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espite being summoned to a meeting with lawmakers next Monday to work on a final version of House Bill 1003, which would enable the debt adjustment plan, the Financial Oversight and Management Board submitted plan supplements to the federal Title III court, including the two versions of the bill.

House Bill 1003 was approved by the House but the Senate amended it. Both chambers have to get together to work on a single version of the bill, which would enable the debt adjustment plan to restructure some $35 billion in debt. However, House Speaker Rafael Hernández Montañez said he would not be approving a final version of the bill unless he gets assurances that pensions will not be cut as part of the restructuring.

The oversight board late on Monday submitted the two versions of the bill to the court in what seemed to be a rejection of the Legislature’s actions.

Board member Antonio Medina said Tuesday that pension cuts are not an “issue” in the approval of the debt adjustment plan, but rather it is the 10 amendments introduced by the Senate to the bill that will not allow the island to emerge from bankruptcy.

“Where the gig is blocked is when the bill reaches the

Senate,” Medina said in an interview. “They have put 10 additional conditions that when you numerically evaluate them, the cost of those 10 alternatives is billions of dollars, and there is a specific line in the legislation that says that if the Board does not include those 10 points in the fiscal plan, the legislation is undone, ceases to be effective, to exchange the bonds. And with that type of language we definitely cannot work.”

He said the oversight board is willing to dialogue to reach agreements, but at this time they have not been able to sit at the table because the legislative leaders and Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia are off the island.

“I maintain that we can come up with appropriate language,” said. “I feel that this legislation, once we reach the necessary agreement, brings Puerto Rico out of bankruptcy, which is really the big news.”

Medina said the Senate amendments that include among them a universal medical plan and an increase in allocations to the University of Puerto Rico are the same practices and policies that led the island to bankruptcy.

“The solution is in restitution,” he said. “As additional money arrives from the United States for Medicaid, money is released from the general fund and we, the Board, have said publicly that we are not going to oppose the restoration of pensions to 100%.”

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Legislator: P3A not watching over PREPA-LUMA contract

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ep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz charged Tuesday that Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez is not supervising the contract between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and its transmission and distribution system operator LUMA Energy.

Torres Cruz, chairman of the House Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships and Energy Committee asked Fontanés to submit to the committee the invoices that LUMA had submitted during the months of June, July and August for the service fee, the shared services agreement, the hours worked by LUMA employees, which are a reimbursable expense for LUMA and are paid with public funds that come from the PREPA customers, including all pass-through expenditures.

Fontanés replied that LUMA acts in accordance with a budget approved by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau and the Financial Oversight and Management Board with regard to all of the requests, and that contracts and expenses are carried out in accordance with the detail of the items authorized under that budget.

“According to Fontanés, that means that as long as LUMA does not go over what is established in the budget, LUMA can spend public funds at will, without being held accountable,” the lawmaker said in a statement. “This response raises greater doubts, suspicion and indignation.”

Torres Cruz questioned if LUMA could spend the money on illegal expenses.

“What if they could afford, for example, Disney World

Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz vacations for their 22 vice presidents under the concept of entertainment allowed in pass-through expenditures, which already has surpassed $600,000 a year?” he asked. In the same way, he said, LUMA can decide to pay for the education of the children of its executives in the most expensive schools in Puerto Rico.

The representative for District 2 added that “this is why Fermín Fontanés Gómez, executive director of the P3A, is breaching his duty to administer the contract with LUMA.” “His role is clearly established in the contract; he is the administrator, with the duty of ensuring the correct use of public

funds managed by LUMA,” Torres Cruz said. “However, Omar Marrero Díaz, who is chairman of the P3A board of directors, and Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, have the legal authority to demand that Fontanés fulfill his duty, or in case of not fulfilling, they have the authority to remove him from his position. Furthermore, let us not forget that the Puerto Rico Penal Code classifies this type of conduct under the crime of Breach of Duty.”

He noted that at a hearing of the Committee on Natural Resources in the U.S. House of Representatives, LUMA CEO Wayne Stensby said it was not necessary to disclose information to the Legislature of Puerto Rico for them to enforce compliance with the LUMA contract, since the company is widely audited by the Public Administration and the Energy Bureau.

“My answer is that there is nothing further from the truth and their statements are a mockery and a lack of respect for the Legislature and the people,” Torres Cruz said.

“Through this response, the Public-Private Partnership Authority confirmed to us that no government entity is monitoring the expenses incurred by LUMA,” he added. “It is important to emphasize that all of LUMA’s expenses are paid with public funds collected from PREPA clients. This is simply and flatly inconceivable and every resident of Puerto Rico has to raise their voice against this abuse.”

“We demand that Governor Pedro Pierluisi order Omar Marrero Díaz and Fermín Fontanés Gómez to fulfill their duty to supervise, with transparency, LUMA and to render accounts to the people of Puerto Rico,” Torres Cruz said. “Let them also breathe down LUMA’s neck!”

UPR takes issue with federal ag funding going to Ana G. Méndez U.

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmpchaul@gmail.com

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n an open letter, members of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) community called the recently announced allocation of $275,000 in federal funds to Ana G. Méndez University for the promotion of agriculture a “betrayal.”

“This fact represents a betrayal for the University of Puerto Rico (UPR),” said Ángel R. Ocasio Gracia, acting secretary general of the National Student Confederation in the letter released

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón

Tuesday and also signed by the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors and the Brotherhood of Non-Teaching Exempt Employees. “The UPR in Utuado offers the only educational project on sustainable agriculture in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. In turn, the Mayagüez University Campus offers various agri-environmental science programs. Both contribute immensely to the development of the agriculture industry.”

“Regardless of the contribution to the country that these and other campuses make, the UPR has been cut and the budget given to the impositions of the Fiscal Control Board continues to be cut,” he added. “These cuts mean that the campuses are limited in the areas of investigation, promotion and development of agriculture.”

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón, who announced the allocation, had not returned a request for comment as of press time.

Ocasio Gracia also urged the chancellors of UPR Utuado, Dr. Luis Tapia Maldonado and of Mayagüez, Dr. Agustín Rullán Toro, to make public statements.

“What happened cannot go unnoticed. We need government officials to defend public and accessible education in their country at all costs; and that they respond to the interests of the people and not those of the private sector,” he said. “It is

convenient for the [resident] Commissioner to say at election time that she will defend the UPR at all costs and that she will seek funds for it. However, in practice she proves otherwise.

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Supreme Court rules against LUMA Energy in information case

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmpchaul@gmail.com

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he Puerto Rico Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against LUMA Energy in a case in which the private consortium that is operating the island’s electricity transmission and generation system tried to avoid providing information required by the House of Representatives, alleging that it is confidential and sensitive.

“Examined the second request for reconsideration, it is out of order,” reads the resolution. “Stick to what is resolved by this court.”

The request for reconsideration was resolved by Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez, and associate justices Mildred Pabón Charneco, Edgardo Rivera García and Luis Estrella Martínez.

LUMA Energy filed the second recon-

Puerto Rico Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez

sideration to the Supreme Court on Sept. 13 and argued that the island House of Representatives lacks active standing to request information from them.

LUMA Energy President & CEO Wayne Stensby said Tuesday that he will not comply with the order to provide information requested by the House, despite the fact that two motions to avoid that action were denied in the island’s top court.

“None of the appeal forums ordered LUMA to answer the challenged requirements,” Stensby said in a written statement.

“The merits of LUMA’s objections will be elucidated when the case returns to Superior Court.”

“No company should be forced to reveal the identity and salaries of its employees, business secrets, sensitive information of the operation and infrastructure absent a legitimate legislative objective; furthermore,

without complying with applicable laws and due process of law when requesting the information,” the LUMA CEO added. “The message this research sends is that if the reputation and mission of a company and its employees is to be destroyed for political gain, it will be. This is contrary to the interest of transforming the electrical system.”

Stensby means that the case -- Luis Raúl Torres Cruz v. LUMA, CC-2021-0521 -- will be returned to Superior Court, where he hopes LUMA will prevail.

“LUMA puts its employees first,” Stensby said. “The intimidation, harassment and even property damage to which LUMA employees have been subjected by groups opposed to a better electrical system are against the law.

LUMA will have the opportunity to raise its defenses and objections when the case resumes before the Superior Court and is confident that justice will prevail.”

House speaker demands LUMA reveal names of lobbyists

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Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez

peaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez called on LUMA Energy on Tuesday to reveal the names of the officials or contractors who are personally visiting the lower chamber on behalf of the private consortium that is in charge of the the island’s electricity transmission and distribution system.

“Today, we are publicly calling on LUMA Energy to disclose who the alleged legislative advisers are who personally visit the House of Representatives on their behalf,” Hernández Montañez said. “The country deserves to know.”

In recent days, it emerged that a Colorado company, Alumbra LLC, was hired by LUMA Energy for $17.4 million for alleged legislative consulting work.

However, the House speaker insisted that “from our administrative record it appears that the company does not appear in the Registry of Lobbyists of the House of Representatives.”

“Neither has any application for registration been received from an entity with that name,” he said. “Any action carried out by this firm could constitute an illegality.”

“After reviewing the updated list in the House of Representatives, LUMA does not appear as an entity represented by registered professionals and firms,” Hernández Montañez noted.

PREPA anticipates more blackouts as repairs at plants continue

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uerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz, along with Mayors Federation Ángel Pérez and Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, announced Tuesday that blackouts are possible due to outages for upcoming maintenance work at the island’s private power generation plants.

“The generation system is not at its op-

timum point,” Colón Ortiz said at a press conference. “Service interruptions could occur as long as [plants] are being repaired.”

He added that, in the current last quarter of 2021, the EcoEl Eléctrica and AES units will go out of operation for maintenance. EcoEléctrica will go out in November and AES (Applied Energy Systems) in January 2022. “[Maintenance must] be carried out in an orderly manner, always ensuring that demand can be met without affecting the energy service

to customers,” the PREPA chief said. “As the system is critical, if they do have a mishap there will likely be an outage. We hope that despite the situation, the system will have the backup.”

Colón Ortiz said he met with the presidents of the Mayors Federation and Mayors Association so that there is direct communication with the mayors to inform them of the blackouts and to channel help in their municipalities.

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Puerto Rican satellite placed in orbit

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmpchaul@gmail.com

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Puerto Rican satellite developed and built by students from the Engineering School at Inter-American University of Puerto Rico’s Bayamón campus along with their professor, Dr. Amilcar Rincón Charris, was placed in orbit Tuesday morning by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency from the International Space Station (ISS).

The historic moment, in which Puerto Rico joined the few countries that have developed this type of device and managed to place it in space, was seen live on the internet. The transmission originating from the ISS began at about 6:30 a.m.

Using an aerospace robot, the astronaut placed the Puerto Rico CubeSat NanoRocks-2 (PR-CuNaR2) in orbit 51.6, which was chosen so that the island-made satellite passes over Puerto Rico twice daily for up to a maximum of 10 minutes.

Inside, the satellite has stainless steel and silicon microparticles that emulate asteroids. The microparticles will be colliding while the satellite orbits. The movements and collisions of the microparticles will be recorded as part of a scientific investigation that seeks to study the formation of planets, young stars and asteroids. That part of the research is being carried out in collabora-

tion with the Florida Space Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida (UCF).

On Aug. 29, at 3:14 a.m., PR-CuNaR2 was launched in the Dragon Capsule of the Falcón 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of Mission 23 of the SpaceX company. The next day, the capsule made its docking at 10:40 am on the ISS. Until Tuesday morning, PR-CuNaR2 had remained on the ISS. PR-CuNaR2 weighs 5.6 pounds and measures four inches wide by four inches long and 12 inches tall. It began development three years ago as part of NASA’s ElaNa 37 project. About 25 students from various engineering programs at Inter-American University in Bayamón participated in its development.

However, the first prototype of this microsatellite was built in 2013. From the creation of the first prototype to the completion of its construction and development, some 65 students, women and men, have been part of the project. The satellite is constructed of aluminum, photovoltaic cells, batteries and other materials that have been approved for use in space.

The satellite is ready to orbit for two years, but it could stay in space longer. By integrating photovoltaic cells, the satellite charges its batteries, which are what provide it with the energy to function. Since

A satellite developed and built by students and a professor from the Engineering School at Inter-American University of Puerto Rico’s Bayamón campus was placed in orbit Tuesday morning from the International Space Station.

PR-CuNaR2 has no propellants, it will eventually be drawn into the atmosphere and disintegrate without creating space debris.

Some of the entities that have collaborated in the effort to develop the project

are the NASA Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium, UCF, the University of Michigan, the Florida Space Institute, Aerospace Corp. and island companies Engiworks and Precision Experts.

Gov’t launches digital platform for streamlining transactions

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Enrique Volckers Nin, CEO of the Innovation and Information Office

he island government announced Tuesday the launching of the Online Access Electronic Identification (IDEAL) platform, whose purpose is to streamline transactions with agencies.

The announcement was made by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and Enrique Volckers Nin, CEO of the Innovation and Information Office, known as PRITS. IDEAL is a digital tool that connects public agencies, eliminating bureaucracy and streamlining the government processes of citizens and merchants when submitting applications for certifications, services, hiring and even permits.

Pierluisi said that IDEAL, which is part of the government’s public technology policy, as established in Executive Order 2021-007 of Feb. 4, 2021, relieves the individual of the responsibility of going from agency to agency seeking certifications that the state already has in its possession,

by consolidating and digitizing the documents.

“With the IDEAL interoperability application, the administrative obstacles are terminated once and for all, since the government will not ask the citizen for documents that it has in its possession at the time of making a transaction,” the governor said. “People have no time to waste and in my administration we have set out to be more efficient and effective. This system adjusts to the needs of citizens, public administration, society and the economy.”

Völckers Nin noted that, in its first phase, IDEAL will connect, starting Tuesday, operations between the Treasury Department, Transportation and Public Works Department, Administration for the Support of Minors, Labor and Human Resources Department, Puerto Rico Police Bureau, State Insurance Fund Corp., Municipal Revenue Collections Center, Department of State and General Services Administration. The project is being worked on in phases, so in the coming months other agencies will be included in the availability of services.

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Miami will fire police chief who likened leaders to Cuban dictators

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

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n March, when Miami Mayor Francis Suarez revealed that the city would bring on Art Acevedo, Houston’s police chief, to head its Police Department, Suarez told the local newspaper that the hire was “like getting the Tom Brady or the Michael Jordan of police chiefs.”

His star pick lasted barely six months.

On Monday, Miami officials said they had decided to suspend Acevedo with the intent to terminate him, showing the chief the door after a contentious tenure in which he clashed with powerful elected commissioners who laid out their grievances against him in a series of City Hall meetings that frequently devolved into spectacle.

“The relationship between the chief and the organization has become untenable and needed to be resolved promptly,” Art Noriega, the city manager, said in a statement. “Relationships between employers and employees come down to fit and leadership style and unfortunately, Chief Acevedo is not the right fit for this organization.”

Acevedo made a series of decisions and comments that enraged commissioners, including dismissing or demoting several of the department’s top officers, investigating a City Hall sergeant-at-arms and posing for a selfie at a pro-Cuban democracy protest

with a prominent member of the Proud Boys, whom the chief said he did not know.

The chief also said the Police Department was being run by a “Cuban mafia” — as a joke, he said — and later compared the reaction of commissioners to his actions to “the repressive regime and police state”

Chief Art Acevedo of the Miami Police Department during a special City Commission meeting in September.

of Communist Cuba. A majority of commissioners are Cuban American, as is Acevedo, although he grew up in California, not in the Cuban exile stronghold of South Florida.

Noriega had initially required Acevedo to submit an improvement plan of sorts, which the chief did.

But at least one city commissioner declared that step insufficient. It had been clear for weeks that Acevedo had never won over commissioners, who had been taken aback by his surprise hiring. Noriega did not strongly defend Acevedo before the commission at its meetings. Suarez did not show up at all.

Acevedo has not spoken publicly as his tenure unraveled over the past weeks, despite his outspoken nature. (His national profile came in part from his frequent Twitter posts.) He thanked the department in a letter Monday evening.

“It has been a privilege serving with you and fighting for you,” he wrote, according to a copy of the letter posted online by WPLG, the local ABC News station.

Acevedo had accused several city commissioners of improperly meddling in personnel decisions, and he did not back away from that position in his memo.

“I promise to continue to fight the good fight to rid MPD of the political interference from City Hall that unfortunately continues to negatively impact this organization,” he wrote.

Texas governor bars COVID vaccine mandates

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ov. Greg Abbott of Texas earlier this week issued a broad executive order that bars virtually any vaccine mandate in the state.

Abbott, a Republican, has been among the most vocal political leaders in the United States opposing vaccine mandates. His latest executive order includes private employers, which had been exempt from previous edicts against the mandates.

“No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19,” the order states. “I hereby suspend all relevant statutes to the extent necessary to enforce this prohibition.”

The order acknowledges that “vaccines are strongly encouraged for those eligible to receive one, but must always be voluntary for Texans.”

The order ratchets up an already deeply polarizing debate. On one side is President Joe Biden, who has mandated shots for health care workers, federal contractors and the vast majority of federal workers. Biden is also calling for more companies to mandate vaccines as a significant portion of the American population remains unvaccinated. As of Friday, 66% of those eligible (ages 12 and up) in the United States have been fully vaccinated, according to a New York Times database.

The Republican governors of Texas, Florida and other states are fiercely opposed to any measures that would require vaccines and masks, saying they infringe on personal liberties. Their bans on mandates have been making their way through the courts for months.

A Texas hospital, Houston Methodist, became one of the first large health care facilities in the country to enforce a vaccine mandate in June, when over 150 staff members were fired or resigned.

Facebook and Google, which maintain significant campuses in Texas, had said before Monday’s order that they would require proof of vaccination for employees

to return to their offices.

American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, announced Friday that more than 100,000 U.S.-based employees must get vaccinated.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas at the Texas Oklahoma football game in Dallas on Saturday. On Monday he issued an executive order that bars almost any vaccine mandate in the state.

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Boosters are most likely on the way for recipients of Moderna and J&J vaccines

By BENJAMIN MUELLER

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he federal government is expected to take a significant step this week toward offering booster doses to a much wider range of Americans as advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet Thursday and Friday to discuss recipients of the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna coronavirus vaccines.

So far, regulators have authorized booster shots only for certain adults who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — a source of some frustration to the government’s medical advisers, who questioned at a meeting last month whether recipients of the other shots were being left out.

But the Biden administration is eager to shore up the protection provided by all three vaccines. And federal officials have become increasingly worried in particular about the more than 15 million Americans who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is less effective than the others.

On Thursday, the FDA’s advisory panel of

vaccine experts will discuss safety and efficacy data regarding booster shots for Moderna recipients. On Friday, the group will discuss Johnson & Johnson boosters. The agency typically issues decisions within a few days of advisory committee meetings.

The expert committee Friday will also hear an eagerly awaited presentation from scientists at the National Institutes of Health on the effectiveness of mixing different brands of vaccines.

Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, suggested last week that federal officials favor extra shots for all three vaccines. “The data seem to demonstrate that booster shots seem necessary,” he said.

The deliberations come as coronavirus cases across the nation are falling, with the seven-day average of daily new cases slipping below 100,000 for the first time since early August. Hospitalizations and deaths are also down.

The meetings also come as the drugmaker Merck said it had applied for federal authorization of what would be the first antiviral pill to treat COVID. The drug, molnupiravir, would be

a less-expensive treatment for high-risk people sick with COVID than the antibody treatments currently in use. But at least at first, many more Americans would be eligible than the supply could cover. So far, the federal government has placed an advance order for enough pills for 1.7 million Americans.

On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease doctor, said in a CNN interview that “we have to be careful that we don’t prematurely declare victory,” citing the potential for the virus to rebound among unvaccinated Americans.

Fauci said that vaccinating younger children could offer another crucial line of defense.

As early as Halloween, the FDA could authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 5-11, a move that could help protect more than 28 million people in the United States.

Although the federal government has emphasized for months that all three vaccines are highly effective, a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that

Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine was only 71% effective against hospitalization from COVID, compared with 88% for the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 93% for Moderna’s two-shot regimen.

Last month, Johnson & Johnson announced that a second dose bolstered the vaccine’s effectiveness against symptomatic COVID to 94%.

The firm also said two shots were 100% effective against severe disease, although that estimate was less conclusive.

People eligible for Pfizer’s booster include those 65 and older and those who live in longterm care facilities, have underlying medical conditions or are at higher risk of exposure to the virus because of their jobs or institutional settings, a group that includes health care workers, teachers and prisoners.

The FDA and CDC are expected to propose essentially the same criteria for booster shots of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, although they could also discuss whether to broaden eligibility to include more middle-aged people.

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Major climate action at stake in fight over twin bills pending in Congress

By BRAD PLUMER and WINSTON CHOI-SCHAGRIN

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resident Joe Biden has framed this moment as the country’s best chance to save the planet.

“The nation and the world are in peril,” he said weeks ago in the New York City borough of Queens, where 11 people drowned in their basement apartments after floodwaters from Hurricane Ida devastated communities from Louisiana to New York. “And that’s not hyperbole.

