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ep. Orlando Aponte Rosario, who chairs the Legal Committee in the island House of Representatives, spoke out Sunday about what he said is a public safety crisis on the island, after the Puerto Rico Police Bureau reported earlier in the day a record 531 homicides so far this year, well over the 461 recorded last year.

“That reduction in crime figures due to the curfew and restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic disappeared. They [the police] must devise new strategies, reorganize human resources and maximize equipment available,” the legislator said. “Of course that is not enough. You have to create or renew agreements with neighborhood, sports and religious groups. We are in the middle of a public safety crisis and I am sure that in the population there is a desire to cooperate, but there must be leadership from La Fortaleza, the Department of Public Safety and the Police Bureau.”

According to published official data, the Caguas police region shows the largest increase in homicides, with 31 cases versus 17 on the same date in 2020.

At the beginning of the year, it was the Mayagüez region that had spearheaded the rise. Currently, that region shows an increase of eight more homicides than last year.

Meanwhile, the San Juan region has observed a higher rise recently and as of Saturday had an increase of 13 cases above the 101 it had on the same date in 2020.

Aponte Rosario, who represents Orocovis, Villalba, Barranquitas and Coamo in the lower chamber, pointed to rumors that another work stoppage by some members of the Police Bureau is being planned, as occurred on the weekend of Oct. 31.

Last Tuesday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia pointed to an ex-police officer as the instigator of the work stoppage, after Halloween weekend ended with 14 slayings, including the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy in the middle of a kidnapping in front of El Hipopótamo Restaurant in Río Piedras.

Although the governor did not identify him, he implied, Aponte Rosario said, that it was Gabriel Hernández Ramos, a retired ex-policeman who lives in New Jersey and is a self-styled police leader. The main complaints of the officers are the conditions of their retirement. They demand the implementation of Law 81 (Worthy Retire-

ment), which is opposed by the Financial Oversight and Management Board, the legislator said.

According to current regulations, police officers who are absent from work can take sick leave for three days without being required to present a medical certificate.

“In all this scenario that we have, it is also vital to update the agreements that exist with the federal authorities and examine how the situation is handled in other jurisdictions,” Aponte Rosario said. “For example, in Los Angeles, California, along with other cities in the United States, there is a wave of violence that has extended over 18 months, from May 2020 to this November. There, homicides have increased by 16% and aggravated assault by 23%.”

The lawmaker also pointed out that social workers consulted say that the COVID-19 pandemic has played a major role in the explosion of the violence.

“How are we going to handle this, because it is an issue where we all have to do our part,” he said. “Of course, in the Legal Committee of the House of Representatives we have been working on various measures since I took office last January and we are ready to evaluate new ideas, concepts and strategies.”

Rep. Orlando Aponte Rosario

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UPR Carolina provost said running afoul of due process with appointments

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niversity of Puerto Rico (UPR) Carolina Campus provost José Meza Pereira has appointed deans in various departments in violation of norms and due process, according to documents and interviews conducted by the STAR. Meza Pereira’s actions have occurred under the noses of the UPR governing board and its president, in what sources have described as yet another example of the governing board’s inadequate supervision and disconnection with matters involving the campuses.

At press time, neither the governing board nor Meza Pereira had responded to requests for comment.

“Beyond the meetings the [governing] board has with the president and the president with the provosts, the contact with the university community is minimal,” a STAR source said. “At these meetings, with rare exceptions, each official presents reports on the data that is favorable to him and that gives the impression that he is productive, but they hide adverse situations.”

While the UPR president is an ex-officio member of all of the academic senates, which are the official organ of the university community at each campus, no UPR president has shown up at those meetings in years, the sources close to UPR Carolina said.

“This estrangement results in some provosts and their staff having ineffective management, making arbitrary decisions and keeping a working environment that does not promote productivity,” one of the sources said.

One such example is a problem that is oc-

According to documents and sources interviewed by the STAR, the University of Puerto Rico Carolina Campus provost has appointed deans in various departments in disregard of norms and due process. curring at UPR’s Carolina campus, the sources said, where Meza Pereira appointed deans to the different departments without consulting the campus academic senate.

The regulations state that when there is a vacancy for a dean position, the provost in 60 days must inform the academic senate or the faculty, or department in question of the vacancy. If a dean does not head a specific department, then the notification must be made to the academic senate, which has 30 days to appoint a consultation committee.

The provosts must also seek the approval of the UPR governing board and president for

the appointment of all deans. The governing board has 60 days to approve the appointment.

In the 15 months that Meza Pereira has been provost at UPR Carolina, he has appointed six deans using the mechanism and without consulting, the source said.

“In all cases, he sends an email to the staff on the same day he makes the appointment, which sometimes is made retroactively,” the source said. “At the same time, he has never officially informed the academic senate of the vacancies of the positions for dean. He has never asked the academic senate for a consultation committee nor has he ever asked for a consultation committee for non-teaching staff impacted by the appointment of the deans.”

The sources provided documents to back up their claims. One of the situations that has alarmed some on the Carolina campus is the appointment of Gregory Bermúdez Rivera as interim dean of administrative affairs. Bermúdez Rivera was appointed for the period running from July 7, 2020 to Aug. 31, 2020.

Nonetheless, after the one-month period finished, Meza Pereira allowed Bermúdez Rivera to remain in the position for more than a year “in a clandestine and illegitimate manner,” a source said.

While Bermúdez Rivera has been working in the university system for over 20 years, he does not have a formal college degree needed to occupy the position of dean. The letter written by Meza Pereira, a copy of which was obtained by the STAR, merely states that Bermúdez Rivera’s 24-year experience in different positions qualifies him for the job.

The appointment, the sources said, is also illegal because the rules state that after

30 days, all interim appointments must go before the UPR governing board.

Meza Pereira also appointed Jonathan Ramos Scharrón, a professor, as interim dean of the Hotel and Restaurant Administration School; José Ayala, an assistant professor, as interim dean of academic affairs; and Ana Rivera Soto, who was interim registrar, as interim dean of student affairs. Ayala replaced Rafael Méndez, a natural sciences professor and department director, who had also been appointed in an interim fashion without the consultation of the academic senate. Soto replaced Alexy M. Márquez, who was only on the job from February to September of this year.

None of the appointments have been taken to UPR Carolina’s academic senate, according to documents obtained by the STAR. The sources say the UPR governing board is not paying attention to what provosts are doing. Recently, a UPR Medical Sciences Campus professor, who is also a member of the governing board, Lourdes Soto de Laurido, charged that two members of the governing board did not show up for an online visit by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education to that campus for its accreditation. The Medical School has already lost the accreditation for one of its departments.

The Middle States noted the lack of interest of two governing board members in participating in the important meeting. Soto de Laurido said one of the board members excused himself because he had a basketball game, while the other board member kept his camera off and did not answer questions.

Federal rent assistance still available

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eniors, college students, individuals and families facing problems paying their monthly rent or utilities can still benefit from the Housing Department’s Rent Assistance Program after the federal government extended the aid.

The program, which has an allocation of $325 million, helps qualified applicants pay their next three months of rent and provides up to 15 months in retroactive payment starting in April 2020.

“It is important for people to remember that they do not have to be unemployed or in arrears to benefit from the program. Thousands of people have already applied and benefited, but there are still funds to be used,” Public Housing Administrator Alejandro Salgado Colón said. “We make a call to children or relatives of older adults to guide them and inform them of the availability of this help.”

The assistance also allows renters to make reasonable payments for late fees during the months eligible for late rent.

To be eligible, tenants must have income

below 80% of the area median income as established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and live in a rental unit, among other requirements.

The administrator noted that “this program provides an alternative to tenants who have been affected in some way as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and who live in units whose owners could initiate an eviction process.”

“Our call is for you to call and apply for the Rental Assistance Program, as it is a relief to people in need,” Salgado Colón said.

Public Housing Administrator Alejandro Salgado Colón

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Preemption of local laws among subjects on Day 5 of POA hearings

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oday’s fifth round of hearings on the debt adjustment plan that will restructure some $33 billion in central government debt will center on arguments related to the preemption of dozens of local laws, on the rejection of the commonwealth’s obligation to accrue pension benefits and on the Takings Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The Financial Oversight and Management Board must turn in by noon a motion in support of rulings on Act 53, the law enabling the debt adjustment plan, also called the plan of adjustment (POA).

Regarding the preemption, the oversight board is seeking to preempt close to 100 different laws that would annul previous debt obligations to enforce the debt adjustment plan. Peter Hein, a retail bondholder, brought attention in a previous hearing to the irony that the oversight board wants to preempt the Constitution to annul old general obligation (GO) debt, but still use it to issue new debt.

On the issue of pensions, the oversight board wants to preempt laws that require the government to accrue pension benefits. The board has agreed not to cut current pensions.

Regarding the Takings Clause, which states that property can’t be taken by the government without just compensation, creditors opposing the plan have argued that The Takings Clause bars the release of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico from claims of nonconsenting GO and Public Building Authority bondholders who do not receive full compensation for their property. The commonwealth debt is being cut by almost 80%.

“GO and PBA bondholders have constitutionally protected property interests,” the creditors said. “The priority and security interests under Puerto Rico’s Constitution and statutes constitute property rights. Even simply bondholders’ ‘contract rights’ are ‘a form of property’ for purposes of the Taking Clause. The Fifth Amendment commands that property not be taken without making just compensation. Valid contracts are property, whether the obligor be a private individual, a municipality, a state or the United States.”

The Fifth Amendment provides a “right to full compensation” that “arises at the time of the taking,” they said.

On Friday, several witnesses testified to the effect that payments to creditors agreed upon by the oversight board in the debt adjustment plan could be paid only if the government continues with required budget cuts and an array of reforms

that it has not begun to make. Under the debt deal, debt service will be about $1.13 billion per year.

The Official Committee of Retirees presented a report on the impact that the freezing of pension benefits will have on public employees once they retire, and on the island’s economy. There have also been questions as to whether the new GO bonds that will be exchanged for new bonds will be exempted from federal taxes.

Peter Hein, a retail bondholder, performed a cross examination in an attempt to prove that the debt deal does not comply with requirements that it be feasible.

As part of the debt deal, creditors will receive $7 billion in cash and about $7.4 billion in bonds as part of a bond exchange. They will also have the benefit of a contingent value instrument, or CVI, of which now there are two.

One is funded by the sales and use tax (IVU by its Spanish acronym) and the other by rum taxes.

The CVI is a kind of certificate that will be given to the bondholders and that establishes that when the collections of certain taxes such as the IVU or the rum excise duties exceed projections, they will receive a slice of the income.

Proskauer Rose law firm partner Martin Bienenstock asked U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to admit economist Andrew Wolfe’s

report. Economist Anne Krueger and Adam Chepenik, an executive at Ernst & Young and formerly a U.S. Treasury official, also appeared as witnesses on Friday. Juan Santambrogio, an executive at Ernst and Young, and Marti Murray, an executive at The Brattle Group and a restructuring expert, analyzed whether the mediation process that was carried out in light of Title III cases resulted in reasonable settlements.

Also sitting in the witness chair was David Brownstein, a Citi Bank executive and one of the architects behind the plan of adjustment’s financial structure. Making a statement was Jay Herriman, executive of Alvarez & Marsal, another of the firms that advises the oversight board.

Wolfe testified that if Puerto Rico adopts the structural reforms established in the plan of adjustment, there will be revenues of up to $30 billion in five years. Those reforms included modifications to Act 80, the Unjustified Dismissal Act, and modifications to the permitting process and to the tax system, including the repeal of the inventory tax and the modification of the tax rate paid by manufacturing firms.

Freezing of pension benefits would only save about $6 million in 2025, but about $6 billion long term until 2051, Wolfe said.

San Juan to refurbish parks with $3.2 million investment

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ith an investment of $3.2 million, the municipality of San Juan will begin the reconstruction of more than 60 sports facilities and parks in 50 communities of the Capital City.

Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced the initiative on Sunday, specifying that the projects are part of the reconstruction plan that he has drawn up for the municipality and of his agenda to promote sports as a recreational alternative for young people and adults.

The mayor said the projects will be developed thanks to a grant of $2.4 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Small Projects program and an allocation of ordinary municipal funds.

“The personnel of the municipality of San Juan who have worked tirelessly to comply with and achieve this grant from FEMA … we are proud of this announcement because it will directly benefit the residents of San Juan and the beautification of the communities four years after the devastating passage of Hurricane Maria,” the mayor said. “We have been responsible and actively worked so that these projects can begin in the first year of my administration. With the restoration of these parks, as well as sports areas, I am also fulfilling one of my proposals in the campaign platform to return sports to the communities

and establish areas so that families, our children, can recreate and share in a safe way.”

With the announcement, Romero Lugo said the bidding process for the 60 projects begins. The projects include, but are not limited to, the installation and repair of gates, lights, benches and recreational equipment, and painting, among things.

The documents for bidding on the various projects can be obtained from the Purchasing and Bids Division of the Municipal secretary’s office, located on the 15th floor of the San Juan Government Center on Carlos R. Chardón Street in Hato Rey, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday.

The cost of the documents is $200. The compulsory orientation pre-bidding meetings are scheduled to begin on Nov. 15. Those interested in bidding must comply with all the requirements and regulations established by FEMA and the Community Development Block Grant for Disaster Recovery.

Among the 50 communities and developments that will benefit from the projects are Borinquen Gardens, El Dorado, Cambridge Park, Parkville, Riveras de Cupey, University, Señorial Park, Villas del Lago, Crown Hill, Floral Park, Dos Pinos, Indian Park in Condado, Berwind States,, Shanghai, Jurutungo, Venezuela, Villa Clemente and El Gandúl, among others.

The works announced by Romero Lugo constitute the second phase for restoring communities and recreational areas. In September, the mayor announced an investment of

some $1.8 million aimed at restoring parks and recreational areas that were damaged by Hurricane Maria.

The facilities restored in this first phase include the communities of Eduardo Conde and Highland Park, the indoor basketball courts in the El Hoyo, Valencia and Paracochero communities; the basketball court and passive park in Diez de Andino, and Nuestros Niños Park in Parcelas Falú.

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CPAs’ agriculture conference to focus on ‘Re-Grow Puerto Rico’ program

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Certified Public Accountants Association (CCPA by its Spanish initials) will hold, in person, the “1st Conference on Agriculture in Puerto Rico: Re-Grow Puerto Rico Urban and Rural Agriculture Program,” at the Hilton Ponce Golf & Casino Resort on Thursday starting at 1 p.m.

“The agricultural sector is one of great relevance for any country; and although many relate it only to planting, it includes much more,” CPA Oscar Cullen, president of the CCPA, said in a written statement.

“As an organization, it is important for us

CPA Oscar Cullen, president of the Certified Public Accountants Association

to promote socio-economic development.

That is why it is essential to support the agricultural business sector to recover from the damages caused by natural disasters and other circumstances that have affected it.”

“In this conference the ‘Re-Grow’ program will be discussed, including the opportunities it offers, the requirements and other details of interest to farmers and CPAs who advise them,” Cullen added. “The opportunities offered by the Economic Development Bank through the Small Business Financing (SBF) program, a program under CDBG-DR funds, will also be discussed.”

Among the topics to be discussed are the objectives of the Re-Grow program; activities and companies that qualify;

the process for requesting funds from the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust; and required documents and information.

“The application review and evaluation process will also be detailed, [along with] the most frequently encountered difficulties and errors in applications and how to avoid them, the responsibilities of the grant recipient, the administration of funds received (“post award”), and the entities that also offer benefits from this program,” the CCPA president noted.

For additional information, those interested can visit https://www.colegiocpa. com/account/#calendar/event/63794 or call 787-622-0900.

Health chief: Some 14,000 children vaccinated against COVID-19 so far

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he Health (DS) Secretary Dr. Carlos Mellado López said late last week that around 14,000 children had received the vaccine against COVID-19.

“More than 14,000 children in Puerto Rico have the COVID-19 vaccine,” Mellado López said in a written statement Friday. “This is reflected in the PREIS [Puerto Rico Electronic Immunization System] registry. At the

moment, 14,577 children and preadolescents have been vaccinated as part of the process that began on November 4.”

“Vaccines have given us hope to control the pandemic and provide protective coverage for our children,” he added.

“We have a prevention tool; however, until most of the population is vaccinated the virus will continue to spread. #Protect yourselfVacúnate.”

Puerto Rico Health Secretary Dr. Carlos Mellado López

DNER announces hunting season on Mona Island

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) announced last week that the bow hunting season on Mona Island will take place between Nov. 29 and Dec. 23.

Meanwhile, the shotgun and bow hunting season will be between Jan. 10 and March 31, 2022. The ammunition allowed for shotguns is 0, 00, 000 and “Slug.”

Bow hunting season for goats and feral pigs on Mona Island will take place between Nov. 29 and Dec. 23, with shotgun and bow hunting season running between Jan. 10 and March 31, 2022.

Hunting will only be allowed between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday. The hunting limit is five goats per day, and there is no daily limit for hunting feral pigs. Hunters must be authorized by the DNER. Goat and boar hunters must wear a minimum of 500 uninterrupted square inches of fluorescent orange material in plain sight, as provided in Article 9, section 9.4, subsection (B) of the Regulations to govern the conservation and management of wildlife (Regulation 6785).

Likewise, hunters must have their prey visible before shooting to avoid unfortunate accidents. Meanwhile, new hunters must be accompanied by another experienced hunter.

In addition, it is not allowed to transport any part of the feral pigs (meat, skin, entrails) to the island of Puerto Rico, nor is the consumption of alcoholic beverages allowed in the nature reserve.

The DNER warned that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of important safety regulations that every hunter must follow are in place, including those issued by

way of the governor’s executive order. The use of masks at all times was highlighted, maintaining a minimum distance of six feet in the camping areas, and evidence of vaccination against COVID or a negative result for COVID of no more than 72 hours prior to the visit to the Mona Island Nature Reserve.

The drawing for the shifts to access the reserve will be held this Thursday at 9 a.m. in the Auditorium Hall located on the fourth floor of the DNER, and only group leaders will be allowed to enter.

Applications are being received at the Office of Land Use and Forest Permits, (787) 999-2200 Ext. 5610, 5613; and at the department’s regional offices in: Aguadilla (787) 882-5752, Arecibo (787) 880-8070, Guayama (787) 864-3895, Humacao (787) 852-4440, Mayagüez (787) 230-4900 and Ponce (787) 844-4051. All requests must be accompanied by a payment of $50. Requests from groups of more than 12 people will not be allowed, and although companions are allowed, they should never exceed the number of hunters.

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‘They see us as the enemy’: School nurses battle COVID-19 and angry parents

By EMILY ANTHES

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hen a junior high school student in western Oregon tested positive for the coronavirus last month, Sherry McIntyre, a school nurse, quarantined two dozen of the student’s football teammates. The players had spent time together in the locker room unmasked, and, according to local guidelines, they could not return to school for at least 10 days.

Some parents took the news poorly.

They told McIntyre that she should lose her nursing license or accused her of violating their children’s educational rights. Another nurse in the district faced similar ire when she quarantined the volleyball team. This fall, after facing repeated hostility from parents, they started locking their office doors.

“They call us and tell us we’re ruining their children’s athletic career,” McIntyre said. “They see us as the enemy.”

Throughout the pandemic, schools have been flashpoints, the source of heated debates over the threat the virus poses and the best way to combat it. School nurses are on the front lines. They play a crucial role in keeping schools open and students safe but have found themselves under fire for enforcing public health rules that they did not make and cannot change.

This new academic year has been the hardest yet, they say. After a year of remote or hybrid learning, schools generally reopened at full capacity; many did so in the middle of the delta surge and in the midst of an escalating political battle over “parents’ rights” to shape what happens in schools.

Although 12- to 15-year-olds have been eligible for vaccination since May, uptake has been slow; just 48% of children in that age group have been fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vast majority of elementary school students, who became eligible for the shots just two weeks ago, remain unvaccinated.

Nurses say they are juggling more COVID cases and quarantines — and more furious parents — than ever. “I call myself a fireman and a dentist because I feel like I’m putting out fires and pulling teeth all day long,” said Holly Giovi, a school nurse

Robin Cogan, a school nurse who has been running a virtual support group for colleagues across the country, in Camden, N.J., Oct. 28, 2021. in Deer Park, New York.

They are, they say, exhausted and overwhelmed. Some say that, for the first time, they hate their jobs, while others are quitting, exacerbating a school nursing shortage that predated the pandemic.

“I loved being a school nurse before COVID,” McIntyre said. Last month, she resigned.

‘More Than Band-Aids and Boo-boos’ Even before the pandemic hit, the job of a school nurse extended far beyond tending to playground scrapes.

School nurses manage chronic conditions, like diabetes and seizure disorders; perform vision, hearing and scoliosis screenings; ensure that students are up to date on vaccinations and physicals; assist with the development of personalized educational plans for students with disabilities; help students manage stress and anxiety; and more.

“You’re doing a lot more than BandAids and boo-boos,” Giovi said.

The majority of school nurses in the United States are responsible for covering more than one school, according to a 2018 study. (One-quarter of U.S. schools have no paid nursing staff at all.) Most make less than $51,000 a year.

“They were understaffed and overworked to begin with,” said Mayumi Willgerodt, an author of the study and an expert on school nursing at the University of Washington.

School nurses are now also managing isolation rooms for sick students, administering virus tests and logging the results, performing contact tracing and tracking quarantine periods, all while trying to reassure worried parents and keeping tabs on frequently changing guidelines.

“We are acting as the de facto health department,” said Robin Cogan, a school nurse in Camden, New Jersey, and the clinical coordinator of the school nurse program at Rutgers School of Nursing, Camden.

Julie Storjohann, a school nurse in Washington state, spends her days toggling between numerous spreadsheets — for students who have symptoms of COVID, students who have family members who tested positive and students who have been flagged as close contacts of other students with COVID, all of which have different quarantine and testing requirements.

“I am exhausted,” she said. “I was hoping this year was going to be a little better than last year, but it’s actually worse.”

When a student tests positive, Storjohann begins a laborious contact-tracing process, which can include trying to determine whom the student sat next to at lunch or on the bus. Students have assigned seats on the school bus, she said, but do not always stay in them, so she pores over video footage from inside the bus.

“And I’m supposed to be able to pick out this student and who is around him,” she said. “And they’re wearing a mask, and they’re wearing a hood and hat, and it’s impossible.”

And while the COVID work can feel all-consuming, students still get bloody noses, skinned knees and head lice.

“Or there’s a seizure in Room 104,” Giovi said. “Or the kid that’s got tree nut allergies accidentally ate his friend’s snack, and you’re reading the ingredient list real fast. None of that stops.”

