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PREPA to Receive $76 Million as Part of Pandemic Mitigation P4

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San Juan embarks on $26 million street repavement program

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an Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo on Sunday announced the Tus Calles al Día program, the largest municipal road resurfacing initiative in the capital city’s history, with an investment of over $26 million in which 203 linear miles of streets, avenues and roads will be paved.

“Working to improve the conditions of our streets, avenues and municipal roads is the priority in terms of infrastructure,” the mayor said. “The condition in which municipal roads have been left has no precedent. [Tending to] the streets of the people of San Juan was a commitment that I made before the elections and I am pleased to announce that we have already begun to fulfill it.”

Romero added that “for yours truly, priorities are demonstrated not by speaking, but by acting.”

“That is why we have made the determination to allocate an amount of economic resources that has never been achieved before in the history of San Juan,” he said.

“We are talking about more than $26 million in this fiscal year so that in a massive and consistent way, we begin to repair our streets and roads in all areas of our capital.

“Road infrastructure is an essential part of economic development,” Romero Lugo added. “We cannot attract investment to San Juan or Puerto Rico with public roads that impede transportation. We have important structures, but without public transportation routes that provide safety and streamline services, we cannot aspire to have a solid economy with the quality of life that our citizens deserve.”

The mayor specified that the program will impact roads, streets and, in the last phase, avenues. “We are adopting state areas; however, it is necessary that the improvements are consistent with our vision of the city and for this it is necessary to leave the territorial limits and meet the needs of San Juan,” he said.

Likewise, he announced that Tus Calles al Día will be divided into four phases in which an average of 227,272 tons of asphalt will be used. He also noted that the allocation is the highest in the history of the municipality to resurface and repair roads. All this is in addition to the renovation work that has already begun, which includes the repair of Calle Fortaleza in Old San Juan.

Romero Lugo said to meet the expectations of time and need of the initiative, which is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2022 and in which some 657 municipal roads will be impacted, different companies will be hired

based on the city’s five geographical areas. The contracted companies are Super Asphalt Pavement Corp, Puerto Rico Asphalt LLC, Professional Asphalt LLC, and Stella Construction Group LLC. “The municipality will also have personnel in charge of the measurement, documentation and monitoring of the work,” the mayor said. “The projects were assigned in an equitable way to each company so that they can meet the compliance dates and quality metrics.”

Romero Lugo emphasized the imperative need to address the situation of public roads.

“The streets of San Juan are in frank deterioration, after years of not receiving adequate maintenance,” he said. “As of September 15, 5,763 complaints had been received for patching, paving and resurfacing.”

Raúl García, director of the Department of Public Works noted that “an analysis developed by the Municipality identified that San Juan has 29.55 linear miles of avenues, 688.70 linear miles of streets and 85.96 linear miles of roads.”

“Of these, it was shown that 65% of the streets, 75% of the roads and 55% of the avenues are in poor condition,” he said.

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo said the Tus Calles al Día program is the largest municipal road resurfacing initiative in the capital city’s history.

(Photo Courtesy of the Municipality of San Juan)

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Fiscal board approves $71 million bond issuance for health care institutions

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s an end to Puerto Rico’s long bankruptcy appears to get closer, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico has approved an approximately $71 million bond issuance by the Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Education, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority (AFICA by its Spanish acronym) on behalf of Sociedad Española de Auxilio Mutuo y Beneficencia de Puerto Rico and Hospital Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico.

Separately, the oversight board approved a $600 million fuel contract for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), which has been in bankruptcy since 2017 to restructure The Financial Oversight and Management Board has approved an AFICA bond issuance of some $71 million on behalf of Sociedad Española de Auxilio Mutuo y Beneficencia de some $9 billion in debt.

AFICA is a public corporation of the island Puerto Rico and Hospital Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico. government created in 1977 to provide financing for the acquisition, construction and equipping sight Board,” said Natalie Jaresko, the oversight $17 million of bond proceeds used for the 20 of industrial, tourist, medical, educational, pol- board’s executive director. “The approved bond projects, the two institutions will invest some lution control and solid waste disposal facilities issuance through AFICA helps the hospital have $25 million of their own capital combined in through the issuance of private activity revenue lower financing costs via the tax-exempt debt the purchase of new equipment, and $28 milbonds by acting as conduit issuer. market.” lion for the construction of a new radiotherapy Auxilio Mutuo Hospital will use the Series “The people of Puerto Rico must be able to facility and improvements to several buildings 2021 bond proceeds to redeem outstanding debt rely on their hospitals and health care providers at Hospital Auxilio Mutuo’s Hato Rey complex. for cash flow savings and to fund 20 healthcare to give the care they need,” she added.

Only the hospitals, not the commonwealth or projects at the aforementioned institutions, an The Series 2021 bond proceeds will refund AFICA, are obligated to pay the Series 2021 oversight board statement issued last week said. $51.5 million of the Series 2011A bonds and bonds.

“Investments in the health care system of any accrued interest, resulting in significant cash Regarding the PREPA contract, the oversight Puerto Rico are one of the priorities of the Over- flow savings. In addition to the approximately board approved the proposed $606 million

fuel contract with Puma Energy Caribe LLC for the Aguirre, Costa Sur, San Juan and Palo Seco power plants.

The contract price adder negotiated under PREPA’s enhanced procurement process represents an approximate 33% price reduction compared to the current minimum adder of $4.28. Puma provides PREPA with a credit cap of $200 million and a 60-day credit term. Four companies had provided proposals.

“The Oversight Board worked closely with PREPA to ensure a transparent and competitive bidding process that achieved the best possible price for the residents and businesses of Puerto Rico,” Jaresko said. “The Oversight Board has consistently requested improvement in PREPA’s contracting practices, to utilize best practices, ensure transparency, promote competition, and ensure the best possible pricing and terms for the benefit of all consumers.The new contract shows that prudent procurement practices achieve the best results. This contract is a big step forward, providing big savings on the adder fee portion of the fuel supply contracts.”

The proposed contract with Puma is a oneyear agreement for the delivery and supply of no more than 1.6 million barrels of No. 6 fuel oil (bunker fuel) per month at market price with a fixed price adder of $2.88 per barrel and includes a provision allowing PREPA, at its sole discretion, to extend the contract for an additional year under the same terms.

Allocation of $76 million authorized for PREPA/pandemic mitigation

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced Sunday that the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials) authorized the allocation of $76 million to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in Puerto Rico, which includes investment in the purchase of fuel and maintenance of the generating infrastructure.

“The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it, on the one hand, an increase in residential electricity consumption, and on the other a decrease in economic activity. With work, school and university studies occurring remotely, the demand for electrical energy increased dramatically, but on the other hand

businesses and industries were forced to reduce their operations. This caused greater pressure to be placed on an old, fragile and delicate generation network,” the governor said. “It is for this reason that I asked the AAFAF to prioritize funds from the ARPA [American Rescue Plan] Law and transfer additional resources to PREPA to address this pressing situation and that at the end of the day hurts subscribers because it is reflected in the fuel purchase factors and energy in the bill.”

Pierluisi also said that with the funds he avoids passing on to consumers the cumulative effect of the pandemic, which was reflected in the previous quarter in the incremental cost of fuel caused by continuous failures at generation plants, as well as by the use of rapid response units that use a more expensive fuel.

He emphasized that in order to avoid the

recurrence of what happened in the previous quarter, he instructed PREPA to update the maintenance program for the generation fleet without additional expenses or increases in the basic rate.

For his part, AAFAF Executive Director Omar J. Marrero said ARPA allows the use of funds in four circumstances.

“One of them is that the funds are used in the provision of government services to the extent that the agency has had a reduction in income due to the public health emergency caused by COVID-19,” he said in a written statement. “Under this circumstance, PREPA qualifies to receive the funds.”

“The government is always obliged to guarantee access to a better electric power service to its citizens and even more so in the midst of a health emergency, so this economic

allocation made by Gov. Pierluisi today is extremely important to reduce the impact of the rise in consumption on PREPA subscribers,” Marrero added.

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Fiscal board seeks delay of DAP confirmation hearings Insists it doesn’t need enabling bill to complete debt deal

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fter legislation enabling the debt adjustment plan was “shelved” by the island Legislature late last week, the Financial Oversight and Management Board requested a postponement of the hearings slated to start Nov. 8 to confirm the seventh debt adjustment plan in order to sit down with creditors, but insisted it does need the enabling bill to execute the debt deal.

The oversight board’s request came Friday, hours after Title III Bankruptcy Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered a hearing for today where the oversight board and government officials are to discuss the fate of the debt deal.

Swain ordered the hearing following reports that House Bill 1003, the legislation enabling the debt adjustment plan that would restructure some $33 billion in central U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain government debt, had not been approved.

“The reported ‘shelving’ of House Bill The Senate and House approved different versions of HB 1003 earlier this month. 1003 by the Senate and the recess of the After working in a conference committee House until Oct. 26, 2021, appears to make to create a single version of the bill, the it unlikely that the deadline announced House approved the legislation again but it yesterday by the Financial Management and does not have the votes in the Senate. The Oversight Board will be met,” Swain said.

A few hours later, the oversight board oversight board had given the government until Friday at 2 p.m. to enact the legislation sought a postponement of the Nov. 8 hearing before seeking a delay in the confirmation to sit back with creditors and modify the plan with regards to the enabling legislation. The hearings.

board said the enabling bill is not needed to execute the debt deal but that it was sought by the creditors.

“The debt adjustment plan currently requires legislation authorizing new debt issuances and contingent value instruments because certain creditors requested that legislation to potentially enhance the trading value of the new debt, and not because legislation is required to issue debt in a Title III plan of adjustment,” the oversight board said.

“Therefore, the Oversight Board believes it should re-engage with creditors and determine how it will modify the plan,” the board said. “Depending on the ultimate modification adopted, there may be a need for a supplement to the disclosure statement and a hearing thereon.”

The nature of the oversight board’s negotiations is not clear, but Swain in the past has agreed with the board that it does not need the enabling legislation to execute the debt deal under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).

In a footnote to her ruling annulling the Dignified Retirement Act earlier this month, Swain wrote “PROMESA contemplates a primarily interactive process of development of fiscal plans and budgets and forbids certain actions by Puerto Rico governmental entities.”

“Of relevance to the instant dispute, PROMESA gives the Oversight Board author-

ity to seek judicial relief thwarting actions that the Oversight Board has determined frustrate or impair the purposes of PROMESA, and provides that the statute preempts inconsistent local laws and regulations,” the judge wrote.

As the oversight board made clear in its statement last Thursday, the “Oversight Board and a diverse group of stakeholders ranging from unions, retirees, bondholders and other creditors, and bond insurers agreed on a plan that is the best possible outcome given the difficult circumstances that Puerto Rico has had to manage for the past several years.”

So far, some creditors have informed the court that they will be attending today’s court hearing. They are Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.; Ambac Assurance Corp.; Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp.; the Ad Hoc Group of Constitutional Debtholders; Cantor-Katz Collateral Monitor LLC; the International Union; United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); the Lawful Constitutional Debt Coalition; the QTCB Noteholder Group; National Public Finance Guarantee Corp.; and Amerinational Community Services.

Meanwhile, the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials) asked the court for an extension to the deadline to submit its objections to the debt deal. The AAFAF did not submit the objections by the Oct. 19 deadline.

Guajataca Forest on track to reopen after a decade in decline

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Guajataca Forest Reserve in Isabela could reopen to the public after Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia signed Senate Joint Resolution 29 in recent days, which orders the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) to refurbish all facilities and recreational areas, and clear trails as part of the reopening of the state forest, which since 2010 has been devoid of surveillance and protection.

“The approval of this measure is of the utmost importance in order to help with the economic development of our region,” Sen. Migdalia González Arroyo, who chairs the Western Development Committee, said in a

written statement. “In addition, it addresses a situation of abandonment that our forests have been experiencing for years.”

Work in the forest is expected to begin in the next few days.

“The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources will conduct all the necessary steps for the conditioning of all the facilities and cleaning of the trails, including the reopening, after conducting an investigation that the conditioning and cleaning make the forest safe for visitors,” the senator added. “As part of the efforts to be carried out by the DNER, lighting should also be considered, and improving the conditions of the pavement on the PR-446 road that runs through the area, as well as the traffic and safety signs at the facilities.”

The Guajataca Forest is one of the 14 public forests that make up the forest system of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It occupies some 2,357 acres of land and has 25 miles of trails. It is classified as a subtropical humid climate forest and has the best trail system of all the island’s national forests.

In November 2010, it was decided to shut down the detachment of the Police Corps that had been attached to the Guajataca area, transferring all its officers to the Aguadilla Office. Since then, the forest has been devoid of the security and vigilance necessary for its due protection. For this reason it has deteriorated and has inoperative areas, noted the author of the legislation.

The island government is taking steps to reopen Guajataca State Forest in Isabela to the public. The 2,357-acre reserve has languished in a state of inattention since 2010.

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Attorney files friend of court brief in SSI case before US high court

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ro-statehood activist and lawyer Gregorio Igartúa has filed a friend of the court brief in support of José Luis Vaello Madero, who has asserted in the U.S. Supreme Court that banning Puerto Rico residents from the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is discriminatory.

The Supreme Court has set arguments for Nov. 9 to hear the United States v. Jose Luis Vaello-Madero. Under the litigation, the U.S. government sought to claw back $28,081 in SSI payments thatVaello Madero had received from the program over a threeyear period after he moved back to Puerto Rico from New York in 2013. The case was brought before the U.S. Supreme Court last year by the U.S. Department of Justice after a U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that exclusion of otherwise eligible Americans from SSI based on their residence in Puerto Rico violates the U.S. Constitution.

After 123 years, Igartúa said, the United States continues to treat Puerto Rico’s U.S. citizens as if they are still residents of a

Attorney Gregorio Igartúa has filed a friend of the court brief in support of José Luis Vaello Madero, who has asserted in the U.S. Supreme Court that banning Puerto Rico residents from the federal Supplemental Security Income program is discriminatory. non-incorporated U.S. territory.

“In opposition, Amicus Brief Supports that Puerto Rico is an Incorporated Territory of the United States, as established in Consejo de Salud de Playa de Ponce v Rullan 586 FS 2nd 22 (2008), and as supported henceforth by other authorities,” the attorney said. “Petitioner’s stance in this civil action constitutes a discriminatory practice

that affects the legal rights of Respondent and of the 3.4 American Citizens [who are] residents of Puerto Rico, which has serious social, economic, political, and legal consequences for them.”

Igartúa told the high court that the incorporation issue is at the heart of the case and, thus, must be properly disposed of.

Vaello Madero contends he is not required to return the payments he received in SSI disability benefits upon changing his domicile to Puerto Rico, since excluding a United States citizen residing in the territory from receiving those payments runs afoul of the equal protection guarantees of the Due Process Clause. In turn, the United States posits that limiting SSI eligibility to residents of the fifty states and the District of Columbia is constitutionally permissible.

The U.S. government argues that it can treat Puerto Rico residents differently because the island does not pay federal taxes, but Igartúa argued that even if Puerto Rico were a state, less than half of the citizens will have to pay such taxes because the island is poor.

“Who is benefiting from this federal income tax exemption? Corporations based in the 50 States which have saved billions of dollars in federal taxes by operating in Puerto Rico; millionaires who are moving to Puerto Rico to avoid paying federal taxes,” he argued. “The U.S. Department of Justice pretends that Congress deprives the poor in Puerto Rico from parity in federal aid programs to offset the losses in revenue from the exemption given to billionaire corporations and to millionaire individuals.”

Igartúa said that no other U.S. territory has been more assimilated than Puerto Rico to resemble a state.

“The degree of incorporation of Puerto Rico to be like a state can be considered by implication as strong as to exclude any other view than that it is an incorporated territory of the United States,” he said. “… Allowing a United States citizen in Puerto Rico who is poor and disabled to be denied SSI disability payments creates an impermissible second class citizenship akin to that premised on race, and amounts to Congress switching ‘on and off’ the Constitution discriminatorily.”

Mexican actor/mariachi singer headlines health fair in Barranquitas

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he participation of the prominent telenovela actor and Mexican icon Fernando Allende in a health fair dubbed “FERIARTE” in the Barranquitas public square was described as successful as free services were offered to citizens along with handicraft exhibitions and vaccinations.

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Popular Mexican telenovela actor and mariachi singer Fernando Allende entertained at the “FERIARTE” health fair in Barranquitas this past weekend.

(SIM) joined forces to stage FERIARTE, where primary and mental health services offered included rapid COVID-19 tests and vaccinations, as well as yoga meditation and workshops, acupuncture clinics, massages and other holistic services.

FERIARTE had a varied cultural agenda that included recreational activities for boys and girls along with various workshops. Emphasis was placed on the vaccination clinics against COVID-19 and influenza, clinical and mental health services, nutrition and orientation, said Ángel Santini Palos, vice president of special projects, events and cultural programs at Acacia Network.

As part of the artistic lineup at FERIARTE, Allende was accompanied by a group of mariachis to the delight of the public attending the event.

“I am very happy to be among you, especially in this FERIARTE event where we combine health with entertainment,” Allende said at the start of his show on Saturday.

“Puerto Rico has welcomed me as its son. I feel a lot of affection and appreciation for you who today take advantage of your busy time to be participating in this health fair that is accompanied by a little joy, our music that you like so much. Today I give you my songs accompanied by an excellent group of mariachis so that you can enjoy this moment within the tragedy of the pandemic that concerns us all.”

FERIARTE was the result of collaboration among various government agencies, and local health and community-based organizations, including SIM, Puerto Rico Salud, Sistema de Salud Menonita, Municipality of Barranquitas, Connecting Paths, Plataforma EJE, Health and Acupuncture Project for the People, Nursing Professionals Association of Puerto Rico and SANOS Corp., among others.

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Biden the dealmaker finds that compromise can have consequences

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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oe Biden’s pitch during the 2020 campaign to unseat President Donald Trump was simple: Trade in a stubborn, immovable leader for one with a proven record of taking half a loaf when a full one is out of reach.

That approach appears to have brought Biden to the precipice of victory on a $2 trillion deal that could begin to define his legacy as a successful Oval Office legislative architect, one who is reshaping government spending and doing so by the narrowest of margins in a country with deep partisan and ideological chasms.

But the bill is certain to be far smaller than what he originally proposed, and far less ambitious than he and many of his allies had hoped. It won’t make him the one who finally secured free community college for everyone. Seniors won’t get free dental, hearing and vision coverage from Medicare. And there won’t be a new system of penalties for the worst polluters.

“Look — hey, look, it’s all about compromise,” Biden said at a CNN town hall meeting on Thursday, shrugging off the doubters as he sought to close the deal with lawmakers and the public.

But accepting less and calling it a win has its limits — and consequences.

By spending the last several months pushing for an even larger and more ambitious agenda, knowing that he would most likely have to pare it back, Biden has let down some supporters who believed he could deliver on his soaring rhetoric about the need for better higher education, expanded Medicare services and bold advances in the fight against climate change.

“In order to make real progress, you have to inspire people about the importance of the work,” said Doug Elmendorf, the dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and the former director of the Congressional Budget Office. “And then any compromise is a disappointment.”

Negotiations are continuing on the package’s final framework. But after pushing for months for a $3.5 trillion bill, the president is likely now to end up with a measure that includes less than $2 trillion in spending on various social programs and anti-climatechange initiatives.

The Capitol in Washington, Oct. 20, 2021. The president’s criticism of the Senate tactic was a recognition that legislating has become nearly impossible when the filibuster is routine.

Once the spending bills are behind him, Biden still faces challenges that are not so easily solved by compromise. On Thursday, he appeared to acknowledge that reality by hinting that he was open to altering the Senate’s longstanding filibuster rules if that is what it takes to break through Republican opposition to protecting voting rights and passing other parts of the Democratic agenda.

“We’re going to have to move to the point where we fundamentally alter the filibuster,” he told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.

That is a dramatic concession for a politician like Biden, who embraced the often arcane rules of the Senate during the three decades he served there. Like other institutionalists in the chamber, Biden has resisted demands from liberal activists to shatter those rules, fearful of the consequences the next time Republicans are in charge.

But the Washington that Biden often reminisces about — the one in which Democrats and Republicans work together toward common goals — is largely a distant memory.

If he wants to make progress on voting rights, climate change, prison reform, an immigration overhaul and more, he most likely won’t be able to lean on the same instincts that have animated most of his political life and defined the brand that helped him win

the White House.

The political differences are stark: Republicans argue the president’s spending program would burden future generations with more debt and serve as a drag on the economy. They insist the voting rights legislation is intended to benefit Democrats, and they oppose many of the president’s climate policies because they say they will be bad for jobs and business.

John Podesta, who served as former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, said Biden “has done a pretty good job of pushing as far as he could in the style that he was a champion of.” But he said that beyond the spending bills, “it’s hard to see how he gets that same spirit of collaboration, good will, honorable compromise.” The issue of voting rights may be the clearest example in the months to come.

Just this week, Republicans used the filibuster to block an already watered-down Democratic voting rights bill for the third time since Biden took office. The takeaway?

If Democrats want federal legislation to stop what they view as an assault on voting in Republican-controlled states, they will need to play hardball.

That very likely means persuading all 50 Democrats and independents in the chamber to vote for changing the filibuster

rule — if he can.

But perhaps the biggest promise Biden made during the campaign was to be the president who would finally confront the environmental dangers facing the planet. On Thursday, he put it in the bluntest possible terms: “The existential threat to humanity is climate change.”

Biden and his party are likely to face that threat alone in the coming months and years. Most Republicans have shown little appetite for aggressive action to counter the environmental damage from cars, manufacturing and other economic activities.

And even within his own party, the president faces divisions that make it difficult to convince the rest of the world that the United States is serious about reducing the emissions that are causing global warming.

For Biden, then, the question will be: Is he willing to treat the debate of core issues like the climate, voting rights and immigration as a “break the glass” moment in which he and his Democratic allies have no choice but to change the rules, even if it means Republicans will take advantage of the chance to advance their own agenda once they return to power?

One argument at his disposal: Changing the rules to allow more of the Democratic agenda to pass could be vital for the party’s success at the polls.

Strategists say enthusiasm among core Democratic voters is critical to defeating the Republican Party in the midterm elections of 2022 (and perhaps Trump, its leader, two years later). If crucial parts of the president’s coalition remain unhappy because they are disappointed in the compromise bill, that could threaten Democratic hopes to remain in power in Congress and the White House.

“The political costs of this will be large,” Elmendorf said.

Podesta, who advised Hillary Clinton during her runs for the presidency, agreed.

He said it was a “big problem” if Democrats couldn’t deliver on the fundamental promises. Biden’s approval ratings have already fallen into the low-to-mid-40s.

“Particularly younger voters,” he said.

“You are seeing it among independents, African American and Latino voters. They are just feeling like these guys are not delivering.”

