upbringing in South Carolina through his ascent to being one of the most celebrated prep-to-pros players in basketball history by winning an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in 2008.

This documentary is the latest in a trend of athletes trying to shape the narratives about themselves through their own productions. Michael Jordan, Tom Brady and Russell Westbrook have been involved in similar projects.

In Garnett’s documentary, for which he is an executive producer, one scene stands out. Garnett and rapper Snoop Dogg are in a recording studio discussing athlete activism, and Garnett criticizes the NBA players who resumed the playoffs after walking out to protest social injustice in the summer of 2020.

“I actually thought for a second that the players had momentum to where, if they could’ve took a stance, all of them together, and said, ‘No, we’re not playing,’ that they could’ve actually went on Capitol Hill and started a conversation, a real one, and started talking about police reform,” Garnett tells Snoop Dogg.

Garnett added, “Just falling in line actually didn’t really help anything.”

In a recent interview, Garnett discussed those comments on player activism, his acting ambitions and his relationship with his former Celtics teammate Ray Allen.

Sopan Deb: You do a very impressive impersonation of Doc Rivers, the former Celtics coach, in the documentary. We’ve seen your acting skills in “Uncut Gems.” What is your interest in continuing your acting career?

Garnett: I feel like obviously the character that I played in the “Uncut Gems” was myself, and I didn’t think that I can mess that up, and I felt confident in that. I’m getting some opportunities, just

Kevin Garnett filming his new documentary for Showtime. nothing that speaks to me. Some of the things that have come across my desk are just things that I can’t relate to and I don’t feel like fit me. But I have very high interest. I would love to do more movies if possible.

Deb: There’s an interesting scene with Snoop Dogg where you’re talking about the NBA players and the postGeorge Floyd protests. You essentially suggested that the players fell in line when it came to protesting police shootings and that they should have stopped playing until there was real reform. Is that an accurate framing of how you feel?

Garnett: Well, if I’m being frank, yeah. I think what I tried to insinuate, if not say, was that I just think that if players really, really felt passionate about the George Floyd situation, and they wanted to do more, I think the way that — or at least the way I thought that — you should actually effect change is changing. If that meant you all not playing, then you shouldn’t. I thought that should’ve been an option.

I thought the league actually took advantage of the players and knowing that the majority of the players needed

to play and needed the opportunity to play, and that wasn’t going to be an option.

It seems like during the pandemic, the world linked on sports for entertainment or to keep things at a calm. With that type of leverage, you got to know how to actually use that leverage. I don’t think the players really had a firm leadership in being able to devise a plan and put it together.

Deb: Were you particularly political in your playing career? For example, would you have been willing to stop playing until there was legislation addressing a reform that you were passionate about?

Garnett: I would have taken the opportunity to go on Capitol Hill and use my platform to be loud and to say whatever it was I felt. You’ve got to remember: This is your livelihood. And as 400plus players, you’re not just speaking for yourself. You’re trying to speak for a body of players that think differently, on all accounts. This is how you eat. This is how you feed yourself, and everybody is in different categories as far as economics, when it comes to the league.

I probably would have been in a po-

sition to take a stance and actually want to initiate a conversation. But, again, I felt like it would have been important to have proper people, proper politicians and proper partnerships to be able to go to the table with proper vision to talk about reform. That’s all.

[Later, Garnett added a clarification.]

Garnett: I want to make clear that I actually love the way the players stayed together, and whatever decision they came up with, they were in unison with it. I don’t want to come off like I’m going at the future players or the players that are current and they should have did this.

I actually support the players — LeBron, Chris Paul and all they do for the union and for the players.

Deb: Paul Pierce is featured heavily in the documentary, as are several other Celtics teammates from 2008. One who is barely mentioned is Ray Allen. Have you softened your stance toward Ray at all? [Some of Allen’s teammates were angry after Allen, who was with the Celtics from 2007 to 2012, left for Miami in free agency after the Heat defeated the Celtics in the playoffs.]