Erin Maughan, a school nursing expert at George Mason University, said many nurses were working nights and weekends for no extra pay and were feeling “moral distress” that they still could not get everything done. “At the

same time,” she said, “how many hours can one put in?”

The American Rescue Plan, this year’s COVID relief bill, provides funds that school districts can use to hire more nurses, but many struggled to fill open nursing positions even before the pandemic.

“There just aren’t people to take the job,” said Linda Mendonça, president of the National Association of School Nurses.

Anger and Abuse The pandemic has also turned school nurses into unwelcome public health messengers, especially when they tell parents that their children must stay home from school for two weeks.

“They just basically hate you,” said Anne Lebouef, a school nurse in Louisiana, who said that she cries several times a week. “They’re yelling at you. They’re accusing you of fearmongering.”

For the last year, Cogan has been running a virtual support group for school nurses across the country. “It’s a safe space for school nurses to share their experiences,” she said, “and to kind of download and say, ‘This is hard. I’ve written my resignation letter 10 times. I’m about to turn it in. Can somebody help talk me out of it, help me get through another day?’”

Other nurses have had enough. “For the same pay that we were getting before COVID, having to deal with twice the workload is just too much,” said McIntyre, who will start a new job as an operating room nurse in December.

The vaccination of children younger than 12 could alleviate the strain on some school nurses, especially if it reduces the number of students they have to send home from school. (Students who are fully vaccinated do not need to quarantine, the CDC guidelines say.)

But many nurses work in communities where vaccine skepticism is high and relatively few students are expected to get the shots.

As the pandemic smolders on, school nurses had two urgent pleas for parents: to keep their children home when they are sick and — especially, they said — to be kind.

“We’re doing the best that we can do,” Storjohann said, her voice trembling.

She took a moment to collect herself, then added, “It just gets overwhelming.”

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Baby born 19 weeks early defies long odds and astonishes doctors

By MARIA CRAMER

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ichelle Butler was 21 weeks pregnant with twins — a boy and a girl — when she felt contractions.

As her sister drove her to the hospital, Butler prayed for them to stop.

But the contractions persisted, and on July 5, 2020, at about 1 p.m., the babies, C’Asya Zy-Nell and Curtis Zy-Keith Means, were born. She was told that the infants, who each weighed under 1 pound, had less than a 1% chance of survival. They were quickly placed on ventilators.

C’Asya died less than a day later. Butler, 35, said she had held her in her arms, prayed for her and told her she loved her.

But Curtis hung on. He was trying to breathe on his own, and his heart rate was improving, showing a resilience that shocked longtime nurses and doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

“He was striking even from the first breath,” said Dr. Brian Sims, a neonatologist at the hospital who cared for Curtis. “He just showed that he was going to be a strong, strong fellow from day one.”

Curtis was released in April, after 275 days in the neonatal intensive care unit. On Wednesday, Guinness World Records named Curtis, who was born 132 days early, the world’s most premature infant to live to a first birthday. He is now 16 months old.

Babies born that premature seldom live more than a day, Sims said.

“The truth is, no baby has survived at this age,” he said. “We say less than 1%, but it’s really closer to zero.”

Curtis’ early birth reflects the persistently high frequency of premature births in the United States, where the yearly rate of preterm births hovers at about 10%, according to the March of Dimes. In Alabama, the rate was 12.5% in 2019, according to the organization.

Curtis was born one month after the previous recordholder, Richard Hutchinson, who was born in Minneapolis after only 21 weeks and two days of gestation.

The risk of preterm births is even higher for Black women, who are more than 50% more likely than white women to give birth early, according to the Population Reference Bureau.

Myriad factors can contribute to premature births, including a mother’s age and income, her health and her access to prenatal care. Access to contraception can play a role. Women who have pregnancies in quick succession are also at risk of giving birth early, said Bruce Bekkar, a gynecologist and obstetrician who serves as chair of the Public Health Advisory Council at the Climate Action Campaign in San Diego.

Climate change could be exacerbating the problem, according to a 2020 study that examined more than 32 million births in the United States and found that pregnant women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution were more likely to have children who were premature, underweight or stillborn.

Curtis Means and his mother, Michelle Butler. Curtis was certified this week as the world’s most premature infant to live to a first birthday.

It is too early to conclude how large a role climate change is playing in low birth weights and preterm births, said Bekkar, one of the authors of the 2020 study. But the evidence that it is a significant factor is compelling, he said, noting that the number of preterm births fell at least 20% in California in areas where fossil fuel plants shut down.

Other events caused at least in part by climate change, like the growing number of wildfires in the western part of the United States and the increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves, have been associated with preterm births.

“It’s going to get worse,” Bekkar said. Climate change “is going to continue to put increasing pressure on premature birthrates.”

Sims said it was not clear why Butler went into early labor. She had access to neonatal care and saw a doctor regularly, he said.

Butler said her cervix began to open up shortly before the birth. She underwent surgery at UAB Hospital to close it and was discharged from the hospital July 4. Her sister was driving her home over severely bumpy roads when she began feeling the contractions, Butler said.

She said that when her daughter died, she had little time to grieve, knowing that Curtis was still trying to survive.

“I had to pull myself together and be strong for him,” Butler said. The doctors told her that with a baby born that early, they would have to “take it day by day, hour by hour.”

“It was a roller coaster,” Butler said. “He had his good

and bad days, for sure.”

Butler, who also has a 7-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son, drove 90 minutes several days a week from her home in Greene County, Alabama, to visit Curtis at the hospital.

The nurses showed her how to feed him, change him and keep his feeding tube clean.

When he was stable enough, he was placed on his mother’s chest for skin-to-skin contact, said Sumita Gray, a nurse in the hospital’s regional neonatal intensive care unit.

Butler balanced visits to the hospital with her job at a catfish processing plant. Two weeks before Curtis was discharged, Butler quit her job, knowing she would need to spend more time with the baby.

Gray said she was thrilled when she saw him recently, when the doctors and nurses who cared for Curtis reunited with him and Butler to present them with the Guinness World Records plaque.

“He looked great,” she said. “He was roly-poly.”

Curtis still relies on a feeding tube and a ventilator to supplement his oxygen. He needs speech and physical therapy, Butler said. But the doctors said they were pleased with his progress.

“He’s very interactive,” Sims said. “He laughs. He gets an attitude. All the things that you expect from a baby so far, he does those things.”

Butler said Curtis, who now weighs 18 pounds, 9 ounces, sleeps all night and seldom whines.

“He’s a happy baby,” she said. “He’s not a crybaby.”

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1,600 miles away, New York’s power brokers shape a political race

By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

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he candidates openly courted allies by lavish hotel pools. They held can’t-miss parties, sometimes at the exact same time.

Party insiders updated spreadsheets to keep track of fresh commitments from supporters.

The fevered battle to become the next New York City Council speaker will not be formally decided until January, when the 51-member Council takes a vote. But it was in full bloom last week at the tropical political gathering known as Somos.

The winner will take on the second most powerful job in city government, a critical companion role to the mayor-elect, Eric Adams, who takes office in January.

Adams, a centrist Democrat, has said that he wants to be a “get stuff done” mayor, and the next speaker could help him enact his agenda, put up roadblocks or try to push him to the left.

With seven known candidates for speaker, the race has already begun to secure alliances and votes, and that work was on display in Puerto Rico, where discussions of possible endorsements are known to hinge on committee assignments and even office space.

Keith Powers, a Council member from Manhattan who is running for speaker, posted a selfie on Twitter from the beach with Joe Borelli, a Republican member from Staten Island whose party is likely to control four seats. Gale Brewer, the Manhattan borough president and former Council member who was just elected again to the Council, held meeting after meeting at a table outside the Sonesta Hotel.

“It’s organized chaos,” said Justin Brannan, a Brooklyn Council member who is also seeking the post.

“You have the entire New York political class together, so it’s a lot of gossip and a lot of conversations, and it’s economical because we’re all in the same place.”

Brannan, a former punk rock guitarist, had been viewed as a front-runner. Then came a surprise on election night: He trailed his Republican opponent by 255 votes. He spent most of the trip reassuring attendees that he would win once mail-in ballots were counted.

At a hotel lobby Thursday, Brannan spotted Henry Garrido, leader of District Council 37, New York City’s largest public workers union, and Mark Levine, incoming Manhattan borough president. They were discussing the speaker race, and Brannan quickly intervened.

“We have the votes,” he told them. “Everything is fine.”

At a labor event with the mayor-elect two days later, Garrido said Brannan might survive but that his tight race in southwest Brooklyn had shifted the “plate tectonics” of the race.

“There’s been a renewed sentiment of electing a woman and a woman of color,” Garrido said.

New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams speaks at a Kings County Democratic Party reception at hotel in Carolina, Puerto Rico on Nov. 5, 2021.

Indeed, at a crowded speak-easy inside a beachfront hotel, Carlina Rivera celebrated being reelected to her lower Manhattan seat, noting that she won “overwhelmingly in a landslide” — a phrase that some in attendance saw as a knock against Brannan.

Less than a mile away, Diana Ayala, a Council member from East Harlem, held an outdoor soiree surrounded by palm trees and highlighted her story as a single mother who once lived in the shelter system.

“I hope you brought your dancing shoes!” Ayala said as the crowd headed upstairs to hear live music.

New members of the City Council made sure to attend both parties — to weigh their options and to not antagonize a possible front-runner by not showing up.

The competitive speaker race was the main topic of gossip at the annual Somos conference, where elected officials, lobbyists and union leaders meet to socialize and strike deals. Adams told reporters that he was not getting involved in the race — although it might be hard for him to resist.

The City Council will have its first ever female majority — with women expected to take 31 out of 51 seats — and it is decidedly young and diverse. Members are expected to pick the next speaker by late December, and few are publicly supporting anyone at this point.

“The big open question is will Mayor-elect Adams get involved, and if he does, I believe that would be determinative in many ways,” said Corey Johnson, the current Council speaker, who will be leaving office

because of term limits. “But I think he’s keeping his powder dry and letting the race play out and seeing if the outside players are going to make their move. It feels like a bit of a waiting game right now.”

Rivera, a former community organizer who has focused on issues like sexual harassment, has had to counter the perception that Adams does not favor her for the job. She did not endorse Adams during the Democratic primary for mayor, unlike Brannan and Francisco Moya, a member from Queens who is also running for speaker. “¡Bienvenido a Puerto Rico Mr. Mayor!” Rivera posted on Twitter from Somos with a photo of her smiling with Adams.

A coalition of five unions, including those representing nurses and hotel workers, also holds sway over the race, after spending generously to help get many members elected. The coalition, known as Labor Strong 2021, has not yet settled on a candidate.

Several power brokers have indicated their preferences: Rivera is backed by Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez; Ayala has support from Rep. Adriano Espaillat; Rep. Gregory Meeks, the Queens party leader, favors Adrienne Adams, a Council member from Queens who is close with Eric Adams and wants to be the city’s first Black speaker.

Johnson won the job in 2018 in large part because of support from Meeks’ predecessor in Queens, Joseph Crowley, the high-powered congress member who was unseated in the Democratic primary by Alexandria OcasioCortez later that year.

The setting in Puerto Rico also drew attention to a recent push for a speaker of Latino descent. Ayala was born in Puerto Rico, Rivera is of Puerto Rican descent and Moya is of Ecuadorean descent.

The race centers less on ideology and more on the relationships the candidates have built with colleagues and the support they offered new members in their bids to get elected. Many of the candidates are not far apart politically: Adrienne Adams, Ayala, Brannan, Powers and Rivera are all part of the Council’s progressive caucus.

Borelli, who is likely to be the next Republican minority leader in the Council, said that he gets along well with several speaker candidates even if they have different politics.

“I disagree with all of them tremendously on many things, but it’s nice having the luxury to tell them to their face how I feel,” he said.

Moya, who played soccer with Borelli when they worked together in Albany, kept a relentless schedule at Somos, highlighting his ties to Adams and arguing that he was the only candidate with a “track record of working across the political spectrum.”

“I didn’t even see the beach, to be honest with you,” he said.

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Three ‘beloved’ snow leopards died of COVID complications at Nebraska zoo

A snow leopard at a zoo in San Diego, Calif.

By VÍCTOR MANUEL RAMOS

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hree snow leopards died of complications related to COVID-19 at a zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska, despite efforts by staff to restore them to health after they tested positive for the virus about a month ago, zoo announcements said.

The Lincoln Children’s Zoo lamented the deaths of Ranney, Everest and Makalu in a Facebook post on its

official page Friday evening, saying the mountain cats “were beloved by our entire community inside and outside of the zoo.”

“This loss is truly heartbreaking, and we are all grieving together,” the statement said.

The snow leopards were not the only animals to have contracted the virus at the facility. The Lincoln Children’s Zoo had published a statement on Oct. 13 disclosing that the snow leopards and Sumatran ti-

gers had “tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.”

The zoo had collected nasal swab and fecal samples after animal keepers had “observed symptoms consistent with the virus in felids,” which can include respiratory illness. The zoo said it had been treating the snow leopards and tigers “with steroids and antibiotics to prevent secondary infection,” but its statement did not say whether its animals had been vaccinated.

This summer, zoo animals started receiving an experimental COVID vaccine made by Zoetis, a veterinary pharmaceutical company in New Jersey.

The Lincoln zoo’s tigers appeared to be pulling through, according to the latest statement. “Sumatran tigers, Axl and Kumar, have made a seemingly full recovery from the illness,” the zoo said.

Cases of COVID infections among zoo animals have surfaced throughout the U.S., including the first two spotted hyenas in the world found to have the virus, among other animals infected at the Denver Zoo. Other recently reported cases have included tigers in Omaha, Nebraska; African lions, snow leopards, jaguars and a tiger in St. Louis; and lions in Honolulu.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that the risk of animals spreading COVID-19 to people is considered low, but people can also spread the virus to them, and cases among pets and animals in zoos have been documented around the world.

The Lincoln Children’s Zoo, conceived as a family destination where children could come close to animals, houses over 400 animals, including more than 40 endangered species, according to its website. Zoo officials could not be immediately reached Saturday, but the organization’s statement said it has been following guidelines from the CDC and the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians to protect its animals, the staff and the community.

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Johnson & Johnson, iconic company under pressure, plans to split in two

By REBECCA ROBBINS and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

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or generations, Johnson & Johnson has been synonymous with American health care — and, at times, with American health care scandals.

Now the 135-year-old company is joining a growing roster of iconic American businesses that are splitting up as they seek to please restive shareholders and move past recent controversies.

On Friday, Johnson & Johnson announced plans to spin off its consumerproducts division — famous for household-name but not-very-lucrative brands such as Tylenol, Band-Aid and Neutrogena — into a separate company. Johnson & Johnson will keep its more profitable, faster-growing businesses in pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

The planned breakup comes after years of tribulations for Johnson & Johnson. The company is juggling lawsuits for its role in the opioid epidemic and over accusations that the talc once used in its baby powder had caused cancer in some customers. Even the company’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine, once expected to be widely used around the world, has fallen far short of its promise because of production problems and fears about rare side effects.

Johnson & Johnson, with headquarters in New Jersey, is part of a parade of once-proud companies that have recently unveiled plans to break themselves up or radically shrink. This week alone, industrial conglomerates General Electric and Toshiba announced that they would split up. In recent years, pharmaceutical companies including Merck, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline have also shed or reorganized their consumerproducts operations to focus on businesses, in particular drugs, that enjoy fatter profit margins.

“We are at the point in the cycle where conglomerates are less popular,” said Erik Gordon, a professor who studies business strategy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

“The pharma companies in particular are trying to focus on pharma.”

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to spin off its consumer-products division — home to Tylenol, Band-Aid, Neutrogena beauty products and more — into a separate business.

Even before the planned split, Johnson & Johnson was in the midst of a generational change. The company announced over the summer that Joaquin Duato, who had run its pharmaceutical division, would take over as CEO in January. Alex Gorsky, who has been CEO for nearly a decade, will stay on as executive chair.

The company’s stock price has nearly tripled since Gorsky took the reins in 2012, bolstered by a steady stream of new products and experimental drugs.

Medicines for inflammatory conditions and cancer have been key drivers of the growth. But those successes have been accompanied by high-profile missteps.

Johnson & Johnson faces thousands of legal claims that its talc-based products may have caused cancer. The company discontinued sales of talc-based baby powder in North America last year, although it has said that it is safe.

This fall, Johnson & Johnson dumped the liabilities from that business into a new division, which last month filed for bankruptcy protection. (It will remain a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson under the plan to divide the companies.) The

reorganization drew criticism from lawmakers, academics and trial lawyers as a ploy to protect investors at the expense of customers who say they were harmed

by Johnson & Johnson’s products.

At the same time, Johnson & Johnson was also under public and legal fire for its role in the opioid crisis. The company was a manufacturer of potentially addictive opiate painkillers, a business it discontinued entirely in the United States last year. It faces lawsuits seeking billions of dollars, although courts in California and Oklahoma recently handed victories to Johnson & Johnson and other opioid makers.

Johnson & Johnson, like other medical companies, has weathered its share of reputation-threatening controversies. In a 1982 episode that became a textbook example of how to manage a corporate crisis, the company had to scramble after someone tampered with capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol, turning them lethal with potassium cyanide and killing seven people. The company regained public trust by quickly pulling Tylenol from U.S. shelves and introducing new tamper-resistant packaging.

Throughout, the company has relied on the “halo effect” created by popular consumer products, none more so than its Johnson’s Baby line of shampoos, lotions, moisturizers and powder for infants. Such products have thin profit margins but have embossed public perceptions of Johnson & Johnson as a benevolent, gentle company.

“It gives us a wonderful image that most companies would kill for,” Ralph S. Larsen, the company’s chair at the time, told Forbes in 2001.

But the commercial value of those brands has weakened over time.

Even as consumers continue to refer to all plastic bandages as Band-Aids — the rare brand, such as Kleenex and Xerox, whose name is a stand-in for an entire range of products — they have embraced cheaper, generic rivals. The same is true for products such as Tylenol.

Even lingering affection for the company’s consumer products does not do much to advance Johnson & Johnson’s medical businesses, which are far more important to the company’s finances.

“Doctors and hospitals just want hips and knees, and drugs that work, at a cheap price. They’re not really thinking of Band-Aids,” said Les Funtleyder, a health care investor who followed Johnson & Johnson for years as an analyst.

Johnson & Johnson, founded in 1886 as a maker of surgical dressings, is by many measures the world’s largest health care company. Even as standalone businesses, the two independent companies will be enormous. The pharmaceutical and medical devices division is expected to report $77 billion in revenue this year. And the consumer health business is predicted to bring in $15 billion in sales.

Johnson & Johnson said it planned to complete the breakup within two years. Executives described the move as an effort to better focus on and to expand two types of businesses. “We must continually be evolving our business to provide value today, tomorrow and in the decades ahead,” Gorsky said in a statement.

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Taíno people want to stop Christie’s sale of artifacts

By LAURA ZORNOSA

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A photo provided by Stephanie Bailey shows Ra Ruiz León, who is Taíno, an Indigenous people of the Caribbean whose descendants can now be found throughout the Antillean islands, standing outside Christie’s in New York on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, protesting a planned sale of artifacts in Paris this week.

n the sidewalk outside of Christie’s auction house in Manhattan, Ra Ruiz León, who is Taíno, played the mayohuacán wooden slit drum. She had arrived at Christie’s with a sign reading “Respect Indigenous people! Return our artifacts.”

León was one of a small group of people who showed up at a “Bring Back Our Artifacts” ceremony outside of Christie’s at noon Monday, followed by a meetup outside of the French Consulate General.

The two events followed an online petition asking Christie’s to stop the sale of sacred artifacts of the Taíno, an Indigenous people of the Caribbean whose descendants can now be found throughout the Antillean islands. Stephanie Sherman, a member of the Arayeke Yukayek Taíno tribe, created the petition a week ago in response to Christie’s “Pre-Columbian Art & Taíno Masterworks” auction scheduled for Wednesday in Paris, and it had surpassed 30,000 signatures by Tuesday afternoon.

“No matter how much these things go for, there’s no price that has the value for what these items are worth,” Sherman said in a phone interview. “We have so little to ourselves, to our Taíno communities that we long to honor and have these objects back.”

The “Pre-Columbian Art & Taíno Masterworks” auction includes 38 works from the private Fiore Arts Collection of Taíno art, as well as Mayan and Mezcala pieces. On its website, Christie’s highlights some works made of “manatee bone, shell and terra-cotta, layered with symbolically-charged iconography,” and states that “the works speak to the creativity of the Taíno.”

“As custodians of the art that passes through our doors, we recognize we have a duty to carefully research the art and objects we handle and sell,” Christie’s Paris said in a statement. “We devote considerable resources to investigating the provenance of works we offer for sale, and have specific procedures, including the requirement that our sellers provide evidence of ownership.

“In the case of the upcoming sale, these checks have been carried out and we have no reason to believe that the property is from an illicit source or that its sale would be contrary to French law.”

Sherman said she first learned of the auction through a TikTok post that includes a video from a Christie’s website feature on

the items, which appears to have since been removed.

In the video, André Delpuech, the director of the Musee de l’Homme, introduces the upcoming auction items. “Unfortunately, for the Taíno, they were completely destroyed by the Spanish conquest,” Delpuech says in the video. “And we can imagine that around 1530 or 1540, no Taíno were living in the Caribbean.”

Stephanie Bailey, the chief, or cacike, of the Arayeke Yukayek tribe, was particularly struck by the implication that the Taíno people were essentially extinct.

“They’re still perpetuating this idea of extinction or annihilation to drive sales, essentially,” Bailey said in a phone interview.

“That’s really what we feel that it’s doing, driving sales, because we become more of a valuable asset if we no longer exist.”

In fact, last year, a scientific study in the journal Nature found that, on average, about 14% of people’s ancestry in Puerto Rico could be traced back to the Taíno. That figure was about 4% in Cuba and 6% in the Dominican Republic.

“If they sell the items, of course it’s devastating,” Bailey said. “It’s a thousand percent devastating. However, dialogue can create a space where, in the future, maybe it doesn’t happen that way.”

Even if they can’t ultimately stop the auction, the Arayeke Yukayek people hope for dialogue with Christie’s to provide perspective. In the future, Bailey said, perhaps Christie’s will reach out to the Taíno people first.

After the group started researching Christie’s, Bailey said, they realized that Mexico, too, had expressed concerns regarding two auctions in Paris, including this one, that included Mexican pre-Hispanic items.

On Oct. 22, the Mexican Embassy in France sent a letter of protest to Christie’s Paris and informed France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs that it believed such sales encourage transnational crime and create favorable conditions for looting, according to an embassy news release.

At the ceremony Monday, Sanakori Luis Ramos, the behike, or medicine man, for the Arayeke Yukayek people, invoked the ancestors using a zemi, a sculptural object housing the spirit.