That is a fact. They’ve been warning us the extreme weather would get more extreme over the decade, and we’re living in it real time now.”

Biden’s plan to try to fortify the United States against extreme weather — and cut the carbon dioxide emissions that are heating the Earth and fueling disasters — is embedded in two pieces of legislation pending on Capitol Hill.

The future of both bills remains in question, with tension between moderate and progressive Democrats over the size and scope of many details.

Together, they contain what would be the most significant climate action ever taken by the United States.

Because Democrats could lose control of Congress after 2022 and Republicans have shown little interest in climate legislation, it could be years before another opportunity arises — a delay that scientists say the planet cannot afford.

The climate provisions are designed to quickly transform energy and transportation, the country’s two largest sources of greenhouse gases, from systems that now mostly burn gas, oil and coal to sectors that run increasingly on clean energy from the sun, wind and nuclear power.

The impact will touch a broad cross section of American life, from the kinds of cars that Americans drive, to the types of crops grown by farmers, to the way homes are heated and buildings are constructed. One measure could shutter virtually all of the nation’s remaining coal plants, forcing sweeping change in communities dependent on mining but also, one study estimated, preventing as many as 50,000 premature deaths from pollution by 2030. And other measures would provide billions to replant in national forests, repair trails for hikers and clear brush to reduce the risk of wildfire.

The United States has contributed more to global warming than any other nation, and the action it takes will be felt well beyond its borders. Falling short would hamstring Biden next month, when he is expected to attend a major United Nations climate summit in Scotland to try to persuade other world leaders to take stronger climate action.

“The whole world is watching,” said Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a climate adviser for the U.N. secretary-general. “If these bills don’t come to pass,” she said, “then the U.S. will be coming to Glasgow with some fine words” but “not much else. It won’t be enough.”

As part of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, nearly 200 nations agreed to try to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, compared with temperatures before industrialization. That’s the threshold beyond which scien-

tists say the dangers of global warming — such as deadly heat waves, water shortages, crop failures and ecosystem collapse — grow immensely.

But the world is way off track to meet that goal. As countries continue to pump carbon emissions into the atmosphere, the Earth has already warmed about 1.1 degrees Celsius. Nations must cut in half emissions by the end of the decade to avoid the most catastrophic effects of warming and start that change immediately, scientists say.

Biden has pledged to reduce U.S. emissions at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030, but his ambitions are constrained by razor-thin Democratic majorities in the House and Senate and the fate of the twin bills.

The first piece of legislation, a $3.5 trillion budget package proposed by House Democrats, with no Republican backing, has been a focal point of debate because it is filled with social programs including free community college, paid family and medical leave and expanded Medicare.

But it also contains hundreds of billions in tax credits for companies that build wind and solar power or retrofit polluting facilities to capture and bury their carbon dioxide emissions before they enter the atmosphere. And it expands tax incentives for Americans to buy electric vehicles, giving consumers as much as $12,500. It would also penalize oil and gas companies if they leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

The most potent climate measure in that legislation is a $150 billion Clean Electricity Performance Program, which would reward utilities that generate an increasing amount of electricity from wind, solar, nuclear or other clean energy sources and penalize those that do not. The policy aims for the United States to get 80% of its electricity from sources that don’t generate carbon dioxide by 2030, up from 40% today.

“If that came to pass, it would easily be the biggest thing Congress has ever done on climate,” said John Larsen, a director at the Rhodium Group, an energy research and consulting firm. In a recent study, Larsen found that the biggest climate provisions would only get the United States halfway to Biden’s emission pledge. But, he said, “getting halfway there in just one bill would be huge.”

The second big bill in Congress, a $1 trillion infrastructure plan, has bipartisan support. It would provide the largest single infusion of money to prepare communities for extreme weather fueled by climate change that is already underway. It includes $47 billion over five years in resilience funding to improve the nation’s flood defenses, limit damage from wildfires, develop new sources of drinking water in areas plagued by drought and relocate some communities away from high-risk areas.

The bill comes after a record hot summer in the United States in which cascading disasters affected nearly every corner of the country: Overflowing rivers in Tennessee, a hurricane that dumped record amounts of rainfall and left a swath of destruction from Louisiana to New York; a heat wave that killed hundreds in the Pacific Northwest; and wildfires that blazed across the Sierra Nevada range, pumping so much smoke into the air that it was hazy in Boston.

Farmworkers remove pear trees that perished in a drought in Talen, Ore., Aug. 30, 2021. Climate provisions in two massive spending bills would spur big changes in energy and transportation and help communities prepare for disasters that are growing more frequent.

The infrastructure bill would shift America’s approach to dealing with climate threats that can no longer be avoided. Instead of frantically reacting after disaster strikes, the country would better prepared to reduce damage.

The infrastructure bill also includes billions to make buildings more energy efficient. About 30% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions comes from energy to heat, cool and power buildings.

“Too often, for so many of us, climate change feels like there’s not a damn thing we can do about it to stop it,” said Donnel Baird, who runs BlocPower, which aims to convert gas and oil heating systems to green electricity, particularly in low-income communities. “But no, we can actually green all of America’s buildings.”

Still, there is no guarantee that even the infrastructure bill will pass. Many House Democrats have said they will not vote for the legislation unless it passes in parallel with the reconciliation bill that aims to address the root causes of global warming.

Environmentalists fear that if Democrats in Congress can’t reach an agreement on the legislation this year, it could be the last chance for major climate action in a long time as the party could lose control of Congress in the midterms next fall. While many Republicans approve of funding for climate resilience, they have shown far less support for federal action to slash emissions.

How hot the world ultimately gets will depend on many factors — including how other big polluting countries like China and India handle their emissions. Even so, scientists say, the chance to constrain global warming to about 1.5 degrees or at least below 2 degrees is growing dim.

“Even if the window for 1.5 degrees slams shut, it’s still going to be worth doing everything we can to limit as much additional warming as possible,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences at Princeton.

“Every fraction of degree of warming leads to additional damages and risks.”

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‘We suffer while you debate’: Many fear being left behind as Democrats trim spending bill

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and JIM TANKERSLEY

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emocrats in Congress are curbing their ambitions for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, and Jennifer Mount, a home health care aide, worries that means she will not get the raise she needs to pay more than $3,000 in medical bills for blindness in one eye.

Edison Suasnavas, who came to the United States from Ecuador as a child, has grown anxious about the administration’s efforts to establish a pathway to citizenship, which he hoped would allow him to keep doing molecular tests for cancer patients in Utah without fear of deportation.

And Amy Stelly wonders — thanks to a winnowing of Biden’s plans to invest in neighborhoods harmed by previous infrastructure projects like highways that have harmed communities of color — whether she will continue to breathe fumes from a freeway that she says constantly make her home in New Orleans shudder. She has a message for the president and the Democrats who are in the process of trying to pack his sprawling agenda into a diminishing legislative package.

“You come up and live next to this,” Stelly said. “You live this quality of life. We suffer while you debate.”

Biden began his presidency with an expensive and wide-ranging agenda to remake the U.S. economy. But under the duress of negotiations and Senate rules, he has shelved a series of his most ambitious proposals, some of them indefinitely.

He has been thwarted in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage and create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally. He has pared back investments in lead pipe removal and other efforts that would help communities of color.

Now, as the president tries to secure votes from moderates in his party, he is reducing what was originally a $3.5 trillion collection of tax cuts and spending programs to what could be a package of $2 trillion or less.

That is still an enormous spending package, one that Biden argues could shift the landscape of the economy. But a wide range of Americans who have put their faith in his promises to reshape their jobs and lives are left to hope that the programs they are banking on will survive the cut; otherwise, they

President Joe Biden’s original infrastructure bill was an investment of $20 billion to address infrastructure that has splintered communities of color, although the funding was slashed to $1 billion through a compromise with Republican senators. face the prospect of waiting years or perhaps decades for another window of opportunity in Washington.

“The problem now is this may be the last train leaving the station for a long time,” said Jason Furman, an economist at the Harvard Kennedy School who was a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama.

“It could be five, 10, 20 years before there’s another shot at a lot of these issues.”

If Biden is able to push through a compromise bill with major investments in emissions reduction, “he’s got an engine that he’s working with” to fight climate change, said John Podesta, a former top aide to Obama and President Bill Clinton. “If he can’t get it, then I think, you know, we’re really kind of in soup, facing a major crisis.”

Republicans have criticized the spending and the tax increases that would help fund it, claiming that the Democratic package would hurt the economy. Democrats “just have an insatiable appetite to raise taxes and spend more money,” Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., said on “Fox News Sunday” this week.

“It would kill jobs.”

The threat of Republican filibusters has blocked Biden’s plans for gun and votingrights legislation.

For now, though, the president’s biggest problem is his own party. He is negotiating with progressives and moderates over

the size of the larger tax and spending package. Centrists like Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have pushed for the price tag to fall below $2 trillion. Manchin has said he wants to limit the availability of some programs to lowerand middle-income earners. Progressive groups are jockeying to ensure that their preferred plans are not cut entirely from the bill.

The House has proposed investing $190 billion in home health care, for example, less than half of what Biden initially asked for. If the price tag continues to decrease, Democrats would almost certainly have to choose between two concurrent aims: expanding access to older Americans in need of caretakers or raising the wages of those workers, a group that is disproportionately women of color.

Another proposal included in Biden’s original infrastructure bill was an investment of $20 billion to address infrastructure that has splintered communities of color, although the funding was slashed to $1 billion through a compromise with Republican senators.

Stelly thought the funds, plus the president’s sweeping proposals to address climate change — which might also be narrowed to appease centrist Democrats — would finally result in elected officials addressing the highway emissions that have

filled her lungs and darkened the windows of her home.

Stelly, an urban designer, has since limited her expectations. She said she hoped the funding would be enough to at least issue another study of the highway, which claimed dozens of Black-owned businesses and the once-thriving neighborhood of Tremé.

Mount, who immigrated to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago, said she was appreciative of her job helping older Americans and the disabled eat and bathe and assisting them in their homes. But her wages for her long hours — working about 50 hours a week for $400, at times — have made it effectively impossible to stay on top of payments for basic needs.

She had hoped Biden’s plan to raise the minimum wage or salaries for home health care aides meant she would no longer need to choose between her electric bills and her medical expenses. She said the treatment had improved her blindness, but without a salary increase for her field, she is more convinced that she will be working for the rest of her life.

“I have to make a choice: Do I go to the grocery store or pay my mortgage? Do I pay my water bill or pay my electric bill?” said Mount, who lives in Philadelphia. “With that, retirement looks B-L-E-A-K, all uppercase. What do I have there for retirement?”

Some measures that Democrats have long promised voters have run afoul of Senate rules that dictate which policies the administration should include in bills that use a special process to bypass the filibuster, including a minimum-wage increase and a plan to offer citizenship to immigrants brought to the United States as children.

When the Senate parliamentarian rejected the strategy, it made Suasnavas, who has lived in the United States since he was 13, consider the prospect of eventually being deported; he would have to leave behind his job as a medical technology specialist, and his 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son.

“We’ve been having the hopes that politicians in Washington — Democrats and Republicans — will see not only the economic impact we can bring to the country but also we’re still people with families,” said Suasnavas, 35. “Our hearts have been broken so many times that it feels like another wound in your skin.”

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After whistleblower goes public, Facebook tries calming employees

By MIKE ISAAC, RYAN MAC and SHEERA FRENKEL

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t a question-and-answer session with employees last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, was asked about Frances Haugen, a former product manager turned whistleblower who had testified to Congress about the company’s harms.

Zuckerberg spent about 20 minutes discussing the whistleblower, her testimony and recent media coverage, all without mentioning Haugen by name, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by The New York Times. Some of her assertions on how the platform polarizes people, he told employees, were “pretty easy to debunk.”

The CEO’s comments were part of an internal effort that Facebook has begun to manage the fallout from Haugen’s revelations. Even as Facebook executives have publicly questioned Haugen’s credibility and called her accusations untrue, they have been equally active with their internal positioning as they try to hang on to the goodwill of more than 63,000 workers and assuage their concerns about the whistleblower.

To counter Haugen’s claims — which were backed by internal documents that showed Facebook’s services hurt some children’s self-esteem and abetted human trafficking — executives have conducted live internal events with employees, held emergency briefing sessions and sent numerous memos, according to some of the memos obtained by The Times and interviews with about a dozen current and former employees. Company officials have also provided information on how employees should respond when they are “asked questions about recent events by friends and family,” according to one memo.

Facebook has acted swiftly as employees have become divided on Haugen, the people said. In internal messages from the past week shared with The Times, one worker said that Haugen was “saying things that many people here have been saying for years” and that the company should listen to her. Another called her testimony “amazing” and said she was a “hero.”

But others said Haugen should be served with a cease-and-desist order or sued for breaking her nondisclosure agreement with Facebook. Several disparaged her for lacking knowledge of the topics she addressed in her congressional testimony, according to the messages viewed by The Times.

The employee debate is the latest headache for Facebook created by Haugen, 37, who worked on the civic misinformation team for nearly two years before leaving in May. During her time at the company, Haugen amassed a trove of internal Facebook research, which she has since distributed to news outlets, lawmakers and regulators to prove that the social network knew about many of

the ill effects it was causing.

Her disclosures have generated a firestorm of criticism, leading Facebook to pause the development of an Instagram service for children. Furthermore, its global head of safety, Antigone Davis, was sharply questioned before Congress. After Haugen revealed her identity, she told Congress that Facebook was deliberately keeping people — including children — hooked to its services.

Many lawmakers thanked her for coming forward.

In a statement Sunday, Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesperson, said, “Since so much of what has been reported about Facebook is wrong, we think it’s important to provide our employees the facts.”

Haugen declined to comment on Zuckerberg’s remarks or the internal discussions but said in a statement that she came forward partly because of what she called understaffing of teams that worked on misinformation and protecting elections.

She said her former Facebook colleagues “deserve staffing that reflects the enormous magnitude of the work they are doing.”

Over the years, Facebook’s employees have become increasingly outspoken. In June 2020, for instance, hundreds of workers staged a walkout to protest their bosses’ lack of action on inflammatory posts that former President Donald Trump had published on the site.

Those disagreements, along with questions that Facebook has faced over spreading misinformation and hate speech, have chipped away at the company’s image, which can make it more difficult to recruit new workers.

So when Haugen revealed herself and said Facebook had chosen “profits before safety,” executives swung into action. Over the past week, several corporate vice presidents have held live internal events to provide employees with more information on how different parts of the company operate, according to a memo obtained

by The Times.

Executives also distributed a list of talking points, a copy of which was obtained by The Times, so workers knew what to say if friends and family asked them about “recent events.” That list included a denial that Facebook puts profit and growth above people’s safety and how the company has called for regulations from the government.

In Zuckerberg’s regularly scheduled question-andanswer session with employees, which took place Thursday, he defended Facebook and disputed Haugen’s characterizations, according to the recording of the meeting.

“We care deeply about issues like safety and wellbeing and mental health,” he said at one point. “So when you see press coverage that just misrepresents our work and takes that out of context and then uses that to tell narratives that are false about our motives, it’s really hard and disheartening to see that.”

Between questions about a crippling Facebook outage Oct. ,4, when all of the company’s apps became inaccessible globally for more than five hours, and issues surrounding labor certification for foreign employees, Zuckerberg also argued that Facebook spent far more on research and safety than larger companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft.

Outside of the meeting, employees have had furious debates about Haugen and her claims. Some have argued that Facebook should invite her to speak at a companywide meeting, according to messages viewed

by The Times. One said that her testimony was a “wakeup call” for Facebook that felt long overdue.

But other workers questioned Haugen’s motives, her background and her credentials. In one internal message, an employee said Haugen was “clueless.” Some said she lacked technical knowledge.

Some employees also speculated that Haugen was motivated to leak because she was not allowed to work remotely from Puerto Rico, where she had moved during the pandemic.

The discussions became so intense that Facebook’s internal communications department issued a directive last week for workers not to disparage Haugen, according to a memo viewed by The Times.

“We are increasingly hearing about reporter requests to employees to discuss Frances Haugen and people’s sentiments about her,” Andrea Saul, a director of policy communications, said in a memo viewed by The Times. “We have had employees specifically ask if they can defend the company by referencing experiences they had with her. PLEASE DO NOT ENGAGE in these conversations.

“Disparaging her personally is not right, it’s not allowed, and it’s not who we are as a company,” Saul wrote.

Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee and whistleblower, testifies before a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing in Washington, Oct. 5, 2021.

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A year after a jobs bust, college students find a boom

Students in search of jobs and internships gathered to listen to recruiters from a consulting firm at Colby College in Waterville, Maine on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021.

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and CORAL MURPHY MARCOS

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revaughn Wright-Reynolds, a senior at Colby College in Maine, expected a lengthy job search when he returned to campus in August. “I wasn’t sure how much interest I was going to get,” he said. “I didn’t know what to think of the job market.”

It didn’t take him long to find out. By September, he was in the final round of interviews with several suitors, and on Oct. 1, Wright-Reynolds accepted a position with a proprietary trading firm in Chicago. “I didn’t think I would get an offer this quickly,” he said.

For many college students, the pandemic’s arrival last year did more than disrupt their studies, threaten their health and shut down campus life. It also closed off the usual paths that lead from the classroom to jobs after graduation. On-campus recruiting visits were abandoned, and the coronavirus-induced recession made companies pull back from hiring.

But this year, seniors and recent graduates are in great demand as white-collar employers staff up, with some job-seekers receiving multiple offers. University placement office directors and corporate human resources executives report that hiring is running well above last year’s levels, and in some cases surpasses pre-pandemic activity in 2019.

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“The current market is great for employment,” said Lisa Noble, director of employer partnerships and emerging pathways at Colby. “There was a lot of trepidation for companies in 2020. People wanted to see how things would work out and were stalling.” Since June 1, Noble has had discussions with 428 employers, compared with 273 in the same period last year.

Much of the recruiting is taking place virtually, as are job fairs and even many internships. But the reliance on virtual platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams for interviews, job offers and eventually welcoming new hires aboard hasn’t dimmed enthusiasm among employers.

“The appetite for college labor is strong right now, whether it’s student positions, or part time, all the way through entry-level jobs,” said Jennifer Neef, director of the Career Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

That appetite at this stage of the pandemic — when overall U.S. employment remains more than 5 million jobs below the level in early 2020 — underscores the long-standing economic premium for those with a college education over holders of just a high school diploma.

The unemployment rate for all workers with a college degree stood at 2.8% in August, compared with 6% for high school graduates with no college. Among workers ages 22 to 27, the jobless rate in June was 6.2% for those with at least a bachelor’s degree and 9.6% for those without one, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

“We’ve seen a bifurcation in the labor market recovery,” said Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics. “College graduates were less affected by job losses and have seen a faster rebound, while people with high school diplomas or less witnessed a much more serious decline in employment opportunities during the COVID crisis.”

What’s more, the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus has been a one-two punch for those lacking a college degree, hitting the sectors they depend on the most, like restaurants and bars, hotels and retail businesses. By contrast, white-collar employers are thriving.

Office work can also be done remotely, a key advantage over face-to-face jobs dealing with consumers that frequently employ less-educated workers. In many cases, the new hires will rarely set foot at corporate headquarters, with orientation and full-time work mostly taking place online.

And the courtship rituals of recruiters haven’t changed, even if everything is done over the internet.

“It’s back to business as usual,” said Wendy Dziorney, global university hiring leader at HP Inc. The company plans to hire 315 graduates of the class of 2021 in the United States, compared with 126 from

the class of 2020 and 210 in the class of 2019.

Fall marks the peak of the recruiting season on campus, with interviews and full-time offers for seniors, while internships beckon for sophomores and juniors.

“October is our busiest month,” said Jennifer Newbill, director of university recruitment at Dell Technologies. Her company has extended full-time offers to more than 1,300 graduates this year, up 60% from 2020.

Recruiters of students in the hottest majors — including engineering, computer sciences, accounting and economics — find themselves butting up against one another for the same candidates.

The rise in campus hiring means more choices for some current students as well as belated help for the pandemic-hit class of 2020, said Annette McLaughlin, director of the Office of Career Services at Fordham University.

“Activity is up significantly from last year and is about 10% higher than it was before the pandemic,” she said. “It’s likely that students will get multiple offers and they will have to choose.”

The rebound is also benefiting recent Fordham graduates like Jonah Isaac, who finished school in May 2020, two months after the pandemic struck. Several companies withdrew offers and Isaac, a business administration major, spent a year interviewing for spots that never materialized until a Fordham alumnus helped him get a sales development job with Moody’s Analytics in June 2021.

“It was a huge hit for many students, and not getting anything was demoralizing,” said Isaac, a Chicago native who was a wide receiver on Fordham’s football team. “I’d get to the third or fourth interview, and they’d say, ‘Sorry, we’re going in another direction.’”

Members of the class of 2021 have had an easier time. Brittanie Rice, a Spelman College graduate, landed a job at Dell after working as an intern the summer before. “I felt lucky,” she said. “A lot of my friends had cancellations left and right, but my internship went on.”

