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ith the purpose of achieving equity within the veterinary field, American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) President Dr. José Arce said Sunday that he will use his recently obtained seat to continue advocating for diversity and economic relief programs for both incoming and entrylevel professionals.

Arce, who is the first Puerto Rican to serve as president of the profession’s largest organization, which has more than 98,000 members “that come from all spectrums of the veterinary profession,” said in an exclusive interview with the STAR that he’ll work toward those goals so that the field can have more experts who can continue working on pertinent issues such as responsible pet ownership and humane treatment of animals.

“Everybody thinks of the typical veterinarian as someone who just sees pets and other animals for their health,” Arce said, noting that veterinarians can go from caring for small animals to being involved in the development of breakthrough vaccines.

Arce also said his priorities come from experiences that caught his attention when he joined the Student Chapter of the AVMA in 1993.

The veterinarian with 28 years of field experience said he was granted an internship in small animal medicine, surgery and emergency treatment at Rowley Memorial Animal Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts back when he was a doctorate student at Louisiana State University.

However, beyond learning about his duties as an animal health expert, the AVMA president said he noticed a lack of Hispanic and black veterinarians both in the field and in academia.

Therefore, through the association’s Commission for a Diverse, Equitable, and InclusiveVeterinary Profession, which was founded in November 2020, Arce now seeks “to mimic what the population of the U.S. looks like.”

The commission, which also involves the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC), explores the chances for increasing diversity, equity and inclusion among veterinarians, veterinary school applicants and enrollees, interns, residents and boardcertified specialists by encouraging and assisting veterinary medical associations and animal health companies.

“This is something that I’ve been working on and been passionate about for many, many years,” Arce said.

Moreover, Arce told the newspaper that the organization is currently educating members of the U.S. Congress on the struggles new veterinarians face when “graduating with huge student loans, especially those who work outside the U.S. states.”

“Student loan interest rates go around 9%, and that’s a lot for students who have such a huge debt,” he said.

“I know students who are graduating with half a million dollars ($500,000) in student loans, and that’s crazy.”

The AVMA advocates for bills in Congress that seek to reduce or eliminate interest rates on such loans regardless of academic preparation. The association also pushes for bills that allow economic relief for small businesses, promote scientific research, and solve public health issues.

“Some of them [newly licensed veterinarians] want to come back to Puerto Rico, especially in areas where the salaries are not the same as in some of the powerful states,” Arce said. “When they come back to Puerto Rico, the average salary might be $60,000 or even less for a starting-level job.”

“It’s hard enough to start out with such big stressors, it’s hard enough to practice veterinary medicine, deal with our patients, and have that economic pressure on top of seeking to build a family, get a house, get a car, whatever you want to do as a recent graduate,” he added.

Dr. José Arce, left, is the first Puerto Rican to serve as president of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the profession’s largest organization with more than 98,000 members.

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PR’s energy regulator working on rules to create green energy certificates

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board is keeping an eye on Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB)-proposed rules that would create renewable energy certificates (RECs), a market-based instrument that would help track compliance with a renewable portfolio target of 100% by 2050.

Oversight board general counsel Jaime A. El Koury asked the PREB last week in writing to submit the proposed regulation to the board prior to its issuance or effectiveness, in accordance with Section 204 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) after receiving and considering all public comments it may receive during the process.

“To facilitate the Oversight Board’s review, please provide an English translation of the proposed regulation to the Oversight Board for its review and approval in accordance with the Policy,” El Koury said.

RECs represent the property rights to the environmental, social and other non-power attributes of renewable electricity generation. The proposed PREB regulation defines an REC as an instrument that constitutes a marketable and negotiable asset or economic value, which can be bought, sold, transferred

The Financial Oversight and Management Board is monitoring Puerto Rico Energy Bureau-proposed rules that would create renewable energy certificates, or RECs. between people for any lawful purpose, and which in its entirety and inseparable form represents the equivalent of one megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity generated by renewable sources and includes the environmental and social attributes of that megawatt of electricity.

Puerto Rico must draw about 20% of its energy from renewables by 2022 and 100% by 2050, according to local laws.

RECs are issued when one MWh of electricity is generated and delivered to the electricity grid from a renewable energy

resource.

They are a mechanism to help the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) keep track of its renewable energy portfolio. Once renewable electricity is dumped onto the grid by a generator, it blends in with all the other types of electricity, including that from fossil fuel.There’s no way to track “clean electricity” through the system.

When a renewable energy generator, such as a wind farm or solar power plant, for example, generates a MWh of power, it creates two sources of value. It creates electricity, which it can sell at prevailing market rates but under the law it creates one REC, a certificate saying that it generated one MWh of electricity from clean sources, which it can also sell.

The creation of RECs splits power into two separate revenue streams: green energy and electricity. The electricity is sold as kilowatts per hour (KWh). The greenness is sold as RECs. A REC is effectively a certificate of property rights over one unit of green energy.

When a utility says it is getting 20 percent of its energy from clean sources, what it means is that it has bought and retired a number of RECs equal to 20 percent of the power it sold.

Under the proposed PREB regulation, when PREPA buys energy from renewable

sources, it would also be buying the social and environmental values of the RECs and it will not have to pay any additional money for the REC itself.

PREB said it will measure the value of a REC every few years but it has established a minimum value of $20.50 per one megawatt of energy, the equivalent of about two cents per KWh. Several renewable energy producers, such as Wyndmar, have already said the social and environmental value of the REC should be closer to 3 cents per KWh after making certain calculations related to carbon dioxide emissions.

Using the $51 per metric ton of carbon dioxide and the Puerto Rico Emission Factor of .627 (generation) .750 (sales) “the minimum price of RECs would be between $31.98 and $38.25” per one megawatt of energy,” notes Víctor González of Wyndmar.

RECs are the accepted legal instrument through which renewable energy generation and use claims are substantiated in the U.S. renewable energy market. They are supported by several different levels of government, regional electricity transmission authorities, nongovernmental organizations and trade associations, as well as in U.S. case law.

Bill to make Tourism Co. a public corporation headed for governor’s desk

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he bill that would make the Puerto RicoTourism Co. a public corporation is on its way to La Fortaleza for the governor’s signature, House Speaker Rafael Hernández Montañez announced Sunday.

House Bill 14, which is authored by the Popular Democratic Party delegation, would revert the Tourism Co. to its previous condition of public corporation. The entity had been put under the Economic Development and Commerce Department (DDEC).

The legislation goes against the commonwealth fiscal plan, which has recommended the consolidation of the Tourism Co. within DDEC as part of efforts to streamline government.

Hernández Montañez said the previous administration’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 resulted in the elimination of the Tourism

House Speaker Rafael Hernández Montañez Co., which was the only agency responsible for the development of tourism public policy on the island.

“In times when the tourism industry has been so impacted, this Legislative Assembly is taking a successful step to promote and position this economic sector with a new model based on sustainable tourism,” Hernández Montañez said. “Now, it is up to the governor to decide if he is going to

be part of this effort. Our request is that you sign this law.”

The House leader said that “with the new vision of transformation embodied in this measure, we must change the paradigm and not only evaluate the models of success, but learn from them and take a step further through the creation of a new Tourism Company of Puerto Rico strengthened with the integration of new programs and corporations.”

“Currently, the tourism industry represents 6.7% of the gross national product, with an average visitor spending of $4.1 billion,” he said. “From the employment point of view, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, tourism has represented around 80,000 direct and indirect jobs in recent years. According to the long-term forecasts of the WorldTourism Organization, included in Tourism Towards 2030, international tourist arrivals on a

global scale will grow by 3.3% annually between 2010 and 2030, reaching 1.8 billion tourists.”

The previous administration transferred tourism attraction efforts, including internal (on-island), airline, and event marketing responsibilities and funding from the Puerto Rico Tourism Co. (PRTC) to Discover Puerto Rico.

The 2021 Fiscal Plan requires DDEC to realize front and back-office personnel efficiencies as the department consolidates other agencies. Specifically, DDEC has to reduce front-line personnel by 20% by fiscal year (FY) 2022 to produce a streamlined and efficient organization.

To date, DDEC has made substantial progress by operationally consolidating 70% of agencies.

At the beginning of FY 2021, the PRTC transferred some 157 employees to the Gaming Commission.

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‘Statehood is not a cure, it is death’

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

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embers of political and social organizations marched Sunday from the Luis Muñoz Rivera Park to the Capitol in Puerta de Tierra to demand Puerto Rico’s decolonization and repudiate statehood as an option for solving the island’s 123-year-old political status issue.

The demonstration, called “No to Statehood; Yes to Decolonization,” brought out both pro-independence and pro-sovereignty advocates to protest against the efforts from the pro-statehood movement to push the island’s annexation to the United States, such as the “Yes/No to Statehood” plebiscite, the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act penned by Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón and Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.), and the six shadow delegates to Congress elected last May. “We understand that all of these efforts are illegitimate, as 52% of voters over 48% of voters, in an electoral event that only 25% of active voters participated, is not a real majority,” said Eugenio Hopgood Dávila, the spokesman for the demonstration.

“This is something that even congresspeople have been questioning, as they deemed that majority fragile,” Hopgood Dávila added, noting that the former plebiscite cannot be compared to the Washington, D.C. statehood referendum in 2016, where 79% of the voters of the District of Columbia voted in favor of becoming a state of the union.

“Washington, D.C. is not an ethnically different country, it is like Baltimore, like Virginia; we are different from them,” he said. “Statehood is not legitimate, it does not decolonize, it is not a cure, it is death. Puerto Rico as it is today would die.”

At the protest march, which also commemorated Puerto Rican Pro-Independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos’ birthday, broad sovereignty and independence sectors joined forces for the first time in a demonstration to demand the end of the island’s colonial status, Hopgood Dávila said.

The collective organizing the event includes the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP by its Spanish acronym), the Puerto Rican Front, the National Hostosian Independence Movement, the Sovereignist Union Movement, the Sovereignty Dialogue Movement and VAMOS. “We are going to show Congress, at this time when they are discussing bills on the status of our country, the president of the United States, the people of Puerto Rico and the whole world that we are firmly opposed to statehood, that we do not accept the colonial regime and that we want, once and for all, to be owners of our country,” Hopgood Dávila said.

The demonstration included an artistic-political event at the Plaza de la Democracia at the North Wing of the Capitol, where the Declaration of the March, a document against statehood and against colonialism that was endorsed by prominent political and cultural figures, was read by PIP Youth leader Gabriel Casal and Women’s Affairs Secretary Adriana Gutiérrez Colón.

Members of political and social organizations marched to the Capitol in Puerta de Tierra on Sunday to demand Puerto Rico’s decolonization and repudiate statehood as an option for solving the island’s 123-year-old political status issue. (Photo by Pedro Correa Henry) “We reject the illegal solution that is the definite annexation as a U.S. state being imposed on Puerto Rico based on mere arithmetic, voter majorities that are subject to colonial dependence,” Casal said.

Meanwhile, Gutiérrez Colón said that as Puerto Rico’s political status is being discussed in Washington, “we raise our voices to send one clear and strong message to U.S. Congress leaders, to President Joe Biden, and to the world: Puerto Rico does not wish for or accept statehood.”

“Long live Puerto Rico always! Say yes to the Boricua Nation, say yes to Puerto Rico’s decolonization!” the two young pro-independence leaders shouted.

Simultaneously, other demonstrations of support coordinated by the Boricua Independence Front were held in New York, Florida and elsewhere in the mainland U.S.

Public acquisition of Luquillo land for conversation begins

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, the New Progressive Party delegation minority leader in the island House of Representatives, met late last week with Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Rafael Machargo Maldonado and residents of the Fortuna 1 community in the Mameyes neighborhood of Luquillo to begin the process of purchasing land in the area to protect its ecological value.

“Last Thursday we held an extensive meeting … to finalize the action plan aimed at the preservation of around four acres of land located in the area of Parcel 162,” Méndez Núñez said Sunday. “This is something that we started in 2008 when we settled and finally we were able to sign Joint Resolution 92 of August 2008 into law, which establishes that these lands will be acquired for their conservation.”

Before the conclave, the former House speaker emphasized the matter in a meeting at La Fortaleza.

“We discussed the matter with the secretary and it

was determined that the department would initiate the process of purchasing that property in Fortuna 1,” said the lawmaker, who represents District 36 (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra). “The

Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez

funds that will be used for the acquisition, once the corresponding process is completed, will come from federal allocations associated with the [American] Rescue Plan Act of 2021, signed on March 11, 2021. With that we managed to protect these lands for the enjoyment of the community and future generations.”

At the meeting, held in Méndez Núñez’s office in the Capitol, the DNER chief announced that he had ordered the development of a new land demarcation for the aforementioned parcel.

Machargo Maldonado also ordered the DNER’s permit office to begin the appraisal process for the eventual acquisition of the land.

“This area under discussion is an open one that constantly facilitates the flow of people, impacting the ecological value of the land,” Méndez Núñez said. “The effects of coastal erosion in the region and the urgency to act to conserve it is obvious. The coming acquisition of these lands is great news for everyone.”

The legislator said he will continue meeting with area residents to identify more alternatives to improve the quality of life and conservation of the region.

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Solid waste firm sues municipality of Cidras, mayor

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he solid waste management company Waste Collection has sued Cidra Mayor Ángel David Concepción, in his personal capacity, and the municipality for over $32 million for discrimination, cancellation of contract, damages and illegal interference.

According to the lawsuit, since 2014 the company has had a solid waste collection and disposal contract with the municipality that is valid until 2031. A 2017 amendment requested that the company also take charge of the recycled material collection and disposal service. The contract was awarded under the Autonomous Municipalities Law and Law 107-2020 (Puerto Cidra Mayor Ángel David Concepción Rico Municipal Code).

To meet the needs of Cidra, and for the long period of service, Waste Collection built a trans- Municipality of Cidra,” says the lawsuit filed in shipment station at a cost of $2.5 million and Caguas Superior Court. invested $1.25 million in additional equipment, According to the plaintiff, the mayor, both on land suggested by the municipality itself, it in his personal and official capacity, and the was reported in a press release. rest of the co-defendants, carried out actions “Waste Collection invested in an industrial “aimed at affecting the municipality’s contractual property that was abandoned and that had been relationship with Waste Collection.” declared a public nuisance, conditioning its use “These actions were manifested even before and promoting economic development for the Mr. Concepción González was a municipal of-

ficial as Mayor,” the suit alleges. “Falsely, and in a libelous manner, Mr. Concepción González and the other co-defendants have defamed the Waste Collection and its officials, claiming that they have committed corrupt and unlawful acts with the previous mayor. These actions have caused damage to the reputation of Waste Collection.”

The mayor could cancel the contract 30 days in advance of finding Waste Collection in violation of a series of causes defined in the contract prepared by the municipality itself. Concepción rescinded the contract effective July 1 of this year without indicating any breaches on the part of the Waste Collection or giving terms to correct them, if any, according to the lawsuit.

Separately, Guánica Mayor Ismael Rodríguez Ramos announced Sunday that he reached a payment agreement of $1.65 million to solid waste collection company Waste Landfill & Recycling Technologies Inc. (WLR) in a lawsuit that had been filed against the municipality during the previous administration of Santos Seda, who canceled an active contract in order to grant the concession to another company.

The company’s initial claim was for $3.9 million. As part of the agreement, the municipality of Guánica will make an initial payment of $100,000 and later monthly payments of

between $8,000 and $10,000.

“Guaniqueños will remember that this was the case where the last administration, on the eve of Thanksgiving 2015, surprised everyone by canceling the contract in effect the following Monday, causing a dislocation in the collection of solid waste and debris, as was agreed in the contract signed with the municipality,” Rodríguez Ramos. “Although it was alleged by the former mayor that irregularities in the service were being investigated, there is no record of any investigation in this regard.”

As the mayor indicated in a press release, the cancellation of the contract with WLR was not due to poor service or non-compliance, but because there was already another company selected by the former mayor to carry out the work. He stated that the emergency declaration mechanism was even used to hire the new solid waste and debris collection company.

“Naturally, with all this situation, the WLR company sued in court and now, even with the serious municipal financial difficulties, we have had to address the situation,” Rodríguez Ramos said.” Fortunately, in the negotiation process, both parties have yielded in order to reach a satisfactory agreement that will allow us to move forward.”

Housing Dept. launches program to centralize geospatial data

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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sland Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez announced on Sunday the first stage of the Puerto Rico Geospatial Infrastructure Program (GeoFrame), which seeks to consolidate the island government’s geospatial databases.

The new program, through federal Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery funds, will produce a spatial data

Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez

infrastructure, or SDI, composed of records of land parcels, occupancy, geophysical risk, physical addresses, land use, critical structures (hospitals, schools, emergency shelters) and other data, with the main purpose of improving municipal and state knowledge and impacting future public policy decisions.

“Accurate spatial information will prevent emergency services from being stopped during future natural disasters by, for example, speeding up the response of specialized teams traveling on unmapped roads,” Rodríguez said. “Currently there is no complete, secure data infrastructure that provides information as accurate as we need. That is why we launched GeoFrame.”

The program, which has a budget of $50 million, will be executed with the assistance of various agencies. The Puerto Rico Planning Board will be the first to receive funds granted by the Housing Department to participate and assist in its implementation.

Designated Planning Board Chairman Manuel A. G. Hidalgo said a key recruitment process will begin for the technical and administrative execution of GeoFrame.

“The recruitment effort for the execution of the program includes technical and specialized personnel,” Hidalgo said.

“The implementation of the project is still in its early stages, so the recruitment of technical staff is critical. Among the positions to be recruited are project manager, senior professional planner, professional planner, senior planning analysts and GIS analysts.”

The officials reiterated that the initiative will lay the foundations for optimizing Puerto Rico’s agencies and municipalities

from a planning, land use and tax perspective, and will ensure that the emergency response meets better standards of public safety and interagency efficiency.

Rodríguez noted that part of the GeoFrame implementation effort has included holding meetings with central government agencies that collect geospatial databases to begin the data compilation process.

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At 9/11 ceremonies, moments of silence, tributes and tears

By MICHAEL GOLD and KATIE ROGERS

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he loved ones gathered again in lower Manhattan for moments of silence and the peals of the bells. They paid tribute to those they lost 20 years earlier and listened as Bruce Springsteen sang about memory and loss.

In Pennsylvania, hundreds gathered in a clearing where a hijacked plane had crashed to hear a former president honor their relatives’ sacrifice. In Chicago, firefighters too young to remember Sept. 11 climbed thousands of steps to honor emergency responders who didn’t live past it. In Nebraska, children sat on the shoulders of their parents and waved American flags to honor the victims of a tragedy that, to them, has only been history.

For two decades, Americans have mourned the attacks of Sept. 11 that killed nearly 3,000 people, a loss so deep it shook the United States to its core. But even as time has passed, and the horrific day has moved from fresh memory into the chronicles of history, the people who gathered across the country and the globe said the wounds from 9/11 have remained fresh.

“Twenty years feels like an eternity,” said Lisa Reina, her voice quavering as she held up a photo of her husband, Joseph Reina Jr., who was at work in the north tower of the World Trade Center when the first plane struck. “But yet it still feels like yesterday.”

The ceremonies were part of a full day of tearful commemoration across the United States and the world, which watched in shock 20 years ago as passenger jets hijacked by al-Qaida terrorists slammed into the towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the deadliest attack on U.S. soil.

To honor the milestone, President Joe Biden, who as a senator 20 years ago sought desperately to soothe a panicking country and who later voted to authorize the war in Iraq, visited the site of each attack for ceremonies honoring the lives lost there.

In a video message, Biden, who now leads the country in one of its most divided moments, celebrated the unity that the United States experienced in the wake of the attacks.

“We saw national unity bend,” he said.

“We learned that the unity is the one thing that must never break.”

Former President George W. Bush,

who attended a memorial ceremony near Shanksville, also praised the spirit of unity after the attacks. But he also pointedly drew a contrast with the country’s current politics, connecting al-Qaida terrorists who hijacked planes to domestic extremism.

Speaking eight months after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by supporters of former President Donald Trump, Bush said that while there was “little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home,” both groups showed a “disregard for human life” and “determination to defile national symbols.”

Trump on Saturday did not attend the memorial services in New York or Pennsylvania. He instead spoke to police officers at the 17th Precinct station house in midtown Manhattan, where he spent time attacking Biden and other Democrats for their handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan but said comparatively little about Sept. 11.

At the 9/11 memorial plaza in lower Manhattan during the morning, Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, stood shoulder to shoulder with two pairs of their Democratic predecessors, Barack and Michelle Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, who was a senator of New York 20 years ago.

Nearby was Rudolph Giuliani, a Trump ally who was the mayor of New York during the attacks and has since become one of the most vociferous critics of Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

All of them watched as relatives of the victims read the names of the dead, an annual recitation that paused for moments of silence marking the times when the hijacked planes hit their targets and when the twin towers eventually fell. As the plaza fell silent, church bells rang.

Many of those who read names at the memorial were children, either born after the attacks or too young to remember the friends and family members who died. Reina, whose husband worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond trading firm that lost 658 employees in the attack, was pregnant on 9/11. Her son is part of an entire generation that has been born in the shadow of that day and has only received its legacy secondhand.

Ariana and Briana Mendoza, 13, came to lower Manhattan from the Bronx with their sister Dephaney to pay their respects. “I was only 2 when it happened,” said Dephaney, 22. “But I have learned a lot about it, and

Kenya Meija, center, hugs her daughter Emily Gutierrez as they mourned Digna Alexandra Costanza, pictured and other victims on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. now I am teaching them.”

Nearby, Luis Gonzalez, 41, of Staten Island, stood staring up at One World Trade Center, the tower built upon the ruins of ground zero. He carried a poster of the old twin towers that now hangs in his bedroom.

“I come out of respect,” he said.

Many others went to smaller but no less emotional events across the country for similar reasons. At the stair-climbing event in Chicago, Marisa Price, a firefighter from Westmont, Illinois, said she felt a deep connection to the emergency workers who gave their lives during rescue efforts.

“A lot of them were my age at the time and made the ultimate sacrifice,” said Price, 25. “It’s something we’re all willing to do but don’t want to do.”

At one of the day’s marquee college football games, the Ohio State University marching band performed a patriotic tribute during halftime, moving through formations that included an American flag, the State of Liberty and a bald eagle.

Memorials were also held across the globe. Outside Buckingham Palace in London, a band played “The Star-Spangled Banner” during the changing of the guard.

At the NATO headquarters in Brussels, the secretary-general stood in front of a piece of twisted metal from the World Trade Center

for a moment of silence.

Bush and Vice President Kamala Harris both took part in a ceremony at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, during which the names of the 40 passengers and crew members on the plane were read aloud.

Harris said that the Sept. 11 attacks had demonstrated how “fear can be used to sow division.” She stressed that America’s diversity was its greatest asset and encouraged the country to reflect on the sacrifice made by those who died.

“On this 20th anniversary, on this solemn day of remembrance, we must challenge ourselves to, yes, look back,” Harris said. “For the sake of our children. For the sake of their children. And for that reason, we must also look forward. We must also look toward the future. Because in the end, that is what the 40 were fighting for: their future, and ours.”

Hours later, the Bidens arrived to lay a wreath at the memorial. Then, holding hands, they strode quietly toward a boulder marking the area where the plane hit the ground, and spent time with the families of victims.

The president and the first lady then traveled to participate in another wreath ceremony at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, where 184 people were killed after a plane hit the building’s west side.

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US falling to lowest vaccination rates of world’s wealthiest democracies

By ALYSSA LUKPAT

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apan initially struggled to get its COVID-19 vaccination program into full gear, but now that it has, the percentage of its population that has received at least one dose has edged past the level achieved in the United States — leaving Americans last for that category among the world’s seven wealthiest large democracies.

The turning point came Thursday, when Our World in

Data, a project by the University of Oxford in England, reported that 62.16% of Japanese people were at least partially vaccinated, compared with 61.94% of Americans.