“That’s two things that need to be addressed: one is stopping the sale, and two,” Ramos said, “we exist.”

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Asian shares advance as inflation shock fades to background A

sian share costs superior on Friday as a shock from a surprisingly robust U.S. inflation studying ebbed, with buyers hopeful that the worst value hikes could possibly be quickly over.

Japan’s Nikkei (.N225) gained 1.1%, helped by brisk earnings. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outdoors Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) rose 0.25% however mainland Chinese language shares have been softer, with CSI 300 index (.CSI300) slipping 0.3%.

European shares are anticipated to edge larger, with Euro Stoxx futures up 0.15% and Britain’s FTSE futures 0.1% larger.

U.S. inventory futures ticked up 0.1% in Asia after a combined session on Thursday when the S&P 500 (.SPX) ended 0.06% larger whereas tech-heavy Nasdaq (.IXIC) rose 0.52%.

The world’s inventory costs posted their greatest fall in over a month on Wednesday following a surprisingly robust studying on U.S. inflation.

The U.S. shopper value index rose 6.2% year-on-year in October, the strongest advance since November 1990. learn extra “Inflation is obviously a risk to watch. But stock prices will face a major crash only if the Federal Reserve turns out to be completely wrong in its assessment and is forced to raise interest rates rapidly. That’s not where we are now,” stated Norihiro Fujito, chief funding strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.

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In Cuba, desires for food and freedom may spark a rare day of protest

People queue outside a government-run grocery in Alamar, outside Havana, Nov. 11, 2021.

By ED AUGUSTIN

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he line starts during the day and stretches into the night. In the dark before dawn, there are hundreds of people waiting. Four women sleep on cardboard boxes, sharing a thin blanket.

Others chat to stay awake. A nurse arrives after a 24-hour shift and takes her place.

They each hold a ticket to enter a Cuban government supermarket, which is the only place to find basics such as chicken, ground beef and toiletries. At 5:27 a.m.

Wednesday, a man in a fraying baseball cap hands out ticket No. 302.

“If you don’t get in line, you don’t buy anything,” said a 35-year-old cook who arrived at 6 p.m. the previous day and who did not want her name published for fear of retribution.

Even in a country long accustomed to shortages of everything from food to freedom, it has been a remarkably bleak year in Cuba, with COVID-19 restrictions making life under tough new U.S. sanctions even harder.

Now a young generation of dissidents, many of them artists and intellectuals who rely on the internet to spread their ideas, are calling for a protest Monday, a bold move with little precedent in Cuba. They hope to reignite the marches that filled the streets this past summer to demand food,

medicine and liberty — and to take on a government that for the first time is not made up of veterans of 1959’s communist revolution.

Just days before the “Civic March for Change” was set to begin, organizers appeared to be toning down the protests for fear of violence. Organizers have encouraged people to hang white sheets outside their homes, applaud at 3 p.m. and find other creative ways to demonstrate if they do not feel comfortable taking to the streets.

Despite Cuba’s one step forward, two steps back dance toward openness, experts agree that Cuba is on the cusp of something important, even if the movement behind the protests is unlikely to bring down a Communist Party that has been in power for more than 60 years.

“We are witnessing an unprecedented counterrevolutionary movement in Cuba,” said Carlos Alzugaray, a former Cuban ambassador to the European Union and an academic who considers himself a “critical” supporter of the government.

It is a crucial moment for the Cuban government. A generation of young people who grew up under Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl are now facing Miguel Díaz-Canel, a longtime party stalwart who became president in 2018. At 61, he represents a younger generation of Cuba’s

Communist Party and the person tasked with seeing it into the future.

Díaz-Canel blames Cuba’s economic ills on the long-standing U.S. embargo, which has been ramped up in recent years. The Trump administration restricted travel to the island, cut off remittances and further locked the island out of the international financial system, pummeling its foreign exchange inflows.

He has proved himself just as willing as his predecessors to crack down on dissent.

When protesters took to the streets July 11, Díaz-Canel encouraged party members to rush after them. Government supporters pursued the demonstrators with batons.

Some 1,000 people were arrested and 659 remain jailed, according to a count by Cubalex, a civil rights group.

After Monday’s planned demonstration was announced, the Cuban government launched a massive media campaign against it, insisting that its leaders are pawns of the United States.

Yunior García, a playwright, has emerged as one of the movement’s leaders. He was among the founders of Archipiélago, a Facebook group of about 35,000 members that promotes discussion and debate. The group is the main promoter of rallies scheduled to take place in cities around the country Monday.

“I believe that the role of art is to awaken,” he said. “We have to shake things up so that people with dignity that make up society decide to change things.”

The Cuban government has publicly criticized García, saying that workshops he attended abroad, such as one that was about how dissidents could forge alliances with the Cuban military, amounted to planning a popular uprising. García said he was doing research for a script.

García acknowledges meeting with U.S. officials in Havana but said he went to record a podcast and discuss the effects of the trade embargo.

His internet and phone services are routinely cut, he said, and he recently found a decapitated chicken outside his front door, a religious hex, which he saw as a political threat. State security has even visited his mother-in-law three times at work, he added.

“They have used every tool at their disposal to intimidate us,” García said.

At least two coordinators of Archipiélago have been fired from their state jobs because of their involvement with the group, which Díaz-Canel has denounced as a Trojan horse for U.S.-backed regime change.

“Their embassy in Cuba has been taking an active role in efforts to subvert the internal order of our country,” Díaz-Canel said in a recent speech.

The U.S. government spends $20 million a year on projects designed to promote democracy in Cuba — money the Cuban government sees as illegal attacks on its sovereignty.

Hal Klepak, professor emeritus of history and strategy at the Royal Military College of Canada, said the scale of opposition the government has faced this year is unparalleled in Cuba’s history since the revolution.

“No one had ever imagined tens of thousands of people in the streets,” he said. “It is visible and by Cuban standards it is loud. It’s something we’ve never seen before.”

But the question remains whether ordinary Cubans will attend Monday’s protest, considering the government declared it illegal and its organizers have toned down their calls.

The protest was scheduled on the day that quarantine rules are being lifted, tourists are being welcomed back and children are set to return to school. The wave of COVID-19 fatalities that helped fuel the July protest has largely subsided, and 70% of the nation is now fully vaccinated.

Abraham Alfonso Moreno, a gym teacher who at 5 a.m. held ticket No. 215 outside the government store, said he did not protest in July and would not Monday, either. “In the end, it’s not going to solve anything,” he said.

He was more fixated on finding allergy pills.

Marta María Ramírez, a feminist, prodemocracy and gay rights activist in Havana, said the people who rushed to protest in July were more concerned about food than democracy, but that could be changing.

“The first cries were not for freedom.

The first cries were more urgent: food, medicine, electricity,” she said. “Freedom came afterward.”

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Negotiators strike a climate deal, but world remains far from limiting warming

By BRAD PLUMER and LISA FRIEDMAN

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iplomats from nearly 200 countries on Saturday struck a major agreement aimed at intensifying global efforts to fight climate change by calling on governments to return next year with stronger plans to curb their planet-warming emissions and urging wealthy nations to “at least double” funding to protect poor nations from the hazards of a hotter planet.

The new deal will not, on its own, solve global warming, despite the urgent demands of many of the thousands of politicians, environmentalists and protesters who gathered at the Glasgow climate summit. Its success or failure will hinge on whether world leaders follow through with new policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions. And the deal leaves vulnerable countries far short of the funds they need to cope with increasing weather disasters.

The talks underscored the complexity of trying to persuade scores of countries, each with their economic interests and domestic politics, to act in unison for the greater good.

But the agreement established a clear consensus that all nations must do much more, immediately, to prevent a harrowing rise in global temperatures. And it set up transparency rules to hold countries accountable for the progress they make or fail to make.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry entered the plenary hall Saturday evening with his arm around the shoulder of Xie Zhenhua, China’s chief climate negotiator. Last minute deal-making could be seen on the floor as Xie and Kerry huddled, mask to mask, with Alok Sharma, the British politician who led the U.N. summit.

Architects of the agreement hoped it would send a powerful signal to capitals and corporate boardrooms around the globe that more ambitious action on climate change is inevitable, which could in turn would empower civil society groups and lawmakers working to shift countries away from burning oil, gas and coal for energy in favor of cleaner sources such as wind, solar and nuclear power.

“The train is moving, and all countries need to get on board,” said Ani Dasgupta, president of the World Resources Institute. “If the world is going to beat back the climate crisis, no one can sit on the sidelines.”

Yet many others said the deal failed to meet the moment, in a year of deadly heat in Canada, devastating floods in Germany and New York, and raging wildfires in Siberia. At the start of the two-week summit, leaders, including President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, framed the mee-

ting as the world’s last, best chance to save the planet.

The final deal is “not in line with the urgency and scale required,” said Shauna Aminath, environment minister of the Maldives, an archipelago of low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean that has been inhabited for thousands of years but could be inundated within three generations because of rising seas.

“What looks balanced and pragmatic to other parties will not help the Maldives adapt in time. It will be too late for the Maldives,” she said.

In the final hours of talks Saturday night, negotiators clashed over wording that would have called on countries to “phase out” coal power and government subsidies for oil and gas. Fossil fuels have never been explicitly mentioned in a global climate agreement before, even though they are the dominant cause of global warming. In the end, at the urging of India, which argued that fossil fuels were still needed for its development, “phase out” was changed to “phase down.”

Switzerland’s representative, Simonetta Sommaruga, assailed the change. “We do not need to phase down but to phase out,” she said.

Going into the summit, world leaders said their ultimate goal was to prevent Earth from heating more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to preindustrial levels. Past that threshold, scientists have warned, the risk of deadly heat waves, destructive storms, water scarcity and ecosystem collapse grows immensely. The world has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius.

But even as countries vowed to step up their climate efforts both before and during the Glasgow summit, they are still falling far short.

The detailed plans that governments have made to curb fossil fuel emissions and deforestation between now and 2030 would put the world on pace to warm by roughly 2.4 degrees Celsius this century, according to analysts at Climate Action Tracker, a research group.

“Countries still don’t seem to understand that we’re in an emergency situation, and we need to cut emissions much faster this decade, or else any hope of staying at 1.5 degrees will be lost,” said Niklas Höhne, a German climatologist and founding partner of NewClimate Institute, which created the Climate Action Tracker.

A major focus of this year’s talks was how to push countries to do more. Under the last big climate deal, the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments weren’t formally scheduled to come back with new climate pledges until

2025, which many experts said was far too late for a major course correction.

The new agreement in Glasgow asks countries to come back by the end of next year with stronger pledges to cut emissions by 2030. Although the agreement states clearly that, on average, all nations will need to slash their carbon dioxide emissions nearly in half this decade to hold warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, it leaves unresolved the question of exactly how the burden of those cuts will be shared among nations.

It remains to be seen if countries will follow through; there are no sanctions or penalties if they fail to do so. Before the Glasgow talks, some governments such as the United States and European Union did step up their climate pledges under the Paris Agreement.

Yet others — like Australia, China, Brazil and Russia — barely improved on their short-term plans.

Money, meanwhile, remained a huge sticking point in the talks.

A number of swiftly industrializing countries, such as India and Indonesia, have said they would be willing to accelerate a shift away from coal power if they received financial help from richer countries. But so far, that help has been slow to arrive.

A decade ago, the world’s wealthiest economies pledged to mobilize $100 billion per year in climate aid for poorer countries by 2020. But they are still falling short by tens of billions of dollars per year.

At the same time, only a small fraction of the aid to date has gone toward measures to help poorer countries cope with the hazards of a hotter planet, such as sea walls or earlywarning systems for floods and droughts.

According to one recent study, some African nations are spending up to 9% of their gross domestic product on adaptation, while still

only addressing about one-fifth of their needs.

The new agreement tries to fill in some of those gaps. It calls out rich countries for failing to meet the $100 billion goal and urges them to “at least double” funding for adaptation by 2025. It also sets up a process for figuring out a collective goal for long-term financing, although that process could take years, and developing countries say they may ultimately need trillions of dollars this decade.

Separately, negotiators in Glasgow announced a major deal on how to regulate the fast-growing global market in carbon offsets, in which one company or country compensates for its own emissions by paying someone else to reduce theirs. One of the thorniest technical issues is how to properly account for these global trades so that any reductions in emissions aren’t overestimated or doublecounted.

The summit provided signs of growing momentum for climate action, albeit with caveats.

On the sidelines at the talks, clusters of countries announced initiatives they were undertaking on their own. More than 100 countries agreed to cut emissions of methane, a potent planet-warming gas, by 30% this decade. Another 130 countries vowed to halt deforestation by 2030 and commit billions of dollars toward the effort. Dozens of other countries vowed to phase out their coal plants and sales of gasoline-powered vehicles over the next few decades.

On top of that, most major economies have now pledged to reach “net zero” emissions by a certain date, essentially a promise to stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The United States and European Union said they would do so by 2050, China by 2060. At Glasgow, India joined the chorus, saying it would reach net zero by 2070.

John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, third from right, on Saturday in Glasgow with his counterparts from China and the European Union.

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From ‘alive among the dead,’ to ‘dead among the living’

By AURELIEN BREEDEN

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ne by one, day after day, week after week, a steady stream of witnesses walked up to the stand.

WThey fiddled with their face masks or shuffled notes. Adjusted the microphone, some with trembling hands. Stared at the ceiling of the brand-new, brightly lit courtroom to steel themselves or hold back a tear.

“The court is listening,” the presiding judge, wearing red robes lined with speckled white ermine, would say.

For more than five weeks in October and November, at a courthouse in central Paris, more than 300 survivors and members of bereaved families testified at a trial over the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in and around the French capital in 2015. Some130 people were killed, and hundreds were physically or mentally scarred. The attacks inflicted lasting trauma on France’s collective psyche.

The hushed courtroom listened to gut-churning recollections of the shootings and suicide bombings — carried out by Islamic State group extremists at the national soccer stadium, on restaurant and cafe terraces, and at the Bataclan concert hall — and to heart-wrenching accounts of lives that were shattered.

The plaintiffs were rarely interrupted. (Many asked that reporters in court not use their last names.) Judges, prosecutors and lawyers asked few questions. The accused remained mostly silent. Dozens and dozens of journalists typed away.

Sophie Dias, 39, told the court she was in Portugal preparing for her wedding when news of the attacks broke. She repeatedly called her father, Manuel Dias, a bus driver who had taken fans to the stadium. Manuel Dias, the only person killed there, never picked up.

Gaëlle, 40, told the court how, laying on the floor of the Bataclan with her cheek blown off by a bullet, she had to remove dislocated teeth from her mouth to avoid coughing and attracting a gunman’s attention. She underwent her 40th surgery in August.

Maya, 33, told the court she lost her husband and two of her best friends at the Carillon cafe, their Friday meeting spot. The assailants sprayed the terrace with bullets, hitting her legs as she crouched for cover between the gutter and a car.

“My head is held high, but I am exhausted,” she said. “I rebuilt myself, but now I would like to live.”

Emotions ran high. The audience hung on every shuddering sob; every excruciating detail; every devastating anecdote; every display of horror, grief, resilience, anger and hope.

Only a fraction of the 2,400 plaintiffs decided to testify at the trial, where 20 men stand accused, mostly of complicity in the attacks. Others want nothing to do with the proceedings.

But for those who testified, it was to explain or better understand what happened, to confront their trauma or the

accused, to reclaim their stories and their grief after years of slogans and politicizing that followed the attacks, to take another step toward rebuilding their lives.

“We were ordinary people,” said Arthur Dénouveaux, president of Life for Paris, a Nov. 13 victims group. “We want to be ordinary people again.”

Lydia Berkennou, 32, escaped the Bataclan by crawling on a floor that was wet with blood. She had told her story publicly before, but taking the stand was different.

“Like a bungee jump into the void,” she said.

She hopes to better understand each suspect’s involvement but found the trial emotionally taxing. The sound of gunfire recently came to her in a flashback for the first time in months.

“But I also know that when I slept that night after testifying, it felt like I had been freed from something,” she said.

To help plaintiffs cope with the psychological impact of the trial, volunteers in sleeveless blue vests from Paris Aide aux Victimes, a victim aid group, are at the courthouse.

“There are emotions, suffering, anxiety,” said Carole Damiani, a psychologist who is president of the group. “The goal is to cushion that as much as possible.”

The court showed almost no crime scene pictures and played only short audio or video clips from the Bataclan.

Added up, however, hundreds of testimonies painted nightmarish scenes.

Virginie remembered falling to the ground of the Bataclan’s mosh pit when the shooting started. She crawled with a “collective rippling” of people trying to escape and had to climb an “Everest of piled-up bodies” to exit.

Antoine Mégie, an expert on terrorism laws and legal cases at the University of Rouen, said the trial was a test of how courts could handle thousands of plaintiffs and extremely violent “scenes of war.” A trial for the 2016 truck attack in Nice, which killed 86, is expected next year.

“These testimonies were also a way to embody the victims of an attack that often goes far beyond them,” Mégie said. “Nov. 13 was an attack on France. The victims are sometimes overwhelmed by that aspect of things.”

Dénouveaux, from Life for Paris, said terrorism targeted victims “as a stand-in for the whole nation, to scare people, like a sacrificed animal.”

But the trial was a way for survivors to flip that, to be actors of their fate — real people with complex lives, not faceless symbols caught up in a national trauma.

“You share your experience willingly on the stand,” Dénouveaux said. “Even the decision not to testify is a kind of action.”

Despite their ordeal, most plaintiffs expressed no hate.

Only a handful lashed out, like the father of a lighting technician killed at the Bataclan who conveyed both loathing of the accused and deep sadness; six years later, he still pays his daughter’s phone bill to hear her voicemail recording.

Many testimonies struck a similar chord.

Bereaved families remembered frantically calling emer-

gency hotlines; being glued to the television; saying goodbye, one last time, from behind a glass window at the Paris police morgue. Through lawyers, several asked investigators and medical experts who testified whether a loved one had suffered or where exactly they had died.

Survivors recalled chaos when gunfire suddenly erupted on that balmy November evening, then the feeling that they had been irrevocably unmoored from reality, unable to focus or enjoy life.

“I made it out alive among the dead,” one survivor said.

“But now I am dead among the living.”

Some victims found community. Several former hostages from the Bataclan — where the assailants holed up for hours in a narrow corridor before police launched the assault in a deluge of gunfire and explosions — have grown close.

Guillaume Delmas, 50, is still processing feelings of guilt from that night, when he saw a friend die at the Bataclan and fled without his wife, who survived. He doubts his testimony will change the trial’s outcome and is frustrated that people often see him as a victim first and foremost.

“All the things that make you human, a good person or a bad person, a genius or a fool, all of that disappears completely,” he said.

Still, taking the stand was a relief for Delmas, who used to be a producer at an advertising firm and now works on his own projects, spending as much time away from Paris as he can.

Testifying was “like removing one of the heavy stones we’ve been carrying on our backs for the past six years,” he said.

A makeshift memorial for the victims of the terrorist attack outside the Le Carrillon Restaurant in Paris, Nov. 15, 2015. The trauma of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris was highlighted in testimony by survivors and others at a trial of 20 men accused of involvement.

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The awesome importance of imagination

By DAVID BROOKS

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lato and Aristotle disagreed about the imagination. As philosopher Stephen Asma and actor Paul Giamatti pointed out in an essay in March, Plato gave the impression that imagination is a somewhat airy-fairy luxury good. It deals with illusions and make-believe and distracts us from reality and our capacity to coolly reason about it.

Aristotle countered that imagination is one of the foundations of all knowledge.

One tragedy of our day is that our culture hasn’t fully realized how much Aristotle was correct. Our society isn’t good at cultivating the faculty that we may need the most.

What is imagination? Well, one way of looking at it is that every waking second, your brain is bombarded with a buzzing, blooming confusion of colors, shapes and movements. Imagination is the capacity to make associations among all these bits of information and to synthesize them into patterns and concepts. When you walk, say, into a coffee shop, you don’t see an array of surfaces, lights and angles.

Your imagination instantly coalesces all that into an image: “coffee shop.”

Neuroscientists have come to appreciate how fantastically complicated and subjective this process of creating mental

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images really is. You may think perception is a simple “objective” process of taking in the world and cognition is a complicated process of thinking about it. But that’s wrong.

Perception — the fast process of selecting, putting together, interpreting and experiencing facts, thoughts and emotions — is the essential poetic act that makes you you.

For example, you don’t see the naked concept “coffee shop.” The image you create is coated with personal feelings, memories and evaluations. You see: “slightly upscale suburban coffee shop trying and failing to send off a hipster vibe.”

The imagination, Charles Darwin wrote, “unites former images and ideas, independently of the will, and thus creates brilliant and novel results.”

Furthermore, imagination can get richer over time. When you go to Thanksgiving dinner, your image of Uncle Frank contains the memories of past Thanksgivings, the arguments and the jokes, and the whole sum of your common experiences. The guy you once saw as an insufferable blowhard you now see — as your range of associations has widened and deepened — as a decent soul struggling with his wounds. “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees,” William Blake observed.

Can you improve your imagination? Yes. By creating complex and varied lenses through which to see the world.

Novelist Zadie Smith once wrote that when she was a girl, she was constantly imagining what it would be like to grow up in the homes of her friends.

“I rarely entered a friend’s home without wondering what it might be like to never leave,” she wrote in The New York Review of Books. “That is, what it would be like to be Polish or Ghanaian or Irish or Bengali, to be richer or poorer, to say these prayers or hold those politics. I was an equalopportunity voyeur. I wanted to know what it was like to be everybody. Above all, I wondered what it would be like to believe the sorts of things I didn’t believe.”

What an awesome way to prepare the imagination for the kind of society we all now live in.

Zora Neale Hurston grew up by a main road in Eatonville, Florida. As a young girl, she’d walk up to carriages passing by and call out, “Don’t you want me to go a piece of the way with you?” She’d get invited into the carriage, have a conversation with strangers for a while and then walk back home.

These kinds of daring social adventures were balanced, in Hurston’s case, and in the case of many people with cultivated imaginations, with long periods of reading and solitude and inner adventures in storytelling. “I lived an exciting life unseen,” Hurston later recalled.

A person who feeds his or her imagination with a fuller repertoire of thoughts and experiences has the ability not only to see reality more richly but also — even more rare — to imagine the world through the imaginations of others. This

is the skill we see in Shakespeare to such a miraculous degree — his ability to disappear into his characters and inhabit their points of view without ever pretending to explain them.

Different people have different kinds of imagination.

Some people mainly focus on the parts of the world that can be quantified. This prosaic form of pattern recognition can be very practical. But it often doesn’t see the subjective way people coat the world with values and emotions and aspirations, which is exactly what we want to see if we want to glimpse how they experience their experience.