Rice was a computer science major, an especially sought-after concentration for many big employers. But Newbill, the university recruitment director for Dell, said her company was also hiring students majoring in nontechnical fields — like philosophy and journalism — for sales positions. “Sales is about the personality, not the degree,” she said.

Wright-Reynolds, the Colby senior, is studying statistics with a minor in computer sciences. A native of Medford, Massachusetts, he will start at the trading firm in Chicago in August.

“This was a great opportunity, and I couldn’t go wrong in accepting it,” he said. “I feel like a weight is off my shoulders. I have a lot more time to enjoy senior year.”

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Wall Street flat on concerns over inflation impact on profits

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.S. stock indexes were trading largely flat in a choppy session on Tuesday on worries over the impact of rising inflation on upcoming third-quarter earnings, while Tesla gained after record China-made vehicles sales.

Eight of the 11 major S&P 500 sector rose, led by defensive utilities, real estate and consumer staples shares, which investors prefer during economic uncertainty.

The communication services sector dropped 1.2%, while mega-cap growth names including Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc weighed the most on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.

But Tesla added 1.8% after data showed the electric vehicle maker sold 56,006 China-made vehicles in September, the highest since it started production in Shanghai about two years ago.

Higher oil prices coupled with supply chain disruptions have set off alarm bells for businesses and consumers in the run-up to quarterly reports from companies, which will start with JPMorgan Chase & Co on Wednesday.

Shares of JPMorgan were down 0.4%, with the banking sub-index easing after hitting a record high recently.

“Given all of the difficulties that companies are having to deal with, there is more of a chance for more negative surprises this quarter than there were in the previous quarters,” said Tom Martin, senior portfolio manager at Globalt Investments in Atlanta.

“We have had a good run here (year-to-date) so you can get continued back and forth across the markets, a lot of it is going to be this push and pull between inflation expectations, and potentially the dampening of growth.”

Analysts expect a 29.6% year-over-year increase in profit for S&P 500 companies in the third quarter, according to IBES data from Refinitiv as of Friday.

At 11:44 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 11.12 points, or 0.03%, at 34,484.94, the S&P 500 was down 3.26 points, or 0.07%, at 4,357.93 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 17.22 points, or 0.12%, at 14,468.98.

Investors also awaited the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s meeting on Wednesday for clues on the taper timeline, while inflation and retail sales data will be scrutinized to gauge the pace of economic recovery.

Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida said the central bank has all but met its employment goal to move ahead with reducing its bond buying program.

Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic and Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin are slated to speak at separate events later in the day.

Shares of Nike Inc rose 0.8% after Goldman Sachs started coverage of the sportswear maker’s stock with a “buy” rating.

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In Iraq election, Shiite cleric who fought US strengthens power

By JANE ARRAF

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ollowers of a Shiite cleric whose fighters battled U.S. forces during the occupation made the biggest gains in Iraq’s parliamentary election, strengthening his hand in determining whether the country drifts further out of the U.S. orbit.

While independent candidates won some seats for the first time in a political landscape altered by anti-government protests, it became increasingly clear as ballots were tallied Monday that the big winner in the Sunday vote was Sairoun, the political movement loyal to the cleric, Muqtada alSadr.

Sairoun won up to 20 additional seats in Parliament, consolidating its status as the single biggest bloc in the chamber and giving the mercurial cleric an even more decisive vote over the country’s next prime minister.

The outcome could further complicate Iraq’s challenge in steering diplomatically between the United States and Iran, adversaries that both see Iraq as vital to their interests. Pro-Iranian militias have played an increased role in Iraq since the rise of the Islamic State in 2014 and have launched attacks on U.S. interests in the country.

Al-Sadr has navigated an uneasy relationship with Iran, where he has pursued his religious studies. Regarding the United States, he and his aides have refused to meet with U.S. officials.

He and the Iranian leadership shared similar goals when his fighters fought U.S. forces after 2003. But al-Sadr is viewed as an Iraqi nationalist, an identity that has sometimes put him in conflict with Iran — a country he cannot afford to antagonize.

In a speech Monday night, al-Sadr said all embassies are welcome in Iraq as long as they do not interfere in Iraqi affairs or the formation of a government. The cleric also implicitly criticized the Iran-backed militias, some of which refer to themselves as “the resistance.”

“Even if those who claim resistance or such, it is time for the people to live in peace, without occupation, terrorism, militias and kidnapping,” he said in an address broadcast on state TV. “Today is the victory

Supporters of the Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr celebrated in the streets of the southern city of Najaf on Sunday after polls closed. day of the people against the occupation, normalization, militias, poverty and slavery,” he said, in an apparent reference to normalizing ties with Israel.

“He is using some sharp language against Iran and the resistance groups affiliated with Iran,” said Gheis Ghoreishi, a political analyst who has advised Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Iraq, speaking about al-Sadr’s victory speech in Clubhouse, an online discussion group. “There is a real lack of trust and grievances between Sadr and Iran.”

In Baghdad on Monday night, young men jammed into pickup trucks, waving flags, playing celebratory songs and carrying photos of al-Sadr as they cruised the streets of the capital.

Election authorities announced preliminary results Monday evening with official results expected later this week. With 94% of the vote counted, election officials said the turnout was 41% — a record low that reflected a deep disdain by Iraqis toward politicians and government leaders who have made Iraq one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Activists who were part of anti-government protests that brought down the Iraqi government in 2019 won up to a dozen seats, running for the first time in this

election, which was called a year early to answer demands for changes in Iraq’s political system.

That system, in which senior government posts are divided by political leaders along sectarian and ethnic lines, remains unchanged. But a new electoral law loosened the stranglehold of large political blocs and made it easier for independent candidates and smaller parties to win seats.

The preliminary results also showed that the political bloc headed by former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared to be the second-biggest winner while parties tied to pro-Iranian militias lost ground.

Al-Maliki, a Shiite, gained wide support for having sent Iraqi government troops to break the militias’ hold on Iraq’s southern city of Basra in 2008. But he was later blamed for a descent into sectarianism that helped foster the rise of the Islamic State.

But it was the Sadrists who were the clear winners Sunday.

“Even if he ordered us to throw ourselves from the roofs of our houses, I would throw myself,” said Abbas Radhi, an election worker overseeing one of the Sadr City polling stations, referring to Muqtada alSadr.

The cleric declared twice in the runup to the vote that he was withdrawing his

movement from the election process before reversing and declaring that the next prime minister should come from the Sadrist ranks. But al-Sadr appears open to negotiation about who should lead Iraq.

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, an independent who has tried to balance Iraq’s relations between the United States and Iran, and has made clear he wants to be prime minister again, will need Sadrist support.

While Shiite parties dominate Iraqi politics, the biggest Kurdish faction, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, along with a Sunni faction headed by the Parliament speaker, Mohamed al-Halbousi, also emerged with enough seats to play a role in deciding the next prime minister.

The low turnout was a reflection of the disdain for Iraqi politicians, particularly among young voters who are faced with a future that offers few opportunities. Sixty percent of Iraq’s population is under the age of 25.

“Clearly, people are still disillusioned even more with the political parties and the political process,” said Farhad Alaaldin, head of the Iraq Advisory Council, a research group in Baghdad. “People don’t believe that this election would bring about change, and that’s why they didn’t bother to turn out to vote.”

The disillusionment extends from a deeply corrupt and dysfunctional government to the parliamentarians themselves.

President Barham Salih has said an estimated $150 billion obtained through corruption has been smuggled out of Iraq since 2003.

The organization of the election, with new biometric voting cards and electronic transmission systems designed to deter widespread fraud seen in previous elections, was declared by international observers to have met international criteria.

But some organizations that had deployed observers during the voting cautioned that the low turnout meant a limited public mandate for the new government.

“In the aftermath of the elections, the low turnout may cause questions as to the legitimacy of the government,” said Sarah Hepp, director of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, a German-government funded political foundation.

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WHO panel recommends additional vaccine doses for immunocompromised people

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

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everely or moderately immunocompromised people who have been vaccinated should be offered an additional dose of the seven coronavirus vaccines the World Health Organization has authorized, an advisory committee recommended earlier this week.

People whose immune systems are diminished should get another shot if they initially received vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, the Serum Institute of India, Johnson & Johnson, Sinopharm and Sinovac, members of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization told reporters on a call Monday.

Dr. Alejandro Cravioto, the committee’s chair, said people with compromised immune systems “need a third dose as an additional priming process so that they’re fully protected.”

The officials also recommended a third vaccine dose for people 60 and over who were inoculated with China’s Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines, ideally of the same brand as their first course of treatment.

WHO officials have previously said that they supported additional vaccine doses for immunocompromised people who were not sufficiently protected from a standard vaccination regimen, and some countries, including the United States, already administer them.

people from booster shot regimens like those authorized in the United States, Israel and some European countries.

Those booster programs, largely intended to boost immunity in healthy individuals over certain ages, have drawn criticism from the WHO, which has called for a moratorium on boosters until the end of the year so that more of the world’s limited supply of vaccines can go to countries where few people have been vaccinated.

Dr. Katherine O’Brien, director of the WHO’s department of immunization, vaccines and biologicals, called the panel’s recommendation “a distinct thing from giving additional doses, booster doses, to people who have had an adequate primary response to vaccination.”

Those boosters, she said, are “like putting two life jackets on somebody and leaving other people without any life jacket. So in this sense we’re talking about getting the first life jacket onto people who have immunocompromising conditions.”

She added that the WHO had not yet determined that A vaccination site in Spain, where the health regulator fully vaccinated, otherwise healthy people needed the added protection from boosters, but the committee planned to reapproved the use of third COVID-19 vaccination shots view booster issues during a session on Nov. 11. for immunocompromised people in September.

The call with reporters Monday was intended to summarize a series of meetings held last week, during which offiThe committee was careful to distinguish its own re- cials discussed global vaccine issues, like a newly approved commendation for additional doses for immunocompromised vaccine for malaria.

As floods ravage China, 13 die after bus falls off bridge

By AMY QIN and AMY CHANG CHIEN

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or the second time in three months, China is grappling with the aftermath of violent floods caused by days of unusually intense rains that have left at least 28 people dead and displaced more than 120,000 across northern parts of the country.

The death toll included 13 people who died after a commuter bus fell into a river on Monday from a flooded bridge near the northern city of Shijiazhuang, according to Chinese media reports. Video circulating online showed stranded passengers waiting to be rescued on the roof of the nearly submerged bus as it floated in the river. As of Monday night, 37 people had been rescued from the bus, according to CCTV, China’s state broadcaster.

The floods in northern China are the latest reminder of the challenge that global warming and extreme weather poses to the country’s leaders as they attempt to juice a slowing economy. The disaster comes just months after powerful floods ravaged the central Chinese province of Henan in July, killing more than 300 people, including 14 who drowned in a subway tunnel after the heaviest hour of rainfall ever reliably recorded in China.

They have also exposed the vulnerability of China’s energy supply. Shanxi province, China’s coal country, was among the hardest-hit regions of last week’s floods, with torrential ra-

ins leaving at least 15 people dead. The flooding also caused operations in 60 coal mines in the province to be suspended, according to Chinese state news media. The disruption comes as the government has been struggling to overcome an electricity shortage and nationwide blackouts caused partly by rising energy prices and soaring demand.

The heaviest rains occurred last week, while many were traveling for China’s seven-day national holiday known as Golden Week. Chinese state news media emphasized that 600 mines in Shanxi province remained operational and that many workers had given up their holiday plans to make sure that they could continue producing coal. Two-thirds of China’s electricity comes from coal.

In addition to the mine closures, the floods disrupted rail service on several lines in Shanxi province and caused part of the ancient city wall of Pingyao, one of China’s best-preserved medieval towns, to collapse. At least 17,000 buildings were destroyed and large areas of farmland were flooded, according to state news media. Other regions affected by the recent floods include the northern provinces of Hebei and Shaanxi.

While the death toll in the latest round of floods appears to be lower than in July, many people on Chinese social media asked why local news media had scant coverage of the disaster. Hu Xijin, the editor of the Communist Party-owned Global Times newspaper, wrote on his Weibo social media account on Saturday that the Shanxi floods had received less attention

because the casualties had been minimal and the flood-relief efforts had gone smoothly, contributing to the “stability of the country” during the holiday.

Some commenters on social media seemed to suggest otherwise. On Sunday, a person claiming to be in the remote village of Nanfenggou, in rural Shanxi province, took to Weibo to plead for help.

“There are all old people, and the electricity and water have been cut off,” the user wrote. “We don’t know if there is enough food.”

Rescuers digging a spillway on Monday to release floodwaters after heavy rainfall in Shanxi Province, China.

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Global deal to end tax havens moves ahead as nations back 15% rate

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen listens during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 28, 2021. The global tax agreement reached Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, represents a significant diplomatic win for Secretary Yellen.

By ALAN RAPPEPORT and LIZ ALDERMAN

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he world’s most powerful nations agreed late last week to a sweeping overhaul of international tax rules, with officials backing a 15% global minimum tax and other changes aimed at cracking down on tax havens that have drained countries of much-needed revenue.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which has been leading the negotiations, said the new minimum tax rate would apply to companies with annual revenue of more than 750 million euros ($866 million) and would generate around $150 billion in additional global tax revenue per year.

“Today’s agreement will make our international tax arrangements fairer and work better,” OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said in a statement.

“We must now work swiftly and diligently to ensure the effective implementation of this major reform.”

The agreement is the culmination of years of fraught negotiations that were revived this year after President Joe Biden took office and renewed the United States’ commitment to multilateralism. Finance ministers have been racing to finalize

the agreement, which they hope will reverse a decadeslong race to the bottom of corporate tax rates that have encouraged companies to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions, depriving nations of money they need to build new infrastructure and combat global health crises.

On Friday, Hungary joined two other important holdouts, Ireland and Estonia, in agreeing to the plan. Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sri Lanka did not sign on to the agreement.

The United States, which proposed the 15% minimum corporate tax rate, has long looked for ways to minimize incentives for companies to shift profits abroad to lower their tax bills. As the Biden administration prepares to try to raise corporate rates in the United States, getting a global minimum tax in place has become critical to prevent companies from simply moving their headquarters overseas.

Republicans, who have opposed Biden’s domestic tax agenda, immediately objected to the global deal and threatened to block it in Congress, suggesting a looming fight as the United States tries to ratify the agreement.

The deal goes beyond setting a global rate — it also creates new rules for the digital era. Under the agreement, techno-

logy giants like Amazon, Facebook and other big global businesses will be required to pay taxes in countries where their goods or services are sold, even if they have no physical presence there.

The separate tax aimed at the technology giants will reallocate more than $125 billion of profits from the home countries of the 100 most profitable firms in the world to the markets where they operate.

Critical details still remain to be worked out. The OECD statement did not offer a clear timeline for when the existing “digital services taxes” that countries have in place would be rolled back and how the new taxes on large, profitable companies would be divided among countries.

Politics could also complicate the administration’s goals. To comply with the new global minimum tax requirements, Congress will have to pass legislation raising the tax that American companies pay on foreign profits to 15%, or higher, from 10.5%.

Democrats expect they can pass a global tax increase along party lines using a legislative procedure called budget reconciliation. Republicans disagree, and on Friday, several Republican senators warned that the administration’s negotiations appeared to “undermine the Senate’s constitutional authority, as well as the United States’ role as a reliable trading partner.”

The accord would represent a sea change in the way the world’s largest corporations have been taxed for decades, and is likely to make them pay more taxes while spreading revenue more evenly to countries where those businesses earn sales. Until now, profits have largely been taxed where businesses have had a physical presence. European governments have been pushing for years to even out a global tax system that low tax countries such as Ireland had depended on to lure businesses looking to reduce the taxes they pay.

“As of this morning, virtually the entire global economy has decided to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le

Maire called the agreement “historical,” saying in an interview that “we shouldn’t underestimate the political and financial consequences.”

“For the first time, we’d be in a situation at the world level to avoid tax optimization and tax avoidance,” he said, “and to have a fair amount of taxes paid by digital giants from the United States, China or European Union countries.”

The agreement is expected to be finalized next week in Washington by finance ministers of the Group of 20 largest economies, and national leaders are likely to sign off when they meet for a summit in Rome at the end of October. Countries have set a goal of fully activating the agreement by 2023, because it will take time for countries to change their tax laws and for international tax treaties to be updated.

European governments are watching anxiously to see whether Biden can get the legislation passed to ensure that the United States is in compliance.

The sputtering talks gained momentum in May when the United States agreed to accept a minimum tax of at least 15%, which was lower than the 21% it was hoping to secure.

At international forums during the summer, negotiators grappled over potential carve-outs, an implementation period and how the agreement would be enforced once enacted.

Among the biggest questions were how the European Union would cajole holdout countries such as Ireland, Estonia and Hungary, whose economic models have been built around low tax rates, to sign on. Without unanimity in the EU, the agreement could not be enacted.

The devastating global economic impact from the coronavirus pandemic was an impetus to get a deal done now, Le Maire said. Governments see the new tax revenue that they will be able to collect as a vital resource to reduce an inequality divide that worsened during the crisis.

“The level of inequality around the world was totally unacceptable, and the best way of reducing the inequalities in a very short lapse of time was to use the taxation tool,” he said.

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Doing economics as if evidence matters

By PAUL KRUGMAN

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obel Memorial Prizes in economics are given for long-term research, not for economists’ role in current debates, so they don’t necessarily have much bearing on the political moment. You might expect the disconnect to be especially strong when the prize is given mainly for the development of new research methods.

And that’s the case for the latest prize, awarded Monday to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens, leaders in the “credibility revolution” — a change in the way economists use data to assess theories — that has swept economics over the past generation.

It turns out, however, that the credibility revolution is extremely relevant to current debates. For studies using the new approach have, in many though not all cases, strengthened the argument for a more active government role in addressing inequality.

As I’ll explain, that’s not an accident. But first, what’s this revolution all about?

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ments — all we can do is observe. And the trouble with trying to draw conclusions from economic observations is that at any given time and place lots of things are happening. For example, the economy boomed after Bill Clinton raised taxes on high incomes and reduced the budget deficit. But did these fiscal policies cause prosperity, or was Clinton just lucky in presiding over a tech boom?

Before the credibility revolution, economists basically tried to isolate the effects of particular policies or other changes by using elaborate statistical methods to control for other factors. In many cases that’s still all we can do. But any such attempt is only as good as the controls, and there is typically endless room for dispute about the results.

In the 1990s, however, some economists realized there was an alternative approach, that of exploiting “natural experiments” — situations in which the vagaries of history deliver something close to the kind of controlled trial researchers might want to conduct but can’t.

The most famous example is the research that Card conducted along with the late Alan Krueger on the effects of minimum wages. Most economists used to believe that raising the minimum wage reduces employment. But is this true? In 1992 the state of New Jersey increased its minimum wage while neighboring Pennsylvania didn’t. Card and Krueger realized that they could assess the effect of this policy change by comparing employment growth in the two states after the wage hike, essentially using Pennsylvania as the control for New Jersey’s experiment.

What they found was that the increased minimum wage had very little if any negative effect on the number

of jobs, a result confirmed since by looking at many other instances. These results make the case not just for higher minimum wages, but for more aggressive attempts to reduce inequality in general.

Another example: How can we assess the effects of safety net programs that aid children? Researchers have taken advantage of natural experiments created by, among other examples, the gradual rollout of food stamps in the 1960s and 1970s and several discrete jumps in Medicaid’s availability in the 1980s.

These studies show that children who received aid became much healthier, more productive adults than nonrecipients.

And such studies make a strong case for the Biden administration’s Build Back Better initiative, which emphasizes investment in children as well as in conventional infrastructure.

Finally, big changes in unemployment insurance over the course of the pandemic — a huge increase in generosity, then a sudden cutoff, then a partial restoration, then another cutoff, with some states cutting benefits sooner than others — provide several natural experiments letting us test whether, as conservatives always insist, unemployment insurance deters the unemployed from seeking new jobs.

Well, the data provide a clear answer: While there may be some disincentive effects from unemployment benefits, they’re small.

Overall, then, modern data-driven economics tends to support more activist economic policies: Raising wages, helping children and aiding the unemployed are all better ideas than many politicians seem to believe. But why do the facts seem to support a progressive agenda?

The main answer, I’d argue, is that in the past many influential people seized on economic arguments that could be used to justify high inequality. We can’t raise the minimum wage, because that would kill jobs; we can’t help the unemployed, because that would hurt their incentives to work; and so on. In other words, the political use of economic theory has tended to have a right-wing bias.

But now we have evidence that can be used to check these arguments, and some don’t hold up. So the empirical revolution in economics undermines the right-leaning conventional wisdom that had dominated discourse. In that sense, evidence turns out to have a liberal bias.

Again, the research honored by this Nobel isn’t political, but it has important political implications. And most of those implications favor a policy move to the left.

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“Espero que actuemos como adultos”, le dice al gobernador a todos los responsables de aprobar el PAD POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia pidió el martes a todos los involucrados en aprobar el Plan de Ajuste de Deuda (PAD) que se comporten como adultos.