For the moment, the United States retains a slightly larger percentage of fully vaccinated people than Japan, 52.76% compared with 50.04%, according to Our World in Data, ranking sixth out of the leading industrial nations, after Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy. But the United States appears all but certain to fall to last place among the

Waiting in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Tokyo in July.

Group of 7 nations shortly, given the rapid pace of achieving full vaccinations in Japan and the extremely slow rate in the United States.

Between July 24 and Sept. 9, the full vaccination rate in the United States grew by around 4%, while in the same period Japan lifted its level by 25%, a jump that doubled the size of its fully vaccinated population. Using doses made

by Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, Japan is administering more than 1 million vaccine doses per day, some 300,000 above the U.S. average, even though the U.S. population is more than 2.6 times the size of Japan’s.

In Japan, new cases have fallen sharply from a peak of 23,083 on Aug. 25 to 11,347 on Friday, though Japan did confront a dramatic rise in new cases in July and August, coinciding with the Olympics. In the United States, cases spiked starting in early July.

Canada leads the G-7 countries in vaccination rates, with almost three-quarters of its population at least partially vaccinated as of Thursday, according to Our World in Data.

France, Italy and Britain follow, with percentages between 70 and 73. Germany’s rate is just ahead of Japan’s, at around 65%.

The U.S. vaccination curve has leveled dramatically since an initial surge in the first half of this year, when the vaccine first became widely available. In a push to vaccinate the roughly 80 million Americans who are eligible for shots but have not gotten them, President Joe Biden on Thursday mandated that two-thirds of American workers, including health care workers and the vast majority of federal employees, be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Vaccination mandates are an American tradition, and so is the backlash

By MAGGIE ASTOR

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s disease and death reigned around them, some Americans declared that they would never get vaccinated and raged at government efforts to compel them. Anti-vaccination groups spread propaganda about terrible side effects and corrupt doctors.

State officials tried to ban mandates, and people made fake vaccination certificates to evade inoculation rules already in place.

The years were 1898-1903, and the disease was smallpox. News articles and health board reports describe crowds of parents marching to schoolhouses to demand that their unvaccinated children be allowed in, said Michael Willrich, a professor of history at Brandeis University, with some even burning their own arms with nitric acid to mimic the characteristic scar left by the smallpox vaccine.

“People went to some pretty extraordinary lengths not to comply,” said Willrich, who wrote a book about the civil liberties battles prompted by the epidemic.

If it all sounds familiar, well, there is nothing new

under the sun: not years that feel like centuries, not the wailing and gnashing of teeth over masks, and not vaccine mandates either.

As the coronavirus overwhelms hospitals across the South and more than 650,000 Americans — an increasing number of them children — lie dead, the same pattern is emerging. On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that he would require most federal workers and contractors to be vaccinated and, more sweepingly, that all employers with 100 or more employees would have to mandate vaccines or weekly testing. Colleges, businesses and local governments have enacted mandates at a steady pace, and conservative anger has built accordingly.

On Monday, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, tweeted that vaccine mandates were “un-American.” In reality, they are a time-honored American tradition.

But to be fair, so is public fury over them.

“We’re really seeing a lot of echoes of the smallpox era,” said Elena Conis, an associate professor and historian of medicine at the University of California, Berkeley.

“Mandates elicit resistance. They always have.”

None of it is new, but one thing distinguishes today’s anti-vaccination protesters from those of the past. The opposition was always political. It was not always partisan.

A group of people observing a doctor as he vaccinates a man in an 1870s illustration called “Vaccinating the Poor,” by Solomon Eytinge Jr.

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Capitol Police inquiry into Jan. 6 riot recommends disciplining six officers

By EMILY COCHRANE

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apitol Police investigators have recommended disciplinary action against six police officers for their actions during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the building in an effort to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.

Three officers were singled out for unbecoming conduct, one officer for failure to comply with directives, one

The security failures stemming from the Jan. 6 breach has cast scrutiny on the secretive agency, which is responsible for protecting the Capitol complex.

officer for improper remarks and one officer for improper dissemination of information, the Capitol Police said in a statement Saturday.

None of the officers, or details about the recommended penalties, were identified. No criminal charges will be filed, after the U.S. attorney’s office did not find sufficient evidence to do so.

The internal inquiry, which was conducted by the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility, covered 38 investigations, although investigators failed to identify 12 officers involved in the cases. One investigation, into an unidentified official who was “accused of unsatisfactory performance and conduct unbecoming,” remains open, according to the statement.

The security failures stemming from the Jan. 6 breach has cast scrutiny on the secretive agency, which is responsible for protecting the Capitol complex. Officer Brian Sicknick died in the hospital after fending off the mob, and at least 73 officers were hurt that day after being assaulted with flagpoles, fire extinguishers and hockey sticks, injuries that ranged from bruises to concussions and burns.

Even as the majority of the police force grapple with the trauma of the attack, videos widely circulating on social media appeared to show some officers treating the rioters sympathetically or doing little to stop them from entering

the complex.

After the riot, the Capitol Police announced it would open an investigation, with at least six officers suspended with pay at the time. The agency made public the results of its internal investigation Saturday only after sharing details with the Justice Department, which in turn notified the lawyers representing clients charged in connection to the riot.

In its statement, the Capitol Police said it was “committed to accountability when officers fail to meet the standards governed by USCP policies and the congressional community’s expectations” and the six violations “should not diminish the heroic efforts” of most officers who defended the building.

Last month, agency leaders said they had cleared Lt. Michael Byrd, who fatally shot a rioter during the attack, of any wrongdoing after investigators found he had acted lawfully and potentially saved lawmakers, aides and others in the House chamber from harm or death.

J. Thomas Manger, a veteran police chief from the Washington region, took over the department in July after the Capitol Police chief at the time, Steven Sund, resigned along with the Senate and House sergeants-at-arms. The police union also issued a vote of no confidence in agency leadership.

Man with assault rifle pleads guilty to threatening Pelosi

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Georgia man who had an assault rifle and was headed to Washington for the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty late last week to sending threatening text messages about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The man, Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr., wrote to an acquaintance the day after the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol that he would put “a bullet in her noggin on Live TV” and included a purple devil emoji, federal authorities said. In other messages, he said he would run over Pelosi.

“I predict that within 12 days, many in our country will die,” he wrote.

Meredith had been staying at a Holiday Inn in Washington and had weapons in his camper-style trailer, including a Glock handgun, a Tavor X95 assault rifle and thousands of rounds of ammunition, according to court records.

He was one of the first 13 people charged in federal court after a mob in support of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol. He was charged in January with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, possession of an unregistered firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition, according to court records.

Meredith pleaded guilty to the interstate communications charge and faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Under a plea agreement, he is expected to face up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $75,000, according to court documents. His sentencing is scheduled for December. Messages left for his lawyer, Paul Kiyonaga, were not immediately returned Saturday.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Meredith had erected a billboard in 2018 in Acworth, Georgia, that read, “#QANON” along with the name of his business, Car Nutz Car Wash.

The QAnon conspiracy theory, which the FBI has labeled a potential domestic terrorism threat, accuses Democrats and some Republicans of being beholden to a cabal of entrenched political insiders, pedophiles and Satanists. Many followers believe that Trump was secretly battling a criminal band of sex traffickers.

Meredith missed the Capitol riot because he arrived in Washington too late after driving from Colorado, he told investigators.

The Journal-Constitution reported that U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Friday asked Meredith if he wrote a text threatening to kill Pelosi.

“It was political hyperbole,” Meredith told the judge.

“But I did text that.”

Federal authorities have said they are committed to holding to account anyone responsible for the “disgraceful criminal acts” related to the assault on the Capitol.

“To be clear, what took place that day was not First Amendment-protected activity, but rather an affront to our democracy,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in January after Meredith and others had been charged. “We will continue to aggressively investigate each and every individual who chose to ignore the law and instead incite violence, destroy property and injure others.”

Law enforcement officials recovered ammunition and weapons belonging to Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. on Jan. 7.

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As Democrats push a $3.5 trillion bill, a top lawmaker stays mum on tax increases

Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, walks to his seat ahead of a committee meeting on a budget markup session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 9, 2021.

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hen Republicans sought to pass a giant tax cut along party lines in 2017, Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, led his party’s effort to brand the legislation as a tax break for the rich, helping erode public support for the bill.

Four years later, Neal is the top tax writer in the House and on the brink of leading Democrats in advancing a $3.5 trillion spending package that is at the core of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. The effort, derided by Republicans, could undo parts of the 2017 law and deliver on decades of Democratic promises to force corporations and the rich to pay more.

But Neal, 72, whose committee is formally drafting legislation, remains notably enigmatic about how he will pay for the bill, which would fund paid family and medical leave, expand Medicare benefits, address climate change and expand public education. He routinely brushes off questions about his support for the kind of tax increases on businesses or the wealthiest Americans that Biden and other party leaders have proposed — leaving some liberal Democrats worried that one of their own leaders could thwart the scope of their economic ambitions.

“I’m likely to hold off on the pay-fors until we are at the altar,” Neal said in a recent interview, using shorthand for the mechanism Congress uses to pay for legislation. “The courtship can go on, then we get to the altar, and then we have to get them to say ‘I do.’”

Yet the courtship with the competing wings of his party has largely been shrouded in secrecy. His Senate counterpart, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and other liberal lawmakers have maintained a steady fanfare of suggested tax proposals, including taxing corporations that buy back stock, raising taxes on multinational corporations and carrying out changes to the estate and capital gains taxes.

Neal has spoken expansively in favor of key spending components his committee has drafted and will ultimately advance — including bolstering health care benefits, granting paid family leave and extending monthly payments to families with children. But he has yet to release the formal draft legislation outlining plans to collect revenue to pay for the bill and remains largely silent about what he will support.

That omission has not gone unnoticed in Washington.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., has so far refused to support advancing any portion of the legislation in the committee, declaring she could not assess its merits without the full text, including knowing how it would be paid for.

“It’s cute, I guess, to come out with a bunch of programs that have strong support across the caucus but be coy about the pay-fors,” said Mary Small, national advocacy director for Indivisible, a progressive grassroots organization lobbying lawmakers to stand firm behind a $3.5 trillion price tag. “It’s not a serious posture to say, I support this policy and I’m not going to adequately fund it so it can responsibly function.”

The machinations reflect a broader dynamic in the Democratic caucus that could ultimately narrow the scope of a package intended to transform the nation’s social

safety net. With only three votes to spare in the House and unanimity needed in the Senate to protect the bill from a Republican filibuster, Democrats have yet to resolve deep divisions over how to fully finance as much as $3.5 trillion in spending over 10 years and how to structure and enact certain policies.

While polls show widespread voter support for increasing taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations, some Democrats remain wary of political retribution for tax increases that may not ultimately become law — particularly moderates partly reliant on campaign war chests fueled by business interests.

Between the complex process and the public demands of more prominent moderates, including Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Neal has kept his policy preferences largely secret.

Pressed repeatedly this summer over his appetite for tax increases, Neal appeared at times almost haunted by missteps of decades past, recalling when Democrats controlled the House in 1993 and adopted a tax based on the heat content of fuels. The Senate rejected it, and many House Democrats that voted for the tax lost their seats, allowing Republicans to take back the chamber a year later — a painful political lesson that he said he had warned newer lawmakers about.

“My intention is to get this done, and I don’t want them to embrace an exercise that penalizes them with no policy achievement,” he said of his colleagues. “I’m enthusiastic about what the president wants to do, but if you volunteer revenue in Washington now, opposition is instant.”

Liberal Democrats, however, argue that the political winds have shifted, driven in part by decades of economic inequality that have been exacerbated by the pandemic and reports by ProPublica detailing how some of the wealthiest Americans have avoided paying taxes.

Neal has successfully evaded repeated challenges from progressives who view him as the quintessential corporate Democrat and too conservative for the state. During the pandemic, Neal has also fully embraced and advanced a number of progressive policies his colleagues have long championed, including the expansion of monthly payments to families with children in the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill.

But this week, he surprised some Democrats with the details of the economic package, including a later enactment date for dental benefits under Medicare. Late Friday, the committee released more details about tax incentives to support clean energy and proposals to lower drug prices, but dodged tax increases and the push to remove a cap on the state and local tax deduction.

Walking to the frigid committee hearing room on Thursday to begin the formal process of advancing the budget package, Neal promised revenue details soon and again batted away a request for specifics.

“What we’re about to do here is going to be subjected, again, to further consideration and negotiation as we go forward,” he said. “There’s a ways to go in this, and I think that it’s going to involve some patience over the next few weeks.”

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Biden’s vaccine mandate leaves businesses relieved but full of questions

By LAUREN HIRSCH, STACY COWLEY and NOAM SCHEIBER

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or months, Molly Moon Neitzel, founder and CEO of Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream in Seattle, has debated whether to require her 180 employees to be vaccinated. On Thursday, when President Joe Biden announced rules that would mandate such requirements, she felt relieved.

“We have six to 10 who have chosen not to be vaccinated yet,” she said. “I know it makes people on their teams nervous.”

The new rule, which Biden has instructed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to put in place by drafting an emergency temporary standard, will require companies with more than 100 employees to mandate that their workers be fully vaccinated or face weekly testing. The move, which thrusts the U.S. government and businesses into a partnership with little precedent and no playbook, will affect some 80 million workers.

Neitzel said she planned to comply with the order but was waiting for more details and a discussion with her team before deciding what that would entail. Like many businesspeople, she wants her employees vaccinated, but is uncertain what impact the new requirement will have on the company’s procedures, workers and bottom line.

Companies were already moving toward mandates before Biden’s announcement. In a recent Willis Towers Watson survey, 52% of respondents said they planned to require vaccines by the end of the year, and 21% said they already did.

But they have approached vaccination of their employees unevenly, and new federal requirements may amplify challenges they were already facing.

Religious exemptions are one example. In a recent poll of 583 global companies conducted by Aon, the insurer, only 48% of those that had vaccine mandates said they were allowing religious exemptions.

“Determining whether someone has a sincerely held religious belief, practice or observance is really tricky because it requires the employer to kind of get inside the employee’s head,” said Tracey Diamond, a partner specializing in labor issues at law firm Troutman Pepper.

If the federal mandate, when it is written, allows for religious exceptions, these kinds of requests “are going to skyrocket,” she said. “For larger employers where there’s lots and lots of requests, to do this individualized caseby-case analysis can be very time consuming.”

Some companies, including Walmart, Citigroup and UPS, have focused vaccine requirements on office workers, who tend to have higher vaccination rates than employees on the front lines. And companies in indus-

Many companies were already moving toward vaccine mandates, but they were focused on white-collar workers. tries facing labor shortages have generally refrained from mandates, worried about turnover. Some employers said they were concerned that the new federal mandate could cause employees to quit.

“We can’t afford to lose anyone right now,” said Polly Lawrence, owner of Lawrence Construction in Littleton, Colorado.

Gireesh Sonnad, CEO of the software consulting firm Silverline, said he hoped the Biden administration would offer guidance that clarified how the new rules would apply to his roughly 200 employees, most of whom work remotely.

“How are we supposed to do weekly testing, if that’s the option people want to take, if I have people in almost all 50 states?” Sonnad asked.

Testing is the subject of many of the questions that executives are asking. Who picks up the cost of a test if employees opt out of vaccination? What types of tests will the mandate require? What is the appropriate documentation of a negative COVID-19 test? Will enough tests be available, given supply chain challenges?

Employers are also unsure what they will have to do to document, track and store information about their employees’ vaccination status. Already, companies have taken different approaches to verification — some requiring digital proof, others asking simply for dates and the brand of the shot.

At Bridgestone Americas, the tire maker’s Nashville, Tennessee-based subsidiary, office employees have been using internal software to log their vaccination status. The company wants to create a better system for employees who do not have access to laptops or smartphones, said Steve Kinkade, a spokesperson for the company.

“Do we have kiosks set up in manufacturing locations and common areas for people to log in this information?” Kinkade asked rhetorically. “These are the logistical things we still have to work out.”

The Biden administration has not provided many details on the new rule, including when it will go into effect or how it will be enforced.

Experts said that OSHA was likely to take at least three or four weeks to write the new standard, and that once the rule was published in the federal register, employers would most likely have at least a few weeks to comply.

OSHA may choose to enforce the rule in a number of ways. It could focus inspections on industries that it believes are problematic. It could also conduct inspections in response to news reports of outbreaks or worker complaints, or ask inspectors following up on unrelated concerns to check records for compliance with the vaccination rule.

But OSHA has only a small number of inspectors relative to the size of the workforce. A recent report by the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group, found that it would take more than 150 years for the agency to conduct a single inspection of each workplace under its jurisdiction.

While the COVID-19 relief plan that Biden signed in March provides funding for additional inspectors, few if any will be hired and deployed by the end of this year.

That means enforcement is likely to be strategic — focusing on a tiny number of high-profile cases where large fines can attract attention and send a message to other employers. A workplace that failed to carry out the vaccination or testing requirement could in principle pay a fine for each worker affected, although OSHA rarely proposes such aggressive fines.

The administration did clarify what “fully vaccinated” would mean when it came to enforcing the new rule.

“Fully vaccinated is two doses of Pfizer, Moderna or a single dose of J&J,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a press briefing Friday.

“I anticipate over time that may be updated, but we will leave that to our advisers to give us some recommendations,” she said.

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With extreme weather, home insurance will cost more. If you can get it.

Debris removed from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida in New York, Sept. 3, 2021. As extreme weather becomes more common, insurance companies are rethinking which homes to cover and at what price.

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ildfires in California and Oregon. Hurricanes that wreak havoc from the Gulf Coast up to the Northeast. Hail in the Midwest that is so big and falls with such intensity that it punctures roofs.

Extreme weather is causing billions of dollars in property damage with a greater frequency than even a few years ago. In response, insurance companies are increasingly rethinking which homes to cover and at what price.

In some cases, they are raising premiums two to five times in a year. In others, they are denying coverage because they deem it too risky to have a lot of properties in an area that is prone to wildfires (like Los Angeles County).

Insurers are also putting more of the onus on homeowners to keep up the maintenance on, say, roofs in areas that are regularly hit by hurricanes. They may also be asking if homeowners in fire-prone areas have done anything to mitigate fire damage. And people looking to buy a coastal home should make sure it is insurable at all.

“The severity, frequency and size of the storms is really what’s changed in the last two to three years,” said Jean Sullivan, vice president of insurance sales at Precisely, a data analytics company that does geographic risk assessments.

“Insurance companies are finding out that the models they built just three to five years ago are not holding up in the last two to three years,” she said. “That’s concerning to

them, and that’s caused more pressure on the reinsurance companies that insure their risk, and more pressure on the homeowner.”

As a result, many homeowners in climate-ravaged areas are starting to have to deal with the availability and affordability of insurance, along with stricter terms and conditions, said Ross Buchmueller, president and chief executive of PURE Insurance, which focuses on high-net-worth clients.

“If you want to buy a house in the canyons of Beverly Hills, you should check that it’s insurable,” Buchmueller said.

“It’s not about someone couldn’t get insurance at a fair price.

It’s you can’t get insurance at all in certain places.”

NFP, a large brokerage, felt fortunate to be able to retain a celebrity client’s insurance even with the price doubling, said Brett Woodward, the firm’s managing director, who runs the personal risk practice.

“He was paying $400,000 a year for his insurance last year,” Woodward said. “It was renewed in July at $850,000.

We were happy he still had coverage.”

But even some wealthier homeowners are asking if insurance, or at least insurance for the full value of their homes, is worth paying year after year.

Some California clients of Bessemer Trust, a wealth management firm, have put in their own wildfire-protection systems instead of paying high premiums on insurance with limited coverage, said Gary Pasternack, head of insurance advisory at Bessemer.

“It may be more economical for someone to spend money on loss-mitigation strategies than to pay so much in premium for policies that have large deductibles and poor coverage,” he said. “It’s playing out in California now in a significant way. People have to make a decision: Do I want to continue to buy insurance, or should I be making more of an investment in protecting my property against losses, particularly fire losses in the West?”

A built-in system that sprays foam on a house to protect it from catching fire can cost $4 to $6 a square foot. It is even more expensive on multiple-building estates in fire-prone areas, Pasternack said. Some homeowners have bought foam systems mounted on all-terrain vehicles and given caretakers the responsibility of spraying down the buildings.

Of course, that system will not work if there is an evacuation order. Still, Pasternack said, homeowners get creative when a policy that had an $80,000 annual premium a few years ago is now unavailable in the regular market or costs five times that — or, in one case he saw, 10 times more.

Short of foam-spraying ATVs, there are things regular homeowners can do to protect their homes. A well-maintained roof can stand up better to hurricanes, heavy winds, and rain or hail. And insurers are often using aerial photography to see it.

“Even though you have trees hanging over your house, they’re using aerial imagery to look at your roof,” Sullivan of Precisely said. “Are there shingles missing? Does it have moss growing on it? Are there signs of it failing?”

Climate has changed the way many insurers are looking at claims, particularly if a roof may have been older than its useful life.

“Take a wood or cedar shake roof,” Woodward said.

“Let’s say it’s supposed to last 40 years. An insurer may start knocking off coverage at the 20-year mark.”

Location has also become an issue. Insurers are using local climate data to be more precise in how they insure a property, Sullivan said.

“Five, 10 years ago, if your property was in a certain ZIP code, that was good enough for them,” she said. “They need to know more now. They need to know where that home is located on the property. Is there a flood zone? How close is it to a river? The cost for the same property at two ends of a street could be different because of the elevation.”

Some people who bought homes in unfamiliar areas or have fewer choices in an overheated market have found after the fact that the properties — particularly older, coastal homes — were uninsurable through traditional means. To get coverage, they have to turn to what is called the surplus market, where the rates set by the state insurance regulator do not apply. An insurer in that market can charge whatever it wants.

“Wealthy individuals are buying homes quickly in places like Florida because of a lack of inventory, and before they would have bought a home that was better built for the same price,” Woodward said. “Then we have a 30- to 60-day close, and we have to get them coverage. A lot of people didn’t envision the cost of that insurance when they made the purchase.”

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Investors eye wobbling energy sector as gauge for Delta fears

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nergy stocks are becoming a popular bellwether for concerns over how deeply the Delta variant of the coronavirus is expected to impact the U.S. economy, as the so-called reopening trade that boosted some parts of the market earlier this year continues to stumble.

The S&P 500 energy sector is (.SPNY) down 12.3% for the quarter-to-date compared with a 3.7% gain for the S&P 500 (.SPX), which stands near record highs.

That contrasts with the sector’s performance in the first quarter of the year, when it zoomed 29.3% on expectations that a vaccine-fueled economic rebound will boost energy demand.

The decline, which has outstripped a 2% fall in the price of Brent crude, suggests some investors believe the U.S. economic recovery may have peaked in the face of a coronavirus resurgence, leading them to focus on a looming unwind of the easy money policies that have helped the S&P more than double since its March 2020 lows.

Other reopening plays such as airlines and hotels have also stumbled, as investors rotated back into the high-growth technology stocks that have led the markets for years. The S&P technology sector (.SPLRCT) is up 6.8% this quarter.

“The rise of the number of cases of the delta variant has led to a resumption of the outperformance of stay at home defensive stocks like tech,” said Jeffrey Kleintop, chief global investment strategist at Charles Schwab.

“You’re seeing reopening stocks underperform significantly.”

Investors will get additional readings on the health of the U.S. economy next week with the release of consumer price index figures, retail sales, and a measure of consumer sentiment.

For now, many are gauging to what degree a slowing economic bounce could impact asset prices.

Morgan Stanley cited concerns about slowing growth when it lowered its recommendation on U.S. equities in the past week, while economists at Goldman Sachs cut their estimate of U.S. economic growth in the third quarter to 5.5% from 9% in late August.

