Monday Sep 6, 2021

Monday, September 6, 2021

San Juan The

50¢

DAILY

Star

Why Does Playing Tennis Cause So Many Pros So Much Misery?

P27

500 Years Old & Poised for a Rebirth San Juan Mayor Announces Schedule for 5th Centennial Celebration

P3

Public Health Experts: Use All Available Measures to Stem Infections, Keep Virus at Bay

P5

NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL P 16

Fiscal Board to AAFAF: All Documentation on Plan to Transfer Ex-PREPA Employees Due Sept. 17

P4

2

Monday, September 6, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

GOOD MORNING

3

September 6, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

On San Juan’s 500th birthday, mayor bets on growing capital city’s image

Today’s

Weather

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

Day

Night

High

Low

90ºF

81ºF

Precip 23%

Precip 24%

Partly Cloudy

Few Clouds

Wind: Humidity: UV Index: Sunrise: Sunset:

S

From ENE 16 mph 69% 10 of 10 6:10 AM Local Time 6:34 PM Local Time

INDEX Local 3 Mainland 7 Business 10 International 12 Viewpoint 15 Noticias en Español 16 Entertainment 17

Legals Sports Games Horoscope Cartoons

19 27 29 30 31

San JuanDAILY Star The

PO BOX 6537 CAGUAS PR 00726

sanjuanweeklypr@gmail.com (787) 743-5606

FAX

(787) 743-3346 • (787) 743-6537 (787) 743-5100

an Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo said Sunday that the aim of the fifth centenary celebration starting this week will be for the metropolitan city to be seen as more than a tourism destination.

During a press conference held at Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Theatre in Old San Juan, Romero Lugo told the STAR that the events from Thursday through Monday, which include an economic forum at the Sheraton Convention Center Hotel in the capital city, will be designed to ignite economic development activities that have been backlogged by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Puerto Rico has incentives, Puerto Rico has programs that can help both San Juan, and the entire island, to become an investment destination,” Romero Lugo said in response to questions from the STAR. “There is global competition to attract capital investment, to establish start-ups, to promote not only a vision of traditional employment, but more a vision of entrepreneurship.”

Regarding the economic forum, he said part of the event’s purpose is to give leading local and international figures from the private sector a platform for sharing their experiences on how to develop successful business projects on the island, something “we all hope to achieve,” the mayor said.

The forum will include historical and educational conferences, documentaries, musical events, exhibitions, “parrandas” and illustrated workshops.

“We have a unique chance here,” Romero Lugo said, noting that the event, along with other cultural initiatives, will be the starting point for reestablishing the city as a tourism destination beginning in November.

“Here we have a great introduction, the celebration where this city is framed as one of the oldest capital cities in the entire hemisphere, that, beyond our beaches, our gastronomy and the climate that the Creator gives us, we have a historical and tourist offer that is unique because, in terms of celebrating a fifth centenary, there is no one competing with us,” he said. “That must be maximized.”

The mayor made his statements after announcing some of the events and activities that guests and the general public will be able to enjoy during the celebration of the 500th anniversary of San Juan Bautista.

The opening day, Thursday, will feature the exhibitions “Image, Art and Devotion: San Juan in 500 Years” and “The City in Time: Five Centuries of Artistic Representation of San Juan” at the capital city’s museum.

Meanwhile, the inauguration of the 500-Year Trail will take place on Friday, while on Saturday, cultural activities will be held in the various plazas of Old San Juan.

Tata Cepeda and Tamboricua will headline the musical event that night.

Also on Saturday, San Juan will host the 28th Meeting of Mayors of Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean of the Union of Capital Cities of Ibero-America (UCCI).

On Sunday, the Holy Mass of the 500th Anniversary of the Founding of San Juan Bautista will be celebrated at Old San Juan Cathedral, along with ceremonial acts and the 500 Years of History Parade and Carnival.

Sunday’s concert includes artists like Carlos Vives, Andy Montañez, Nydia Caro, Danny Rivera, Glenn Monroig, Milly Quezada, Alberto Carrión, Orquesta Cucco Peña, José Juan Tañón, Victoria Sanabria, Caribbean Tenors, the San Juan Ballet and Gíbaro de Puerto Rico, among others.

Romero Lugo told The STAR that the event is a $993,000 investment to commemorate the metropolitan city’s foundation and celebrate its existing and future cultural, social and economic resources.

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo (Photo Courtesy of the San Juan Mayor’s Office)

4

Monday, September 6, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Fiscal board sets deadline for turning over of data on PREPA worker transfers

By THE STAR STAFF

T

he Financial Oversight and Management Board gave Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials) until Sept.