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Biden delays release of remaining JFK assassination records, citing pandemic

People in Washington react to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy in Washington, Nov. 22, 1963. On Friday, the White House announced another administrative casualty: a delay in the release of a trove of records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

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he pandemic has created backlogs for multiple federal agencies, resulting in pileups of visa applications, unprocessed Social Security benefits and backlogs in Food and Drug Administration inspections.

Late last week, the White House announced another administrative casualty: a delay in the release of a trove of records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

The White House statement, signed by President Joe Biden, did not make clear exactly how the coronavirus had delayed the release of the records, which must be released to comply with a 1992 congressional act, but said that the national archivist had reported that the pandemic had had a “significant impact on the agencies” that need to be consulted on redactions.

The archivist of the United States directs the National Archives and Records Administration, the repository of public

governmental records. The position has been held since 2009 by David S. Ferriero, a former librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University and the New York Public Library.

He is the 10th person in the role since the National Archives were established in 1934.

The White House statement said that the National Archives required additional time to conduct research and work with the agencies, which include the Defense, Justice and State departments.

The assassination of the 35th president, on Nov. 22, 1963, still holds a grip on the public imagination. It has also been the subject of an endless stream of conspiracy theories.

Despite an exhaustive, yearlong inquiry into the murder led by Chief Justice Earl Warren that concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, surveys over the years have consistently found that most Americans believe others were involved.

The 1992 law required the government to make public the last of the Kennedy assassination documents by Oct. 26, 2017,

unless the sitting president opted to withhold any for national security reasons. The administration of President Donald Trump did release a trove of JFK assassination records in the fall of that year. While the documents have been intriguing to researchers and conspiracy theorists alike, they have not conclusively changed the previous understanding of the assassination.

Trump, who himself has dabbled in an assassination conspiracy, claiming that the father of onetime rival Ted Cruz was somehow involved in Kennedy’s murder, pushed back the release date of some records to 2021.

In the White House statement Friday, Biden said he agreed with the archivist’s recommendation that records be withheld from public disclosure until December 2022.

“Temporary continued postponement,” he said, “is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.”

The White House also said it wanted to make the JFK documents more accessible. More than 250,000 records — more than 90% of the records agency’s collection on the assassination — have been publicly released and “only a small fraction” contain redactions. But many of the records are available only to the public if they travel to the National Archives site in College Park, Maryland.

The White House statement also ordered the archivist to create a plan to digitize and make available online the records agency’s entire collection of JFK assassination documents.

An exhibit commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the death of former President John F. Kennedy at the Newseum displays a United Press International bulletin alerting news media the the former president had been shot, in Washington, Aug. 20, 2013.

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CDC study found delta had similar hospitalization outcomes to earlier waves

By BENJAMIN MUELLER

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cientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late last week took aim at the question of whether the delta variant of the coronavirus causes more severe disease, finding no significant differences in the course of hospitalized patients’ illnesses during the delta wave compared with earlier in the pandemic.

But larger and more detailed studies from a number of other countries have found that people with delta infections were considerably more likely to be hospitalized in the first place — a trend that the CDC study was unable to address because of limitations in its data. The CDC study also said that the proportion of older hospitalized patients needing intensive care or dying had shown some signs of increasing during the delta wave.

Delta’s higher level of infectiousness has made it a far greater challenge than earlier versions of the virus, but the question of whether it also causes more serious disease has loomed as it swept around the world. The alpha variant, an earlier version first detected in Britain, appeared to be linked to a higher risk of death, though scientists have also tried to understand whether factors besides the variant were playing a role.

Studies in England, Scotland, Canada and Singapore suggested that the delta variant was associated with more severe illness, a finding that scientists have said raises the risk that outbreaks of the variant in unvaccinated areas may put a bigger burden on health systems.

Unlike the CDC study, those studies drew on genomic sequencing, allowing researchers to distinguish infections with the delta variant and to track patients from before they enter a hospital.

Without access to sequencing data, the CDC researchers could not determine which variants the patients may have been infected with. It also examined patients already admitted to hospitals, making it impossible to determine whether they were at a higher risk of needing hospital care in the first place.

The study, released Friday, exa-

mined roughly 7,600 COVID hospitalizations, comparing July and August — when delta dominated — to earlier months this year, and found no significant change in hospitalized patients’ outcomes.

The study said that the proportion of hospitalized patients aged 50 and older who died or were admitted to intensive care “generally trended upward in the delta period,” though the differences were not statistically significant and further work was needed.

At the hospitals included in the study, roughly 70% of COVID patients were unvaccinated.

The researchers said the findings matched those of other CDC studies using similar methods that showed no significant differences in the outcomes of younger people hospitalized before and during the delta surge.

Outside scientists questioned the reliability of the study.

Dr. David Fisman, a public health researcher at the University of Toronto, ran a larger study that found that people infected with the delta variant had roughly twice the risk of hospitalization as people infected with variants that had not been labeled a concern. He said that such analyses needed to control for the range of factors that affect the course of COVID patients’ illnesses and that the availability of vaccines, testing and treatments had all been changing during the pandemic.

“As this is the U.S. CDC, I’m really surprised at the small sample sizes for individuals with more detailed clinical information, as well as the use of such rudimentary statistical methods to deal with these data,” he said.

Fisman’s study, drawing on 200,000 cases and published this month, also showed significantly increased risks of intensive care admission and death among those infected with the delta variant, after accounting for their age, sex, vaccination status and other factors.

Roughly 70% of people with delta infections in the study were unvaccinated, and 28% were partially vaccinated.

Fully vaccinated people are heavily protected from COVID. Similarly, a study in Scotland from

A COVID patient in an intensive care unit at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., in September.

June based on 20,000 COVID cases showed that delta infections were associated with an 85% higher risk of hospitalization, though it allowed for a wide degree of uncertainty about the precise figure.

And data from England, drawn from 43,000 cases and published in August, found that people infected with

the delta variant were just over twice as likely to be hospitalized as people with the alpha variant, though the researchers in that study, too, were unsure of the precise figure.

Roughly three-quarters of the patients in that study were unvaccinated, and most of the rest were only partially vaccinated.

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Monday, October 25, 2021

The pessimistic electorate behind Biden’s approval ratings

President Joe Biden exits the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 11, 2021. In the Oval Office, President Biden keeps a bust of Harry Truman, one of a handful of presidents whose approval ratings dropped but who ultimately won re-election.

By NATE COHN

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hat’s dragging down President Joe Biden’s approval ratings?

Everyone.

And everything.

Biden’s approval ratings have declined on nearly every issue and among nearly every demographic group in national surveys over the past two months, as the promise of a return to normalcy has given way to rising inflation, a simmering pandemic, gridlock in Washington and chaos on the border and in Afghanistan.

The president’s approval ratings have sunk into the low-to-mid 40s, putting him into rather lonely historical company. In the era of modern polling, only Donald Trump had a lower approval rating at this early stage of his term.

There’s no evidence the damage to Biden is irreparable.

Many presidents have won reelection after watching their ratings fall to similar depths during their first two years in office.

Voters can have a short memory. And while Biden’s losses have been pronounced among reliable Democratic constituencies, such as young, Latino and even Black voters, those groups can also be relatively easy for Democrats to win back.

But as a fleeting snapshot, the polls seem to depict a pessimistic and even hopeless electorate. Not only do Americans believe the nation is on the wrong track, they say the country is worse off than it was a year ago, when Trump was still president.

A Grinnell College/Selzer poll showed Biden and Trump tied at 40% in a hypothetical national matchup. No live interview national phone survey showed Trump faring so well against Biden over the final six months before the 2020 election.

The pessimism of the electorate is at once a cause and an effect of Biden’s challenges. On the one hand, they blame Biden for deteriorating conditions. On the other, their pessimism reflects serious doubts about whether the administration can handle the challenges facing the country.

Despite fading from the news, the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan still seems to loom over the administration. Even weeks later, voters still say “Afghanistan” is the negative thing they have most recently heard about Biden. And since the withdrawal, a majority of voters have routinely said that the Biden administration is incompetent. Perhaps in part as a result, voters have little confidence in the administration’s ability to address other problems.

More than 60% of voters say Biden is

responsible for rising inflation, according to a recent Morning Consult/Politico poll. And 52% of Americans expect the economy to get worse over the next 12 months.

A CNBC poll found that inflation is tied with the coronavirus as the most important issue facing the nation, as more voters say they’ve personally encountered shortages and rising prices. In a reversal from preelection polls in 2020, voters say it’s more important for the government to address the economy than contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Biden’s handling of the coronavirus continues to be a relative political bright spot.

Polls show that most voters approve of his requirement that employees of large companies either get a vaccine or take a test. But his ratings on the virus have nonetheless declined since the summer, as the delta variant dashed any hopes of a quick end to the pandemic.

By one measure, the pandemic was now only the eighth most concerning issue to voters, even trailing hot-button cultural issues like the southern border and what’s taught in public schools.

The president’s focus, however, largely lies elsewhere: on Capitol Hill, where he’s bogged down in negotiations over his legislative agenda. The polls offer little indication that the stalemate in Washington has cost him support with the public.

Even so, the passage of the president’s infrastructure and spending bills could be a first step toward regaining his political footing. A positive accomplishment might begin to restore some of the confidence that Biden lost during the tumultuous Afghanistan withdraw. And the bills, which attempt to fulfill a long list of progressive policy priorities, might be well-suited to the task of luring back Democratic-leaning voters who have soured on his presidency.

For some Democrats, Biden’s apparent weakness among young, Latino and Black voters has been alarming. It comes on the heels of Trump’s strong performance among nonwhite and especially Latino voters in the 2020 election, raising the possibility that Biden’s weakness today is part of a longerterm trend, not simply the ephemeral result of an unusually unfavorable political environment.

Overall, Biden’s approval rating has fallen to around 50% among Latino voters in national surveys conducted since the fall of

Kabul.

Biden has held on to more of his support among white, college-educated voters than any other demographic group, while continuing to lose ground among white voters without college degrees. He’s also held more of his support among men, who surprisingly swung his way in 2020, while losing ground among women, who did not.

The polls offer relatively little indication of why some demographic groups have been more repelled by Biden’s performance than others. Biden appears to have lost ground among core Democratic constituencies for the same reason he’s lost ground among other voters. That would not necessarily ameliorate Democratic concerns that they’re losing support among young or Latino voters; in fact, it would suggest that many Latino or young voters could be among the first to abandon the Democrats when the going gets tough.

But it would also suggest that Biden doesn’t face any particularly serious obstacle to recovering among these groups if the pandemic fades, the economy grows and normalcy returns. And there’s a long record of presidents recovering from an early slump with the help of strong economic growth.

Ronald Reagan, Harry Truman, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all saw their ratings sink as low as Biden’s are today, before ultimately recovering to win reelection.

The case of Truman, a Democrat who presided over the chaotic adjustment back to a peacetime economy after World War II, provides an especially instructive lesson.

The story seems especially familiar today: As wartime economic measures came to an end, pent-up consumer spending soared and inflation surged to its highest levels of the last century — even higher than the 1970s, and dwarfing inflation today. The largest wave of labor unrest in U.S. history spread across the country. Truman seemed incapable of doing anything about it all. His ratings fell, and Republicans won Congress for the first time since the Great Depression.

In retrospect, the unrest of 1946 was the prelude to abundant postwar prosperity.

Truman would famously win an upset reelection bid and retake Congress.

That’s exactly what Biden will hope to do, if Democrats lose control of Congress in the midterms. No president, however, has managed to pull it off since Truman, whose bust watches over Biden in the Oval Office.

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Monday, October 25, 2021

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Desperate for workers, restaurants turn to robots

By JANET MORRISSEY

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hen Florida gave restaurants the green light to reopen indoor dining earlier this year, restaurateurs like Carlos Gazitua were euphoric. They hoped it would resuscitate their businesses, many of which were on life-support after the shutdown. But they quickly learned it was tough to coax workers back.

“It was a crisis,’” said Gazitua, owner and CEO of the Sergio’s Restaurant chain in Florida. “We couldn’t find anyone.” Even a major job fair, drawing dozens of restaurant and hotel owners offering more than 1,000 jobs in May, was disastrous.

“We had 40 employers and only four people showed up!” he said. “It was bizarre — all the employers thought we were on ‘Candid Camera’.”

So, Gazitua turned to robotics, bringing in the Servi robot in July at one of his restaurants. Servi uses cameras and laser sensors to carry plates of food from the kitchen to tables in the dining room, where the waiter then transfers the plates to the customer’s table. The robot costs $999 a month, including installation and support.

Servi saved wait staff and bussers from having to run back and forth to the kitchen and gave overworked servers more time to schmooze with customers and serve more tables, which led to higher tips.

“In the first two hours, the servers were amazed!” he said, adding that Servis have now been added to the company’s five other full-service restaurants.

Gazitua is among a growing number of restaurant and hotel owners who are turning to robotics during this labor shortage. Robots don’t call in sick, don’t request raises and do jobs, like frying and cleaning, that workers don’t like.

Indeed, many robotics companies, like Miso Robotics, Bear Robotics, Peanut Robotics, Knightscope, SoftBank Robotics and Makr Shakr, say they have seen huge spikes in inquiries for their robots since the pandemic hit.

Miso is getting 150 inquiries a week for its Flippy robot, said Mike Bell, CEO of Miso.

Flippy uses artificial intelligence, sensors, computer vision and robotic arms to fry fast food, like French fries and chicken wings.

The robot, which costs about $3,000 per month, including maintenance, identifies the

food, senses the oil temperature, and monitors the cook time.

The CDC estimates 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne illnesses.

Using robots like Flippy improves a kitchen’s cooking accuracy and consistency, reducing human error that could lead to food contamination issues, Bell said.

White Castle started testing Flippy at its Merrillville, Indiana, restaurant in late 2020.

“This is the toughest labor market we’ve encountered since World War II,” said Jamie Richardson, vice president of marketing at White Castle, founded in 1921. The test went so well that it plans to add Flippy to 10 more locations. Michael J. Hicks, professor of economics and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, echoed Richardson’s view of the job situation.

“The leisure and hospitality industry saw a 50% drop in employment in 2020, a dip of 8.3 million workers,” he said. “That is far and away the worst shock to the industry on record, dating back to the Great Depression.”

Bear Robotics, which makes the Servi robot, has seen demand skyrocket, said Juan Higueros, co-founder and chief operating officer. Aside from Sergio’s restaurants, he has fielded inquiries from casinos, restaurant chains, arenas and even senior living residences, desperate to assist overworked staff.

“Burnout is becoming a very big problem for restaurant staff,” he said.

Peanut Robotics, a startup, makes a robot that cleans and sanitizes restrooms, and SoftBank Robotics makes Whiz, which vacuums floors.

Although Peanut is still in the prototype phase, this hasn’t stopped hotel chains, offices and restaurants from requesting the robot. “We’re not actively marketing, but people keep finding us,” said Joe Augenbraun, the company’s CEO. “I have demand for hundreds of them right now.”

Knightscope makes robots that use artificial intelligence, video and two-way audio to patrol outdoor or indoor areas. It uses thermal imaging, license plate recognition and other software. There is also an alert button on the robot that allows the caller to speak directly to someone. Demand has been particularly high lately from casinos and office buildings, said Stacy Stephens, co-founder

and chief client officer at Knightscope.

Makr Shakr, based in Italy, makes robotic bartenders, whose arms can measure, mix, shake, pour and even garnish cocktails.

Over the past three months, inquiries have jumped 50% from pre-pandemic levels, said Carlo Ratti, a founding partner and a professor the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robots have had some highly publicized missteps.

In 2019, a Knightscope 5 robot made headlines when a fight broke out in Huntington Park, California, where the robot was patrolling. When a woman ran to the robot for assistance and pushed its emergency alert button, the robot repeatedly barked “Get out of the way” and proceeded to roll past her — and the ongoing fight — while playing a little tune. A bystander ended up calling 911.

Stephens blamed the mishap on a robot that had been deployed before its software had been fully installed and its line to 911 had been hooked up. Since then, he said, the city has credited the robot for lowering crime and has extended its contract for two more years.

SoftBank Robotics’s Pepper, which is touted as a robot that can read people’s emotions, remember faces and interact with people, has probably received the most negative publicity.

Its biggest blemish came when a 2018

Swedish university research report said Pepper’s technology had serious security flaws. It said a breach would allow a hacker to spy on people through Pepper’s cameras and microphones and even take control of Pepper’s arms. SoftBank said the security flaw has since been patched.

“Most Peppers have now been fired,” said Dina Marie Zemke, associate professor at Ball State University and author of a 2020 report on robotics. “Either you loved them or you were completely creeped out by them.”

Pepper wasn’t cheap, retailing for $20,000 to $25,000.

SoftBank recently stopped production of Pepper, sold off its majority stake in Boston Dynamics, and laid off about half of its 330-member team in France. But Kass Dawson, SoftBank Robotics’ vice president of brand strategy, insists Pepper’s production is only temporarily halted and that its robotics division remains a company priority.

Industry experts believe the labor shortages stemming from the pandemic accelerated the acceptance of robots in the workplace.

“We’ve all gotten more comfortable with dealing with robots — that’s one of the legacies of the pandemic,” said Craig Le Clair, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester. “We’re able to trade off the creepiness of robots with the improved help characteristics.”

A Servi robot brings customers their food at a Sergio’s Restaurant in Miami. Servis also are in use at the company’s five other full-service restaurants.

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Monday, October 25, 2021

Watchdog criticizes FAA’s oversight of American Airlines

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI

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government watchdog said late last week that the Federal Aviation Administration had failed to pro-

vide sufficient oversight of aircraft maintenance by American Airlines.

The inspector general of the Transportation Department said in a report that it had found dozens of examples of

the FAA taking American’s explanation for maintenance lapses at face value, accepting flawed analyses and sometimes even closing cases before the airline had addressed problems.

The findings echo criticism the agency has faced since two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed in late 2018 and early 2019, killing a total of 346 people and spawning numerous investigations.

In particular, the FAA has been accused of relying too heavily on Boeing and airline employees to carry out some oversight functions that it doesn’t have the resources to fully conduct on its own.

The inspector general found that American inadequately identified the root cause of maintenance lapses in 92% of 185 cases reviewed at random. FAA inspectors are responsible for working with airlines on such investigations to ensure that such problems are accurately identified and investigated to prevent them in the future.

In 50 of those cases, American ne-

ver identified a root cause of the maintenance lapses. In one instance, for example, the airline never explained why aircraft parts were found on top of a recycling bin without any indication of whether they were usable.

In the remaining 121 cases, American blamed human error, which the FAA itself has said is an insufficient explanation, according to the report. In one case, mechanics overlooked a maintenance step while working on a cabin door and American simply reported that it was a supervisor’s fault for failing to catch it.

In another, a mechanic signed off on a series of maintenance steps that weren’t required for a given repair, with American reporting that he provided no explanation for the mistake. The FAA never pushed for more information, the report found.

The agency had discovered some of the issues identified in Friday’s report on its own. “The FAA agrees with many of the recommendations in the report and is taking steps to address them,” it said in a statement.

The FAA said it agreed outright with five of the seven recommendations the inspector general laid out in the report, including improved training for its inspectors and improving processes to avoid closing cases before they have been fully resolved. The agency said it partly agreed with the other two recommendations — that it require airlines to provide written analyses and that it improve its data collection tool to let inspectors carry out more detailed reviews.

In a statement, American said it welcomed the report.

“Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and team members,” the airline said. “In addition to the FAA, we are in constant communication with other regulators and welcome their review and feedback.”

The inspector general started the review in May 2018 at the request of lawmakers on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The lawmakers also asked the inspector general to look into the agency’s oversight of Allegiant Air, a review that reached a similar conclusion in 2019.

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Monday, October 25, 2021

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Tech giants’ earnings may be another test for markets at new highs I nvestors are homing in on a flood of earnings reports from Wall Street’s tech and Internet giants, as the high-growth stocks that have led markets higher for years face pressures from regulation, supply-chain snags and rising Treasury yields.

Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Google parent Alphabet Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Facebook Inc are all set to report earnings next week. Collectively, those five names account for over 22% of the weighting in the S&P 500, giving their stock moves enormous sway over the broader index.

Overall, companies representing 46% of the S&P 500’s market value are due to post quarterly results next week, according to Goldman Sachs.

Strong earnings reports have helped lift the S&P 500 to fresh record highs, with the benchmark index rising 5.5% so far in October. In September, the index posted its biggest monthly percentage drop since the pandemic began in March 2020.

While investors expect most of the big technology firms to show robust profits, many will also be listening for indications of whether they will be able to sustain that growth. Also in focus will be any forecasts regarding supply bottlenecks, such as the chip shortage that has affected a broad swath of global industries, as well as their views on how sustainable the recent surge in consumer prices will be.

There have already been some signs that tech companies may have a high bar to clear. Intel and IBM fell sharply after their reports disappointed this week.

Meanwhile, shares of Facebook fell 5% on Friday after Snap Inc, the owner of photo messaging app Snapchat, said privacy changes implemented by Apple on iOS devices hurt its ability to target and measure its digital advertising.

“I would expect the potential for more volatility,” said James Ragan, director of wealth management research at D.A. Davidson. “We just might get the possibility for some of these big companies to disappoint a little bit.”

The market’s gains this month have been led by sectors seen as particularly sensitive to swings in the economy, including energy and financials, which have gained 11% and 8%, respectively. The S&P 500 technology sector is up 6% month-to-date.

Many tech-focused companies received a boost in the wake of the pandemic, amid a shift in consumer behavior amid economic lockdowns and a move to working from home.

“The question then becomes, can they keep it up?” said Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute. “What do the growth rates look like for large tech?”

A BofA Global Research survey showed earlier this month that fund managers are slightly underweight technology relative to their average positioning of the past 20 years. At the same time, they named “long tech” as the market’s most crowded trade for the fourth straight month.

Supply-chain issues including the semiconductor shortage are sure to be a topic for iPhone maker Apple, while Amazon could give a window into how the holiday shopping season may be hit by logistics snags.

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Taliban honor suicide bombers’ ‘sacrifices’ in bid to rewrite history

Smoke rising from a suicide attack by Taliban fighters in Ghazni in 2014. By that point in the war, 100 suicide attacks were reported every year.

By THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF, SHARIF HASSAN and RUHULLAH KHAPALWAK

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ussain had just arrived at his office in Afghanistan’s capital when the world seemed to explode around him. It was the morning of May 31, 2017, and a truck bomb had just detonated, boring a crater in the earth, killing more than 150 people, most of them civilians, and releasing a shock wave that shattered glass across the city.

Hussain suffered head and leg wounds in the blast, one of the largest in two decades of war, and was in constant anguish during months of surgery.

The still-lingering pain was made more acute this past week when Hussain watched the new acting minister of interior — Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the very group accused of carrying out the attack — honoring the people who had consigned him to a life of agony: the Taliban’s ranks of suicide bombers.

“Instead of asking for forgiveness, they are commemorating the suicide bombers,” said Hussain, who asked to be identified by first name only out of fear of retribution from the Taliban. “And I will never forgive.”