Those worries have weighed on energy stocks, with companies like Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Chevron Corp (CVX.N) down more than 13% for the quarterto-date.

“It’s definitely been a painful trade the last couple of months,” as investors moved out of crowded positions in energy stocks that rallied at the start of the year, said Garrett Melson, portfolio strategist for Natixis Investment Managers Solutions.

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‘Everything changed overnight’: Afghan reporters face an intolerant regime

Two Afghan journalists, who said they were beaten by members of the Taliban because they were covering a protest in Kabul, show their injuries in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept 8, 2021.

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eloved shows removed from the airwaves. A television station cutting from a news report a story about a pregnant police officer who was reportedly fatally shot by the Taliban. A radio editor telling his colleagues to edit out anti-Taliban cheers from coverage of demonstrations in the capital.

Afghanistan’s vibrant free press and media industry, once celebrated as a success story and labeled one of the country’s most important achievements of the past two decades, has abruptly been transformed after the Taliban takeover of the country. Now, its survival is threatened by physical assaults, self-censorship and a dwindling journalist population less than a month after the Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital, and began enforcing their hard-line Islamist policies.

The Taliban’s crackdown on the free press was even more evident Wednesday after two Afghan journalists were detained and violently assaulted for covering a protest in Kabul. Photos showed the backsides of both reporters covered with bruises and gashes from being whipped repeatedly with cables, sparking an international outcry.

“The situation of free media is very critical,” said Neda, an anchor for a local television station in Kabul, identified by her nickname to protect her identity. “No one dares to

ask the Taliban about their past wrongdoings and the atrocities they have committed.”

More than a dozen Afghan journalists, media workers and advocates interviewed by The New York Times said local television networks, newspapers and news websites have continued their coverage under the shadow of fear, intimidation and self-censorship — all while struggling to deliver news despite the Taliban releasing very little information.

The Taliban haven’t yet issued any specific instructions for the media, but they have said all Afghan outlets should reset their coverage based on Islamic laws and national interests, both vaguely defined terms that could easily pave the way for the persecution of journalists critical of the new government.

After the previous government collapsed in mid-August, hundreds of media workers, including dozens of journalists, fled the country, according to The Times’ own count. More than half of Afghanistan’s media organizations have halted operations because of safety concerns, an uncertain future and financial problems, said Ahmad Quriashi, director of Afghanistan Journalists Center, a media support organization.

At its height, Afghan media boasted hundreds of outlets operating in the country.

In July, the former government’s minister of information and culture, Qasim Wafayezada, said that 248 television networks, 438 radio

stations, 1,669 print outlets and 119 news agencies were active across Afghanistan.

But “everything changed overnight for the media” once the Taliban returned to power, Quriashi said, despite the group’s promises to preserve a free press.

Turkish and Indian soap operas that ran on most television networks for hours everyday have vanished in recent weeks, and reality and music shows also have gone off air.

Tolo News, the country’s largest broadcaster, halted the production of Shabake Khanda or “Laughing Network,” a popular political comedy show watched by millions of Afghans on Friday nights.

Even though many female presenters appeared on local televisions a few days after the Taliban’s takeover, hosting shows and reporting on current events, the number appearing on air has since dropped to only four, said Neda, the female television anchor.

The Taliban haven’t allowed female journalists to return to work at the stateowned radio and television station, and have banned most from working with media in the provinces, according to Reporters Without Borders.

“Women journalists must be able to resume working without being harassed as soon as possible,” Christophe Deloire, secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders, said in a statement last week.

The Taliban have also pressured some outlets to share their news reports before publication, according to several journalists who said they refused to comply. And some may be self-censoring negative news for fear of retaliation.

“What we see on local media these days doesn’t reflect the realities on the ground at all,” said Hayat, a reporter for a television network. “We have no other option for now, we have to compromise and censor ourselves until we find a way to leave.”

Etilaat e Roz newspaper is among the few or, according to some, the only media outlet, that has continued covering the news without self-censorship, apparently undeterred by the fearful environment in Kabul.

While it has halted its investigative reports due to inaccessibility of information, the paper has been covering the daily news — even reports critical of the new Taliban government.

This week, the newspaper experienced the Taliban’s heavy-handed response to critical reporting.

On Wednesday, the Taliban rounded

up scores of demonstrators around Kabul and journalists covering the protests, subjecting them to abuse in overcrowded jails, according to journalists who were present.

The crackdown on the demonstrations and the ensuing coverage followed a Taliban announcement Tuesday that protests would not be allowed without government approval. At least 19 journalists were detained Tuesday and Wednesday, the United Nations said.

“You’re lucky you have not been beheaded,” Taliban guards told one detained journalist as they kicked him in the head, Ravina Shamdasdani, a spokesperson for the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, told reporters.

Reporters with Etilaat e Roz described being detained at the protests, then brought to a nearby police station where they were tied up and beaten with cables.

Taqi Daryabi, one of the reporters, said about a half-dozen Taliban members handcuffed him behind his back when he was on the ground on his stomach, then began kicking and hitting him until he lost consciousness.

“They beat so much that I couldn’t resist or move,” he said. “They forced me to the ground on my stomach, flogging me on my buttocks and back, and the ones who were in the front were kicking me in the face.”

Reporters working for Tolo News, Ariana News, Pajhwok News Agency and several freelance journalists have also been detained and beaten by the Taliban in the past three weeks, according to local media reports.

In the late 1990s, the Taliban imposed strict restrictions on the media, banning television and using the state-owned radio and newspapers as propaganda platforms. But the group promised greater openness toward freedom of expression once it seized power last month.

“We will respect freedom of the press, because media reporting will be useful to society and will be able to help correct the leaders’ errors,” Zabihullah Mujahid, the acting deputy information and culture minister, told Reporters Without Borders last week.

“We declare to the world that we recognize the importance of the role of the media.”

Many Afghan journalists said those promises are just “words” by Taliban’s leaders, citing recent assaults on reporters in Kabul and elsewhere.

“Press freedom is dead in Afghanistan,” said Quriashi, the media advocate. “And the society without a free press dies.”

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Times investigation: In US drone strike, evidence suggests no ISIS bomb

By MATTHIEU AIKINS, CHRISTOPH KOETTL, EVAN HILL and ERIC SCHMITT

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t was the last known missile fired by the United States in its 20-year war in Afghanistan, and the military called it a “righteous strike” — a drone attack after hours of surveillance Aug. 29 against a vehicle that U.S. officials thought contained an Islamic State bomb and posed an imminent threat to troops at Kabul’s airport.

But a New York Times investigation of video evidence, along with interviews with more than a dozen of the driver’s co-workers and family members in Kabul, raises doubts about the U.S. version of events, including whether explosives were present in the vehicle, whether the driver had a connection to the Islamic State group and whether there was a second explosion after the missile struck the car.

Military officials said they did not know the identity of the car’s driver when the drone fired but deemed him suspicious because of how they interpreted his activities that day, saying that he possibly visited an Islamic State group safe house and, at one point, loaded what they thought could be explosives into the car.

Times reporting has identified the driver as Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group. The evidence, including extensive interviews with family members, co-workers and witnesses, suggests that his travels that day actually involved transporting colleagues to and from work. And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military may have seen was Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family.

While the U.S. military said the drone strike might have killed three civilians, Times reporting shows that it killed 10, including seven children, in a dense residential block.

Ahmadi, 43, had worked since 2006 as an electrical engineer for Nutrition and Education International, a California-based aid and lobbying group. The day of the strike, Ahmadi’s boss called from the office around 8:45 a.m. and asked him to pick up his laptop.

“I asked him if he was still at home, and he said yes,” the country director said in an interview at NEI’s office in Kabul. Like the rest of Ahmadi’s colleagues, he spoke on the condition of anonymity because of his association with an American company in Afghanistan.

According to his relatives, Ahmadi left for work around 9 a.m. in a white 1996 Toyota Corolla that belonged to NEI, departing from his house, where he lived with his three brothers and their families, a few miles west of the airport.

U.S. officials told The Times that it was around this time that their target, a white sedan, first came under surveillance, after it was spotted leaving a compound identified as an alleged Islamic State group safe house about 3 miles northwest of the airport.

It is unclear if officials were referring to one of the three stops that Ahmadi made to pick up two passengers and the laptop on his way to work: The latter location, the home of NEI’s country director, was close to where a rocket attack claimed by the Islamic State group would be launched against the airport the following morning, from an improvised launcher concealed inside the trunk of a Toyota Corolla, a model similar to Ahmadi’s vehicle.

A Times reporter visited the director at his home, and met with members of his family, who said they had been living there for 40 years. “We have nothing to do with terrorism or ISIS,” said the director, who also has a U.S. resettlement case. “We love America. We want to go there.”

Throughout the day, an MQ-9 Reaper drone continued to track Ahmadi’s vehicle as it drove around Kabul, and U.S. officials said they intercepted communications between the sedan and the alleged Islamic State group safe house, instructing it to make several stops.

But the people who rode with Ahmadi that day said that what the military interpreted as a series of suspicious moves was simply a normal day at work.

After stopping to pick up breakfast, Ahmadi and his two passengers arrived at NEI’s office, where security camera footage obtained by The Times recorded their arrival at 9:35 a.m. Later that morning Ahmadi drove some co-workers to a Taliban-occupied police station downtown, where they said they requested permission to distribute food to refugees in a nearby park. Ahmadi and his three passengers returned to the office around 2 p.m.

As seen on camera footage, Ahmadi came out a half-hour later with a hose that was streaming water. With the help of a guard, he filled several empty plastic containers. According to his co-workers, water deliveries had stopped in his neighborhood after the collapse of the government and Ahmadi had been bringing home water from the office.

“I filled the containers myself and helped him load them into the trunk,” the guard said.

At 3:38 p.m., the guard and another coworker moved the car farther into the driveway.

The camera footage ends soon after, when the office shut off its generator at the end of the work day, and Ahmadi and three passengers left for home.

Although U.S. officials said that at that point they still knew little about Ahmadi’s identity, they had become convinced that the white sedan he was driving posed an imminent threat to troops at the airport.

When Ahmadi pulled into the courtyard of his home — which officials said was different from the alleged Islamic State group safe house — the tactical commander made the decision to strike his vehicle, launching a Hellfire missile around 4:50 p.m.

Although the target was now inside a densely populated residential area, the drone operator quickly scanned and saw only a single adult male greeting the vehicle, and therefore assessed with “reasonable certainty” that no women, children or noncombatants would be killed, U.S. officials said.

But according to his relatives, as Ahmadi pulled into his courtyard, several of his children and his brothers’ children came out, excited to see him, and sat in the car as he backed it inside. Ahmadi’s brother Romal was sitting on the ground floor with his wife when he heard the sound of the gate opening and Ahmadi’s car entering. His adult cousin Naser had gone to fetch water for his ablutions and greeted him.

The car’s engine was still running when there was a sudden blast, and the room was

sprayed with shattered glass from the window, Romal recalled. He staggered to his feet. “Where are the children?” he asked his wife.

“They’re outside,” she replied.

Since the strike, U.S. military officials justified their actions by citing an even larger blast that took place afterward.

“Because there were secondary explosions, there is a reasonable conclusion to be made that there is explosives in that vehicle,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, said last week.

But an examination of the scene of the strike, conducted by The Times’ visual investigations team and a Times reporter the morning afterward, and followed up with a second visit four days later, found no evidence of a second, more powerful explosion.

Family members questioned why Ahmadi would have a motivation to attack Americans when he had already applied for refugee resettlement in the United States. His adult cousin Naser, a former U.S. military contractor, had also applied for resettlement. He had planned to marry his fiancée, Samia, last Friday so that she could be included in his immigration case.

“All of them were innocent,” said Emal, Ahmadi’s brother. “You say he was ISIS, but he worked for the Americans.”

Relatives and neighbors survey the damage to vehicles from what they said was a U.S. drone strike at the home of Zemari Ahmadi, a suspected Islamic State facilitator, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021.

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Hurricane Larry to bring heavy snow to Greenland

Hurricane Larry made landfall Friday night in Newfoundland in eastern Canada. It was expected to transition into a winter storm before hitting Greenland by Sunday.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

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fter striking Canada as a Category 1 hurricane and causing widespread power outages in Newfoundland, Larry was moving north toward Greenland, where residents were bracing for a hurricane season oddity: a blizzard caused by the remnants of a tropical storm.

Forecasters said the storm could bring up to 4 feet of snow in parts of the subarctic island, an event meteorologists described as rare and emblematic of a year filled with extreme weather that has been intensified by climate change.

“It was unusual in itself that Larry made landfall in the Canadian maritime,” said Ben Gelber, a meteorologist with WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio. “But this is extraordinary.”

Larry weakened to a post-tropical cyclone Saturday morning, but it was still racing toward Greenland at 48 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

Moving at a high latitude, Larry was expected to transition into a winter storm before hitting the island by Sunday, causing up to 18 inches of snow to fall in the eastern parts, and up to 4 feet in higher elevations, according to the weather station at the airport in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.

The Hurricane Center said Larry would lose its tropical storm characteristics and then become a potent winter storm near Greenland by the end of the weekend.

Gelber said the storm’s transition into extratropical status means it will have a cold core.

“It’s going to be a blizzard and bring winds of 60 to 70 mph, buffeting the coast and bringing higher gusts over the mountains,” Gelber said.

While it’s not unusual for Greenland to have blizzards, it is rare for a blizzard to occur in early September from the remnants of a hurricane.

“It’s remarkable,” Gelber said. “We’ve run out of adjectives this year.”

Several forecasters noted the storm’s transformation on Twitter or on daily forecasts, describing it as a “snow-cane.”

Just last month, it rained for the first time at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, which is 2 miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle.

The Greenland Department of Environment and Contingency Management did not return emails seeking comment Saturday.

In Newfoundland, the city of St. John’s asked residents to stay off the roads as wor-

kers assessed the damage from the storm.

Tens of thousands of customers lost power in St. John’s and surrounding areas because of “severe weather conditions,” according to the Newfoundland Power website.

Visitation at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital, one of the larger hospitals in the area, was suspended because of a power failure.

No injuries have been reported, according to the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, the province’s police.

Various roads and parks in St. John’s were closed to allow debris to be cleared, and the St. John’s airport experienced delays Saturday morning, the Canadian Broadcasting Association reported.

Larry made landfall near South East Bight on the Burin Peninsula at 11:45 p.m.

Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Videos on Twitter showed eastern parts of Newfoundland being pelted by heavy rain as the storm neared its coastline, bringing increasingly powerful winds to the area.

In the past 70 years, only 23 hurricanes or post-tropical storms of hurricane strength have made landfall in Canada, according to the Canadian Hurricane Center.

Larry, which formed on Sept. 1, strengthened to a Category 3 storm two days later. It has has since weakened to a Category 1 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. Larry passed Bermuda Thursday but had otherwise posed little threat to land. Some meteorologists estimated Friday that the hurricane’s eye was 90 miles wide.

Although the hurricane was well east of the United States early Friday afternoon, large swells generated by the storm threatened to cause dangerous surf and rip currents along the East Coast, the National Weather Service said.

It has been a dizzying few weeks for meteorologists who have monitored several named storms that formed in quick succession, bringing stormy weather, flooding and damaging winds to parts of the United States and the Caribbean.

Tropical Storm Mindy hit the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday night, just hours after it formed in the Gulf of Mexico. It was downgraded to a tropical depression on Thursday but brought heavy rain to parts of the southeastern United States before moving into the Atlantic Ocean.

Ida battered Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane on Aug. 29 before its remnants

brought deadly flooding to the New York area. Two other tropical storms, Julian and Kate, both fizzled out within a day.

Not long before them, in mid-August, Tropical Storm Fred made landfall in the Florida Panhandle and Hurricane Grace hit Haiti and Mexico. Tropical Storm Henri knocked out power and brought record rainfall to the northeastern United States on Aug. 22.

The quick succession of named storms might make it seem as if the Atlantic is spinning them up like a fast-paced conveyor belt, but their formation coincides with the peak of hurricane season.

The links between hurricanes and climate change are becoming more apparent.

A warming planet can expect stronger hurricanes over time, and a higher incidence of the most powerful storms — though the overall number of storms could drop, because factors like stronger wind shear could keep weaker storms from forming.

Hurricanes are also becoming wetter because of more water vapor in the warmer atmosphere; scientists have suggested storms like Hurricane Harvey in 2017 produced far more rain than they would have without the human effects on climate. Also, rising sea levels are contributing to higher storm surge — the most destructive element of tropical cyclones.

Ana became the first named storm of the season on May 23, making this the seventh year in a row that a named storm developed in the Atlantic before the official start of the hurricane season on June 1.

In May, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast that there would be 13 to 20 named storms this year, six to 10 of which would be hurricanes, including three to five major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher in the Atlantic.

NOAA updated its forecast in early August, predicting 15 to 21 named storms, including seven to 10 hurricanes, by the end of the season on Nov. 30.

Last year, there were 30 named storms, including six major hurricanes, forcing meteorologists to exhaust the alphabet for the second time and move to using Greek letters.

It was the most named storms on record, surpassing the 28 from 2005, and the second-highest number of hurricanes.

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What comes after the 9/11 era?

By ROSS DOUTHAT

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hen I moved to Washington, D.C., in 2002 we all lived in 9/11’s shadow. We waited for bombs in the Metro, for more anthrax envelopes, for a sequel to the previous autumn’s terror. We watched planes headed for Reagan Airport fly low over the Potomac, always half-expecting them to veer.

Everything in my profession revolved around the War on Terror. And everyone I knew who was even the least bit conservative (a category that included many Democrats) was ready to invade Iraq — and probably Syria and Iran for good measure.

Everyone except one college friend, Elbridge Colby, then newly planted at the State Department.

His politics in those days were “severely conservative” (to borrow a phrase from the political taxonomist Mitt Romney), but he expected George W. Bush’s strategy to end in disaster. Nightly in our unkempt apartments he argued with the hawks — which is to say with all of us — channeling the realist foreign policy thinkers he admired, predicting quagmire, destabilization and defeat.

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In almost every way, the rest of the post-9/11 era vindicated his arguments — not just in the Iraq War but also in our chaos-sowing Libya intervention and our failed attempt at nation-building in Afghanistan.

Still, a version of Bush-era hawkishness survived among Republicans not named Rand Paul. Even in 2015, it was still potent enough that Colby was reportedly blackballed from a job as foreign policy director for Jeb Bush’s campaign, because of his insufficient enthusiasm about a potential conflict with Iran.

A consensus can change slowly and then, under the right pressure, all at once, and for Republicans that pressure came from Donald Trump. No dove or systematizer, he still made realism and anti-interventionism respectable again — with immediate consequences for my friend. Two years after Team Jeb! declined his services, Colby was in Trump’s Pentagon helping devise the administration’s national defense strategy. And now he has a new book, “The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict,” making the case for a foreign policy that leaves the post-9/11 era decisively behind.

As the title suggests, this is a realist’s book, laserfocused on China’s bid for mastery in Asia as the 21st century’s most important threat. All other challenges are secondary: Terrorism can be managed with “smaller footprint operations,” the liberal Trump-era fixation on Vladimir Putin mistakes a sideshow for the main event and the long-standing Republican focus on rogue states like Iran and North Korea is equally misguided.

Only China threatens American interests in a profound way, through a consolidation of economic power in Asia that imperils our prosperity and a military defeat that could shatter our alliance system.

Therefore American policy should be organized to deny Beijing regional hegemony and deter any military adventurism — first and foremost through a stronger commitment to defending the island of Taiwan.

“The Strategy of Denial” presents a particularly unsentimental version of what a lot of people bidding to shape a post-9/11-era foreign policy believe — and not just younger Republicans like Colby. The Biden White House has its share of softer-spoken China hawks, and its disentanglement from Afghanistan and relative dovishness toward Russia both reflect a desire to prioritize China policy more than, say, a Hillary Clinton administration might have done.

But this is a long way from being any kind of consensus. The establishment freakout over Biden’s

Afghan withdrawal indicates the extent to which a focused, China-first foreign policy seems like retreat to Democrats and Republicans accustomed to more global and unlimited ambitions.

Meanwhile, a very different group of post-9/11era thinkers regards China hawkishness as a dangerously self-fulfilling prophecy — a way to blunder, like the Bush-era neoconservatives Colby once critiqued, into an unnecessary and disastrous war. Rather than the old establishment’s maximalist, they prefer minimalism, an end even to the light-footprint forms of warcraft attacked by Samuel Moyn of Yale in his new book “Humane” — an interesting accompaniment and counterpoint to Colby’s — and a deliberate retreat from empire. (The idea that climate change requires conciliation with China also looms large for some in this group.)

The minimalist group has the least influence in Washington, but its skepticism about warmaking has a lot of popular support — including skepticism about war with China. Even with Beijing’s increased belligerence and its COVID cover-ups, a survey in the summer of 2020 found that only 41% of Americans favored fighting for Taiwan, a lack of enthusiasm confirmed in informal surveys of almost everyone I know.

But Beijing’s own choices will also shape our strategy. A China that retreats somewhat, post-COVID, from bellicosity and border skirmishes would defang the China-hawk argument quite a bit.

On the other hand, a China that looks at American disarray and its own window of opportunity and decides to move aggressively could leave my old friend in the same place the 9/11 era left his younger self — with his strategic analysis vindicated, unhappily, by an American defeat.

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Si se mantiene la decisión del Tribunal Supremo habrá que enmendar la Constitución de PR entiende gobernador POR CYBERNEWS

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AGUAS – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia dijo a finales de la semana pasada que si el Tribunal Supremo mantiene el dictamen sobre los veredictos de no culpabilidad, habrá que enmendar la Constitución de Puerto Rico.

“Yo le voy a dar pensamiento a esto que acaba de ocurrir. Pero, de entrada, mi reacción es que a menos que el Tribunal Supremo reconsidere su posición, para que esta interpretación no prevalezca tendríamos que enmendar la Constitución”, dijo el gobernador el viernes en conferencia de prensa.

“De otra manera, seria entonces que incida en el asunto la Constitución de los Estados Unidos, pero yo no quiero opinar al respecto. Esto son temas jurídicos profundos complejos que yo no debo estar emitiendo juicio a la ligera”, añadió.

El gobernador expresó que el Tribunal Supremo es el último intérprete de la Constitución de Puerto Rico.

El jueves, el Tribunal Supremo determinó en una votación 5-2 que en los juicios por jurado tiene que haber

un veredicto unánime de no culpabilidad, tal y como ocurre actualmente cuando hay una decisión de culpabilidad.

En Puerto Rico, la Constitución permite veredictos por jurado con mayoría de votos. No obstante, a raíz del caso federal Ramos versus Luisiana, el

Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico acogió la determinación que procuraba atender un veredicto de culpabilidad por mayoría de votos.

Gobernador podría eliminar consideraciones religiosas para vacuna COVID si la orden del presidente Biden no la contempla POR CYBERNEWS

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AGUAS – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia insistió a finales de la semana pasada en que esperará por las guías del gobierno federal para atender la Orden Ejecutiva del presidente Joseph Biden sobre el requisito de vacunación para los empleados y contratistas federales, así como las empresas con 100 empleados o más.

“Mi equipo de trabajo, el asesor legal, la Fortaleza está revisándola. Vienen unas guías que no han publicado todavía. Queremos ver cuando publiquen las guías, porque la orden es bastante general. Queremos ver cuales son las exclusiones si alguna que tiene esta política”, dijo el gobernador

el viernes en conferencia de prensa.

“Tengo que decir que, hasta el momento, lo que nosotros hemos implantado ha dado resultados. La inmensa mayoría de los servidores públicos se han vacunado como pedimos. Y vamos a estar monitoreando también en el resto de los sectores en los que hemos promovido la vacunación”, añadió.

Según el gobernador uno de los aspectos que quiere revisar, es si las guías del presidente de Estados Unidos incluyen, por ejemplo, una exclusión a vacunarse por motivos religiosos.