Blake and others aspired to the most enchanted form of imagination, which, as Mark Vernon writes in Aeon, “bridges the subjective and objective, and perceives the interior vitality of the world as well as its interconnecting exteriors.”

This is van Gogh painting starry nights and Einstein imagining himself riding alongside a light beam.

Imagination helps you perceive reality, try on other realities, predict possible futures, experience other viewpoints.

And yet how much do schools prioritize the cultivation of this essential ability?

What happens to a society that lets so much of its imaginative capacity lie fallow? Perhaps you wind up in a society in which people are strangers to one another and themselves.

Einstein was one of the most prolific creators, inventors and scientists in human history. His mathematician’s mind was supercharged with creativity and allowed him to see possibilities, not limitations.

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68 casos positivos de COVID-19 en informe DS POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud reportó el domingo sobre 68 casos positivos confirmados.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 29 de octubre al 12 de noviembre de 2021.

Hay 52 adultos hospitalizados y 3 menores.

Con una dosis hay al menos dos millones, 561 mil, 812 personas. Con las dosis completadas hay dos millones, 323 mil, 938 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 3,257.

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AMUY – Un hombre murió ahogado en la Playa Peñón Brusi del barrio Membrillo, carretera 4119 en Camuy.

Según el informe preliminar, Norberto Pérez Rivera, de 71 años residente de Camuy, se encontraba en la playa, cuando fue arrastrado

por el fuerte oleaje.

Personal de Rescate de Manejo de Emergencias Municipal de Camuy, rescató sin vida a Pérez Rivera.

El agente Edwin Calderón, de la División de Homicidios de Arecibo, se hizo cargo de la investigación en unión a la fiscal Ilia I. Reichard Morán.

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AN JUAN – El Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas y la Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación continúan con los trabajos en la Autopista Luis A. Ferré (PR-52) en horario de 9:00 a.m. a 3:30 p.m.

Del día de hoy, lunes, 15 al viernes, 19 de noviembre se realizará depósito de asfalto en la PR-52 entre los kilómetros 100.60 al 98.96 en dirección de Ponce a San Juan. Conllevará cierre de carriles, mientras que los conductores contarán con un carril disponible. Las rutas alternas son: Salida 104A que conecta con la PR12 hacia la PR-14 y Salida 99B que conecta con la PR-1.

Por otro lado, del martes, 16 al viernes, 19 de noviembre harán limpieza y la instalación de junta en el puente de la PR-52, kilómetro 96.8 de Juana Díaz a Ponce. Conlleva-

rá cierre de los carriles izquierdo y derecho, contarán con un carril disponible. Como rutas alternas hacia Juana Díaz pueden utilizar la Salida PR-506 Norte, PR-14 Oeste y PR-10 Sur Se anticipa congestión vehicular en la zona. Además, 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.

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Judge ends conservatorship overseeing Britney Spears’ life and finances

By JOE COSCARELLI and JULIA JACOBS

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early 14 years after a Los Angeles court deemed pop sensation Britney Spears unable to care for herself, stripping the singer of control in nearly every aspect of her life, a judge ruled Friday to end the conservatorship that Spears said had long traumatized and exploited her.

“The conservatorship of the person and estate of Britney Jean Spears is no longer required,” Judge Brenda Penny said, making her ruling less than a half-hour into the brief hearing. “The conservatorship is hereby terminated.”

The judge added that further psychological assessments of Spears were unnecessary because the conservatorship was technically voluntary. But Penny said that the current conservator of the singer’s estate would continue working to settle ongoing financial concerns related to the case.

James Spears, Spears’ father, who is known as Jamie, first petitioned the court for authority over his adult daughter’s life and finances in early 2008, citing her public mental health struggles and possible substance abuse amid a child custody battle. What began as a temporary conservatorship was made permanent by the end of the year.

Since then, the conservatorship has governed both the big business of Britney Spears and the day-to-day reality of the woman at its center, covering her medical care and personal life while putting her back to work as a lucrative performer in Las Vegas and beyond.

Once called a “hybrid business model” by the former estate conservator who worked alongside Jamie Spears for years, the setup entered into professional contracts on behalf of the pop star; vetted her friends, visitors and boyfriends; dictated her travel; and logged her every purchase, down to a drink from Starbucks.

It also drew questions from Britney Spears’ increasingly invested fans and outside observers, who asked why an active global celebrity and working musician was in an arrangement typically reserved for people who cannot feed, clothe or shelter themselves.

Spears, in her first extended public comments on the conservatorship at a court hearing this summer, argued that its authority went too far, saying that those in charge forced her to take medication, work against her will and use a birth control device. She called for

Supporters of pop star Britney Spears gather with cutouts and signs, outside Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, where a hearing on the conservatorship that has overseen her life and fortune since 2008, was scheduled for the afternoon. them to be investigated and jailed, pointing to her father, 69, as “the one who approved all of it.”

“I shouldn’t be in a conservatorship if I can work. The laws need to change,” Spears, 39, said at the time, explaining that her previous silence had been the result of embarrassment and fear. “I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive. I don’t feel like I can live a full life.”

The singer was not present in court Friday. But before the hearing, she was seen in a video posted to Instagram by her fiancé, Sam Asghari, wearing a T-shirt that read #FREEBRITNEY above the phrase “It’s a human rights movement,” while her song “Work Bitch” played in the background.

A lawyer for Spears, Mathew S. Rosengart, repeated some of the singer’s recent comments about the conservatorship in court Friday at her behest, he said.

“I just want my life back,” Rosengart told the judge, quoting Spears.

Spears responded to the ruling on social media Friday evening. “Good God I love my fans so much it’s crazy,” she wrote, adding some emojis. “I think I’m gonna cry the rest of the day !!!! Best day ever … praise the Lord … can I get an Amen.”

Any notion that Spears was content to be in the conservatorship — her father and his representatives had routinely called it both necessary and voluntary — crumbled June 23 when she spoke about it extensively in public for the first time.

After requesting to address the judge di-

rectly, Spears made a shocking, emotional call into court, speaking for more than 20 minutes.

And while the majority of the hearings in the case had happened behind closed doors, with Spears appearing rarely and speaking only in private when she did, the June hearing was streamed live online because of COVID-19 protocols. Spears insisted that her remarks be heard by all who were tuning in.

Already, Spears had begun seeking substantial changes to the conservatorship, starting in 2019, when she also announced “an indefinite work hiatus.” But the singer was at first required to use the same court-appointed lawyer she had since 2008, when she was found at the outset of the case to be mentally incapable of hiring her own counsel.

Behind the scenes, Spears had routinely bristled at the strictures of the arrangement, according to reporting and confidential documents obtained by The New York Times.

Having objected to her father’s role from the start because of his turbulent and intermittent presence in her life since childhood, she continued to question his fitness as conservator, citing his drinking and calling him “obsessed” with controlling her.

But little would change for years.

In her comments at the June hearing, Spears said she did not know that she could file to end the arrangement altogether. Her lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, soon resigned, as did a wealth management firm that was set to take over as the co-conservator of the estate. Outside the conservatorship, the singer’s

longtime manager, Larry Rudolph, also stepped down. Penny allowed Spears to select a new lawyer the next month.

Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor who has worked extensively in Hollywood, took over the case, calling for an extensive reexamination of the entire arrangement and pushing for Jamie Spears’ immediate suspension as estate conservator; that was granted in September. Britney Spears had said previously that she was afraid of her estranged father, even as he remained the steward of her nearly $60 million fortune, and would not return to performing with him in charge.

In an abrupt about-face in September, ahead of his own suspension, Jamie Spears moved to end the conservatorship entirely.

Rosengart argued that the turnaround was designed so that Jamie Spears, who earned a salary as conservator and commissions from his daughter’s career, could avoid legal discovery and being deposed under oath about his earnings and financial management of her estate.

Rosengart has sought to investigate Jamie Spears’ dealings with the estate’s former business manager, Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group, along with a security firm that monitored the singer, including secretly capturing audio recordings from her bedroom and accessing material from her phone, according to a documentary on the subject by the Times.

Jamie Spears’ new legal team, hired after his removal, has said he stands by his record as conservator and “supports, indeed encourages, a full and transparent examination.”

Lawyers for Tri Star denied in court filings that the company’s employees had any control over Britney Spears’ security protocols, including hidden electronic surveillance, and said that its financial dealings with the estate were approved by the court before the firm’s resignation from the conservatorship last year.

But even as the battle continues in court — with subsequent hearings scheduled to address the outstanding financial issues and investigations tied to the conservatorship — both sides came to agree that the arrangement should end.

Outside the courthouse, amid cheering fans, Rosengart said that Spears’ conservatorship had shined a light on potential abuses in the wider system. “If this happened to Britney, it can happen to anybody,” he said.

When asked whether Spears would ever perform again, the lawyer added that, for the first time in years, “it’s up to her.”

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Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak revisit vintage luxury as Silk Sonic

By JON PARELES

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nderson .Paak was born in 1986.

Bruno Mars was born in 1985.

The sound of their new collaborative album, “An Evening With Silk Sonic,” comes from a decade earlier, the 1970s, when the grit and funk of 1960s soul made way for a new embrace of sophisticated luxury.

Singers promised sensual pleasures, sharing ardent come-ons and velvety harmonies in opulent tracks, backed by bountiful strings and horns. Working together as Silk Sonic, Mars and Paak revisit that bygone analog era in a hybrid of homage, parody, throwback and meticulous reverse engineering, tossing in some cheerfully knowing anachronisms.

They flaunt skill, effort and scholarship, like teacher’s pets winning a science-fair prize; they also sound like they’re having a great time.

Silk Sonic comes across as a continuation for Mars and a playfully affectionate tangent for Paak. Mars is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong retro streak.

His voice and his verse-chorus-verse songwriting have harked back directly to Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, the Police and others, as he concentrates on thoughts of seduction, romance and, occasionally, winning someone back.

Paak’s catalog has delved into more complicated matters. On his albums, named after places where he has lived, he switches between singing and rapping, and his lyrics take on contemporary conditions; he is also a musician steeped in live-band soul and R&B, and a hard-hitting drummer. His songs, such as “Lockdown” from 2020, confront the tensions of identity, desire, success, politics, self-expression and repression; Silk Sonic gives him a vacation from those weighty topics. On “An Evening With Silk Sonic,” Paak’s specificity merges with Mars’ pop generalities, while both of them double down on craftsmanship and cleverness.

For an album such as this, Silk Sonic can use a co-sign from the elder generation, and the duo gets one from none other than Bootsy Collins, 70, bassist of Parliament-Funkadelic — the band Mars

Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars revisit the bygone analog era of 1970s R&B on a new collaborative album. simulated on the title track of his 2016 album “24K Magic” — and the possessor of the most liquid, self-satisfied speaking voice in the funk cosmogony. He arrives as “Bootzilla himself” on the album’s “Intro to Silk Sonic” and shows up elsewhere as “Uncle Bootsy,” certifying Silk Sonic’s 1970s bona fides by his sheer presence.

Most of “An Evening with Silk Sonic” revives the sound of 1970s groups such as Earth, Wind & Fire, the Spinners, the Manhattans, the Chi-Lites and the Delfonics. Mars and Paak take turns delivering gritty, acrobatic lead vocals and layering on elaborate backups: creamy supportive harmonies, eager call-and-response, perky falsetto oohs.

The production, by Mars and D’Mile (who has lately worked with H.E.R. and Lucky Daye), brings back all the instrumental flourishes of the analog era: wind-

chime glissandos, wah-wah guitars, electric sitar. Only one song has a credit for “programming”; the rest of the album, presumably, was played by hand, in vintage style. “Put on a Smile” caps its confession of desperate heartache with the sounds of a thunderstorm, a nod to the “quiet storm” radio formats of the 1970s.

And the song structures revel in thick chromatic chords and rising, uplifting key changes — especially “Blast Off,” the album’s finale, which dreamily, repeatedly ascends as Mars asks, “Can we take it higher?”

Between the ballads, Silk Sonic switches to funk. Driven by Paak’s assertive drumming, “Fly as Me” and “777” invoke James Brown by way of Parliament. They span eras by including some rapping — although Paak announces in “Fly as Me” that he is

“hollering from a 1977 Monte Carlo.”

The distance between the 1970s and the 2010s also shows up in slightly rougher language and more openly materialistic lyrics. “Smokin Out the Window” is a bitter but still lovelorn song about a gold-digger ex — the lyrics use a stronger word — that has the singer “smokin’ out the window of my Benz.” And in “Put on a Smile,” Paak blends his tearful nostalgia with a designer-brand boast: “If I could turn back the hands of my Rollie, you know I would,” he sings, referring to his Rolex.

All in all, “An Evening with Silk Sonic” is a Fabergé egg of an album: a lavish, impeccable bauble, a purely ornamental not-quite-period piece. Mars and Paak don’t pretend to be making any grand statement, but there’s delight in every detail.

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How frequent flyer programs are changing in a changed world

By JULIE WEED

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he pandemic made an oxymoron of the term “frequent flyer,” as the number of airline passengers plummeted in the early days of the lockdown. Leisure travel has recovered somewhat, but the more lucrative business travel market is still way off, with recovery not expected until 2023 and perhaps not even then.

It’s a challenging time to keep flyers loyal. Many are not traveling because of coronavirus concerns, and those who are can be enticed to try out other airlines because they are not flying enough to earn status. Others may be disenchanted with airline loyalty programs, which, in the years leading up to the pandemic, had made upgrades and free tickets more elusive.

In the meantime, airlines are also facing pressure on the climate front, and while evidence suggests loyalty programs aren’t large contributors to climate change, they do encourage flying, which feels out of step with the current moment.

Here are some ways airlines are changing their loyalty programs in the face of the new realities presented by the pandemic and the pressures of climate change.

Airlines Make It Easier to Stick With the Program Over the past 18 months, each airline has taken a different approach to hanging on to its biggest spenders, but their goal is the same: to make it easier for customers who have achieved status to keep it.

Alaska Airlines, for example, is giving a 50% mileage bonus to its customers for all flights they take in 2021. United Airlines has lowered the required number of flights and spending needed to get to each level of its loyalty program. For instance, Premier Silver, the lowest tier, can be reached with 12 flights, along with 3,000 points (related to dollars spent) rather than 16 flights and 4,000 points.

United has also been hosting dinners with Premier flyers to understand their priorities as they return to flying. “We’re committed to being flexible,” said Michael Covey, managing director of United’s MileagePlus program. “We are monitoring demand and making adjustments.”

American Airlines has reduced its minimum requirements for 2021 and vastly streamlined its program for 2022.

Currently, Gold, the lowest level, can be

In an era of climate change and virus concerns, it’s a challenging time to keep fliers loyal — U.S. airlines are trying to keep up. had for 20,000 miles or 20 flight segments, along with $2,000 in spending, down from 25,000 miles or 30 flight segments, plus $3,000 in spending. Beginning in 2022, the airline recently announced, it will simplify its AAdvantage program so that branded credit card spending and flights would contribute to a single sum of “Loyalty Points,” rather than asking flyers to reach separate spending and flying thresholds.

Delta Air Lines is extending all frequent flyers’ status an additional year, through January 2023, and counting any miles flown in 2021 or 2022 toward status in 2023. Travelers get bonus miles when they fly, and for the first time, earn miles on “award” flights — those purchased with miles. Travelers who flew and spent enough to meet status requirements will be prioritized ahead of those flyers who kept their status through an extension, when it comes to free upgrades.

Earning and Spending More Points on the Ground All major airlines offer branded credit cards that allow customers to accrue points or miles that can be used to buy flights, and during the pandemic, they continued the practice of dangling tens of thousands of points as incentives to buy in. Alaska Airlines offers 50,000 bonus miles and a

low-priced companion fare ticket after the credit card holder makes $2,000 of purchases in the first three months of use. A recent Delta Sky Miles Platinum American Express Card offer promised 90,000 miles that could be used to purchase flights and 10,000 Medallion Qualification Miles that could be used to reach status levels after $3,000 of spending in the first three months, and with an annual card fee of $250.

“Branded credit cards are of extreme importance to airlines” both as sources of revenue and because they increase interactions between the brand and the customer, said Alex Miller, founder of the travel blog Upgraded Points.

As consumers shifted their spending in response to pandemic conditions, airlines followed with special offers linked to their branded credit cards. When lockdowns started lifting, for example, Alaska offered promotional bonus miles on restaurant spending. Points earned can be redeemed for things like rental cars and hotels.

Partnering with other companies offers “quick wins to keep customers interested,” said Gilbert Ott, founder of the travel blog God Save The Points. So in addition to awarding status to a flyer who racks up tens of thousands of points

or dollars spent, airlines are rewarding customers more frequently for specific actions, Ott said.

Mileage Runs and Climate Change Aviation contributes to global climate change, and to help combat it, the major U.S. airlines, along with other companies, like FedEx and UPS, announced in March that they were committed to achieving netzero carbon emissions by 2050. Changing frequent flyer programs to de-emphasize the number of miles flown is one way to discourage unnecessary flights.

That change in focus dovetails with a trend set in motion before the pandemic: American, United and Delta had begun rewarding program members based on a combination of their yearly spending and their flights, rather than just flights. The shift allowed them to prioritize those customers — including first-class ticket buyers and business travelers — who generated the most profit.

More recently, United has changed its status-tier goals to tally “segments” (number of flights flown) rather than how far those flights go. “We don’t want a plane full of people flying to Singapore just to get the miles,” said United’s Covey. “That’s not good for us or the environment.”

Rejiggering incentives can help squelch the practice of taking an unnecessary flight at the end of the year, a socalled “mileage run,” just to make it to a status threshold.

It’s difficult to estimate the number of mileage runs taken each year, according to Miller of Upgraded Points, but he notes that they are a tiny part of reducing carbon emissions. The biggest lever is using more sustainable fuel, according to the global industry association IATA. Gains in operations and infrastructure efficiency — for example, making planes lighter so they use less fuel and flying the most direct air traffic control routes — are the next important areas for improvement.

Airlines must examine what travelers need now, said Dr. John Niser, director of the International School of Hospitality, Sports, and Tourism Management at Fairleigh Dickinson University. What new offerings might their flyers value? How can they show customers that they are trying to minimize their environmental impact?

The industry is going to have to look beyond just updating their loyalty programs, he said, to succeed in the new normal.

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How much water do you actually need?

By CHRISTIE ASCHWANDEN

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f you’ve spent any time on social media or visited an athletic event lately, you’ve surely been bombarded with encouragements to drink more water. Celebrity influencers lug around gallon-size water bottles as the hot new accessory.

Twitter bots constantly remind us to make more time to hydrate. Some reusable water bottles even come emblazoned with motivational phrases — “Remember your goal,” “Keep drinking,” “Almost finished” — to encourage more drinking throughout the day.

The purported benefits of excess water consumption are seemingly endless, from improved memory and mental health to increased energy to better complexion. “Stay hydrated” has become a new version of the old salutation “Stay well.”

But what, exactly, does “stay hydrated” mean? “When lay people discuss dehydration, they mean loss of any fluids,” said Dr. Joel Topf, a nephrologist and assistant clinical professor of medicine at Oakland University in Michigan.

But that interpretation “has been completely blown out of proportion,” said Kelly Anne Hyndman, a kidney function researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Staying hydrated is definitely important, she said, but the idea that the simple act of drinking more water will make people healthier isn’t true. Nor is it correct that most people are walking around chronically dehydrated or that we should be drinking water all day long.

From a medical standpoint, Topf said, the most important measure of hydration is the balance between electrolytes such as sodium and water in the body. And you don’t need to chug glass after glass of water throughout the day to maintain it.

How much do I really need to drink?

We’ve all been taught that eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day is the magic number for everyone, but that notion is a myth, said Tamara Hew-Butler, an exercise and sports scientist at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Unique factors such as body size, outdoor temperature, and how hard you’re breathing and sweating will determine how much you need, she said. A 200-pound person who just hiked 10 miles in the heat will obviously need to drink more water than a 120-pound office manager who spent the day in a temperature-controlled building.

The amount of water you need in a day will also depend on your health. Someone with a medical condition such as heart failure or kidney stones may require a different amount than someone taking diuretic drugs, for example. Or you may need to alter your intake if you’ve been ill, with vomiting or diarrhea.

For most young, healthy people, the best way to stay hydrated is simply to drink when you’re thirsty, Topf said.

(Those who are older, in their 70s and 80s, may need to pay more attention to getting sufficient fluids because the thirst sensation can decrease with age.)

And despite popular belief, don’t rely on urine color to accurately indicate your hydration status, Hew-Butler said.

Yes, it’s possible that dark yellow or amber urine could mean that you’re dehydrated, but there’s no solid science to suggest that the color, alone, should prompt a drink.

Do I have to drink water to stay hydrated?

Not necessarily. From a purely nutritional standpoint, water is a better choice than less-healthy options such as sugary sodas or fruit juices. But when it comes to hydration, any beverage can add water to your system, Hew-Butler said.

One popular notion is that drinking beverages with caffeine or alcohol will dehydrate you, but if that’s true, the impact is negligible, Topf said. A 2016 randomized controlled trial of 72 men, for instance, concluded that the hydrating impacts of water, lager, coffee and tea were nearly identical.

You can also get water from what you eat. Fluid-rich foods and meals such as fruits, vegetables, soups and sauces all contribute to water intake. Additionally, the chemical process of metabolizing food produces water as a byproduct, which adds to your intake too, Topf said.

Do I need to worry about electrolytes?

Some sports drink ads might have you think you need to constantly be replenishing electrolytes to keep their levels in check, but there’s no scientific reason for most healthy people to drink beverages with electrolytes added, Hew-Butler said.

Electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, chloride and magnesium are electrically charged minerals that are present in the body’s fluids and are important for balancing the water in your body. They’re also essential for proper functioning of the nerves, muscles, brain and heart.

When you become dehydrated, the concentration of electrolytes in your blood rises and the body signals the release of the hormone vasopressin, which ultimately reduces the amount of water that is released into the urine so that you can reabsorb it back into your body and get that balance back in check, Hyndman said.

But drinking more water, even when I’m not thirsty, will improve my health, right?

No. Of course, people with certain conditions, such as kidney stones or the more rare autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, may benefit from making an effort to drink a little more water than their thirst would tell them to, Topf said.

But in reality, most healthy people who blame feeling ill on being dehydrated may actually be feeling off because they’re drinking too much water, Hyndman speculated. “Maybe they’ll get a headache or they’ll feel bad; they’re thinking, ‘Oh, I’m dehydrated, I need to drink more,’ and they keep drinking more and more and more water, and they keep feeling worse and worse and worse.”