Last Tuesday, the Taliban govern-

ment brought together families of suicide bombers at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, praising the deaths of their children and siblings in the fight against the U.S.backed coalition and Afghan government and giving them condolence payments and a promise of land.

The new government’s decision to so publicly memorialize its suicide bomb squads seemed to be both an effort to appease the aggrieved families for the movement’s use of their loved ones as weapons and an overt attempt to rewrite the history of the war by championing the bombers’ deaths as the highest level of sacrifice. In short, it sought to professionalize the role of suicide bomber.

“Their sacrifices are for religion, for the country and for Islam,” Haqqani told the crowd in the gilded ballroom of the hilltop lodge attacked by the Taliban in 2011 and 2018.

As the Taliban government seeks international recognition after its countrywide takeover this summer, broadcasting an event that honors a tactic long seen as terrorism would seem to do little to help.

The Taliban have claimed that suicide attacks were against military targets only, but civilians were often killed and wounded by them.

And while the event delivered a message to the Taliban’s supporters, it was bound to alienate parts of the Afghan population grappling with the group’s return — especially the families of the victims. After more than 40 years of war, the ceremony was one more painful reminder for a population already traumatized by a slew of armed actors, including the Soviet Army and the U.S.-led Western coalition that invaded in 2001.

“The suicide attack by itself is a shameful, cowardly and inhuman act.

And justifying such a horrific action to prove yourself legitimate is also certainly shameful,” said Yaser Qobadiyan, whose sister was killed by the Islamic State group in a suicide attack in Kabul in 2018 and whose father died in a 2006 car bombing presumed to have been carried out by the Taliban.

“The Taliban should give land and money as compensation for the families of the victims of their suicide attacks,” he added.

The public display also raised questions of how the Taliban will remember the tens of thousands of soldiers killed and wounded while serving in the previous government’s military, and how — or if — their family members will be compensated. This leaves the newly appointed minister of martyrs and disabled affairs, Abdul Majid Akhund, in a perilous position, having to reckon with two versions of the war and the meaning of sacrifice for those who participated on both sides.

Killing others through one’s own self-destruction has been a tool of war for centuries; but according to the United Nations, the first suicide attack believed to be carried out in Afghanistan did not occur until Sept. 9, 2001. That’s when foreign operatives of al-Qaida assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance group fighting the Taliban.

The Taliban’s eventual use of frequent suicide attacks, experts say, was most likely connected to a 2003 video by Osama bin Laden in which he called for “martyrdom” operations against the enemy. In the years after the video’s release, the number of suicide attacks in Afghani-

stan began to climb, first in a trickle. But by 2006, the number had risen to more than 100, and it never abated.

By the end of the war, the Taliban’s use of suicide attacks had evolved from a tool of terror to an integral military tactic, used to seize territory and win battles.

Those who carried out the attacks wore slick uniforms and were championed as elite in certain units.

“People told us that fighting with Americans was like fighting with the mountains,” Haqqani said in his speech this past week. “Allah almighty promised us that one day you guys will be successful, and our teams were discussing with each other, that we have to find suicide bombers to fight against Americans. Otherwise it is impossible to fight against them.”

The Taliban have said suicide bombings were their answer to the West’s more powerful military technology and equated the choice of self-destruction to the ultimate form of resistance.

When Kabul fell in August and the Western-backed government fled, the Taliban’s suicide bombers were ready to attack. If the capital had not fallen as easily as it did, the group was prepared to flood the city with truck bombs.

“The Taliban is trying to institutionalize sacrifice in a way that’s never been done before in Afghanistan,” said David Edwards, a professor of anthropology at Williams College who wrote “Caravan of Martyrs,” a book about the Taliban and suicide bombing. “This is an act of rewriting history, showing suicide bombers not as disaffected youth, but taking that story and rewriting it as an elite cadre who used their bodies against the technological superiority of the west.”

Watching this week as the families of those who carried out those attacks were compensated, Karam Khan, a former police officer, wondered if his two brothers killed fighting the Taliban would receive the same kind of treatment.

“This kind of propaganda changes ordinary people’s perceptions of those who worked or sacrificed their lives for the republic,” Khan said. “The Taliban look toward us as their enemies.”

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Monday, October 25, 2021

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Barbados elects its first head of state, replacing Queen Elizabeth

By CHRISTINE HAUSER

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he island nation of Barbados has elected a female former jurist to become its next head of state, a symbolic position held since the 1950s by Queen Elizabeth II, as the country takes another step toward casting off its colonial past.

Sandra Mason, 72, the governor general of Barbados, became the country’s first president-elect last week when she received the necessary two-thirds majority vote in the Parliament’s House of Assembly and Senate. She will be sworn in on Nov. 30, making Barbados a republic on the 55th anniversary of its independence from Britain.

“We believe that the time has come for us to claim our full destiny,” Prime Minister Mia Mottley said in a speech after the vote.

“It is a woman of the soil to whom this honor is being given,” she added.

Barbados, a parliamentary democracy of about 300,000 people that is the easternmost island in the Caribbean, announced in September that it would remove Elizabeth as its head of state. At the ceremony, Mason read from a speech prepared by Mottley that was explicit in its rejection of imperialism.

The speech highlighted the urgency of self-governance, quoting a warning by Errol Walton Barrow, the first prime minister of Barbados, against “loitering on colonial premises.”

“The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind,” Mason said. “Barbadians want a Barbadian head of state.”

Barbados has since become the latest Caribbean island to shed the symbolic role of the queen and pursue the formation of a republic. Guyana led earlier republican movements in the

Sandra Mason, the governor general of Barbados, meeting with Prince Charles in 2019.

Caribbean, cutting ties to the queen in 1970, followed by Trinidad and Tobago, and then Dominica.

Mason, who has been the governor general, a position appointed by the queen, since 2018, had been nominated to take on the position of president, subject to the parliamentary vote, the prime minister announced in August. Mottley said other steps in the island’s transition included work on a new constitution, which would begin in January.

“Barbados shall move forward on the first of December as the newest republic in the global community of nations,” Mottley said on Wednesday.

People in Barbados and its government were “conscious that we are going not without concern on the part of some, but

with absolute determination that at 55, we must know who we are, we must live who we are, we must be who we are,” she said.

Dame Sandra Prunella Mason was born on Jan. 17, 1949, in St. Philip, Barbados. She was educated on the island at Queen’s College, attended the University of the West Indies and was the first woman from Barbados to graduate from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago.

In the early 1990s, Mason served as an ambassador to Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. In 2008, she became the first woman to serve as a judge on the Barbados Court of Appeal.

Ambassador Noel Lynch, whose own appointment as Barbados’ representative in Washington, D.C., had to be endorsed by the queen, said in an interview that Mason’s judicial experience made her “well versed” for the work that needs to be done as the nation transitions to a republic.

Mason’s election is also notable because both the prime minister and the head of state will soon be Barbadian women. “It shattered a glass ceiling,” Lynch said in an interview. “Even if it is mostly ceremonial, you have got to have confidence if the president and the prime minister have got confidence in each other.”

After she is sworn in, Mason will become the ceremonial leader of an island that is facing labor shortages, the effects of climate change and economic difficulties due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its tourism sector, the prime minister said.

In her speech after the parliamentary vote, Mottley said the real work would begin the day after the island becomes a full republic.

“We look forward, therefore, to Dec. 1, 2021,” she said.

“But we do so confident that we have just elected from among us a woman who is uniquely and passionately Barbadian.”

Colombia announces capture of leader of major drug cartel

By MICHAEL LEVENSON and SOFIA VILLAMIL

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olombian military forces captured the leader of a major drug cartel, considered by the government to be the most wanted man in the country, President Iván Duque announced Saturday.

The arrest of the man, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, widely known as Otoniel, was a victory for Duque, who has been struggling to contain persistent violence by militants. Úsuga, 50, had been sought by military and police officials as the leader of the Clan del Golfo, a violent Colombian drug cartel that has also been targeted by the United States for trafficking cocaine.

Duque described Úsuga as the most feared drug trafficker in the world, responsible for carrying out assassinations of police officers, soldiers and civic leaders.

“This is the heaviest blow that has been

dealt to drug trafficking in this century in our country,” Duque said in a national address.

“This blow is comparable only to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s.”

According to the National Police, a 34-year-old officer died in the operation that led to Úsuga’s capture in Colombia’s remote mountains.

The U.S. State Department has offered up to $5 million for information leading to the capture or conviction of Úsuga, who has been indicted on charges of international cocaine distribution and other crimes.

The department has described him as the leader of a “heavily armed and extremely violent” cartel consisting of members of terrorist groups that did not demobilize as part of Colombia’s peace and justice process.

The Clan del Golfo uses violence and intimidation to control drug trafficking routes, cocaine-processing laboratories and clandestine airstrips, according to the State Department.

The group has also been known to treat migrants in Colombia’s countryside as goods that its members can tax and control.

Colombia’s defense minister, Diego Molano, said the group had become a threat in recent years because of the tons of cocaine it distributes within the country and ships to the United States and Europe.

If Úsuga opens up to investigators, he could be a critical tool in helping the Colombian government unravel the inner workings of his complex criminal organization.

Paul Angelo, a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Úsuga had been the most wanted man in Colombia for a decade “and his capture is welcome news to the Colombians who have suffered violence at his hands.”

“His arrest also represents a major victory for Colombia’s security forces, which are confronting growing public mistrust over allegations of human rights abuses, soaring coca

cultivation, and rising crime and violence,” Angelo said in an email.

He cautioned, however, that merely removing the kingpin of an organized crime group could spawn more fragmented gangs seeking to control lucrative drug routes.

“Keeping the pressure on the remaining factions of the Clan del Golfo in the months to come, while expanding the state’s footprint into the territories where illegal armed groups operate, will be essential to preventing an uptick in predatory crime,” he said.

Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a specialist in drug trafficking groups, called the arrest significant, but said it was not clear what effect it would have on violence and drug trafficking in Colombia.

“Is it going to end the drug trade from Colombia? Definitely not,” Felbab-Brown said in an interview. She also warned that the capture could set off infighting between rival factions within the Clan del Golfo, leading to more violence.

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How a stunning lagoon in Spain turned into ‘green soup’

A conservation area near San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain, Sept. 27, 2021. Tons of dead fish have washed ashore in recent years from the Mar Menor, a once-crystalline lagoon on the Mediterranean coast that has become choked with algae. Farm pollution is mostly blamed.

By RAPHAEL MINDER

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he Mar Menor, a saltwater lagoon on the coast of southeastern Spain, was long renowned for its natural beauty, drawing tourists and retirees to its pristine warm shallows and the area’s gentle Mediterranean climate.

But over the past few years, the idyllic lagoon has come under threat. Tons of dead fish have washed ashore as the once-crystalline waters became choked with algae.

Scientists are divided over whether climate change — causing excessive heat that reduces oxygen levels in water — is contributing to the problem. But they agree that nitrate-filled runoffs from fertilizers from nearby farms have heavily damaged the waters where oysters and seahorses used to thrive.

But farmers in the area have balked at shouldering the blame.

Hugo Morán, a senior official in the central government’s environment ministry, estimated that 80% of the water contamination resulted from the unchecked growth of agriculture. He also put some of the blame on local politicians, accusing them of long downplaying the contamination and proposing unviable remedies, such as channeling plenty of the lagoon’s waters into the Medi-

terranean Sea. This would only create another victim, he said.

“To heal, you first have to recognize the illness,” he said. “But what we have heard, instead, are sporadic claims by the regional government of Murcia that the Mar Menor is doing better than ever.”

Similar problems have cropped up in other parts of the world recently. Pollution, including from nitrogen-based contaminants, has been blamed for accelerating the secretion of a slimy substance called mucilage that has clogged the Sea of Marmara in Turkey. And waste produced by a nearby electricity plan and oil refinery has damaged the giant Berre lagoon in southern France.

The area around the Mar Menor, with its fertile fields and temperate year-round climate, has proved irresistible to largescale farms, which often use ecologically damaging nitrate fertilizers. Adding to the problems, there has been extensive tourism development on the narrow, 13-mile sandbank known as La Manga, or the Sleeve, that separates the Mar Menor from the Mediterranean.

Whoever is to blame, María Victoria Sánchez-Bravo Solla, a retired schoolteacher, has had enough.

When 5 tons of dead fish washed up in August near her house on the lagoon, she decided that she was ready to move. She called it “an environmental disaster that should put our politicians and all those who deny responsibility for allowing this to happen to shame.”

As the problems have intensified, so has the blame game.

The conservative administration of the Murcia region says the Spanish central government in Madrid, currently a left-wing coalition, should do more to help. Madrid says the responsibility lies at the local level.

Miriam Pérez, who is responsible for the Mar Menor in the regional government, said she believes political rivalries are keeping the central government from doing more.

“I unfortunately do think that political colors matter,” she said.

She said the central government had done little to support her right-wing administration’s cleanup efforts — including removing about 7,000 metric tons of biomass — mostly decomposing seaweed — even after the region issued a decree in 2019 to protect the lagoon.

In August, when another wave of dead fish washed up, scientists noted that the water temperature had climbed significantly.

But in September, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography published a report that rejected the idea that excessive summer heat helped kill the fish.

Scientists instead place much of the blame with farming. In 1979, a canal was opened to carry water from the Tagus — the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula — to southeastern Spain. The canal led to irrigation, which transformed Murcia into one of Europe’s farming powerhouses, producing lettuce, broccoli, artichokes, melons and more for export across the continent.

Agriculture represents 8.5% of the region’s gross domestic product and provides about 47,000 jobs, according to a study published last year by the University of Alcalá, near Madrid.

But the farmers around the Mar Menor have deflected the blame, saying that the contamination comes from water seeping into the lagoon from an aquifer in which toxic substances have accumulated over decades.

Vicente Carrión, president of the local branch of COAG, an agriculture union, said that farmers were now strictly using only the amount of fertilizers needed for

plants to grow.

“We are getting blamed for what went on 40 years ago” when less scrutiny was placed on agricultural practices and authorities’ emphasis was on taking advantage of the demand from across Europe, he said.

Adolfo García, director of Camposeven, an agriculture exporter that harvests about 1,500 acres of land in the region, said that most farmers had already switched to sustainable production methods. Laggards should get government incentives to invest in green technology rather than “stones thrown by people who have no knowledge of our modern irrigation systems,” he added.

“Even if we planted nothing in this area for the next 50 years, the aquifer would remain very polluted,” he said.

But Julia Martínez, who grew up in the region and is now a biologist and technical director at Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua, an institute that specializes in water sustainability, said that the arguments about the aquifer were a red herring. She said at least 75% of the lagoon’s water contamination came from runoffs.

The impact of tourism — another giant contributor to the local economy — is another problem. The Mar Menor’s hotels and restaurants are concentrated along the sandy bar of La Manga, where dozens of apartment blocks were also built, many as holiday homes. Almost every inch of the strip is developed.

Morán, the environment secretary, acknowledged that the Mar Menor had suffered from an “open bar” approach in terms of awarding building permits. But he mostly blamed fertilizer runoff from farms.

Morán said that his central government planned to use 300 million euros, or about $350 million, from the European Union’s pandemic recovery fund to protect the Mar Menor’s natural habitat and waters. The plan includes replanting vegetation close to the shores, which can stop contaminated water flowing in from neighboring fields.

For some scientists, monitoring the deterioration of the lagoon has felt like a personal tragedy.

“I remember finding it stunning as a child that I could see the sand at the bottom without even noticing the water because the Mar Menor was so transparent,” said Martínez, the biologist.

“Now, we sadly have a green soup, and I certainly have long stopped swimming in it.”

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Colin Powell and ‘Guernica’

By MAUREEN DOWD

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f we could unlock the puzzle of Colin Powell, maybe we could understand why America cracked up.

General Powell was the best America had to offer. He was the son of Jamaican immigrants in the South Bronx who became a hero in Vietnam and then the first African American secretary of state.

He was smart and charismatic, with an easy laugh and a Corvette Stingray. At Washington parties, even ones where Jack Nicholson dropped in, people gravitated toward Powell.

He could even speak a little Yiddish, from his teenage stint as “a schlepper” at a baby furniture and toy store owned by immigrant Jews and as a Shabbos goy in the neighborhood.

He could have been president. Excitement swirled around him when he published his memoir “My American Journey” on the cusp of the ’96 race.

But like another son of immigrants, Mario Cuomo, Powell shrank from a run at the last minute. It always struck me that Cuomo and Powell seemed to overanalyze whether they were worthy, while the WASPy sons of privilege, like George W. Bush and Dan Quayle, just assumed they were worthy, no mat-

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ter how little they knew.

Back in 1995, I wrote a column about the needlepoint-pillow rules that Powell laid out in his memoir.

It is sad to read them now because he broke so many of them when he drove his tank off the cliff known as Iraq. Like Rule No. 7: “You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.”

Rule No. 1 was: “It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”

But there will be no morning from here to eternity when the decision to invade Iraq will look better.

Powell even failed to follow the Powell doctrine, which shunned attenuated wars in which our national security interests were not at stake.

The Shakespearean tragedy of Powell is that he knew it was a rotten decision. And, unlike the draft dodgers in the Bush White House, he knew the real cost of war. He knew they weren’t playing with toy soldiers.

But Powell embodied the phrase “soldiering on.”

He did not resign in protest, which might have stiffened the spines of Joe Biden, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, who all voted to authorize the war out of political expediency.

He let Dick Cheney goad him into making the phony case for war at the United Nations; Cheney mocked Powell, asking if he was afraid to jeopardize his soaring popularity ratings, treating him like a flower child. And somehow, Powell naïvely thought that he and his pal George Tenet could scrub his speech of all the deceptions shoehorned in by Cheney’s co-conspirators.

The demonic Cheney and the war-loving neocons in his posse — the ones in the Pentagon were ridiculed by Powell as a “Gestapo office” — needed an unimpeachable frontman. Once they began leeching Powell’s integrity, there was no way that they weren’t going to drain him dry.

The great man got played, turning sap for a vice president he didn’t even care for. He never trusted Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld’s unhealthy “fever” about deserting Afghanistan to go after Saddam.

Diplomats referred to Iraq as “The House of Broken Toys.” But in the end, it was America that was broken.

I was stunned when Mary McGrory, the liberal lioness of The Washington Post, wrote that Powell “persuaded me, and I was as tough as France to convince.” She explained that she was “clinging tightly to the toga of Colin Powell” because no one commanded such respect.

Powell later admitted it was wrong to denounce Saddam’s “web of lies” when the Bush administration was spinning its own web of half-truths and fantasies.

But you can’t wipe that slate clean. The consequences were too severe.

We’re still living in a world warped by the fakery of W. and Cheney. We’re still shattered because W. and Condi Rice ignored that intelligence report titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” W. was too busy mountain biking to pay attention.

If our leaders could trick us into the Iraq misadventure, how could we trust government again?

And when government is not trusted, it creates fertile ground for charlatans.

Donald Trump fed off — and is still feeding off — those severed ties of trust between Americans and their government. A substantial chunk of the public believes Trump’s lies and conspiracies.

And most of those craven House Republicans are still so frightened of Trump’s power, as he ramps up for another run, that they refused to stand up for their own institution and hold Steve Bannon in contempt.

Powell is a cautionary tale for another reason.

He was supposed to be the “grown-up in the room,” a counterweight to W.’s callowness. It didn’t work.

Powell folded, and hundreds of thousands, and counting, died.

The GOP returned to the same concept with Trump and Jim Mattis, and it also failed. And it certainly wouldn’t work if Trump were re-elected. Emboldened, he’d surround himself with a full squad of Mark Meadows clones.

Powell should have paid more attention to his Rule No. 8: “Check small things.”

When U.N. officials covered up a tapestry of Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece, “Guernica,” before his speech, Powell should have checked that small thing.

The discordance of the secretary of state selling the bombing of Iraq in front of the shrouded image of shrieking and mutilated women, men, children, bulls and horses spoke volumes.

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42 casos positivos y una muerte por COVID-19 en informe DS POR CYBERNEWS

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

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 8 al 22 de octubre de 2021.

La persona fallecida es una mujer

de 78 años de la Región de Bayamón.

Hay 58 adultos hospitalizados y 16 menores.

Con una dosis hay al menos dos millones, 527 mil, 673 personas. Con las dosis completadas hay dos millones, 298 mil, 983 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 3,221.

Reguetoneros dedican tema a la mujer sin maquillaje POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El cantante boricua Jahzel y el venezolano Gustavo Elis lanzaron su primera colaboración musical con el pegajoso tema “Sin Maquillaje”.

Con mucha coquetería, los artistas urbanos promueven la belleza natural de la mujer en su sencillo, una canción que afirma cuán linda se ve una mujer sin tener que recurrir a los cosméticos.

En su lírica celebran su inquebrantable seguridad y sentido de libertad para salir adelante.

“Sin Maquillaje” es una composición de Arturo Paz, Carlos Paz, Michael Garrett, Kristhian Barrios, Say, Jahzel y Gustavo.

“Me siento súper contento y afortunado de haber trabajado con Gustavo en este sencillo musical tan lindo y con una vibra bien positiva. “Sin Maquillaje”, fue hecho con muchísimo amor para todas las chicas que nos siguen y viven a plenitud sin maquillaje, siendo felices de tener ‘dates’ con ellas mismas, pero muy en especial, rompiendo

paradigmas impuestos por la sociedad. Seguimos trabajando fuerte con SEBI Music y haciendo cosas diferentes”, compartió Jahzel.

La grabación del video tuvo como escenario el hermoso paisaje de Twin Oaks Conservation Area en Orlando, Florida. Los artistas se presentaron con un look colorido y refrescante, perfecto para un tema súper alegre. Bien logrado por Jack Nine Films, responsable de la dirección de todos los proyectos de SEBI Music durante el pasado año.

“Sin Maquillaje” es una canción con mucha energía y una vibra bien especial. Me encantó trabajar con Jahzel, un artista muy chévere y talentoso. Esperamos que la gente disfrute el tema y su flow buena onda. Y a las nenas, ustedes no son lindas sin maquillaje, son hermosas”, dijo Gustavo Elis.

El tema “Sin Maquillaje” de Jahzel y Gustavo Elis para SEBI Music lo encuentras en todas las plataformas digitales https://sym.ffm.to/sin-maquillaje y el video lo disfrutas en YouTube https://youtu.be/ qbGV_rC6c_E.

Conductor choca contra el edificio del PPD en San Juan POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Un hombre de 29 años chocó esta madrugada del domingo en la avenida Constitución frente al edificio del Partido Popular Democrático en San Juan, informó el Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico.

Según las autoridades, el hombre identificado como Santos Santa conducía su vehículo Toyota Corolla por el lugar cuando fue impactado por otro vehículo, perdiendo el control el

mismo, impactando su parte frontal contra el establecimiento, causándole daños a las puertas de entrada de cristal hasta el área de reuniones. El conductor fue atendido por los paramédicos con laceraciones leves en el rostro y en el brazo izquierdo.

Los danos del edificio no han sido valorados aún.