17 to turn over information related to the mobility plan for former Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) workers transferred to other agencies.

The letter dated Sept. 3 came after AAFAF Executive Director Omar Marrero sought an extension to turn over the information, which was supposed to have been submitted to the Board on Aug. 24. It gave AAFAF until Sept. 15 to turn over information related to pensions.

The letter did not say what the oversight board will do regarding problems with the mobility of PREPA employees who declined to work for LUMA Energy, the private operator that took over control of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system and customer service division on June 1.

Most of the PREPA workers who were transferred to other agencies remain in a limbo, in part because some agencies do not have the money or equipment to absorb them, according to testimony at a House Treasury and Budget Committee hearing last week The transfer of thousands of former PREPA employees to other government agencies is slated to cost the government more than $200 million annually, according to a report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

The PREPA workers left for other agencies instead of moving to LUMA Energy to avoid losing acquired benefits, including accumulated pensions. But their fate is still un-

Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority Executive Director Omar Marrero certain. Many have yet to begin work at the other agencies.

The oversight board also gave the Puerto Rico government until Sept. 30 and Oct. 22 to submit certain financial information related to the closing of the books for fiscal year (FY) 2021, which ended June 30.

In an Aug. 31 letter sent by the board’s executive director, Natalie Jaresko, to Deputy Treasury Secretary Ángel L. Pantoja-Rodríguez, the board said it was approving an extension of 32 days for the completion of the invoice, payment and accounting process related to the closing of

the books for FY 2021.

That extension ends on Sept. 30.

“In addition, we authorize the extension of the deadline for the submission of the certifications required by Section 12 and Section 8 of the FY21 certified budget resolution for general fund and special funds, respectively, until October 22,” the letter said.

Separately, the oversight board in a letter dated Sept. 1 gave the Treasury Department instructions to submit copies of the 2017 and 2018 management letters as issued by the island’s auditor KPMG by this Friday, Sept. 10.

“We write in relation to the actions taken by the government to address the internal control deficiencies identified by KPMG as part of the FY16 audit process,” the letter says. “The FOMB understands that much progress has been made to address the internal control issues identified

by KPMG. However, we have identified that several of the responses do not fully explain how the actions taken resulted in addressing the deficiency identified by the auditors.”

The oversight board recommended, as a matter of best practices, that the commonwealth request a draft management letter from the auditor prior to its issuance, so that it has a chance to comment on the deficiencies listed by the auditor, and that the final version of the management letter issued takes into account the comments from management.

The board also recommended that the audit management letters be made public, either as part of the annual financial statements or as a separate document.

Finally, the oversight board requested copies of the 2017 and 2018 management letters as issued by KPMG

by Friday.

House speaker says he will defend retiree pensions

BY THE STAR STAFF

T

he speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, reemphasized Sunday that he will defend the pensions of retirees through the approval of legislation.

He added that today he will demonstrate in the street along with island workers.

“To legitimize the restructuring of the central government debt, it is necessary to approve legislation redirecting collections previously pledged to the general fund, create new financial instruments, authorize a new bond issue and agree on the handling of cash for the next few years,” the House speaker said.

“As speaker of this body, my responsibility is to carry the message that, in defense of our workers, we have to achieve legislation that is passed in the House, Senate and executive [branch],” he added. “In addition, we must seek points of convergence between elected officials to defend them [workers] together against the fiscal entity [the Financial Oversight and Management Board]. Our

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez

primary goal must be to save pensions and avoid cutting those most in need. Therefore, we must all be aligned.”

Hernández Montañez highlighted the importance of recommending “a rigid structure of spending controls and discipline” to avoid making the mistakes of the past.

“With all the contractual restrictions of renegotiation with creditors, we still need a lot of work to guarantee the fiscal future of the island,” he said. “Our economy needs stability and continuity in economic incentive programs along with a simple tax system that fosters success and progress. In addition, a prudent and effective public policy that facilitates island business participation and job creation.”

“The table is set for advancing the causes of workers and saving essential services,” the House speaker added.

“Dialogue will be a key element for achieving wage justice, preventing the board from perpetuating itself, and safeguarding legislative prerogatives. We still have a lot of work to do, and my call is to raise our voice together in the street and in the forums that are necessary for unity, finally removing the fiscal control board from the island.”

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

5

‘Get vaccinated and mask up’ Public health experts urge citizens to use every safety measure to turn back COVID surge

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

A

s Puerto Rico and its government continue their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts on Sunday called for residents to continue taking every safety measure available to protect themselves and prevent others from spreading the disease and increasing the chances of new variants developing.