“Siempre yo he estado dispuesto a reconsiderarlas, pero no lo voy a hacer nuevamente a la ligera.

Quiero ver las guías para ver si hacemos lo mismo en Puerto Rico”, concluyó.

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J Balvin attempts to reintroduce himself on ‘Jose’ named for Balvin’s birthday, is a chronicle of his rise from the streets of Medellín to eminence, featuring spoken samples of his mother, Alba, and an awards-show thank you from reggaeton forefather Daddy Yankee. “In a barrio in the middle of Medallo, this one was born / With sweat on my forehead / Calluses on my hands,” Balvin reminisces in Spanish. While the intimacy is new for Balvin, the song follows the formula of hip-hop origin stories too closely (nearly mimicking Jay-Z’s “December 4th”). It feels like Balvin is being forced to complete a tedious homework assignment, rather than reflecting earnestly on his personal hardships.

By ISABELIA HERRERA

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f there is one figure in pop music who has perfected the language of feel-good cultural affirmation, it is J Balvin. For over a decade, the 36-year-old Colombian star has claimed he is on a mission to “change the perception of Latinos in music,” using his rainbow aesthetics, smooth reggaeton textures and radio-ready trap hits as ammunition.

There have been plenty of milestones, including “Mi Gente” and “I Like It”: his chart-crushing collaborations with Willy William and Beyoncé, and Bad Bunny and Cardi B. Both tracks have become flashpoints for jejune narratives about “booming” Latino cultural representation: a tale that flattens differences among people of distinct races, languages and countries — and suggests this music is influential only when the Anglo mainstream is paying attention.

There was his performance at Coachella 2019, when Balvin became the first reggaeton artist to play the festival’s main stage. There are his cartoonish visuals, leopard-print hairstyles and flowery album covers designed by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. And there are his ad-libs — “J Balvin, man,” “Leggo” and “Latino gang!”

— signature catchphrases that have become so trite, they’re essentially begging for meme-ification.

“Jose,” his sixth studio album, arrives at a moment when Balvin has finally established himself as a global celebrity. The record considers what is possible when a pop idol, especially one from Latin America, no longer needs to prove himself.

So, allow J Balvin to reintroduce himself. “Jose,” Balvin’s first name, is a 24-track behemoth that follows in the vein of other playlists-as-albums — the kind of project intended to dominate streaming platforms, like the recent supersized releases from Kanye West and Drake. But the album struggles to truly innovate: “Jose” is an itinerant, unfocused effort that offers an impressionistic inventory of the sounds that have established him as a force: pop-reggaeton, trap and EDM. The majority of the album (about 13 of its tracks) — including “Bebé Que Bien Te Ves,” “Lo Que Dios Quiera” and “Fantasías” — falls firmly within the sphere of

“Jose” arrives at a moment when J Balvin has finally established himself as a global celebrity. ultrapolished, creamy popetón. It is an unimaginative formula, and one that Balvin has mastered: blend a lilting dembow beat, a candy-coated melody and lyrics about the gushy soap opera of a dance-floor courtship or a sexual fantasy for maximum streams.

Elsewhere, Balvin returns to Top 40 trap, another style he’s known for: On “Billetes de 100,” featuring Puerto Rican star Myke Towers, Balvin offers a self-mythologizing reminder that he can actually rap. “In da Getto,” a resort-ready EDM track produced

by Skrillex, elaborates on yet another sound that has helped catapult Balvin to international stardom.

Some songs aim for novelty. The opener, “F40,” is a self-assured blast of reggaeton bombast that shifts tempos, slowing to an irresistible, carnal crawl. And “Perra,” a collaboration with Tokischa, is an audacious, X-rated venture into dembow, a street sound born in the barrios of the Dominican Republic that has recently caught the attention of the wider Latin music industry, despite its longtime grasp on popular music in the Caribbean country.

It is only in the last third of “Jose” that Balvin takes a true gamble: For what may be the first time in his career, he gets vulnerable and deeply personal. “7 de Mayo,”

“Querido Rio,” a soft guitar ballad dedicated to his newborn son with echoes of Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven,” similarly falls flat. Its shallow lyrics and syrupy delivery land with cloying sentimentality: “I don’t just want to be your father / I also want to be your best friend,” Balvin croons in Spanish.

For an artist who paints himself as pathbreaking, “Jose” feels remarkably safe.

At this point, Balvin does have the power to nuke expectations — those of his own career trajectory, his imagined community and the genres he operates within. Instead, “Jose” colors inside the lines, safeguarding Balvin’s reign by reveling in the familiar.

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Stream these five international films now

By DEVIKA GIRISH

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

‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)

“Sarpatta Parambarai” begins with an open-air boxing tournament thronged with eager spectators. It’s the mid-1970s, and India is under the draconian emergency rule of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The leaders of the southern state of Tamil Nadu are vocal opponents of Gandhi, and the tournament doubles as their soapbox. Over the course of a nearly 40-minute prologue, comprising a series of rapid bouts, the film introduces us to both this broader political history and the complicated micro-history of boxing in the Tamil capital of Chennai: the many rival clans; the dwindling reign of the Sarpatta clan and its once-legendary coach; the rise of a villainous new champion who threatens to end Sarpatta altogether. Soon, Kabilan (Arya), a rookie who lost his father years ago to boxing gang wars, rises to the challenge, vowing to redeem Sarpatta.

Pa. Ranjith, a director known for blending blockbuster style with meaty sociopolitical themes (see his 2018 hit “Kaala,” also on Amazon Prime Video), crafts an electrifying hybrid of sports film and mafia movie. “Sarpatta Parambarai” is as granular in its details — of character, costume, setting — as it is sprawling in scope.

Unfolding at a breathless pace, the film follows Kabilan and his crew over multiple years as they navigate challenges, betrayals and games of honor. But it’s in the bravura fight scenes (both

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inside and outside the ring) that Ranjith truly flexes his chops, staging bouts with such swagger and kineticism that they had me both biting my nails and swaying to their infectious rhythm.

‘The Awakening of the Ants’ (HBO Max) This Costa Rican drama is a fine addition to what I call the Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown canon: movies about women who are undone by the demands of femininity, their unsteadiness producing ripples of disorientation in the fabric of the film. Isabel, a young mother of two girls, can barely find any space of her own in a life circumscribed by child care, housekeeping and her job as a tailor. When her husband and in-laws start pestering her about having another child, despite the family’s insufficient means, she’s unable to voice her refusal.

Her repressed dread soon manifests in the form of strange visions of corporeal disintegration: ants crawling all over her body; her hair falling out in clumps.

If Antonella Sudasassi’s film fits into the Nervous Breakdown template a bit too tidily — it even features that cinematic shorthand for neurosis, a woman stuffing cake into her mouth — what sets it apart is that it never quite gives in to hysteria. Instead, Sudasassi’s perceptive character study reveals its insights delicately and without much ado. Daniela Valenciano plays Isabel with an unassuming sense of mystery, never making her inner turmoil too obvious or predictable; refreshingly, her husband, though oblivious, is not made into a villain either. With naturalistic cinematography and sound design, the film builds on Isabel’s small, everyday ruptures into a climax that startles with its simplicity.

‘All Hands on Deck’ (Mubi) Resplendent with sun, breeze and youthful desire, Guillaume Brac’s comedy follows a

group of 20-somethings on an exuberant adventure in the French mountains. Félix, a handsome nursing student, meets the effervescent Alma on a mellow evening in Paris and spends the night with her. When she leaves for a family vacation the next day, he bone-headedly decides to surprise her with a visit, dragging along his buddy Chérif, and Edouard, a dorky carpooler reluctantly roped into their scheme. What begins as a lust-fueled boys’ trip turns into something warm and tender, with the scenic setting seemingly unleashing confusing, enticing currents of friendship and romance. Félix and Alma test the fickle waters of infatuation; Edouard grows comically attached to his newfound crew; and Chérif, enamored of a young mother, becomes her accidental babysitter. Working with a loose, partly improvised script, the film’s young actors drive its endearing rhythms, combining easy laughs and slapstick with an unforced profundity.

‘His House’ (Netflix) In Toni Morrison’s classic novel “Beloved,” a house is haunted by the ghost of a child murdered by her mother to save her from the horrors of slavery. Remi Weekes’ “His House” offers a kind of modern twist on that gothic tale of trauma and survivor’s guilt, swapping the trans-Atlantic voyages of the slave trade for those of the contemporary refugee crisis. In the film’s fablelike opening montage, we see a Sudanese couple, Bol and Rial, escape their homeland in an overflowing raft; as their boat capsizes in a storm, they lose their daughter.

Next we meet them in a detention center in Britain, where, after a long spell, they’re finally released on bail and put up in a big, creaky house, whose shadows soon take malevolent forms. What’s brilliant about Weekes’ conceit is how he intertwines a kind of kitchen-sink drama

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about the life of an immigrant — riddled with unfriendly bureaucracy and rampant racism — with an all-out creepfest. Just as frightening as the film’s zombie sequences are those of Rial being heckled by xenophobic teenage boys as she tries to find her way around London, the camera making dizzying circles around her, rendering palpable her fear and disorientation.

‘Arab Blues’ (Mubi) The radiant Golshifteh Farahani stars in “Arab Blues” as Selma, a Tunis-born psychoanalyst living in Paris who returns to her hometown to open a practice in the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution. If the reasons for her homecoming are puzzling to her relatives, many of whom yearn to emigrate, the talking cure is an even tougher sell. “My customers come here and talk a blue streak, but they leave with beautiful hair,” a local hairdresser says to Selma. “What do people leave your office with?”

But Selma makes no inflated promises about her services, and neither does Manele Labidi’s script. “Arab Blues” simply revels in the comic, romantic and philosophical conversations that unfold in Selma’s sessions, bringing into focus the minor and major troubles of a people living in the uncertain midst of political upheavals. Labidi pokes gentle fun at the cultural and ideological conflicts that make up Selma’s milieu: Her neighbors balk at the sight of a tattooed, unmarried woman smoking on their roof, while Selma can’t seem to help her own clueless condescension. But these observations are never reduced to punch lines. This is a film that’s sensitive to people’s innate complexities, and it helps that Labidi has an irreverent sense of wit: In one unexpected detour into fantasy, Sigmund Freud himself appears to rescue Selma after her car breaks down, chuffing on a cigar in cool silence while she pours out all her woes.

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Flight attendants’ hellish summer: ‘I don’t even feel like a human’

By TACEY RYCHTER

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s stranded Spirit Airlines travelers grew desperate at San Juan Airport in Puerto Rico during a chaotic night of cancellations on Aug. 1, banging on a gate door and yelling at staff, police officers rounded up the airline’s cabin crews to hide them.

A 28-year-old flight attendant recounted being rushed to a jet bridge, behind a secure metal door, and then later to an office on the tarmac.

There, about 35 Spirit employees were told by a manager to change out of their uniforms for their safety.

“We were scared,” said the attendant, who asked not to be identified by name because of the airline’s media policy. “I’ve seen some crazy stuff, but this moved into number one.”

Air travelers have faced an unusually high number of disruptions this summer because of widespread labor shortages, bad weather and technical problems. Nearly a quarter of U.S. passenger planes between June and mid-August were delayed, while almost 4% of flights were canceled in the first half of August, according to data from Flight Aware, a flight tracking service. Spirit alone canceled nearly 2,500 flights between Aug. 1-15.

Flight attendants across the country say they are struggling to cope, facing not only these prolonged operational issues, but also an increase in aggressive passenger behavior. Nearly 4,000 unruly passenger incidents have been reported to the Federal Aviation Administration in 2021, a figure described by the agency as “a rapid and significant increase.”

Most of those reports deal with attendants enforcing rules on proper masking in the cabin, with passengers who range from careless to belligerent, and at times verbally or physically abusive. Shaky, vertical footage of brawls and insults are now a familiar staple on social media.

A 28-year-old American Airlines flight attendant who asked not to be identified for fear of losing her job said she had law enforcement called following verbal assaults twice since June, after six years of flying with no incidents. Both confrontations were related to mask enforcement.

“What really hurts are the people who won’t even look at you in the eye,” she said.

Nas Lewis, a flight attendant based in Chicago, stands for a portrait at O’Hare Airport in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2021. For cabin crews, the peak travel season has turned into a chronic battle involving frequent delays, overwork, and unruly passengers that leaves them feeling battered by the public and the airlines.

“I don’t even feel like a human anymore.”

In interviews with more than a dozen attendants from major and regional carriers, crew members said they were getting squeezed on both sides — from passengers and the airlines. They described regularly working shifts of more than 14 hours, being assigned up to four or five flights a day, not being given sufficient time to sleep and being deterred from taking leave if fatigued or unwell.

The tense situation in the air this summer has led many attendants to say that they feel exhausted, afraid for their personal safety and, in some cases, concerned that the situation could turn dangerous.

A spokeswoman for Airlines for America, a trade group, said its member airlines “recognize the importance of prioritizing the safety and well-being of all employees, who are the backbone of our industry,” and “comply fully with robust FAA regulations, which include stringent rest requirements and limitations on duty, as well as with all federal policies.”

Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants union that represents nearly 50,000 flight attendants at 17 airlines, noted that the difference in passenger response to the pandemic compared

with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been “night and day.”

Twenty years ago, “every single person who came on our plane was completely on our team,” she said. But now, flight attendants have become “punching bags for the public.”

Staffing can’t keep up with demand This spring, as vaccination rates increased, coronavirus cases dropped and restrictions melted away, demand for summer travel rebounded more quickly than many had expected. On July 1, 2.1 million air travelers passed through Transportation Security Administration airport checkpoints, even more than on the same day in 2019. Many airlines ramped up their scheduling and added new routes.

But while airlines are eager to capitalize on the demand, many appear to lack the staffing to keep up.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics data show that the number of full-time-equivalent employees at U.S. scheduled passenger airlines was nearly 14% lower in June 2021 than in March 2020. Tens of thousands of flight attendants took leave during the pandemic, the AFA union said. American Airlines said about 3,300 flight attendants have yet to return from leave.

“So many people were let go so quickly on extended leave of absence, early retirement, that they’re struggling to meet the travel demand,” said Paul Hartshorn, a flight attendant and spokesman for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents about 24,000 American Airlines attendants. “And staffing is tight, there’s not a lot of wiggle room for storms and maintenance delays.”

At Southwest Airlines, the chief operating officer, Mike Van de Ven, shared a message with staff on Aug. 20, saying that the increase in bookings has “taken a toll on our operation and put a significant strain on all of you. And for that, I am sincerely sorry.” He also said that “historical staffing models have not been effective in this pandemic environment.”

“There’s not enough people,” said Nas Lewis, a flight attendant with a major U.S. airline and founder of th|AIR|apy, a website and Facebook group that addresses flight attendants’ mental health. Lewis, who asked that the name of her airline not be published because of its media policy, said the situation generates anxiety for attendants “because we don’t know what we’re going to deal with on any given day.”

A shortage of pilots is another critical pain point for air travel, as is inadequate numbers of gate agents, baggage handlers and delivery drivers, all of which can easily throw a wrench into getting a flight out on time.

When a cabin is short staffed, the airlines depend on on-call, or “reserve,” flight attendants. This summer, airlines have been stretching their reserves to the maximum, to the point where they are running low or out of available attendants before the day has even begun.

American Airlines’ staff scheduling system for Chicago on Aug. 10, which a flight attendant for the company described as an average day this summer, showed that by 7 a.m. every reserve attendant based there was either already scheduled or unavailable.

When an airline runs out of reserves, flight attendants who are already assigned to a flight can be abruptly rescheduled to work hours longer than expected, which attendants and union representatives say occurs more frequently now and adds to their fatigue.

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From page 21 Long days, minimum rest Jacqueline Petzel, a Chicago-based flight attendant with American Airlines who is currently working on reserve, said that during the first week of August, she was woken up repeatedly at 2 a.m. by American and had only two hours to race to the airport and then work a 15-hour shift.

Between some recent shifts, Petzel, 34, said she had been given only the minimum 10 hours of rest at the hotel.

During that time, she had to get dinner, shower, call family, wind down, sleep, eat breakfast and get ready for the next shift, leaving just four or five hours for actual sleep, Petzel said.

“It’s hard to keep your eyes open when you’re up that early and it’s a long flight,” Petzel said. On a recent layover in Las Vegas after a 15-hour day, she fell asleep in her uniform.

A 30-year-old flight attendant who works with United Airlines, who asked not to be identified for fear of jeopardizing her job, said she had to work a double red-eye during a four-day trip in July.

“I actually felt kind of tipsy, almost kind of drunk,” she said. “I was slow, and I know that even if something comes up the adrenaline will kick in, but I know that my decisions aren’t going to be the best.”

In response, Rachael Rivas, a spokeswoman for United said: “We have what we believe is an industry-leading, safety-focused Fatigue Risk Management Program, which includes a strong collaboration between union representatives and in-flight management.”

Flight attendants have a maximum number of hours that they can be assigned to work, although many say scheduling teams are increasingly pressuring them to accept longer and longer shifts. When an attendant exceeds the maximum hours, it is known colloquially as “going illegal.”

Attendants say it has become difficult to push back.

“They have it in the computer that

A belligerent passenger is shown taped to a seat aboard a Frontier Airlines flight earlier this month. you’re getting to the gate at 14 hours and 59 minutes, but it’s obvious that’s not going to happen,” said the 28-year-old attendant with American, where domestic shifts are limited to 15 hours.

“There’s this saying: fly now, grieve later,” she said. “You fly the illegal reassignment now, and you grieve it with your union later.”

Whitney Zastrow, a spokeswoman for American Airlines, said, “we’ve taken and continue to take steps to materially improve the quality of our flight attendants’ work life, including working closely with our hotel and limo vendor.”

Facing conflict and discouraged from taking leave A video circulating online earlier this month of Frontier flight attendants duct taping a belligerent passenger to his seat made news reports and shocked viewers.

While this is an extreme incident, attendants and unions say that encountering unruly passengers, once rare, is now almost expected.

An FAA spokeswoman said that before 2021, the numbers of disturbances were fairly consistent year over year, with the agency investigating on average less than 150 incidents annually. As of Aug. 23, the FAA has launched investigations into 693 incidents in 2021.

“You would think a pandemic affecting a ton of people would cause people to

maybe pause and be more compassionate to each other,” said Petzel, the American Airlines attendant. “For whatever reason, it’s made it go the complete other way.”

Flight attendants across many airlines say the situation is wearing on their mental health and physical well-being.

“I have never experienced this level of anxiety, depression in my entire life,” said the 28-year-old flight attendant who works for American. “We’re really breaking down.”

“We’re used to getting B.S. from the company, from the passengers, we’re used to weather — but not all at the same time for an extended period of time. It’s every single day, it’s every single trip,” she said.

Many attendants say they fear retribution for taking leave, especially now.

Some airlines have a point-based attendance policy, whereby if a flight attendant has an unplanned absence when scheduled to work (say, because they call in sick), they accrue a point. Too many points can trigger an investigation or even termination.

JetBlue warned crew members that they would incur double attendance points if they took an unplanned absence over a weekend between July 23 through Labor Day weekend.

One JetBlue flight attendant, who requested anonymity for fear of losing his job, said that last month he worked more than 17 hours on a shift and had been given only the legal minimum amount of rest, eight hours, between some flights.

He has called in sick a number of times but worries that he may accrue too many attendance points and face termination.

“When you try to talk to people about it, they say, ‘This is what you signed up for,’” he said, referring to a conversation he had with his manager.

“Our attendance policy is similar to most airlines, and on peak periods (like holidays) it’s especially important that crew members show up for assigned trips so that customers can get where they plan on going,” said Derek Dombrowski, a JetBlue

spokesman. JetBlue is also offering financial incentives to encourage crews to take shifts.

Normally, Southwest Airlines is contractually obliged to let attendants call in sick without requiring a physician’s note.

But the company can invoke an “emergency sick-call procedure,” requiring staff to verify their illness with a company doctor. Southwest has invoked this policy three times this summer.

“It should not be used as a usual or normal way of controlling the operation,” said Lyn Montgomery, president of Transport Workers Union Local 556, which represents Southwest Airlines flight attendants.

The last time this procedure was used was in 2017.

“While never a desired option, Southwest may, when operationally necessary, enact emergency sick call procedures to protect the airline’s schedule and support working flight attendants,” said Brian Parrish, a spokesman for Southwest Airlines.

“Southwest Airlines supports employees’ physical, emotional and mental health with a variety of programs and offerings — including free employee assistance services that are available 24/7.”

The union and attendants said they felt that these doctors could be dismissive of symptoms. Staff also may not feel comfortable seeing the airline’s doctor, especially if dealing with mental health concerns.

“Our mental health has never been more disrupted than now, obviously since 9/11,” said a 30-year-old flight attendant for Southwest, who asked not to be identified for fear of losing her job. “You can’t even call out sick if you’re having major anxiety or depression episodes. It doesn’t matter.”

Lewis, of th|AIR|apy, said in May she was shoved by a hostile passenger who was upset about an overbooked flight. She did not report the incident, she said, because she was too exhausted.

“As flight attendants, we are at our wits’ end,” she said.

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More than 80% of seniors are vaccinated. That’s ‘not safe enough.’

By PAULA SPAN

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r. Won Lee began her initial visit to a new homebound patient, Almeta Trotter, last month by asking about her life, her health and how she was managing in her apartment in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, shared with her longtime partner and a parakeet.

Eventually Lee, the medical director of the Geriatrics Home Care Program at Boston Medical Center, raised a key question. “I said, ‘What are your feelings about vaccination against COVID?’ ” “I heard that I shouldn’t get it because I take blood thinners” for a heart problem, replied Trotter, 77.

Not true. Whether Trotter had misunderstood what she’d heard on television news or had been misinformed, “I told her I had many other patients with the same condition on the exact same medication who have been vaccinated with no problems,” Lee said.

When Trotter agreed to the shots — in part because “the news was talking about all these people dying,” in part because her two daughters had gotten them — Lee dispatched a nurse to vaccinate her at home. She’s scheduled for a second dose this month.

One down and — of the program’s 563 frail homebound patients, most in their 80s and older — about 80 to go.

The effort to vaccinate the nation’s over65 population represents both a success story and a source of intense frustration. It’s the age group with the highest rate: 92% have gotten at least one shot and 82% are fully vaccinated. Yet so many remain unprotected.

“It’s pretty darn good,” said William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University. “But we clearly need to do more in this extraordinarily vulnerable population. They are not safe enough.” With seniors at far higher risk for severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19, he had hoped to see their vaccination rate top 90% by now.

Nearly 10 million older people are without full immunization. That not only endangers them, but provides opportunities for the coronavirus to keep mutating in the bodies of those with weak immune systems. It could also complicate the planned distribution of third shots.

Last winter, when the vaccines became

Dr. Won Lee, a specialist in geriatric care who said she lost 28 patients to COVID-19 before the vaccines became available, gives an at-home checkup to Almeta Trotter, 77, who recently got her first of the two COVID-19 inoculations she needs, in Boston, Sept. 1, 2021. available, the older cohort got a head start.

“They were the first in line,” said David Grabowski, a health care policy researcher at Harvard Medical School. Seniors were among those who received priority for appointments, while a federal program brought vaccine clinics directly to nursing homes. And many were inclined to roll up their sleeves.

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed this population’s vaccination rates soaring through the spring, then hitting a plateau. Among 65- to 74-year-olds, 80% were fully vaccinated on July 1, creeping gradually to almost 84% by Sept. 1. Among those over 75, about 76% were fully vaccinated on July 1 and about 79% now.

Those numbers conceal enormous regional variations. Dane County, Wisconsin, which includes Madison, has reached almost universal vaccination for those over 65. But only 75% are fully vaccinated in Los Angeles County.

In New York City, rates for those over age 65 range from 80% on Staten Island to just 67% in Brooklyn. The rate falls below 50% in several Alabama counties and below 40% in stretches of New Mexico.