“Yo lo que espero, es que aquí actuemos como adultos, todos. Incluyendo a los miembros de la Junta (de Control Fiscal). Y en vez de estar trancados a la banda, en que bueno, el Plan Fiscal no incluye esas asignaciones y no debemos incluirlas, pues que demuestren flexibilidad”, dijo el gobernador en conferencia de prensa.

“Lo más importante es dejar esa quiebra atrás. Lo más importante a fin de cuentas es que se apruebe un mecanismo para emitir los bonos restructurados. Y de igual manera, en el tema de las pensiones. Cuantas veces se le va a decir que aquí no hay ambiente político alguno para recortes de pensiones.

Reconocemos que al final la jueza es la que tomará la determinación final, pero es legítimo que la Asamblea Legislati-

va le haga esos reclamos a la Junta. Y en vez de la Junta quedarse atascada a unas posiciones que tomó anteriormente, debe darle paso al proyecto de ley, tan pronto la Asamblea Legislativa cul-

mine su aprobación”, añadió.

De los 10 reclamos que puso el Senado en el Proyecto de la Cámara 1003, Pierluisi Urrutia simpatiza con la aportación de 500 millones de dólares

a la Universidad de Puerto Rico y asignarles fondos a los municipios.

El pasado viernes, los integrantes de la Junta, en una declaración escrita, expresaron que “el Proyecto de la Cámara 1003 enmendado por el Senado para aprobar la emisión de nuevos bonos de obligación general -que forman parte de la reestructuración de la deuda- haría que el séptimo Plan de Ajuste enmendado sea insostenible para Puerto Rico. Los exorbitantes costos de las enmiendas al Proyecto de la Cámara 1003, en conjunto, harían imposible la confirmación del séptimo Plan de Ajuste. Por lo tanto, la Junta se vería forzada a retirar el Plan de Ajuste propuesto ante el Tribunal de Distrito de los Estados Unidos”.

La medida está detenida en la Cámara de Representantes, en espera de que se ponga en calendario una reunión entre los funcionarios del Senado, la Cámara de Representantes, el gobernador y los funcionarios de la Junta Fiscal, para discutir la versión final del proyecto.

Solicitan al gobernador restablezca las cirugías electivas POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El presidente del Colegio de Administradores de Servicios de Salud (CASS), licenciado Caleb Colón informó el martes, que le envió una carta al gobernador Pedro Pierluisi para que mediante la nueva Orden Ejecutiva autorice la apertura de las clínicas de cirugía electivas en los hospitales.

“Ante el alentador panorama que estamos teniendo en Puerto Rico luego de la última Orden Ejecutiva del Gobernador y el trabajo del Secretario del Departamento de Salud y su equipo, relacionado a la vacunación y otras medidas afirmativas es recomendable que al menos se restablez-

can las cirugías electivas. La incidencia y la utilización hospitalaria para COVID-19 se ha reducido, y a su vez el riesgo institucional, por lo que es razonable lo que estamos solicitando”, dijo Caleb Colón en comunicación escrita.

La cirugía electiva es aquella que no sea de emergencia. Cuando un paciente requiere una cirugía electiva, es el médico especialista el que determinará su categorización clínica de acuerdo con la evaluación que le haya efectuado.

Por último, Colón dijo que esta medida fue meritoria, pero en este momento no. “Una de las razones principales es que los pacientes deben continuar el seguimiento clínico

y de igual forma mitigar el impacto que estas cancelaciones han causado a la salud fiscal de las instituciones hospitalarias que tanto se han afectado en esta pandemia. Así que como en otras ocasiones sé que el Gobernador atenderá nuestra petición.”

El CASS es un colegio profesional que reúne -por ley- a más de 800 administradores de hospitales, Centros de Salud Primaria, Centros de Diagnóstico y Tratamiento (CDT), entre otras instituciones de salud.

Anteriormente, el CASS había recomendado al Gobernador medidas más restrictivas para las personas no vacunadas las que fueron acogidas y han logrado un índice de cobertura significativo y también presentó una

campaña de servicio público denominada: “No baje la guardia” que tuvo como portavoz a la Miss Puerto Rico 2019, Madison Anderson Berríos.

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James Bond returns, and theaters see reason for hope

By BROOKS BARNES

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ovie theaters are finally bouncing back from the pandemic, with solid turnout over the weekend for the latest James Bond spectacle, “No Time to Die,” giving Hollywood its third box office success in the span of a month. For coronavirus-battered multiplex chains, it’s reason for a celebratory martini.

But the box office is still extremely fragile, analysts say, and one of the doomsday scenarios about the pandemic’s lasting effect on theatergoing has been coming true: The only movies attracting sizable attention in cinemas are big-budget franchise films. The audience for smaller dramas and comedies seems — at least for now — to be satisfied with home viewing, either buying films through video on demand or watching them on streaming services.

“Superhero, action and horror movies are performing well in theaters, particularly when they are offered exclusively and not simultaneously available to stream,” said David A. Gross, who runs Franchise Entertainment Research, a film consultancy. “But parts of the business remain down. Dramas, character-driven and art-house movies were under pressure before the pandemic, and the bar is going to be even higher now.”

“No Time to Die,” billed as the 25th installment in the Bond franchise and with Daniel Craig in his fifth and final turn as 007, took in an estimated $56 million from 4,407 theaters in the United States and Canada, according to Comscore. In partial release overseas, “No Time to Die” collected an additional $257 million, according to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and its overseas distribution partner, Universal Pictures International. (Amazon bought MGM for $8.5 billion this year.)

Because of the pandemic, more moviegoers have been holding off on ticket-buying decisions until the last minute, analysts say, making it difficult for studios to predict how a movie will perform. Going into the weekend, domestic estimates for “No Time to Die” ranged from $36 million to more than $70 million, depending on what research firm was doing the prognosticating.

The film’s franchise predecessor, “Spectre,” took in $70.4 million in North America over

its first three days in 2015.

“No Time to Die,” which received strong reviews and an A-minus grade from ticket buyers in CinemaScore exit polls, was the first major movie to be affected by the pandemic. It was originally scheduled to roll out in theaters in April 2020. MGM and the London-based producers who control the franchise, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, pushed back the release to November 2020 and then again to this month.

Theaters keep roughly 50% of total ticket sales, which means the expensive “No Time to Die” is unlikely to turn a profit for MGM. The film cost an estimated $250 million to make and a further $150 million to market worldwide. But the film sold enough tickets over its first three days in theaters to qualify as a success, in part because of interest from older ticket buyers, who have been avoiding theaters over coronavirus concerns.

About 36% of the weekend audience in North America was older than 45, and roughly 57% was older than 35, according to Erik Lomis, president of distribution at United Artists Releasing, an MGM affiliate.

Lomis said that exit polls indicated that 25% of ticket buyers had not been to a theater in 18 months.

“That is a very big deal that shows the power of Bond,” Lomis said. “This movie is going to remind a lot of people how fun it is to go to the movies, and that will hopefully help the whole industry. We need a more mature audience to return.”

Greg Durkin, founder of Guts and Data, a film research firm, said that “No Time to Die” had a “fantastic” opening weekend, “especially given the audience composition and how older moviegoers have been more hesitant to return to theaters.” Durkin estimated that, without the pandemic, “No Time to Die” would have opened to about $62 million in domestic ticket sales.

“No Time to Die” arrived after the superhero sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” (Sony) generated $90 million at North American theaters between Oct. 1 and 3 — the highest opening weekend of the pandemic era. The global total for “Let There Be Carnage” now stands at $186 million. Another superhero movie, “Shang-Chi

and the Legend of the 10 Rings” (DisneyMarvel) sold about $75 million in tickets over its first three days in theaters in early September, setting a Labor Day weekend record (pandemic or otherwise). It has since collected $400 million worldwide.

But films that are not fantasies or part of existing franchises have been struggling, adding to worries that cinemas in the postpandemic era will offer much less variety.

The concern is that old-line studios will reroute most dramas, comedies, documentaries and foreign films to streaming services, as they have been doing during the pandemic, leaving cinemas to become even more of a movie-as-theme-park-ride business.

Recent theatrical disappointments have included “Dear Evan Hansen,” a bigscreen adaptation of the Broadway musical; “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” about overly emotive televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker; “Respect,” an Aretha Franklin bio-musical starring Jennifer Hudson; and art-house drama “Blue Bayou.” Clint Eastwood’s latest film, “Cry Macho,” and period mob drama “The Many Saints of Newark” both arrived to muted ticket sales, in part because Warner Bros. released them simultaneously in theaters and on the HBO Max streaming service.

So far this year, art film distributor Magnolia Pictures has released 17 films that have collected roughly $1 million at the North American box office combined, according to the database IMDb Pro. In 2019, Magnolia released 16 films that generated about $6 million.

The next weeks and months will either add to worries or ease them, as studios begin to release a more steady stream of non-franchise films, including sophisticated offerings with Oscar aspirations. “The Last Duel,” a historical drama directed by Ridley Scott and starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jodie Comer and Adam Driver, will roll out exclusively in theaters Friday. “The French Dispatch,” directed by Wes Anderson and featuring an all-star cast, is scheduled for exclusive theatrical release Oct. 22.

“We need studios to release a wider range of movies,” said Patrick Corcoran, a spokesperson for the National Association of Theater Owners, which represents 35,000 movie screens in the U.S. “Right now, theaters are like grocery stores where you can only buy steak,” he continued, referring to effects-driven spectacles. “People also want cereal. They also want fresh fruit and vegetables.”

An advertisement for “No Time to Die,” featuring Daniel Craig, is see on the side of a building in Los Angeles, Oct. 7, 2021. “No Time to Die” has taken in more than $300 million worldwide — the overall box office remains fragile, however, and the future for films that aren’t part of big-budget franchises is unsure.

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Netflix employee who criticized Chappelle’s special is among three suspended

By JOHN KOBLIN

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etflix recently suspended three employees, including a transgender employee who posted a Twitter thread last week criticizing a new Dave Chappelle stand-up special on the streaming service as being transphobic.

The employees were suspended after they attended a virtual business meeting among top executives at the company that they had not been invited to, a person familiar with the decision said Monday, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter. Netflix said in a statement that the transgender employee, Terra Field, was not suspended because of the tweets critical of Chappelle’s show.

“It is absolutely untrue to say that we have suspended any employees for tweeting about this show,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement. “Our employees are encouraged to disagree openly, and we support their right to do so.”

Chappelle’s comedy special, “The Closer,” debuted on Netflix on Tuesday, and was quickly criticized by several organizations, including GLAAD, for “ridiculing trans people.” Jaclyn Moore, an executive producer for the Netflix series “Dear White People,” said last week that she would not

work with Netflix “as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content.”

Field, who is a software engineer at Netflix, tweeted last week that the special “attacks the trans community, and the very validity of transness.”

On Monday, after news of her suspension went public following a report by The Verge, she tweeted: “I just want to say I appreciate everyone’s support. You’re all the best, especially when things are difficult.”

As criticism of Chappelle’s special began last week, Netflix’s co-chief executive Ted Sarandos sent a memo to employees defending the comedian.

“Several of you have also asked where we draw the line on hate,” Sarandos wrote in the memo. “We don’t allow titles on Netflix that are designed to incite hate or violence, and we don’t believe ‘The Closer’ crosses that line. I recognize, however, that distinguishing between commentary and harm is hard, especially with stand-up comedy which exists to push boundaries.

Some people find the art of stand-up to be meanspirited, but our members enjoy it, and it’s an important part of our content offering.”

Sarandos also cited Netflix’s “longstanding deal” with Chappelle and said the

Dave Chapelle in New York, Sept. 30, 2017. comedian’s 2019 special, “Sticks & Stones,” was also “controversial” and was “our most watched, stickiest and most award-winning stand-up special to date.”

In 2019, Netflix was criticized when it blocked an episode of Hasan Minhaj’s topical show, “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj,” in Saudi Arabia after the kingdom’s government made a request for it to do so. In the

episode, Minaj criticized the Saudi Arabian government and questioned the role of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“We’re not in the news business,” Netflix’s co-chief executive Reed Hastings said in 2019, explaining the decision. “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain.”

Matt Amodio’s ‘Jeopardy!’ streak ends after 38 wins

By JULIA JACOBS

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en Jennings can relax.

On Monday, reigning “Jeopardy!” contestant Matt Amodio lost his 39th game, leaving Jennings’ No. 1 hall-offame spot safe. Amodio, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Yale, had the secondlongest streak in the game show’s history, earning him $1.5 million in prize money.

Since his debut on the show on July 21, viewers grew attached to following Amodio’s streak, turning him into the latest “Jeopardy!” darling. Amodio was less aggressive in his wagering compared with James Holzhauer, the professional sports bettor who dominated the show in 2019, but he lasted longer. Amodio, who ranks third in total regular-season winnings, had many

more games to go to rival Jennings’ 74 wins.

The episode marked another behindthe-scenes transition for the show. It was the first episode following the departure of Mike Richards, the television executive whose short stint as the new “Jeopardy!” host imploded over offensive comments he had made on a podcast. Richards stepped down as host after taping five episodes, then left his role as executive producer less than two weeks later.

Monday’s pretaped episode was executive produced by Michael Davies, a gameshow veteran who developed the original American version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and agreed to step in temporarily after Richards’ exit.

Amodio’s streak was likely a relief for the executives behind the show after weeks

of attention around the struggle to replace Alex Trebek, who died last year after hosting the show for more than 36 years. Some of the games during Amodio’s streak were hosted by Mayim Bialik, an interim host who is vying for the full-time job but faces criticism of some of her positions, including her questioning of vaccines and an affiliation with a disputed brain-health supplement.

Amodio came in third during Monday’s match; Jonathan Fisher, an actor, narrowly won the game, with Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist, following close behind. Amodio missed the Final Jeopardy clue, pushing him way behind his competitors, with $5,600 at the end of the game, compared to Fisher’s $29,200. (The clue: Nazi Germany annexed this nation and divided it into regions of the Alps and

the Danube; the Allies later divided it into four sectors. The correct response: “What is Austria?”)

As Amodio built up a string of wins, he amassed a large following on social media, where he answered fans’ questions, shared behind-the-scenes details and bantered with his fellow “Jeopardy!” champions. His clue-answering strategy of beginning every response with the word “what” rather than other question words such as “who,” which he has said he does to focus on finding the correct response, sparked a lively online debate around the game show’s rules.

“I always wanted to be a ‘Jeopardy!’ champion, and I accomplished that,” Amodio said in a news release. “I know going into every bar trivia game that I play that I’m going to come in with a little intimidation factor.”

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Puerto Rican inspires

By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR

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uerto Rican fashion illustrator Antonio López is the inspiration behind Fendi’s 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection, presented recently as part of Milan Fashion Week.

López, a native of the municipality of Utuado, was a close collaborator and friend of designer Karl Lagerfeld and other important movers and shakers in the 1960s and 1970s art scene.

Back in the day, he was a top-rank influencer, whose work appeared in Vogue, The New York Times, Elle, Interview and Harper’s Bazaar, among other respected publications.

López passed away in 1987, but his legacy was brought back to the limelight by the House of Fendi for a new generation of fashionistas and fashion enthusiasts to know and admire. The sexy and bold illustrations inspired Fendi’s designer and creative director Kim Jones, who transported López’s avant-garde work and signature brushstrokes to dozens of designs, from luxurious kaftans, dresses and silk blouses to coats, bags and thigh-high boots. Drawings of women, skillfully captured by López, are all over the garments created by Jones for his Spring Summer 2022 Collection.

The fashion event was a sensation. And how

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could it not have? To the beat of contagious 1970s disco rhythms, models paraded down the imposing runway with that unique Studio 54 swagger. Coincidentally, Lagerfeld, who preceded Jones at Fendi, designed Fendi’s Ready to Wear collection for 54 years.

The color scheme went in progression from white, and black and white, to periwinkle, pink and pastels that include mint, grey and shades of blue. Models with frizzed-out manes and sleek buns also introduced garments with glitter in warm tones like brown, and body-hugging black ensembles in leather and lace. Winning are the metallic draped mini dress and the ingenious vest with matching trousers. Both in rose gold.

In terms of silhouettes, the collection is a hybrid between the 1970s and big current trends that together project glamour, nostalgia and fierce confidence. Loved the architectural lapels in smart vests, boleros and jackets, the kaftans, power suits with micro bralettes and wide-legged pants. Tailored trousers and artsy frocks are also conversation pieces impossible to ignore.

The Fendi Spring Summer 2022 RTW collection, Jones’ first live show with the powerhouse brand, is a celebration of the work of the talented visionary López -- another Puerto Rican who keeps making us proud.

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The best one-bowl cookie recipe you’ve probably never heard of

By MARGAUX LASKEY

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rown-edge cookies may not look like much — and their no-nonsense name certainly doesn’t do them any favors — but don’t let appearances fool you. In the great Venn diagram of cookies, this little wafer lies at the intersection of Christmas sugar cookie, vanilla wafer and French tuile. They are absurdly buttery, crisp at the edges, just barely chewy in the center, and they go with everything. It’s a bold statement, but as far as cookies go, these golden rounds are practically flawless.

In the 1970s, my Aunt Liz introduced these cookies, whose unpretentious moniker comes from the delicate, crisp brown halo that encircles their tender centers, to my family.

They must have been a hit because the cookies have appeared at almost every reunion and funeral, and in every college care package and first-day lunchbox, since. If a cookie can be a family touchstone, this one is ours.

The exact history of the original recipe has been lost to the sands of time, but it’s an old one.

My aunt was given the recipe by her neighbor, Millie Shea, who learned it from her mother when she was a little girl in the 1930s. For many years, Nabisco sold a similar cookie called brown-edge wafers, but discontinued them in 1996, prompting nostalgic home cooks to develop their own variations, which can be found all over the internet and in spiral-bound community cookbooks.

My practical Midwestern heart will always prefer these cookies unadorned, but they are also great nestled into a bowl of ice cream, sorbet or pudding. Sandwiching a layer of lemon curd, Nutella or berry jam between two wafers would not be a bad idea either. And while I can’t endorse it, if you’re feeling adventurous, you could add a 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of almond, lemon or orange extract to the batter. (Pro tip for grownups: Nibble one while sipping a bourbon neat.)

As far as recipes go, it’s about as simple as you can get. You need a mixer, a bowl and just six ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla and salt. Whip it into a creamy frenzy, spoon it onto sheet pans and bake until the centers puff slightly (they’ll slump when cool) and the edges

brown. Some versions call for shortening, or more egg whites, or potato starch, but the simplicity of this version makes it something you’ll return to again and again.

Brown-Edge Cookies 1 pound (453 grams) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 pound (453 grams) sugar (2 1/4 cups) 1 large egg, at room temperature 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 3 cups (384 grams) all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon fine salt 1. Arrange two racks around the middle of the oven and heat oven to 375 degrees. Using a stand mixer with the paddle attachment

or an electric hand mixer, cream butter and sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.

Add egg and vanilla. Beat on medium until incorporated, about 1 minute.

2. Add 1 cup flour and the salt and beat on low to just combine. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the remaining 2 cups flour and beat on low until incorporated. Scrape down the bowl, then beat on medium for 30 seconds just until no flour streaks remain.

3. Drop heaping tablespoons of dough onto 2 parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing them 3 inches apart as the cookies spread quite a bit while baking.

4. Bake 2 sheets at a time, rotating the pans halfway through, until the edges are lightly browned and the centers are slightly puffed, 10 to 12 minutes. Repeat with the rest of the dough.

5. Cool on the pans on wire racks for 10 minutes, then transfer cookies to the rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.

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Can a low-carb diet help your heart health?

By ANAHAD O’CONNOR

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oing on a low-carb diet has long been a popular weight-loss strategy. But some doctors and nutrition experts have advised against doing so over fears that it could increase the risk of heart disease, since such diets typically involve eating lots of saturated fats, the kind found in red meat and butter.

But a new study, one of the largest and most rigorous trials of the subject to date, suggests that eating a diet low in carbohydrates and higher in fats may be beneficial for your cardiovascular health if you are overweight.

The new study, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that overweight and obese people who increased their fat intake and lowered the amount of refined carbohydrates in their diet — while still eating fiber-rich foods like fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans and lentils — had greater improvements in their cardiovascular disease risk factors than those who followed a similar diet that was lower in fat and higher in carbs. Even people who replaced “healthy” whole grain carbs like brown rice and whole wheat bread with foods higher in fat showed striking improvements in a variety of metabolic disease risk factors.

The study suggests that eating fewer processed carbs while eating more fat can be good for your heart health, said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, who was not involved with the research. “I think this is an important study,” he said. “Most Americans still believe that low-fat foods are healthier for them, and this trial shows that at least for these outcomes, the high-fat, low-carb group did better.”

“It’s a well-controlled trial that shows that eating lower carb and more saturated fat is actually good for you, as long as you have plenty of unsaturated fats and you’re mostly eating a Mediterranean-type diet,” Mozaffarian added. Many doctors recommend a traditional Mediterranean style diet, rich in fruits and vegetables, fish and heart-healthy fats like nuts and olive oil, for cardiovascular health.

Other rigorous studies have found that following a Mediterranean diet can help to ward off heart attacks and strokes.