Garnett: I wish Ray all the best, and I wish him and his family all the best, and whatever he’s doing, I’ll always be supportive of it. And that’s all I got to say.

Deb: Can you tell me a bit about your relationship with Marc Lore and Alex Rodríguez, the new ownership group of the Minnesota Timberwolves?

Garnett: I haven’t had any conversations with them. I haven’t spoken to ARod personally.

Deb: Do you have any interest in being part of the new ownership group, whether in basketball operations or as a minority owner or in some way being part of the franchise?

Garnett: I think that opportunity has passed. I actually think I’ve been hearing whispers that A-Rod is actually going to take the Timberwolves to Seattle. So we’ll see. I don’t know.

Deb: Would you be upset if that happened? [The Timberwolves didn’t respond to a request for comment.]

Garnett: No one wants to see the Wolves leave Minneapolis, but you know, it’s business. I would never want the Timberwolves to leave Minneapolis and Minnesota. I think that team means a lot to that state.

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Pitching and managing evolve, and a no-hit bid ends early

By TYLER KEPNER

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he 1956 World Series was the first of Brian Snitker’s lifetime. Don Larsen threw a perfect game for the New York Yankees then, and it is one of the more indelible moments in baseball history. All these years later, no pitcher has thrown another nohitter in the World Series.

On Friday night, in Game 3 of this World Series, Ian Anderson held the Houston Astros hitless for five innings at Truist Park in Atlanta.

Snitker, the manager of the Atlanta Braves, pulled Anderson from the game.

It was not a move that Casey Stengel would have made on that golden afternoon in the Bronx long ago. Then again, Snitker acknowledged, it was not a move he would have made until recently, either.

“The me of old, probably a couple years ago, would be: ‘How the hell am I doing this?,’ quite honestly,” Snitker said, after a 2-0 victory that gave Atlanta a two-games-to-one series lead. “But the pitch count was such that he wasn’t going nine innings.”

Anderson had thrown 76 pitches, only 39 for strikes, with three walks and a hit batter in his five innings. In truth, he was less like Larsen and more like Bill Bevens, the starcrossed Yankee who issued 10 walks in Game 4 of the 1947 World Series before he lost a no-hit bid — and the game — with two outs in the ninth.

Bevens’ pitch count is lost to time, but he was 30 years old and his arm never recovered; he relieved in Game 7 and then never again pitched in the majors. No modern manager would recklessly risk a pitcher’s future in pursuit of a World Series no-hitter, so Anderson never had a chance.

Only three other starters had been pulled with a World Series no-hitter intact — two because of injuries (John Tudor in 1988 and David Wells in 2003), and one (Curly Ogden in 1924) because his manager essentially used him as a decoy to scramble the opposition.

Anderson’s outing was the longest no-hit start in the World Series since Larsen’s.

It was never going to last very long. If he had not lifted Anderson after five innings, Snitker said, he definitely would have done so after six. Atlanta’s four best relievers each had two days off, Snitker explained, and Anderson had thrown a lot of pitches to the hitters at the top of the Astros’ order, which was set to lead off the sixth.

Snitker took the prevailing approach to bullpen management, in which relievers are

Ian Anderson’s day included 76 pitches — 39 of which he threw for strikes — four strikeouts, three walks and one hit-by-pitch.

He did not allow a hit but was removed after five shutout innings. peacekeepers more than firefighters. Why flirt with possible trouble when the starter has already done his job?

“There’s a reason for it,” said Tyler Matzek, who followed A.J. Minter and Luke Jackson and lost the no-hitter on a bloop single to left by Aledmys Díaz leading off the eighth. “The guys, the front office, Snit, everybody’s gone over it a few times for what the game script is for us to win this thing. Obviously, the game script is right.”