If you drink at a rate beyond what your kidneys can excrete, the electrolytes in your blood can become too diluted and, in the mildest case, it could make you feel “off.” In the most extreme case, drinking too much water in a short period of time could lead to a condition called hyponatremia, or “water intoxication.” “This is very scary and bad,” Hyndman said.

If the sodium levels in your blood get too low, it can cause brain swelling and neurological issues such as seizures, coma or even death.

How do I know if I’m hydrated enough?

Your body will tell you. The notion that staying hydrated requires complex calculations and instantaneous adjusting to avoid dire health consequences is just bunk, the experts said.

And one of the best things you can do is to stop overthinking it.

Instead, the best advice for staying hydrated, Topf said, is also the simplest: Drink when you’re thirsty. It really is that easy.

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Monday, November 15, 2021

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FAST, the world’s largest radio telescope, zooms in on a furious cosmic source

By LING XIN

F

ast radio bursts, or FRBs, are one of the greatest mysteries of our universe.

Coming from deep space, these outbursts can flash and fade in a matter of milliseconds, yet in each instance can release as much energy as the sun does in a year.

They pop up all across the sky multiple times a day, but most appear to be oneoff events and are thus hard to catch. First discovered in 2007, FRBs have challenged and tantalized scientists seeking to uncover their obscure origins and to use them as unique tools for probing the depths of intergalactic space.

Now, using the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, an international team has reported the largest set of FRB events ever detected in history. According to their paper published in Nature today, between August and October 2019 the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in southwestern China recorded a total of 1,652 such brief and bright outbursts from a single repeating FRB source in a dwarf galaxy three billion light years away. Besides dramatically boosting the total number of known FRB events, the observations also revealed a very wide range of brightnesses among the recorded events, offering new clues about the astrophysical nature of their mysterious source.

“The study is very thorough, with a level of details and sensitivity we’ve never had before,” says astrophysicist Emily Petroff from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and McGill University in Canada, who is not involved in the research. “Such in-depth analyses of individual sources will be a top priority in FRB research in the near future.”

A BEVY OF BURSTS The first FRBs struck astrophysicists like thunderbolts out of a clear blue sky; no theory had predicted their existence. Early on, researchers had little clue what the bursts could be, and scrambled to come up with ideas. Explanations for FRBs have ranged from enormous magnetic eruptions upon spinning neutron stars to the emissions from star-hopping alien spaceships.

For a time—before FAST and other FRBhunting telescopes began operations, anyway—the running joke among theorists

Staff member conducts maintenance of the reflector panels on the FiveHundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) with the help of a microgravity mechanism. This mechanism aims to help reduce the maintenance staff’s body weight to a value within the reflector panels’ range of durability using a helium-filled balloon that is 7.6 meters in diameter. was that FRB theories outnumbered the known FRB events themselves.

It was not until 2016 that observers detected the first repeating source, named FRB 121102. Statistics drawn from the ever-expanding catalog of detections have now revealed that about 20 percent of FRBs happen more than once, and these repeating sources allow astronomers to make more detailed follow-up observations. FRB 121102 is the best studied such source so far. Prior to FAST’s mother lode of new events, scientists using other radio telescopes had reported nearly 350 FRBs from this source, which is nestled in a galaxy where lots of young stars are taking shape. “With a repeating source, other telescopes usually get somewhere between two and a hundred pulses. FAST did more than one thousand, which is amazing,” Petroff says.

Thanks to the unprecedented sensitivity of FAST, it can catch less energetic pulses that other telescopes cannot, says Di Li, the paper’s lead author and FAST’s chief scientist. When the team performed test observations during the telescope’s commissioning phase, they noticed that FRB 121102 was in a frenzy of activity, frequently emitting bright pulses. So, they decided to spare about an hour every day to monitor it. The bursts turned out to be much more intensive than expected. Dur-

ing some episodes, there was about one every 30 seconds.

The bursts fell into two types: ones with high brightness and others with low brightness. This may point to two distinct physical mechanisms that are responsible for the bursts, says study co-author Duncan Lorimer, of West Virginia University, who co-discovered the first FRB in 2007.

It is not yet clear, however, what those mechanisms are. Even so, because the ensemble of pulses exhibited such high energies and did not show any short-term periodicity (which would suggest a source that spins or orbits at a set pace), Li believes that he and his collaborators have severely constrained the possibility that FRB 121102 comes from an isolated compact object such as a rotating neutron star or a black hole.

Others hesitate to draw the same conclusion. For instance, FRB 121102’s source could still be a magnetar, a special type of neutron star with an extremely strong surface magnetic field, says theoretical physicist Zigao Dai from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei.

Magnetars can experience “starquakes” when their outer layers adjust under stress caused by sudden shifts in stellar magnetic fields. Just like an earthquake on Earth can be triggered by different mechanisms, such as the motions of tectonic plates or the impact of an asteroid, “it remains possible for a magnetar, for instance, to go through starquakes and to frequently get hit by asteroids around it as well—a probable scenario in the galaxy [FRB 121102] lives in,” Dai explains.

FRBS ON THE FAST TRACK “FAST is really great at studies like this one—in-depth analyses of repeating sources,” Lorimer says. While it is not especially adept at finding FRBs, its enormous sensitivity allows it to detect things that other telescopes miss. This is why for FRB studies FAST works best in tandem with other radio telescopes, such as the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), which is a powerhouse for spotting FRBs anywhere in the overhead sky thanks to its vast field of view.

Earlier this year, FAST announced its second open call for proposals, with 15 to 20 percent of the telescope’s total observing time made available to the interna-

tional community. FAST was completed in 2016, superseding the iconic Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico as the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.

Petroff, who is a member of the CHIME/FRB collaboration, says her team has now applied for and been rewarded observing time on FAST. According to Li, observations for approved international programs have already begun. As international travel is still restricted because of COVID-19, foreign scientists are for now limited to remote operations, and are required to submit a proof of identity, typically a copy of their passport information page, for access.

“We’ve been working with individual scientists to reduce their concerns and explore alternative ways of submitting personal information,” Li notes. “The FAST staff warmly welcome them to come and visit once international travel normalizes, hopefully soon.”

RADICAL FUTURES FAST will keep monitoring FRB 121102 while looking into other repeating sources, Li says. In fact, he teases, his team has been working on another source, yet to be publicly revealed, that behaves “more radically” than FRB 121102. Studying run-of-the-mill as well as “radical” FRB systems, Dai says, is crucial to understanding what is and is not possible for FRBs— and thus what their true nature must be.

Making further breakthroughs, he and other experts say, probably requires the coordinated efforts of multiple telescopes around the globe observing in many different types of celestial light—as well as in neutrinos and gravitational waves, too.

“I’d say FRB astronomy is still in an adolescent phase,” says Lorimer. “We know quite a lot about FRBs, but there are still a number of ‘growing pains’ with many of the theories.” The next step is to continue to pinpoint home galaxies for as many sources as possible, carrying out in-depth analyses of individual systems as Li and his team have done with FAST. With considerable effort and, perhaps, a bit of luck in finding more frenzied repeaters and radical one-off FRBs, scientists may soon solve the deep cosmic mystery of FRBs, and open a new window on the high-energy, short-lived astrophysical phenomena that fill the universe.

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Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, 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: Solar número Cinco (5) de la Manzana “I” de la URBANIZACIÓN VILLA REAL, situado en el Barrio Cabo Caribe del Municipio de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de TRESCIENTOS DIECISÉIS PUNTO CINCUENTA Y CINCO (316.55) METROS CUADRADOS. En linderos: NORTE, en VEINTICUATRO PUNTO VEINTICINCO (24.25) METROS, con el solar número Seis guión Uno (6 I); por el SUR, en VEINTICUATRO PUNTO VEINTICIN-

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CO (24.25) METROS, con el solar número Cuatro guión Uno (4-I); por el ESTE, en TRECE PUNTO CERO CERO (13.00) METROS, con terrenos, antes de Jorge Meléndez, hoy de Rodríguez & Del Valle, Inc.; y por el OESTE, en TRECE PUNTO CERO CERO (13.00) METROS, con la Calle número Siete guión A (7-A). Enclava edificación para uso residencial. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 185 del tomo 416 de Vega Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, finca número 3,999, inscripción Novena. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Villa Real, I-5, Calle 7A, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $69,884.15 de principal, intereses al 7% anual, desde el día 1ro. de julio de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $8,820.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $88,200.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $58,800.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $44,100.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y

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Monday, November 15, 2021 posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1ro de noviembre de 2021. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. ***

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

The San Juan Daily Star #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 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

PUERTO RICO FARM CREDIT, ACA Plaintiff V.

ECO-PARQUE DEL TANAMA, CORP; IVAN ORTIZ RUIZ, HIS WIFE

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ANA MARIA SERRANO BAEZ, AND THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN THEM

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. WHEDefendants Civil No.: 16-01388. (FAB). Re: REAS: Pursuant to the terms of COLLECTION OF MONIES; the aforementioned Judgment, FORECLOSURE OF MORT- Order of Execution, and the GAGE AND OTHER COLLATE- Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master RAL. NOTICE OF SALE. was ordered to sell at public To: ECO-PARQUE DEL TANAMA, CORP; auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or bank manaIVAN ORTIZ RUIZ, ger check without appraisement HIS WIFE ANA MARIA or right of redemption to the higSERRANO BAEZ, AND hest bidder and at the office of THE LEGAL CONJUGAL the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED BETWEEN Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos THEM. Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, GENERAL PUBLIC. Puerto Rico, to cover the sums WHEREAS: On June 14, 2018, adjudged to be paid to the plainjudgment (the “Judgment”) tiff, the following property (the was entered in favor of plaintiff “Property”/“Property 11,707”) : Puerto Rico Farm Credit, ACA “RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada (“PRFC”) against defendants en el Barrio Santa Isabel, del Eco-Parque Del Tanama, Corp término municipal de Utuado, (“Eco-Parque”), Ivan Ortiz Ruiz Puerto Rico, con una cabida de (“Ortiz”), his wife Ana Maria 188.25 cuerdas; equivalentes a Serrano Baez (“Serrano”), and 739,897.80 metros cuadrados. the legal conjugal partnership En lindes: NORTE, con Ramon constituted between them (the Rivera Candelaria, Sucesión de “Ortiz-Serrano Partnership” Emilio González, Antonio Potaand, together with Serrano, latín, América Rodríguez, Elías Ortiz and Eco-Parque, the Vargas, y Francisco González “Defendants”). Under the Jud- Arbona; SUR, Francisco Ralat, gment, this Court concluded Sucesión de Juana de Fraile, that Defendants have defaulted Juan Serrano y Rio Tanamá; on their loan obligations, have ESTE, Rio Tanamá; OESTE, failed to pay the amounts due Francisco Ralat y PRRA. Entherein, and have failed to cure clava en esta finca una casa the existing defaults, further vivienda, otra para almacén y concluding that, as of October maquina y tres casas para agre31, 2016, Defendants owe the gados.” Property 11,707, recorsum of $505,294.61, as well as ded at page 49 of Volume 295 an amount of $38.93 in interest of Utuado, Puerto Rico Properthat accrues daily until full pay- ty Registry for Utuado. WHEment. On December 17, 2020, REAS: This property is subject this Court entered an order to the following liens: Senior granting plaintiff’s Motion for Liens: None. Mortgage secuExecution of Judgment filed on ring a mortgage note in favor July 20, 2020, and, on Decem- of P.R. Farm Credit, Aca, or to ber 29, 2020, this Court entered its order, in the principal amouan order granting plaintiff’s Mo- nt of TWO HUNDRED AND tion to Appoint Special Master, NINETY-TWO THOUSAND authorizing the appointment DOLLARS ($292,000.00), beaof Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as ring an annual interest rate Special Master (the “Special of 9.50%, due on August 1, Master”) for the execution of 2026, constituted pursuant to the Judgment. As of October the terms of deed number 122 14, 2020, the amounts owed executed in San Juan, Puerby Defendants had increa- to Rico, on the seventh (7) of sed to $563,754.35, of which July two thousand six (2007) $259,745.21 corresponded to before Notary Public Carlos unpaid principal, $144,261.51 Tomassini Ramírez, recorded corresponded to accrued in- at page 11 of volume 1,490 of terest, $7,631.91 correspon- Utuado, 11th recordation, as ded to late fees, $142,115.72 an abbreviated seat with its licorresponded to fees due and nes extended on July 2, 2012, $10,000.00 corresponded to by virtue of Act 216 of Decemattorneys fees, plus the amou- ber 27, 2010 (Presented on nt of $25.45 per diem for inter- August 3, 2006 on Seat 1,307 ests for each day from July 14, from Book 400). Other Liens: A 2020 through the date of the notice of complaint dated July payment in full of all amounts. 3, 2012, which complaint was On October 6, 2021, this Court dated September 16, 2011, isentered an order authorizing sued in the United States Disthe execution of the Judgment trict Court for the District Court (the “Order of Execution”) and of Puerto Rico, Civil Case Num. a Writ of Execution (the “Writ of

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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 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 pos-

session 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 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 regard-

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less 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 the provisions of the Judgment

herein before referred to, will, on the 3RD DAY OF DECEMBER 2021, AT 10:15 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 10TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2021, AT 10:15 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 17TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2021, AT 10:15 A.M. in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Fede ral Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 7th day of October, 2021. ÁGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPECIAL MASTER.

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.

SUCESIÓN DE MYRNA RIVERA MEDINA T/C/C MYRNA MEDINA SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR MARIBEL RIVERA T/C/C MARIBEL RIVERA MEDINA, LILLIAN RIVERA MEDINA, MIGDALIA RIVERA MEDINA; SUCESIÓN DE MISAEL RIVERA MEDINA COMPUESTA POR MISAEL RIVERA PAGÁN, MISAEL DAVID RIVERA FREYTA, POR CONDUCTO DE SU MADRE CON PATRIA POTESTAD MARISOL FREYTA GARCĹA, EDWIN RIVERA MEDINA Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; DEPARTAMENTO

DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2019CV00892.

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 2 de julio de 2021, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 20 de agosto de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 20 de agosto de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 2:30 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: Solar radicado frente a la Calle San Isidro esquina Calle Collores de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 197.52 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 1.70 metros con el solar municipal ocupado por el señor Remigio Robles y en 11.27 metros con otro solar municipal ocupado por la señora María Esther Báez; por el SUR, en 11.50 metros con la Calle San Isidro; por el ESTE, en 16.30 metros, con la Calle Collores; y por el OESTE, en 16.00 metros, con otro solar municipal ocupado por el señor José Agosto. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 130 del tomo 301 de Fajardo, Finca Número 12858, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 11 de Fajardo, Finca Número 12858, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción sexta.

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: 173 CALLE SAN ISIDRO, FAJARDO, PR 00738-4523. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $29,536.00. SEGUNDA: 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $19,690.66. TERCERA: 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE.

26 TIPO MÍNIMO: $14,768.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $29,536.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 2:30 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, $19,690.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $14,768.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia por la suma de $20,305.85 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma de 7.5% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $35.36 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $2,953.00 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. La Sucesión de Myrna Rivera Medina compuesta por Maribel Rivera, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Departamento de Hacienda, por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos y el Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el caso civil Número FA2019CV00892, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $20,305.85 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 29 de julio de 2019.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Fajardo. 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 la-

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

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Fajardo Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de octubre de 2021. Shirley Sánchez Martínez, Alguacil Regional Placa #161, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Fajardo, Sala Superior.

Denise Bruno Ortiz, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #266.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V.

ERNESTO RUIZ MORALES, MERCEDES LUNA REYES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2019CV01804.

Sobre: 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 Arecibo, hago saber a la parte demandada ERNESTO RUIZ MORALES, MERCEDES LUNA REYES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 12 de agosto de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por

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el precio mínimo de $83,250.00 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: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Tanamá sitio denominado Buenos Aires, término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, midiendo doce metros de frente por veinticinco metros de fondo, o sea, una cabida superficial de trescientos metros cuadrados (300.00 m.c.); en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar de Sofía Figueroa; por el SUR, con la Hermana Balseiro; por el ESTE, con la Puerto Rico Distilling Company; por el OESTE, con la calle número tres de Buenos Aires. Enclava edificación para fines residenciales. Inscrita al folio 128 del tomo 187 de Arecibo, finca 9,002, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca a favor de AAA Concordio Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por la suma de $83,250.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero el 1 de enero de 2036, según la escritura 1191, otorgada en San Juan, el 13 de diciembre de 2005, ante el notario Luis O. Dávila Alemán, inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 1094 de Arecibo, finca 9002, inscripción 15, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 19 de enero de 2021, este Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia, mediante la cual se condena a la parte demandada, a pagar a la parte demandante la suma $65,677.17 de principal con intereses al 7% anual desde el día 1 de abril de 2019, cargos por demora mensuales, más las cantidades debidas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $8,325.00 estipulados para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados en caso de reclamación judicial, cantidades todas garantizadas por la hipoteca.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $83,250.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 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, $55,500.00. Si

no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 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, $41,625.00.

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 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 Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de octubre de 2021. ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #770, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE ARECIBO.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

CARIBI DEL CARMEN VIDAL PACHECO

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2020CV02263.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL PÚUBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES.

YO, MANUEL MALDONADO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, al público en general, POR LA PRESENTE HAGO SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, en mi oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el día 1RO DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Apartamento: Número “5” guión B (5B). Local de forma rectangular localizado en el quinto piso del Condominio El Sureño en la Urbanización Reparto Universidad del Barrio Canas, término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con dimensiones principales de veintiséis puntos cero ocho (26.08) pies de ancho por veinticuatro puntos cinco (24.5) pies de fondo. Tiene una terraza en su esquina Sur-Este con dimensiones de cuatro puntos setenta y cinco (4.75) pies de fondo, por ocho puntos ochenta y tres (8.83) pies de ancho. El área bruta de piso del apartamento, excluyendo la terraza y las áreas correspondientes a las proyecciones horizontales de los elementos estructurales de común dominio, es de 524.75 pies cuadrados. El área

neta de piso de la terraza es de cuarenta puntos setenta y siete (40.77) pies cuadrados. El área total del apartamento, incluyendo su terraza, 565.52 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 52.565 metros cuadrados. La distribución de espacios consiste de vestíbulo, cocina, un baño, gabinete, vestidor, gabinete de ropa, sala-comedor indivisa y la terraza antes mencionada.

Colinda este apartamento por el NORTE, en veintiséis punto cero ocho (26.08) pies, con el corredor Oeste; por el SUR, en veintiséis punto setenta y cinco (26.75) pies, con el espacio aéreo del patio Sur; por el ESTE, en veinticinco punto cero ocho (25.08) pies, con la pared que lo separa del vestíbulo del ascensor, del pasillo de servicio y del espacio aéreo del patio Sur, sucesivamente; y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro punto cinco (24.5) pies con la pared que lo separa del apartamento cinco guión “A” (5-A). Su puerta principal está localizada en su colindancia Norte que la comunica, mediante elemento común limitado y elemento común general, a la vía pública.

Le corresponde un porcentaje de 2.33% en los elementos comunes generales. Nota: En el documento que motivó la inscripción 2ª se expresa que el apartamento tiene un área total de 477.73p.c. y que en los elementos comunes generales corresponde a este apartamento una participación de uno punto noventa y siete por ciento (1.97%) y también se inscribe con el defecto subsanable de que según el Registro el área del apartamento es de 565.52p.c., correspondiéndole un porcentaje en los elementos comunes generales de 2.33 y según el documento es de 477 pies cuadrados y el porcentaje de 1.97%. Finca número 784, inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 1,174 de Ponce, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico de Ponce, 2da Sección. La dirección física es: Condominio El Sureño, Apartamento 5B, Ponce, PR 00717. Los tipos mínimos fijados para la ejecución del bien inmueble antes mencionado lo es la suma de $56,840.00 para la Primera Subasta; $37,893.33 para la Segunda Subasta; y $28,420.00 para la Tercera Subasta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pasado 21 de junio de 2021 y notificada el 24 de junio de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $44,806.92 de principal, más $1,818.88 de intereses acumulados hasta dicha fecha más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda a razón de

$8.71 diarios, más la cantidad de $79.38 por recargos, más $2,347.70 de otros cargos; más la suma de $5,684.00 por honorarios de abogados pactados.

En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para ésta será el de las dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta subasta será la mitad del precio mínimo pactado para la primera subasta.

Cuando se declare desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuera 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 fuere mayor.

Todas las subastas deberán ser acordadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal.

La subasta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. El inmueble NO consta afecto por el siguiente gravamen preferencial. El inmueble antes relacionado consta afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $3,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 7 de noviembre de 2014, constituida mediante la escritura número 282, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de noviembre de 2006, ante el notario David E. Vera Umpierre, e inscrita al folio 170 del tomo 1,174 de Ponce, finca número 784, inscripción 6ª. b. Sujeta a Condiciones del Programa “La Llave Para Tu Hogar” por el término de 8 años. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsistentes; entiéndase que el rematante los acepta y quedan subrogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por

semana, durante dos semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el presente en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de octubre del 2021. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE PONCE.

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LUIS A. MIRANDA RIVERA T/C/C LUIS ANGEL MIRANDA RIVERA, SU ESPOSA WANDA E. LABORDE MEDINA T/C/C WANDA ENID LABORDE MEDINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: CA2019CV02449 (408). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 13 de noviembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 28 de enero de 2020 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: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamiento número Tres B, de forma rectangular y destinado a fines residenciales, localizado en el extremo derecho, visto de frente de la tercera planta del Edificio número B Diecinueve en la segunda Sección de la Etapa B del Condominio Residencial Interamericana, sito en el barrio Las Cuevas de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área neta total de setecientos veintiocho punto treinta y seis pies cuadrados, equivalentes a sesenta y siete punto setenta y cinco metros cuadrados, y colinda por el NORTE, con el apartamiento Tres A, en una distancia de veinticuatro pies dos pulgadas; por el SUR, con el área común

The San Juan Daily Star de la Segunda Sección de la Etapa B, en una distancia de veintiséis pies cuatro pulgadas; por el ESTE, con el área común de la Segunda Sección de la Etapa B, en una distancia de treinta y tres pies cinco pulgadas; y por el OESTE, con el patio que da al área de estacionamiento común de la Etapa B, en una distancia de treinta y tres pies cinco pulgadas. Consta de dos dormitorios, un baño, balcón, cocina, comedor y sala.