Even older people who want the shots can face substantial obstacles. Early on, with

local health authorities operating mass vaccination sites, “some older adults couldn’t manage the online registration, or couldn’t get to a center,” Grabowski said.

Months later, with vaccines widely available, people who are disabled, frail or cognitively impaired may still struggle to access the first or second shot.

That’s particularly true for the homebound, defined as people who leave their homes once a week or less. Their numbers have sharply increased during the pandemic, according to a survey in JAMA Internal Medicine published last month.

Among respondents over 70, about 5% were homebound from 2011-19. In 2020 — likely because of COVID-related public health recommendations — the proportion jumped to 13%. More than one-quarter of those didn’t have a cellphone; half didn’t have a computer.

But access isn’t the issue for Lee’s patients; in February, nurses and doctors started bringing vaccines to their doors. Home medical practices like UCSF Care at Home in San Francisco and Bloom Healthcare in suburban Denver have also vaccinated their patients. About 1,000 such programs serve homebound seniors across the country, the American Academy of Home Care Medicine estimates.

Yet even after extended discussions, 14% of the Boston Medical Center program’s homebound patients have either delayed or refused immunization.

“Families said, ‘My grandmother doesn’t go out of the house,’ ” Lee said. “But even if you don’t go out, a family member or a caregiver comes in and can bring illness.” Before the vaccines arrived, her practice lost 28 patients to COVID, she said, and “it was heartbreaking.”

Why the foot-dragging among the population that, as Grabowski put it, has the most to gain?

The political divide that has led many Americans to resist vaccination is smaller in the older population than in younger groups, but still exists. A July survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that among those over 65, only 3% of Democrats said they would “definitely not” get vaccinated, compared with 13% of Republicans.

Where seniors get information also plays a role, according to a recent study by health services researchers at the University of Iowa, using a national survey of Medicare beneficiaries from late 2020.

At that time, when vaccines were unavailable but imminent, 13% of respondents said they definitely or probably would not get vaccinated, the survey found, citing primarily fear of side effects and mistrust of government.

About one-quarter were unsure.

Now, with the country about to start mobilizing for third shots, “I’m worried about the potential of a free-for-all,” Grabowski said.

“Will the effort to give the booster crowd out the people who need their first or second shot? Will there be lines and schedules that make it harder” for seniors to get vaccinated?

Vaccine mandates from employers and schools will not affect most older adults.

Bridging this particular vaccination gap will take continuing efforts by federal and local health officials — bringing vaccines to individual homes and neighborhood senior centers, providing transportation to pharmacies or clinics, revisiting nursing homes and including their staffs, enabling primary care doctors to offer vaccines in their offices.

Trotter, for one, seems glad to be getting her shots. The first dose of the Moderna vaccine, she reported, caused no side effects at all.

“My arm didn’t even hurt,” she said.

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US is getting a crash course in scientific uncertainty

Children arrive for the first day of school at August Schilling Elementary School in Newark, Calif., on Aug. 12, 2021. As the pandemic takes an unexpected direction, Americans again must reckon with twists in scientific understanding of the virus.

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

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hen the coronavirus surfaced last year, no one was prepared for it to invade every aspect of daily life for so long, so insidiously. The pandemic has forced Americans to wrestle with life-or-death choices every day of the past 18 months — and there is no end in sight.

Scientific understanding of the virus changes by the hour, it seems. The virus spreads only by close contact or on contaminated surfaces, and then turns out to be airborne. The virus mutates slowly, but then emerges in a series of dangerous new forms. Americans do not need to wear masks. Wait, they do.

At no point in this ordeal has the ground beneath our feet seemed so uncertain. Just last week, federal health officials said they would begin offering booster shots to all Americans in the coming months. Days earlier, those officials had assured the public that the vaccines were holding strong against the delta variant of the virus, and that boosters would not be necessary.

On Aug. 23, the Food and Drug Administration formally approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which had already been given to scores of millions of Americans. Some holdouts found it suspicious that the vaccine was not formally approved yet somehow widely dispensed. For them, “emergency authorization” has never seemed quite enough.

Americans are living with science as it unfolds in real time. The process has always been fluid, unpredictable. But rarely has it moved at this speed, leaving citizens to confront research findings as soon as they land at the front door, a stream of deliveries that no one ordered and no one wants.

Is a visit to my ailing parent too dangerous? Do the benefits of in-person schooling outweigh the possibility of physical harm to my child? Will our family gathering turn into a superspreader event?

Living with a capricious enemy has been unsettling even for researchers, public health officials and journalists who are

used to the mutable nature of science. They, too, have frequently agonized over the best way to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.

But to frustrated Americans unfamiliar with the circuitous and often contentious path to scientific discovery, public health officials have seemed at times to be moving the goal posts and flip-flopping, or misleading, even lying to, the country.

Most of the time, scientists are “edging forward in a very incremental way,” said Richard Sever, assistant director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press and a founder of two popular websites, bioRxiv and medRxiv, where scientists post new research.

“There are blind alleys that people go down, and a lot of the time, you kind of don’t know what you don’t know.”

Biology and medicine are particularly demanding fields.

Ideas are evaluated for years, sometimes decades, before they are accepted.

Researchers first frame the hypothesis and then design experiments to test it. Data from hundreds of studies, often by competing teams, are analyzed before the community of experts comes to a conclusion.

In the interim, scientists present the findings to their peers, often at niche conferences that are off-limits to journalists and the general public, and hone their ideas based on the feedback they receive. It is not unusual to see attendees at these meetings point out — sometimes harshly — every flaw in a study’s methods or conclusions, sending the author back to the lab for more experiments.

Fifteen years elapsed from the description of the first cases of HIV to the identification of two proteins the virus needs to infect cells, a finding crucial to research for a cure. Even after a study has reached a satisfying conclusion, it must be submitted for rigorous review at a scientific journal, which can add another year or more before the results become public.

Measured on that scale, scientists have familiarized themselves with the coronavirus at lightning speed, partly by accelerating changes to this process that were already underway.

Treatment results, epidemiological models, virological discoveries — research into all aspects of the pandemic turns up online almost as quickly as authors can finish their manuscripts. “Preprint” studies are dissected online, particularly on Twitter, or in emails between experts.

What researchers have not done is explain, in ways that the average person can understand, that this is how science has always worked.

The public disagreements and debates played out in public, instead of at obscure conferences, give the false impression that science is arbitrary or that scientists are making things up as they go along.

“What a nonscientist or the layperson doesn’t realize is that there is a huge bolus of information and consensus that the two people who are arguing will agree upon,” Sever said.

Is it really so surprising, then, that Americans feel bewildered and bamboozled, even enraged, by rapidly changing rules that have profound implications for their lives?

Federal agencies have an unenviable task: Creating

guidelines needed to live with an unfamiliar, rapidly spreading virus. But health officials have not acknowledged clearly or often enough that their recommendations may — and very probably would — change as the virus, and their knowledge of it, evolved.

“Since the beginning of this pandemic, it’s been a pisspoor job, to say it in the nicest way,” said Dr. Syra Madad, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

Leaders in the United States and Britain have promised too much too soon, and have had to backtrack. Health officials have failed to frame changing advice as necessary when scientists learn more about the virus.

And the officials have not really defined the pandemic’s end — for example, that the virus will finally loosen its stranglehold once the infections drop below a certain mark.

Without a clearly delineated goal, it can seem as if officials are asking people to give up their freedoms indefinitely.

One jarring backtrack was the mask guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said in May that vaccinated people could drop their masks, advice that helped set the stage for a national reopening. Officials did not emphasize, or at least not enough, that the masks could be needed again. Now, with a new surge in infections, they are.

“It can be really difficult for public perception and public understanding when these big organizations seem to reverse course in a way that is really not clear,” said Ellie Murray, a science communicator and public health expert at Boston University.

Both information and disinformation about COVID-19 surface online, especially on social media, much more now than in previous public health crises. This represents a powerful opportunity to fill in the knowledge gaps for many Americans.

But health officials have not taken full advantage. The CDC’s Twitter feed is a robotic stream of announcements.

Agency experts need not just to deliver messages, but also to answer questions about how the evolving facts apply to American lives.

And health officials need to be more nimble, so that bad actors do not define the narrative while real advice is delayed by a traditionally cumbersome bureaucracy.

“They’re not moving at the speed that this pandemic is moving,” Murray said. “That obviously creates a perception in the public that you can’t just rely on those more official sources of news.”

The road ahead will be difficult. The virus has more surprises in store, and the myths that have already become entrenched will be hard to erase. But it is not too much to hope that the lessons learned in this pandemic will help experts explain future disease outbreaks, as well as other urgent problems, like climate change, in which individual actions contribute to the whole.

The first step toward educating the public and winning their trust is to make plans, and then communicate them honestly — flaws, uncertainty and all.

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Acusado.

ACCIÓN POR EL DIVORCIO Al Demandado mencionado anteriormente: POR LA PRESENTE SE LE CONVOCA a entregar una notificación de comparecencia al Abogado del Demandante dentro de los veinte (20) días posteriores a la notificación de esta citación, sin incluir el día de la notificación (o dentro de los treinta (30) días posteriores a la finalización de la notificación si esta no entregado personalmente a usted dentro del estado de Nueva York); y en caso de que no comparezca, se tomará un juicio en su contra por defecto por la reparación exigida en el aviso que se establece a continuación.

Fecha: 15 de abril de 2019 Julia R. Binger Abogado del demandante 168 Laurel Avenue Northport, NY 11768 631-261-0960 AVISO: La naturaleza de esta acción es disolver el matrimonio entre las partes, por los motivos: DRL Sección 170 subd. (7) - la relación entre el Demandante y el Demandado se ha roto irremediablemente durante un período de al menos seis meses. La reparación solicitada es una sentencia de divorcio absoluto a favor del demandante que disuelve el matrimonio entre las partes en esta acción. La naturaleza de cualquier desagravio auxiliar o adicional exigido es: Que las partes no requieren manutención y que ninguna de las partes reclamará manutención.

No busco mantenimiento como beneficiario como se describe en el Aviso de mantenimiento de pautas. Que las partes no exigen el pago de honorarios y gastos de abogados y peritos.

Que ambas partes podrán retomar el uso de cualquier apellido anterior. Que el testimonio y los

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LIME HOMES, LTD Demandante V.

LA SUCESION DE HUMBERTO ALVAREZ LOPEZ, LA SUCESION DE ISABEL MILAGROS MORALES BATISTA, COMPUESTA POR JANE DOE, JOHN DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES; HUMBERTO ÁLVAREZ MORALES, GUSTAVO ÁLVAREZ MORALES, JOVANA ÁLVAREZ MORALES, ANITA ÁLVAREZ MORALES Y TATIANA ÁLVAREZ MORALES Y CRIM

Demandados Civil Núm.: FECI201500419.

(0002). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal

Monday, September 13, 2021 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar numero 6 del bloque “O” (O-6) en la Urbanizacion Fair View localizado en el Barrio Las Cuevas del termino municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 500.00 metros cuadrados.

Colindando por el NORTE, con el solar numero 7, en una distancia de 25.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 5, en una distancia de 25.00 metros; por el ESTE, con Calle 19, en una distancia de 20.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con los solares numero 4 y numero 8, en una distancia de 20.00 metros. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto. FINCA 4657 INSCRITA AL FOLIO 96 DEL TOMO 253 DE TRUJILLO ALTO, SECCION IV, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE SAN JUAN. Propiedad localizada en: O-6 Calle 19, Urb. Fairview, San Juan, PR 00926. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 5 de marzo de 2015 radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Trujillo Alto en el caso civil número FECI2015-00419 sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Citifinancial Services of Puerto Rico Inc. h/n/c/ Citifinancial Plus, demandante v. Isabel Milagros Morales, Humberto Álvarez López y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, demandados.

Por la misma se reclama el pago del préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $150,000.00, reducida a $148,401.51, más otras sumas, de la inscripción 16ª antes relacionada. Anotada el 29de abril de 2015 al folio 111 del Tomo 905 de Trujillo Alto, finca 4657, anotación “A”. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

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El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $150,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 22 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $100,000.00, dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $75,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 29 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $148,401.51 de principal, intereses al tipo del 5.00400% anual según ajustado desde el día 16 de octubre de 2013 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $15,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o 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 esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en

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25 la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de agosto de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 19-04-54487 BY2019CV03237 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

EDITH VÉLEZ CARABALLO, JORGE LUIS MARRERO CALDERÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV03237.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 7 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Bo. Higuillar, Num. 10 Calle 1, Urb. San Carlos, Dorado, PR 00646 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 10, según plano de inscripción del Proyecto

de solares denominado San Carlos, radicado en el Barrio Higuillar del término municipal de Dorado, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 265.944 metros cuadrados. El lindes por el Norte, con la finca de Mario Nevárez, distancia de 12.00 metros; por el Sur, con la calle número 1, distancia de 12.00 metros; por el Este, con el solar número 9, distancia de 22.148 metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar número 11, distancia de 22.179 metros. Enclava sobre el descrito solar una estructura destinada a vivienda, la cual se describe como sigue: Casa de asbesto-cemento y aluminio con piso de hormigón armado, techo de asbesto cemento, de una sola planta, con un área de piso de 672 pies cuadrados.

Tiene sala, comedor-cocina, tres dormitorios, cuarto sanitario y portal. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 138 del Tomo 83 de Dorado, finca número 3643, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $102,758.51.

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 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. 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 $68,505.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. 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 $51,379.26. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 364, otorgada el día 22 de septiembre de 2006, ante el Notario David Cardona Dingui y consta inscrita en el Folio 141 del Tomo 261 ágora de Dorado, finca número 3643, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, inscripción cuarta. El pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca fueron modificados mediante la escritura 385 otorgada el 21 de septiembre de 2012 ante el notario Eduardo J. Navarro Pluguez para aumentar el principal a $102,758.51, modificar la tasa de interés anual a 4%

y extender la fecha de vencimiento al 1 de septiembre de 2042. 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 $93,659.91 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4% anual desde el día 1 de mayo de 2017. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $10,275.85 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $10,275.85 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $10,275.85 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señala-

dos para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. A: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico vs. (no expresa), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número DCD 09-1584 (502), sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $98,829.61 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 18 de mayo de 2009. Anotada como asiento abreviado al folio 59 del tomo 283 de Bayamón.

Inscripcion quinta. B: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Presentada el 19 de junio de 2019, al asiento 2019-063923-BY04, Demanda de fecha 12 de junio de 2019, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, en el caso civil número BY 2019CV03237, seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico vs. Edith Vélez Caraballo y su esposo, Jorge Luis Marrero Calderón, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $93,659.91 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de agosto de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America

26 Reverse, LLC Plaintiff v.

Zaida Clemente Irizarry; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv1529-GAG. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Zaida Clemente Irizarry; United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $138,756.21 including interest and other expenses accrued up until July 19, 2016, plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Zaida Clemente Irizarry also owes and is ORDERED 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 radicado en la Urbanizacion Villa carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, áreas y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del Solar: 31 de la manzana 131; Área del solar: 324.00 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 8, distancia de 13.50 metros; por el SUR, con la calle 100, distancia de 13.50; por el ESTE, con el solar 30, distancia de 24.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar 32, distancia de 24.00 metros.

Contine una casa de cemento, diseñada para una familia.”

Property Number 24,809 recorded at page 24 of volume 618 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage is recorded at page 126 of volume 1481 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina, property number 24,809, 3rd inscription.

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, with interest at 5.060% and due on April 1, 2094, pursuant to deed number 72, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 18, 2011, before notary María Isabel García Mantilla, and recorded, at page 65 of volume 1481 of Carolina, property number 24,809, 4th 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 12th day of October of 2021, at 10:05 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 19th day of October of 2021, at 10:05 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.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 26th day of October of 2021, at 10:05 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

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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 31st day of August 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.

María Eulalia Rolón González a/k/a María E. Rolón González, a/k/a María Rolón González a/k/a Maria E. Rolon a/k/a María Rolón; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv1974-PAD. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: María Eulalia Rolón González a/k/a María E. Rolón González, a/k/a María Rolón González a/k/a Maria E. Rolon a/k/a María Rolón; United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $89,099.11, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendant María Eulalia Rolón González a/k/a María E. Rolón González, a/k/a María Rolón González a/k/a Maria E. Rolon a/k/a María Rolón was also ordered 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% (21,900.00) 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 Fede-

ral 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. RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número doscientos A (200A) en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural San Luis de Barrio Llanos del término municipal de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de novecientos cuarenta y dos punto cincuenta y cuatro metros (942.54m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela doscientos cuatro (204) y doscientos cuatro A (204-A) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con Calle Galilea; por el ESTE, con parcela doscientos (200); y por el OESTE, con parcela número 201-A de la comunidad. Over said lot has been erected a concrete house of 40 feet long by 30 feet wide, with a value of $10,000.00”. Property Number 5,731 recorded at page 296 of volume 119 of Aibonito, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Barranquitas.

The mortgage is recorded at page 78 of volume 276 of Aibonito, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Barranquitas, property number 5,731, 10th inscription. 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 $219,000.00, due on August 7, 2099 pursuant to deed number 274, issued in Cayey, Puerto Rico, on December 14, 2011, before notary Luis Romero Sánchez, and recorded, at page 78 of volume 276 of Aibonito, property number 5,731, 11th 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 5th day of October of 2021, at 10:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $219,000.00. 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 12th day of October of 2021, at 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $146,000.00, 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 19th day of October of 2021, at 10:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $109,500.00, 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 17th day of October of 2021. By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail. com 787-672-8269.

Doe; Departamento de Hacienda; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv1438. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: The Estates of Juan Rafael Figueroa Mendez a/k/a Juan R. Figueroa Mendez and Carmen Delia Cosme Negron a/k/a Carmen Delia Cosme composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Departamento de Hacienda; Centro de Recuadaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America, GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $109,538.50, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendant, the Estates of Juan Rafael Figueroa Mendez a/k/a Juan R. Figueroa Mendez and Carmen Delia Cosme Negron a/k/a Carmen Delia Cosme composed of John Doe and Jane Doe was also ordered 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% ($19,800.00) 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 LEGAL NOTICE certified check without appraiUNITED STATES DISTRICT sement or right of redemption COURT DISTRICT OF PUERto the highest bidder and at the TO RICO. office of the Clerk of the United Finance of America States District Court for the DisReverse, LLC. trict of Puerto Rico, Room 150 Plaintiff v.

– Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato The Estates of Juan Rafael Figueroa Mendez Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the adjudged to be paid to the a/k/a Juan R. Figueroa sums plaintiff, the following property.

Mendez and Carmen URBANA: Solar marcado con Delia Cosme Negron el número siete (7) en el Plano de Inscripción de la finca prina/k/a Carmen Delia cipal, radicada en el Barrio CaCosme composed of ñaboncito del término Municipal John Doe and Jane de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un

área superficial de ochocientos veintiocho punto cero cero (828.00) metros cuadrados.

En lides por el NORTE, en cincuenta punto cero cero (50.00) metros, con el Solar número ocho (8) del Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, en veintidós punto cero cero (22.00) metros, con el Solar número seis (6) y en treinta y uno punto cincuenta y cinco (31.55) metros, con el Solar número cinco (5) del Plano de Inscripción; por el ESTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con camino dedicado a uso público; y por el OESTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con terrenos Carretera Estatal Desvio Caguas a Cayey. Enclava una casa.” Property Number 20,065 filed at page 154 of volume 614 of Caguas, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Caguas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Caguas at page 172, volume 1,768 of Caguas. 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 $198,000.00, due on July 4, 2087 pursuant to deed number 78, issued in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on March 25, 2013, before notary Fernando Rabell Echegaray, and recorded, at page 172 of volume 1,768 of Caguas, property number 20,065, 14th 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 _ day of October of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $198,000.00. 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 day of October of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $132,000.00, 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 day of October of 2021, at:

11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $99,000.00, 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 10th of August 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 SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV05033.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO MÁS ADELANTE.

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: 1. Pagaré a favor de POPULAR MORTGAGE, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $23,650.00 más intereses desde esa fecha hasta el pago

The San Juan Daily Star total del principal a razón de 8% de interés anual sobre el balance adeudado suscrito el día 27 de abril de 1972, ante el Notario Luis A. Lugo Junior, el cual grava la propiedad inmueble descrita en el párrafo ocho y por tal razón radica la presente acción con el propósito de obtener la cancelación del pagaré extraviado y hacer valer su garantía hipotecaria. Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda.

Maritza Guzmán Matos, PMB 767, Avenida Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 758-3276, abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de sesenta (60) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto.

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. Por la presente se les apercibe de que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de sesenta (60) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico hoy 23 de agosto de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. TAMARA DE LEÓN,SUB-SECRETARIA.

Monday, September 13, 2021 INSURANCE CORP.

(Demandados) CIVIL NUM GM2019CV00679.

SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO Y MALA PRACTICA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: Beatriz Collazo Ortiz, 15 Calle A, Urb. García, San Juan, PR. 00926 y a la dirección de su cónyugué Lcdo. Virgilio Machado Avilés, PSC, 601 Ave. Fernández Juncos, Distrito de Convenciones, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia al abogado de la parte demandante: LCDO. JULIO LUIS CASTRO (RUA 4929) Hc#1 Buzón 4593 Yabucoa, Puerto Rico 00767 Tel. (787) 407-8043 Fax (787) 893-6937 jIcIo@yahoo.com Este caso trata de una Acción de Incumplimiento de Contrato y Mala Practica contra el Lcdo.

Virgilio Machado Aviles, Beatriz Collazo Ortiz, La Sociedad de Gananciales compuesta por Virgilio Machado Aviles y Beatriz Collazo Ortiz, Symenta Doe Costruction Inc. y John Doe Legal Insurance Corp. Al contestar la Demanda deberá presentar su Alegación Responsiva a través del Sist. Unificado de Manejo y Administracion de LEGAL NOTICE Casos (Sumac), al cual puede ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO acceder utilizando la siguiente DE PUERTO RICO EN EL dirección electrónica: HTTP:// TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA iNS- UNIRED.RAMAJUDICIAL.PR. TANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL Se le apercibe que de no hacerDE GUAYAMA SECCION SU- lo, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo PERIOR. LA PRADERA GUAYAMA el remedio solicitado en la desin más citarle ni oírle.

INC., MANUEL RIVERA manda, EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA CRESPO y NORMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 31 ELENA SANCHEZ de agosto de 2021. Griselda RIVERA, LA SOCIEDAD Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Loyda M Convertir DE GANANCIALES Reyes, Sec Serv a Sala.

compuesta por MANUEL RIVERA CRESPO y NORMA ELENA SANCHEZ RIVERA (Demandante) vs.

LCDO. VIRGILIO MACHADO AVILES, BEATRIZ COLLAZO ORTIZ, LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES compuesta por VIRGILIO MACHADO AVILES y BEATRíZ COLLAZO ORTIZ, SYMENTA DOE COSTRUCTION INC. y JOHN DOE LEGAL

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

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

ANGEL LUIS VEGA DÁVILA, SU ESPOSA CARMEN TERESA ROSADO SERRANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE

BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: AG2019CV00651.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 4 de septiembre de 2019, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 17 de enero de 2020 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento S guión trescientos uno (301) para uso residencial situado en el tercer piso del edificio Norte del Condominio Rincón Ocean Club, en el Barrio Calvache lugar denominado “Corcega” en Rincón, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de seiscientos cuarenta y nueve (649) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a sesenta punto treinta y dos (60.32) metros cuadrados y que colinda por el NORTE, en veintidós (22) pies, con elementos exteriores del edificio y en dieciocho (18) pies diez (10) pulgadas, con el apartamento S guión trescientos dos (302); por el SUR, en cuarenta (40) pies diez (10) pulgadas, con elementos exteriores del edificio; por el ESTE, en quince (15) pies nueve (9) pulgadas, con elementos comunes de edificio; y por el OESTE, en dieciséis (16) pies, con elementos exteriores del edificio.