The new study included 164 overweight and obese adults, mostly women, and took

Broiled Salmon With Chile, Orange, and Mint. Going on a low-carb diet has long been a popular weight loss strategy. But a new study, one of the largest and most rigorous trials of the subject to date, suggests that eating a diet low in carbohydrates and higher in fats may be beneficial for your cardiovascular health if you are overweight. part in two phases. First, the participants were put on strict, low-calorie diets that lowered their body weights by about 12%. Then they were each assigned to follow one of three diets in which 20%, 40% or 60% of their calories came from carbohydrates.

Protein was kept steady at 20% of calories in each diet, with the remaining calories coming from fat. The participants were fed just enough calories to keep their weights stable.

The participants followed the eating plans for five months, with all of their meals provided to ensure that they stuck to their diets.

The average American gets about 50% of his or her daily calories from carbs, most of them in the form of highly processed starchy foods like pastries, bread and doughnuts and sugary foods and beverages. In the new study, the low-carb group ate significantly fewer carbs than the average American. But they were not on a super-low-carb ketogenic diet, which severely restricts carbs to less than 10%

of daily calories and forces the body to burn fat rather than carbohydrates. Nor did they eat unlimited amounts of foods high in saturated fats like bacon, butter and steak.

Instead, the researchers designed what they considered practical and relatively healthy diets for each group. All of the participants ate meals like vegetable omelets, chicken burritos with black beans, seasoned London broil, vegetarian chili, cauliflower soup, toasted lentil salads and grilled salmon.

But the high-carb group also ate foods like whole wheat bread, brown rice, multigrain English muffins, strawberry jam, pasta, skim milk and vanilla yogurt. The low-carb group skipped the bread, rice and fruit spreads and sugary yogurts. Instead, their meals contained more high-fat ingredients such as whole milk, cream, butter, guacamole, olive oil, almonds, peanuts, pecans and macadamia nuts, and soft cheeses.

After five months, people on the low-

carb diet did not experience any detrimental changes in their cholesterol levels, despite getting 21% of their daily calories from saturated fat. That amount is more than double what the federal government’s dietary guidelines recommend. Their LDL cholesterol, the so-called bad kind, for example, stayed about the same as those who followed the high-carb diet, who got just 7% of their daily calories from saturated fat. Tests also showed that the low-carb group had a roughly 15% reduction in their levels of lipoprotein(a), a fatty particle in the blood that is strongly linked to the development of heart disease and strokes.

The low-carb group also had improvements in metabolic measures linked to the development of Type 2 diabetes. The researchers assessed their lipoprotein insulin resistance (LPIR) scores, a measure of insulin resistance that looks at the size and concentration of cholesterol-carrying molecules in the blood.

Large studies have found that people with high LPIR scores are more likely to develop diabetes. In the new study, people on the lowcarb diet had their LPIR scores drop by 15% — reducing their diabetes risk — while those on the high-carb diet had their scores rise by 10%. People on the moderate carb diet had no change in their LPIR scores.

The low-carb group had other improvements as well. They had a drop in their triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood that is linked to heart attacks and strokes. And they had increases in their levels of adiponectin, a hormone that helps to lower inflammation and make cells more sensitive to insulin, which is a good thing. High levels of bodywide inflammation are linked to a range of age-related illnesses, including heart disease and diabetes.

The new study cost $12 million and was largely funded by the Nutrition Science Initiative, a nonprofit research group. It was also supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the New Balance Foundation and others.

Mozaffarian said his take-home message for people is to adopt what he calls a high-fat Mediterranean style diet. It entails eating fewer highly processed carbs and sugary foods and focusing on fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, fish, cheese, olive oil and fermented dairy products like yogurt and kefir.

“That’s the diet that America should be focusing on,” he said. “It’s where all the science is converging.”

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Past pandemics remind us COVID will be an era, not a crisis that fades

By GINA KOLATA

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he skeletons move across a barren landscape toward the few helpless and terrified people still living. The scene, imagined in a mid-16th-century painting, “The Triumph of Death” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, illuminated the psychic effect of the bubonic plague.

It was a terror that lingered even as the disease receded, historians say.

COVID-19’s waves of destruction have inflicted their own kind of despair on humanity in the 21st century, leaving many to wonder when the pandemic will end.

“We tend to think of pandemics and epidemics as episodic,” said Allan Brandt, a historian of science and medicine at Harvard University. “But we are living in the COVID-19 era, not the COVID-19 crisis. There will be a lot of changes that are substantial and persistent. We won’t look back and say, ‘That was a terrible time, but it’s over.’ We will be dealing with many of the ramifications of COVID-19 for decades, for decades.”

Especially in the months before the delta variant became dominant, the pandemic seemed as if it should be nearly over.

“When the vaccines first came out, and we started getting shots in our own arms, so many of us felt physically and emotionally transformed,” said Dr. Jeremy Greene, a historian of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

“The Triumph of Death,” an oil painting by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, circa 1562.

“We had a willful desire to translate that as, ‘The pandemic has ended for me.’”

But, he said, that “was a willful delusion.”

And that is a lesson from history that is often forgotten, Frank Snowden, a historian of medicine at Yale University, said: It is difficult to declare that a pandemic has ended.

It may not be over even when physical disease, measured in illness and mortality, has greatly subsided. It may continue as the

economy recovers and life returns to a semblance of normality. The lingering psychological shock of having lived in prolonged fear of severe illness, isolation and painful death takes a long time to fade.

Some diseases, like the 1918 flu, receded. Others, like the bubonic plague, remained, smoldering. HIV is still with us, but with drugs to prevent and treat it. In each case, the trauma for those affected persisted long after the imminent threat of infection and death had ebbed.

If nothing else, the COVID-19 virus has humbled experts who once confidently predicted its course, disregarding the lessons of history.

“What we are living through now is a new cycle of collective dismay,” Greene said — a dismay that has grown out of frustration with the inability to control the virus, fury of the vaccinated at those who refuse to get the shots and a disillusionment that astoundingly effective vaccines have not yet returned life to normal.

No matter when or how pandemics dwindle, they change people’s sense of time.

“A pandemic like COVID-19 is a breach of the progressive narrative” that medicine is advancing and diseases are being conquered, Greene said.

As the pandemic drags on, days merge

into one another as time seems to blur and slow down with no forward momentum.

In past pandemics, as today, strong anti-science movements hindered public health and the waning of disease.

As soon as Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1798, posters appeared in Britain showing humans who had been vaccinated “sprouting horns and hooves,” Snowden said.

“In 19th-century Britain, the largest single movement was the anti-vaccine movement,” he added. And with vaccine resisters holding out, diseases that should have been tamed persisted.

But the difference between vaccine skeptics and pandemic misinformation then and now, historians said, is the rise of social media, which amplifies debates and falsehoods in a truly new way.

With HIV, Brandt said, “there were conspiracy theories and a lot of misinformation, but it never had a broadcast system like COVID-19.”

Other pandemics, like this one, were hobbled by what Snowden calls “overweening hubris,” prideful certainties from experts that add to the frustrations of understanding how and when it will dwindle away.

With COVID, prominent experts declared at first that masks did not help prevent infection, only to reverse themselves later. Epidemiologists confidently published models of how the pandemic would progress and what it would take to reach herd immunity, only to be proved wrong. Investigators said the virus was transmitted on surfaces, then later said that, no, it was spread through tiny droplets in the air. They said the virus was unlikely to transform in a substantial way, then warned of the delta variant’s greater transmissibility.

“We paid a heavy price for that,” Snowden said. Many people lost trust in officials amid ever-changing directives and strategies that weakened the effort to control the virus.

Jonathan Moreno, a historian of science and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said the end of COVID would be analogous to a cancer that had gone into remission — still there, but not as deadly.

“You are never cured,” he said. “It is always in the background.”

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

MMG I PR CFL, LLC Plaintiff Vs.

CRUZ PIZARRO MAYSONET A/K/A CRUZ PIZARRO MAISONET

Defendant Civil No.: 18-1516 (ADC). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, OF PUERTO RICO, SS.

To: CRUZ PIZARRO MAYSONET A/K/A CRUZ PIZARRO MAISONET; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO (DORAL BANK) AND, TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $136,896.25 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $27,752.29 which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 7.95% per annum, accrued late charges in the amount of 176.52 and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in the Spanish language: URBANA: Predio de terreno identificado como Remanente, Situado en el Barrio Algarrobo, Sector Guárico del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de dos mil quinientos veintisiete punto siete ocho uno dos (2,527.7812) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto seis cuatro tres uno (0.6431) cuerdas. En linderos: NORTE, con Ángel Pizarro Santos; SUR, con solar segregado propiedad de Jose Ángel Pizarro Maisonet; ESTE, con Avenida Guárico; OESTE, con Sucesión Pizarro Santos, según surge de la Inscripción octava (8ª). Consta inscrita al

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folio 90 del tomo 306 de Vega Baja Finca número 25,045. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Cuarta (IV) de Bayamón. The mortgage subject of this proceeding is for the principal amount of $161,151.00 with interest at the rate of 7.95% per annum, secured by a first mortgage constituted by deed number 13, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 20, 2020, before Notary Public Raul Rivera Burgos, recorded at page 209 of volume 423 of Vega Baja, 10th inscription over property 25,045. The property is subject to the following Junior lien: Mortgage to secure a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, for the sum of $40,000.00, with interest at the rate of 7.95% per annum, due on October 1, 2020, constituted by deed 407 dated September 15, 2005 before Notary Public Julian Antonio Parrilla Boria, recorded at page 209 of volume 423 of Vega Baja, 11th inscription over property 25,045. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) or statutory liens, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens and encumbrances. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 29TH DAY OF OCTOBER 2021, AT 10:25 A.M., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $161,150.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 5TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2021, AT 10:25 A.M., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $107,433.33, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on the 12TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2021, AT 10:25 A.M., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $80,575.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. The sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. For further particulars, the record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico during regular business hours.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 10th, 2021. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOT ICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

ROOSEVELT REO PR II CORP. Plaintiff Vs.

PAUL EXUM, NORMA IRIS DE LEON ACOSTA a/k/a NORMA I. EXUM AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN

Defendant(s) Civil No.: 18-1466 (GAG) Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, SS.

To: PAUL EXUM, NORMA IRIS DE LEON ACOSTA A/K/A NORMA I. EXUM AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $167,381.20 in principal, deferred principal balance of $16,194.42, for a total outstanding principal balance of $183,575.62 accrued interest which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of 6.75% per annum, accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent attorney fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

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or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in the Spanish language: URBANA: Apartamento 1010, de forma irregular localizado en la décima planta del edificio Playa Azul en Luquillo, Puerto Rico, con un área total privada de 958.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 89.00 metros cuadrados, midiendo 25’9” en su mayor ancho por 49’9” en su mayor longitud.

Consta de foyer, sala, comedor, terraza, cocina con mesa de trabajo, gabinetes de pared, fregadero, lavadero, linen closet, dos dormitorios con closets y baño. Colinda por el NORTE, en una línea quebrada con la pared que lo separa del apartamento 1009 en una longitud de 10’8” y con patio exterior en una longitud de 17’2”; por el SUR, con patio exterior en una longitud de 23’; por el ESTE, en una línea quebrada con patio exterior en una longitud de 21’5”, con corredor común en una longitud de 5’4”y con pared que lo separa del apartamento 1009 en una longitud de 23’; y por el OESTE, con patio exterior en una longitud de 49’9”. Este apartamento tiene su puerta de entrada en su costado Este y lo comunica con el corredor común limitado que da acceso a los ascensores y escaleras de salida al patio exterior del edificio. La participación de este apartamento este apartamento en las áreas comunes generales es de 0.5521%. Consta inscrita al folio 132 del tomo 76 de Luquillo, finca número 4,111.

Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Fajardo. The mortgage subject of this proceeding is for the principal amount of One Hundred Fifty Two Thousand Dollars ($152,000.00) with interest at the rate of 6.75% per annum, constituted by deed number 217, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico on June 21, 2006, before Notary Public Jesus Alejandro Ledesma Amador, as thereafter modified on October 28, 2009, pursuant to deed number 368 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, before Notary Public David Toledo David, increasing principal balance to $159,127.37, ninth inscription over property 4111 of Luquillo.

The property is subject to the following Junior liens: 1. LAWSUIT ANNOTATION: Executed in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, civil case #18-1466, filed

by Roosevelt Cayman Asset Company v. on July 20, 2007, for reason of Collection of Money and Foreclosure by Doral Bank, plaintiff, versus Paul Exum, Norma Iris Leon Acosta

(787) 743-3346

25 and the Conjugal Partnership, defendants, for the amount of $167,381.20 in principal, plus interests, fees and attorney’s fees recorded on December 16, 2019 at Karibe System of Luquillo, property number 4111.

2. JUDGMENT ANNOTATION: Issued= in the First Instance Court of Rio Grande, civil case #LU2020CV00039, on December 17, 2020, for reason of Collection of Money filed by Consejo de Titulares del Condominio Playa Azul I, plaintiff, versus Paul Exum, Norma Iris Leon Acosta and the Conjugal Partnership, defendants, in the amount of $11,645.30, plus interests and penalties, in addition to $2,000.00 for attorney’s fees recorded on April 26, 2021 at Karibe System of Luquillo, property number 4111. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) or statutory liens, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens and encumbrances. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 29TH DAY OF OCTOBER 2021, AT 10:15 A.M., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $152,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 5TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2021, AT 10:15 A.M., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $101,333.33, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on the 12TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2021, AT 10:15 A.M., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $76,000.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto

Rico during regular business hours. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 10th, 2021.

AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 41823 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Lime Homes, LTD Plaintiff, v.

Nitzia Iris Sánchez Velázquez a/k/a Nitzia Sánchez Velázquez

Defendamos, CIVIL NO: 18-1533 (JAG), RE: Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Nitzia Iris Sánchez Velázquez a/k/a Nitzia Sánchez Velázquez, General Public and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $350,289.48 plus interest at a rate of 5.125% per annum since March 1, 2016 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($39,500.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at the Special Master Office located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número

2 bloque E de la Urbanización Hacienda Real de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Con una cabida superficial de 724.5618 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número 2 con 18.00 metros; por el SUR, con el lote E-5 con 4 alineaciones de 1.82 metros, 9.83 metros, 2.64 y 1.56 y con el lote E-6 con 5.70 metros; por el ESTE, con el lote E-1 con 37.56 metros; y por el OESTE, con el lote E-3 con un largo de 44.54 metros, todos de la refererida urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto unifamiliar para fines residenciales. Consta de un nivel, cuatro dormitorios, dos banos, un family room, una sala, una cocina, un comedor, laundry, una terraza techada y marquesina doble. The property is identified with the number 60287 and is recorded at page number 124 of volume number 1425 of Carolina, in the Registry of Property of Carolina,Second Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 65 of volume number 1427 of Carolina, second inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina,second inscription. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on NOVEMBER 1, 2021 AT 1:30 PM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $395,000.00. 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 NOVEMBER 8, 2021 AT 1:30 PM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $263,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on NOVEMBER 15, 2021 AT 1:30 PM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $197,500.00. Upon

confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, this day of September 15, 2021. Fdo. Joel Ronda-Feliciano, Special Master, 787) 565-0515. Email: rondajoel@me.com.

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE vs.

FREDDIE FOURNIER SANTIAGO, VICTORIA MARÍA RIVERA SANTOS, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADA CIVIL NUM. : TA2018CV01149.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 22 de septiembre de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Toa Alta, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---.Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-306 SEMANA 44. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-306 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the

26 Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-306 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval.

In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18,554 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 106 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $34,782.88, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de los elementos comunes correspondientes a la unidad A 306, semana 44. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte

(20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Toa Alta, durante horas laborables.

Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 30 de septiembre de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE VS.

CONFESOR MORALES DE JESUS, ELIZABETH MENDOZA ROMAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADA CIVIL NUM. : SJ2018CV11146.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 7 de septiembre de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo,

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---.Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-504 SEMANA 31. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-504 and includes the right to use such unit during the 31 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 31 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-504 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval.

In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,388 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 53 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $9,083.65 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 504, semana 31.

La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9 de noviem-

bre de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, durante horas laborables.

Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 30 de septiembre de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

SALA DE SAN JUAN.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE VS.

RAFAEL CLAUDIO HOMS Y YASMÍN BELÉN CARRILLO

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. : KCD2017-0044 (905). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA, Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 30 de agosto de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---. Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: A-504 SEMANA 22. Cabida 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-504 and includes the right to use such unit during 22 week of each year until December 31 of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 22 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-504 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication LEGAL NOTICE of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Club Regime to the Vacation DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Club Regime. This vacation NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA club right has been assigned

a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,382 inscrita al tomo de Hoja Móvil número 53 de Vega Alta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $16,755.67 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento.

La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan, durante horas laborables.

Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía

en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 30 de septiembre de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GURABO, EN CAGUAS.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE VS.

FRANKIE ROSARIO ORTIZ, MIGDALIA ROSADO COLLAZO y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, compuesta por ambos

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. : EDCI2015-00913.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Regla 60). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 19 de mayo de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---.

Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Solar: APARTAMENTO A-701 SEMANA 29. Cabida 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A701 and includes the right to use such unit during 29 week of each year until December 31 of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 29 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a Successor Club.

Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A701 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the

commencement of said interval.

In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Hacienda del Mar finca 14162 al folio del tomo 257 de Vega Alta. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13666 inscrita al folio 76 del tomo 249 de Vega Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección tercera. Se encuentra pendiente a ser digitalizada en el Registro. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $6,854.61, de los cuales $6,754.61 constituyen el principal y el 10% del total de la deuda por concepto de honorarios de abogado. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secre-

The San Juan Daily Star taría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 30 de septiembre de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDANTE VS.

PAUL MALDONADO SOTO Y KAREN ENID MARTÍNEZ ANDINO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM. : D3CD2016-0268.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 17 de marzo de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Toa Alta, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se descri-

be a continuación: Número de Catastro:---.Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B 111 SEMANA 22. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-111 and includes the right to use such unit during the 22 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 22 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-111 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval.

In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194 % in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Hacienda del Mar finca 14134 al folio 26 del tomo 257 de Vega Alta. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14,565 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 69 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $5,780.44 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento atrasadas. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 9 de noviembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Toa Alta, durante horas laborables.

Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 30 de septiembre de 2021. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 208224 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE

PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

Yimilin Llamos Delgado t/c/c Yimilin Llanos Delgado

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV02069.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Cond. Lucerna 2C Edif. A2 Carolina, PR 00983 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento No. 2-C, en el segundo piso del Edificio No. 2 del CONDOMINIO LUCERNA, localizado en la Avenida Pontezuela, colindante con la Urbanización Jardines de Country Club, en el Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Está construido todo de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto y tiene un área superficial de 88.88 metros cuadrados. Está localizado al Sureste del pasillo de entrada No. 1, en el segundo piso. La entrada principal de este apartamento está localizada en frente de la sala-comedor.

Comunica||inmediatamente al pasillo comunal que se comunica a su vez con las escaleras hacia el primer y tercer piso.

Colinda por el Sur, en 7.85 metros, con la pared exterior Sur; por el Norte, en 7.85 metros, con el pasillo de entrada que está frente al apartamento No. 2-D; por el Este, en 13.62 metros, con la pared exterior Este; y por el Oeste, en 13.62 metros, con el apartamento No. 2-A. Este apartamento se usará para propósitos residenciales y contiene lo siguiente: sala, comedor, cocina, lavandería, un baño, un pasillo que da acceso a los dormitorios, tres dormitorios con sus respectivos guardarropas, un guardarropas de

cama, un balcón o terraza. Se le asigna a este apartamento el área de||estacionamiento marcado con el No. 2-C. Corresponde a este apartamento un porciento de participación en los elementos comunes de .5586%. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 207 del Tomo 609 de Carolina, finca número 32021, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $74,250.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $49,500.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $37,125.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 199, otorgada el día 30 de marzo de 2001, ante el Notario Alfonso Prats Lazzarini y consta inscrita en el Folio 207 del Tomo 609 de Carolina, finca número 32021, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera, inscripción novena. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $52,906.04 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.500% anual desde el día 1 de septiembre de 2017. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $7,425.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $7,425.00para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $7,425.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documen-

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Carolina, finca número 33497, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- en el Registro de la Propiedad LINA SALA SUPERIOR. de Carolina, Sección Segunda.

Firstbank Puerto Rico El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes Demandante v.

La Sucesión de María relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es del Carmen Boada decir la suma de $139,380.00.