The beauty of sports, of course, is that there actually is no script; the performers try to carry out the manager’s plan as an opponent tries to foil it. There is always a chance that a pitcher will be better than his team could have expected. When that happens in a setting like the World Series, fans want to believe they might see another Larsen.

Who could forget the letdown in Game 6 of the World Series last fall, when Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash pulled Blake Snell from a shutout in the sixth inning while facing elimination? Snell had utterly dominated the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were thrilled to see him leave for a tired reliever, Nick Anderson. The Dodgers promptly stormed ahead and won the title.

In that case, though, Cash’s flaw was trusting the wrong reliever: Nick Anderson had been struggling, and the Dodgers were eager to see him. The Astros were not as thrilled to see Ian Anderson depart, because they knew Atlanta’s bullpen would be just as stingy.

“They have a really good pitching staff all the way around,” said Alex Bregman, who rolled a single against the shift off Will Smith in the ninth. “No matter who’s coming in, you’ve got to stay focused and locked in.”

Especially when those pitchers are Minter, Jackson, Matzek and Smith. Jackson looked sharp again after a rough National League Championship Series, and the other three had been overpowering throughout the postseason, with a combined 1.10 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 32 2/3 innings.

Anderson, 23, took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of his major league debut against the Yankees in August 2020. But he said he could not remember ever throwing a complete-game no-hitter, even in high school in Clifton Park, New York. He wanted to keep pitching Friday but conceded he could not challenge Snitker’s logic.

“I knew he wasn’t going to budge,” An-

derson said. “It’s hard to. You’ve got guys like Matzek and Minter and Luke and Will at the back end coming in, you can’t blame him for going to those guys. Those guys, time in and time out, get it done.”

Starters have been working less and less this October, which stands to reason at the end of a long season following a very short one. But what we saw in Game 3 was mostly about the evolution of pitching.

Technology helps coaches identify the right areas of emphasis for each pitcher.

Armed with the knowledge of what they should use and why, more pitchers than ever have the stuff to overwhelm hitters for short bursts. The best teams, like Atlanta, have lots of those pitchers.

Ten or so years ago — or, say, in 1956 — a starter was probably the manager’s best option deep into the game. Now he may not be, even if he has not allowed a single hit.

“I don’t know,” Snitker said, almost apologetically. “It’s just that we had all our guys gassed up today. I kind of liked how it set up.”

It set up Atlanta with a lead in the World Series, and that — more than matching milestones from decades ago — is all that really mattered.

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With accusations of abuse, Kyle Beach forces NHL to confront its failings

By KEVIN DRAPER

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ne day after an investigation commissioned by the Chicago Blackhawks publicly disclosed that the team’s top officials had ignored a player’s accusation of sexual assault by a coach during the 2010 playoffs, that player was revealed to be Kyle Beach.

In an interview on national television in Canada on Wednesday, Beach was asked if he had a message for the 16-year-old boy that the video coach, Brad Aldrich, was later convicted of sexually assaulting in Michigan in 2013.

“I’m sorry,” Beach said. “I’m sorry I didn’t do more, when I could, to make sure it didn’t happen to him. To protect him.”

Beach, as the investigative report made clear, was a victim of both inappropriate behavior by Aldrich and indifference from the NHL. As a 20-year-old minor league player whose career was in the hands of Aldrich and other coaches and members of the Chicago organization, he had the least power, and yet he did the most to call attention to Aldrich’s behavior and is one of the few people to have said he is sorry.

Consequences are still reverberating through the NHL. Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville, who led the Blackhawks in 2010, resigned Thursday after a meeting with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. On Friday, Bettman decided not to punish Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff, who was an assistant general manager for the Blackhawks in 2010. The owner of the Blackhawks wrote a letter to the Hockey Hall of Fame asking that Aldrich’s name be removed from the Stanley Cup. The whole of hockey’s culture, from children’s divisions through the NHL, is once again under a microscope. It is a familiar position for a sport that has in recent years been swamped by accusations and lawsuits centered on hazing, abuse, misogyny and racism. But the cultural problems of hockey seem to have met a moment when they are impossible to ignore, and when consequences — however belatedly — are being meted out.