El apartamento consta de salacomedor, cocina, un cuarto dormitorio, un baño y terraza.

Tiene su entrada principal por el lado Este del apartamento.

A este apartamento le corresponde el uso exclusivo del estacionamiento marcado con el número uno (1). Le corresponden los siguientes porcentajes: dos punto cero tres (2.03) porciento en los elementos comunes generales y el doce punto veintiún (12.21) porciento en los elementos comunes limitados. FINCA NÚMERO: 6,268, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 164 de Rincón, sección de Aguadilla. Dirección Física: COND. RINCÓN OCEAN CLUB APT. S-301 RINCÓN PR 00677. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 19 de octubre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal

Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Ofic. Alguacil Regional, Calle Progreso #70, Aguadilla, PR. 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 $142,500.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 26 de octubre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $95,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 2 de noviembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $71,250.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $128,670.54 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.25% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extraju-

dicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto.

La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y 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 26 de agosto de 2021.

CAROL CHALMERS SOTO, ALGUACIL CONF., SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN LYDIA DIAZ GARCIA T/C/C CARMEN L. DIAZ GARCIA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ANGEL RAFAEL LOPEZ DIAZ, SONIA IVETTE LOPEZ DIAZ, CARMEN HELEN LOPEZ DIAZ, MARIA ISABEL LOPEZ DIAZ Y CARMEN JEANNETTE

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LOPEZ DIAZ; SUCESIÓN DE LUIS SALVADOR DIAZ GARCIA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS LUIS ALBERTO DIAZ Y LUIS ALFREDO DIAZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2019CV04145 (503). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. 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 dictada en este caso con fecha 10 de junio de 2021 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 30 de julio de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el #146B, en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Mameyal del barrio Higuillar, sector Mameyal del término municipal de Dorado, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con 1,669 diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a 656.04 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle #5 de la comunidad; por el Sur, con la parcela #146-C de la comunidad; por el Este, con la calle #20 de la comunidad; por el Oeste, con la parcela #146 de la comunidad. FINCA NÚMERO: 4,068, inscrita al folio 196 del tomo 90 de Dorado, sección IV de Bayamón. NOTA ACLARATORIA: En el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección IV de Bayamón, la descripción registral de la propiedad objeto de ejecución surge según transcrita anteriormente. Sin embargo, en la Escritura Núm. 515, otorgada el 30 de junio de 2004, se expresa que la propiedad está en lindes por el SUR con la parcela número ciento cincuenta y seis guión C (156-C). Dirección Física: COMUNIDAD RURAL MAMEYAL PARCELA 146-B, BARRIO HIGUILLAR, SECTOR MAMEYAL DORADO, P.R. 00646. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 19 de octubre de 2021, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el Cuarto Piso en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Bayamón. 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 $80,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 26 de octubre de 2021, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $53,333.33.

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 noviembre de 2021, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $40,000.00.

Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor.

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 $60,796.44 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.50% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y

Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y en el Cuartel Estatal de Policía del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en el Cuartel Estatal de Policía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 25 de agosto de 2021.

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

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ANITA DELGADO QUIÑONES; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN DELIA GREGO DELGADO COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA JESSICA GRACIANO GREGO; JENNIFER MARIE GRACIANO GREGO Y AILEEN MARIELYS GRACIANO GREGO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS

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DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: AG2019CV01653.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 8 de marzo de 2021, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 21 de julio de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 4 del bloque “F”, del plano de inscripción de la Segunda Extensión del Proyecto “Los Robles”, radicada en el Barrio Guaniquilla del término municipal de Aguada, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial doscientos tres punto cincuenta metros cuadrados (203.50 m.c.). En linderos: NORTE, en 11.00 metros con el Remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; SUR, en 11.00 metros con la Calle Número 5 de la Urbanización Ext. Los Robles VBH-8; ESTE, en 18.50 metros con solar número 5 del bloque F del referido plano; OESTE, en 18.50 metros con solar número 3 del bloque F del referido plano. Contiene casa individual que consiste de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios una sala comedor, cocina y un (1) baño, siendo la casa construida de concreto reforzado y bloques. FINCA NÚMERO: 16,617, inscrita al folio 155 del tomo 307 de Aguada, Registro de Aguadilla. Dirección Física: BARRIO GUANIQUILLA SEGUNDA EXTENSIÓN DEL PROYECTO “LOS ROBLES” 4-F AGUADA PR 00602. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 19 de octubre de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Ofic. Alguacil Regional, Calle Progreso #70, Aguadilla, PR. 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 $44,500.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 26 de octubre de 2021,

a las 10:00 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 $29,666.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 2 de noviembre de 2021, a las 10:00 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 $22,250.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $19,415.85 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 8.00% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Por la presente, también se notifica e informa al Banco de la Vivienda por éstos contar con condiciones restrictivas sobre la hipoteca de ejecución inscrito al folio 1455 vuelto del tomo 155 de Aguada, finca 16,617.

Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida

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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 26 de agosto de 2021.

CAROL CHALMERS SOTO, ALGUACIL CONF., SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.

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SUCESIÓN DE RODOLFO JOSE RIVERA TORRES T/C/C RODOLFO J. RIVERA TORRES COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: HU2019CV00907.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Senten-

cia dictada en este caso con fecha 6 de marzo de 2020, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 2 de junio de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: APARTAMENTO NUMERO TRECE CERO UNO (1301). PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento interior de una planta, en el primer piso del Edificio Dos del Condominio Paseo del Río, situado en la Avenida Nicanor Vázquez (Boulevard del Norte) en el Barrio Santiago y Cataño de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con un área de mil noventa y siete punto nueve tres siete uno pies cuadrados (1,097.9371 p.c.).

Colinda por el NORTE, con un área de siembra y acera que lo separa del área de estacionamiento del Edificio Dos; por el SUR, con la Avenida Nicanor Vázquez (Boulevard del Norte); por el ESTE, con pasillo común del condominio; y con el Apartamento número Catorce Cero Uno (1401); y por el OESTE, con el Apartamento número Doce Cero Uno (1201). Tiene puerta de entrada en el lado Este que conduce a pasillo común del condominio y puerta de cristal doble de salida en el lado Sur que conduce al patio posterior del Edificio Dos del condominio. Consta dicho apartamento de sala, salón familiar, comedor, cocina con espacio para guardar comestibles, lavandería, dos dormitorios con sus respectivos guardarropas, un dormitorio principal con su guardarropa, dos baños y un espacio para calentador. A este apartamento le corresponden y se le adjudican como elemento común limitado los estacionamientos trece cero uno A (1301A) y trece cero uno B (1301B); con un área de ciento cuarenta y ocho punto cinco pies cuadrados (148.5 p.c.) cada uno; situados el primero en el área de estacionamiento del lado Norte del Edificio Dos y el segundo en el área de estacionamiento central localizado entre el Edificio Cuatro y el Edificio Dos, ambos han sido identificados numéricamente. A este apartamento le corresponde el uso exclusivo de una porción del patio posterior del Edificio Dos del condominio constituido como área común limitada del condominio con cabida de treinta y cuatro punto tres cero cero seis metros cuadrados (34.3006 m.c.); colindando por el NORTE, con la pared exterior del condominio que lo separa del Apartamento número Trece Cero Uno (1301); por el SUR, con muro de concreto, bloques y rejas ornamentales de dos

punto veintisiete (2.27) metros de altura que lo separa de la Avenida Nicanor Vázquez (Boulevard del Norte); por el ESTE, con la verja de madera de seis pies (6’) de altura que lo separa de la porción del patio posterior del Edificio Dos del condominio al cual tiene derecho de uso exclusivo el Apartamento número Catorce Cero Uno (1401); y por el OESTE, con verja de madera de seis pies (6’) de altura que lo separa de la porción del patio posterior del Edificio Dos del condominio al cual tiene derecho de uso exclusivo el Apartamento número Doce Cero Uno (1201). A este apartamento le corresponde un cero punto cero cero cincuenta ochenta y ocho (0.005088) de participación en los elementos comunes generales del condominio y una participación de cero punto cero cero veintitrés (0.0023) en los elementos comunes limitados. FINCA NÚMERO: 25,178, inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 561 de Humacao, sección de Humacao. Dirección Física: 1301 PASEO DEL RIO HUMACAO, PR 00791. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 27 de octubre de 2021, a las 3:30 de la tarde, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Humacao. 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 $120,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 3 de noviembre de 2021, a las 3:30 de la tarde, 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 $80,000.00.

De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 10 de noviembre de 2021, a las 3:30 de la tarde, 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 $60,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. 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 $84,415.37 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.1250% 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 7 de julio de 2021. MARIA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO LOPEZ SANTANA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS CARMEN LOPEZ CARRERO Y JAIDY LOPEZ CARRERO; SUCESIÓN DE TAXILA CINTRON TORRES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: PO2019CV02146.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 9 de junio de 2021, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 21 de julio de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar identificado con el número Siete (7), radicado en el Barrio Villalba Abajo, sitio Romero del término municipal de Villalba, según plano levantado por el Ingeniero Máximo Sánchez, el veinte (20) de septiembre de mil novecientos setenta y siete (1977), con una cabida de seiscientos ocho punto cinco mil doscientos ochenta y dos (608.5282) metros cuadrados, colindando por el NORTE, en diecisiete punto sesenta y ocho (17.68) metros, con la calle “X”; por el SUR, en veintitrés punto cincuenta y ocho (23.58) metros, con el señor Domingo Alvarado; por el ESTE, en treinta y seis punto veintisiete (36.27)

metros, con el solar número seis (6) del mismo plano; y por el OESTE, en veintiséis punto cincuenta (26.50) metros, con el solar número ocho (8) del dicho plano. Enclava en este solar una casa de hormigón y bloques de una planta que consta de tres dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, un cuarto de baño, balcón y marquesina para ser utilizada como vivienda. FINCA NÚMERO: 2,650, inscrita al folio 64 del tomo 65 de Villalba, sección I de Ponce. Dirección Física: 7 LOT KM 62 2 PR 149 NABORI COMM. ROMERO WD. VILLALBA, PR 00766. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 20 de octubre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Ponce. 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 $55,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 27 de octubre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $36,666.66.

De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 3 de noviembre de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $27,500.00.

Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Tribunal dicta Sentencia declarando con lugar la demanda y por consiguiente, condena a la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO LOPEZ SANTANA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS CARMEN LOPEZ CARRERO Y JAIDY LOPEZ CARRERO; SUCESIÓN DE TAXILA CINTRON TORRES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES, a pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $52,277.13, que

The San Juan Daily Star se desglosan de la siguiente manera: $47,203.40 de principal, $7,261.01 de interés, $558.18 de “Escrow/Impound Overdraft”, $289.84 de “Recoverable Corporate Advance”, $131.32 de “Unpaid Late Charges”, $30.00 de “Unpaid Other Fees”, $20.00 de “Payoff Statement Fee”, $10.00 de “Legal Docs. Handling”, $1,773.40 de “Legal Fees”. Estas sumas aumentan a razón del 7.25% de intereses al año hasta su completo pago. La suma adeudada, computada al 15 de diciembre de 2019, también continúa acumulando recargos. Además, se le impone a la parte demandada el pago de costas a favor de la parte demandante, más 10% para honorarios de abogados, hasta el saldo total de la obligación. La parte demandante ha señalado que según el pagaré suscrito tiene derecho a un 10% del valor del pagaré hipotecario para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. En autos esta cantidad equivale a $5,500.00. 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, 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 conti-

Monday, September 13, 2021 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 03 de septiembre de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto LEGAL NOTICE Rico, el 03 de septiembre de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA GIONAL INTERINA. ARLENE SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN RIVERA APONTE, SECRETAREVERSE MORTGAGE RIA AUXILIAR.

nuarán 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 26 de agosto de 2021.

MIGUEL A TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

Se le apercibe que si dejare de presentar 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, entiende que procede. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 24 de agosto de 2021. Diane Alvarez Villanueva, Sec Regional.

Luz Y Montes Pacheco, Sec Auxiliar. RESPETUOSAMENTE SOMETIDO. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de agosto de 2021.

F./Carlos R. Arroyo Serrano LCDO. CARLOS R. ARROYO SERRANO RUA NÚMERO: 17,021 HC-6 BOX 17114 SANS EBASTIÁN, PUERTO RICO 00685 TELEFÓNO: (787) 247-0483 EMAIL: lcdo.carroyo@gmail.com

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

JOSÉ ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ ROMÁN v.

NORASHKA MARIE FIGUEROA REYES

CIVIL NÚM.: AG2021RF00377.

SOBRE: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: Norashka Marie Figueroa Reyes #3 CalleR afaeCl astro Lares, P.R. 00669

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado una demanda. Se le emplaza y requiere que presente su alegación responsiva a la demandad entro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Deberá notificar copia de la misma a: Lcdo. Carlos R. Arroyo Serrano a la siguiente dirección: HC-6 Box 17114, San Sebastián P.R.0 0685, teléfono 787) 247-0483. Correo electrónico: lcdo.carroyo@gmail.com.

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SUCESION MARIA ASUNCION TIZOL MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA A. TIZOL MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA ASUNCIÓN TIZOL T/C/C MARIA TIZOL MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA A. TIZOL T/C/C MARIA TIZOL COMPUESTA POR WANDA SEPULVEDA TIZOL, ERNESTO SEPULVEDA TIZOL; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

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PALMAS DEL MAR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Parte Demandante V.

MIGUEL A. LOPEZ PEDROZA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2020CV00857.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: MIGUEL A. LOPEZ PEDROZA.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV06087. notifique a: GONZÁLEZ & MORALES LAW Sala: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN OFFICES, LLC DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICAPO BOX 10242 CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR HUMACAO, PR 00792 TELÉFONO: (787) 852-4422 EDICTO. FACSÍMIL: (787) 285-4425 A: JOHN DOE Y Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com JANE DOE COMO abogados de la parte demanPOSIBLE MIEMBROS dante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MARIA Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida ASUNCION TIZOL en este caso, dentro de los MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA TREINTA (30) días de haber A. TIZOL MARTINEZ sido diligenciado este EmplaT/C/C MARIA ASUNCION zamiento, excluyéndose el día TIZOL T/C/C MARIA TIZOL del diligenciamiento. Usted MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema A. TIZOL T/C/C MARIA Unificado de Manejo y AdminisTIZOL. tración de Casos (SUMAC), al EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- cual puede acceder utilizando cribe le notifica a usted que el la siguiente dirección electróni02 de septiembre de 2021, este ca: https://unired.ramajudicial.

Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, pr, salvo que se represente por Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 25 de agosto de 2021. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ILEANETTE RIVAS, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oirle. 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, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle.

Dado en Bayamon, a 03 de septiembre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria Regional. Mayra I Marrero Marrero, Sec Serv a Sala.

de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de septiembre de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 7 de septiembre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISE M. AMARO MACHUCA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, COMO FIDEICOMISARIO DE FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1 Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ BANCO POPULAR, SOTO DÍAZ T/C/C JOSÉ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO t/c/c POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- DÍAZ SOTO; COMPUESTA MORTGAGE, como NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA POR XAVIER SOTO sucesor en interes de TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- TORRES T/C/C XAVIER PR HOME MORTGAGE, TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SOTO T/C/C KAVIER sucesor en interes de SAN JUAN SOTO TORRES T/C/C CARLOS ALBERTO BANCO Y AGENCIA D KAVIER SOTO; JOSÉ NOÉ DÁVILA GARCÍA FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA SOTO TORRES T/C/C Vs VIVIENDA DE PUERTO JOSÉ N. SOTO TORRES BANCO SANTANDER RICO; JOHN DOE & T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO PUERTO RICO AHORA RICHARD ROE TORRES T/C/C JOSÉ FIRSBANK PUERTO Demandado SOTO; JOSÉ ULISES RICO; JOHN DOE Y CIVIL NÚM.: BY2021CV03485.

SOTO COLON T/C/C RICHARD ROE COMO SOBRE: Cancelacion de PagaJOSÉ U. SOTO COLÓN re Extraviado. EDICTO. ESTA- POSIBLES TENEDORES T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA DESCONOCIDOS EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV02743.

COLÓN T/C/C JOSÉ ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTA- (906). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN SOTO; YAMILETTE SOTO DO LIBRE ASOCIADOS DE DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. COLÓN T/C/C YAMILETTE PUERTO RICO. ss.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENSOTO; JESSICA SOTO A: JOHN DOE & CIA POR EDICTO POR SUTORRES T/C/C JESSICA MAC. RICHARD ROE SOTO; JOSÉ SAID SOTO Por la presente se emplaza y se A: JOHN DOE Y VICENS T/C/C JOSÉ S. les notifica que se ha presenRICHARD ROE COMO SOTO VICENS T/C/C tado en la Secretaría de este POSIBLES TENEDORES Tribunal la demanda del caso JOSÉ SOTO VICENS DESCONOCIDOS. de epígrafe solicitando la canEL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- T/C/C JOSE SOTO; JOSÉ celación del Pagaré suscrito a cribe le notifica a usted que el ANGEL SOTO MARTÍNEZ, favor de Banco y Agencia de Fi3 de septiembre de 2021, este T/C/C JOSÉ A. SOTO nanciamiento de la Vivienda de Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, MARTÍNEZ T/C/C JOSÉ Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la Sentencia Parcial o Resolución suma principal de $29,100.00, SOTO MARTÍNEZ T/C/C en este caso, que ha sido debicon vencimiento el 01 de marzo JOSÉ SOTO; FULANO damente registrada y archivada de 2019, y habiéndose constiDE TAL Y SUTANO DE en autos donde podrá usted tuido por la escritura número 56 enterarse detalladamente de TAL COMO MIEMBROS otorgada en San Juan, el 28 de los términos de la misma. Esta DE NOMBRES febrero de 1989, ante el Notario notificación se publicará una DESCONOCIDOS; Público Rita Lynne Rodriguez sola vez en un periódico de de la Rocha, inscrita al folio 219 CENTRO DE circulación general en la Isla del tomo 748 de Bayamon Sur, RECAUDACIONES de Puerto Rico, dentro de los finca número 34197, inscripMUNICIPALES Y A LOS 10 días siguientes a su notificación 3ra. Representa a la parte ción. Y, siendo o representando ESTADOS UNIDOS DE demandante la abogada cuyo usted una parte en el procediAMÉRICA nombre, dirección y teléfono se Demandante vs.

consigna de inmediato: ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA 9019 GA 24 Ave. Ramirez de Arrellano Gardens Hills, Guaynabo PR 00966 Tel.: (787) 646-9168 Lcdaenelperez@gmail.com Se le apercibe que si no comparecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la

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miento 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

Demandados Civil Núm.: SA2018CV00005.

Sala: 202. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ

SOTO DÍAZ T/C/C JOSÉ DÍAZ SOTO; COMPUESTA POR XAVIER SOTO TORRES T/C/C XAVIER SOTO T/C/C KAVIER SOTO TORRES T/C/C KAVIER SOTO; JOSÉ NOÉ SOTO TORRES T/C/C JOSÉ N. SOTO TORRES T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO TORRES T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO; JOSÉ ULISES SOTO COLON T/C/C JOSÉ U. SOTO COLÓN T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO COLÓN T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO; YAMILETTE SOTO COLÓN T/C/C YAMILETTE SOTO; JESSICA SOTO TORRES T/C/C JESSICA SOTO; JOSÉ SAID SOTO VICENS T/C/C JOSÉ S. SOTO VICENS T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO VICENS T/C/C JOSE SOTO; JOSÉ ANGEL SOTO MARTÍNEZ, T/C/C JOSÉ A. SOTO MARTÍNEZ T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO MARTÍNEZ T/C/C JOSÉ SOTO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, IVETTE C. CARDONA BONILLA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, 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 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Salinas, Salinas, 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, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 1 de julio de 2021. 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 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate

30 ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 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 Guayama, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 15 de julio de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: 227 Manati St. Montesoria 2 Sector Aguirre PR 00704, y que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número doscientos veinte y siete en el Plano de Parcelación de la comunidad rural Montesoria del Barrio Aguirre del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de seiscientos noventa y cuatro punto cero cinco metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Parcela número doscientos veinte y ocho de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la Parcela número doscientos veinte y seis de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con las Parcelas número doscientos cincuenta y dos y doscientos cincuenta y tres de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con la Calle número once de la comunidad.” Finca número 7,409, inscrita al folio 183 del tomo 192 de Salinas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. 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: $108,178.02, incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 17 de agosto de 2018, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.463% por ciento anual, hasta su completo pago; más la cantidad de $28,200.00, 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 109, otorgada el día 19 de marzo de 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Alejandro Mues Arias y consta inscrita tomo Karibe de Salinas, finca número7,409, Registro de la Propiedad de Salinas, Sección de Guayama. Por la presente

se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $282,000.00, con intereses al 3.463% anual, vencedero el día 10 de octubre de 2095 constituida mediante la escritura número 110, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de marzo de 2015, ante el notario Alejandro Mues Arias, e inscrita tomo Karibe de Salina finca 7,409 inscripción 6th. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $282,000.00 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 $188,000.00; 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 $141,000.00. 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

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Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Salinas, Puerto Rico, a 8 de septiembre de 2021. IVETTE C. CARDONA BONILLA, ALGUACIL #024, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SALINAS.

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

DESIREE RUIZ RODRÍGUEZ

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CG2019CV02474.

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 CAGUAS, 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 6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: P-5 CALLE LIRIOS URB. EL ENCANTO JUNCOS, PR 00777 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar 5 del bloque P, Urbanización El Encanto, localizada en el barrio Mamey del municipio de Juncos. Tiene una cabida de 300.1500 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 13.05 metros lineales con el solar #12 del mismo bloque; por el SUR, en una distancia de 13.05 metros, con la calle #6 de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 23.00 metros lineales con el solar #6 del mismo bloque y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 23.00 metros lineales con el solar #4 del mismo bloque.

ENCLAVA: Una estructura en concreto para fines residenciales. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 93 del Tomo 333 de Juncos, finca número 12,602, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda (2da). El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $126,262.00. 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 14 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021,

A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $84,174.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 21 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 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 $63,131.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 398 otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de octubre de 2016, ante el Notario Jesús A. Ledesma Amador y consta inscrita Tomo Karibe de Juncos, finca número 12,602, inscripción Séptima (7ma), Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda (2da). 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 condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $121,119.48 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2019 más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.75% anual. Dichos interese continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $12,626.20.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,626.20 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,626.20 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 CAGUAS, 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 no

está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/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 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de septiembre de 2021. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

BENJAMÍN RODRÍGUEZ SÁNCHEZ, LAURA ENID MERCADO TORRES T/C/C LAURA E. MERCADO TORRES T/C/C LAURA MERCADO TORRES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: G4CI2017-0162.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HI-

POTECA “IN REM” (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 SALINAS, 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 6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SALINAS, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: N-14, URB. PASEO COSTA DEL SUR, SALINAS, P.R. 00751 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Lote número N-14 que se describe en el Plano de la Urbanización Paseo Costa del Sur, radicado en el Barrio Aguirre del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos cuarenta y nueve metros cuadrados punto cinco mil diezmilésimas de otro metro cuadrado (349.5000 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, en 13.980 metros con los lotes N-2 y N-1; por el SUR, en 13.980 metros con la calle 12 de la urbanización; por el ESTE, en 25.000 metros con el Lote N-15 de la urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 25.000 metros con el Lote N-13 de la urbanización. Enclava una estructura de bloques y concreto a destinarse para vivienda familiar, compuesta de tres cuartos dormitorios, un cuarto de baño, sala, comedor, balcón, marquesina y área de laundry. Como parte del equipo de la vivienda, incluye un calentador eléctrico de agua. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 11 del Tomo 291 de Salinas, finca número 12,652, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $56,586.00.