Although more than 2 million eligible island residents have completed the coronavirus vaccine phase, infectologist Ángeles Rodríguez told the STAR that until the world has access to a vaccine that can fully hold back transmission, citizens must cooperate in practicing more safety measures, such as using face masks and dodging crowded events, to prevent outbreaks from happening.

Rodríguez also said that aside from obtaining a vaccine that can fully block transmission of the coronavirus, reaching herd immunity could be possible when a more effective and strict contact tracing and case investigation system exists.

According to the Mayo Clinic, herd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease, making the spread of disease from person to person unlikely.

“That is the greatest consequence you specifically face when you don’t have people vaccinated,” she said. “When the virus gets through to a body that is able to process it, this virus is capable of transforming into a different virus; therefore, we have the virus we know today as delta.”

“Community, or herd, immunity is a tool that can only be successful when you achieve building barriers against the virus,” she added. “No vaccine is 100% effective; therefore, we have to find every way possible for people to not have any contact with the virus.”

“I have always said it is wrong to maintain oversight on

hospitalizations; we have to keep an eye on the virus itself, we have to keep an eye out for transmissions among communities, we have to seek the main sources of incoming cases and isolate them,” Rodríguez said. “At the moment you can put barriers between the virus and an able body, which can be any kind of body, you can limit the virus from existing.”

The epidemiologist made her statements after Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López told El Nuevo Día that “we can no longer talk about herd immunity” as the arrival of the delta variant “killed the whole herd immunity theory.”

Nonetheless, Puerto Rico Public Health Trust Executive Director José Rodríguez Orengo clarified to the STAR that the battle to reach herd immunity carries on; however, he added, the percentage of vaccinated people needed to reach herd immunity has changed.

After the death last week of veteran TV news reporter Efrén Arroyo, who died due to COVID-19 complications, his family confirmed on Saturday, Rodríguez Orengo urged islanders to get vaccinated to increase their chances of surviving exposure to the coronavirus and the delta variant.

According to Arroyo’s family, the 68-year-old journalist was unvaccinated against the coronavirus and had remained isolated at his home for two weeks due to what he believed were cold symptoms.

“Many people keep dying here; I see four and five people dying per day, and I ask myself what’s going on,” said Rodríguez Orengo, a member of the Puerto Rico Scientific Coalition. “I have always said it -- if we had the same number of deaths due to people being murdered as we have due to COVID, we would be outraged. This is concerning. We have gotten used to seeing so many COVID deaths; it looks like our sensitivity has decreased.”

“If you look at the data the Scientific Coalition has uploaded, you get to see that vaccines clearly have a positive effect on preventing hospitalizations and preventing people from dying,” he added.

Applied statistician Rafael Irizarry, another member of the coalition, tweeted that 758 COVID-related deaths have been reported in Puerto Rico since April 1.

“The vast majority could have been prevented,” Irizarry said. “Based on the mortality rate of the unvaccinated, if no one had been vaccinated, it would be 1300.”

“With everyone vaccinated, less than 100 [would have died],” he added. “Without vaccination, you won’t go back to normal.”

Rodríguez Orengo, meanwhile, confirmed to the STAR that the COVID-19 case positivity rate on the island has dropped to an 8.7%. He noted however that the decrease has been much slower than in April when the alpha variant was dominant.

Moreover, he said, antigen testing has doubled to 80,000 per week, with molecular testing at around 40,000 tests performed weekly. Therefore, Rodríguez Orengo said, although higher testing rates lead to higher case numbers, they also make it possible to see with greater precision how the delta variant behaves in Puerto Rico.

Public health experts are calling on island residents to continue taking all safety measures available to protect themselves and others from exposure to the coronavirus, and to lower the chances of new variants developing.

“What we hope is that we, Puerto Ricans, behave well and continue practicing safety measures on this holiday weekend in order to not see another rebound next week,” he told the STAR. “I’m vaccinated, I carry on with my life, but I still look out for risk factors; if I see that the event that I would attend puts me or my family at risk, I won’t attend that event.”

Puerto Rico Physicians & Surgeons Association President Víctor Ramos said meanwhile that “people just need to vaccinate” to reach herd immunity.

However, he added, in order to talk about herd immunity, vaccination outside the island and the United States must also be considered if the coronavirus is finally to be brought under control.

“If we focus on the worldwide population, around 22% of residents have at least one vaccine shot, while 15% have fulfilled the inoculation process,” he said. “More than variants developing here, variants are happening in other places, especially in countries where people are poor and cannot avoid crowding.”