Molina compuesta por Si no hubiere remate ni adjuJosé Martínez Camacho dicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se en su cuota viudal usufructuaria, Luis Rafael celebrará una segunda subasta las oficinas del Alguacil que Velez Boaba, Oneriam en suscribe el día 6 de diciembre Marie Batista Boada, de 2021, a las 10:30 de la maOnesimo Antonio Batista ñana. En la segunda subasta Boada, Marian Altamira que se celebre servirá de tipo Boada t/c/c Marian Velez mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactado en la Boada, Juan Luis Batista (2/3) primera subasta, o sea la suma Boada, Fulano de Tal de $92,920.00. Si tampoco huy Fulana de Tal como biere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se ceposibles herederos lebrará una tercera subasta desconocidos en las oficinas del Alguacil que Demandados CIVIL NÚM: CA2018CV03213. suscribe el día 13 de diciembre SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO de 2021, a las 10:30 de la maY EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE- ñana. Para la tercera subasta CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Al- (1/2) del precio pactado para guacil que suscribe por la pre- el caso de ejecución, o sea, la sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y suma de $69,690.00. La hipohace CONSTAR: Que en cum- teca a ejecutarse en el caso plimiento de un Mandamiento de epígrafe fue constituida mede Ejecución de Sentencia que diante la escritura número 599, le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil otorgada el día 11 de diciembre que suscribe por la Secretaría de 2010, ante el Notario Teredel TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA sa Jiménez Meléndez y consta INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI- inscrita en el Folio 57 del Tomo CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA 1475 de Carolina, finca número SUPERIOR, en el caso de epí- 33497, en el Registro de la Prografe procederá a vender en piedad de Carolina, Sección pública subasta al mejor postor Segunda, inscripción sexta. Diquién pagará de contado y en cha subasta se llevará a cabo moneda de curso legal de los para con su producto satisfacer Estados Unidos de América, al Demandante total o parcialgiro postal o por cheque de mente según sea el caso el gerente a nombre del Alguacil importe de la Sentencia que ha del Tribunal de Primera Instan- obtenido ascendente a la suma cia el día 29 de noviembre de de $120,741.29 por concepto 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana de principal, más intereses al en su oficina sita en el local que tipo pactado de 4.000% anual ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU- desde el día 1 de octubre de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- 2017. Dichos intereses contiCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE núan acumulándose hasta el CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, pago total de la obligación. Se todo derecho, título e interés pagarán también los cargos que tenga la parte demandada por demora equivalentes a de epígrafe en el inmueble de 4.000% de la suma de aquellos su propiedad que ubica en 18 pagos con atrasos en exceso Blk 206 514 St., Villa Carolina de 15 días calendarios de la Dev., Carolina, PR 00987 y fecha vencimiento, la suma de que se describe a continuación: $13,938.00 para costas, gasURBANA: Casa de concreto tos y honorarios de abogado, diseñada para una familia, so- la suma de $13,938.00 para lar radicado en la Urbanización cubrir los intereses en adición Villa Carolina, Quinta Sección, a los garantizados por ley y la situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mu- suma de $13,938.00 para cubrir las de Carolina, Puerto Rico, cualquier otro adelanto que se marcado con el número 18 haga en virtud de la escritura de manzana 206, con área de hipoteca, más intereses según 375.369 metros cuadrados. provisto por la regla 44.3 de las En lindes por el Norte, con la de Procedimiento Civil. Que los calle número 514, distancia autos y todos los documentos de 12.250 y un arco de 5.498 correspondientes al Procemetros; por el Sur, con el solar dimiento incoado estarán de número 1 distancia de 15.750 manifiesto en la SECRETARIA metros; por el Este, con la ca- DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA lle número 513, distancia de INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI20.500 metros; y por el Oeste, CIAL DE CAROLINA SALA LEGAL NOTICE con el solar número 17, distan- SUPERIOR durante las horas cia de 24.00 metros. Enclava laborables. Se entenderá que M&T una casa. La propiedad antes todo licitador acepta como bas54250 tante la titularidad del inmueble ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO relacionada consta inscrita en y que las cargas y gravámenes DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- el Folio 85 del Tomo 833 de anteriores y los preferentes,

tos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

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

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique.

Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2021. FDO. SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISSAC, ALGUACIL.

28 si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. A: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico vs. La Sucesión de María del Carmen Boada Molina, compuesta por José Martínez Camacho, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el caso civil número CA2018-CV03213, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $120,741.29 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 12 de noviembre de 2018. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. Anotación A. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de septiem-

bre de 2021. FDO. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

JESUS MANUEL RODRIGUEZ RAMOS T/C/C JESUS M. RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, SU ESPOSA YULISSA GARCIA LUGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2019CV00735.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO. ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, 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 8 de junio de 2021 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 6 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: RÚSTICA: Solar número cuatro (4) del Barrio Juan Alonso del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de cuatrocientos noventa y ocho punto veintiocho (498.28) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número tres (3), en veintiséis punto diecisiete (26.17) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número cinco (5), en veinticinco punto tres (25.3) metros; por el ESTE, con parcela de terreno dedicada para uso público que la separa de camino vecinal en doce punto sesenta y cinco (12.65) y siete punto treinta y cinco (7.35) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número trece (13) de la Urbanización Pura Brisa en veinte (20.00) metros. Contiene una casa de dos plantas. FINCA NÚMERO: 22,212, inscrita al folio 3 del tomo 1500 de Mayagüez, sección de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: BO. JUAN ALONSO CARR. 105 KM4 HM 5 MAYAGÜEZ, PR00680. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 24 de noviembre

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de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el 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 $115,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 1 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $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 8 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de 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.

Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $69,022.33 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 5.375% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. 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 extraju-

dicial) 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 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 en el Cuartel Estatal de Policía del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en el Cuartel Estatal de Policía 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 26 de agosto de 2021. Alg. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGUEZ.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

EDGARDO REYES RIVERA

DEMANDADO CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2019CV01016.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, 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 8 de junio de 2021 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 18 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 marcado con el F-27 en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Hermanos Ramírez de Arellano en el Barrio Guanajibo del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos once punto noventa (311.90) metros cuadrados. Colinda: al NORTE, en 23.90 metros, con el solar F-28; al SUR, en 23.90 metros, con el solar F-26; al ESTE, en 13.05 metros, con la alameda que lo separa del solar G-4; y por el OESTE, en 13.05 metros, con la calle número 6. Enclava una casa de concreto. FINCA NÚMERO: 16,312, inscrita al folio 73 del tomo 1513 de Mayagüez, sección de Mayagüez.

Nota aclaratoria: La descripción registral surge del Registro de la Propiedad tal y como se transcribió anteriormente. Sin embargo la Escritura de de Primera Hipoteca, Numero 85, indica lo siguiente en cuanto a la colindancia Este: “…en 13.05 metros, con la alameda que lo separa del solar E-4”.) Dirección Física: 8F F-27 QUIÑONEZ MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00680.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 24 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el 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 $91,800.00.

De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 1 de diciembre de 2021, a las 10:30 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 $61,200.00. 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 8 de diciembre de 2021, a las 10:30 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 $45,900.00. 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.

Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $74,831.25 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.50% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. 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 Departamento de Hacienda por éstos contar con un embargo a su favor por la suma de $37,066.94, según Certificado de fecha de 16 de febrero de 2018 bajo el número MAY18-226, presentado al asiento 2018-002167-EST del tomo 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 en el Cuartel Estatal de Policía del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en el Cuartel Estatal de Policía 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 26 de agosto de 2021. Alg. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGUEZ.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE JACOB CRUZ ERAZO T/C/C JACOB CRUZ, COMPUESTA POR SU UNICO HEREDERO CONOCIDO JACOB CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2019CV00996.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, 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 19 de mayo de 2021 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 6 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Llanos Tuna del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, señalada con la letra “A”

en el plano de inscripción, con una cabida superficial de tres mil cuatrocientos ochenta y tres punto ocho mil novecientos sesenta y uno metros cuadrados (3,483.8961 m.c.), iguales a ocho mil ochocientas sesenta y cuatro diez milésimas de cuerda (0.8864 cda.), equivalentes a treinta y cuatro (34) áreas, ochenta y tres (83) centiáreas y noventa y una (91) miliáreas.

En lindes por el NORTE, en cincuenta y cuatro punto seis mil novecientos cuarenta metros, con faja de terreno señalada con la letra “C”, en el plano de inscripción; la que se dejará para uso público; por el SUR, en veintisiete punto dos mil ciento treinta y ocho metros, con la parcela de terreno señalada con la letra “B” en el plano de inscripción; por el ESTE, en dieciocho punto cinco mil seiscientos cuarenta y seis metros y en sesenta y uno punto siete mil quinientos sesenta y cinco metros, con la parcela de terreno señalada con la letra “B” en el plano de inscripción; y por el OESTE, en ochenta y cuatro punto mil ochocientos setenta y tres metros, con terrenos de Francisco Asencio.

Contiene una casa semi-alta, de hormigón armado y bloques de hormigón, con balcón a dos lados, o sea, a los lados Norte y Oeste, dedicada a vivienda, la que mide cincuenta y un pies de frente por cincuenta pies de fondo y nueve pies de luz; dividida interiormente en departamentos que sirven de sala, comedor, cocina, “laundry”, tres cuartos dormitorios y dos servicios sanitarios. Y tiene además a la izquierda entrando dentro de las medidas a la casa un garaje. FINCA NÚMERO: 17,216, inscrita al folio 34 del tomo 1025 de Cabo Rojo, sección de San Germán. Dirección Física: BO. LLANOS TUNA PARCELA A (LOTE A PR 312 KM 3.4) CABO ROJO, PR 00623. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 24 de noviembre de 2021 a las 11:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el 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 $53,011.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 1 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 $35,340.66. De no haber re-

The San Juan Daily Star manente 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 8 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 $26,505.50. 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.

Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $47,436.20 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 3.75% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. 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 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

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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 en el Cuartel Estatal de Policía del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en el Cuartel Estatal de Policía 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 26 de agosto de 2021. Alguacil.

Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGUEZ.

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ORIENTAL BANK DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA MARIA PARIS POUPART, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS JORGE VALETE PARIS, DAVID VALETE PARIS, ANGEL VALETE PARIS Y GLORIMAR VALETE PARIS; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: CA2020CV02551.

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 21 de mayo de 2021, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 11 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: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento B guión ciento dos (B102). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, localizado en el Primer (1er.) nivel del Edificio número Uno (1) del Módulo B, del Condominio “Parque de San Antón”, localizado en la Calle Municipal Román Rivera, en el Barrio San Antón, del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada del apartamento es de novecientos veinte y cuatro punto setenta y nueve (924.79) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ochenta y cinco punto noventa y seis (85.96) metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos: por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y tres pies con cuatro pulgadas con el apartamento “C” guión ciento uno y en siete pies con dos pulgadas con un área común; por el SUR, en una distancia de diecinueve pies con el apartamento “B” guión ciento uno y en veinte pies con cinco pulgadas con un área común; por el ESTE, en una distancia de veinte y tres pies con tres pulgadas con un área en común; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veinte y siete pies con una pulgada da hacia área privada de patio de la unidad, con un área aproximada de doscientos setenta punto setenta y nueve (270.79) pies cuadrados; equivalentes a veinte y cinco punto diecinueve (25.19) metros cuadrado, la cual colinda por el OESTE, con la colindancia de la propiedad.

La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en el lindero Sur, la cual se comunica con el recibidor y las escaleras: Consta de: una cocina, salacomedor, un patio, un pasillo principal, en el cual están localizados un baño y un “closet”, un dormitorio principal con su “closet”, dos (2) cuartos con sus respectivos “closets”, y un balcón. Le corresponden a este apartamento dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el número diecisiete (17), ubicados uno detrás del otro. Este apartamento tiene una participación de uno punto cincuenta y uno por ciento (1.51%) en los elementos comunes del condominio. FINCA NÚMERO: 56,243, inscrita al folio 166 del tomo 1380 de Carolina, sección II de Carolina. ***Nota Aclaratoria: En el Registo de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II, la descripción registral aparece tal y como se transcribió anteriormente. Sin embargo, en la escritua #21 aparece transcrita de la siguiente manera: *La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en el lindero Sur, la cual se comunica con el recibidor y las escaleras: Consta de: una cocina, sala-comedor, un balcón, un pasillo principal, en

el cual están localizados un baño y un “closet”, un dormitorio principal con su “closet”, dos (2) cuartos con sus respectivos “closets”, y un balcón. Dirección física: PARQUE DE SAN ANTON B-102 CAROLINA, PR 00987. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 29 de noviembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana , en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de 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 $56,500.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 6 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $37,666.66. 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 13 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $28,250.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $42,433.97 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.50% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. 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 Municipio de San Juan por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $30,000.00 sin intereses y a vencer en 20 años, según consta de la escritura #48, otorgada en Carolina, el 29 de marzo de 2006, ante la Notario Yamelis Marrero Figueroa, inscrito al folio 166 del tomo 1380 de Carolina, finca #56,243, inscripción 3ra. 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 1 de septiembre de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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Federal National Mortgage Association t/c/c Fannie Mae Demandante v.

Consuelo Mercado Rosso antes, ahora La Sucesión de Consuelo Mercado Rosso compuesta por José Ramón Santiago Mercado; Fulano de Tal y Fulana de Tal denominados como herederos desconocidos con posible interés; la Sucesión de Gabriel Santiago Mercado compuesta por Sutano de Tal y Sutana de Tal; Departamento de Hacienda, División de Caudales Relictos; Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM); Edinirva Mercado Rosso (Titular Registral)

Demandada CIVIL NÚM: KCD2015-0736 (503). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 26 de octubre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el Derecho de Superficie sobre la propiedad que ubica en 277 Hyde Park , San Juan PR 00918, Segunda Planta y que se describe a continuación: DERECHO DE SUPERFICIE: Derecho de superficie de la SEGUNDA PLANTA a favor de CONSUELO MERCADO ROSSO, con un area de 978.00 pies cuadrados. Dicha estructura consta de una sala, comedor, cocina, tres baños, tres cuartos y una terraza. El acceso a la vía pública de dicha estructura es a través de una escalera ubicada

al frente de la estructura. URBANA: Solar marcado con el No. 322 en el plano de solares de la URBANIZACION HYDE PARK, del término municipal de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 368.52 metros cuadrados; colinda por el Norte, en 21.81 metros, con el solar No. 321 (de la Hyde Park Corporation según escritura); por el Sur, en 26.60 metros, con el solar 323; por el Este, en 16.19 metros, con la Calle 14; y por el Oeste, en 15.00 metros, con el solar No. 328 de la Urbanización Hyde Park Corporation. Enclava una casa de 1,145 pies cuadrados, sobre la cual se ha edificado una SEGUNDA PLANTA, con un valor de $30,000.00. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 49 vto del Tomo 758 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 7,913, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera. El Derecho De Superficie consta inscrito en el Folio 192 del Tomo 1,225 de Río Piedras Norte finca número 7,913, Inscripción 13ª, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del Derecho de Superficie antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $116,000.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del Derecho de Superficie mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 2 de noviembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $77,333.33.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 9 de noviembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $58,000.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 702, otorgada el día 27 de diciembre de 2005, ante el Notario Wilson A. Galarza Galarza y consta inscrita en el Folio 16 del Tomo 1,469 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 7,913, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera, inscripción décimoquinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $103,354.30 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.000% anual desde el día 1 de enero de

2014. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $11,600.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $11,600.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $11,600.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del Derecho de Superficie y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. El Derecho de Superficie no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad.

Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre el Derecho de Superficie descrito anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. A: EMBARGO ESTATAL: (Ley No. 12). A favor del ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, adeudado por José R. Santiago Mercado, con Seguro Social No. XXXXX-4876, por la suma principal de $25,340.71 Certificación del

30 26 de marzo del 2015, embargo del 10 de abril del 2015, anotado el 10 de abril del 2015 al folio 149, Orden 590 del Libro No. 48. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. El Derecho de Superficie a ser ejecutado se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2021.

FDO. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL. ***

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE V.

EVYS MARY SANCHEZ AGOSTO

DEMANDADA Civil Núm. VB2019CV01013.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 9 de agosto de 2021 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $128,579.90 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 7 de junio de 2021, notificada y archivada en autos el 8 de junio de 2021 y publicada mediante edicto en el Periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 17 de junio de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, 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 el Municipio de Vega Baja, Puerto

Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: I-7 Calle Central Carmen, Urb. Velomas, Vega Baja, PR 00693. URBANA: Solar identificado con el Número siete (7) del Bloque I, localizado en la calle Uno (1) situado en la Urbanización Velomas, en el término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de cuatrocientos diez puntos sesenta metros cuadrados (410.60 m/c). Colinda por el Norte, en treinta punto treinta y cuatro metros (30.34 m), con el solar I guion Ocho (I8); por el Sur, en veintidós punto setenta y dos metros (22.72 m), con el solar I guion Seis (I6); por el Este, en catorce metros (14.00 m), con la Calle Uno (1) de la Urbanización; y por el Oeste, en catorce punto treinta y siete metros (14.37 m), con el solar H guion veinticuatro (H24). Enclava una casa de una planta para fines residenciales.

Consta Inscrito al folio 224 del tomo 424 de Vega Baja, finca número 30,341 Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $128,579.90 principal, 4.25% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $621.68 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; mas costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $132,554.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $88,369.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $66,277.00. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 3 de noviembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 10 de noviembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana.

De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 17 de noviembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana.

La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Telephone Company, y condiciones restrictivas.

Del Estudio de Título realizado

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surge un gravamen posterior el cual podrá ser cancelado: Aviso de Demanda dictado el 23 de febrero de 2017 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Vega Baja caso civil #D4CD2017-0095 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Evys Mary Sánchez Agosto donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 6ta reducida a $128,579.90 o la venta en pública subasta, anotado al tomo Karibe, finca #30341 de Vega Baja, el 5 de julio de 20178 anotación “B”. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

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

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala

de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 5 de octubre de 2021. FREDDY OMAR RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE

CLAVEROL RUIZ Demandante V.

R & G MORTGAGE CORPORATION; ORIENTAL BANK; MUNICIPIO DE SAN JUAN; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSDemandado(a) TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE Civil: GB2021CV00104. Sala: ARECIBO 201. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN SUN WEST MORTGAGE DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. COMPANY, INC NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENDemandante V. CIA POR EDICTO.

SOUTHERN MORTGAGE CORPORATION AHORA ORIENTAL BANK; ROGELIA DELGADO DELGADO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: AR2021CV00377.

Sala: 401. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS CUYA DIRECCION SE DESCONOCE.

(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 19 de agosto 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 6 de octubre de 2021. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 6 de octubre de 2021. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JACQUELYNE GONZÁLEZ QUINTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

A: R & G MORTGAGE ‘ORPORATION, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.

(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 6 de octubre 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 7 de octubre de 2021. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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VERONICA CARRERO GAIVIS Demandante V.

CITIBANK, N.A. H/N/C CITIMORTGAGE, INC. DITECH FINANCIAL, LLC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE

Demandado(a) Civil: GB2021CV00400. Sala: 201. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN LEGAL NOTICE DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCIA POR EDICTO. NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA A: JOHN DOE Y TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSRICHARD DOE TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE (Nombre de las partes a las que se le GUAYNABO notifican la sentencia por edicto)

AIDA MERCEDES

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de octubre 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 7 de octubre de 2021. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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MTGLQ INVESTORS LP Parte demandante VS.

FRANK FERNANDEZ ELIAS T/C/C FRANK JESUS FERNANDEZ ELIAS, Y SU ESPOSA ANA ARIAS FERNANDEZ T/C/C ANA CARIDAD ARIAS FERNANDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte demandada CIVIL NÚM. PO2019cv04302.

SALÓN NÚM (406). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: FRANK FERNANDEZ ELIAS T/C/C FRANK JESUS FERNANDEZ ELIAS, Y SU ESPOSA ANA ARIAS FERNANDEZ T/C/C ANA CARIDAD ARIAS FERNANDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS: BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE COP., O A SU ORDEN: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO AHORA OPPORTUNITY MORTGAGE, INC.: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sen-

tencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ciento noventa y cinco (195) del plano de Urbanización con una cabida de cuatrocientos cinco punto cero cero (405.00) metros cuadrados radicado en el Barrio Machuelo Abajo del municipio de Ponce, Puerto Rico, y colinda por el NORTE, con el solar número ciento noventa y seis (196) del plano de Urbanización y mide veintisiete punto cero cero (27.00) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar ciento noventa y nueve (199) del plano de Urbanización y mide quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros; por el SUR, con el solar ciento noventa y cuatro (194) y mide veintisiete punto cero cero (27.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con calle B del plano de Urbanización y mide quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros.