La agente González, adscrita al Precinto de San Juan, se hizo a cargo de la investigación.

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Alec Baldwin film set had previous accidental gun discharges, crew members say

By SIMON ROMERO and JULIA JACOBS

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here were at least two accidental gun discharges on the set of an Alec Baldwin movie being filmed in New Mexico days before he fatally shot the cinematographer, according to three former members of the film’s crew.

The discharges occurred Oct. 16, the former crew members said, prompting a complaint to a supervisor about the safety practices on the set, which was outside Santa Fe. The crew members, who asked not to be named out of fear that their future employment in the industry could be affected, were among several workers who quit, just hours before the fatal shooting, over complaints about unpaid work and working conditions on the production.

The disclosures, which were first reported by the Los Angeles Times, are focusing scrutiny on concerns over loosely followed protocols and labor strife between producers and crew members during the production of the movie, “Rust,” a low-budget film about a 19th century accidental killing and its aftermath.

Larry Zanoff, who worked on the set of “Django Unchained” as an armorer — a position that involves instructing cast members on the safe handling of firearms — and was not involved in “Rust,” said that if a firearm went off on a film set, there would immediately be an inquiry into whether the firearm was defective or was mishandled. If the determination was that it was mishandled, he said, the production would undergo a reinforcement of safety protocols and possibly disallow the handler from using firearms.

It was unclear whether such an investigation took place after the Oct. 16 incidents.

The discharges that day were inside a cabin used as a set location, and Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer, was among the production team members inside, crew members said.

The movie’s producers, who include Baldwin, contended in a statement Friday that they had not been told about the safety issues.

“Though we were not made aware of any official complaints concerning weapon or prop safety on set, we will be conducting an internal review of our procedures while production is shut down,” the movie’s production company, Rust Movie Productions LLC, said

A bouquet hangs outside the Bonanza Creek Film Ranch, where Alec Baldwin fatally shot the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded a director when he discharged a prop gun. in the statement. “We will continue to cooperate with the Santa Fe authorities in their investigation and offer mental health services to the cast and crew during this tragic time.”

The problems with the firearms are fueling questions as to how Baldwin could have been handling a gun on set that was unsafe.

According to an affidavit signed by Detective Joel Cano of the Santa Fe County sheriff’s office, Baldwin was told by an assistant director who handed him the firearm that it was a “cold gun,” which on a film set typically refers to a gun that’s unloaded.

According to the affidavit by the detective in the Santa Fe County sheriff’s office, the gun used in the shooting was set up by Hannah Gutierrez, the production’s armorer, and handed to Baldwin by Dave Halls, the assistant director. Neither Gutierrez nor Halls responded to requests for comment.

In addition to Zanoff, five other experts in the use of firearms on film and television sets said that it was against usual protocol for an assistant director to hand a gun to an actor.

One of the experts, Mike Tristano, a veteran professional armorer based in Los Angeles, said that typical practice on a film set would be for the armorer to hand the gun to the actor and that the chain of events described in the affidavit struck him as a “red flag.”

In his affidavit, Cano said that after Baldwin fatally shot Hutchins and wounded

Joel Souza, the film’s director, Gutierrez took the spent casing out of the gun used in the shooting and later handed the gun to sheriff’s deputies. The detective also said that he learned that Halls, the assistant director, did not know live rounds were in the gun he had given to Baldwin.

On a podcast posted last month, Gutierrez, who also goes by Hannah Reed and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, said she had just finished filming her first movie as head armorer in a Western called “The Old Way,” starring Clint Howard and Nicolas Cage, that is set for release next year.

“I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn’t take the job because I wasn’t sure if I was ready, but doing it, it went really smoothly,” Gutierrez said in the podcast, “Voices of the West,” on which the hosts discuss old Western films and television shows. She is the daughter of Thell Reed, a shooting expert who has put on exhibitions and a consultant to the movie industry who has trained prominent actors in handling firearms.

In addition to the safety concerns, the three crew members who quit also cited other grievances. They said the crew had complained to the film’s producers about extended delays to some of their paychecks and about the production’s refusal, at times, to book them hotel rooms in Santa Fe, near the set.

That meant that some of the crew had to drive about an hour to their homes around Albuquerque after a long day on set in a physically demanding job, the members said.

Their concerns went unaddressed, the crew members said, and by Wednesday, six of them filed resignation letters after one of them was denied a hotel room to sleep in after a long day. Hours before the fatal shooting, the crew members arrived on set Thursday morning to pack up their belongings and said they learned that the production had hired nonunion workers to replace them.

Souza said in a statement Saturday that he was “gutted” by the loss of Hutchins, writing that she was “kind, vibrant, incredibly talented, fought for every inch and always pushed me to be better.”

“I am humbled and grateful by the outpouring of affection we have received from our filmmaking community, the people of Santa Fe and the hundreds of strangers who have reached out,” he said in the statement.

“It will surely aid in my recovery.”

Hutchins’ husband, Matt Hutchins, wrote in a tweet Friday night that his wife “inspired us all with her passion and vision, and her legacy is too meaningful to encapsulate in words.”

About 200 people gathered in downtown Albuquerque on Saturday night for a candlelight vigil to remember Hutchins. Many at the vigil work in New Mexico’s expanding film industry.

Lane Luper, a camera crew member on “Rust” who forged a strong friendship with Hutchins after she persuaded him to work on the movie, told those gathered that he was devastated by her death.

Hutchins “never, ever thought of herself as better than anyone on that set,” he said.

“I would have been lucky to have ever done another movie with another person like that, or with her.”

Rebecca Stair, a location manager, said she was saddened that Hutchins had been killed just days after a Hollywood union of film workers reached an agreement with movie and TV studios that averted a strike on issues that included safer work conditions.

Stair said the incident on the set of “Rust” served as a tragic reminder of what could happen because of security lapses.

“We didn’t come together to strike, and now we’re coming together to grieve,” Stair said.

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How ‘Maya and the Three,’ ‘Encanto’ and ‘Vivo’ animate Latinidad

The new Netflix series “Maya and the Three” follows a young warrior princess, center, voiced by Zoe Saldaña.

By LAURA ZORNOSA

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ake “The Lord of the Rings,” but make it Mesoamerican. Pepper the plot with pop culture references, and you have “Maya and the Three.”

Originally envisioned by creator Jorge R. Gutiérrez as a film trilogy, “Maya and the Three” began to take shape in 2018 when Netflix executives asked him to pitch an idea that he loved but didn’t think he could get made anywhere else.

“What came out of my mouth was: ‘I want to make three movies in a row about a Mesoamerican warrior princess who’s going to save the world,’” Gutiérrez said. Now re-imagined as a nine-episode animated miniseries, the result arrived Friday on Netflix, with a vocal cast studded with Latino stars, including Zoe Saldaña (Maya), Diego Luna (Zatz, prince of bats), Gael García Bernal (the Jaguar Brothers), Stephanie Beatriz (Chimi) and Rita Moreno (Ah Puch).

As singular as it sounds, “Maya and the Three” is part of a recent trend that also includes the films “Vivo,” which came out in August, and “Encanto,” slated for release next month. All are animated stories by Latinos and about Latinos. All highlight the importance of women and girls to their communities and aim to counter Hollywood’s history of attempting to create unrealistically flawless characters of color (when it has created them at all).

And all three aim to dazzle and charm viewers with their narratives and aesthetics while also honoring distinct cultures and creating more complex portrayals of Latinos — in part, by reveling in their characters’ imperfections.

“When you’re only representing one film with one Hispanic character, that character has to be everything for everyone,” said Rebecca Perez, an “Encanto” animator.

“And that’s not fair, because no one’s perfect. We all bring our broken pieces and our perfect pieces.”

When it came to creating the heroes of “Maya and the Three,” Gutiérrez, who also directed the series, received similar advice from his wife, animator and illustrator Sandra Equihua. (Gutiérrez grew up in Mexico City; Equihua is from Tijuana, Mexico.) Equihua designed the show’s lead female characters and served as a creative consultant.

“Early on, as a male writer, I go: ‘I’ve never had a female protagonist. I’ve got to make sure she’s perfect,’” Gutiérrez said in a joint video interview with Equihua, both of whom were in Los Angeles. “And she literally went: ‘What are you doing? You’re Mary Sue-ing this thing.

You are making her flat as a character because she has no flaws — all the male characters are so flawed, they’re way more interesting.’”

Equihua had reminded Gutiérrez that he loved folk art because of its imperfections, and she pressed him to treat his protagonist the same way. So at times, Maya falters: She does bad things for good reasons.

As a society, “we’re realizing that there’s more layers than being the naysayer, the crybaby, Miss Perfect,” Equihua said. “There’s more layers to us as girls, as women, and we wanted to make sure that Maya was as human as possible.”

“Encanto,” a Disney film coming to theaters Nov. 24, tells the story of the Madrigal family, which lives in an enchanted town in the mountains of Colombia. The family matriarch, Abuela (María Cecilia Botero), arrived there after fleeing violence, losing her husband along the way.

The enchantment, bestowed upon Abuela to protect her from harm, has given a magical gift to each child in the family — except Mirabel. But when she realizes that the enchantment itself is in danger, Mirabel sets out to save her family.

Perez, one of the film’s animators, said that her Cuban grandparents came to the United States in very much

the same fashion, packing their bags and giving up everything they knew.

“I made very conscious choices to be present in every meeting, and be authentically me,” Perez said in a video interview from Burbank, California. “Even if it meant being a little uncomfortable — both me being uncomfortable and the person I’m talking to, whether it be a director or producer, and expressing my point of view.

“Always respectful, but the only way you’re going to get to a great place is to go through the bumps. Then you’re going to have honest conversations.”

Perhaps without realizing it, Perez mirrored the experience of Mirabel Madrigal, the film’s bespectacled protagonist. In “Encanto,” conflict is resolved only through open, honest conversation between Mirabel and Abuela, bridging generational gaps amid a cloud of golden butterflies. The rest of the Madrigal family runs the gamut of body types, skin tones, hair colors, accents and magical powers.

Like “Encanto,” the Netflix film “Vivo” includes details that the average viewer might miss. Someone who is part of the relevant culture, however, will instantly pick them up. In “Encanto,” Mirabel gestures to a present for her younger cousin by pointing with her lips, a classic Colombian gesture. In “Vivo,” a Dominican American mother drives a car with a bumper sticker: the Dominican flag inside an outline of the country.

Carlos Romero, a story artist on “Vivo” of Dominican and Panamanian descent, loved the bumper sticker — he saw it everywhere growing up in the Bronx.

“It’s all about absorbing all of that and making sure we’re doing right by their culture,” he said. It was also important, he added, to make sure that “people from those different countries can watch this and feel pride, too — and feel like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s exactly someone I know,’ or, ‘That’s exactly what I’d say.’”

“Vivo” follows the unlikely adventures of a kinkajou named Vivo (Lin-Manuel Miranda), a musician from Cuba, and a girl named Gabi (Ynairaly Simo), an energetic Dominican American tween. When the two run away from home to deliver a long-lost love letter, Gabi’s mother, Rosa (Saldaña), becomes worried. Then she becomes upset.

There was a lot of worry on set, Romero said, surrounding Rosa’s emotions. Was she too angry, especially for a Dominican American woman on screen? Romero understood the desire to avoid stereotypes, he said, but he thought the portrayal was realistic: Any mother would furiously scour the city for her lost child.

“We need to show them as dimensional characters that experience fear; they experience worry and anxiety for their kid, pride when they do good,” Romero said. “You shouldn’t be afraid of touching all the emotions because Latinos are dimensional people that should be portrayed realistically onscreen.”

“And the more of them we get,” he added, “the less we have to worry about presenting them perfectly in our films.”

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Whales so close you can touch them: A family adventure in Canada

The St. Lawrence River at sunrise near Tadoussac, Quebec, Canada, Sept. 18, 2021.

By RONDA KAYSEN

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he trail to our yurt was narrow, muddy and peppered with tiny ceramic and plastic gnomes, fairies and bears. My 8-year-old daughter, clutching her stuffed giraffe and gingerly avoiding the knotty roots, spotted a miniature tiger, crouched at the base of a pine tree.

She was too weary to offer it anything more than a casual nod as she trudged along behind her father and 11-year-old brother, weighted down by her pink sequined backpack and the 6 1/2 hours we’d spent on the road from Montreal to get here, to a town called Sacré-Coeur that hugs the Saguenay River in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec.

It was late June 2019 and we had come here in search of whales, traveling roughly 300 miles northeast from Montreal, crossing the Saguenay by ferry, and driving the final mile on a dirt road to meet our innkeeper, who was eager for us to finish this last leg of our journey before nightfall.

We were staying about 10 miles from Tadoussac, a picturesque town where the Saguenay meets the St. Lawrence River. The waterway is part of a protected marine park where about six species of whales can be

regularly seen from May to the end of October as they feed in the deep, nutrient-rich waters of the St. Lawrence estuary, making for a spectacular place to whale watch.

I had booked the trip on a whim, finding a listing on Airbnb, and constructing a family vacation around the idea of sleeping in a supercharged tent. At the time, the

trip felt like the beginning of a new chapter for our family. Our children were getting older, and could tolerate long drives, loose plans and hikes weighted down by luggage. We could explore corners of the world together.

Now, looking back on that time, after a year and a half spent trudging through a pandemic and traveling only minimally, I no longer see that trip as a beginning. I see it instead as our last unencumbered adventure, one where our worries were limited to catching ferries, avoiding mosquitoes and spotting sea creatures.

Last month, Canada reopened its borders to fully vaccinated American travelers, making such a trip possible once again.

With proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test, a family could repeat this relatively COVID-safe itinerary, although some attractions may be closed or only partially open, and unvaccinated children under 12 must follow Canadian testing and safety requirements. Yet for me, this option still feels tenuous. My daughter, now 10, is not eligible for the vaccine, and with cases rising again, I am hesitant to travel such a huge distance with her. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers Canada a Level 3, high risk destination, and advises unvaccinated citizens

A humpback whale in the St. Lawrence River near Tadoussac, Quebec, Canada, Sept. 18, 2021.

to avoid nonessential travel there. I wonder when we’ll be able to travel so freely again. And so, the adventure we had feels like one plucked from a world I can no longer reach, not unlike watching the water, waiting for a whale to crest.

Where are the whales?

We started the trip by driving from our home in New Jersey, through New York, to Montreal, where we stayed for a few days. We then continued on to CôteNord, where we would spend three nights surrounded by the boreal forest and the dramatic Saguenay fjords as we looked for humpback, minke, fin, beluga and blue whales.

As we climbed a ridge that first evening, the forest tunnel view opened, revealing our white canvas yurt overlooking the Saguenay hundreds of feet below, and the majestic fjords, part of the Saguenay Fjords National Park. From the deck outside our yurt, we had an unobstructed, and private, window onto this wonder.

Our innkeeper told us to watch for a pair of belugas that had been playing in the water all morning. The nearby SainteMarguerite Bay is their breeding ground and nursery. Unlike the other whales that only travel through, the belugas, primarily an Arctic species, live here year round.

From this distance, he told us, they might look like white caps on the water.

The children immediately inspected their new dwelling, marveling at the propane stove, the trickle of running water from a kitchen sink and the dry toilet full of sawdust. (A surprisingly charming wooden outhouse a few feet from the yurt was for major bathroom runs.) The circular space had two bedrooms, a wall of windows facing the fjords and a glass dome ceiling to view the stars. We’d arrived too late to find a market to restock our dwindling supply of groceries, and so finished up what we had for dinner — a few slices of cheese and salami on sandwich bread. The children grumbled through the disappointing meal.

That night, my husband read to us from a book he’d brought with him, “Champlain’s Dream,” about the French explorer.

For 8,000 years, the confluence of the two rivers had been a crossroads and meeting

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place for First Nations tribes. The passage he read chronicled an encounter Samuel de Champlain had in 1603 with several native tribes who had gathered in celebration, building a summer camp on the Saguenay, not far from the Tadoussac harbor, and close to where we slept.

We awoke the next morning to a stunning view of the fjords, blanketed in fog.

There were no belugas in sight, but plenty of mosquitoes, huge, determined and ready to attack. We put on long sleeves and swatted our way back to the car, the welts already forming. I had booked a whale-watching cruise leaving from Tadoussac, and was anxious to catch the boat.

Tadoussac, a village of 800 founded in 1600, is today a quaint maritime tourist destination, overlooking the St. Lawrence Bay. The region attracts 1 million visitors a year, and so the streets of Tadoussac are peppered with shops, restaurants and inns. My husband was particularly curious about the replica of the Chauvin Trading Post, built in 1600, and the first fur-trading center in Canada. Overlooking the bay is the grand Hotel Tadoussac, with a red roof, white siding and green shutters. Rebuilt in 1942 after the original hotel from 1864 was demolished, it has a sprawling lawn and gardens with Adirondack chairs facing the water.

We wound our way past the hotel and down to the dock, where the boat awaited us, along with busloads of tourists from Quebec City, about 3 1/2 hours away. (The cruise company we used has trips available this season until mid-October.) It is unusual to see giant species like the blue whale swimming in a river, hundreds of miles from the open ocean. Yet they come to the estuary to feed, traveling along the St. Lawrence’s deep Laurentian Channel and mingling with other smaller species, like the beluga.

On the upper deck of the ship, passengers jockeyed for position as the captain announced sightings — fin whales had been spotted to the north. I craned my neck over the other passengers, tracking the dark water with my binoculars. On the horizon, I glimpsed the grayish plumes from their blowholes dusting the air. Their backs emerged, smooth discs best seen through binoculars.

My daughter, barely able to clear the railing, could see nothing. My son, his view blocked by other passengers, leaned against a post, frustrated and bored.

The cruise ended and I worried that we’d overpromised the children — whales

A restaurant overlooking the Saguenay Fjord in Sacré-Coeur, Quebec, Canada, Sept. 18, 2021.

The San Juan Daily Star at a time, their breath a deep groan, their backs slick. Because the water drops off almost immediately offshore, the minkes are known to edge close to land. And they did, lifting their heads so high that we could see their mouths. At other times, they’d surface far in the distance, offering us only a glimpse of their back and dorsal fin. In between visits, we’d scan the stillness, waiting, looking for a sign. My son would jump and point if he saw one first, and we’d all snap our heads as it emerged briefly from a world we could barely comprehend. And then they were gone, off to feed somewhere else.

That evening, back in Sacré-Coeur, we drove to a restaurant at the wharf called La Casta Fjord, which will be open this season through the first week in October, depending on tourism. Tiny, with wooden tables, shiplap walls and a weathered deck overlooking the fjords, the owner spoke little English, so I stumbled through the French I hadn’t spoken in years to order a salad and linguine with lobster and Nordic shrimp. The meal was good, the view even better. We looked out at the river, and all that we could not see beneath it and imagined more trips to come — maybe the Gaspé Peninsula or Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. At that moment, the world felt vast. This trip would be the first of many.

Now, as the world haltingly reopens, with travel complicated by coronavirus tests, vaccination records and ever-changing social distancing rules, we instead find ourselves concocting hopeful itineraries for the coming years, planning small adventures for the fall, or perhaps larger ones next spring. Maybe by then, we hope, the world will beckon once again.

do not appear on command and it was pos- my son had rescued from the water. As I knelt sible we’d finish our vacation without ever beside her, I felt a swoosh to my left. I looked spotting one up close. As we walked back up to see, rising from the water just a few feet to town, we stopped at an ice cream shop beyond my reach, a minke whale so close I for consolation, and then had a light dinner, could see the barnacles on its skin, and hear seated outside at a microbrewery overlook- its heavy breath exhale. I gasped as this giant ing the bay. The brewery was bustling that creature of the sea surfaced, nearly breachevening with patrons chatting in French. We ing. And then it was gone, vanishing into the shared pizza and a charcuterie platter, and deep trench of cold, rich water.

My son and husband returned moments took in the crisp summer breeze. later to learn about what they’d missed. Give ‘I felt a swoosh to my left ...’

The next morning, I awoke determined it 15 or 20 minutes, we were told by a guide to see whales. We headed about 30 miles who was on the rocks, and the minke would north up Route 138 to a nature center (open return for air. There were at least two of them, until mid-October) in Les Escoumins, the she said, maybe three. And so we waited. As northern boundary of the marine park. The we sat on the rocky land, they emerged, one outpost had an educational center, a scubadiving base and rocks where we could sit on the banks of the St. Lawrence. A guide suggested we circle back to another center, Capde-Bon-Désir, with a red-and-white lighthouse, also open until mid-October. Minkes had been spotted there earlier in the day and he thought we might have better luck there.

Once we arrived at Cap-de-Bon-Désir, we followed a path lined with birch trees down to the rocky banks. A few other families were there, too, sitting on the rocky banks of the river.

The children played in small pools of water on the rocks. They were full of zooplankton, the food that makes this water so nutritious. The river looked massive and peaceful, but I saw no whales.

My son and husband wandered off to find a bathroom. I leaned in close to my daughter, who was holding vigil over a bee A yurt near the Saguenay Fjord in Sacré-Coeur, Quebec, Canada, Sept. 18, 2021.

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The secret to better running? Try distraction.

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

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o make running seem easier, try paying attention to anything other than your body. That’s according to a fascinating new study of the ways in which how we focus as we move can impact how we feel as we move. The study was small and involved novice female runners, but the findings suggest that the more closely runners listen to their bodies, the more draining their running can become, both physically and psychologically. Conversely, the more runners distract themselves from what their bodies are doing as they put one foot in front of the other, the more effortless their run may feel, and the better their performance.

These findings could be useful for the many runners about to toe the line at a fall marathon or other race. The results could have implications, too, for any of us who might wonder how to make our workouts feel as tolerable as they possibly can be.

Exercise is not always boundless fun, as most of us know from experience. It can be physically unsettling as we begin to move and our heart rates and breathing quicken and muscles start to whinge.

It has not been altogether clear, however, how best to cope with these discomforts, so that we can stay motivated to eventually become better at our chosen sport or activity.

Many coaches and other authorities, including training partners and friends, will tell you to pay attention to what is going on inside of you, and to focus on the physics of your body, including your form and technique. Listen to your breathing as you move, you may have been told, or count your steps each minute, or think about the process of lifting your knee with each stride.

But some research with athletes suggests that paying close attention to your body and its mechanisms may be the wrong way to make moving feel easier and make you better at your sport. In a muchcited 2003 study, for example, skilled golfers putted more adroitly if they did not think about how to putt than when they did, while expert soccer players dribbled effortlessly through cones when their

minds wandered, but tended to bobble the ball if they paid attention to their footwork.

(People new to soccer, though, dribbled better when they thought about what they were doing, presumably because they did not yet know how to dribble.)

These results generally align with a widely held theory in exercise science known as the constrained action hypothesis. It suggests our bodies know how to move better than our conscious minds do.

The more we concentrate on or consciously tell our bodies what to do, this theory suggests, the less fluid and efficient our movement becomes.