“We must vaccinate the poor as soon as possible,” Ramos added. “If not, both anti-vaxxers and rich countries will be responsible for allowing the virus to mutate by keeping the available vaccines on hold, similar to what happened with influenza.”

The island Health Department reported Sunday that 12 people died due to COVID-19.

Among those deaths, 11 people were unvaccinated.

6

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

Bar Assn. defends retirement law in friend of the court filing

By THE STAR STAFF

I

n enacting Puerto Rico’s Dignified Retirement Act, Act No. 7 of 2021, the island government is trying to provide a reasonable alternative to the Financial Oversight and Management Board’s (FOMB) plan of adjustment and exercising its policymaking power to pass laws to protect people’s life, health and welfare, a Puerto Rico Bar Association (PRBA) friend of the court brief reads.

The document was filed last week in the case FOMB vs Pierluisi, an adversary proceeding in the U.S. commonwealth’s Title III bankruptcy case, in which the oversight board seeks to repeal Act 7 because it interferes with the debt deal. The government has said the controversy is not ripe for adjudication and is seeking a stay, arguing the law has not been implemented yet.

The Bar Association says Act 7 is an attempt by the government to protect public pensions, prevent cost-of-living increases and achieve debt sustainability by choosing to pursue the cancellation of illegal debt in court and by announcing the future creation of a Trust Fund for the Joint Administration of the Retirement Systems (FACSiR by its Spanish acronym).

“It is a policy choice born out of the collec-

Puerto Rico Bar Association President Daisy Calcaño López tive work of public unions, trade, civil society, environmental, and feminist organizations in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora. And it was unanimously approved by elected representatives of all five political parties in Puerto Rico, as well as its lone independent Senator,” the brief reads. “Few Puerto Rican laws dealing with crucial policy issues can claim to be the result of such a broad political consensus.

To challenge it, as the Board here attempts, is not only to confront the policy choices of the Government of Puerto Rico, but to seek to enjoin

the will of its people.”

The Bar Association said the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) gives the oversight board a very specific role with regard to the enactment of legislation in Puerto Rico. Congress did not grant the oversight board “power to affirmatively legislate, thus leaving the exercise of the commonwealth’s legislative powers in the hands of the Legislature.”

While PROMESA provides that the commonwealth government may not “enact, implement, or enforce any statute, resolution, policy, or rule that would impair or defeat the purposes, of PROMESA as determined by the Board” or pass laws inconsistent with the fiscal plan, the Association said it believes those provisions are illegal.

“The Puerto Rico Bar Association is on record arguing that these, as well as other, provisions of PROMESA, constitute an impermissible exercise of Congress’ powers under the Territorial Clause, and violate Puerto Rico’s right to self-determination under international law,” the Bar Association said.

The case is of particular importance because, yet again, it directly implicates the political and legal relationship between Puerto Rico and the

federal government, the association said.

“Specifically, the case deals with the imposition by Congress of the Board on the People of Puerto Rico that today, invoking several provisions in PROMESA, seeks to intrude upon and usurp the powers of majority rejection of the territorial status expressed at the polls by the People of Puerto Rico at the plebiscite held on November 6, 2012, and the violation of the right of Puerto Rico to its self-determination, as guaranteed by International Law,” the association said.

“Today, the controversy revolves around Act No. 7-2021, a law endorsed by dozens of civil society organizations in Puerto Rico, including the PRBA, and approved by the unanimous vote of representatives from all political parties in the Archipelago,” the association said. “However, the decision over this issue will have broader implications for Puerto Rico, particularly, if the Board is allowed to sidestep the powers of the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly and force it to enact legislation responding to its policy views, irrespective of the wellbeing of the People of Puerto Rico, considering that our constitutional framework rests on the People to elect public officials to enact laws at the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly.”

Bill would enable offshore wind projects in PR, other territories

By THE STAR STAFF

T

he U.S. government may be able to build new wind energy projects off the coast of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories if they are feasible, under a bill currently under review by the House of Representatives.

The legislation, scheduled for a markup hearing in the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, the second one this month, calls for the secretary of the interior to conduct at least

The U.S. government may be able to build new wind energy projects off the coast of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories under a bill currently under review in Congress.

one wind lease sale off the coasts of each of the territories. The wind lease sales will move forward if they are viable, the private sector is interested, and the territorial governments approve them.

If advanced by the committee, the bill will be incorporated into the $3.5 trillion budget package that contains several items hotly opposed by many Republicans.

Democrats, however, are hoping the $3.5 trillion budget “reconciliation” package will become law. Reconciliation is a parliamentary process that allows legislation related to budget matters to pass the Senate on a simple majority vote, without the threat of a filibuster as the Senate is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, at 50 each, giving Vice President Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote.