El solar descrito es el numero ciento noventa y cinco (195) de la Urbanización conocida con el nombre de la Rambla. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 256 del tomo 1,627 de Ponce I, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Primera de Ponce; finca #16,622. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización La Rambla, 195, 3116, E. Ave. Fagot, Barrio Machuelo Abajo, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00731. Según figura en el Estudio de título, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada a los siguientes Gravamenes posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: • Beneficial Mortgage Corp., o a su orden: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito una Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré, por la suma principal de $142,000.00, con intereses al 12.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre del 2016, constituida mediante la escritura número 153, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de agosto del 2001, ante el notario Manuel Rivera Meléndez, e inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 2,044 de Ponce I, finca número 16,622, inscripción 18va. • Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, ahora Opportunity Mortgage, Inc.: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de octubre del 2006, expedido en el Tribunal de Pri-

mera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, Caso Civil número TCD20061682 (605), por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, ahora Opportunity Mortgage, Inc., versus Frank J. Fernández Elías, también conocido como Frank Jesús Fernández Elías y su esposa Ana C. Arias Fernández, también conocida como Ana Caridad Arias Fernández, por la suma de $15,832.00, reducido a $7,459.15 y otras sumas, anotado el día 8 de noviembre del 2006, al folio 67 vuelto del tomo 2,044 de Ponce I, finca número 16,622, inscripción 20ma. Se le notifica a los acreedores posteriores anteriormente identificados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $232,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #234, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de septiembre de 2005, ante el notario Miguel Cáceres Colón, inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 2044 de Ponce, Sección Primera, finca número 16,622, inscripción 17ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 9 de noviembre de 2021 a la 1:45 de la tarde, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 16 de noviembre de 2021 a la 1:45 de la tarde, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $154,666.67. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 de noviembre de 2021 a la 1:45 de la tarde, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $116,000.00.

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal: $203,148.37, con intereses a 4.75% anual, desde el 1 de diciembre de 2017, has-

The San Juan Daily Star ta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, la suma principal de $4,278.96, como balance diferido y la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que esté en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago, entre otros, de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $23,200.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. 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. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 06 de octubre de 2021. Miguel A Torres Ayala, Alguacil Auxiliar.

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Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, as indenture trustee, for the CSMC 2015-PR1 Trust, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2015-PR1 Parte Demandante VS.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 MARÍA DEL CARMEN RIVERA MARTÍNEZ

Parte demandada CIVIL NÚM. DCD2017-0560.

SALÓN NÚM. (0503). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO (VIA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

A: MARÍA DEL CARMEN RIVERA MARTÍNEZ; Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América.

Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número mil ciento cincuenta y cinco en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Sabana Seca, del barrio Sabana Seca del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con seiscientos noventa y siete diezmilésimas de otra, equivalentes a doscientos setenta y cuatro punto cero nueve metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela mil ciento cincuenta y seis de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela mil ciento cincuenta y cuatro de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela mil ciento cincuenta y tres de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con la calle cuarenta y seis de la comunidad. Consta inscrita al folio 95 del tomo 304 de Toa Baja, finca número #18,107, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Bayamón. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Villa Marisol, Parcela 1155, Calle Girasol, Comunidad Sabana Seca, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 00949. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de

licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $82,600.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de Hipoteca #83, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de abril de 2007, ante el notario José Orlando Mercado Gely, inscrita al folio 79 del tomo 571 de Toa Baja, finca #18,107, inscripción 8va. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, servirá como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $82,600.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $55,066.67. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $41,300.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal: $88,981.83, más los intereses correspondientes a razón de 7.50% anual, más los cargos por demora que corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde el 1ro de mayo de 2015, a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que esté en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago. Más una suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de $8,260.00, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes

anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. 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. Se informa que la propiedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 6 de octubre de 2021. JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES, Alguacil.

POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 8 de septiembre de 2021. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de! Tribunal, hoy día 29 de septiembre de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional.

Loyda M Convertir Reyes, Sec Serv a Sala.

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E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC DEMANDANTE VS.

CARMEN LUZ RODRIGUEZ VAZQUEZ T/C/C CARMEN MUNIZ, POR SI YEN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE CARLOS ANTONIO MUNIZ GALLARDO; LA SUCESION DE CARLOS ANTONIO MUNIZ LEGAL NOTICE GALLARDO COMPUESTA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO POR WALESKA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUMUNIZ RODRIGUEZ· NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA FULANO Y FULANA SALA DE SAN JUAN. DE TAL; MENGANO Y LEILANY V MENGANA DE TAL COMO ARGAS DE LA PAZ Demandante POSIBLES HEREDEROS FIRSTBANK DESCONOCIDOS DE LA PUERTO RICO; SUCESION; CENTRO DE JUAN DEL PUEBLO, RECAUDACIONES DE como posible tenedor del INGRESOS MUNICIPALES pagaré hipotecario.

(CRIM)

Demandados Caso Núm: SS2021CV05727.

Civil: CANCELACIÓN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO, EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto el cual se publicará en un periódico de circulación general diaria durante una (1) sola vez. 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.

LCDO. VÍCTOR FALCÓN DÁVILA (RUA 19242) PO Box 821 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-0821 Tel. (787) 647-5336 E-mail: victor@victorfalcon.com

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: GM2021CV00675.

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

A la parte co-demandada: A) CARMEN LUZ RODRIGUEZ VAZQUEZ T/C/C CAMRN MUNIZ, POR SI YEN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE CARLOS ANTONIO MUNIZ GALLARDO, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: FISICA: D-7 CALLE 1 URB. VALLE DE GUAYAMA GUAYAMA, PR 00784; Y POSTAL: D-7 CALLE 1 VILLA ROSA 3 GUAYAMA, PR 00784-6417.

B) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE CARLOS ANTONIO

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MUNIZ GALLARDO, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: FISICA: D-7 CALLE 1 URB. VALLE DE GUAYAMA GUAYAMA, PR 00784; Y POSTAL: D-7 CALLE 1 VILLA ROSA 3 GUAY AMA, PR 007846417.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de Carmen Luz Rodriguez Vazquez t/c/c Carmen Muñiz y La Sucesión de Carlos Antonio Muñiz Gallardo, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $38,887.10 p6r concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril de 2021, mas intereses al tipo pactado de 4.1/2% anual que continuan acumulandose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Ademas Carmen Luz Rodriguez Vazquez t/c/c Carmen Muñiz y La Sucesión de Carlos Antonio Muñiz Gallardo 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 $4,893.40. Ademas Carmen Luz Rodriguez Vazquez t/c/c Carmen Muñiz y La Sucesión de Carlos Antonio Muñiz Gallardo se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $4,893.40 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $4,893.40 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagare, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, liquidas y exigibles en su totalidad, en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca numero 110, otorgada en Cayey, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de noviembre de 2010, ante el notario Roberto Soto Tapia, de la finca numero 11,031, inscrita al Folio 37 de! Torno 328 de Guayama, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo de! derecho que le confiere el Pagare, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, liquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicara una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro

del termino de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que !es corresponda en la herencia de Carlos Antonio Muñiz Gallardo.

Los co-demandados miembros de la Sucesión de Carlos Antonio Muñiz Gallardo se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese termino de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego de! transcurso del termino de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia de! causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Articulo 959 del C6digo Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785.

Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de Carlos Antonio Muñiz Gallardo, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de Carlos Antonio Muñiz Gallardo, denominados Carmen Luz Rodriguez Vazquez t/c/c Carmen Muniz, por si y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria de la Sucesión; Fulano y Fulana De Tal; Mengano y Mengana de Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION al Ledo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. 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 secretaria del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin mas

citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 6 de octubre de 2021, en Guayama, Puerto Rico. Marisol Rosado Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Ileana Cruz Vazquez, Sec Auxiliar.

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ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante V.

ANIBAL ROSADO FALCÓN, ZOLYAM ANNETTE LÓPEZ CIVIDANES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: GB2020CV00207. Sala: 201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANIBAL ROSADO FALCÓN, ZOLYAM ANNETTE LÓPEZ CIVIDANES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(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 6 de octubre 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 7 de octubre de 2021. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC DEMANDANTE VS.

HEILER CORDERO MORALES

Roberto Mendoza Rivera nez, Sec Auxiliar. y sus hijos ROBERTO LEGAL NOTICE MENDOZA DIAZ, JAVIER ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MENDOZA DIAZ, RAUL DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL MENDOZA DIAZ, como GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRImiembros de la Sucesión BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA. de Roberto Mendoza ORIENTAL BANK Rivera; CENTRO DE Demandante v.

DEPARTAMENTO MINERVA MARÍA DE HACIENDA POR VELAZCO VILLANUEVA CONDUCTO DE LA Demandada DIVISION DE CAUDALES CIVIL NÚM.: CA2021CV00591.

RELICTOS; CENTRO DE SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIRECAUDACIONES DE POTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS INGRESOS MUNICIPALES DE AMERICA EL PRESIDEN-

DEMANDADO CIVIL NÚM.: CA2021CV01369.

SALÓN: 407. SOBRE: COBRO Demandados DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENCIVIL NÚM. CG2021CV00825.

TO POR EDICTO. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO A: HEILER CORDERO MORALES Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMɯ E-63 CALLE ARUS RICA EL PRESIDENTE DE CAROLINA, P.R. 00985. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ¯ URB. BAHIA VISTA MAR ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 1606 CALLE ALICANTE, DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EMCAROLINA PR 00985-1470. PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. 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. ramaiudicial.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 kenrnuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2021.

En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 21 de septiembre de 2021. Lcda.

Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Lysha M Cordero Danois, Sec Auxiliar.

A: Aleja Díaz Pérez, por si y como miembro de la Sucesión de Roberto Mendoza Rivera - Condado Moderno, Calle 7B-31, Caguas, PR 00725 - Urbanización Jardínes de Barcelona E1 Calle 3 Juncos, PR 00777 - PO BOX 2693 Juncos, PR 00777-2693

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al licenciado: Alberto De Diego Collar, DE DIEGO LAW OFFICES, PSC, PO BOX 79552, Carolina, PR 00984-9552, Teléfono: (787)622-3939, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. 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. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la demanda dentro del término antes indicado, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente, y notificando con copia a la parte demanLEGAL NOTICE dante, se le anotará la rebeldía ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO y se le dictará Sentencia en su DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- contra concediendo el remedio NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin mas citarle SALA DE CAGUAS. ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO ORIENTAL BANK MI FIRMA y el Sello del TribuDemandante v. nal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, ALEJA DIAZ PEREZ, hoy día 20 de septiembre de por si y como miembro 2021. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. Marianela Fontade la SUCESION DE

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TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, hago saber a la parte demandada MINERVA MARÍA VELAZCO VILLANUEVA, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 14 de julio de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $1,000.00 para la finca 37198 y $80,000.00 para la finca 37197, y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, las propiedades que se describen a continuación: FINCA 37197. Apartamento #908. Es un apartamento residencial localizado en el lado norte del edificio Condominio Golden Tower que mide 25’6” de largo par su parte más larga medido desde la puerta de entrada hasta el balcón más 5’ de balcón par 24’9” de ancho más una entrada de 8’9” que hacen un área de 785 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 72.96 metros cuadrados. Sus lindes y distancias son las siguientes: Par el norte, en una distancia de 25’6” con el patio norte del edificio., por el Sur, en una distancia de 34’3” con el apartamento 906 y el corredor del edifico que da a las ascensores y escaleras que a su vez dan al piso terrero y al área de estacionamiento. Par el Este, en una distancia de 24’9” con el patio este del edificio. Par el Oeste, en una distancia de 33’6” con el apartamento 910.

Este apartamento consta de balcón, dos cuartos dormitorio con closet, sala-comedor, cocina, un cuarto de baño y calentador. El baño está equipado con bañera, lava mano y servicio sanitario. La cocina tiene estufa, fregadero y gabinetes.

La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está en su lado sur y por ella se sale al pasil/o que da a los elevadores, a las escaleras y de allí se sale al exterior. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes genera/es de 0.00304% y en los elementos

comunes limitados que le corresponde de .00295%. Finca 37197 inscrita al folio 110 del tomo 731 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La finca 37197 antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida par Minerva María Velazco Villanueva, soltera, sabre esta y la finca #37, 198, en garantía de un pagare, a favor de Oriental Bank & Trust, o a su orden, par $81,000.00, (respondiendo por $80,000.00), intereses al 6.50%, vencedero el 1 de marzo de 2035, según Esc. #142, en Carolina, el 1 de marzo de 2005, ante Wilson A. Galarza Galarza, inscrita al folio 113 de/ tomo 979 de Carolina, finca #37, 197, inscripción 6ta, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. (ii) Hipoteca constituida par Minerva María Velazco Villanueva, soltera, sobre esta y la finca #37,198, en garantía de un pagare, aff. #1522, a favor de Autoridad para El Financiamiento de la Vivienda de P.R., o a su orden, par $10,000.00, (esta finca responde por $1,000.00), vencedero el 1 de marzo de 2013, según Esc. #143, en Carolina, el 1 de marzo de 2005, ante Wilson A. Galarza Galarza, inscrita al folio 113 de/ tomo 979 de Carolina, finca #37, 197, inscripción 7ma, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. En cuanto a la finca 37197, la hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). FINCA 37198. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento de estacionamiento #169 del Condominio Golden Tower. Tiene un área superficial de aproximadamente 160.56 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 14. 92 metros cuadrados. Colinda par el Norte, en una distancia de 8’11 “lineales con el área de viraje de/ estacionamiento; par el Sur, en una distancia de 8’11 “lineales con el apartamento de estacionamiento #162; par el Este, en una distancia de 18’ lineales con el apartamento de estacionamiento #170; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de 18’ lineales con el apartamento de estacionamiento #168. El apartamento está destinado a estacionamiento de automóviles. Este apartamento tiene una participaci6n en /os elementos comunes generales de 00055% y en los elementos comunes limitados que le corresponden de 000604%. Finca 37198 inscrita al folio 102 del tomo 731 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La finca 37198 antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida par Minerva Maria Velazco Villanueva, so/tera, sabre esta y la finca #37, 197, en garantía de un pagare, a favor de Oriental Bank & Trust, o a su

orden, par $81,000.00, (respondiendo por $1,000.00), intereses al 6.50%, vencedero el 1 de marzo de 2035, según Esc. #142, en Carolina, el 1 de marzo de 2005, ante Wilson A. Galarza Galarza, inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 979 de Carolina, finca #37, 198, inscripción 6ta, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. (ii) Hipoteca constituida par Minerva María Velazco Villanueva, so/tera, sabre esta y la finca #37, 197, en garantía de un pagare, aff. #1522, a favor de Autoridad para El Financiamiento de la Vivienda de P.R., o a su orden, par $10,000.00, (esta finca responde por $1,000.00), vencedero el 1 de marzo de 2013, según Esc. #143, en Carolina, el 1 de marzo de 2005, ante Wilson A. Galarza Galarza, inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 979 de Carolina, finca #37, 198, inscripción 7ma, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. En cuanto a la finca 37198, 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 7 de abril de 2021, notificada el 9 de mayo de 2021, este Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia, mediante la cual se condena a la parte demandada, a pagar a la parte demandante la suma $35,979.57 de principal, más interés por $1,732.64 que continuarán acumulándose desde el día 1 de marzo de 2020 hasta el saldo total al 8.375% anual, $114.00 de cargos por atraso, $6,000.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

FINCA 37197. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, de la finca 37197, será celebrada el día 1 de diciembre de 2021 a las 10:45 de la mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $80,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 de diciembre de 2021 a las 10:45 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $53,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 de diciembre de 2021 a las 10:45 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio

pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $40,000.00. FINCA 37198. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, de la finca 37198, será celebrada el día 1 de diciembre de 2021 a las 11:00 de la mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $1,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 de diciembre de 2021 a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $666.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 de diciembre de 2021 a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma.

Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores.Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de septiembre de 2021. Manuel Villafañe Blanco, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA.

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

Javier Montalvo Cintrón, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009 10-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414.

DADA en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 30 de septiembre de 2021. Dominga Gómez Fuster, Secretaria Regional. Michelle Guevara de Leon, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROGENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- LINA. BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- RAMIRO CRUZ MIRANDA CIA SALA DE HUMACAO. Demandante

ORIENTAL BANK

CONSOLIDATED MORTGAGE BIADNY MIREYA JIMENEZ AND FINANCE IZQUIERDO; JESUS CORPORATION.; JUAN RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA Parte Demandada PUEBLO y cualquiera CIVIL NUM. HU2021CV00622. persona desconocida SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIposible interés en POTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENIa obligación cuya TE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTA- cancelación por decreto DO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. judicial se solicita.

SS. EDICTO. Parte Demandante V.

Demandados

A: BIADNY MIREYA CIVIL NUM. CA2021CV02398.

JIMENEZ IZQUIERDO SOBRE: CANCELACION DE RD 3 15 Estancias De PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMHumacao, Humacao, PR PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. 00791; 7 Alturas del Este, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE Humacao, PR 00791-4718; LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL PMB 321, 58 B Este Calle ESTADO LIBRE AsoclADo DE Dolores, Humacao, PR PUERTO RICO. SS. 00792-0890; Calle Ucar A: CONSOLIDATED 244, Hacienda Borinquen, MORTGAGE Caguas, PR 00725; Solar AND FINANCE 15 Urb. Estancias de CORPORATION.; JUAN Humacao, Humacao, DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA PR 00791; #15 km 84 1 DEL PUEBLO COMO Estancias de Humacao, POSIBLES TENEDORES V Humacao, PR 00791; CUALESQUIER PERSONA PO Box 890 792 PO 407, DESCONOCIDA CON Humacao, PR 00792-0890; POSIBLE INTERES EN Calle Carreras 58B Suite LA OBLIGACIÔN CUYA 116, Humacao, PR 00791.

CANCELACIÔN POR POR LA PRESENTE se le em- DECRETO JUDICIAL SE plaza para que presente al triSOLICITA. bunal su alegación responsiva

The San Juan Daily Star Por Ia presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. 1. En este caso Ia parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de CONSOLIDATED MORTGAGE AND FINANCE CORPORATION., o a su orden, por Ia suma principal de $30,100.00 con intereses al 9 1/2% vencedero el 1 de diciembre de 2004. Dicho pagaré fue suscrito el dIa 651-A, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el dIa 25 de noviembre de 1974, ante el notario Pedro L Subirats, sobre Ia propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar #24 de Ia manzana 154 radicado en Ia Urbanización Villa Carolina situada en el barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico con un área superficial de 330.00 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #5 en 13.75 metros; por el SUR, con calle 426 en 13.75 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar #23 en 24.00 metros; por el OESTE, con el solar #25 en 24.00 metros. Enclava una casa. Finca 29654 inscrita al folio 264 tomo 736 Carolina, Registro de Ia Propiedad de Carolina, Sección 2. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en Ia Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en Ia SecretarIa de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diana 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 Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: httIs://unired.ramaiudicial. rfsumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a Ia abogada de Ia parte demandante Ia Lcda. LizbetAviles Vega, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791; Tel. (787) 354-0061, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a Ia publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo asI dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo et remedio solicitado en Ia Demanda sin más citarle ni oIrle. EXPEDIDO bajo ml firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de septiembre de 2021. Lcda Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Secretaria Regional. Ida Fernandez Rodriguez, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

OLGA MARGARITA SANTIAGO CASTRO MARÍA CASTRO ORTIZ, JUAN ANTONIO SANTIAGO MATOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2019CV01857.

(404). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo Ángel De J. Torres Pérez, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 15 de enero de 2020 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, 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 el Centro Judicial de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 553 Avenida José A. Cedeño, Arecibo, 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 Olga Margarita Santiago Castro; María Castro Ortiz, Juan Antonio Santiago Matos y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por Ambos. Dirección Física: Urb. Vista Azul (del proyecto “San Daniel”), HH 29 Calle 30, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Finca 21,956, inscrita al folio 275 del tomo 641 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo. URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero veinte y nueve del Bloque “HH” del plano de inscripción del proyecto “San Daniel”, denominado PR cinco-ciento veinticuatro, radicado en el Barrio Hato Abajo de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos ochentiocho metros cuadrados; en lindes: por el NORTE, con el Solar HH-treinta, y una distancia de veinticuatro metros; por el SUR, con el Solar HH-veintiocho, y

una distancia de veinte y cuatro metros; por el ESTE, con Solares HH-veinticinco y HH- veinticuatro y una distancia de doce metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número treinta, y una distancia de doce metros. Enclava en este Solar una estructura de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón de una planta, conteniendo tres cuartos dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina equipada y baño. Finca 21,956: Por su procedencia está afecta a: LIBRE DE CARGAS. Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Metro Island Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal d $58,913.00, con intereses al 5.25% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2046, constituida mediante la escritura número 101, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de marzo de 2016, ante el notario Alejandro J. Cacho Rodríguez, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 21,956, inscripción 13ª. b) b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de septiembre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, en el Caso Civil número AR2019CV01857, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Olga Margarita Santiago Castro, soltera, y Juan Antonio Santiago Matos y su esposa María Castro Ortiz, por la suma de $57,514.51, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 28 de octubre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 21,956, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 21,956 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $58,913.00.

HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 101, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 7 de marzo de 2016, ante el notario Alejandro J. Cacho Rodríguez. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $39,275.33.

TERCERA SUBASTA: 24 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $29,456.50. 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 9 de diciembre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 11 de diciembre de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Se condena a la parte demandada a pagar a la demandante la suma principal de $57,514.51, más $9,887.80, 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 hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de octubre de 2021. Ángel De J. Torres Pérez, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Arecibo.

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AMERICAS LEADING FINANCE LLC Demandante V.

JANETTE SERRANO RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL

DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: FA2021CV00201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO (REPOSESIÓN DE VEHÍCULO). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JANETTE SERRANO RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. URB. ESTANCIAS DEL SOL, B149 ROCHUE, RÍO GRANDE, P.R. 00745; PARC FALU, 258 CALLE 30 SAN JUAN, P.R. 009243195; EL COMANDANTE 1216 CALLE ARTURO H. DÍAZ, RÍO PIEDRAS, PR 00924.