This idea has been borne out in other studies with people practicing a variety of activities. In a 2017 study, for instance, 44 volunteers jumped farther during a standing long jump when they focused on where to land, rather than the correct techniques for leaping, Similarly, in a 2011 study of weight training, 27 men and women activated their arm muscles more fully during biceps curls — meaning their workout was more effective — when they did not think about how to heft the weight than when they did. And in a 2015 study of competitive rowers, the 15 athletes rowed more efficiently when they let their minds attend to almost anything other than how their legs felt as they rowed.

Whether a similar dynamic might play out in endurance sports, such as dis-

tance running, has been mostly unknown, though. So, for the new study, which was published this month in the Journal of Motor Learning and Development, researchers at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran, decided to see whether runners would perform more effectively if they were distracted, compared with if they tuned in to what was happening with their bodies.

They began by recruiting about a dozen young women. (The research took place in Iran, where studies with volunteers of both genders are discouraged, so no male runners participated.) The women were healthy, active and familiar with running, although none ran regularly. The researchers invited the women to their lab to check everyone’s fitness and top treadmill running speed.

Then on subsequent lab visits, the women ran for 6 minutes at a time, running at about 70% of their top speed, while the scientists monitored their oxygen consumption, the amount of lactate in their bloodstreams and their feelings about the difficulty of each run. During one of these sessions, the women fixated intently on the muscles in their feet, as a way to turn their attention inward. During another, they counted steps, so their focus, while still on their body, was broader and more external. In a third run, they counted

backward by threes, taking their minds off their bodies but not out of their heads. And finally, in a fourth session, they watched a video of a basketball game, a blunt distraction that pulled their attention completely away from running.

When the scientists then compared the women’s physical and emotional reactions to each run, they found that video watching easily bested body listening.

The women consumed the least oxygen and produced the least lactate when they viewed basketball and were the most distracted. Their running, physiologically, was least taxing then. They also told the researchers that when they watched the videos, they felt the least strained. Their running felt hardest, on the other hand, when they paid attention to their muscles, with the other strategies falling in between.

In essence, the worst strategy for the runners was “thinking about their movements,” said Jared Porter, a professor of human movement at the University of Tennessee, who oversaw the new study. A much better option was to think of something — anything — else.

As is typical of exercise science, this study was small, and the constrained action hypothesis remains only a theory. But as the current findings suggest, distractions are likely to make our running more pleasant and probably faster, Porter said.

So, don headphones and stream music or podcasts (while still monitoring the human and vehicular traffic around you for safety, of course). Listen to birdsong or drink in the landscape as you run outdoors, or watch television as you jog on a treadmill.

“We were surprised by how significant the effects were” when people’s minds drifted away from their bodies, he said.

Many factors no doubt go into how effectively we perform in a sport and how much we might enjoy our workouts. This study looked at brief bouts of running by young, inexperienced female runners. It cannot tell us if the results apply equally to men, older people, longtime runners or people in other endurance sports, like cycling and swimming. “But there is no scientific reason to think they don’t,” Porter said.

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Monday, October 25, 2021 por el OESTE, en un total máximo de 45’1½’ con el apartamento número C306, pasillo de entrada y área común. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Norte.

Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, tres (3) dormitorios, dos (2) baños y un área de balcón. Este apartamento goza del uso exclusivo del área de techo, que es un elemento común limitado, con un área aproximada de 980 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a aproximadamente a 92.00 metros cuadrados. Este apartamento tiene una participación equivalente a 0.2904% en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Le corresponde además de forma exclusiva, permanente e inseparable los espacios de estacionamientos marcados en los planos del condominio con los números 150 y 156. Finca 40977, inscrita al folio 75 del Tomo 1174 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp y esposa Roxana Serra Olmo en garantía de un pagaré, aff. #31546, a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por $182,700.00, al 6 ¾%, vencedero el 1 de marzo de 2036, según Esc. #198, en San Juan, a 16 de febrero de 2006, ante Luis A. Archilla Diaz, inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 1288 de Guaynabo, finca 40977, inscripción 2da. (ii) HIPOTECA constituida por Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp y esposa Roxana Serra Olmo en garantía de un pagaré a favor de World Financial Corp. h/n/c World Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por $163,200.00, al 7 1/4%, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2035, según Esc. #282, en San Juan, a 23 de abril de 2005, ante Luis A. Archilla Diaz, inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 1288 de Guaynabo, finca 40977, inscripción 3ra. (iii) HIPOTECA constituida por Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp y esposa Roxana Serra Olmo en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Cardinal Health PR 120, Inc., o a su orden, por $100,000.00, al 6%, vencedero a la presentación, según Esc. #2, en Guaynabo, a 17 de enero de 2013, ante Glorines Rosario González, inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 1288 de Guaynabo, finca 40977, inscripción 4ta. (iv) Embargo Federal: Contra Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp, por $53,456.35 seguro social xxxxx-3764, notificación #258209317, anotado al Sistema Karibe, el 18 de mayo de 2017. (v) Embargo Federal: Contra Elliot Pacheco Beau-

champ, seguro social xxxxx-3764, notificación #417675120, por $75,828.63 anotado al Sistema Karibe, el 30 de octubre de 2020. (vi) Embargo Federal: Contra Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp, seguro social xxx-xx-3764, notificación #417499320, por $12,278.82 anotado al Sistema Karibe, el 2 de noviembre de 2020. (vii) Demanda radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso Civil BY2018CV02837, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Scotiabank de PR, demandante, versus Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp y esposa Roxana Serra Olmo, demandados, por $147,592.15, anotado al Sistema Karibe de Guaynabo, finca 40977, anotación A y última, el 22 de enero de 2021. (viii) Embargo Federal: Contra Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp, seguro social xxx-xx-3764, notificación #434397721, por $81,048.04 anotado al Sistema Karibe, el 19 de julio de 2021. 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 20 de mayo de 2021, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad de $147,592.15 de principal con intereses al 6.750% anual desde el día 1 de abril de 2018 hasta su completo pago, cargos por demoras, más las cantidades debidas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad estipulada de $18,270.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita el 4to. Piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $182,700.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $121,800.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $91,350.00. El

The San Juan Daily Star 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 06 de octubre de 2021. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

ZULEIKA COSME RIVERA

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. BY2018CV01664.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 20 de noviembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 30 de agosto de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 30 de agosto de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 15 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en el Cuarto Piso de la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Sierra Bayamón, situada en el Barrio Hato Tejas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el Número del Solar Catorce (14) de la Manzana Cuarenta (40). Área del solar: 479.74 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Número Treinta y Siete (37), distancia de 9.696 metros y un arco de 4.966 metros; por el SUR, con un camino sombrea-

The San Juan Daily Star do, distancia de 23.414 metros; por el ESTE, con camino sombreado, distancia de 25.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el Solar Número Quince (15), distancia de 27.284 metros.

Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado para una familia.

La propiedad consta inscrita en el folio 131 del tomo 199 de Bayamón Norte, Finca Número 9691, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera.

Inscripción primera. La Escritura de Hipoteca Número 60, consta inscrita en el Tomo Karibe de Bayamón Norte, Finca Número 9691, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. Inscripción séptima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: SIERRA BAYAMÓN, 40-14 CALLE 37, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00959 (00961-4359). Primera Subasta: 15 de noviembre de 2021, Hora: 10:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $124,882.00. Segunda Subasta: 22 de noviembre de 2021, Hora: 10:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $83,254.66. Tercera Subasta: 29 de noviembre de 2021, Hora: 10:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $62,441.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $124,882.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 22 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $83,254.66.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 29 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $62,441.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $113,064.41 de principal, más intereses que se continúan acumulando sobre dicha suma al 3.50% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $505.98 de recargos acumulados, $4,239.02 balance de cuenta escrow más la cantidad estipulada de $12,488.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: 1. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de

Puerto Rico Vs. Zuleika Cosme Rivera, Luis Domínguez también conocido como Luis Domínguez Laracuente, Amparo Domínguez también conocida como Amparo Domínguez Sánchez, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número DCD2017-0881 (504), sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $113,064.41 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 27 de julio de 2017. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón Norte. Anotación A. 2. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Zuleika Cosme Rivera, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número BY2018CV01664, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $113,064.41 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 1 de agosto de 2018, presentado al Asiento 2018-076295-BY03, ha sido inscrito el 10 de diciembre de 2018 a las 2:32 pm en la Finca Número 9691, Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de octubre de 2021.

Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil Placa 735, Alguacil,

Monday, October 25, 2021 Tribunal De Primera Instancia, “C”, por 36 pies con 6 pulgadas Centro Judicial De Bayamón, de largo, con un área interior de 1,321 pies cuadrados con 83 Sala Superior. pies céntimos de otro. El AparLEGAL NOT ICE tamento tiene una participación ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de 2.13277% en los elementos DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- comunes generales. La propieNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA dad consta inscrita al folio 145 CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA- del tomo 205 de Toa Baja, FinMÓN SALA SUPERIOR. ca Número 12, 613. Registro BANCO POPULAR DE de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. La escritura de hiPUERTO RICO poteca consta inscrita al folio PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. 63 del tomo 578 de Toa Baja, ENRIQUE CORREA Finca Número 12,613. Registro ALVARADO Y MARÍA de la Propiedad de Bayamón, TERESA MERCED Sección II. Inscripción décima.

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: COND. BURGOS LAGO VISTA 1, 100 AVE. BLVD PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. BY2018CV01264. MONROIG, APT. 6B, TOA SALA: 505. SOBRE: EJECU- BAJA, PR 00949-2900. PrimeCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA ra Subasta: 15 de noviembre VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. de 2021, Hora; 10:45 am, Tipo ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- Mínimo: $102,153.00. Segunda RICA EL PRESIDENTE DE Subasgta: 22 de noviembre de 2021, Hora: 10:45 am, Tipo LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- Mínimo: $68,102.00. Tercera DO DE PUERTO RICO. AVI- Subasta: 29 de noviembre de SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. 2021, Hora: 10:45 am, Tipo El Alguacil que suscribe por la Mínimo: $51,076.50. El tipo presente anuncia y hace cons- mínimo para la primera subastar que en cumplimiento de la ta será de $102,153.00. De no Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada haber adjudicación en la priel 8 de mayo de 2019, la Orden mera subasta se celebrará una de Ejecución de Sentencia del segunda subasta, el día 22 de 23 de septiembre de 2019 y el noviembre de 2021, a las 10:45 Mandamiento de Ejecución del de la mañana, en el mismo lu27 de septiembre de 2019, en gar, en la cual el tipo mínimo el caso de epígrafe, procederé será de dos terceras partes del a vender el día 15 de noviem- tipo mínimo fijado en la primebre de 2021, a las 10:45 de la ra subasta, o sea, $68,102.00. mañana en el Cuarto Piso de la De no haber adjudicación en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subas- segunda subasta, se celebratas, localizada en el Tribunal rá una tercera subasta el día de Primera Instancia, Centro 29 de noviembre de 2021, a Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Su- las 10:45 de la mañana, en el perior, ubicado en la Carretera mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro mínimo será la mitad del precio 10.4, Esquina Esteban Padilla, pactado, o sea, $51,076.50. Si Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor se declarase desierta la tercera postor en pago de contado y en subasta, se adjudicará la finca moneda de los Estados Unidos a favor del acreedor por la totade América, cheque de gerente lidad de la cantidad adeudada o giro postal a nombre del Al- si ésta es igual o menor que guacil del Tribunal; todo título, el monto del tipo de la tercera derecho o interés de la parte subasta, si el tribunal lo estima demandada sobre la siguiente conveniente. Se abonará dipropiedad: URBANA: PRO- cho monto a la cantidad adeuPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apar- dada si ésta es mayor. Dicho tamento Número Seis guión B remate se llevará a cabo para (6-B) del Condominio Lago Vis- con su producto satisfacer a ta de Levittown, Barrio Sabana la demandante el importe de Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. la Sentencia por la suma de Apartamento de dos (2) plan- $94,505.56 de principal, más tas comprendido en la Segun- intereses sobre dicha suma al da y Tercera Planta de dicho 4% anual desde el 1 de octuEdificio, cuya segunda planta bre de 2016 hasta su completo consta de una sala-comedor, pago, más $261.17 de recargos cocina, área de lavandería, bal- acumulados, más la cantidad cón, una escalera interior que estipulada de $10,215.30 para conduce a la tercera planta y costas, gastos y honorarios de closet; la tercera planta consta abogados, así como cualquier de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, otra suma que contenga el concuatro (4) closets y la escalera trato de préstamo. Surge del que viene de la segunda plan- Estudio de Título Registral que ta. La puerta principal de este sobre esta propiedad pesa el apartamento está localizada en siguiente gravamen posterior a la sala-comedor y abre a la es- la hipoteca que por la presente calera exterior, que conduce al se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de solar en el cual está localizado Demanda: Pleito seguido por este edificio. Las dimensiones Banco Popular de Puerto Rico de la segunda y tercera plantas Vs. Enrique Correa Alvarado y son de 23 pies 9 pulgadas de su esposa, María Teresa Merancho desde la pared exterior cado Burgos (solteros), ante el hasta el centro de la pared Tribunal de Primera Instancia, medianera con el Apartamento Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso

Civil Número BY2018CV01264, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $94,505.56 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 11 de julio de 2018. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Toa Baja. Anotación B. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de octubre de 2021.

Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil Placa 735, Tribunal De Primera Instancia Centro Judicial De Bayamón Sala Superior.

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

ORIENTAL BANK DEMANDANTE VS.

HÉCTOR LUIS LÓPEZ RIVERA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2019CV03822.

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

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dictada en este caso con fecha 7 de octubre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 3 de diciembre de 2019 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 #28 del bloque M de la calle #16 en el plano de inscripción de La Madeline, localizada en el barrio Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 308.00 metros cuadrados.

En lindes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de 28.00 metros con el solar #29-M; por el SUR, en 28.00 metros con el solar #27-M; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 11.00 metros, con el solar #2-M y con solar M-3; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 11.00 metros con la calle #16. Sobre este solar se ha edificado una casa de hormigón reforzado dedicada a vivienda. FINCA NÚMERO: 18,993, inscrita al folio 76 del tomo 379 de Toa Alta, sección III de Bayamón. DIRECCION FISICA: BARRIO MUCARABONES URB. LA MADELINE 28-M CALLE 16 (CALLE AMATISTA) TOA ALTA PR 00953-3564.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 16 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana, en el 4to piso en la oficina de Alguaciles de subastas que sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Bayamon. 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 $137,941.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 23 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $91,960.66. 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 30 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana,, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $68,970.50.

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 $119,576.46 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.6250% 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 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 14 de octubre de 2021.

JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.

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

Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. DEMANDANTE VS.

Sucesión de José Ramón Peña Tolentino t/c/c José Ramón Pena Tolentino t/c/c José Ramón Peña t/c/c José R. Peña t/c/c José Peña Tolentino t/c/c José R. Peña Tolentino compuesta por Milagros Peña, Pedro Peña Vellón, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos, Centro de Recaudaciones Municipales; y a los Estados Unidos de América.

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: HU2018CV00251.

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

Al: Público en General A: SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RAMÓN PEÑA TOLENTINO T/C/C JOSÉ RAMÓN PENA TOLENTINO T/C/C JOSÉ RAMÓN PEÑA T/C/C JOSÉ R. PEÑA T/C/C JOSÉ PEÑA TOLENTINO T/C/C JOSÉ R. PEÑA TOLENTINO COMPUESTA POR MILAGROS PEÑA, PEDRO PEÑA VELLÓN, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Yo, MARIA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de

26 Humacao, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 16 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 13 de marzo de 2019, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 14 de marzo de 2019. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables.

Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 23 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana,; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 30 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 21 de mayo de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Extensión Verdemar, sita en el Barrio Punta Santiago de Humacao, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número novecientos cincuenta y ocho (958), con un área superficial de trescientos cinco punto cincuenta (305.50) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros, con el Solar novecientos cincuenta y siete (957) de dicha Urbanización; por el SUR, en veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros, con el Solar novecientos cincuenta y nueve (959) de dicha Urbanización; por el ESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Calle treinta y siete (37) de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con el Solar novecientos cincuenta y cuatro (954) de dicha Urbanización. Enclava una casa para fines residenciales. Finca número 13,939, inscrita al folio 75 del tomo 332 de Humacao. Regis-

tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. Dirección de la Propiedad: 958, 37 St., Ext. Verdemar Dev., Humacao, PR 00741. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $64,472.07, por concepto de balance de principal, más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.25% por ciento anual hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $16,200.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 342, otorgada el día 14 de diciembre de 2010, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante la Notaria Pública Dinorah Collazo Ortiz y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Humacao, finca número 13,939, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $162,000.00, con intereses al 5.250% anual, vencedero el día 18 de diciembre de 2086, constituida mediante la escritura número 343, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de diciembre de 2010, ante la notario Dinorah Collazo Ortíz, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Humacao, finca número 13,939, inscripción 8va y última. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del in-

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mueble antes descrito será la suma de $162,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $108,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $81,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del

referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 24 de agosto de 2021. MARIA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE HUMACAO. JENNISA GARCIA MORALES, Alguacil Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

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

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

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

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

STATES OF AMERICA; ASUME GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $144,715.88, plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants The Estate of Alfonso de la Cruz Then composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; The Estate of Laura Duran Conde a/k/a Laura Duran Conde composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Conjugal Partnership de la Cruz-Duran to pay Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee of Finance of America Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2019-HB1, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($24,000.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintiuno (21) del Bloque “HD” del plano de inscripción de la Tercera Extensión de la URBANIZACION COUNTRY CLUB, Quinta Etapa, situada en el barrio Sabana Debajo de Municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos veintidós punto treinta y siete (422.37) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros con la “Calle 220”; por el SUR, en diecisiete (17.00) metros, con los solares número veintidós y veintitres (22 y 23); por el ESTE, en veintiún punto cincuenta (21.50) metros con la “Calle 254”; y por el OESTE, en veintitrés (23.00) metros con el solar veinte (20); por el NORESTE, en cinco punto cincuenta (5.50) metros con la Intersección de las “Calles 220 y 254”. Enclava una casa. Property Number 4,069, recorded at page 211 of volume 112 of

Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Carolina. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 89 of volume 1,028 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Carolina. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $240,000.00, due on November 11, 2086 pursuant to deed number 59, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 31, 2012, before notary Fernando E. Doval Santiago, and recorded, at page 89 of volume 1,028 of Carolina, property number 4,069, 7th inscription.

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

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the the November 30, 2021 at 10:15 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $120,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of

conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 18th day of September of 2021. By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse, LLC. Plaintiff v.

Carmen María Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen M. Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen María Suárez; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv02478-PAD. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORCLOUSURE COMPLAINT . NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Carmen María Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen M. Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen María Suárez; United States of America

GENERAL PUBLIC: WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $138,060.89, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Carmen María Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen M. Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen María Suárez to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($22,200.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States

District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número FF veintidós del Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto de Viviendas a Bajo Costo denominado B.V.C. cincuenta y dos, radicado en el Barrio Martín González y Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos noventa y ocho metros cuadrados con cincuenta y siete centésimas de otro, en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar FF veintiuno; por el SUR, con el solar FF veintitrés; por el ESTE, con terrenos propiedad de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número doce.”

Property Number 31,199 filed at page 203 of volume 776 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 132 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None.

Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $222,000.00, due on August 1, 2087 pursuant to deed number 50, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 27, 2013, before notary David Garcia Medina, and recorded, at page 134 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, property number 31,199, 5th inscription.. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the November 16, 2021 at 10:15 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $222,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the the November 23, 2021 at 10:15 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $148,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

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

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

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

FRANCISCO MILTON SILVA RODRIGUEZ, Y YOLANDA SANTANA CARABALLO

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: MZ2021CV00153.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 3 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 MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: APARTMENTO 303-B COND. PORTA COELI SAN GERMAN, PR 00683 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número B-303 que radica en la tercera planta del Edificio B del Complejo Porta Coeli, situado en el Barrio Caín Alto de San Germán, Puerto Rico, con un área de 1,089 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 101.28 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 32.67 pies lineales, equivalentes a 9.96 metros lineales, con espacio exterior; por el SUR, en 32.67 pies lineales, equivalentes a 9.96 metros lineales, con espacio exterior; por el ESTE, en 18.00 metros lineales, equivalentes a 5.49 metros lineales, con escalera; en 16.33 pies lineales, equivalentes a 4.98 metros lineales, con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en 30.08 pies lineales, equivalentes a 9.17 metros lineales, con apartamento B-302. Contiene sala-comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios con sus closets, dos baños, linen closets en pasillo exterior, lavandería y balcón. A este apartamento le corresponde un estacionamiento doble rotulado con el mismo número del apartamento, el cual es B-303. Corresponde además a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales del inmueble una participación de 1.46 por ciento. Contiene además una escalera tipo espiral en acero que sube a la azotea donde se provee un espacio techado en material metálico para un baño futuro con un área de 58.70 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 5.46 metros cuadrados. Este techo puede ser ampliado siempre y cuando este en conformidad con el plano que se incluye en el reglamento esto es hasta un máximo total de 252 pies cuadrados. La azotea contiene un área abierta de 972.40 pies cuadrados y será para uso exclusivo del ocupante del apartamento. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 94 del Tomo 551 de San Germán, Finca número 17,776, del Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $119,025.00. 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 10 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:30 DE LA

Monday, October 25, 2021 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 $79,350.00.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17 DE NOVIEMBRE 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 $59,512.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 189, otorgada el día 30 de septiembre de 2010, ante el Notario Luis E. Andújar Moreno y consta inscrita al folio 96 del tomo 551 de San Germán, finca número 17,776, inscripción séptima (7ma) y última. 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 $98,667.16 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de marzo de 2020, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,902.50.

Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,902.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,902.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. 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 MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Sujeto

a Condiciones Restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del Programa Bono de Vivienda, por conceder la suma de $5,014.57 para sufragar gastos de cierre, por el término de 10 años. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de octubre de 2021. Calixto Rivera Ghigliotty, Alguacil De Subastas Tribunal De Primera Instancia Centro Judicial De Mayagüez Sala Superior. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE GILBERTO SILVESTRINI RAMOS Y LA SUCESIÓN DE VIRUET T/C/C ADELINA ADELISA VIRUET GONZÁLEZ T/C/C ADELINA VIRUET GONZÁLEZ AMBAS COMPUESTAS POR SU

HEREDERA CONOCIDA EDNA SILVESTRINI VIRUET; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS O PERSONAS CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

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ción ha sido archivada en los NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENautos de este caso, con fecha CIA POR EDICTO NUNC PRO Estado Libre Asociado de Puer- de 19 de octubre de 2021. En TUNC ENMENDADA. to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 19 A: JORGE LUIS SANTOS DE JUSTICIA Sala Superior de de octubre de 2021. GRISELCABRERA; SU ÚLTIMA San Juan DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: BANCO POPULAR DE SECRETARIA REGIONAL INURB. PALACIOS DEL TERINA. ANGELA M. RIVERA PUERTO RICO SOL S-313 CALLE HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA Demandante (a) Vs. AUXILIAR. HORIZONTE, HUMACAO

LEGAL NOTICE

SUCESIÓN DE JUAN RAMÓN SALAZAR PÉREZ; SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA CRISTINA PADÍN VIRELLA T/C/C MARÍA CRISTINA PADÍN DE SALAZAR; SUCESION DE A: SUCESIÓN DE GILBERTO SILVESTRINI MARÍA DEL C. SALAZAR PADÍN, COMPUESTAS RAMOS Y LA SUCESIÓN POR SU HEREDERO DE ADELINA VIRUET CONOCIDO RAFAEL T/C/C ADELISA VIRUET SALAZAR; FULANO DE GONZÁLEZ T/C/C TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL ADELINA VIRUET COMO HEREDEROS GONZÁLEZ AMBAS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O COMPUESTAS POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES EDNA SILVESTRINI Demandado (a) VIRUET; FULANO DE Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03603.

TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL Sala: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN COMO HEREDEROS DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA DESCONCIDOS O POR EDICTO. PERSONAS CON A: SUCESIÓN DE JUAN INTERÉS EN DICHAS RAMÓN SALAZAR SUCESIONES. PÉREZ; SUCESIÓN DE DIRECCIÓN FISICA: MARÍA CRISTINA PADÍN URB. JESÚS M. LAGO VIRELLA T/C/C MARÍA (PROYECTO PUERTO CRISTINA PADÍN DE RICO 5-107) I-19 UTUADO, PR 00641. DIRECCIÓN SALAZAR; SUCESION DE POSTAL: PO BOX 1011, MARÍA DEL C. SALAZAR PADÍN, COMPUESTAS UTUADO PR 00641.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le POR SU HEREDERO notifican la sentencia por edicto) CONOCIDO RAFAEL EL SECRETARIO(A) que susSALAZAR; FULANO DE cribe le notifica a usted que TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL el 16 de enero de 2020, este COMO HEREDEROS Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución DESCONOCIDOS en este caso, que ha sido debiY/O PARTES CON damente registrada y archivada INTERÉS EN DICHAS en autos donde podrá usted enSUCESIONES. terarse detalladamente de los

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: UT2019CV00272.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

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 15 de octubre de 2021. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 15 de octubre de 2021.

DIANA ALVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA L. DE JESÚS VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 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 diez (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 notifica-

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante (a) Vs.

CLARA ELISA TORRES TEJADA

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03140.

Sala: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CLARA ELISA TORRES TEJADA.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 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 diez (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 19 de octubre de 2021.

En San Juan Puerto Rico, el 19 de octubre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. ANGELA M. RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JORGE LUIS SANTOS CABRERA, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandado(a) Civil: HU2018CV01295. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

PR 00791; URB. PALACIOS DEL SOL 290 CALLE HORIZONTE, HUMACAO PR 00791; P/C LIC. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS.

(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 18 de septiembre de 2019, 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 18 de octubre de 2021. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2021.

DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA. ILEANETTE RIVAS SERRANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

YOMARY BENÍTEZ MORALES; CARMEN YADIRA BENÍTEZ MORALES T/C/C CARMEN Y. BENÍTEZ MORALES; MEILING BENÍTEZ MORALES; ANGELES MILAGROS CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ANGELES M. CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ANGELES MILAGROS CRUZ Y ANGELES MILAGROS BENÍTEZ CRUZ T/C/C ANGELES M. BENÍTEZ CRUZ

28 Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04993.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: CARMEN YADIRA BENÍTEZ MORALES T/C/C CARMEN Y. BENÍTEZ MORALES; MEILING BENÍTEZ MORALES; ANGELES MILAGROS CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ANGELES M. CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ANGELES MILAGROS CRUZ Y ANGELES MILAGROS BENÍTEZ CRUZ T/C/C ANGELES M. BENÍTEZ CRUZ. URB. SAN MARTÍN, SOLAR 10, SAN JUAN, PR 00928; ANGELES MILAGROS BENÍTEZ CRUZ T/C/C ANGELES M. BENÍTEZ CRUZ; ANGELES MILAGROS CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ANGELES M. CRUZ LAUREANO T/C/C ANGELES MILAGROS CRUZ: 1140 SMITH ST., PROVIDENCE, RI 02908; MEILING BENÍTEZ MORALES: 1331 WATERFALL DRIVE, SPRING HILL, FL 34608.

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

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

Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de octubre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSICA SOTO PAGÁN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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

XUANLU MUSIC, LLC Plaintiff V.

PEDRO JUAN DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ

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

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

To: DEFENDANT AND GENERAL PUBLIC:

On March 3, 2020, this Court issued Judgment in favor of Xuanlu Music, LLC. To date, Defendant has not satisfied the Judgment. Consequently, there is an outstanding balance as of July 1, 2020, in the total amount of $959,889.45. This amount is composed by the following: a sum of $624,507.83 in principal; interests in the amount of $237,600.13 which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at $89.93 per diem; accrued late charges and other amounts of $97,781.49; additional principal resulting of Modification I and Modification II in the amount of $40,854.97, plus costs and agreed attorney’s fees in the amount of $65,000.00. Pursuant to the said judgment and/or the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBAN: Plot of land located in the place known as Monte Flores, at the Santurce Ward of this city, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a surface area of 479.44 square meters. Its boundaries are by the NORTH and EAST, in a diagonal line, with land property of César Cordero; by the WEST, with plot property of Ángel Suárez; and by the SOUTH, with Violeta Avenue.

This plot has diagonal shape and over it there is a 4 level concrete apartment building with garage and service room of the same construction materials. The Property is described in the Spanish language as follows: URBANA: Solar radicado

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, October 25, 2021

en el sitio conocido por Monte Flores, Barrio Santurce de esta ciudad, San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesto de Cuatrocientos Setenta Y Nueve Punto Cuarenta y Cuatro Metros Cuadrados (479.44) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, y por el ESTE, en línea diagonal con terrenos de Don César Cordero; por el OESTE, con el solar de Don Ángel Suárez, y por el SUR con la Avenida Violeta. Este solar tiene forma diagonal y sobre el mismo enclava un edificio de concreto de cuatro plantas de apartamentos con garaje y cuarto de servicio de igual construcción.

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

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

MODIFICATION: The object of this modification is the Mortgage for $650,000.00, which arises from the 27th registration; Appears: HOLDER and DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, as holder of the promissory note, and agree to modify the terms thereof, regarding the following points: The principal is reduced by the amount of $23,931.73, the mortgage being reduced to the sum of $626,068.37 and the due on October 1, 2049. According to deed #418, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 29, 2009, before the Notary Public Magda V. Alsina Figueroa. recorded on page 91 of volume 119 of Santurce Norte, property #1089, entry 27 Marginal Note. MORTGAGE EXTENSION: The mortgage of the recorded #27, is the object of this entry, modified regardless of the registration. Said holders appear and Doral Mortgage LLC, agree to modify as to the following points: It is expanded by the sum of $39,294.43, for a new principal total of $665,362.80 with an annual interest rate 5.184% and due on September 1st, 2052. According to Deed 275 granted in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 16, 2012, before the Notary Public Ivonne B. González Medrano, recorded in the KARIBE Volume of Santurce Norte, property 1089, 30th inscription.

ANNOTATION OF LAWSUIT: The object of this annotation is the Mortgage in favor of

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

It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: The amount of $650,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $433,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $325,000.00. Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 3RD DAY OF DECEMBER 2021, AT 10:15 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 10TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2021, AT 10:15 A.M., in the Office of

the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 17TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2021, AT 10:15 A.M. in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Fede ral Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 7th day of October, 2021. ÁGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPECIAL MASTER.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ANGEL BEY NAZARIO compuesta por FULANO DE TAL y ZUTANO DE TAL como herederos desconocidos; NORBERTO BEY NAZARIO y su esposa BLANCA LUISA VIÑAS RODRIGUEZ y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; NYDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO, también conocida como NIDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO

Demandados CIVIL NÚM:SG2021CV00415.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ANGEL BEY NAZARIO compuesta por FULANO DE TAL y ZUTANO DE TAL como herederos desconocidos; NORBERTO BEY NAZARIO y su esposa BLANCA LUISA VIÑAS RODRIGUEZ y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; NYDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO, también conocida corno NIDIA ISABEL BEY

NAZARIO

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda Enmendada sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $49,927.94 de principal, intereses al 6.875% anual, desde el día 1 ro de noviembre de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $6,500.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30~ días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través. del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. 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.

Lcda. Xana M. Connelly Pagán Bufete COLLAZO, CONNELL Y & SURILLO, LLC 33 Calle Resolución Ste 201 San Juan, P.R. 00936-8212 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387 E-mail: xconnelly@lawpr.com Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaría v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. de 22 de abril de 2005 y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberán aceptar o repudiar la herencia del(la) causante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada.

Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción.

Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE

LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de octubre de 2021. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. POR: F/ JAZMIN SANABRIA TORRES, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs.

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

Demandado (s) CIVIL NÚM.:DCD-2015-0068 (401). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS: Yo, JOSE MARRERO ROBLES, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia Enmendada dictada el 23 de junio de 2021, enmendada el 9 de julio de 2021 y notificada el 12 de julio de 2021, de la cual surge que las partes demandadas adeudan a la demandante la suma principal de $101,389.54, por concepto de principal, más $26,791.84 por concepto de intereses acumulados desde el 10 de mayo de 2021, hasta su total y completo saldo, la suma de $3,062.25 por concepto de cargos por demora, la suma de $472.57 de balance “escrow”, la suma de $2,404.38 por concepto de otros cargos, más la suma de $12,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactados, y a tenor con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia In Rem que se libró con fecha de 7 de septiembre de 2021, por la Secretaría de este Honorable Tribunal de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, la siguiente propiedad inmueble, la cual se describe a continuación: RUSTICA” Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Sabana del término de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, compuesto de veinticinco centésimas de cuerdas(25c), equivalentes a novecientos ochenta y dos metros cuadrados (982.00mc), con cinco mil novecientos ochenta y nueve de otro (5,989), en lindes por el Norte, con camino público; por el Sur, con terrenos de

Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; por el Este, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; y por el Oeste, con la parcela número tres (3)”. Inscrita al Folio 123 del Tomo 75 de Vega Alta, Finca 4,868, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. Por su procedencia está afecta a: Condiciones Restrictivas. Sobre la antes descrita propiedad se encuentran inscritos los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: HIPOTECA: en garantía de un pagaré a favor Master Mortgage Corpotation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $100,000.00, con intereses al 7.5%, vencedero el día 1 de octubre de 2036, constituida mediante la escritura número 238, otorgado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de septiembre de 2006, ante el notario David E. Vera Umpierre, e inscrita al Folio 140 del Tomo 329 de Vega Alta , Finca Número 4,868, Inscripción 12ma., Como Asiento Abreviado extendidas las líneas el día 12 de febrero de 2015, según la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentada el 4 de diciembre de 2006 al Asiento 315 de Diario 483) . AVISO DE DEMANDA” de fecha 8 de enero de 2015, expedido en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número DCD20150068, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por ORIENTAL BANK, VS ISRAEL MATOS TROCHE, THELMA SALGADO MARRERO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, por la suma de $109,268.67, y otras sumas, anotado el día 6 de febrero de 2015, Folio 140 Tomo 329 de Vega Alta , Finca número 4,868, Anotación “A”. Esta anotación de demanda corresponde al caso de epígrafe. Esta propiedad tiene el siguiente número de catastro en el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM): 10-036000-003-36-001. La dirección física del inmueble anteriormente descrito es: WARD SABANA, PR 690 KM 5.2 VEGA ALTA, PR 00692. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de la subasta. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 16 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021, a las 11:15 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $120,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021, a las 11:15 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $80,000.00. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 30 de NOVIEMBRE de 2021, a

The San Juan Daily Star las 11:15 de la mañana. Precio Mínimo: $60,000.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en la sala 503, 5to piso ubicado en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, en cheque certificado, dinero en efectivo o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, siendo éste el mejor postor.

En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la sentencia, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada. Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal, pero si dicho producto resultara insuficiente para cubrir el pago de las antes indicadas sumas, entonces la parte demandada satisfacerá a la parte demandante el remanente insoluto de la deuda. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón durante horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Colecturía de Bayamón, Alcaldía y Cuartel de la Policía del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas

Monday, October 25, 2021

y por lo menos una vez por de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez, semana. En Bayamón, Puerto Secretario(a). Myriam Rivera Rico, a 18 de OCTUBRE de Villanueva, Sec Auxiliar.

2021. JOSE MARRERO ROLEGAL NOTICE BLES, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA JUAN. SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN ORIENTAL BANK JUAN. PARTE DEMANDANTE Vs.

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

PEDRO GONZALEZ SEIJO Y MARIA S. MONSERRATE CUEVAS, AMBOS POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. BY2021CV03187.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. DEBORAH YANTIN ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉAYALA; ESTADOS RICA EL PRESIDENTE DE UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIPARTE DEMANDADA BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO CIVIL NUM: SJ2021CV05685.

RICO. SALA:604. SOBRE: COBRO A LA PARTE DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE DEMANDADA: LUIS HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI- t/c/c LUIS M. MARTÍNEZ DOS DE AMERICA EL PRESISÁNCHEZ t/c/c LUIS DENTE DE LOS EE. UU. ESMANUEL MARTÍNEZ TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE SÁNCHEZ y ELBA P.R. SS.

A: DEBORAH

DEMANDADA YANTIN AYALA CASO NUM.: SJ2021CV03448.

SALON NUM.: 901. SOBRE: Queda emplazada y notificada COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLA- de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de coZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: Pedro Gonzalez Seijo, bro de dinero ( ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria) Maria S. Monserrate en su contra. Se le notifica que Cuevas y Ia sociedad deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema legal de bienes gananciales por ambos Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al compuesta cual puede acceder utilizando ¯ COND. LAGUNA la siguiente dirección electróniTERRACE 6 CALLE ca: https:///unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por MARIANO RAMIREZ derecho propio, en cuyo caso BAGES APT 7A SAN JUAN, PR. 00907-1654 deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría POR LÀ PRESENTE se le del Tribunal Superior de Pueremplaza y requiere para que to Rico, Sala de San Juan y conteste Ia demanda dentro de enviando copia a la parte delos treinta (30) días siguientes mandante: Ledo. Baldomero A. a Ia publicación de este Edicto.

Collazo Torres, PO Box 70212, Usted deberá presentar su aleSan Juan, PR 00936-8212; Tegación responsiva a través del léfono: (787) 625-9999, facsímil Sistema Unificado de Manejo y (787) 705-7387; correo elecAdministración de Casos (SUtrónico: bcollazo@lawpr.com.

MAC), Ia cual puede acceder Se le apercibe y notifica que utilizando Ia siguiente direcsi no contesta la demanda ración electrónica: https://unired. dicada en su contra dentro del ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se término de treinta (30) días de represente por derecho propio, la publicación de este edicto, en cuyo caso deberá presentar se le anotará la rebeldía y se su alegación responsiva en Ia dictará sentencia concediendo secretarla del tribunal. Si usté1 el remedio solicitado en la dedeja de presentar su alegación manda, sin más citárseles, ni responsiva dentro del referido oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firtérmino, el tribunal podrá dicma y sello del Tribunal, a 15 de tar sentencia en rebeldía en octubre de 2021. GRISELDA su contra y conceder el remeRODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SEdio solicitado en Ia demanda CRETARIA. LUZ E FERNANo cualquier otro sin más citarle DEZ DEL VALLE. ni oIrle, Si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo LEGAL NOTICE entiende procedente. El sisteESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ma SUMAC notificará copia al DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUaboga:do de Ia parte demanNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA dante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. ALTA. Box 711418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a Ia dirección kenrueLriuzorf-Iaw.com y a Ia dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de octubre

MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, ELBA RIVERA NIEVES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

LUIS MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ T/C/C LUIS M. MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ T/C/C LUIS MANUEL

RIVERA NIEVES a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: URB TOA ALTA HEIGHTS, J5 CALLE 3, TOA ALTA PR 009534230 Y HC 2 BOX 8846, YABUCOA PR 00767-9312.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega usted le adeuda a la demandante las siguientes cantidades: $48,926.39 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.875% anual desde el 1 de septiembre de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más $366.35 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,560.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 5 del bloque “J” de la Urbanización Toa Alta Heights, localizado en los Barrios Piñas y Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con un área de 168.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con el solar número 32 del mismo bloque en 7.00 metros; por el SUR: con la calle número 3, en una distancia de 7.00 metros; por el ESTE: con el solar número 6 del mismo bloque, en una distancia de 24.00 metros; y por el OESTE: con el solar número 4 del mismo bloque, en una distancia de 24.00 metros. El antes descrito solar está afecto a una servidumbre de drenaje y pluvial de 1.50 metros de ancho a todo lo largo de la colindancia Norte.

Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa construida de concreto armado y bloques para fines residenciales. En dicha estructura existe una grieta de construcción horizontal localizada en la pared colindante con el

solar número 4 del bloque “J” y las áreas de la sala, cocina, comedor y dormitorios donde se aprecia dicha grieta, han sido cubiertas con panel de madera y se ha revestido de vinyl la parte correspondiente al baño, donde también se aprecia dicha grieta. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 147 del tomo 125 de Toa Alta, Finca 6031.

Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, Finca 6031.

Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. Inscripción séptima. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo Puerto Rico 00970-3922 Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826 (787)708-0566 correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de octubre de 2021, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIRIAM HERNÁNDEZ OTERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Estado Libre Asociado de PuerDemandados to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2021CV01327. DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriSALA 206. SOBRE: EMPLA- mera Instancia Sala Superior ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. de ARECIBO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉBANCO POPULAR RICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS DE PUERO RICO ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO Demandante v.

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERJOHN DOE TO RICO. SS. Demandado(a) A: WESTERBANK Núm. AR2021CV01181.

PUERTO RICO, JOHN Civil Sobre: CANCELACION O DOE COMO TENEDORES RESTITUCION DE PAGARE DESCONOCIDOS DEL EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICAPAGARÉ como tenedor CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR desconocido de Pagaré EDICTO.

a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico por la suma $88,800 .00, con intereses al 6.95% anual.

Vencimiento el 1 de diciembre de 2027 . Así resulta de la escritura número 1382 otorgada en Mayagüez , el 13 de diciembre de 1996, ante el notario Jose L. Landrón Ramery , inscrita al folio 134 del tomo 313 de Lajas , Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico , Sección de San Germán. El Pagaré quedó notarizado en virtud del número de testimonio 13,515.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC ), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar 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 LEGAL NOTICE procedente . Los abogados de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO la parte demandante son.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUABOGADOS DE LA PARTE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DEMANDANTE: SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ. Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández BANCO POPULAR DE RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ DIAZ & SÁNCHEZ LLP PUERTO RICO, INC., Edificio Ochoa Suite 200 Demandante v.

500 Calle De La Tanca WILLIAM FRANCISCO San Juan , Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 CASIANO TORRES, Fax: (787) 523-2664 LIZZA IVETTE RIVERA rdíaz@bdslawpr. com DEL TORO Y LA Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, SOCIEDAD LEGAL hoy 19 de octubre de 2021.

DE GANANCIALES LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA COMPUESTA POR IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REAMBOS, WESTERBANK GIONAL II. f/REBECA MEDIPUERTO RICO, JOHN NA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DOE, CANCELACION DE AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

A: JOHN DOE

(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 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 19 de octubre de 2021. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 19 de octubre de 2021.

VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZALEZ, Secretaria. f/BRUNILDA HERNANDEZ MENDEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

MIGDALIA GARCIA SAN JORGE Demandante v.

ORIENTAL BANK; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO y cualesquier persona con posible interés en la obligación cuya cancelación por decreto judicial se solicita

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. GB2021CV00326.

SALA 201. Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO

Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERES EN LA OBLIGACION CUYA CANCELACION POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

(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 18 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 19 de octubre de 2021. En GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico, el 19 de octubre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante VS.

JACKELINE CUBANO FIGUEROA, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA REPRESENTADO POR EL SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO (HUD)

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV08311.

Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JACKELINE CUBANO FIGUEROA

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de octubre de 2021 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

30 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 diez (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 19 de octubre de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 19 de octubre de 2021.

Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretario Regional Interina(a). f/ Angela M. Rivera Hernández, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs.

MILAGROS RIVERA GARCIA; SUCESIÓN DE ANA DELIA GARCIA DIAZ, también conocida como ANA DELIA GARCIA y como ANNIE GARCIA DIAZ, compuesta por sus hijos MILAGROS RIVERA GARCIA, DIANNIE RIVERA GARCIA, LUIS TOMAS RIVERA GARCIA y ANDREA JOSEFINA RIVERA GARCIA; LUIS ALFREDO RIVERA GARCIA, también conocido como LUIS A. RIVERA GARCIA, LUIS A. RIVERA y como LUIS ALFREDO RIVERA, por sí y en cuanto a la cuota viudal usufructuaria; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. CA2019CV02663 (408). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria) “IN REM”.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: A LA PARTE DEMANDADA; SCOTIABANK DE PUERTO RICO ahora ORIENTAL BANK,

por tener Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a su favor por la suma de $10,000.00; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, por tener embargo anotado a su favor por la suma de $14,076.57

Yo, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 2 de diciembre de 2021 a las 2:00 de la tarde en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables.

Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 9 de diciembre de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 16 de diciembre de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, identificado con el número F guión Ciento Treinta y Seis (F-136), localizado en la primera planta del Edificio “F” del CONDOMINIO ALBORADA, localizado en el Barrio Canóvanas, del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con la descripción, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: En lindes: por el NORTE, en cincuenta y seis pies tres pulgadas (56’3”), con área común; por el SUR, en cincuenta y seis pies tres pulgadas (56’3”), con área común y pared común adyacente al apartamento número F guión Ciento Treinta y Cinco (F-135) y patio apartamento número F guión Ciento Treinta y Cinco (F135); por el ESTE, en treinta y un pies tres pulgadas (31’3”), con verja perimetral común; y por el OESTE, en treinta y un pies cero pulgadas (31’0”), con área común. Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Sur, que da hacia el área de

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pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al Edificio. Consta de balcón, sala-comedor, área de cocina, un área de lavandería con alacena, un pasillo interior, una habitación dormitorio con un closet en su interior; una segunda habitación dormitorio con un closet en su interior, un baño completo de uso general, un closet pequeño y una tercera habitación que es la principal (“master bedroom”), en la cual también se encuentran tres closets pequeños y un baño completo. Le corresponde a este apartamento, como anejo (s) los usos exclusivos y particulares de dos espacios de estacionamiento marcados con los números Doscientos Sesenta y Siete (267) y Doscientos Sesenta y Ocho (268), ubicados en las áreas de estacionamiento del Condominio, según ilustrado en el “Plot Plan” del apartamento y los planos de este Condominio. El área total del apartamento y sus anejos es de MIL SETECIENTOS TREINTA Y SIETE PUNTO DIECISIETE (1,737.17) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CIENTO SESENTA Y UNO PUNTO TREINTA Y OCHO (161.38) METROS CUADRADOS que se distribuye de la siguiente forma: Area del apartamento: Mil Ciento Treinta y Ocho punto Treinta y Seis (1,138.36) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a Ciento Cinco punto Setenta y Cinco (105.75) metros cuadrados. Área de patio anejo: Trescientos Veintiuno punto Sesenta y Cuatro (321.64) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a Veintinueve punto Ochenta y Ocho (29.88) metros cuadrados. Área de los estacionamientos anejos: Doscientos Setenta y Siete punto Diecisiete (277.17) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a Veinticinco punto Setenta y Cinco (25.75) metros cuadrados.