La entrada principal del apartamiento es por la sala cuya puerta conecta a la escalera exterior con salida directa a la vía pública. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes generales del edificio del que forma parte una participación equivalente a punto dos mil novecientos cuarenta y uno por ciento. FINCA NÚMERO: 11,653, inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 235 de Trujillo Alto, sección IV de San Juan. Nota aclaratoria: La descripción registral surge tal y como se transcribió anteriormente. Sin embargo, las escrituras 511 de Primera Hipoteca y 292 de Modificación y Ampliación de Hipoteca indican lo siguiente: • Tiene un área neta total de 728.38. • Sur, “con el área común de la Segunda Sección de la letra B, en una distancia de 33’5”. • Oeste, con el patio que da al área común de la Etapa B, en una distancia de 33’5”. • Consta de tres dormitorios.). Dirección Física: COND. INTERAMERICANA GARDENS EDIFICIO B 19, APTO. 3 B TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 1 de diciembre de 2021, a las 2:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $42,810.78. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 8 de diciembre de 2021, a las 2:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $28,540.52. 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 15 de diciembre de 2021, a las 2:15 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta

será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $21,405.39. 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. Del producto de dicha venta se procederá a pagar en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas y honorarios de abogados según concedidos en la Sentencia, en tercer término los intereses acumulados por la Sentencia, en cuarto término los recargos acumulados, en quinto cualquier suma antes indicada como sobregiro en la cuenta de reserva y en sexto término hasta la suma de $41,841.01, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Doral Bank, hoy, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por éstos contar con una anotación de demanda a su favor por la suma de $29,936.25 y otras sumas por concepto de Ejecución de Hipoteca bajo el

Monday, November 15, 2021 caso civil #FECI2013-00991, presentado el 12 de noviembre de 2013 y anotado el 27 de diciembre de 2013 al folio 1 del tomo 745 de Trujillo Alto. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 15 de octubre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

LUIS ANTONIO DE LA CRUZ IGLESIAS, SU ESPOSA MILDRED MATILDE PACHECO RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: FECI2017-00629.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 28 de enero de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 23 de enero de 2020 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: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar 21 del bloque SC de la Urbanización Primavera, radicada en el barrio Dos Bocas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 371.27 metros cuadrados, y en lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número 20; por el SUR, en 23.00 metros con el solar número 22; por el ESTE, en 15.72 metros con Quebrada Grande Greek; y por el OESTE, en una distancia en arco de 16.50 metros con la calle número 3. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia.

FINCA NÚMERO: 26,671, inscrita al folio 240 del tomo 527 de Trujillo Alto, sección IV de San Juan. Dirección Física: Urb. Primavera t/c/c Primavera Encantada 21-SC, Calle Paseo Orquídea 3 Trujillo Alto, PR 00976. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 2 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:45 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $270,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 9 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:45 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 $180,000.00. 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 16

de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:45 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $135,000.00. 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. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $75,000.00, intereses al 17% anual, según escritura #136 ante el Notario Edgar F. Balzac Rivera, inscrito al folio 193 del tomo 811 ágora de Trujillo Alto. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que

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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 septiembre de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE DEMANDANTE VS.

AWILDA VÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO

DEMANDADA CIVIL NUM.: CA2019CV00922.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 23 de enero de 2020, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 27 de mayo de 2020 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: URBAN: Horizontal Property Apartment G-32 of Paisajes del Escorial Condominium, located in San Antón Ward, Carolina, located on the third, fourth and fifth floors of Building G of the Condominium. The apartment

has an area of 139.039 square meters. The third floor is bounded on the NORTH, by the exterior wall that overlooks the backyard in a distance of 10.439 meters; on the SOUTH, by the wall that separates it from apartment G-30 in a distance of 10.439 meters; on the EAST, where the entrance is located, by the hallway, the stairwell, and common elements that separates it from apartment G-33 in a distance of 6.019 meters and on the WEST, by the exterior wall that overlooks the side yard in a distance of 5.029 meters. The fourth floor is bounded on the NORTH, by the exterior wall that overlooks the backyard in a distance of 11.658 meters; on the SOUTH, by the wall that separates it from apartment G-30 in a distance of 11.658 meters; on the EAST, by the wall that separates it from apartment G-33 in a distance of 6.019 meters; and on the WEST, by the exterior wall that overlooks the side yard in a distance of 6.019 meters.

The fifth floor is bounded on the NORTH and EAST, by the open horizontal roof area which is a common element limited to this apartment; on the WEST, by the exterior wall that overlooks the side yard; and on the SOUTH, by the wall that separates it from apartment G-30. The third floor of this apartment consists of living and dinning areas, kitchen-laundry, bathroom and the staircase leading to the fourth floor. The fourth floor consists of 3 bedrooms with a closet each, 2 bathrooms, a hallway and the staircase leading to the third and fifth floors. The fifth floor consists of a roofed open area measuring 3.96 meters by 2.51 meters and the area occupied by staircase leading to the fourth floor measuring 2.89 meters by 0.96 meters. The entrance to this apartment, located on its Eastern boundary, communicates with the hallway and stairwell of the building that leads to the sidewalk. This apartment has as part and appurtenant to it 0.6692% of the common elements and 14.0534% of the building common elements of building G. It also has as part and appurtenant to it 2 parking spaces in the parking area identified with the unit designation. The apartment has as common element limited to it, that horizontal area of the roof of the building built directly over the apartment excluding the area designated in the deed plan as the gazebo or terrace which forms part of the apartment. FINCA NÚMERO: 54,422, inscrita al folio 154 del tomo 1268 de Carolina, sección II de Carolina. Dirección Física; COND. PAISAJES DEL ESCORIAL APT. G-32 CAROLINA PR 00987. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la pri-

mera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 2 de diciembre de 2021, a la 11:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $115,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 9 de diciembre de 2021, a la 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 $76,666.66.

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 16 de diciembre de 2021, a la 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 hipoteca, la suma de $57,500.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y ordenando la venta en pública subasta del inmueble antes descrito. A tenor con la Regla 51.3 (b) de Procedimiento Civil y el Artículo 99 de la Ley 210-2015, conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”, el tribunal ordenó que el Alguacil de este Tribunal luego de haberse efectuado la correspondiente publicación de edictos en un periódico de circulación general, proceda a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor la propiedad descrita en las Determinaciones de Hechos de la Sentencia y que del producto de dicha venta, proceda a pagar en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas y honorarios de abogados según concedidos en esta sentencia, en tercer término los intereses acumulados por esta sentencia, en cuarto término los recargos acumulados, en quinto cualquier suma antes indicada como sobregiro en la cuenta de

28 reserva y en sexto término hasta la suma de $70,860.11, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Por la presente también se notifica e informa al Notario Ricardo A. Ceballos Columna por éste haber otorgado la escritura #123 a favor del Portador por la suma de $40,000.00, sin intereses y a vencer a la presentación, inscrito al folio 77 del tomo 1386 de Carolina, finca #54,422, inscripción 2da. Además, 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 correspondien-

tes 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 septiembre de 2021.

Samuel Gonzalez Isaac, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE DEMANDANTE VS.

FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE YUDIT DE FERDINANDY ZALÁN; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: CA2019CV02671.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 13 de diciembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 27 de agosto 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: Apartamento número 2701 ubicado en el piso terrero del Edificio número 2728, en su sección número 27 y en su lado derecho, cual edificio está localizado en la parte central del inmueble sometido

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al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal conocido por Condominio Jardines del Parque, ubicado en el Barrio San Antón del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, cuya entrada y salida dan hacia el área de estacionamiento, tiene un área de piso de 1,196.01 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 111.15 metros cuadrados. Su puerta de entrada está localizada en el lado derecho del piso número uno orientada hacia el Norte del edificio y da acceso directamente al vestíbulo de dicho piso que a su vez da acceso a las áreas comunes generales de la propiedad y a los estacionamientos para llegar a la vía pública. El apartamento consta de un sólo nivel y está divido en los siguientes: sala-comedor, cocina, área de lavandería, 3 dormitorios con sus closets, unidos por un pasillo central, 2 baños, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal; la sala-comedor a su vez da acceso a una terraza cubierta y a un patio exterior. Su forma es rectangular aproximadamente, en lindes por el NORTE, en 34’ con el exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en 30’ con el exterior del edificio; por el ESTE, en 40’-10” con el apartamento 2601; por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones que totalizan 37’-3” con el Apartamento 2801 y con el pasillo del edificio que da acceso al apartamento.

Existe un área común limitada en la parte posterior cuyo uso público es exclusivo de este apartamento, sujeto a las disposiciones de ley y de la escritura matriz. Le corresponden 2 espacios para estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número del apartamento. Le corresponde un 0.4526449% de participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio y un 0.4658305% para gastos de operación y mantenimiento.

FINCA NÚMERO: 54,031, inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 1259 de Carolina, sección II de Carolina. Dirección Física; BO. SAN ANTON COND. JARDINES DEL PARQUE APT. 2701, EDIF. 27-28, SECCION #27 (BLV MEDIA LUNA, APTO. 2701) CAROLINA, PR 00987-0000, Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 2 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $148,468.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta

primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 9 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $98,978.66.

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 16 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:15 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $74,234.00. 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 Tribunal dictó Sentencia declarando con lugar la demanda y, por consiguiente, condenó a la parte demandada FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE YUDIT DE FERDINANDY ZALÁN, a pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $137,502.02 de principal. Esta suma no incluye los intereses, los cuales se continuarán acumulando hasta el saldo total de la obligación, más otros cargos conforme al contrato de préstamo suscrito entre las partes. Esta suma continúa acumulando intereses al interés anual convenido de 4.50% hasta su completo pago. La suma adeudada también continúa acumulando recargos. Además, se le impone a la parte demandada el pago de costas a favor de la parte demandante, mas 10% para honorarios de abogados, hasta el saldo total de la obligación. La parte demandante ha señalado que según el pagaré suscrito tiene derecho a un 10% del valor del pagaré hipotecario para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. En autos esta cantidad equivale a $14,846.80. 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

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ción en esta primera subasta SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- por dicha suma mínima, se LINA. celebrará una segunda subasta FEDERAL NATIONAL el día 9 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en MORTGAGE el mismo lugar antes señalaASSOCIATION T/C/C do en la cual el precio mínimo FANNIE MAE serán dos terceras (2/3) partes DEMANDANTE VS. del tipo mínimo pactado en la HERIBERTO COLON escritura de hipoteca, la suma ACEVEDO, SU ESPOSA de $149,333.33. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en GLADYS JUDITH RODRIGUEZ ABOLAFIA esta segunda subasta por el mínimo indicado en el páY LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL tipo rrafo anterior, se celebrará una DE GANANCIALES tercera subasta en el mismo COMPUESTA POR lugar antes señalado el día 16 AMBOS de diciembre de 2021, a las DEMANDADA 11:30 de la mañana, en la cual CIVIL NÚM.: CA2019CV01317. el tipo mínimo aceptable como SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO oferta será la mitad (1/2) del Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. precio mínimo pactado en la EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRI- escritura de hipoteca, la suma MERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCE- de $112,000.00. Si se declare RA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que desierta la tercera subasta se suscribe, funcionario del Tribu- adjudicará la finca a favor del nal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, acreedor por la totalidad de la por la presente anuncia y hace cantidad adeudada si ésta es saber al público en general que igual o menor que el monto en cumplimiento con la Senten- del tipo mínimo de la tercera cia dictada en este caso con subasta, si el tribunal lo estima fecha 23 de agosto de 2019, y conveniente. Se abonará dicho según Orden y Mandamiento monto a la cantidad adeudada del 13 de octubre de 2020 libra- si ésta es mayor. Con el imdo por este honorable Tribunal, porte de esta venta se habrá procederé a vender en pública de satisfacer el balance de la subasta al mejor postor, y por sentencia dictada en este caso dinero en efectivo, cheque cer- el cual consiste en el pago tificado o giro postal a nombre de $193,861.16 de principal, del Alguacil del Tribunal con más intereses convenidos al todo título derecho y/o interés 4.6250% anual más recargos de la parte demandada sobre hasta su pago, más el pago de la propiedad que se describe lo pactado en la sentencia para a continuación: URBANA: Par- costas, gastos y honorarios cela identificada en el plano de de abogados. Se dispone que inscripción como el solar cuatro una vez celebrada la subasta (4) del bloque F de la Urbani- y vendido el inmueble relaciozación River Garden, localizada nado, el alguacil pondrá en en el Barrio Canóvanas del mu- posesión judicial a los nuevos nicipio de Canóvanas, Puerto dueños dentro del término de Rico, con una cabida superfi- veinte (20) días a partir de la cial de trescientos doce (312) celebración de la Subasta. Si metros cuadrados. En lindes: transcurren los referidos veinte NORTE, con la calle Campani- (20) días, el tribunal podrá orlla; SUR, con el solar siete (7) denar, sin necesidad de ulterior del bloque F; ESTE, con el so- procedimiento, que se lleve a lar tres (3) del bloque F; OES- efecto el desalojo o lanzamienTE, con el solar cinco (5) del to del ocupante u ocupantes bloque F. Enclava en dicho so- de la finca o de todos los que lar una residencia de concreto por orden o tolerancia del dede dos plantas. FINCA NÚME- mandado/deudor la ocupen.

RO: 17,004, inscrita al folio 166 El Alguacil de este Tribunal del tomo 425 de Canóvanas, efectuará el lanzamiento de los sección III de Carolina. Direc- ocupantes de ser necesario. Si ción Fisica: URB. RIVER GAR- la subasta es adjudicada a un DENS F-4 46 CALLE FLOR tercero y luego se deja sin efecDE CAMPO CANOVANAS, PR to, el tercero a favor de quién 00729. Se anuncia por medio se adjudicó la subasta solo tende este edicto que la primera drá derecho a la devolución del subasta habrá de celebrarse el monto consignado más no tendía 2 de diciembre de 2021, a drá derecho a entablar recurso las 11:30 de la mañana, en mi o reclamo adicional alguno oficina sita en el edificio que (judicial o extrajudicial) contra ocupa el Tribunal Superior de el demandante y/o el acreedor Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré Carolina. Siendo ésta la prime- y/o su abogado. Por la presenra subasta que se celebrará en te también se notifica e informa este caso, será el precio míni- al Estado Libre Asociado de mo aceptable como oferta en la Puerto Rico por estos contar Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo con un embargo por la suma LEGAL NOTICE mínimo pactado en la Escritura de $8,599.34, Embargo #CARESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de Hipoteca para la propiedad, 19-1391, según certificación DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- la suma de $224,000.00. De no de fecha 4 de enero de 2019, haber remanente o adjudica- anotado el 8 de enero de 2019, los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario.

Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Por la presente también se notifica e informa al Departamento de Hacienda y al Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) por éstos ser parte interesadas en el caso. Además, 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 septiembre de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

asiento 2019-000112-EST en Karibe, Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 15 de septiembre de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE DEMANDANTE VS.

RICARDO ALDUEN RUBIO, SU ESPOSA ANA MARIA CASTRO MENDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2019CV00943.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA,

The San Juan Daily Star SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Mayagüez, 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 14 de julio de 2021, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 30 de agosto 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 Catorce de la Urbanización Las Nereidas del Barrio Miradero de Cabo Rojo, con cabida de 371.15 metros cuadrados, en lindes al NORTE, en 15.82 metros con la calle uno; al SUR, en 14.33 metros con Jaime Arroyo; al ESTE, en 24.13 metros, con el solar quince; y al OESTE, en 24.98 metros, con el solar trece. Enclava una estructura de hormigón reforzado y bloques de concreto, para una familia.

En su colindancia Norte discurre una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. FINCA NÚMERO: 27,375, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 813 de Cabo Rojo, sección de San Germán. Dirección Física: URBANIZACIÓN LAS NEREIDAS CASA 14 CABO ROJO, P.R. 00623. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 2 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Mayagüez. 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 $148,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 9 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:30 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 $98,666.66.

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 16 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la

suma de $74,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y ordenando la venta en pública subasta del inmueble antes descrito. A tenor con la Regla 51.3 (b) de Procedimiento Civil y el Artículo 99 de la Ley 210-2015, conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”, el tribunal ordenó que el Alguacil de este Tribunal luego de haberse efectuado la correspondiente publicación de edictos en un periódico de circulación general, proceda a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor la propiedad descrita en las Determinaciones de Hechos de la Sentencia y que del producto de dicha venta, proceda a pagar en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas y honorarios de abogados según concedidos en esta sentencia, en tercer término los intereses acumulados por esta sentencia, en cuarto término los recargos acumulados, en quinto cualquier suma antes indicada como sobregiro en la cuenta de reserva y en sexto término hasta la suma de $108,132.41, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen.

El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso

Monday, November 15, 2021 o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Por la presente también se notifica e informa a la First Equity Mortgage Bankers Inc., por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $90,545.00, interés al 7.50% anual y a vencer el 1ro de noviembre de 2035, según consta de la Escritura número 606, otorgada el 29 de octubre de 2005, inscrito al folio 1 vuelto del tomo 813 de Cabo Rojo, finca número 27,375, inscripción 4ta. 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 20 de octubre de 2021. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGUEZ. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICiAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

HERMENEGILDO MARTINEZ REMIGIO, ISABEL LUISA MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: BY2021CV04025.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos,El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A la parte codemandada: ISABEL LUISA MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ, POR SÍ Y COMO REPRESENTANTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON EL SR. HERMENEGILDO MARTINEZ REMIGIO, a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: FISICA: 81 CALLE PALMAS SABANA SECA WARD TOA BAJA, PR 00949; y POSTAL: PO BOX 926 SABANA SECA, PUERTO RICO 00952.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de de $90,994.05 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 2.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $7,520.00. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $7,520.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $7,520.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 513, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de mayo de 2002, ante el notario Ricardo J. Ramos González, de

la finca número 25,886, inscrita al Folio 5 del Tomo 468 de Toa Baja Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudiciai.pr/surnac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P..C. ATENCION al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin mas citarle(s) ni oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 10 de noviembre de 2021. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Sec Regional.

Marilyn Colon Carrasquillo, Sec Auxiliar.

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

ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC DEMANDANTE VS.

CARLOS ENRIQUE LOPEZ VAZQUEZ, AMARILIS BERRIOS AMBERT Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (DEUDORES HIPOTECARIOS);

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JOSEPH EMANUELLE VEGA QUIÑONES (TITULAR REGISTRAL)

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: BY2021CV04099.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

A la parte co-demandada: JOSEPH EMANUELLE VEGA QUIÑONES (TITULAR REGISTRAL) a su última dirección conocida: FISICA Y POSTAL: A- 12 CALLE 2 URB. VELOMAS VEGA BAJA, PR 00693

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la co-demandada la parte co-demandada Carlos Enrique López Vázquez, Amarilis Berrios Ambert y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, adeuda a la parte demandante $125,549.78 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte co-demandada Carlos Enrique López Vázquez, Amarilis Berrios Ambert y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $12,568.10. Además la parte co-demandada Johanna Díaz Cotto se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,568.10 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,568.10 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 166, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de septiembre de 2019, ante el notario Pedro J. Díaz García, consta presentada al Asiento 2019-105471 -BYO4 y se segregará de la finca número 30,139, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 199 del Tomo 442 de Vega Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo

del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica http:// unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del termino indicado el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin mas citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de noviembre de 202l, en VegaBaja, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, Sec Regional. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, Sec Auxiliar del Trib I.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V.

CARLOS L. OJEDA CRUZ

Demandado(a) Civil: VI2020CV00122. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARLOS L. OJEDA CRUZ. P/C DE LCDO. KEVIN SANCHEZ CAMPANERO. KEVIN. SANCHEZ@ORFLAW.COM PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR

EDICTO.

(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 8 de noviembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de noviembre de 2021. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 8 de noviembre de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DELIS E. SÁNCHEZ RAMOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO; NELSON DIAZ MERCADO E IVELISSE RIVERA OSORIO Demandante V.

BANCO POPULAR PUERTO RICO COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHOS DE POPULAR MORTGAGE INC.; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2021CV02477. Sala: 408. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS.

(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 8 de noviembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi-

30 damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de noviembre de 2021. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 8 de noviembre de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. DAMARIS TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

JESSICA BARBOSA VAZQUEZ T/C/C JESSICA VAZQUEZ BARBOSA

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: BY2021CV04038.

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

A: JESSICA BARBOSA VAZQUEZ T/C/C JESSICA VAZQUEZ BARBOSA.

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

Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO OX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787843-11668. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de

cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de octubre de 2019, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $96,984.51 de principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $87,500.68 y un segundo principal por la suma de $9,483.83, más los intereses sobre dicha suma sobre la suma de $87,500.68, al 6.25% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo $10,320.00, pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento identificado con el número doce guión doscientos dos (12-202) localizado en el tercer piso del Edificio doce (12) del Condominio Villas de Hato Tejas ubicado en El Barrio Hato Tejas en el término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil ciento veinte nueve punto cero cero (1,129.00) pies cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y dos (32) pies ocho (8) pulgadas, con el apartamento once guión doscientos uno (11201) del edificio once (11) del condominio y en dos (2) pies seis (6) pulgadas, con pared exterior; por el SUR, en una distancia en veintiséis (26) pies cinco (5) pulgadas, con el apartamento doce guión doscientos uno (12-201) del mismo edificio y en una distancia de trece (13) pies nueve (9) pulgadas, con la escalera y el pasillo exterior; por el ESTE, en varias alineaciones, en una distancia de veinte nueve (29) pies cuatro (4) pulgadas, con pared exterior y por el OESTE, en varias alineaciones, en una distancia de treinta y tres (33) pies cuatro (4) pulgadas, con pared exterior y puerta de acceso al balcón.

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exterior de su piso. Consta de tres dormitorios, dos baños, sala, comedor, cocina y balcón y está equipado con calentados de agua e interruptor de transferencia eléctrica para planta eléctrica de emergencia. Le corresponde como elemento de uso común limitado del apartamento dos (2) espacios de estacionamientos ubicados en la calle número siete (7) del Condominio, identificados con el número doce guión doscientos dos (12-202). Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes del inmueble una participación de punto cincuenta y dos porciento (.52%).

Inscrita al folio doscientos uno (201), del tomo mil ochocientos noventa y dos (1892) de Bayamón, finca número setenta y ocho mil quinientos cincuenta y dos (78552). Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón I. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

A 02 de noviembre de 2021.

Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Katherine Santiago Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs.

MICHAEL J. TORRES PORTALATIN, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE ESTOS COMPONEN

Demandada Caso Núm.: YU2021CV00397.

Salón Núm.: 001. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: MICHAEL J. TORRES PORTALATIN, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE ESTOS COMPONEN. 23 CALLE COMERCIO, YAUCO P.R. 00698-3626.

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la 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 sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su 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 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MIR FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Yauco en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de octubre de 2021. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 14 de octubre de 2021. Luz Mayra Caraballo García, Secretaria Regional.

Gladys Sánchez Flores, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs.

LILLIBETH YAKAIRA ORTEGA FONSECA

Demandada Civil Núm.: CD2016-1416.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: LILLIBETH YAKAIRA ORTEGA FONSECA.