“I hope that this entire process can make a systematic change to make sure this never happens again,” Beach said.

The hockey player says a coach sexually assaulted him in 2010—and the team brushed it away.

Beach’s accusations were first leveled publicly in May in a lawsuit filed against the Blackhawks that is still ongoing, but the investigation commissioned by the team revealed that he had immediately told a coach that he had been assaulted in 2010.

Fourteen former players in an amateur Canadian league have recently filed a lawsuit saying they were sexually and physically assaulted while being hazed when they were teens. A former coach for a Pittsburgh Penguins minor league affiliate accused the team in a lawsuit of firing him after he reported that a boss had sexually assaulted his wife. A leak of an Instagram group chat among a number of top players revealed them making misogynistic comments about sexual conquests and the girlfriends and wives of other players. A former NHL player born in Nigeria accused a coach of referring to him with a racial slur and described a former teammate who had knocked out his teeth as a “racist sociopath.”

These seemingly disparate issues are all interrelated, said Sheldon Kennedy, a former NHL player who revealed in the 1990s that he had been sexually abused by a coach while playing junior hockey.

“All of this stuff is basically all under the same umbrella. It is around discrimination, it is around inclusion.”

The typical environment — dreams of hockey stardom, extreme power imbalances, a pressure to signal toughness and a culture of sweeping things under the rug — is an incubator for toxic behavior.

Or, as Kennedy put it during a telephone interview while doing chores at his farm in Saskatchewan: “All someone has to do is put their hand up as a Timbit hockey coach, and they are God to the 8-and-unders.”

Organizations that ignore or cover up reports of sexual assault are not unique to hockey. But these problems can be heightened in hockey, or other sports that Loretta Merritt, a Canadian lawyer who represents victims of sexual abuse, described as the “more macho, boys-club kind of sports.” Merritt wondered if hockey’s culture made Aldrich, who has said his sexual contact with Beach was consensual, “think there is sort of more of a tolerance or willingness to turn a blind eye? Possibly.”

After the investigative report was released last Tuesday, the NHL fined the Chicago team $2 million for “inadequate internal procedures and insufficient and untimely response,” and more consequences have followed, including the resignations of two top Blackhawks officials and of Quenneville. But that’s not the hard part, said Kennedy, who be-

lieves that talking about difficult issues and reporting abuse must be embedded in the team’s ambitions, just as trying to win the Stanley Cup is.

“Those are easy responses,” he said.

“We are going to fine you. You need to resign. Those are the norm. That’s your lawyer advice. To me, this is about culture change.”

His message was echoed by Ken Dryden, a Hall of Fame goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and a former Canadian Cabinet minister who in recent years has been a prominent critic of how the NHL has handled concussions.

“Often on big questions like this, it ends up where the only voices heard are those of the commentators, and the decision makers get let off the hook,” Dryden wrote in an email declining to be interviewed. He added, “To me, anybody else’s voice is just a distraction.”

Statements — from the NHL, from the Blackhawks, from the players’ union, from Quenneville and from Stan Bowman, the president of the Blackhawks who resigned Tuesday after the investigative report’s release — have been plentiful in recent days. Less plentiful have been apologies and admissions of culpability.

“Today’s fine represents a direct and necessary response to the failure of the Club to follow up and address the 2010 incident in a timely and appropriate manner,” Bettman said in a long statement focused on process and full of legalese.

In the unsentimental and oftendamning language of the newspapers and websites that cover hockey, Beach, now 31, was a bust. The 11th pick of the 2008 draft, he never made it to the NHL and has spent the past few years bouncing around European leagues. The Canadian wasn’t seen as tough enough, or skilled enough, or hard-working enough.

We now know he was dealing with trauma.