(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 08 de octubre 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 08 de octubre de 2021. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 08 de octubre de 2021. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria Regional. Sue Laurie Soto Acevedo, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

RAUL MORA NAZARIO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

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AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2021CV02310.

Sala: 409. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO EMITIDO POR EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO, SALA DE CAROLINA.

A: RAUL MORA NAZARIO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, PARTE DEMANDADA EN EL CASO DE: Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Raúl Mora Nazario, Fulana de Tal y la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por ambos, Civil Núm.: CA2021CV02310 (409), sobre Cobro de Dinero.

Se les notifica a ustedes, RAUL MORA NAZARIO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA

POR AMBOS, que en la Demanda que originó este caso se alega que ustedes le adeudan a la parte demandante, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, las siguientes cantidades: a. $16,473.06 de principal, $2,774.67 de intereses hasta el 27 de abril de 2021, más los intereses que se devenguen a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda al tipo legal, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, $102.99 de cargos por mora y la cuantía de $1,935.07 pactada para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La deuda es por concepto de un préstamo que les fue desembolsado por la demandante y cuyos últimos cuatro dígitos son 0101. b. $33,417.30 de principal e intereses devengados hasta el 27 de abril de 2021 más los intereses que se devenguen a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda al tipo legal, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma razonable para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por el uso de la demandada de una tarjeta de crédito VISA Black Dual cuyos últimos 4 dígitos son 9790. Se les emplaza y requiere que presenten al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en

la secretaría del tribunal. Deberán notificar a la licenciada: María S. Jiménez Meléndez al PO Box 9023632, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-3632; teléfono: (787) 723-2455; abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la demanda. Si ustedes dejan 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. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 8 de octubre de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYSHA M. CORDERO DANOIS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

DAMARIS CASTILLO AYALA, JOHN DOE

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2021CV01587. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARE.

(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 7 de octubre 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 7 de octubre de 2021. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2021.

WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANA CELÍS MÁRQUEZ APONTE,

SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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B. FERNANDEZ & HNOS., INC. Demandante Vs.

YARA GAS SERVICE STATION, CORP.; GHASSAN JALAL ZAYED

Demandado(a) Civil: AB2020CV00132. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: YARA GAS SERVICE STATION, CORP., POR CONDUCTO DE SU AGENTE PRESIDENTE GHASSAN JALAL ZAYED. P.O. BOX 1487, AGUAS BUENAS, PUERTO RICO 00703; CARR. #156 KM 52.1, BO. BAIROA AGUAS BUENAS, PUERTO RICO 00703; CARR. 130 R 492, KM 3 HM 3, BO. CORCOVADA, HATILLO, PR 00659; BO. MULAS CARR. #174 KM 20.6, AGUAS BUENAS, PUERTO RICO 00703; CARR. #493 INTERSECCION CARR. #492, HATILLO, PR 00659; CARR. 130 R 493 KM 3.7, HATILLO, PUERTO RICO.

(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 20 de julio 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 7 de octubre de 2021. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 7 de octubre de 2021. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Zaida Aguayo Álamo, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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PR women’s ice hockey team set to make history at LATAM Cup

By PHILIP PAINTER Special to The STAR HockeyPuertoRico@gmail.com

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hen Sonja Rodríguez saw the 1970s magazine ad for Ronrico Rum featuring a Boricua goalie in front of the net enjoying a cocktail, she knew it was a send up of the times. Women’s hockey, let alone permanent ice on the island, was indeed a dream. The only ice was rattling in the pictured cocktail glass.

Rodríguez is ready to lead “Las Chicas” onto the ice this week at the LATAM (Latin American) Cup in Miami as a serious contender. Puerto Rico is once again making history as the Caribbean’s first ever women’s team. The island men broke through internationally in 2013 at the Copa Invernada in Punta Arenas, Chile.

“I can’t believe this is really happening,” Rodríguez said. “I thought when I played on the men’s team at the 2019 LATAM that was as close as girl’s hockey would get.”

Rodríguez backstopped for Puerto Rico in a four-game win streak to the finals, ultimately won by the Falkland Islands. Puerto Rico was the only co-ed team entered in the

Sonja Rodríguez tourney, and was a crowd favorite as hockey’s answer to the Bad News Bears.

This is all about to change in Miami with the biggest Latin American hockey tournament yet, featuring teams from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Venezuela (Ecuador and the Falklands couldn’t make it due to COVID-19 travel issues). The Puerto Rico men have

moved up to Division 1 after the “Milagro Sobre Hielo” in 2019, and are no longer an underdog.

LATAM organizer Juan Carlos Otero has never been surprised by the rapid growth of Puerto Rico’s program.

“When people heard Puerto Rico was entered in the last tourney, no one knew what to expect. We knew they lost their ice

to Hurricane Maria and they were travelling as a pick-up squad -- they had talent,” Otero said. “When they ran off dominant wins versus Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil the secret was out. PR is the real deal. I have no doubt they will be a force in the men’s and women’s brackets this year.”

Every game in this year’s tournament will be aired on HockeyTV. Not to mention that the NHL is sending the Stanley Cup, and pioneer Willie O’Ree -- the Jackie Robinson of hockey -- will be on hand to showcase the growth of hockey into new regions.

All games will be played at the Ice Den, the practice facility of the Florida Panthers, who, it’s worth mentioning, played the New York Rangers at the Coliseo de PR in 2006.

It remains the only NHL game ever played south of Miami.

Puerto Rico defenseman Rob LaLonde of Isabela summed it up best.

“When I moved to the island I heard something was going on the hockey front,” he said. “When I see this year’s reality I have to step up my game. Other countries have us circled on the schedule. We’re not a secret anymore.”

Benson Kipruto and Diana Kipyogei win Boston after a lost year

By VICTOR MATHER

B

enson Kipruto won the men’s race and Diana Kipyogei was the women’s winner at the Boston Marathon on Monday, held for the first time since 2019, in an unfamiliar fall setting.

Kipruto, a 30-year-old Kenyan, had won the Prague and Toronto marathons but lacked a signature victory before Monday.

C.J. Albertson, an American who was seventh in the most recent Olympic Trials and was not considered a major contender in Boston, caused a stir when he raced out to a big lead ahead of the main pack, by as much as 2 minutes 13 seconds by the halfway mark. Such early leads seldom last long, but Albertson stubbornly stayed out front for mile after mile.

But the elite runners behind him

started cutting into the lead, and after 20.5 miles, that lead was gone. The 15-strong pack that caught him included major contenders Filex Kiprotich, Wilson Chebet and Asefa Mengstu. That’s when the race really began.

And the trigger was Kipruto, who put in a big surge on his own at 22 miles and seized the lead, with little resistance. He soon had a 30-second lead and pulled away with confidence. No one seemed willing to chase him, and he won going away in 2:09:51.

Ethiopians were second, third and fourth, with Lemi Berhanu second, 46 seconds behind Kipruto and just a second ahead of Jemal Yimer.

Kipyogei, also of Kenya, won in her major marathon debut. At 27, her previous biggest victory was the Istanbul Marathon.

The race followed a typical pattern,

Two first-time champions from Kenya surged to victory in the men’s and women’s races as the marathon returned for the first time since April 2019. with a large lead group forming and runners gradually dropping away. The pack was still 20 strong by the halfway mark.

The race didn’t really begin until 18 miles in, when Kipyogei surged ahead.

Netsanet Gudeta of Ethiopia, a former world cross-country champion, went after her and caught her within a few miles. Sometimes when a lone leader is caught in a marathon, it’s the end of the line for her. But at 24 miles, after the

two had run side by side, it was Kipyogei who again took the lead.

Edna Kiplagat of Kenya, a pre-race favorite and a two-time world champion as well as a New York and Boston winner, soon caught Gudeta and gave chase to Kipyogei. She gained some time but could not close the whole gap.

Kipyogei finished her unexpected victory, in a field with many more accomplished runners, in 2:24:45.

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Red Sox ride a wave of offense into ALCS

By TYLER KEPNER

S

o this was how it ended for the Tampa Bay Rays, the team that pushes and pokes conventional thinking and usually gets away with it. The Rays set a franchise record with 100 victories this season, eight more than the Boston Red Sox. But when it mattered most, in their American League Division Series, the Red Sox upended the hoariest axiom of all.

Sometimes, good hitting really does stop good pitching.

A sacrifice fly to left field by Kiké Hernández vaulted the Red Sox into the American League Championship Series on Monday night, capping a 6-5 victory and a three-games-to-one series win.

The Red Sox will face the Chicago White Sox or the Houston Astros in the next round, which starts Friday, as they seek their fifth championship in the past 18 seasons.

“We always said we had a good baseball team that had some holes, and we still have some holes,” Boston manager Alex Cora said. “But at the end, for as bad as it looked sometimes, we’re still here. We’re still in the dance.”

It was a day for dancing in the Hub. In the morning, the locals lined the streets to toast the return of the Boston Marathon; at night, they packed old Fenway to celebrate a playoff clincher. It was hard to envision this just a few days ago, when the Rays’ sorcerers spun a shutout in the series opener. Who knew then that they’d cast their last spell?

The Red Sox hitters spent the next three days thrashing the Rays. They batted .341 for the series, striking out only 26 times. In the last three games, Tampa Bay starters never made it through the third inning — and even when the bullpen pitched well, Boston’s hitters were not fooled.

“We just could not create that swing-and-miss that we’ve done so well throughout the regular season,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “They really had a good approach. It felt like there was constant pressure. There were no easy outs.”

The Red Sox scored the most runs in the majors during their championship seasons of 2004, 2013 and 2018, and

Kiké Hernández was a key off-season acquisition for the Boston Red Sox. He finished a big series against the Tampa Bay Rays with a walk-off sacrifice fly in Monday’s Game 4. their 2007 title team ranked fourth. This year they were fifth and actually scored fewer runs than the Rays.

But the separator was strikeouts: The Rays’ hitters had the most of any winning team in the majors, while the Red Sox had among the fewest. Boston pitchers exploited the Tampa Bay hitters over and over again, generating 46 strikeouts and holding the Rays’ leading home run hitter, Brandon Lowe, hitless for the series.

The Rays had hoped to build off their run to the AL pennant last fall. But the Red Sox have a seasoned team, too, and Hernández — who helped the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Rays in the last World Series — said the Game 1 shutout jolted the lineup.

“Playoff baseball, if you don’t let the moment get too big, it kind of brings the best out of people,” said Hernández, who hit .450 (9 for 20) in the series. “We were able to lock it in and make better decisions on the pitches we wanted to swing at, the zones we wanted to attack.”

Hernández embodies his retooled team. For all of their success this century, the Red Sox have also finished last in

the AL East four times. That includes last season, the first under Chaim Bloom, the team’s chief baseball officer and a former top executive with the Rays.

Bloom traded Mookie Betts but kept much of the well-paid core from the 2018 champions — Chris Sale, J.D. Martínez, Xander Bogaerts, Nathan Eovaldi. He has supported them with a series of low-cost investments, in the Tampa Bay style, and Hernández is the most expensive import.

Hernández, 30, signed for two years and $14 million after playing every position but catcher for the Dodgers. He had essentially been a Hollywood stuntman yearning for a leading role.

“But I didn’t want the easy way of playing every day,” Hernández said. “I didn’t just want to play every day in the big leagues. I wanted to play every day where it mattered.”

In two trips to Fenway with the Dodgers, Hernández said, he had never appreciated the atmosphere. At the icy 2018 World Series, the Dodgers lost twice and spent too much time shivering to look around. When Hernández returned the next summer, the Red

Sox were far out of first and the crowd seemed listless.

This season has been much different, especially now. The Red Sox are 3-0 at Fenway this postseason and have eliminated two division rivals, including the New York Yankees in the wild-card game. The Rays games were classics, with a leadoff and game-ending homer Sunday — Kyle Schwarber to start, Christian Vázquez to finish — and a little bit of everything Monday.

Rafael Devers ripped a three-run homer. The Red Sox led by five, then lost the lead. In the eighth, Cora called for Garrett Whitlock, a rookie with a rebuilt elbow who was plucked from the Yankees in the Rule 5 draft. Whitlock faced six hitters and retired them all.

He also got the win after a minimalist rally from a team that can also swing big: single, sacrifice bunt, infield single, sacrifice fly. Love that dirty water.

“I feel like nobody expected us to be here right now,” starter Eduardo Rodríguez said. “And look where we are.”

The Red Sox are onto the ALCS. Opposing pitchers beware.

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Raiders coach resigns after homophobic and misogynistic emails

By KEN BELSON and KATHERINE ROSMAN

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on Gruden stepped down earlier this week as the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders football team hours after The New York Times detailed emails in which he had made homophobic and misogynistic remarks, following an earlier report of racist statements about a union leader.

His resignation Monday was a striking departure from the football league for a coach who had won a Super Bowl, been a marquee analyst on ESPN and returned to the NFL in 2018 to lead the resurgent Raiders, which he had coached years before.

“I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders,” he said on Twitter in a statement issued by the team. “I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction.

Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”

Mark Davis, the owner of the Raiders, said in a statement that he had accepted the resignation. Rich Bisaccia, the Raiders’ special teams coordinator, was elevated to interim head coach, the team said.

Gruden’s departure came after a New York Times report that NFL officials, as part of a separate workplace misconduct investigation that did not directly involve him, found that Gruden had casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to denigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momentous changes.

He denounced the emergence of women as referees, the drafting of a gay player and the tolerance of players protesting during the playing of the national anthem, according to emails reviewed by The Times.

Gruden’s messages were sent to Bruce Allen, the former president of the Washington Football Team, and others, while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during “Monday Night Football.” In the emails, Gruden called the league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, a “faggot” and a “clueless anti football pussy” and said that Goodell should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft “queers,” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.

In numerous emails during a seven-year period ending in early 2018, Gruden criticized Goodell and the league for trying to reduce concussions and said that Eric Reid, a player who had demonstrated during the

In a postgame news conference Sunday, Raiders Coach Jon Gruden addressed an email in which he used a racist trope to describe DeMaurice Smith, the head of the N.F.L. Players Association. playing of the national anthem, should be fired. In several instances, Gruden used a homophobic slur to refer to Goodell and offensive language to describe some NFL owners, coaches and journalists who cover the league.

Gruden, Allen, the NFL and the Raiders did not respond to requests for comment from The Times.

Although not with a team at the time, Gruden was still influential in the league and highly coveted as a coach. He had won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2002-03 season. And in 2018, he was hired for his second stint as the head coach of the Raiders franchise, which includes defensive lineman Carl Nassib, the first active NFL player to publicly declare that he is gay.

The league said last week that it shared emails with the Raiders in which Gruden made derogatory comments.

Gruden told ESPN on Sunday that the league was reviewing emails in which he criticized Goodell and explained that he had been upset about team owners’ lockout of the players in 2011, when some of the emails were written. Gruden said in that interview

that had used an expletive to refer to Goodell and that he did so because he disapproved of Goodell’s emphasis on safety, which he believed was scaring parents into steering their sons away from football.

But Gruden’s behavior was not limited to 2011. Gruden exchanged emails with Allen and other men that included photos of women wearing only bikini bottoms, including one photo of two Washington team cheerleaders.

Gruden also criticized President Barack Obama during his reelection campaign in 2012, as well as then-Vice President Joe Biden, whom Gruden called a “nervous clueless pussy.” He used similar words to describe Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association.

The league was already investigating Gruden as a result of another email he wrote to Allen in 2011 in which he used racist terms to describe Smith, who is Black.

In that email, Gruden, who is white and was working for ESPN at the time, criticized Smith’s intelligence and used a racist trope to describe his face. The correspondence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and

confirmed by The New York Times.

Taken together, the emails provide an unvarnished look into the clubby culture of one NFL circle of peers, where white male decision-makers felt comfortable sharing pornographic images, deriding the league policies and jocularly sharing homophobic language.

Their banter flies in the face of the league’s public denouncements of racism and sexism and its promises to be more inclusive amid criticism for not listening to the concerns of Black players, who make up about 70% of rosters. The NFL has in the past struggled to discipline personnel who have committed acts of domestic violence and been condemned for failing to adequately address harassment of women, including NFL cheerleaders.

The league, Smith and Davis all denounced Gruden’s comments about Smith when they surfaced, but the coach still led his team in its game Sunday against the Chicago Bears. Gruden said Friday that he did not remember sending the email and that his language “went too far,” adding, “I never had a blade of racism in me.”

Gruden’s emails to Allen, who was fired by the Washington Football Team at the end of 2019, were reviewed as part of an NFL investigation of workplace misconduct within the franchise that ended this summer. Goodell instructed league executives to look at more than 650,000 emails during the past few months, including those in which Gruden made offensive remarks. Last week, Goodell received a summary of their findings, and the league sent the Raiders some of the emails written by Gruden.

In the exchanges, Gruden used his personal email account, while Allen wrote from his team account. In some cases, Allen initiated the conversations, and Gruden chimed in, while in other cases, they traded vulgar comments several times.

Some of the emails between Gruden and Allen also included businessmen friends: Ed Droste, the co-founder of Hooters; Jim McVay, an executive who has run the Outback Bowl, annually held in Tampa, Florida; and Nick Reader, founder of PDQ Restaurants, a Tampa-based fried chicken franchise. The exchanges begin as early as 2010 while Gruden was an analyst for “Monday Night Football.” In 2018, he signed a 10-year, $100 million contract to coach the Raiders.

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

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

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HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

oday’s Quarter Moon in your sector of ambition, suggests this may be a day for decisions. The question is, should you compromise regarding a goal or plan, or forge ahead regardless. With the Moon in cool Capricorn, you might find it easier to put feelings aside and go for what you want. If you feel the urge to push ahead, then do it Aries. It’s worth grabbing every chance you can get.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Despite all your seeming confidence, you could feel a tad vulnerable due to the position of the Moon in a private and emotional zone. You might not feel quite as upbeat as you make out, perhaps fearing that you won’t be able to pull off something that everyone is expecting you to. It’s time to tap into your inner strength, Libra. You can if you think you can, so don’t give up.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

You may be in a quandary, and wondering if you should make that lifestyle change. Whether you want to live to your full potential or feel an urge to study or learn a new skill, this is the time to go for it. Other influences suggest you’re ready to be more adventurous. Yet you often do your best when life is ordered and you’re not over-stressed, which is something to think about.

The time may have come to decide how to proceed with a relationship. With the Sun in ambivalent Libra, you could find such a decision difficult though.

What are your instincts telling you? There might be a compelling desire to draw closer to someone that seems quite urgent, but perhaps a more subtle and cautious approach would be better, if you want things to go well.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

You may be in a sensitive mood, and not inclined to spend too much time around other people. Today’s powerful lunar phase in your home zone, could make a key discussion inevitable though, Cancer. At some point, you might need to talk over a plan or decision, and make your position clear. A focus on Libra can encourage a compromise, but is this really the best outcome for you?

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

You could use cold, hard facts to navigate through the day, or connect with your sixth sense and let it guide you to find the easiest path or solution.

Today’s Quarter Moon can be a call to take a look at a situation, and rather than respond to the way it seems, let your intuition have free reign. You may be surprised at the ideas and insights that show up, that are spot on.

Is it worth going to a social event you might not enjoy? If you get an invite, you may not give it much thought, especially if there are better ways to use your time. Today’s lunation suggests that it could be a turning point Archer, and that if you do attend, you can reap benefits in terms of the people you encounter and the opportunities that result from this. It might be worth going along.

Today’s Quarter Moon can make a decision seem all the more serious. Before you go ahead though, you might want to check certain details, to satisfy yourself on key points. If matters aren’t as you expect, don’t immediately assume that it’s a dead end.

If you’re open to discussion and willing to negotiate, then a successful outcome could be possible, Capricorn.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may need to step up the pace, as today’s Quarter Moon in your lifestyle zone, could coincide with a decision to take on a project or idea, or perhaps to get serious about your wellbeing. You’ll be geared up to get serious about something, and as you know, this is going to eat into more of your time. But enthusiasm can win, as if you really want to do it, you’ll find a way, Leo.

Try to remember your dreams as soon as you wake up Aquarius, as you could get insights and answers to issues that you’ve been searching for, for a while. Perhaps they bubbled up from the subconscious mind while you slept, and might offer brilliant solutions. But there’s also the creative aspect. You may be drawn to experiment with ideas that can be a first for you.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

You might not like to think about money when it comes to matters such as romance or your creative talents, but perhaps you ought to. With a lunar phase spurring you on to explore a budding relationship or collaborate on an exciting project, it pays to think about what it may cost you. Not only in terms of hard cash, but also in time and other valuable resources, Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Ready to launch a plan? You may wonder whether to keep it secret and go it alone, or to share it and work as a team. Putting out feelers today can prove interesting. You could find that friends and kindred spirits are as excited about it as you are, which might encourage you to get them on board. Plus, as Venus continues in your career zone, a meeting may change everything, Pisces.

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CARTOONS

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