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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado.

La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Apartamento número D guión Trescientos Dos (D-302). PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número D guión Trescientos Dos (D-302), localizado en el segundo piso del Edificio “D” del CONDOMINIO PALACIOS DE VERSALLES, cuyo Condominio está localizado en los Barrios Ortiz y Piñas de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, consiste de una vivienda residencial de un piso, con un área superficial de MIL QUINIENTOS OCHENTTA Y NUEVE PUNTO TREINTA Y SEIS (1,589.36) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CIENTO CUARENTA Y SIETE PUNTO SETENTA Y UNO (147.71) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con elemento común general exterior y las escaleras del Edificio “D”, en una distancia de quince punto cuarenta y dos (15.42) metros; por el SUR, con elemento común general exterior, en una distancia de quince punto cuarenta y dos (15.42) metros; por el ESTE, con elemento común general exterior, en una distancia de once punto sesenta y seis (11.66) metros; y por el OESTE, con apartamento número D guión Cuatrocientos Dos (D-402) y las escaleras y vestíbulo del Edificio “D”, en una distancia de once punto sesenta y seis (11.66) metros.

El apartamento número D guión Trescientos Dos (D-302) esta compuesto de: recibidor, sala, área familiar (“familyroom”), cocina, comedor, balcón, pasillo interior, un baño en el área del pasillo interior, closet para calentador (“waterheater closet”), closet de lavandería (“laundry”), closet de pasillo interior, dos dormitorios con un closet cada uno y un dormitorio principal (“master bedroom”) con closet, closet con pasillo (“walk-in-closet”), baño y área de tocador (“powderroom”). La entrada principal de este apartamento esta localizado en su lindero Oeste, la cual conecta el apartamento con el vestíbulo del segundo piso del Edificio “D” del Condominio Palacios de Versalles, el cual es un elemento común general del Con-

dominio Palacios de Versalles.

Le corresponde como elemento común limitado del Condominio Palacios de Versalles dos estacionamientos sencillos identificados con los números Sesenta y Cinco (65) y Sesenta y Seis (66). Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto siete cero cero cuatro porciento (0.7004%) en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio Palacios de Versalles y una participación de cero punto tres dos cinco cuatro porciento (0.3254%) en los elementos comunes limitados del Condominio Palacios de Versalles. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera,finca número 28,768 de Toa Alta, inscripción tercera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Palacios de Versalles, Apartamento D-302, Edificio D, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $146,244.59 de principal, intereses al 4.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de abril de 2016, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $15,556.30, 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 la suma de $155,563.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $103,708.66 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $77,781.50. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. 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.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES VÁZQUEZ MELÉNDEZ

Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: CA2019CV01634.

SALA: 406. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 8 de octubre de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número treinta y seis del Bloque “D” del plano de urbanización del Reparto Los Ángeles, sito en el Barrio Cangrejos Arriba de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cincuenta y dos metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con en doce metros, con el Solar número veintinueve del Bloque “D”; por el SUR, en doce metros, con la Calle D; por el ESTE, en veintiún metros con el solar treinta y cinco de dicho Bloque; y por el OESTE, en veintiún metros, con el Solar número treinta y siete del mismo Bloque. Inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 9 de Carolina, finca #352. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Carolina. La propiedad está ubicada en: 74 (D-36) Orion St., Urb. Los Ángeles, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos 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 surjan 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, queLEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO dando entonces subrogados

en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 10 de mayo de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV01634, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus María De Los Angeles Vázquez Meléndez, por la suma de $101,062.24 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 23 de marzo de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 352, Anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 4 de marzo de 2020, notificada el 6 de marzo de 2020, y publicada en periódico de circulación general, The San Juan Daily Star, 10 de marzo de 2020 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $101,062.24 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6.125% desde el 1ro de junio de 2017; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $11,020.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA subasta se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas de la Sala Superior del Tribunal de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $110,200.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 20 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas de la Sala Superior del Tribunal de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $73,466.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 27 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas de la Sala Superior del Tribunal de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será

The San Juan Daily Star SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. Le LINA BANCO POPULAR DE corresponden a este Apartamento dos espacios de estacioPUERTO RICO namientos marcados, con el Demandante V. número del Apartamento que le DESIREE ESTHER corresponde según los planos.

FIGUERAO FERRER Le corresponde a este ApartaDemandada mento en los elementos comuCivil Núm.: CA2019CV04186. nes generales del Condominio (407). Sobre: COBRO DE DI- el 0.00692%. Finca 60,990: Por NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GA- su procedencia está afecta a: a.

RANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS Servidumbre a favor de la AutoDE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN- ridad de Energía Eléctrica de TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI- Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a DOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO- favor del Municipio de Carolina.

CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, c. Servidumbre a favor de la SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo Puerto Rico Telephone ComMANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLAN- pany. Por sí está afecta a: a.

CO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Sujeta a condiciones restrictiva Primera Instancia, Sala Supe- a favor de la Autoridad para el rior de Carolina, al público en Financiamiento de la Vivienda general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO de Puerto Rico bajo la Ley 124 SABER: Que en cumplimiento del día 10 de diciembre de de un Mandamiento de Ejecu- 1993, por la cual se necesita ción de Sentencia fechado el 5 consentimiento. No podrá vende octubre de 2021 que me ha der, donar, permutar o de otro sido dirigido por la Secretaría modo transferir la descrita prodel Tribunal de Primera Instan- piedad por un término de 15 cia, Sala Superior de Carolina, años. b. Hipoteca en garantía en el caso arriba indicado, ven- de un pagaré a favor de Doral deré en la fecha o fechas que Mortgage Corporation, o a su más adelante se indican, en orden, por la suma principal de pública subasta al mejor postor, $75,587.00, con intereses al en moneda legal de los Esta- 6% anual, vencedero el día 1 dos Unidos de América, en de noviembre de 2037, constiefectivo, cheque certificado o tuida mediante la escritura núgiro postal, en mi oficina sita en mero 309, otorgada en San el local que ocupa en el Centro Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de Judicial de Carolina, Puerto octubre de 2007, ante el notario Rico, Avenida 65 Infantería, Ca- Nelson H. Meléndez López, e rretera 3 Kilómetro 11.7, Caroli- inscrita al folio 209 del tomo na, Puerto Rico (Entrada de la 1,422 de Carolina, finca númeUrbanización Mansiones de ro 60,990, inscripción 2da. c.

Carolina), todo derecho, título e Hipoteca en garantía de un painterés que tenga la parte de- garé a favor de la Autoridad mandada, en el inmueble que para el Financiamiento de la se describe a continuación, pro- Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su piedad de la parte demandada orden, por la suma principal de Desiree Esther Figuerao Ferrer. $12,500.00, sin intereses, venDirección Física: Balcones de cedero el día 31 de octubre de Carolina, Apt. C3-201, Caroli- 2015, constituida mediante la na, PR 00987. Finca 60,990, escritura número 310, otorgada inscrita al folio 190 del tomo en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 1,421 de Carolina, Registro de día 31 de octubre de 2007, ante la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, el notario Nelson H. Meléndez Sección Segunda de Carolina. López, e inscrita al folio 209 del URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORI- tomo 1,422 de Carolina, finca ZONTAL: Apartamento residen- número 60,990, inscripción 4ta. cial de forma irregular localiza- Sujeta a condiciones bajo el do en la segunda planta del Programa “La Llave para tu HoEdificio A del Condominio Bal- gar”, por un término de 8 años. cones de Carolina, Tercera d. Aviso de Demanda de fecha Fase, del término Municipal de 21 de febrero de 2012, expediCarolina, Puerto Rico. Aparta- do en el Tribunal de Primera mento número C3-201. Área Instancia, Centro Judicial de superficial del Apartamento: Carolina, Sala Superior, en el 934.79 pies cuadrados, equiva- Caso Civil número FCD12lentes a 86.84 metros cuadra- 0249, seguido por Doral Bank dos. Colindancias por el NOR- versus Desireé Esther Figueroa TE, con el Apartamento número Ferrer, por la suma de C3-202, distancia de 38’2”; por $72,147.22, más intereses y el SUR, con áreas comunes, otras sumas adicionales o en distancia de 38’2”; por el ESTE, su defecto la venta en Pública con áreas comunes, distancia Subasta, anotado el día 11 de de 32’3”; y por el OESTE, con mayo de 2012, al folio 209 del áreas comunes, distancia de tomo 1,422 de Carolina, finca 32’3”. Consta de un nivel y está número 60,990, Anotación “A”. dividido en los siguientes ele- e. Modificada la hipoteca relamentos: sala-comedor y puerta cionada en la inscripción 2da., LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de entrada con acceso al vestí- en cuanto al principal que será DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- bulo del Edificio, cocina, bal- por $71,868.50 y el interés que NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA cón, tres cuartos de dormitorios será al 4% anual, vencedero el con sus guardarropas, un baño.

de $55,100.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

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

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de octubre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil, División de Subastas Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Carolina.

Monday, November 15, 2021 día 1 de julio de 2043, mediante la escritura número 271, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de junio de 2013, ante la notario Leilany Carrión Del Toro, e inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 1,422 de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 5ta. f. Acta de ratificación y/o consentimiento, el Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a determinado que no existe al presente impedimento para la modificación de la hipoteca de la inscripción 2da. y ratifica el rango de su hipoteca como una subordinada que surge en la inscripción 6ta., mediante la escritura número 452, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de agosto de 2017, ante el notario Roberto L. Varela Ríos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, al margen de la inscripción 5.1. g. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $9,747.53, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2043, constituida mediante la escritura número 272, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de junio de 2013, ante la notario Leilany Carrión Del Toro, e inscrita al folio 154 del tomo 1,510 de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 6ta. h.

Modificada la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 2da., previamente modificada en la inscripción 5ta., en cuanto al principal que será por $73,911.29 y el interés que será al 3.625% anual, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2047, mediante la escritura número 59, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2017, ante el notario Roberto L. Varela Ríos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 7ma. i.

Acta de ratificación y/o consentimiento, comparece la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, antes Banco de la Vivienda, a consentir la modificación de la inscripción 7ma., mediante la escritura número 610, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de julio de 2017, ante la notario Laura Rivera Sorrentini, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, al margen de la inscripción 7.1. j.

Acta de ratificación y/o consentimiento, comparece el Secretary of Housing and Urban Development a consentir modificación de la hipoteca de la inscripción 2da., y reconoce el rango de la hipoteca como subordinada que surge en la inscripción 6ta., mediante la escritura número 452, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de agosto de 2017, ante el notario Roberto L. Varela Ríos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe

de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 5.1. k. Hipoteca subordinada a favor del Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, por la suma de $3,603.20, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2047, mediante la escritura número 170, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2019, ante el notario Roberto L. Varela Ríos, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, inscripción 9na. l. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 28 de octubre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV04186, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Desiree Esther Figueroa Ferrer, por la suma de $70,715.04, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 15 de julio de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 60,990, Anotación “B”, y última.

El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 60,990 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 14 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $73,911.29. HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 309, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 31 de octubre de 2007, ante el Notario Nelson H. Meléndez López.

SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 21 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $49,274.19. TERCERA SUBASTA: 28 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $36,955.65. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 6 de febrero de 2020 y archivada en los autos el 13 de febrero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $70,715.04, más la suma de $2,892.83, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diaria-

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mente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de noviembre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL PLACA #830, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE JUAN JOSÉ CAMILO COMPUESTA POR WHANILDA CAMILO, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y, CARMEN MILADY ANGELES HERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C CARMEN MIDADY ANGELES HERNÁNDEZ POR SI Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02312.

(403). Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN, COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 23 de septiembre de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Puerto Rico, Carr. Núm. 3 Km. 11.7, Ave. 65 de Infantería, Carolina, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada a. Sucesión de Juan José Camilo compuesta por Whanilda Camilo y Fulano y Mengano de Tal como herederos desconocidos y Carmen Milady Angeles Hernández, t/c/c Carmen Midady Angeles Hernández, por sí y en cuanto a la cuota viudal usufructuaria. Dirección Física: Urb. Eduardo J. Saldana, 36J Calle Ramón Quiñones (D), Carolina, PR 00983. Finca 16,402, inscrita al folio 188 del tomo 428 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Carolina.

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número treintiseis de la Manzana “J”, del Plano preparado por la Autoridad sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico, hoy Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para el Proyecto de Solares denominado Isla Verde Development, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cuarentinueve metros cuadrados con setenta y dos centésimas de metro cuadrado, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar J treintisiete de la Urbanización, distancia de setentiun pies con sesenta y ocho centésimas de pie; por el SUR, con el solar J-treinticinco de dicho proyecto, distancia de setentiun pies con sesenta y ocho centésimas de pie; por el ESTE, con la Calle “D” de la susodicha Urbanización, distancia de treintisiete pies con cincuentiuna centésimas de pie; por el OESTE, con el solar J-ocho del mencionado Plano Proyecto PRHJ-veintiséis, distancia de treintisiete pies con cincuentiu-

na centésimas de pie. Enclava una casa de concreto de una planta para una familia. Finca 16,402: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Por sí está afecta a: a.

Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $52,233.00, con intereses al 4.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2024, constituida mediante la escritura número 464, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de julio de 2013, ante el notario Néstor Machado Cortés, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 16,402, inscripción 29va. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 21 de julio de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV02312, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Juan José Camilo y Carmen Milady Ángeles Hernández, también conocida como Carmen Milady Hernández Ángeles, por la suma de $35,040.07, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 6 de septiembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 16,402, Anotación “A”. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 16,402 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 14 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $52,233.00. HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 464, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 16 de julio de 2013, ante el Notario Néstor Machado Córtes. Segunda Subasta: 21 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $34,822.00. Tercera Subasta: 28 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $26,116.50. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

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

Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 17 de agosto de 2021 y archivada en los autos el 17

32 de agosto de 2021, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 1 de diciembre de 2017, la suma principal de $35,040.07, más la suma de $12,008.09, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de noviembre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL PLACA #830, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

LEONARDO JAVIER CABALLERO DIAZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: NJ2021CV00104.

(401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LEONARDO JAVIER CABALLERO DIAZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio.

El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, 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.

El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PMB 450, 400 Calle Calaf, San Juan, PR 00918-1314; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Bo. Cedro Abajo Sector Cuatro Calles, Carr. 152 Int.811 Km 0.9, Naranjito, PR 00719, 51 Never Bend Dr., Ocala, FL 34482.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de octubre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA

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I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRE- JUAN TARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA E. ORIENTAL BANK MONROIG TORRES, SECREDemandante Vs. TARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUJULIANA MARIE NAL I.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

LOURDES MENDEZ FERNANDEZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2021CV00339.

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

A: LOURDES MÉNDEZ FERNÁNDEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación 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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguada, P.O. Box 744, Aguada, Puerto Rico 006020744 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 1 de noviembre de 2021.

SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ERIKA I. CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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LUGO ROQUE

Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV05670.

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

A: JULIANA MARIE LUGO ROQUE.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $84,742.69, intereses al 4.50% anual, desde el día 1ro de septiembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $8,542.40 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Cuatro (4) del Bloque “O” de la URBANIZACIÓN VILLA PRADES, ahora BUENOS AIRES, sitio Sabana Llana del Barrio Río Piedras de la Ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de DOSCIENTOS SESENTA Y UNO PUNTO SESENTA Y SEIS (261.66) METROS CUADRADOS. Colinda por el NORTE, en doce punto cuarenta y seis (12.46) metros, con la Calle “P” de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en doce punto cuarenta y seis (12.46) metros, con solar número Treinta y Uno (31) del Bloque “O” de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en veintiuno punto cero cero (21.00) metros, con solar número Cinco (5) del Bloque “O”; y por el OESTE, en veintiuno punto cero cero (21.00) metros, con solar número Tres (3) del Bloque “O” de la Urbanización.

Contiene una casa de concreto de una planta, con techo de hormigón de dos aguas, que tiene tres dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, baño y balcón.

La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Sábana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta, finca número 416, inscripción décima. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, 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: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. 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.

La dirección postal del abogado de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Lic. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 70212 San Juan, P.R. 00936-8212 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387 E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción.

Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de octubre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSICA SOTO PAGÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

ARCADIO TORRES GARCÍA, MARÍA ELIZA FUENTES ROSARIO T/C/C MARÍA E. FUENTES ROSARIO T/C/C MARÍA FUENTES ROSARIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PA2019CV00075.

Sala: 202. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dicta-

da el 4 de diciembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 26 de febrero de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 5 de marzo de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Patillas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Tres (3) salida hacia Maunabo (al lado de la Comandancia de la Policía) Patillas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno sita en el Barrio Quebrada Arriba del término municipal de Patillas, Puerto Rico, con un área de 1272.9429 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE y OESTE, con finca de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, con terrenos de Esteban Vega; y por el ESTE, con un camino vecinal pavimentado. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 282 del tomo 189 de Patillas, Finca Número 8487, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama.

La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al folio 284 del tomo 189 de Patillas, Finca Número 8487, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. Inscripción cuarta.

La escritura de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 206 del tomo 233 de Patillas, Finca Número 8487, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama.

Inscripción quinta y última. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: CARR. 179 KM 11.8 INT., BO. CARITE, PATILLAS, PR 00723. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $86,543.00. SEGUNDA: 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $57,695.33.

TERCERA: 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $43,271.50. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $86,543.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 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, $57,695.33.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $43,271.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota-

lidad 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 Sentencia por la suma de $71,422.34 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.5% anual desde el 1 de septiembre de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $290.72 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,654.30 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de 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 Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Arcadio Torres García, María Eliza Fuentes Rosario también conocida como María E. Fuentes Rosario y como María Fuentes Rosario y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Patillas, en el Caso Civil Número PA2019CV00075, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $71,422.34 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 12 de abril de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Patillas. 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 deseaba. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Patillas, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de octubre de 2021. MAYLEEN CINTRÓN RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE PATILLAS.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante vs.

SUCESION BETTY ROSAS RODRIGUEZ T/C/C BETTY ROSAS COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados CIVIL NUM. HU2021CV00948.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. .

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION BETTY ROSAS RODRIGUEZ T/C/C BETTY ROSAS

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

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

The San Juan Daily Star hoy 5 de noviembre de 2021.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Leda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de noviembre de 2021. Dominga Gomez Fuster, Sec Regional. Michelle Guevara De Leon, Sec Auxiliar.

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Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de noviembre de 2021. Dominga Gomez Fuster, Sec Regional. Michelle Guevara De Leon, Sec Auxiliar.

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PR RECOVERY & DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante V.

NYDIA IRIS MORALES SUCESION FRANCISCA OLIVER, ENRIQUE RAMOS DE JESUS RODRÍGUEZ BORRERO COMPUESTA POR Y LA SOCIEDAD DE ALFRED GARCIA BIENES GANACIALES RAMOS, LILLIAN GARCIA POR ELLOS COMPUESTA RAMOS; JOHN DOE Demandados Y JANE DOE COMO Civil Núm.: CA2020CV01909.

POSIBLES HEREDEROS Sala: 408. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; INCUMPLIMIENTO DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE DE CONTRATO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y GRAAMERICA; CENTRO VAMEN MOBILIARIO. AVISO DE RECAUDACION DE DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIINGRESOS MUNICIPALES DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE-

Demandados CIVIL NUM. HU2021CV00902.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION FRANCISCA RAMOS DE JESUS

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

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

SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil Regional, el Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo, en cheque certificado o en cheque de gerente a la orden del alguacil suscribiente en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a las partes codemandadas sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana, situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número treinta (30) de la manzana cinco guion X (5-X), con un área de trecientos treinta y siete punto ochenta y cinco (337.85) metros cuadrado, en lindes por el NORTE, con solar número veintinueve (29), distancia de veintitrés punto trecientos (23.300) metros, por el SUR, con el solar número

treinta y uno (31), distancia de veintitrés punto trecientos (23.300) metros, por el ESTE, con la Avenida Sánchez Osorio, anterior Calle Periferal Oeste, distancia de catorce punto quinientos (14.500) metros, por el OESTE, con la Calle número cinco guion Nueve (5-9), distancia de catorce punto quinientos (14.500) metros. Enclavada una casa.” Inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 361 de Carolina, finca número trece mil setecientos veinticinco (13,725), del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (1ra) de Carolina. Dirección Física: 5X-30 Calle Parque Alianza y Avenida Sánchez Osorio, Urb. Villa Fontana, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00767. Afecta a: Por su procedencia: Afecta a condiciones restrictivas de edificación, servidumbres a favor de la finca número 11,120 propiedad de Sabana Corporation, Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Municipio de Carolina y de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. Por sí a: HIPOTECA a favor de la Junta de Retiro para Maestros de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $36,000.00, con intereses al 9 1/4% anual, con vencimiento el 1 de marzo de 2016, según consta de la Escritura #40, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de abril de 1986 ante el Notario Público Jorge Manrique, según inscripción octava (8va). HIPOTECA a favor del Banco de Desarrollo Económico de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $212,788.00, con intereses al 5% anual, con vencimiento a la presentación, según consta de la Escritura #80, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de octubre de 2004 ante el Notario Público Eduardo Tamargo, según inscripción undécima (11ma). El gravamen objeto de ejecución en este procedimiento es la que surge de la Escritura Número 80 otorgada el 11 de octubre de 2004 ante el Notario Público Eduardo Tamargo, en la cual se establece como precio mínimo para la primera subasta la suma de $212,788.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 10 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. El precio mínimo para la segunda subasta serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo que se pactó par la primera subasta, o sea, $141,858.67. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA

MAÑANA. El precio mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactó para la primera subasta, o sea, $106,394.00.

Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado al PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC., según la sentencia dictada a su favor en este caso que al 2 de septiembre de 2020 asciende a 73,853.41, más los intereses que en adelante se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda a razón de $9.22 diarios y ($480.33) de escrow. Mas la cantidad de de $21,278.80 en concepto de costas gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado.

Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a las mismas. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en las fechas, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. SE HACE CONSTAR que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables, bajo el epígrafe de este caso. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos (2) lugares públicos del Municipio dónde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 21 de octubre de 2021.

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cil #830, Tribunal De Primera este Tribunal. Por tratarse de unas obligaciones hipotecarias, Instancia. y pudiendo usted tener interés LEGAL NOTICE en este caso o quedar afectado ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO por el remedio solicitado, se les DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- emplaza por este Edicto que se NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola SALA DE CAROLINA TWIN INVESTMENT LLC vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radiDemandante Vs. cando el original de la misma USDA RURAL a través del Sistema Unificado DEVELOPMENT; JOHN de Manejo y Administración DOE Y RICHARD ROE de Casos (SUMAC), al cual COMO POSIBLES pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: TENEDORES CON https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, INTERÉS salvo que se representen por Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV02756. derecho propio, en cuyo caso Sala: 409. Sobre: CANCELA- deberán presentar su alegación CIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTE- responsiva en la secretaría del CARIO EXTRAVIADO. EM- Tribunal Superior de Puerto PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Rico, Sala de Utuado, con coA: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD pia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge García ROE (PERSONAS Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 SieDESCONOCIDAS CON rra Morena, San Juan, Puerto POSIBLE INTERÉS).