The measure would also revoke a 2020 executive order from former President Donald Trump that prevented exploration and development in offshore areas of the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic Ocean and the Straits of Florida.

It would also limit the executive branch ability to enact future restrictions on leasing of the areas, stating that such prohibitions can only be applied to oil and gas exploration projects. This would clear the path for offshore wind development.

In addition, the proposed budget resolution would raise royalty rates for both offshore and onshore fossil fuel production on public lands by about 150%.

The bill went last week to a markup session in the House Natural Resources Committee in which the Republicans tried to

delay the session until Sept. 14 to allow Congress to focus on Hurricane Ida and the crisis in Afghanistan. After that failed, the committee considered over 50 amendments of about 100 that were filed, mostly by Republicans.

That led to about nine hours of debate on the package and forced Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva to extend debate into a supplemental hearing slated for Thursday.

WE BUY OR RENT IN 24HRS

787-349-1000

SALES • RENTALS • VACATIONS RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (SOME RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY).

FREE CONSULTS REALTOR

Ray A. Ruiz Licensed Real Estate Broker • Lic.19004 rruizrealestate1@gmail.com

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

7

After a week without power, New Orleans is facing a ‘race with the clock’

By SOPHIE KASAKOVE and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

W

hen Stephanie Crier emerged from her New Orleans apartment last week after hunkering down for Hurricane Ida, she was relieved to find that the storm had not flooded the city or left catastrophic destruction on par with Hurricane Katrina. But since then, things have only gotten worse.

It has been over a week without power in her home.

Trying to fall asleep in the heat is torturous, said Crier, 60, and she has had to get up and wash herself with cold water in the dark just to get through the night.

As forecasters warned of dangerously high temperatures over the weekend, Crier was worried about taking care of her mother, who is 81 and returning to her apartment after finding a brief refuge with a friend.

“It’s a little bit unbearable,” Crier said as she sat on a folding chair in a gym that the city had converted into an air-conditioned cooling center. “If I could find somewhere to really lay down and stretch out, I might sleep all day and not wake up until the next day.”

More than a week after Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana, the city of New Orleans is withering in unrelenting heat. Roughly 70% of electric customers in the city had no power Saturday, marking the sixth day in a row. Many gas stations and convenience stores are shuttered. Neglected piles of garbage are baking in the streets. Amid it all, the sun has continued to beat down, with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees each of the past four days and the heat index hitting 103.

The number of visitors at the cooling center that Crier visited Saturday nearly quadrupled between Wednesday and Friday.

“We’re definitely seeing more desperation out in the streets,” said Nate Mook, who leads the World Central Kitchen, a disaster-relief charity that is giving out 25,000 meals a day in and around New Orleans.

Entergy, the troubled utility company that provides electricity to much of Louisiana, has vowed to restore power to almost all New Orleans residents by Wednesday, which would be 10 days after many people’s lights went out.

But local officials said that each day that passed was making the situation more dire.

“As we get into this point five or six days in, we are starting to see the elderly and vulnerable populations — the heat is starting to have an impact,” said Collin Arnold, director of New Orleans’ emergency preparedness agency. “It is kind of a race with the clock.”

On Saturday, about 500 people were evacuated to shelters with electricity in central and northern Louisiana.

A 250-bed federal medical facility opened in New Orleans’ convention center to relieve nearby hospitals, which were too strained by COVID-19 patients to accommodate people struggling from the heat.

Many New Orleans residents have taken to sitting on their porches or stoops all day, dousing themselves with hoses and

A week after Hurricane Ida knocked power out in parts of New Orleans, many neighborhoods are still without electricity. moving chairs down the street every few hours to follow the shade. When the city turns pitch black each night around 8 p.m., many remain outside for the breeze, with children playing with flashlights on sidewalks as parents fan themselves and wonder aloud with neighbors about when the power will go back on.

Many are in severe need of aid. Crier said that the store near her home was charging $5 for a bag of ice and that she was worried about how long she would be able to keep food in her cooler. She works as a concessions manager at the Superdome, the stadium where the New Orleans Saints play, but the team has moved its season-opening game, on Sept.

12, to Florida because of the storm.

At the cooling center, Crier waited to meet with Federal Emergency Management Agency workers about the $500 in relief funds that the agency is paying to some survivors of the storm, but she was told that she was not eligible. She had planned to use the money to leave town and get a hotel — with electricity and air conditioning — for her and her mother.

With no electricity, the storm has made gas hard to come by, hampering supply chains that provide aid to some of the city’s most vulnerable residents.