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 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $37,724.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se

celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 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 $28,293.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 21 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de enero de 2004, ante el Notario Luis Ángel Ruiz Chabrier, inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 291 de Salinas, finca número 12,652, inscripción segunda (2da), Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. 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 $56,586.00, adeudan la suma de $43,566.75 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de enero de 2017, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.00% anual, dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte co-demandada Benjamín Rodríguez Sánchez, Laura Enid Mercado Torres t/c/c Laura E. Mercado Torres t/c/c Laura Mercado Torres, se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $5,658.60 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $5,658.60 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 SALINAS, 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 no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad.

Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,0000.00, sin intereses, vencederos el día 22

The San Juan Daily Star CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- y bloques de hormigón, con un GUAS SALA SUPERIOR. área superficial de 1,447.729 pies cuadrados, equivalentes ORIENTAL BANK a 134.5017 metros cuadrados.

COMO AGENTE DE Contiene tres habitaciones dorSERVICIO DE THE mitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, MONEY HOUSE, INC. baño y aparcamiento. Consta DEMANDANTE VS. inscrita al Folio 119 del Tomo LUIS ROMÁN ROSA, 230 de San Lorenzo, finca número 12023, Registro de la FELINA OQUENDO Propiedad de Caguas SecSANTIAGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE ción Segunda. El embargo a ejecutarse es por la suma de BIENES GANANCIALES $94,683.88 y consta presenCOMPUESTA POR tado al Asiento 2020-003460AMBOS (DEUDORES CA02 del Sistema Karibe de HIPOTECARIOS); PEDRO Caguas II, segregación de la finca número 11,905, Registro LUIS RAMÓN LUNA la Propiedad de Caguas, (TITULAR REGISTRAL) de Sección Segunda. La hipoteca DEMANDADOS objeto del embargo a ejecutarCIVIL NUM.: CG2018CV02378. se en el caso de epígrafe fue SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO constituida mediante la escriY EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA tura número 120 otorgada en (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día SUBASTA. El Alguacil que sus31 de mayo de 2017, ante el cribe por la presente CERTIFINotario Carlos Martínez Olmo CA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSy consta presentada al asienTAR: Que en cumplimiento de to 2017-062386-CA02, Finca un Mandamiento de Ejecución número 12,023 , Registro de de Embargo que le ha sido dirila Propiedad de Caguas, Secgido al Alguacil que suscribe por ción Segunda. Dicha subasta la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE se llevará a cabo para con su PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENproducto satisfacer al DemanTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, dante total o parcialmente seSALA SUPERIOR, en el caso gún sea el caso el importe de de epígrafe procederá a venla Sentencia que ha obtenido der en pública subasta al mejor ascendente a la suma principal postor en efectivo, cheque cerde $73,520.16 por concepto de tificado o giro postal en moneda principal, desde el 1ro de mayo legal de los Estados Unidos de de 2018, más intereses al tipo América a nombre del Alguacil pactado de 4.75% anual que del Tribunal, el día 6 DE OCcontinúan acumulándose hasta TUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 el pago total de la obligación.

DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina Además la parte co-demandasita en el local que ocupa en el da Luis Román Rosa, Felina edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIOquendo Santiago y La SocieMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO dad Legal de Bienes GananJUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA ciales compuesta por ambos SUPERIOR, todo derecho, títuadeuda a la parte demandante lo e interés que tenga la parte los cargos por demora equivademandada de epígrafe en el lentes a 4.00% de la suma de inmueble de su propiedad que aquellos pagos con atrasos en ubica en E-16B CALLE 4 URB. exceso de 15 días calendarios EXT. JARDINES DE SAN LOde la fecha de vencimiento; los RENZO, SAN LORENZO, PR créditos accesorios y adelantos 00754 y que se describe a conhechos en virtud de la escritutinuación: URBANA: Solar 16-B ra de hipoteca; y las costas, del bloque E, de la Urbanizagastos y honorarios de abogación Jardines de San Lorenzo, do equivalentes a $7,447.40. localizada en el barrio QueAdemás la parte co-demandamados del Municipio de San da Luis Román Rosa, Felina Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, con una Oquendo Santiago y La Sociecabida superficial de 343.84 dad Legal de Bienes Gananmetros cuadrados. Colinda por ciales compuesta por ambos el NORTE, en una distancia de se comprometió a pagar una 12.28 metros con la Carretera suma equivalente a $7,447.40 Estatal #181; por el SUR, en para cubrir cualquier otro adeuna distancia de 12.28 metros lanto que se haga en virtud de con la calle #4 de la urbanizala escritura de hipoteca y una ción; por el ESTE, en una dissuma equivalente a $7,447.40 tancia de 28.00 metros con el para cubrir intereses en adisolar 15-A del bloque E de la urción a los garantizados por ley. banización y por el OESTE, en Que los autos y todos los douna distancia de 28.00 metros cumentos correspondientes al con el solar 16-A del bloque E Procedimiento incoado estarán de la urbanización. ENCLAVA: de manifiesto en la SECRETAUna estructura de dos pisos, RIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIdescribiéndose la planta baja, MERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO como sigue: Unidad residencial JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA 16-B del bloque E de la UrbaniSUPERIOR durante las horas LEGAL NOTICE zación Jardines de San LorenESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO zo, localizada en el barrio Que- laborables. Se entenderá que DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- mado, edificada sobre el solar todo licitador acepta como basNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA 16-B del bloque E, de cemento tante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes

de enero de 2012, constituida mediante la escritura número 22, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de enero de 2004, ante el notario Luis Ángel Ruiz Chabrier, e inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 291 de Salinas, finca número 12,652, inscripción tercera (3ra). Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban United States, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $1,763.40, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2034, constituida mediante la escritura número 383, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de agosto de 2011, ante el notario Fabiola Ansotegui Blanc, e inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 271 de Salinas, finca número 12,652, inscripción cuarta (4ta). 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 Salinas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2021. LITZY CORA ANAYA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SALINAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

Monday, September 13, 2021 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 no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de septiembre de 2021. ANGEL GOMEZ GOMEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR.

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

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

CLEMENTINA SANCHEZ CINTRON, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA

USUFRUCTUARIA VIUDAL DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EZEQUIEL BERMÚDEZ DÁVILA; LA SUCESION DE EZEQUIEL BERMÚDEZ DÁVILA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL, SUTANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: SA2019CV00374.

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 SALINAS, 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 6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SALINAS, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: #209 CALLE 2 BARRIO LA CARMEN URB. LA MINIMA (18) SALINAS, PR 00751 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #209 de la Urbanización Mínima 18 La Carmen, radicada en el término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 299.43 metros cuadrados. En lindes: NORTE, con los solares 203 y 204; SUR, con la calle #2; ESTE, con el solar 210 y OESTE, con el solar 208. ENCLAVA: Una estructura dedicada a vivienda.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 209 del tomo 274 de Salinas, finca número 2,334, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $66,112.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las ofici-

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nas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $44,074.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $33,056.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 81 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de mayo de 2016, ante el Notario Arturo I. Corretjer Maldonado, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Salinas, inscripción 11ra, finca número 2,334. 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 $$63,033.69 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de julio de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además Clementina Sánchez Cintrón y La Sucesión de Ezequiel Bermúdez Dávila adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $6,611.20. Además Clementina Sánchez Cintrón y La Sucesión de Ezequiel Bermúdez Dávila se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $6,611.20 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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 SALINAS, 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 no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes, se-

gún surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores 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, en Salinas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de septiembre de 2021. PRAXEDEZ VAZQUEZ QUILES, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SALINAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: VA2021CV00123.

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

A: IVETTE ORTIZ, JUANITA QUIÑONES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SUCESIÓN DE SOFÍA VELÁZQUEZ ACEVEDO T/C/C SOFIA VELÁZQUEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $367,500.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.479% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $36,750.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 7,619 ante el notario Maria Isabel Garcia Mantilla.

Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 29 otorgada el 3 de febrero de 2010, ante la misma notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010, al folio 2410 del tomo 332 de Ponce, finca número 11,046, inscripción 7ma.

URBANA: Solar número 12 de la Urbanización Cerro Gordo Hills, Localizada en el Barrio LEGAL NOTICE Sabana del término municipal ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, con DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- un área de 465.18 metros cuaNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA drados. En lindes: por el NORSALA DE VEGA ALTA TE, distancia de 11.25 metros REVERSE MORTGAGE con la finca propiedad de José M. Ríos Santiago; por e! SUR, FUNDING, LLC en una distancia de 11.25 meDemandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO tros con la calle Municipal “A”; por el ESTE, en una distancia ORTIZ QUIÑONES de 41.36 metros con el solar COMPUESTA POR número 13; y por el OESTE, IVETTE ORTIZ, JUANITA en una distancia de 41.34 metros con el solar once (11) de ORTIZ QUIÑONES, la urbanización. Enclava una FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO estructura residencial de hormigón armado. Afecto también POSIBLES HEREDEROS a servidumbre de 1.50 metros DE NOMBRES a todo lo largo de la colindanDESCONOCIDOS, cia Sur a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. En CENTRO DE la colindancia Este y Oeste en RECAUDACIONES una distancia de 10.00 metros

DE INGRESOS

32 Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. MANDAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: “ORDEN: Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787. Se Ordena a los herederos del causante a saber, lvette Ortiz, Juanita Ortiz Quiñones, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como herederos de nombres desconocidos de la sucesión de Carmelo Ortiz Quiñones a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Carmelo Ortiz Quiñones. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguiente, responden por la cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, proceda a LEGAL NOTICE notificar la presente Orden meESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO diante un edicto a esos efectos DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- una sola vez en un periódico de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en SALA DE VEGA BAJA REVERSE MORTGAGE Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de septiembre de 2021.

FUNDING, LLC JESSICA MORALES CODemandante Vs. RREA, JUEZA”. Por Cuanto: SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO Se le advierte a que, dentro del ORTIZ QUIÑONES término legal de 30 días contaCOMPUESTA POR dos a partir de la fecha de notiIVETTE ORTIZ, JUANITA ficación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participaORTIZ QUIÑONES, ción que les corresponda en la FULANO DE TAL Y herencia del causante Carmelo SUTANO DE TAL COMO Ortiz Quiñones. Por Orden del POSIBLES HEREDEROS Honorable Juez de Primera InsDE NOMBRES tancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo DESCONOCIDOS, mi firma y sello oficial, en Vega CENTRO DE Baja, Puerto Rico hoy día 3 RECAUDACIONES de septiembre de 2021. LCDA DE INGRESOS LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS SECRETARIA GENERAL. MAESTADOS UNIDOS DE RITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA. AMÉRICA

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- (town house) de forma irregular NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA localizada en el Condominio Palladio, situada en la calle de SALA DE HUMACAO BANCO POPULAR DE nombre “Harbour Peripheral Access Road”, en el lugar conoPUERTO RICO, INC. cido como Marina de Palmas Demandante V. del Mar, en el Barrio Candelario ALFREDO LUIS Abajo del término municipal de FIGUEROA SUÁREZ; Humacao, Puerto Rico, con un SU ESPOSA MARÍA área 2442.40 pies cuadrados, GABRIELA SANTAELLA equivalentes a 226.89896 metros cuadrados. Son sus lindeGONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE ros los siguientes: por el NORTE, en medida lineal de 27’6”, BIENES GANANCIALES tanto en la primera como seCOMPUESTA POR gunda planta, colindando como AMBOS elemento exterior común y esDemandados caleras de acceso al área de Civil Núm.: HU2019CV00300. piscina; por el SUR, en medida Sala: 208. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN lineal de 27’6”, en la primera DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ES- planta y 23’6”, en la segunda TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRI- planta, colindando con elemenCA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS to común exterior, área de estaESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO cionamiento y carretera de acLIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- ceso interno; por el ESTE, en TO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SU- medida lineal de 27’10”, en la BASTA. El que suscribe, Algua- primera planta y 34’ en la secil del Tribunal de Primera gunda planta, colindando con Instancia, Sala Superior de Hu- elemento común, pared mediamacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, nera que lo separa de la unidad hago saber a la parte deman- de vivienda número 9 Modelo dada, al PÚBLICO EN GENE- letra B (9-B); con las escaleras RAL; y a todos los acreedores de acceso a dicha unidad de que tengan inscritos o anota- vivienda y las de acceso a la dos sus derechos sobre los bie- que aquí se describe; y por el nes hipotecados con posteriori- OESTE, en medida lineal de dad a la inscripción del crédito 27’10”, en la primera planta y del ejecutante, o de los acree- 47’6”, en la segunda planta, codores de cargas o derechos lindando con elemento común, reales que los hubiesen pos- pared medianera que lo separa puesto a la hipoteca ejecutada de la unidad de vivienda númey las personas interesadas en, ro 11, Modelo letra B (11-B). o con derecho a exigir el cum- Consta de dos (2) plantas y teplimiento de instrumentos ne- rraza en la azotea o vuelo de la gociables garantizados hipote- unidad, sobresaliendo la secariamente con posterioridad al gunda planta hacia el Sur en crédito ejecutado, siempre que relación a la pared de la primesurjan de la certificación regis- ra planta en ese mismo lindero. tral, para que puedan concurrir Distribuida en el primer piso, a la subasta si les convenga o sala, comedor, cocina, medio satisfacer antes del remate el (1/2) baño y cuarto de almaceimporte del crédito, de sus inte- naje: en la segunda planta tiene reses, costas y honorarios de tres (3) cuartos, dos (2) baños abogados asegurados, que- (uno en el cuarto principal), un dando entonces subrogados en área de closet y de escalera, los derechos del acreedor eje- existiendo un área abierta que cutante: Aviso de Demanda de ofrece vista al interior de la prifecha 14 de agosto de 2017, mera planta y en azotea o vueexpedido en el Tribunal de Pri- lo, un área de terraza. La puerta mera Instancia, Sala de Huma- de entrada de esta unidad de cao, en el caso civil número vivienda está situada en su linHSCI2017-00698, sobre Ejecu- dero Sur. Le corresponde a ción de Hipoteca, seguido por esta unidad dos (2) espacios de el Banco Popular de Puerto estacionamiento que ubican en Rico, contra Alfredo Luis Figue- el mismo proyecto y están marroa Suárez y su esposa María cados con el número 19 y 20 en Gabriela Santaella González, el Plano de Inscripción. Esta por la suma $399,555.20 más unidad tiene una participación otras sumas, anotado el día 21 en los elementos comunes gede noviembre de 2018, al tomo nerales del Condominio de Karibe de Humacao, finca nú- 8.2151326%. Inscrita al tomo mero 26,800, anotación A y últi- Karibe de Humacao, finca núma. Que en cumplimiento del mero 26,800. Registro de la Mandamiento de Ejecución de Propiedad de Puerto Rico, SecSentencia expedido el día 9 de ción de Humacao. La propieagosto de 2021, por la Secreta- dad ubica en: 10-B Apt., Pallaria del Tribunal, procederé a dio Cond. Palmas del Mar vender y venderé en pública Harbour, Humacao, PR. El prosubasta y al mejor postor la pro- ducto de la subasta se destinapiedad que se describe a conti- rá a satisfacer al demandante nuación: URBANA: PROPIE- hasta donde alcance, la SenDAD HORIZONTAL: tencia Sumaria Enmendada Apartamento número 10, Mo- dictada y notificada el 21 de juDemandados LEGAL NOTICE delo letra B (10-B), consistien- nio de 2021, en el presente Civil Núm.: VA2021CV00123.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO do de una (1) casa en hilera caso civil, a saber la suma de la estructura residencial del solar número 12, comparte una pared medianera con la estructura de los solares número 11 y 13 de la misma urbanización.

Finca número 11,046, inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 208 de Vega Alta. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajucial.pr, salvo que se represente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 3 de septiembre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Monday, September 13, 2021 $445,098.08 que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $399,555.20 por concepto de principal; $1,324.14 por concepto de intereses acumulados; $4,066.41 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $40,152.33 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina de Alguaciles, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $401,523.36. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina de Alguaciles, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $267,682.21, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la oficina de Alguaciles, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $200,761.68, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm.

210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6.

Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al

comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o 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 pueden concurrir a la subasta si les convienen o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de agosto 2021. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

DANAEL RODRÍGUEZ TORRES, LETICIA MACEIRA RÍOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00547.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A La Parte Demandada: LETICIA MACEIRA RÍOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON DANAEL RODRÍGUEZ TORRES A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: URB. ESTANCIAS DEL SOL, A1 CALLE 1, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745, URB. ESTANCIAS DEL SOL, A-01 CALLE 1, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745, HC 2 BOX 15267, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745-8008 Y 1035 S DUDLEY AVE., BARTOW, FL 33830-5506.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $83,571.65 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $207.57 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,327.60 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: Urbanización Extensión Estancias Del Sol de Río Grande. Solar: A-1. Cabida: 1411.5557 metros cuadrados. Linderos por el NORTE: en 48.560 metros con el lote A guion 2 del mismo bloque; por el SUR: en 52.180 metros, con la urbanización Estancias del Sol; por el ESTE: en 10.880 metros, con la calle número 1 de la urbanización; por el OESTE: en 45.262 metros con la carretera número 959. Enclava una estructura de bloques y concreto a destinarse para vivienda familiar, compuesta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, 2 cuartos de baño área de sala, área de cocina, área comedor, área de laundry, y marquesina doble para automóviles. Como parte del equipo de la vivienda, incluye un

calentador eléctrico de agua.

Afecto a servidumbre para líneas telefónicas en una franja de 1.52 metros de ancho en la colindancia Este. Contiene un talud de 647.2421 metros cuadrados a todo lo largo de su colindancia Oeste. Afecto además a servidumbre eléctrica de 1.52 metros de ancho y 0.30 metros, más largo que la distancia entre el ancla del tensor y el poste en la esquina de su colindancia Noreste. Contiene además una berma que discurre a lo largo y ancho de su colindancia de Norte a Sur. Afecto además a servidumbre para la distribución de telecomunicaciones y televisión por cable en una franja de 5’ de ancho a lo largo de su colindancia Este. La propiedad consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Grande, Finca 30425. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Grande, Finca 30425. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción segunda. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, 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 009703922, 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 3 de septiembre de 2021, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. KATHIA FERRER FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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INSURANCE COMPANY

cia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier EUROBANK, HOY, otro, si el tribunal, en el ejerciORIENTAL BANK; cio de su sana discreción, lo enORIENTAL BANK; ÁNGEL tiende procedente. Dado bajo SANTIAGO MALDONADO; mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por Orden del mismo hoy 02 FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MÁS CUAL de septiembre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, Demandados REGIONAL. Civil Núm.: BY2021CV03060. SECRETARIA Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE NIEDANID RIVERA, SECREHIPOTECA REPRESENTADA TARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. POR PAGARÉ HIPOTECALEGAL NOTICE RIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉDE PUERTO RICO TRIBURICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Demandante Vs.

A : FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL.

Se emplaza y notifica a ustedes que se ha presentado una demanda en este caso, en la cual en síntesis, la parte demandante alega que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario que estaba en poder de “Eurobank”, y solicita que se ordene la cancelación de la hipoteca que lo garantiza.

El pagaré de $35,000.00 fue librado por el Sr. Ángel Santiago Maldonado, a favor de “Eurobank”, o a su orden, por la suma de $35,000.00, más intereses y créditos accesorios, vencedera a la presentación, según surge de la escritura #149, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de abril del 2002, ante el Notario Público Nelson William González.

La referida escritura consta inscrita al folio 71 vuelto del tomo 1,729 de Bayamón Sur, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de Bayamón, finca #72,247, inscripción 2da. Pueden ver la demanda en su totalidad en este Tribunal. Los Abogados de la Parte Demandante lo son: Sandra De L. Tous-Chevres y Raúl J. Tous Bobonis, Edificio La Electrónica, 1608 Calle Bori, Suite 205, San Juan, PR 00927-6112, teléfonos 7518834 \ 3824, a quien deberán notificar la contestación de la demanda dentro de los próximos 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los próximos 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), 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 apercibe que si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar senten-

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE JUAN TOMÁS ORTIZ CARRERAS T/C/C JUAN TOMÁS ORTIZ Y SUCESIÓN DE ANA CELIA CANDELARIO MESTRE T/C/C ANA CELIA CANDELARIA, COMPUESTA POR SU HIJO ALFREDO ORTIZ; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

pagar: la suma principal de de $71,350.31, más intereses a razón de 7.625 %, desde el 1 de febrero de 2021, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $1,079.66 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $8,400.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Se ordena a los herederos a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación, ACEPTEN O REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante el Sr. Juan Tomás Ortiz Carreras t/c/c Juan Tomás Ortiz y la Sra. Ana Celia Candelario Mestre t/c/c Ana Celia Candelaria. Se les apercibe que de no expresarse dentro del término de (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada.

Lcdo. Juan C. Salichs Pou, Número del Tribunal Supremo 11,115 PO Box 195553, San Juan, PR, 00919-5553, Teléfono: (787) 449-6000, Facsímile: (787) 474-3892, Correo Electrónico: jsalichs@splawpr.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 02 de septiembre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NILDANID RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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 7 de septiembre de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 7 de septiembre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JOHANNA RODRÍGUEZ BENÍTEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

BAKERSFIELD, CA 93304-1337; NUGGET DR. CHEEKTOWAGA, NY 14225-2632.

(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 4 de septiembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de septiembre de 2021. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 7 de septiembre de 2021. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUE LAURIE SOTO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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WHEREAS, in the above caption case, plaintiff, Lime Homes Ltd., obtained judgment on August 19, 2020. WHEREAS, upon Motion filed by Plaintiff, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico has entered an order authorizing the publication of said judgment. THEREFORE, the publication of the judgment is ordered within the next 10 days on a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico. IN WITNESS THEREOF, I set my hand and seal in San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 7th day of September 2021. MARIA ANTONGIORGIJORDAN, ESQ., CLERK OF THE COURT. VIVIANA DIAZMULERO, DEPUTY CLERK.

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SUCESION DE RAMON EDUARDO ALVAREZ LEGACY MORTGAGE ARIAS COMPUESTA ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 POR SUS HIJOS Demandante Vs. RICARDO AGUSTIN DORAL BANK AHORA ALVAREZ MELENDEZ, BANCO POPULAR DE LEGAL NOT ICE EDUARDO RAFAEL PUERTO RICO; JOHN ALVAREZ MELENDEZ, UNITED STATES DISTRICT DOE Y RICHARD ROE LEGAL NOTICE COURT FOR THE DISTRICT ILEANA DOLORES COMO POSIBLES A: FULANO Y MENGANO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ALVAREZ MELENDEZ, OF PUERTO RICO TENEDORES LIME HOMES LTD. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE TAL COMO VANESSA VIRGINIA DESCONOCIDOS Plaintiff V. POSIBLES HEREDEROS NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA ALVAREZ MELENDEZ, Demandados TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSJOSE ORLANDO AYALA Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02187.

DESCONOCIDOS DE ANGEL DANIEL TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PEREZ A/K/A JOSE Sala: 702. Sobre: CANCELALA SUCESIÓN DE SAN JUAN ALVAREZ MELENDEZ, O. AYALA PEREZ, CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIAJUAN TOMÁS ORTIZ MIDLAND CREDIT JOSE RAMON ANA MARIA GARCIA DO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR CARRERAS T/C/C MANAGEMENT PUERTO ALVAREZ MELENDEZ, EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS ARROYO A/K/A ANA JUAN TOMÁS ORTIZ Y RICO, LLC., COMO DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENVIRGINIA MELENDEZ M. GARCIA ARROYO LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESAGENTE DE MIDLAND MORALES POR SÍ Y AND THEIR CONJUGAL TE TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE CELIA CANDELARIO FUNDING, LLC EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL PARTNERSHIP; UNITED PUERTO RICO, SS. MESTRE T/C/C ANA Parte Demandante Vs. USUFRUCTUARIA; STATES OF AMERICA A: JOHN DOE Y CELIA CANDELARIA. ALLAN GONZÁLEZ SOLIS CENTRO DE Defendants RICHARD ROE COMO Parte Demandada DIRECCIÓN RECAUDACION SOBRE Civil Núm.: 19-CV-1696. (ADC).

Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV00252.

POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDA. Re: FORECLOSURE OF INGRESOS MUNICIPALES De Sesiones: 603. SoDESCONOCIDOS. MORTGAGE - IN REM. NODe: ORIENTAL BANK. Salón “CRIM” bre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOPOR LA PRESENTE se les

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2021CV02754.

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

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal y notificando al al Lcdo. Juan C. Salichs Pou, cuya dirección es PO Box 195553, San Juan, PR, 00919-5553, teléfono (787) 449-6000, y número de facsímile (787) 474-3892, con copia de la contestación a la demanda. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a

Demandado(a) TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA Civil: FA2019CV00826. Sobre: POR EDICTO POR SUMAC. A: ALLAN GONZALEZ COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA SOLIS. VILLA NEVÁREZ VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICA324 CALLE 4, SAN JUAN, CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR PR 00927-5313.

EDICTO. EL SECRETARIO (A) que susA: EDUARDO RAFAEL cribe le notifica a usted que el ALVAREZ MELENDEZ, 6 de septiembre de 2021, este COMO MIEMBRO DE LA Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, SUCESION DE RAMON Sentencia Parcial o Resolución EDUARDO ALVAREZ en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada ARIAS. URBANIZACIÓN en autos donde podrá usted SANTA ISIDRA 1 F21 enterarse detalladamente de CALLE 6 FAJARDO, los términos de esta. Esta noPR 00738; 717 EYE ST. tificación se publicará una sola

TICE OF JUDGMENT BY PUBLICATION. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO.

To: JOSE ORLANDO AYALA PEREZ A/K/A JOSE O. AYALA PEREZ, ANA MARIA GARCIA ARROYO A/K/A ANA M. GARCIA ARROYO AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP. LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES: CIUDAD JARDÍN

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

Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abo-

gados de la parte demandante, LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA. A su dirección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor Doral Bank ahora Banco Popular de Puerto Rico o a su orden, por la suma de veintiséis mil dólares ($26,000.00), con intereses al nueve punto cuatro cinco cero cero por ciento (9.4500%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de febrero de dos mil veintiuno (2021), según consta del testimonio número siete mil cuatro cientos cincuenta y cinco (7,455) de la escritura número nueve (9), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veintiséis (26) de enero de dos mil seis (2006), ante la notario Luz N. Solero Santiago, inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta y cuatro (144) del tomo cuatrocientos cuatro (404) de Cayey, finca número quince mil ciento seis (15,106), inscripción cuarta (4ta). Inscrito en virtud de la Ley número doscientos dieciséis (216), asiento abreviado. Que grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número B guión veintitrés (B-23) según plano de inscripción del Proyecto de solares de la CRUV UM guión seis guión ciento treinta y seis (CRUV UM-6-136), denominado El Torito, radicado en el Barrio Rincón del término municipal de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con un cabida superficial de doscientos sesenta y cinco punto treinta y uno (265.31) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con Aguirre Sugar Corporation, distancia de doce puntos cero cero (12.00) metros; por el SUR, con la calle número uno (1), distancia de doce punto cero cero (12.00) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número B guión veintidós (B-22) metros; por el OESTE, con el solar número B guión veinticuatro (B-24), distancia de veintidós punto once (22.11) metros. Inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta y cuatro (144) del tomo cuatrocientos cuatro (404) de Cayey, finca número quince mil ciento seis (15,106) del Registro de la Propiedad de Sección Primera (1ra) de Caguas. Edificación: Con un valor de cincuenta mil dólares ($50,000.00), según consta de la escritura número trece (13) otorgada en Guayama, Puerto Rico el once (11) de abril de dos mil diecisiete (2017) ante el notario Bernardo Vázquez Franco, inscrito al Sistema Karibe de Cayey, finca número quince mil ciento seis (15,106), inscripción quinta (5ta). SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará

la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 1ro día de septiembre de 2021.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ANA H. LUGO MUÑOZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

EDWIN C. VÁZQUEZ VEGA

Demandado Civil Núm.: JD2021CV00225.

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

A: EDWIN C. VÁZQUEZ VEGA.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Juana Díaz, P.O. Box 1419, Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico 00795 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 19 de agosto de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SUBSECRETARIA.

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The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 13, 2021

How Raducanu and Fernández forged sudden stardom and deep connections

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY

W

e adapt quickly. It’s part of the human spirit, whether we are teenage tennis stars or the people who line up and take a seat to watch them in the world’s biggest tennis stadium.

Two weeks ago, the vast majority of us had never heard of Leylah Fernández or Emma Raducanu. Fernández had never been past the third round in a major tournament and had struggled to find her best form in recent weeks. Raducanu joined the tour in earnest only this summer and had to make it through the off-Broadway qualifying tournament to secure a spot in the U.S. Open.

But by Saturday, when Fernández, 19, and Raducanu, 18, took to the court for one of the most unlikely Grand Slam finals, we already had a connection.

They had boldly worked through the women’s draw during this special U.S. Open, which was full of communion between the players and the public after all the distancing of the last year and a half.

By Saturday, those who had been following their unexpected progress already knew about their strengths, their multicultural backgrounds and even their quirks: Fernández’s jig behind the baseline before walking forward to serve, Raducanu’s habit of blowing on her fingers between points as if to cool off a very hot hand.

But what was most striking Saturday was how quickly both unseeded players adjusted to this grand occasion, calmly giving thoughtful prematch television interviews, walking past Billie Jean King’s quote on the tunnel wall, which says that “pressure is a privilege,” and then walking past King herself as they emerged into the late-afternoon sunshine for the biggest opportunity of their short careers.

It was all new, but you would not have known it once the ball was in play, as both attacked their groundstrokes and did their best to seize the occasion even after having nearly two full days to think about the occasion once they had won their semifinals.

After the introductions, Fernández ripped a backhand crosscourt winner on the opening point. Raducanu later pound-

Leylah Fernández and Emma Raducanu ed a backhand winner of her own to hold serve and win the opening game.

Grand Slam finals, even with more experienced players, can too quickly become one-way traffic. Tennis is a game of momentum, and the best-of-three-set format used by the women allows less time to turn the tide than the best-of-five format used by the men.

But Raducanu and Fernández both held firm, extending rallies with their quickness and defensive skills on the move, smartly sending lobs high into the atmosphere when cornered. But just as impressively, they finished points with authority when they had created the space to go for winners.

Their styles contrast in some ways.

The left-handed Fernández uses more spin and enjoys deploying the drop shot.

Her technique is more artisanal than textbook, with her hands often far apart on the grip on a two-handed backhand as she improvises on the fly. The right-handed Raducanu favors more direct power and has fabulous fundamentals that allow her to control the ball even while swinging ferociously. She has a knack for making the tricky shot look smooth and an ability to run around her backhand in a flash and rip

an inside-out forehand that Roger Federer could relate to.

But Fernández and Raducanu are very contemporary tennis talents in their ability to sustain pace and consistency from low body positions, their knees often touching the court as they counterpunch.

Some of their extended rallies were spectacular Saturday as they exchanged backhand bolts with nary a grunt, their sneakers squeaking on the hard court as they focused on becoming a U.S. Open champion.

Only Raducanu would get that great satisfaction, and although the score of 6-4, 6-3 will look fairly lopsided in the history books, anyone who watched will know that the match was much more tenuous than that.

“These two young women are a gift to tennis, an absolute gift,” Andy Roddick, the 2003 U.S. Open men’s champion, wrote in a post on Twitter.

Roddick was right to shine a light on both players on Saturday. Fernández is not yet a Grand Slam champion, but she is a world-class fighter who walks between points with the steely determination of someone on her way to break up a bar brawl.

She and her family have sacrificed plenty for her tennis career, and after losing a back-and-forth first set, Fernández had every reason to still believe in her chances — given all of her successful battles with top players at Flushing Meadows.

She upset three players ranked in the top five — Naomi Osaka, Elina Svitolina and Aryna Sabalenka — as well as Angelique Kerber, a former No. 1 in resurgent form.

Fernández had beaten them all in three sets, so when Raducanu took a 5-2 lead in the second set but was unable to convert her first two match points on Fernández’s serve, Fernández grinned as if she knew something that nobody else yet suspected.

Why should she not have believed in another comeback? But when she got a break point in the next game, she had to wait to play it as Raducanu, who had scraped her left knee while sliding for a shot, took an injury timeout to clean up trickling blood and have the wound bandaged.

The stoppage was well within the rules, but in this thinker’s sport of ebbs and flows, it may have made the difference. Raducanu said she was concerned about losing her rhythm, as well. But it was Fernández who expressed displeasure about the long pause to officials and then pushed a forehand long. Raducanu then saved a second break point with a leaping tap of an overhead.

She was back to deuce with Arthur Ashe Stadium abuzz and presumably most of Britain wide awake, as the match was broadcast in prime time in Raducanu’s home country.

This time, she did not flinch, surprising Fernández with a fine serve down the T that gave her command of the rally and brought her a third match point.

She mulled her options, tossed the ball high and smacked an ace to become the first qualifier in the long history of tennis to win a Grand Slam singles title. In 10 matches, she never lost a set.

“I never thought I would see it, so I’m in shock,” said King, who watched from the stands as Raducanu dropped her racket and fell to the court, her hands covering her face.

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Brewers’ combined no-hitter breaks record for the most in a season

By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN

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t began with the dominance of a starting pitcher who struck out 14 batters, it was preserved with a thrilling catch in center field, and it was finished off by a reliever thanks to an escalating pitch count.

But Corbin Burnes and Josh Hader of the Milwaukee Brewers combined for a masterpiece in a 3-0 win over Cleveland, helping to set a record for no-hitters in a season.

Burnes was comically dominant for most of the game, recording at least one strikeout against all but one of Cleveland’s batters. He was perfect through six innings and his only blemish was a leadoff walk to start the seventh. Burnes nearly gave up a hit with two outs in the eighth, but center fielder Lorenzo Cain made a terrific sliding catch on a liner by Owen Miller to keep the no-hit bid going.

With that, however, Burnes received a handshake from manager Craig Counsell and his night was over as he had reached 115 pitches — seven more than he had thrown in any other start this season.

Burnes was upbeat after the game, acknowledging that keeping him healthy for the playoffs was more important than an individual accomplishment. But if it was his choice, he would have liked to stay in. “I think anyone would want to keep pitching in that situation,” he said.

Hader came on in relief of Burnes in the ninth and retired the side in order, striking out two and getting a fine defensive play from first baseman Jace Peterson who ran down a pop-up in foul territory.

The combined effort was the ninth nohitter of the season, breaking a tie with 1884 for the most in a season. A record three of the no-hitters have come against Cleveland, with Zach Plesac having started all three games for the Indians.

The surge of no-hitters this season has raised questions about why these seem to be occurring at such an extraordinary rate.

Who has thrown a no-hitter this season?

— Joe Musgrove, San Diego Padres (April 9 vs. Texas Rangers): In throwing the first no-hitter in his franchise’s long history, Musgrove allowed only one base runner, on a hit-by-pitch. He threw 112 pitches, but manager Jayce Tingler was determined to let him see it through. “He was in control,” Tingler said. “After the seventh inning, that’s when we kind of put all the chips in. For Joe, for the team, for the organization, for

The Brewers celebrate their no-hitter on Saturday night. the city that hadn’t had a no-hitter before, at that point you throw everything out the window and you roll with it.”

— Carlos Rodón, Chicago White Sox (April 14 vs. Cleveland Indians): Rodón was two outs from baseball’s 24th perfect game when he hit Roberto Pérez with a pitch. “It just feels good to finally sit here and tell you I dominated today, and it felt good,” Rodón said.

— John Means, Baltimore Orioles (May 5 vs. Seattle Mariners): Like Musgrove, Means was breaking a long streak for his franchise: No Baltimore starter had thrown a no-hitter on their own since Jim Palmer did so in 1969. Means had never thrown a complete game and said he was nervous entering the ninth inning. “I got a little bit of the Jell-O legs, started to feel a little wobbly,” he said. “But once I threw that first pitch, I was able to lock in again.”

— Wade Miley, Cincinnati Reds (May 8 vs. Cleveland): Miley had to wait out an 83-minute rain delay before getting started, but he needed only 2 hours, 34 minutes to record baseball’s fourth no-hitter of the season. “He put on a clinic,” Cleveland manager Terry Francona said.

— Spencer Turnbull, Detroit Tigers (May 18 vs. Seattle): He said he did not feel right at all to start the game, but Turnbull, who

led the majors in losses in 2019, made quick work of the Mariners, striking out nine and allowing only two base runners on walks.

“It got to a point I think the last four innings, I don’t know if he shook one time,” catcher Eric Haase said. “We were just in really great sync and whatever I was putting down he was throwing and he was executing.”

— Corey Kluber, New York Yankees (May 19 vs. Texas): A four-pitch walk to Charlie Culberson in the third inning was all that stood between Kluber and perfection.

But Kluber, in his first season in pinstripes after throwing only one inning for Texas last year because of injury, still managed the Yankees’ first no-hitter since David Cone’s perfect game in 1999. “There’s a lot of things that have to go your way,” Kluber said. “It’s definitely cool to do it in this uniform.”

— Zach Davies and three relievers, Chicago Cubs (June 24 vs. Los Angeles Dodgers): Davies lasted only six innings but his bullpen was able to keep the magic even as all four pitchers struggled with their control.

“The hard part is taking out a guy that hasn’t given up a hit,” manager David Ross said of his decision to remove Davies. “I didn’t see him going nine for sure.”

— Tyler Gilbert, Diamondbacks (Aug. 14 vs. San Diego): Gilbert, a rookie acquired from Philadelphia as a Rule V draft pick,

was making his first major league start but he was able to finish off the Padres in an efficient manner, needing just 21 pitches to record the final nine outs of the game. “I tried to tune out as much as I could,” Gilbert told reporters. “But that last inning, I heard everything.”

— Corbin Burnes and one reliever, Milwaukee Brewers (Sept. 11 vs. Cleveland): Burnes was at the top of his game, facing just one batter over the minimum in eight innings of work with 14 strikeouts and one walk. He was relieved to start the ninth because he had reached 115 pitches.

What is going on?

A number of factors are in play leading to the surge of no-hitters. Chief among them are an emphasis on power pitching and batters’ having shown a willingness to sell out contact in order to increase power.

Those factors, plus surgical deployment of high-quality relievers, has resulted in strange numbers across the board.

Teams were averaging 8.09 hits per game through Sept. 10 — the third lowest mark since 1909, according to Baseball Reference — and were striking out 8.72 times a game, the second highest total ever. As a result, batters were hitting .243 and scoring was down significantly for a second consecutive season.

Another factor that has to be considered is control. Shutouts are almost entirely a thing of the past — there have been 28 this season, and there have been fewer than 40 in each season since 2015 — but the starters who have thrown a no-hitter this season have kept their pitch counts low by employing remarkable control. Gilbert walked three batters, Turnbull walked two and Miley, Kluber and Burnes each walked one. The other three pitchers who threw a no-hitter this season didn’t issue a single free pass. That obviously was not the case in the Cubs’ combined no-hitter, where each pitcher issued at least one walk.

Factor in colder weather in April and May, a new baseball, a preponderance of prohibited substances ahead of an MLB crackdown, advanced defensive positioning and other changes in the game and it has seemingly become a recipe for no-hitters becoming a common occurrence.

But you can’t discount simple variance.

While no-hitters come at a fairly predictable rate over long periods of time, they have frequently come in clumps and then gone long stretches without one.

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Trump talked as Holyfield got pummeled. Just another day in boxing’s absurd summer.

By KEVIN DRAPER

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n a single zany sentence, this is how the once-promising summer of boxing ended: Triller, a social video app that is a much less popular version of TikTok, put on a pay-per-view fight between a 58-year-old Evander Holyfield (who hasn’t fought in a decade) and a 44-year-old mixed martial artist, Vitor Belfort — and paid former President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to serve as live commentators, all on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The result of the (legally) professional fight is mostly beside the point — Belfort won by a technical knockout in the first round, after the referee stopped the bout because of how clear it was that Holyfield never should have been allowed into the ring — but it served to underscore what could have been.

Earlier this year, Triller won the right to promote Teófimo López’s lightweight title defense against George Kambosos Jr. The app paid more than $6 million for the privilege, after the fight went to an open bid because López and his promoter, Top Rank, could not agree on a deal.

Triller had burst onto the boxing scene last winter, with an exhibition fight between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. Internet celebrity Jake Paul knocked out a former NBA player, Nate Robinson, on the undercard, and rappers Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa and French Montana all performed between fights.

An optimist could see an evolution in how boxing was being presented: a brash entrant aiming to attract a new type — and a new generation — of fans to a sport that has been the subject of a thousand obituaries.

The López-Kambosos fight, then, was Triller’s chance to show that it was serious. That its foray into boxing was not just an expensive, attention-grabbing marketing strategy for its app — though it was definitely that — and that its flashy presentation would work for real fights, too, and that it had figured out something that traditional promot-

Evander Holyfield, 58, was badly beaten by Vitor Belfort on Saturday as former President Donald J. Trump provided commentary. ers like Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions had not.

As if to punctuate its seriousness, on June 1, Triller announced that it had hired Boxing Hall of Fame announcer Jim Lampley to call the fight. Cast aspersions on Triller all you want, but Lampley calling a López title bout is a strong way to present a legitimate draw.

Alas, that announcement would be the high point.

The fight, scheduled for June 19, was pushed back to August after López tested positive for the coronavirus. It was moved again, to September, onto the same card featuring Oscar De La Hoya — who has not fought since George W. Bush was president — fighting Belfort. But that date did not work out — in theory, López will now fight in October — and then, last week, De La Hoya was hospitalized with the coronavirus, in what he said was a breakthrough infection.

On a week’s notice, Holyfield

stepped in to fight Belfort instead. The bout, originally to take place in Los Angeles, was moved across the country to Florida after the California State Athletic Commission refused to sanction it — even as an exhibition. (In Florida, it counted as a pro fight.)

But we are not done yet. On Tuesday, Triller announced that Trump and Trump Jr. would commentate the fight.

The next day, Lampley, objecting to the presence of the Trumps even though they were to be on a separate commentating stream, pulled out.

That is how Triller’s big summer showcase, to be voiced by Lampley, became three hours of Trump recalling different boxers he’d known and been friends with, before two depressing top bouts, both over in the first round, each of which featured one washed-up fighter beating another.

“They say there is a lot of people watching,” the former president said with a smile between fights. “I can’t

imagine why.” The night was one of Trump’s highest-profile, and lengthiest, public appearances since leaving office, and a fairly rare event in light of his suspension from a number of social media sites.

Triller did not reveal how much it had paid Trump, though Ryan Kavanaugh, whose company owns a majority stake in the app, said he was negotiating with Barack Obama to commentate on a future boxing match. That was a clear bid for publicity, and perhaps a bipartisan hedge in advance of Saturday’s fights, which featured such sights as former UFC fighter Tito Ortiz — a vocal Trump supporter who resigned from the city council of Huntington Beach, California, after drawing ire for his anti-mask and anti-vaccination stances — walking to the ring waving a “thin blue line” flag.

Ortiz was knocked out a minute into the first round by another former UFC fighter, Anderson Silva.

In 2021, everybody needs content, and live events — especially live sports — are the most valuable. But the rights to show most sports are locked up for years, and even if they were not, they are prohibitively expensive. Want to show NFL games to attract subscribers to your product? You can’t even get in the door for under $10 billion.

Boxing, however, is a free-for-all, and by comparison, $6 million for a title fight — or whatever Holyfield and Trump are being paid for whatever Saturday night’s event was — is a veritable bargain. But as numerous promoters and broadcasters have discovered, boxing’s low barrier to entry and its absolutely chaotic nature are why it is impossible to fully understand, and impossible to control.

Triller seems to believe it can plow ahead with big spending. After Belfort’s victory, Kavanaugh entered the ring to offer $30 million for a Thanksgiving fight between Belfort and Jake Paul, which is surely a prelude to two months of posturing, yelling and viral videos.

Kavanaugh made no mention of the López title fight Triller is supposed to be putting on in three weeks.

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 38

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Tweaking your routines could be a great idea, if it gives you more time for other things. Need a little encouragement? Look back at recent successes and all you’ve accomplished over past months, and you may be very pleased with your progress, Aries. Even so, with the Sun moving to oppose Neptune, you might drop the ball just as something important needs urgent attention.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Dreamy influences are at work, so it might be wise to slow down and take things in your stride. You likely won’t want to though Taurus, as an idea that could make a difference may be urging you onward. The coming days show promise, but will be more successful if you don’t look to others for advice. Take whatever they say with a pinch of salt, and go with your gut for now.

You seem to enjoy being around other people, with the days ahead encouraging you to accept invites and to connect with those who are an inspiration to you. Mercury in Libra is a very congenial influence, and as it will be here for some time yet, you have plenty of time to liaise with those who bring out the best in you. Someone you talk to today could make you an offer.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Avoid being rigid in your thinking, as bending your own rules could make the day ahead so much more enjoyable. Over-complicating anything isn’t a good idea, especially if taking five steps to accomplish something as opposed to ten is easily doable, with some savvy thinking. Before you make a start on anything, even cooking for the family, look for ways to simplify it.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

Work and play could compete for your attention today, leaving you guilty if you would prefer to do nothing but enjoy yourself. The Moon in adventurous Sagittarius, can signal that it’s time to listen to your feelings. If you want to have some fun, then why not?

And if you and your partner haven’t enjoyed a romantic date or an outing in some time, it might be just the ticket, Leo.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

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If you can’t get something you want, then maybe you’re being too eager. No matter how much you push to get it, it could fail to land on your plate. Yet the things you lightly hold in mind might materialize much faster, because you’re allowing space for them to show up. One has a grasping quality that may keep your dreams at bay, while the other is open to receive, and so it arrives.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Someone could inspire you to change your life, and just one conversation with them can act as a catalyst.

As fiery Mars is just a few degrees away from moving into your sign, the desire for a positive shift may be strong. In a few days the red planet will move into Libra, and it will be time to summon your courage and take positive steps forward. This person can kickstart the process.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Is someone very trying to be around? There are times when you may have no choice in the matter. If this is one of those days, just take it in your stride, Scorpio.

Besides, if you keep an open mind you might benefit from their company as something they say could ring true. Plus, the Moon’s move into Sagittarius could encourage you to turn unused items into cash you can spend.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Pleasure or no pleasure? With luscious Venus in potent Scorpio, this can be one of those times when you might want something, and yet feel you should resist. Not an easy situation, and one that could leave you frustrated. If you’re trying to give up a habit, then refusing to be tempted is a sign of strength.

Feel that you don’t deserve it? It may be that you really do, Sagittarius.

An issue you’re having with someone may be far from over, but you might sense you’re making headway.

Go easy over the coming days though Capricorn, and make clarity your watchword. With a confusing aspect developing, you don’t want to lose the ground you’ve gained through a mistake or misunderstanding. Stick with the facts, and all will be well.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Feel let down? There could be so many reasons why this might be. The current backdrop suggests you may be reading things into a situation that aren’t there. Once you get talking to this person, you’ll feel so much better with your mind at rest. Don’t let your day be spoiled by stewing over something that may not even be on your radar. Sort it out and you’ll feel better.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

The Sun in Virgo moves to oppose Neptune, so you may be eager to give your imagination free reign, Pisces. You can do so on a practical level by creating something beautiful, or you might dream up a special surprise for your romantic partner. Either way, it could add something special to the day. Hopeful? Fantasies may drift through your mind fuelling a desire for connection.

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