A este apartamento, además, le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de Cero punto Siete Tres Cuatro Ocho Cinco Siete porciento (0.734857%).

La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 57 del tomo 432 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca número 17,388, inscripción segunda. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Alborada, Apartamento F-136, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $127,813.11 de principal, intereses al 5% anual, desde el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $14,342.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí-

nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $143,420.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $95,613.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $71,710.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de Scotiabank de Puerto Rico., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5 1/2% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de mayo de 2041, según consta de la Escritura Número 87, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de mayo de 2011, ante la Notario Público Wanda M. Moreno Lugo; inscrita al folio 57 del tomo 432 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca 17,388, inscripción 3ra. Embargo Federal , por la suma de $14,076.57 contra E. Rosado Adorno & M. Rivera García, Seguro Social número xxx-xx-1410, Notificación número 387562119, anotado el día 23 de diciembre de 2019, al Asiento 2019-010624-FED del Sistema Karibe. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 15 de octubre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO #830, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

DENNI DEL HOYO MUÑIZ y su esposa MARTA DEL ROSARIO GONZALEZ TOLEDO y la

Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV02520 (407). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria), EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: DENNI DEL HOYO MUÑIZ y su esposa MARTA DEL ROSARIO GONZALEZ TOLEDO y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Yo, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 2 de diciembre de 2021 a la 1:45 de la tarde en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia.

Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 9 de diciembre de 2021, a la 1:45 de la tarde y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 16 de diciembre de 2021, a la 1:45 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Veintiséis (26) del Bloque Ciento Cincuenta y Cuatro (154) de la URBANIZACIÓN VILLA CAROLINA, radicado en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de TRESCIENTOS TREINTA PUNTO CERO CERO (330.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En linderos: por el NORTE, con solar número Tres (3), con distancia de trece punto setenta y cinco (13.75) metros; por el SUR, con la Calle número Cuatrocientos Veintiséis (426), a una distancia de trece punto setenta y cinco (13.75) metros; por el ESTE, con solar número Veintisiete (27), en una distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con solar número

Veintisiete (27), en una distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros. Contiene una casa de cemento para una sola familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 140 del tomo 1350 de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda, finca número 29,652, inscripción décima. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Villa Carolina, 154-26, Calle 426, Carolina, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $94,354.47 de principal, intereses al 5 7/8% anual, desde el día 1ro de septiembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $12,600.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $126,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $84,000.00 y de necesitarse una tercera subasta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $63,000.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de

cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 15 de octubre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO #830, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

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

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

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Jessica Soto Pagan, Sec Serv Sala

SUCESION BASILIO SANTOS HERNN1DEZ COMPUESTA POR CARLOS RENE SANTOS SANTOS, JESUS SANTOS SANTOS, NILDA L. SANTOS SANTOS, MARTHA L. GUILFUCCI; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION CARMEN VICTORIA SANTOS LEGAL NOTICE IZAGAS COMPUESTA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO POR CARLOS RENE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSANTOS SANTOS, JESUS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SANTOS SANTOS, JUAN NILDA L. SANTOS BANCO POPULAR DE SANTOS, MARTHA L. PUERTO RICO GUILFUCCI; JOHN ROE Demandante Vs. Y JANE ROE COMO JOSE RAFAEL MORA POSIBLES HEREDEROS NAZARIO SU ESPOSA DESCONOCIDOS; WILMA DALMA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE LACLAUSTRA SANCHEZ AMERICA; CENTRO Y LA SOCIEDAD DE RECAUDACION DE LEGAL DE BIENES INGRESOS MUNICIPALES GANANCIALES QUE Demandados AMBOS COMPONEN CIVIL NUM. SJ2021CV03837.

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

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV07160.

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

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: MARTHA L. A: JOSE RAFAEL GUILFUCCI; JOHN DOE MORA NAZARIO SU Y JANE DOE COMO ESPOSA WILMA DALMA POSIBLES MIEMBROS LACLAUSTRA SANCHEZ DESCONOCIDOS Y LA SOCIEDAD DE LA SUCESION LEGAL DE BIENES BASILIO SANTOS GANANCIALES QUE HERNANDEZ; JOHN AMBOS COMPONEN; ROE Y JANE ROE COMO RG PREMIER BANK POSIBLES MIEMBROS OF PUERTO RICO DESCONOCIDOS DE Y/O SUCESOR EN LA SUCESION CARMEN DERECHO, POR VICTORIA SANTOS TENER HIPOTECA EN IZAGAS GARANTÍA DE PAGARÉ

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A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $100,000.00; SCOTIABANK DE PUERTO RICO AHORA ORIENTAL BANK, POR TENER AVISO DE DEMANDA ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $99,750.66.

Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan durante horas laborables.

Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno sito en BARRIO SABANA LLANA, Río Piedras, radicado en el término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 379.16 metros cuadrados.

En linderos: Norte, en 14.50 metros, con el solar No. 24 del plano de inscripción; Sur, en 14.60 metros, con la Calle Antonio M. Valcárcel; Este, en 17.90 metros, con el solar No. 32 del plano de inscripción y en 8.20 metros, con el solar No. 23 del plano de inscripción; y por el Oeste, en 26.00 metros, con el solar No. 34 del plano de inscripción. Contiene una casa de concreto de una sola planta con techo de azotea, conteniendo: sala, comedor, tres dormitorios, baño, cocina y balcón. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 174 vto. del tomo 1001 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V, finca número 1792, inscripción 15ª.

La dirección física de la propie-

dad antes descrita es: Reparto América 519, Calle Valcárcel, San Juan, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $87,133.22 de principal, intereses al 6.125% anual, desde el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $11,920.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $119,200.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $79,466.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $59,600.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $100,000.00, con intereses al 12% anual, vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la Escritura Número 24, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de febrero de 2007, ante la Notario Público Emiluz Buonomo Nevárez; inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 1012 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V, finca número 1792, inscripción 17ma. Aviso de Demanda, del día 15 de abril de 2014, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCD2014-0913(505), sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, ahora Oriental Bank versus Empresas Mora, Inc. Telepro Caribe, Inc., José Rafael Mora Nazario, Vilma Dalma Laclaustra Sánchez y la Sociedad Legal de

Monday, October 25, 2021 Gananciales, por la suma de $99,750.66, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 25 de mayo de 2021, al tomo Karibe de Sabana LLana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V, finca 1792, Anotación D. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 18 de octubre de 2021. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

el 27 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 20 de octubre de 2021. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 20 de octubre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ELIBETH M. TORRES ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE ZUNILDA FERNÁNDEZ ALFONSO; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO FULANO DE TAL DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Y SUTANA DE TAL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSCOMO HEREDEROS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE DESCONOCIDOS Y/O BAYAMÓN PARTES CON INTERÉS BANCO POPULAR DE EN DICHA SUCESION; PUERTO RICO LENA MARGARITA Demandante V. SUCESION DE ALBERTO ASTACIO JIMÉNEZ T/C/C LENA ASTACIO JIMÉNEZ RIOS GUERRRA T/C/C LENA M. ASTACIO COMPUESTA POR JIMÉNEZ ALBERTO RIOS MOLINA DEMANDADAS Y MARIANELA RIOS CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2019CV02172.

MOLINA COMO UNICOS SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIY UNIVERSALES POTECA (IN REM). EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, HEREDEROS LEGAL NOTICE

SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia A: SUCESION DE dictada en este caso con fecha ALBERTO RIOS 18 de septiembre de 2019, y GUERRRA COMPUESTA según Orden y Mandamiento POR ALBERTO RIOS del 30 de septiembre de 2021 MOLINA Y MARIANELA librado por este honorable TriRIOS MOLINA COMO bunal, procederé a vender en UNICOS Y UNIVERSALES pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque HEREDEROS. certificado o giro postal a nom(Nombre de las partes a las que se le bre del Alguacil del Tribunal con notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- todo título derecho y/o interés cribe le notifica a usted que de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2020CV00995. 402.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número Veintidós del bloque “R” de la Urbanización Venus Gardens, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados en colindancias por el NORTE, con los solares treinta y ocho y treinta y nueve del propio bloque, en una longitud de trece metros; por el SUR, con la calle número doce, en una longitud de trece metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número veintiuno del mismo bloque, en una longitud de veinticinco metros; por el OESTE, con el solar número veintitrés del mismo bloque, en una longitud de veinticinco metros.

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

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

De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 2 de diciembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $67,950.00.

Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir

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la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y ordenando la venta en pública subasta del inmueble antes descrito. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/ deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 15 de octubre de 2021.

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

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO.

APEX BANK

Demandante v.

ESTHER ELIZABETH TORRES ESTRELLA

Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: D2CD2017-0317.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, hago saber a la parte demandada ESTHER ELIZABETH TORRES ESTRELLA, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 30 de agosto de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $114,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación, 345 CALLE LOPATEGUI, GUAYNABO, PR 00969: URBANA: Solar 345 bloque P-11, Juan Ponce de León, Barrio Frailes, Guaynabo, compuesto de 347.80 metros cuadrados y colinda al Norte, en 13.00 metros, con solares 307 y 308; por el Sur, igual medida con la Avenida 17; por el Este, en 27.07 metros, con el solar 344; y por el Oeste, en 26.54 metros, con el solar 346. Enclava una casa de concreto que consta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón.

Finca 11889 inscrita al folio 96 del tomo 166 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., o a su orden, por $105,000.00 al 7 718%, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2036, según Esc. #93 en San Juan a 25 de abril de 2006 ante Omar Iván Arill Vizcarrondo, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 7ma. (ii) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Portador, o a su orden, por $12,500.00 al 20%, vencedero a la presentación, según Esc. #69 a 21 de noviembre de 2006 ante Domingo Carrasquillo Diaz, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 8va. (iii) Aviso de Demanda radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón en el caso civil #DCD-071250, sobre cobro de Dinero, Ejecución de hipoteca por la vía

Ordinaria, seguido por Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., vs. Esther Elizabeth Torres Estrella, por $104,559.28 más intereses, anotada al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11889 Anotación A. (iv) Modificación de hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma., por el $105,000.00 la cual se amplía por $9,000.00 para un total de $114,000.00 desde el 1 de agosto de 2009 y vence el 1 de julio de 2049, según Esc. #186 en San Juan el 30 de julio de 2009, ante Jose V. Gorbea Varona, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo, inscripción 9na. (v) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, P.R., o a su orden, por $9,887.21 sin intereses, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2012, según Esc. #187 en San Juan a 30 de julio de 2009 ante Jose V. Gorbea Varona, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 10ma. (vi) Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 7ma nuevamente en cuanto al principal que se cancele por $1,913.59 para un nuevo principal de $112,086.41 con intereses al 5% del 1 de febrero de 2014 al 1 de enero de 2019; y al 7.875% del 1 de febrero de 2019, hasta el 1 de febrero de 2014 al 1 de enero de 2019; y al 7.875% del 1 de febrero de 2019, hasta el 1 de julio de 2049 fecha de su vencimiento, según Esc. #82 en San Juan el 31 de diciembre de 2013, ante Jacqueline J. Martínez Romero, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11889 al margen inscripción 7ma. (vii) Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, por $17,701.21 sin intereses, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2049, según Esc. #83 en San Juan a 31 de diciembre de 2013, ante Jacqueline J. Martínez Romero, inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 1401 de Guaynabo finca #11,889 inscripción 11ma y última. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 29 de enero de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $109,577.57 de principal, más interés al 5% anual que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, $176.74 de escrow balance, $1,339.70 de cargos por atrasos, más $10,500.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos

32 por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 11 de enero de 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $114,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 de enero de 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $76,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 de enero de 2022 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $57,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuestos al gravamen del actor, y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviene o satisficiera antes del remate el importe del crédito de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados, asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, una vez confirmada la venta o adjudicación, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura públi-

ca 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 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de septiembre de 2021. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE Guaynabo.

SHIRLEY SANCHEZ MARTINEZ, Alguacil Regional.

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

PUERTO RICO FARM CREDIT, ACA Plaintiff V.

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

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

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

WHEREAS: On June 14, 2018, judgment (the “Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff Puerto Rico Farm Credit, ACA (“PRFC”) against defendants Eco-Parque Del Tanama, Corp (“Eco-Parque”), Ivan Ortiz Ruiz (“Ortiz”), his wife Ana Maria Serrano Baez (“Serrano”), and the legal conjugal partnership constituted between them (the “Ortiz-Serrano Partnership” and, together with Serrano, Ortiz and Eco-Parque, the “Defendants”). Under the Jud-

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gment, this Court concluded that Defendants have defaulted on their loan obligations, have failed to pay the amounts due therein, and have failed to cure the existing defaults, further concluding that, as of October 31, 2016, Defendants owe the sum of $505,294.61, as well as an amount of $38.93 in interest that accrues daily until full payment. On December 17, 2020, this Court entered an order granting plaintiff’s Motion for Execution of Judgment filed on July 20, 2020, and, on December 29, 2020, this Court entered an order granting plaintiff’s Motion to Appoint Special Master, authorizing the appointment of Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as Special Master (the “Special Master”) for the execution of the Judgment. As of October 14, 2020, the amounts owed

by Defendants had increased to $563,754.35, of which $259,745.21 corresponded to unpaid principal, $144,261.51 corresponded to accrued interest, $7,631.91 corresponded to late fees, $142,115.72 corresponded to fees due and $10,000.00 corresponded to attorneys fees, plus the amount of $25.45 per diem for interests for each day from July 14, 2020 through the date of the payment in full of all amounts.

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

En lindes: NORTE, con Ramon Rivera Candelaria, Sucesión de Emilio González, Antonio Potalatín, América Rodríguez, Elías Vargas, y Francisco González Arbona; SUR, Francisco Ralat, Sucesión de Juana de Fraile, Juan Serrano y Rio Tanamá;

ESTE, Rio Tanamá; OESTE, Francisco Ralat y PRRA. Enclava en esta finca una casa vivienda, otra para almacén y maquina y tres casas para agregados.” Property 11,707, recorded at page 49 of Volume 295 of Utuado, Puerto Rico Property Registry for Utuado.

WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None.

Mortgage securing a mortgage note in favor of P.R. Farm Credit, Aca, or to its order, in the principal amount of TWO HUNDRED AND NINETYTWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($292,000.00), bearing an annual interest rate of 9.50%, due on August 1, 2026, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 122 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the seventh (7) of July two thousand six (2007) before Notary Public Carlos Tomassini Ramírez, recorded at page 11 of volume 1,490 of Utuado, 11th recordation, as an abbreviated seat with its lines extended on July 2, 2012, by virtue of Act 216 of December 27, 2010 (Presented on August 3, 2006 on Seat 1,307 from Book 400). Other Liens: A notice of complaint dated July 3, 2012, which complaint was dated September 16, 2011, issued in the United States District Court for the District Court of Puerto Rico, Civil Case Num. 3:11 CV-01914DRD, followed

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

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

mum bid for the first public sale.

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

Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article 107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the Property will be executed and delivered by the Special Marshal after delivery of such Order of Confirmation.

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

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC.

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESION EDITH MARGARITA PEREZ MARIN T/C/C EDIS M. PEREZ T/C/C EDITH MARGARITA PEREZ T/C/C EDITH M. PEREZ COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO GONZALEZ PEREZ, MILAGROS MEDINA PEREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NUM.: SJ2021CV03843 (604). SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

A: MILAGROS MEDINA PEREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION EDITH MARGARITA PEREZ MARIN T/C/C EDIS M. PEREZ T/C/C EDITH MARGARITA PEREZ T/C/C EDITH M. PEREZ

Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de ejecución de hipoteca en su contra. Se les notifica que deberán 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. raniajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la SecretarIa del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Greenspoon Marder, LLP, Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700, 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309, Teléfono: (954) 343-6273, Correo electrónico: Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com.

Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la demanda radicada en sus contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeidía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oIrseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 22 de septiembre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Sec Regional. Laura Reynoso Esquilin, Sec Serv a Sala.

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AMERICAS LEADING FINANCE, LLC Demandante V.

ANA MARÍA GARCÍA MERCADO, FULANO

DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV01088. Sala: 501. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO (REPOSESIÓN DE VEHÍCULO). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANA MARIA GARCIA MERCADO.

(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 18 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 20 de octubre de 2021. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de octubre de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Sonia Fuster González y Francisco Valcarcel Mulero y la Sociedad Legal de Bines Gananciales compuesta por Ambos.

Demandante Vs

Doral Bank; Banco Popular de Puerto Rico como posible Sucesor en Derechos de Doral Bank; First Bank de Puerto Rico como posible sucesor en Derechos de Doral Bank; Tenedor de Pagaré X y Tenedor de Pagaré Y.

Demandados CIVIL NUM: SJ2021CV06609 (602). SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIA-

DO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.

A: Doral Bank, Tenedor de Pagaré “X” y Tenedor de Pagaré “Y”, o sea la parte codemandada arriba mencionada como posible tenedor de hipoteca y pagaré que se solicita su cancelación.

Dirección Residencial y Postal: Desconocida

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda de Acción Civil de Cancelación de la Hipoteca que garantiza el Pagaré Hipotecario Extraviado a nombre de Doral Bank o a su Orden; al amparo del Ordenamiento Civil, solicitando la cancelación de la Hipoteca que grava la propiedad que se describe de la siguiente forma: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número uno letra “B” (1-B) de la manzana de la Urbanización San Ignacio, radicada en el Barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de setecientos setenta y seis punto noventa y cinco metros cuadrados (776.95mc). En linderos NORTE, con la calle San Alejandro; SUR, con Expreso Las Américas; ESTE, con el solar número 18,807; por el OESTE, con el solar número 1811.

Contiene una casa de concreto. Finca: Número diecisiete mil trescientos cuarenta y dos (17,342), inscrita al Folio setenta y ocho (78) del Tomo cuatrocientos sesenta y siete (467) de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, sección III. La hipoteca fue constituida mediante la Escritura número 630, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 20 de octubre de 2005, ante la notario Jaqueline Feliciano Archilla, inscrita al folio setenta y uno (71) del tomo mil cincuenta y dos (1,052) de Monacillos, finca número diecisiete mil trescientos cuarenta y dos (17,342), inscripción décimo cuarta (l4ta). Al pagaré a ser cancelado se le asignó el número de testimonio 3,735 de la misma notario Jaqueline Feliciano Archilla y de la misma fecha de la hipoteca. Tanto la hipoteca como el pagaré reflejan un principal de $111,100.00 a un interés de 5.75% anual, vencedero el 1 de noviembre de 2012. De esta garantía hipotecaria y su pagaré es que la parte demandante solicita cancelación. La dirección postal, teléfono y correo electrónico del abogado de la demandante se especifica a continuación: Lcdo. Félix R. Passalacqua Rivera RUA Núm. 13,483 1007 Muñoz Rivera Ave.

The San Juan Daily Star Darlington Suite 204, Río Piedras, P.R. 00925 Tel.: (787) 594-1100 Correo electrónico: felixestudiolegal@hotmail.com Se le apercibe, que el presente edicto será publicado en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez. Se le requiere para que contesten la Demanda de epígrafe dentro de los treinta (30) dias siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando en el original de su contestación, presentando el original de la contestación ante este Tribunal, con copia al abogado de demandante a la dirección antes descrita. Su alegación responsiva deberá ser radicada en el Sistema unificado de manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC); salvo comparecencia por derecho propio. Dicha comparecencia debe hacerse a la dirección electrónica https:// unired/ramajudicial.nr/sumac/ Se le apercibe que de no presentar su alegación responsiva en el término brindado se podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 13 de octubre de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional.

Nancy L Garcia Figueroa, Sec Serv A Sala.

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LIME HOMES LTD. Plaintiff Vs.

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

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

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

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the sum of $182,136.05 in principal, interest rate of 6.2500% per annum since April 1, 2015. Such interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. An additional deferred balance of $8,705.70 does not accrue interest at this time. In addition, the Defendant owes the Plaintiff

late charges in the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full.

Also advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($20,400.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property (as described in the Property Registrar in the Spanish language): 202 APT Bayside Cove Cond., San Juan, PR 00918.

URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento H-202.

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

La puerta de entrada está situada en su lindero Norte, consta de balcón, sala, comedor, cocina, lavandería, tres dormitorios y dos baños. PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Estacionamiento #38. Localizado en el tercer nivel Deck I del edificio del estacionamiento #1 del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal denominado Condominio Bayside Cove en la Avenida Hostos en Hato Rey Norte del municipio de San

Monday, October 25, 2021 Juan. Es de forma rectangular está construido de hormigón y bloques de concreto a ser utilizado para estacionamiento de dos automóviles colocados uno al frente de otro. Colinda al Norte, en una distancia de 8’3” con el área de acceso a las rampas que a través de los elementos comunes del Condominio conducen a su vez a la vía pública; por el Sur, en una distancia de 8’ 3” con elemento común exterior; al Este, en una distancia de 36’ con el estacionamiento #39; al Oeste, en una distancia de 36’ con el estacionamiento #37. Su área de superficie neta es de 297 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 27.6063 metros cuadrados. Este apartamento agregado tiene una participación de .39095% en los elementos comunes del condominio. Inscrita al folio 280 del tomo 1403 de Rio Piedras Norte, Registro de Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II, finca #38245. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 280 of volume 1403 of Rio Piedras Norte, property #38245, Property Registry of San Juan, Section II. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Federal Embargo in favor of the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Filed at book 15, page 35, entry 4 of September 29, 2015, serial number 177499315 in the amount of $ 26,474.86 being the debtor R. Ramos Quintana and L Santiago Monta. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 10:00AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $204,000.00 In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 10:00AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $136,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 10:00AM., and the minimum bid

that will be accepted is the sum of $102,000.00, which is onehalf of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 13th day of October of 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

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TADA POR PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL.