John Proctor, director of food service at the New Orleans Mission, said the charity was spending more than $1,000 each day just on fuel to power generators at its three locations, where it is sheltering more than 300 people. Every day, a team drives into Mississippi to load up tanks of diesel fuel and gas, he said.

“We’re still days away from power,” Proctor said. “We’re in a dire situation, the entire New Orleans metropolitan area — the lack of power, the smell of garbage.”

Not far away, under U.S. 90 along the edge of the city’s Warehouse District, the roar of motorcycles and cars echoes through a makeshift neighborhood of dozens of tents, mattresses and blankets. Many of those living under the highway were doing so for months before the hurricane, and while they said some things remained the same — there were no air conditioners or refrigerators to be lost — there have also been stark differences.

The stores and bus stops where people used the bathrooms are now closed, and the city has not cleaned out the portable bathrooms under the highway that are now filled with waste.

And in the days after the storm, many of the generous citizens and church workers who regularly dropped off food were unable to reach them.

Pastor Joycelyn Santee, who regularly drops off supplies for the residents here, said she had not been able to return to the area under the bridge for several days after the storm because her house lost power and she had to attend to her own family. But she was determined to return, and she and her team arrived Saturday with trunks full of toilet paper, bags of ice, toothpaste, deodorant, food and more.

“We do whatever we can,” Santee said. “This is what we do.”

8

Monday, September 6, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

New Jersey’s stunning storm toll includes many who drowned in cars

The scene in Queens on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, where a 43-year-old woman and her 22-year-old son were found dead in their basement apartment after floodwaters inundated their neighborhood.

By TRACEY TULLY, KEVIN ARMSTRONG and SEAN PICCOLI

M

alathi Kanche was heading home after dropping her son off at college Wednesday evening when the small SUV she was driving was overwhelmed by floodwaters set off by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. With the vehicle stalled in waist-deep water on Route 22 in Bridgewater, New Jersey, she and her 15-year-old daughter climbed out. They clung to a tree as the torrent rushed past, according to a close family friend and neighbor, Mansi Mago.

Then the tree gave way, and “the water took her,” said Mago, recounting what another stranded motorist told her hours later.

A 46-year-old software designer who emigrated from India, Kanche was one of six people who were still missing two days after Ida caused the deaths of at least 25 people in New Jersey — more fatalities than in any other state — as the monster storm whipped its way onto the Gulf Coast and tore north to New England.

At least one-third of the fatalities in New Jersey were people who drowned after being trapped in vehicles in a densely packed state known for its car culture, its tangle of highways, suburban commuter towns and limited public transportation.

Screeching alerts had sounded repeatedly on cellphones late Wednesday, warning people to stay inside, but no travel bans were put in place in New Jersey or New York, where 16 deaths — including 13 in New York City — have been linked to the storm. On Friday, in an acknowledgment of the growing risk of flash flooding as climate change unleashes increasingly intense

storms, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would increase its use of evacuation orders and travel bans.

In New Jersey, officials have not said whether they would apply new measures to protect the state given the likelihood of severe storms happening more frequently.

As the region faced the daunting task of cleaning and clearing debris, Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey and Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York both said they were expecting large infusions of recovery aid from the federal government. President Joe Biden was expected to soon declare the states a federal disaster area.

Murphy, speaking from Millburn, New Jersey, whose downtown commercial corridor had been ravaged by the rain, said the state would make $10 million in aid available to small businesses. “If you’ve been crushed and you can prove it, you’re eligible,” Murphy said.

The stories of devastation and death were tempered by the many tales of rescue in New Jersey, where the National Weather Service said three tornadoes also touched down during the storm, leveling homes in South Jersey but killing no one.

In South Plainfield, New Jersey, a 31-year-old man, Danush Reddy, lost his footing as he was walking alongside a flooded roadway and was swept into a 36-inch-wide sewer pipe, borough officials said. His body was found miles away.

But as the police searched for Reddy, they found a second man who had been sucked into the same pipe earlier Wednesday but had managed to survive by clinging to debris in the fast-moving current. “It really is a miracle,” said Glenn Cullen, South Plainfield’s administrator.

A pregnant woman was plucked from the top of her car by police in Cranford, New Jersey, where streets turned into rivers and 300 people were still waiting for emergency help to pump out flooded basements at 11 a.m. Friday, Lt. Matthew Nazzaro said.

And in Millburn, a contractor heard a honking car horn and ran to help free the driver of a submerged Jeep. Then he went back for the man’s two laptop computers and let the stranded motorist sleep in his shop for the night.