Rico 00926 dentro del término En este caso la parte deman- de treinta (30) días contados dante ha radicado Demanda a partir de la publicación del para que se decrete judicial- Edicto, se les anotará la rebelmente el saldo del siguiente día y se dictará sentencia en su pagaré: a. Pagaré a favor de contra concediendo el remeEstados Unidos de América dio solicitado en la Demanda por conducto de la Compañía sin más citarles ni oírles. EN de Hogares de Agricultores, TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, o a su orden, por $42,000.00, expido el presente Edicto por con intereses al 11 7/8% anual, Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firvence en 33 años, según cons- ma y sello del Tribunal, en San ta de la escritura #65, otorgada Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 03 de en Río Grande, Puerto Rico, el noviembre de 2021. LCDA. MAdía 18 de junio del1984, ante RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, el Notario Público Miguel Bau- SECRETARIA REGIONAL. za Rolón, inscrito al folio #84 MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, del tomo #304 de Río Grande, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. finca #20054, inscripción 1ra LEGAL NOTICE (Pagaré hipotecario). y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO propiedad sita en Urbanización DE PUERTO RICO TRIBURío Grande Estates situada en NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANel Barrio Zarzal del término mu- CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE nicipal de Río Grande, Puerto PONCE Rico, marcada con el número 6 BANCO POPULAR DE del bloque “P”, que se describe PUERTO RICO como sigue: URBANA: Solar Demandante V. radicado en la Urbanización FELIX LEON TORRES; Río Grande Estates situada LYDIA SANTIAGO en el Barrio Zarzal del término TORRES Y LA municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, contiene una casa de SOCIEDAD LEGAL concreto reforzado diseñada DE GANANCIALES para una familia, marcada con COMPUESTA POR el número 6 del bloque “P”, AMBOS con un área de 368.96 metros Demandados cuadrados. En lindes por el Civil Núm.: PO2019CV02097.

NORTE, en 13.65 metros, con Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO calle 19; por el SUR, en 13.65 Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTEmetros, con el solar 11; por el CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTE, en 27.03 metros, con AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLIsolar 7; y por el OESTE, en CA SUBASTA. Yo, MIGUEL A. 27.03 metros, con el solar 5.

TORRES AYALA, Alguacil de Contiene una casa de concreto la División de Subastas de la reforzado diseñada para una Sala Superior de Ponce, a los familia, marcada con el número demandados y al público en geseis del bloque “P”. Inscrita al neral les notifico que, cumplienSistema Karibe de Rio Grando con un Mandamiento que se de, finca 20,054, Registro de ha librado en el presente caso la Propiedad de Carolina, Secpor el Secretario del Tribunal ción Tercera. La parte demande epígrafe con fecha 1ro. de dante alega que dicho Pagaré octubre de 2021 y para satisse ha extraviado, según más facer la Sentencia por la cantidetalladamente consta en la dad de $67,166.46 de principal, Demanda radicada que puede dictada en el caso de epígrafe examinarse en la Secretaría de

el autos el día 14 de julio de 2021, notificada y archivada en autos el día 15 de julio de 2021.

Dicha Sentencia fue publicada mediante edicto, a través del Periódico “The San Juan Dialy Star”, el día 20 de julio de 2021 y notificada por correo certificado a la parte demandada.

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, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en: en el Municipio de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada número veinticuatro (24) en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Potala Pastillo de los barrios Pastillito y Capitanejo del término municipal de Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.1620 cuerdas, equivalentes a 636.78 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, con la calle 27-A de la comunidad; al Sur, can la parcela 25-A de la comunidad; al Este, con parcela#602 de la comunidad y al Oeste, con la calle#2 de la comunidad.

Enclava sobre el descrito solar una estructura destinada a vivienda. Consta inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 231 de Juana Diaz, finca #8632 Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, sección I. 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 Superior de Ponce, cuyas cantidades son las siguientes: $67,166.46 de principal, 6.75% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $217.92 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 $84,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $56,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $42,000.00.

Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18

DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 27 de octubre de 2021. MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #560.

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What Aaron Rodgers should see: COVID suffering in a Wisconsin ER

By KURT STREETER

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t is perhaps all too easy to bash Aaron Rodgers, the latest star athlete to show he’s suffering from a God complex, hovering above the fray, more than willing to spew medical quackery and virus all over us mere mortals.

Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback, is one of the greats when it comes to controlling football games and throwing arcing spirals for highlights-reel touchdowns. But that gridiron genius was undercut when it came out last week that he had not only tested positive for the coronavirus but had also warped the truth about whether he was vaccinated.

“If the vaccine is so great,” Rodgers said in an interview with a radio host who is a friend of his, “how come people are still getting COVID and spreading COVID and unfortunately dying from COVID?” Apparently, Rodgers missed the memo that although vaccines are not foolproof, they are close to 90% effective and by far the best tools we have to beat back this plague.

Rodgers has been spewing other falsehoods about the virus and its treatments. So maybe he should spend time with Dr. Kyle Martin. He is the medical director of emergency services at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, and he also works at two hospitals in rural parts of the state.

“We’re still very much in a crisis,” Martin, a self-described NFL superfan, said when we spoke this week. “People are still dying in large numbers.

And our health system, it’s stressed to the max.”

COVID burns hot in Wisconsin, where it is now primarily a disease of the unvaccinated, many who clearly take their cues from celebrities such as Rodgers.

After a period of decline, case numbers are spiraling up, and with them, visits to emergency rooms and stays in intensive care. If the typical cycle continues, deaths will rise in a state that is

Aaron Rodgers in a game on Oct. 28, the last time he played for the Packers before testing positive for the coronavirus. currently losing about 19 people daily to the virus.

“Rodgers is an icon here in our state,” Martin said. To have him questioning the vaccine and sow vaccine doubt “undercuts what we’re trying to do as a health care system. It’s just tragic.”

Martin suggested that Rodgers join him during an overnight shift at one of the ERs where he works.

What would the quarterback see?

“He would see how COVID is now not just in urban centers — it’s ravaging rural Wisconsin,” Martin said.

Rodgers would see patients, young and old, gasping for air, wracked with pain that scorches the chest. He would see patients pleading for a first dose of the vaccine, even though at that point it would be too late to help them recover.

He would see patients in cramped emergency wings, traditionally meant for quick triage, sometimes stuck there for 24 hours because there are not enough beds in intensive care units.

He might see death in the ER. Or,

more common, funeral home workers carting coffins out of the ICU. He might get a taste of how the doubters of science-based medicine have poisoned the well. Remember last year, when front-line workers were heroes? These days, according to one Wisconsin health official I spoke with this week, anti-vaxxers have been known to show up in front of hospitals, spewing venom at doctors and nurses heading in to do the work of saving patients.

Martin told the story of a father who barricaded himself and his critically ill child in a hospital room, shouting that COVID was a hoax made up by doctors. “You are not taking my daughter,” the father said after a transfer was recommended. According to Martin, the father demanded a promise to send the child to a hospital that does not require masks. Of course, there is no such hospital. It took a team of police officers and sheriff’s deputies to calm the situation, Martin said, and to help the girl get the care she needed.

In Rodgers’ latest interview — well, more like a staged appearance with questions spoon-fed by the host, Pat McAfee, a former NFL punter — he trotted out a half-baked apology and claimed to take full responsibility for what he had said the week before. He also said he stood by his position on vaccines.

It’s not clear he truly understands the ripple-effect damage caused by a sports star of his magnitude sowing doubt. Physicians are the ones dealing with this calamity in real time, and a lot of their work these days centers on convincing the reluctant that there’s one tool available to help curb the mass spread of COVID — the vaccine.

“If I can establish a rapport, I might be able to get some science, some actual facts in front of the patient,” Martin said. “But Aaron Rodgers is someone everybody knows, and he’s someone whose views are listened to. So now when I’m in front of that reluctant patient, they have these conflicting things that they’ve heard. And that’s not making this any easier.”

Is it possible to have sympathy for Rodgers and other athletes suggesting doubt about the vaccines? (Thinking of you, Kyrie Irving.) Well, sure. For all their fame, they are like the rest of us, trying to make sense of a horrific situation. Everyone is doing this while facing tsunamis of information.

We are all susceptible to being duped.

So, yes, for all the damage their vaccine-doubting views can bring, we can also spare some compassion — at least a touch — while also holding feet to the fire and expecting sports stars to think of more than themselves during the worst pandemic in a century. With fame and the sway it brings comes that responsibility.

Martin agrees.

“I’m more than willing to give him a tour of an emergency room, talk to him and answer his questions,” he told me. Hopefully, Rodgers would listen, even though the doctor is a Minnesota Vikings fan.

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Sam Huff, fearsome Hall of Fame linebacker, dies at 87

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

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am Huff, the New York Giants’ Hall of Fame middle linebacker who became the face of pro football, his feats celebrated in the national news media, when the NFL began to vie with major league baseball as America’s No. 1 sport, died Saturday in Winchester, Virginia. He was 87.

His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his daughter, Catherine Huff Myers, who said Huff learned he had dementia in 2013.

Playing for the Giants in their glory years of the late 1950s and early ’60s, Huff came out of the West Virginia coal country to anchor a defense that gained the kind of renown that had previously been reserved for strong-armed quarterbacks and elusive runners.

He played in six NFL championship games in his eight seasons with the Giants. He was named to the all-league team three times and played in five Pro Bowls.

Huff was remembered for his headon duels with two of the game’s greatest fullbacks — the Cleveland Browns’ Jim Brown and the Green Bay Packers’ Jim Taylor — but he also had 30 career interceptions. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982.

Yankee Stadium, the Giants’ home at the time, reverberated to chants of “DEE-fense” and “Huff, Huff, Huff” in the late 1950s as one of the NFL’s oldest teams became a glamorous franchise, vying with the Yankees baseball team for media acclaim in America’s communications capital.

Huff became the epitome of the rough-and-tough football star.

On Nov. 30, 1959 — almost a year after the thrilling sudden-death NFL title game between the Giants and Baltimore Colts had launched pro football’s ascendancy — Time magazine featured a portrait of Huff on its cover. He was the focus of “A Man’s Game,” an article in that issue about pro football.

Huff’s fearsome aura was sealed Oct. 30, 1960, when Walter Cronkite narrated the CBS documentary “The Violent World of Sam Huff,” part of the series “The Twentieth Century.”

A microphone and a transmitter had been placed on Huff’s shoulder pads for

Sam Huff in 1962. His intimidating aura was sealed on Oct. 30, 1960, when Walter Cronkite narrated the CBS documentary “The Violent World of Sam Huff.” an exhibition game against the Chicago Bears in Toronto the previous August.

Viewers saw and heard Huff calling signals in the huddle, then threatening a Bears receiver he considered to be taking liberties with him. “You do that again, you’ll get a broken nose,” Huff warned. “Don’t hit me on the chin with your elbow. I’m not going to warn you no more.”

Burton Benjamin, the documentary’s producer, later recalled in an article for The New York Times that the “violent world” reference “quickly became a part of the football lexicon.”

As Frank Gifford, the Giants’ Hall of Fame running back and receiver, put it in his memoir “The Whole Ten Yards,” Huff became “a household name.”

Robert Lee Huff — he could not recall how he came to be called Sam — was born Oct. 4, 1934, in Morgantown, West Virginia, the son of a coal miner.

He grew up in a mining camp known as Number Nine, outside Farmington, West Virginia.

Huff was an All-American at West Virginia University, a 6-foot-1-inch,

230-pound guard and tackle on both offense and defense. The Giants selected him in the third round of the 1956 NFL draft.

As a rookie, Huff played in the Giants’ 47-7 victory over the Bears in the 1956 NFL championship game, and he became a key figure in the 4-3 alignment — four down linemen and three linebackers — installed by the Giants’ defensive coordinator, Tom Landry. Replacing the 5-2 scheme commonly used, it put Huff at the heart of the action.

“Before, I always had my head down, looking right into the center’s helmet,” Huff recalled in his memoir “Tough Stuff” (1988, with Leonard Shapiro).

“Now I was standing up, and I could see everything, and I mean everything. I always had outstanding peripheral vision.

It’s one of the reasons I was so perfectly suited for the position.”

The Giants’ outstanding defensive linemen — Roosevelt Grier and Dick Modzelewski at tackle, Andy Robustelli and Jim Katcavage at end — kept blockers away from Huff, helping him to stop running plays. And he ranged back or

moved toward the sidelines to break up passes, complementing the superb defensive backs Emlen Tunnell, Jim Patton and Dick Nolan.

Huff “almost single-handedly influenced the first chants of ‘Defense, Defense’ in Yankee Stadium,” John K. Mara, the Giants’ president and CEO, said in a statement Saturday.

Following their championship season of 1956, the Giants won five division titles between 1958 and 1963, but they lost in the championship game each time.

The Giants decided to reshape a veteran team following the 1963 season, when they won a third consecutive division title. They traded Huff to Washington for Dick James, a smallish running back, and Andy Stynchula, a defensive end.

Huff was shocked and angered, and the two players acquired by the Giants did little for them. As the Giants’ aging stars departed, the team descended into mediocrity. Huff gained retribution with Washington’s 72-41 victory over the Giants in November 1966, which he once called “the one game I wanted the most.”

He played for Washington from 1964 to 1967, then retired, but he came back for a final season as a player and linebacker coach when Vince Lombardi was named Washington’s head coach in 1969.

Huff was later a longtime radio broadcaster for Washington games and a marketing executive for the Marriott hotel and resort chain. He also bred thoroughbred horses.

Besides his daughter, Catherine, he is survived by his partner, Carol Holden; a son, Joseph; his former wife, Mary Helen Fletcher Huff; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild, the family said. Another son, Robert Jr., died in 2018. Huff’s marriage ended in divorce in the late 1980s.

For anyone unfamiliar with “The Violent World of Sam Huff,” the man in the middle of the Giants’ awesome defense underlined his credo in a 2002 interview for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

“I never let up on anybody,” Huff said. “I don’t think I ever quit on a play.

If you had the football, I was going to hit you, and when I hit you, I tried to hit you hard enough to hurt you. That’s the way the game should be played.”

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US beats Mexico and then rubs it in

By ANDREW KEH

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ichael Jackson’s 1988 song “Man in the Mirror” — a classic tune, but no one’s idea of a rousing sports arena jam — was blaring over the stadium speakers late Friday as the U.S. men’s soccer team rollicked and embraced happily on the field.

A bit less than a half-hour earlier, Christian Pulisic had charged toward the sideline to celebrate the first of the Americans’ goals in their 2-0 victory against Mexico, lifting the front of his No. 10 jersey to reveal the same phrase, “Man in the Mirror,” scrawled in permanent marker on his white undershirt.

At that moment, even reasonably wellinformed American soccer fans might have been left scratching their heads at the references, struggling to understand what, exactly, was afoot.

Welcome to the ferociously competitive, wonderfully petty and endlessly amusing rabbit hole of a rivalry between the soccer teams of the United States and Mexico.

The feuding neighbors’ World Cup qualifying match in Cincinnati on Friday night — an important one, with three points and first place in the group standings up for grabs — had all the hallmarks of a classic: two scintillating goals, two physical altercations, one red card and multiple instances of borderline inscrutable taunting wrapped inside layers of allusion.

“We fiercely dislike Mexico’s soccer team,” U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter said afterward, “and we’re fierce competitors, and we want to win every time we’re on the field.”

To understand the Michael Jackson song and the homemade shirt and the Americans’ generally self-satisfied air after the game, one must go back to Tuesday, when Guillermo Ochoa, Mexico’s goalkeeper, suggested in an interview that the United States looked in the mirror and hoped to see Mexico, seemingly implying that the Americans wanted to mold themselves as a team in their rivals’ image.

On the Richter scale of sports trash talk, the comments barely registered. But the young U.S. team, which has had mixed success in building an identity through the first half of the 14-game qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup, seemed happy to run with them anyway, to use them as extra fuel.

Weston McKennie and his teammates beat Mexico with goals and then taunted them in song.

First came an unprompted response from Berhalter in his news conference the day before the game. He quipped that the Americans’ two wins over Mexico earlier this year had not done enough to win Mexico’s respect. His team would have to do more Friday, he said. (The American fans had their say, too, booing Ochoa every time he touched the ball Friday night.)

Then came the players’ response on the field. The teams battled through a nervy first half, with goalkeeper Zack Steffen making two athletic saves to keep the Americans even. Then everything — the teams’ attacks, the players’ emotions — bubbled over in the second.

In the latter of two on-field kerfuffles in the game, Mexico defender Luis Rodríguez menacingly grabbed wing Brendan Aaronson’s face from behind, prompting a long, ugly sequence of arguing among players from both teams. As the teams pushed and shoved, and as three yellow cards were shown, Pulisic was preparing to enter the field as a substitute. When he did, the rough gave way to the sublime.

In the 74th minute, forward Timothy Weah received the ball on the right wing and calculated a sequence of dribbles down the edge of the penalty area, measuring out a pocket of space. Upon creating it,

he thwacked an inch-perfect cross toward the mouth of the goal, where Pulisic flew in to head it past Ochoa to give the United States a 1-0 lead.

It was Pulisic’s first touch of the ball in a competitive match for the United States since September, when he sustained a high ankle sprain during a qualifier in Honduras. As the sellout crowd of 26,000 roared, Pulisic paused to display his “Man in the Mirror” shirt before being mobbed by his teammates.

Afterward, he sheepishly batted aside questions about his shirt, framing the episode as a little joke.

“I think you guys know the message,” he said. “I don’t need to speak on it too much. It’s not a big thing.”

Weah was much happier to elucidate.

The night before the game, he said, he and defender DeAndre Yedlin asked one of the team’s staff members to draw the shirt for Pulisic to wear during the match.

He painted the prank as a matter of pride.

“Before the game, Mexico was talking a lot of smack, and beating them shuts them up,” Weah said. “We have to continue to win games and continue to beat them, and that’s the only way we’re going to earn their respect.”

After Pulisic’s goal, the Americans pressed for a second. When Weston McKennie delivered it in the 85th minute, he prompted chants of “Dos a Cero!” — a reference to a famously recurring score line between the teams — from the stands.

And after the final whistle, the team’s staff conspired to play “Man in the Mirror” over the loudspeakers to accompany the team’s postgame celebrations as a final, cheeky sendoff.

It was a comprehensive win for the Americans, who outshot Mexico by 18-8, and it pulled the United States into a tie on points with their archrival at the top of the standings with seven matches to go.

The top three finishers in the group qualify automatically for the World Cup next year in Qatar.

But more than the points, the young and inexperienced American players may cull more intangible benefits from the experience: a petty slight, a few impish inside jokes, a night of joy and perceived revenge.

Sports teams have bonded together over far less.

“We talked about how we thought they didn’t think they gave us enough respect, and we had to go out and earn it,” Berhalter said. “And I think we went out and earned it today.”

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HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

You could be tempted to indulge Aries, to sidestep difficult feelings that you don’t really want to deal with. And yet no matter how much comfort food you eat or TV you watch, it’s likely just a temporary measure. Get to grips with this mindset right away, and see if you can trace those emotions to their source.

Understanding may bring relief, as might chatting with a good friend.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Feel an urge to help someone? If they refuse it could be a good sign, as it means they’re weaning themselves off your assistance and learning they can do things themselves. If you’ve been setting more boundaries lately, then it seems to be working. The next step is not to feel guilty for doing things that you enjoy. Why not make use of this day to indulge to your heart’s content?

Taurus

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Scorpio

Gemini

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Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

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It could be so easy to jump to conclusions and find that you’re wrong. Today’s Moon/Pluto tie can find you in a defensive mood too, which might not help matters. If someone is displaying some unusual or frustrating behaviour, don’t take it personally. There is possibly a reason for this that may become clear if you make time to talk to them. Suddenly all can be forgiven, Taurus.

If you’re considering making a major purchase, then you’ll be eager to find the best deal, Gemini. With Venus in Capricorn and a resourceful zone, you’ll know a bargain when you see it. But with an impulsive aspect still on the go, it’s possible that you might ignore common sense and opt for something else on the spur of the moment, which would be your loss.

Don’t chance it.

With an active leisure zone, you may be keen to make the most of this day to enjoy life and do something a little different. Be prepared for things not to go as planned, as an unexpected invite could find you whisked away elsewhere. If you can take this in your stride, you might have a better time than you imagined. Plus, romantic Venus may help a bond to develop in closeness.

Leo

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You may be bubbling over with ideas that could make a difference to you and others. And the next day or so can be a prime time to explore an exciting array of options, and zero in on those that appeal the most. Still, there is one issue about which you might feel blocked with nothing seeming to help. A brilliant idea could spark a breakthrough Scorpio, just when you need it.

Your mindset can play a key part in how you tackle an issue that seems overwhelming, perhaps because you feel boxed in by responsibilities, and unable to do as you want. Talking to others who may be going through something similar, could help boost morale. Next week, you might still face the same challenge, but you’ll have a different attitude, which can change everything.

You can’t force romance, and yet you might try. With an impatient link between Mercury and Uranus, waiting for someone to notice you may not be an option. This edgy aspect could cause you to be more forward than usual. Be warned though, as it can backfire, whereas if you allow things to flow naturally, you may be in with a chance.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

With so much going on in your home zone, venturing out might not seem like an option, especially if all you want to do is sit back and unwind. But you may be called into action to help someone out, so it looks like you’ll have to wait to enjoy that pampering session or sink into a relaxing bath. There’s also the possibility of a guest arriving out of the blue, so be prepared.

The old and the new may vie for attention over coming days, and influence your decisions. If you have experienced being stuck around a certain situation, and found that no matter how hard you try things have refused to budge, let it go. Inspiring and lively influences suggest that a chance remark or encounter could act as a catalyst, leading you straight to the solution you are seeking.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

A conversation could bring up powerful memories, that can linger throughout the day, Virgo. Is this something that’s haunted you for a while? If so, the Moon/Pluto aspect encourages you to process through it with someone you trust, and then let it go. If there’s sadness or other potent emotions attached, then releasing these means you’ll enjoy the memories without any regret.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Feel like taking a break from mundane activities, and doing something exciting? If you’re ready to seize an opportunity, the day can unfold in interesting and surprising ways. An encounter could brighten your mood, or you may learn about something that you find truly inspiring. Acting on impulse might get you into hot water though, so consider the consequences before you jump in.

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