(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 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 20 de octubre de 2021. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de octubre de 2021. Lcda Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Verónica Rivera Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

ORLANDO GARCIA DIAZ

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: CG2018CV02835. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR Demandante V. LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE ANTES CONOCIDA COMO SUBASTA. El suscribiente, AlDORAL MORTGAGE guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala CORPORATION; de Caguas, a los demandados FEDERAL DEPOSIT de epígrafe y al público en geINSURANCE neral hace saber que los auCORPORATION; tos y documentos del caso de R&G MORTGAGE epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal CORPORATION, durante horas laborables y que HOY, FEDERAL en pública subasta DEPOSIT INSURANCE venderá al mejor postor, en moneda CORPORATION (FDIC); de curso legal de los Estados SCOTIABANK PUERTO Unidos de América en efectivo, RICO, HOY ORIENTAL cheque certificado, o giro posBANK; ORIENTAL BANK; tal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, FULANO DE TAL Y en mi oficina en este Tribunal MENGANO MÁS CUAL el derecho que tenga la parte Demandado(a) demandada en el inmueble Civil: BY2021CV02853. Sala: que se relaciona más adelante 502. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN para pagar la SENTENCIA por DE HIPOTECA REPRESEN- $101,816.41, de balance prin-

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cipal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 4.25% anual desde el primero de enero de 2018 hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 4% computado sobre cada mensualidad por concepto de cargos por demora devengados desde el primero de febrero de 2018 hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número diecinueve (19) del bloque B en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Valle de Ensueño sita en el barrio Mamey del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de TRESCIENTOS PUNTO OCHENTA (300.80) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de doce punto ochenta (12.80) metros, con la calle cuatro (4); por el SUR, en una distancia de veintitrés punto ochenta (23.80) metros, con el número trece (13) del bloque B; por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros, con el solar número veinte (20) del bloque B; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros, con el solar número dieciocho (18). Enclava una casa. Finca número trece mil trescientos cuarenta y seis (13,346) de Gurabo, tomo Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Dirección Física: 219 Valle del Toa St. Gurabo, Puerto Rico 00778.

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

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

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico a 18 de octubre de 2021. ÁNGEL

GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, Alguacil Placa #593, Alguacil Del Tribunal.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE ROSA TEXIDOR T/C/C ROSA MARÍA TEXIDOR TORRELLAS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV02056.

Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION DE ROSA TEXIDOR T/C/C ROSA MARIA TEXIDOR TORRELLAS

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 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 diez (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 20 de octubre de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de octubre de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretario Regional. f/ Angela M. Rivera Hernández, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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NLCS MVP Rosario leads Braves into first World Series since 1999

By ALAN BLINDER

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urely, the thinking around town went, the Atlanta Braves would find a way, as usual, to blow it.

Not this time (or at least not yet).

Atlanta, which did not muster a record above .500 until Aug. 6, improbably captured the National League pennant Saturday, when it beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series in Atlanta.

By vanquishing the reigning champion Dodgers, four games to two, Atlanta advanced to its first World Series since 1999.

This season’s last best-of-seven showdown will begin Tuesday, when Atlanta will face the Astros, who won the American League pennant, in Houston.

Whether Atlanta will prove able to go all the way will not be clear for at least another week. In a city, though, where postseason underachievement is about as customary as flying Delta Air Lines, Atlanta has already surpassed expectations.

Atlanta last reached the World Series when it had a Hall of Fame manager, Bobby Cox, in the dugout and long-tenured, generational stars like Chipper Jones, Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine on its roster.

This club is decidedly different, battered early this season by injuries and then renovated, not merely tweaked, by the trading deadline. Indeed, some of the signature moments of Atlanta’s postseason have come from players, including Eddie Rosario and Joc Pederson, who were not on the roster until July.

“We weren’t a bad team,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said early Sunday.

“We just had a hard time putting everything together for an extended period of the season. But we were a good team and I just kept thinking, man, our best baseball’s ahead of us, at some point in time.”

His hunch was right — and it was clear in Game 6.

Rosario, whose three-run homer in the fourth inning Saturday gave Atlanta all the cushion it would need to win, was named MVP of the NLCS. He diced up the Dodgers all series, going 14 for 25 with three home runs and nine RBIs. He had a walk-off single in Game 2, was the catalyst of the offense in a blowout Game 4 and came through yet again in Game 6.

“We just couldn’t figure him out,” said Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts. “He beat us the other way. He beat us to the

Atlanta Braves left fielder Eddie Rosario holds the Most Valuable Player trophy after winning Game 6 of baseball’s National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, in Atlanta. The Braves defeated the Dodgers 4-2 to win the series. pull side. He got hits off lefties, off righties. We tried to spin him. We went hard.

We just didn’t have an answer for him and when you’ve got that big guy looming behind him it’s just kind of tough to pitch around him.”

Although much of Atlanta’s postseason magic has come late — it won the first two games of this series with walk-off hits — the home team scored quickly Saturday night.

With two outs in the bottom of the first inning, Ozzie Albies doubled off Walker Buehler. Austin Riley worked a full-count, and, as the crowd at a sold-out Truist Park began to erupt, the young third baseman delivered with a graceful, fluid swing that sent the ball soaring toward the left-field fence. It bounced once on the warning track before hopping the wall for a ground-rule double, allowing Albies to score.

It was not much, of course, not against an offensive powerhouse like Los Angeles.

The Dodgers, though, struggled at first against Ian Anderson, the Atlanta starter, and his change-up. Los Angeles did not have a base runner until the third, when AJ Pollock doubled to center. Anderson escaped the threat by getting a fly ball, a

strikeout and a grounder.

Los Angeles had another opportunity in the very next inning. Trea Turner drew a walk with one out, and Will Smith beat the shift with a single to right. Chris Taylor, who had hammered Atlanta on Thursday with three home runs in California, struck out on the seventh pitch of his at-bat.

The trouble with Los Angeles comes from the reality that another menace almost always lurks. The role, in that moment, fell to Cody Bellinger, who delivered a single into left field to score Turner and tie the game. With runners at first and third, though, Pollock could not find the kind of power he had enjoyed just a frame earlier; this time, he popped out to end the inning.

Fast forward a few minutes. Atlanta’s first two batters in the fourth were quick outs. Travis d’Arnaud then walked and Atlanta announced that Ehire Adrianza would hit for Anderson, even though Anderson had thrown just 66 pitches and allowed only three hits.

Any doubts about the decision bubbling around Atlanta did not last. Adrianza doubled a cutter into the right-field corner, where Mookie Betts, a five-time Gold Glove winner, scrambled and fired toward

the infield. Ron Washington, Atlanta’s aggressive third base coach, held d’Arnaud before he could scamper home.

It was the kind of setup that could have gone down in Atlanta history as a missed opportunity, as another debacle in a city that went a dozen postseason berths between World Series appearances. It was only a year ago that Atlanta blew a three-games-to-one lead against the Dodgers in the NLCS. And there is still the civic agony of the Atlanta Falcons’ loss after they built what seemed like an insurmountable 28-3 lead in a Super Bowl.

All of Saturday’s uncertainty, it turned out, amounted to another prelude for Rosario. Buehler fired a pair of 93 mph cutters. Rosario swung at, and missed, both.

A third cutter went foul. A sinker missed.

Two more fouls.

Buehler looked in, a pitch away from ending his misery. Rosario looked out, a pitch away from cracking the game open.

The cutter came back.

Rosario did not miss. The ball climbed higher, racing along the first-base line and over the fence, abruptly giving Atlanta a 4-1 lead. Buehler hung around until the end of the inning, but ended his outing charged with seven hits, four runs, six strikeouts and three walks.

Los Angeles, which added a second run in the seventh but did not score beyond that partly because of a dazzling performance by reliever Tyler Matzek, had intended to start Max Scherzer in Game 6. But the Dodgers pulled back because the ace right-hander said his arm had been “locked up the past couple of days” and instead turned to Buehler, who had last pitched Tuesday.

Scherzer, the thinking around the Los Angeles clubhouse went, would perhaps be ready for Game 7 — if they could have gotten there.

But, for at least this moment in Atlanta, someplace else will be doing the second-guessing.

“I think this might be the definition of pure joy,” said Freddie Freeman, the Atlanta first baseman who has endured plenty of highs and lows since his major league debut in 2010.

“Usually we’re sitting in our locker, you know, and just like just thinking about the whole season and getting ready for next year,” he added. “And we actually did it.”

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On a polarizing team, a manager worth rooting for

By TYLER KEPNER

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win traumas have haunted Dusty Baker for nearly two decades. Late Friday in Houston, they fused as he tried to clinch a pennant as manager of the Houston Astros. If Baker had chosen to hide until the storm blew over, you’d have understood: He was leading 5-0 in Game 6 of a championship series.

Normally, this would be a very good thing. But the scoreboard also read 5-0 in Anaheim, California, when Baker’s San Francisco Giants had a chance to close out the 2002 World Series. The Angels stormed back to win and took the title the next night.

If that sixth game seemed crushing, Baker’s next one was even worse. Five outs from winning the 2003 National League Championship Series with the Chicago Cubs, Baker watched the pennant disappear when a fan touched off a hellscape by innocently reaching for a foul ball.

Everywhere Baker has managed since then — Cincinnati, Washington and Houston — he has steered his team to the playoffs. But, for now, he owns a record nobody wants: most wins by a manager who has never won the World Series, with 1,987.

As the Astros captured the American League pennant Friday, finishing off the Boston Red Sox by that 5-0 score, Baker faced his fears.

Game 6 has been my nemesis in most playoffs, and that’s what I was thinking,” he conceded. “I mean, you’ve got to get past your nemesis. I was afraid of electricity when I was a kid, so now I’m an owner of an energy company. You try to get past things in your life.”

In that way, Baker and the Astros are on parallel journeys, both yearning to win for different reasons. For Baker, a World Series victory would cap an otherwise sterling 24-year managerial career. For the Astros, it would prove that they can raise a banner without the help of electronic sign stealing.

The scandal brought Baker here. The Astros’ scheme aided their 2017 title and led to the suspension and firing of their manager, A.J. Hinch, when a league investigation confirmed the cheating in early 2020. Jim Crane, the Astros’ owner, hired Baker, now 72, to manage both the crisis and his baseball team.

Dusty Baker is heading to the World Series for the second time in his managerial career. His San Francisco Giants lost the 2002 World Series to the Anaheim Angels.

“I interviewed a bunch of guys, and the first time I talked to him, we talked for two hours and I felt like he was my best friend,” Crane said. “So I was very comfortable with him immediately and, boom, I made the decision. I knew he had a lot of experience, he kind of calmed a lot of the nonsense we were dealing with and kept these guys on track.”

The Astros played in fanless stadiums during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, but this year they have routinely been jeered on the road; some fans at the ALCS in Boston gave second baseman José Altuve a profane, singsong salute. Baker has helped his team handle the hate.

“He’s a leader and he’s a friend, so we can go into his office whenever we feel like it and talk about it,” shortstop Carlos Correa said. “He’s such a wise man and he’s been through it all in baseball. It’s the right mind to pick from. He just told us to go out there and show the world how good we really are, and it will fall into place and take care of itself. That’s what we did.”

After falling to the Tampa Bay Rays in a neutral-site ALCS last October, the Astros prevailed this time with a sudden and

explosive comeback. As the eighth inning began in Game 4, Houston trailed 2-1 in the game and the series. From that point on, they outscored the Red Sox by 22-1, capping things with a combined two-hitter in Game 6.

Yordan Alvarez hit .522 (12 for 23) to win the series’ MVP award, and Houston’s pitchers, under coach Brent Strom, made a critical adjustment midway through Game 4, attacking the Red Sox more aggressively with fastballs. But Baker left his mark, too.

In Game 4, he inserted backup catcher Jason Castro, who later drove the go-ahead single in the ninth. In Game 5, Baker let starter Framber Valdez work eight innings — the most by any pitcher this postseason — without pulling him early to chase matchup advantages.

In Game 6, Baker’s faith in light-hitting catcher Martín Maldonado paid off.

Maldonado batted .071 for the series but guided rookie Luis García through five and two-thirds dominant innings. Later, Maldonado thwarted a Red Sox threat with a strike-him-out, throw-him-out double play.

“That guy is going to be a Hall of Famer soon,” Maldonado said of Baker, who

has easily done enough to earn that honor.

A championship would cinch it, though, and Baker’s pursuit might make some fans comfortable rooting for a team they still dislike.

“I think that speaks to why he was the right decision for this franchise 18 or 19 months ago,” general manager James Click said. “Can you think of anybody else in baseball who people would actively say, ‘You know, I wouldn’t mind if the Astros won — because of Dusty’? Is there another person who could change the narrative of a franchise the way that he can? I can’t think of anybody.”

Indeed, there may be no one more beloved within the sport than Baker, who played for 19 seasons and will face one of his former teams — the Atlanta Braves — in the World Series. As the final outs rolled by in Game 6, Baker said he remembered some in the baseball family who have died: Hank Aaron, Al Kaline, Joe Morgan, Bob Watson, Jimmy Wynn.

“I felt that they were with us,” he said.

For as much honor as Baker brings to the game, there have always been whispers about his acumen in the dugout.

Never mind that Baker was named NL manager of the year in his first season on the job, with the 1993 Giants, and has won more than 1,800 games since. The slights still sting.

“You didn’t do this, or you’re not good at that, you don’t know how to use your bullpen, or you don’t like young players — I heard a whole bunch of stuff,” Baker said. “Most of it not complimentary, you know what I mean?

“As an African American, most of the time, they don’t really say that you are of a certain intelligence. That’s not something that we usually get, and so I’ve been hearing a lot of this stuff most of my life.”

Part of the reason Baker fit so well with the Astros, he said, is because they both had stigmas to overcome. This World Series could change people’s minds about a manager and a franchise. But whatever happens, Baker will endure.

“It just depends on how I feel about myself, how they feel about me and how the Lord feels about me,” he said. “And like I tell these guys, you don’t have anything to prove or show anybody. The only entities that you have to satisfy are God, family and yourself, and then the other people can see you later.”

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What the Simmons standoff means for the 76ers and the NBA

By SOPAN DEB and JONATHAN ABRAMS

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ver the summer, Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons requested a trade, initiating a standoff that has dragged into the regular season.

The organization fined Simmons repeatedly for missing practices, meetings and preseason games, according to ESPN. Simmons did not report to the team until near the end of the preseason and was suspended for the regular-season opener for conduct detrimental to the team. Simmons likely will not play for the 76ers again for a long while, if ever.

In response to a report from The Athletic late last week that Simmons had said he was mentally unprepared to play, 76ers forward Tobias Harris wrote in a tweet: “And we’ll respect his privacy and space during this time. When he’s ready, we will embrace our brother with love and handle our business on the court. That’s it, that’s all.”

Here’s how the situation evolved, where it stands and what it could mean for the NBA. Why is Simmons so unhappy in Philadelphia?

Technically, we don’t know. Simmons hasn’t said anything publicly. Much of this has played out through anonymous reports in the media. There have been some signals from Simmons’ Instagram page, such as when he liked a post detailing how much the Sixers could fine him for missing games and practices.

The tension between Simmons and the Sixers has been festering for years, despite Simmons’ signing an extension in 2019. Now in his sixth season, he hasn’t really changed much as a player (he missed his first season with a foot injury). He is one of the most versatile playmakers in the NBA and an excellent defender, but he has not developed a jump shot, which has made him a liability on the offensive end in multiple playoff runs. He’s also a career 59.7% free-throw shooter, which means teams often foul him on purpose at the end of games.

In December 2019, Brett Brown, the former 76ers coach, publicly begged Simmons to take more 3s. One month later, Brown told reporters that he had “failed” in his mission.

Even though Doc Rivers replaced Brown before last season, there hasn’t been much difference. Rivers was Simmons’ steadfast defender last year, but after the

Ben Simmons hasn’t played for the Philadelphia 76ers this season after asking to be traded over the summer. He was suspended for the season-opener Wednesday.

Atlanta Hawks eliminated the Sixers in the Eastern Conference semifinals, Rivers told reporters that he didn’t know whether Simmons could be a point guard for a championship team. It’s highly unusual to see a coach publicly criticize his own player minutes after a tough playoff loss.

Last Thursday, Daryl Morey, the team’s president of basketball operations, said on a local Philadelphia radio station: “Doc Rivers defended Ben Simmons more than any human on Earth, maybe ever. If someone wants to interpret one comment out of 10,000, I don’t think that’s very fair to the organization or Doc Rivers.”

He added, “To me, it’s all some sort of like, you know, pretext to do something larger by his agent.”

What is Daryl Morey’s trade history?

Morey recognizes the value of an AllStar, even if that player’s game is limited.

He has never been shy about wheeling and dealing, typically swings big and often ends up on the right side of trades.

Morey made an eye-popping 70-plus trades during his 13 seasons as general manager of the Houston Rockets and has already made several deals since joining Philadelphia in 2020. His most noteworthy deal helped shape the modern NBA: Morey plucked James Harden from his reserve role with the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2012 for Jeremy Lamb, Kevin Martin and draft picks. In Houston, Harden became the fo-

cal point of an offensive scheme that centered 3-pointers and high-percentage shots like layups and dunks.

Two of Morey’s most memorable other deals involved Chris Paul. Morey landed Paul in Houston in 2017 for a package that sent several players, including Patrick Beverley, Montrezl Harrell and Lou Williams, to the Clippers. In 2019, Morey acquired Russell Westbrook for Paul and a package of draft picks.

How does Simmons fit into the larger theme of player empowerment in the NBA? In recent years, some prominent players have leveraged their looming free agency to force trades to where they want to go.

Anthony Davis, for example, got to the Los Angeles Lakers from the New Orleans Pelicans this way.

What’s happening with Simmons, though, is unprecedented because of how much time is left on his contract. Simmons is not a free agent until after the 2024-25 season. Even when Harden, then with the Rockets, forced his way to the Nets, he had just two years left on his deal. In theory, Simmons shouldn’t have much leverage.

The closest comparison is Paul George, who had just signed an extension in Oklahoma City before engineering a trade to team with Kawhi Leonard in Los Angeles. The difference is that the Thunder quickly acquiesced to George’s request, while the Sixers have been unwilling to do so with Simmons.

“Player empowerment” is also difficult to gauge in this situation because it’s not clear what Simmons’ value is. While he has made multiple All-Star teams and is one of the best defensive players in the NBA, his unwillingness to shoot and his shrinking in playoff games have hurt his trade value. At least so far, teams are unwilling to throw in the kitchen sink and more to obtain Simmons. So is it player empowerment if the player is currently not empowered?

Could Commissioner Adam Silver intervene at some point?

The league has rarely publicly intervened in standoffs between a player and a team, and it is uncertain what, if anything, Silver can do to move the situation along under the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement.

The NBA stepped in when the Pelicans attempted to bench Anthony Davis in 2019 following his agent’s public request for a trade. Davis and Simmons share the same agent in Rich Paul; however, the two scenarios are otherwise vastly different. Paul made the trade request for Davis in early 2019 with Davis set to become a free agent in the summer of 2020. The NBA fined Davis $50,000 for the public trade request. Simmons has four years and $147 million left on his contract.

“It’s something you never like to see as a league,” Silver recently told ESPN of Philadelphia’s situation.

What are the larger implications of Simmons’ actions?

Morey and Rivers have said publicly that they want Simmons back and playing, although Morey is still trying to trade Simmons but said he doesn’t want role players in return.

If the Sixers are successful in getting Simmons back on the court, then the dispute becomes a moot point. However, it would signal that teams might be less willing to give in to trade demands going forward.

But if Simmons still doesn’t return, both sides will enter treacherous terrain.

For Simmons, he likely will lose significant money during his athletic prime to fines and unpaid salary. Morey has said that this saga could drag on for the rest of Simmons’ contract. This would mean that the Sixers would spend Embiid’s prime with a gaping hole in their roster that would limit their ceiling.

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(Mar 21-April 20)

You may be more willing to step out of your comfort zone and do something you’ve never tried before.

And with convivial Venus in Sagittarius, there is a chance that your confident approach can pay dividends. On a social note, there could be a misunderstanding with a friend, which might linger longer than is necessary. If you care about them, it’s time to reach out.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

With feisty Mars leaving your sign and moving into Scorpio in a few days, make the most of this time to fuel your personal plans. With this red planet giving you the courage to please yourself, it’s a chance to get moving on those ideas that speak to you personally. You don’t have to share yourself with everyone Libra, although it may seem this way. It’s time to do what you want.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

The Moon in Gemini links to luscious Venus in Sagittarius, which can put the emphasis on shopping and enjoying some retail therapy. If you’re ready to treat yourself, this is the day to do it. Whether you’re looking for clothes, a pampering session or just want to go out with your partner or friends, it’s time to kick back and enjoy. You truly deserve it, Taurus.

It’s the perfect day for social and romantic adventures. With the emphasis on getting out and about and moving in new circles, you could learn a lot from the people you connect with. With jovial Jupiter and prudent Saturn working on your behalf, anything is possible if you refuse to let your fears hold you back.

An exciting opportunity is waiting in the wings, so be on the alert.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Something interesting is brewing behind-the-scenes.

There’s a lot of secret talk going on that may lead up to a surprise. And this looks to be a positive development. Don’t know what it is? Then you might be the recipient. Plus, with the Sun newly in your sector of leisure and pleasure, the coming weeks are an opportunity to unwind. A new interest could be a delightful revelation.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

With the Sun moving deeper into your sign, you’ll be in your element and wowing others with your mysterious ways. For now, you’ll be busy planning and scheming. Perhaps you don’t want to tell others what you have in mind, until you’ve sorted out the details. Once fiery Mars enters passionate Scorpio in a few days, you’ll be fired up and ready to show what you’re made of.

Should you opt for the safer path or take more of a risk? Being the adventurous kind, the idea of doing what is best may not appeal, whereas something more exciting can. If you go too far over the line though, you could lose out, Archer. Yet if it’s a choice between an opportunity that might lead to fresh adventures or a list of mundane tasks, you’ll prefer to explore new terrain.

You may be ready to invite the possibility of change into a situation that has become a tad too predictable. Doing so could throw things into disarray for a few days as you adjust. But if it means the result will be more exciting or creative, then it can be worth it. This is your opportunity to cut out anything that doesn’t work, and to make a sparkling difference where you can.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Even if you’ve had a falling out with someone, the coming day or so could be an opportunity to forgive and forget. The Moon ties with Venus, and this pleasant blend of energies suggests you’ll be willing to put the past behind you. The emphasis is on cooperation and collaboration, and this continues for some time. Keen to get to know someone? Don’t wait, make your move now, Leo.

Is a belief preventing you from doing as much as you would like? If so, key aspects might bring insights that can help you to understand what is going on. This may not be the first time you’ve become aware of this, and it won’t be the last. But anything you do to help you work through it will build your confidence. The thing is not to give up, and you’ll soon defeat it.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

One thing you’re good at is setting goals, and creating a strategy to accomplish them. The current line-up puts the emphasis on planning and organization, so that you can do more in less time. Have big plans? Get them down on paper, and break milestones into manageable chunks. The Scorpio Sun encourages you to breathe passion and energy into them to add extra sizzle, Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

The edgy Mars/Pluto hook-up, can see you evaluating how much certain associations are worth.

This may apply to a group, or perhaps a committee or other affiliation. While you might enjoy being a part of the action, there should be a balance of give and take. Present aspects suggest some frustration around this. If you feel you’re doing more than you fair share, then say so.

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