“He didn’t think of anything but helping me,” said the man, Joseph Siaba. “He gave me hope in humanity. At that moment I felt like COVID didn’t exist.”

Siaba had been trying to make his way to Union City to visit his girlfriend and had made his way to Millburn after managing to get off Route 78 — a main artery in New Jersey where hundreds of drivers were stuck in cars until dawn Thursday.

Ray McGrath, 52, had been heading home to Fanwood, New Jersey, after a service call in Manhattan when westbound traffic came to a standstill on Route 78 about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Some drivers tried to plow ahead.

“You could see them drive in and the car stopped and their lights went out,” said McGrath. He said he was marooned on the highway until about 5:30 a.m. “I just got comfortable and actually took a nap.”

Four residents of an apartment complex in Elizabeth, New Jersey, did not have the same luxury of time.

They died before they could escape from a first-floor apartment as water from the nearby Elizabeth River rushed through windows of the complex, the Oaks at Westminster. They were identified Friday as Rosa Espinal, 72; her husband, Jose Torres, 71; and their 38-year-old son, Jose. A neighbor, Shakia Garrett, also died in the flood.

“It just rose so fast and so high,” said Tisha Dickson, one of 600 residents who had to be evacuated from the complex.

J. Christian Bollwage, a longtime mayor and lifelong resident of Elizabeth, said he had never seen flooding devastation so severe. The police had already towed 40 immobilized cars off the city’s major roadways, he said, and continued to clear five to 10 cars an hour Friday.

Of the 25 confirmed deaths in New Jersey, eight people died trapped in cars, a state official said. At least one person was electrocuted and another person died of a heart attack after trying to push a car to safety. Hunterdon County in western New Jersey saw the most fatalities — six — followed by Somerset County, which had five.

By Friday morning, power had been restored to 80,000 of the more than 92,000 households that had lost power during the storm, according to the state’s utility board. But fires caused by explosions at structures inundated by water were reported in Rahway and Manville.

On Friday afternoon, Kanche’s family in Raritan, New Jersey, received the news they had been dreading.

The police had found a body of a woman matching Kanche’s description.

“It is with a heavy heart that I have to report the loss of one of our own citizens,” Raritan Mayor Zachary R. Bray announced on Facebook, thanking police in Bridgewater “for their tireless efforts these last few days in the search for Malathi.”

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

9

COVID hospitalization rate for children soars post-holiday wave of cases.)

Hospitalization rates have increased most sharply for children who are 4 or younger. In the week ending Aug. 14, there were 1.9 hospitalizations per 100,000 children in that age group, nearly 10 times as many as in late June.

But based on the limited data available so far, it does not appear that the delta variant is affecting the incidence of severe disease or deaths among children, which have been somewhat steady and relatively low throughout the pandemic.

Among the children and adolescents hospitalized from June 20 to July 31, 23.2% were admitted to the ICU, 9.8% required mechanical ventilation and 1.8% died. Those figures were roughly the same as those for children who were hospitalized before the delta variant became widespread.

By EMMA GOLDBERG and EMILY ANTHES

P

ediatric hospitalizations for COVID-19 have soared over the summer as the highly contagious delta variant spread across the country, according to two new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From late June to mid-August, hospitalization rates in the United States for children and teenagers increased nearly fivefold, although they remain slightly below January’s peak, one new study found.

But vaccination has made a difference. During this summer’s wave, the hospitalization rate was 10 times as high in unvaccinated adolescents as in those who were vaccinated, researchers found. Pediatric hospital admissions were nearly four times as high in states with the lowest vaccination rates as in those with the highest rates, according to a second study.

The studies, released Friday, do not provide clear answers about whether delta causes more severe disease in children than earlier versions of the virus.The rise in pediatric hospitalizations could also be because of the variant’s high infectiousness.

Indeed, one study concluded that the proportion of hospitalized children with severe disease had not changed in late June and July, when the delta variant became dominant in the United States.

The rates reported in the CDC studies are based on data from two national surveillance systems, including hospitals in 49 states and Washington, D.C. In one CDC study, researchers found that since July, the rate of new coronavirus cases increased for children 17 or younger, as did COVID-19-related emergency room visits and hospital admissions.

“We saw that ER visits, cases and hospital admissions are rising,” said Dr. David Siegel, lieutenant commander in the U.S. Public Health Service and the lead author of the paper. “It could be that delta is more severe or that delta is more transmissible, and it could be related to other factors such as masking.”

The study also found that COVID-19-related emergency room visits and hospital admissions among children were more than three times as high in states with the lowest vaccination coverage compared with states with high vaccination rates, underscoring the importance of communitywide vaccination to protect children. Other important factors that might affect regional differences included masking and social distancing measures, the study noted.