“The shame and guilt, the impact is real,” Kennedy said. “I wasn’t ready to answer those questions. You will never live up to your potential in life, not just in sports, when these events happen.”

Beach’s legacy, then, is undergoing a reevaluation within hockey. But will that reevaluation and questioning spread — and stick — to the rest of the sport?

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 38

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Life may be more intense, but you could benefit from this. It’s time to ask yourself a few searching questions about areas that aren’t working so well.

It’s possible this is down to psychological blockages that have been working away since childhood in secret. With some detective work and help, if needed, unravelling these can enable you to live the life you want.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Eager to be more eco-friendly? Perhaps you’re ready to adopt steps towards sustainable living. This may be something you’ve been working at slowly, but now might want to focus on in more depth. With a Mercury/Pluto tie up, getting rid of any junk can be a great start. With adventurous Jupiter in the mix, like-minded people could support you as you forge ahead.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

If you’ve been eyeing up a bold move and wondering whether to go ahead or not, your feeling may be that you should. You’ll have the support of others who might be delighted to see you exploring new opportunities. Mind, an edgier angle suggests that your schedule and workload could be an issue, and that you’ll need to streamline it ready for what is to come, Taurus.

Opportunities can be plentiful this coming week. The only issue you might have, is deciding what to do next, as this may not be obvious. One offer could stand head and shoulders above the others, Gemini. If you have a good feeling about it, this it can be an excellent reason to go ahead. Equally important is factoring in time for relaxation. Don’t become overwhelmed.

You could be side-lined into doing what someone expects of you, instead of what you had planned. With Mercury angling towards Pluto, this person might not be in the mood to compromise. Even so, it may be possible to change their mind, if you’re convincing enough. Do they have the upper hand? If they appear to, this can be a matter of owning your power and saying it like it is.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Have mixed feelings about an outstanding opportunity? While you may welcome it, you might also wonder if you’re equipped to handle it. If the idea of stepping into the unknown is unnerving, it could be time to take a risk. With Uranus journeying through your sector of adventure for some time yet, the challenges can keep on coming, inspiring you to be bold.

You have a chance to clear the slate, and reset your priorities, Archer. The coming weeks can be a call to reflect on your life, and how happy you are with the way things are going. If there are areas that need improvement, the cosmos encourages you to get assistance or advice, and resolve them for good.

Soon, the Sun will enter your sign, starting a new and exciting phase.

Have big plans? You may be getting in your own way. Secretly wondering what might happen if you do succeed? If the outcome means that you’ll need to change or learn new skills, it could unnerve you.

How important is this to you? If it’s crucial, it can be a case of seizing the day, rising above any limitations, and discovering what you’re capable of.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

It would be no surprise if tensions are building between you and another, with Mercury forging a compelling angle with Jupiter and Pluto. A minor niggle could develop into a drama, which may be the last thing you want. Try stepping back from it all Leo, and relax if you can. Tomorrow is another day, and by then you might have a solution which you know will work.

As Mercury angles towards Jupiter and Pluto, there’s a chance to take a relationship further. This aspect can be helpful for spotlighting areas where there may be ongoing niggles. A heart-to-heart could have a deeply transformational effect. And if you can keep the conversation going and are committed to a positive outcome, it might build trust and intimacy, giving it plenty of mileage.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

There’s a buzz in the air, as the Moon in your sign aligns with energizing Uranus. You’ll have big ideas, and will be drawn magnetically to all that is new and exciting. Something that catches your attention could revolutionize your life, Virgo. It may be an event, encounter or something you read or hear. If it speaks to you in a very personal way, don’t dismiss it.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

You may not be looking forward to a reunion with someone, but it could bring the chance to clear the air. If there’s been tension between you for a while, a conversation might get things back on track.

Mercury’s angle to Pluto hints at being willing to let go of the past and embrace a new beginning. While this might not be easy, it will bring peace of mind, Pisces.

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