Last month, as delta surged, the incidence of COVID-19 in children rose from earlier in the

Carvase Perrilloux Jr., two months old, at Children’s Hosptital in New Orleans, Aug. 20, 2021. Pediatric hospitalizations for COVID-19 have soared over the summer as the highly contagious Delta variant spread across the country, according to two new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. summer — reaching 16.2 cases per 100,000 children ages 4 or under; 28.5 cases per 100,000 children ages 5 to 11; and 32.7 cases per 100,000 children ages 12 through 17.

That rate represented a sharp spike from a June low of 1.7 per 100,000 children ages 4 or under; 1.9 cases per 100,000 children ages 5 to 11; and 2.9 per 100,000 children between ages 12 and 17. It was still below the peak incidence of cases among children last January.

The proportion of COVID-19 patients under 17 who were admitted to intensive care units ranged from 10% to 25% from August 2020 through last June, and hovered at 20% by July 2021, according to the CDC study.

In a second study, researchers analyzed data from the COVID-NET surveillance network, which includes information on hospitalizations in 99 counties across 14 states.

Over the course of the pandemic — or from March 1, 2020, to Aug. 14, 2021 — there were 49.7 COVID-19-related hospitalizations per 100,000 children and adolescents, the researchers found.

But the weekly rates have been climbing since July. During the week ending Aug. 14, there were 1.4 COVID-19-related hospitalizations for every 100,000 children, compared with 0.3 in late June and early July. (That remains slightly below the peak weekly rate of 1.5 hospitalizations per 100,000 children, in early January 2021, in the

ESTAMOS CONTRATANDO CONSTRUCTION SOLUTIONS

APLICAR AHORA PAGO Y BENEFICIOS Pago inicial: $ 17 por hora ($ 15 por hora primeros 90 días) Horas extras pagadas después de 40 horas por semana

Pago por tiempo de viaje: pagado semanalmente Vuelo pagado de Puerto Rico a Texas Vacaciones pagadas y días festivos Programa de Jubilación 401-K Seguros: Salud, Dental, Visión y Vida

PARA APLICA:

Envíenos un correo electrónico a jobs@nettlescs.

Comuníquese con Coy Goodwin al (979) 221-9257 Bilingüe (inglés y español)

Entrevistas abiertas: Se llevará a cabo del 14 al 16 de septiembre en la Sala de Conferencias del Hotel Sheraton en el Viejo San Juan.

Ubicación: Sheraton Hotel 100 Brumbaugh Street, San Juan 00901 Puerto Rico

PROGRAMA DE ASISTENCIA DE REUBICACIÓN DE 90 DÍAS Transporte hacia y desde los lugares de trabajo Vivienda totalmente amueblada

REQUISITOS Debe tener al menos 18 años de edad Debe ser capaz de pasar una prueba de drogas y física Poseer una licencia de conducir válida Fines de semana de trabajo, horas extras y fuera de la ciudad Capacidad para seguir instrucciones escritas o verbales

Preferido, pero no requerido

Experiencia en construcción comercial Licencia CDL clase A Bilingüe (inglés y español)

Descripción de funciones Verter, termine e instale productos a base de cemento. Esta es una posición que requiere trabajo manual, mayormente afuera pero avecez adentro. Nuestros proyectos van desde trabajos en el terreno hasta edificios de 20 pisos

Acerca de Nuestra Empresa Nettles Construction Solutions, Inc. es un subcontratista comercial ubicado cerca de Houston, TX. Guiados por nuestros valores fundamentales de profesionalismo, integridad, amabilidad y orgullo, nos hemos expandido a nuevos mercados y hemos cambiado de marca para reflejar mejor el valor que aportamos a la industria de la construcción.

Obtenga más información sobre nosotros visitando www.nettlecs.com

10

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

Your finances took a hit from the pandemic. Here’s what you do now.

By RON LIEBER

M

aybe you lost your job. Maybe your hours were cut. Or maybe you had to take over caregiving responsibilities. If your income fell precipitously in the past 18 months — even if things have gotten better — it is an uncertain time.

On one hand, the federal eviction moratoriums are gone now, and extended unemployment benefits are ending shortly.

High inflation in some sectors does not help, and neither do rising housing costs.

On the other, jobs — though maybe not the ones that hotel and restaurant workers, theater people and small business owners had before — have been increasingly available in many parts of the country, though job growth has slowed recently.

No two situations are exactly alike, but when you have been on edge — emotionally and financially — for this long, it is especially important to conduct three types of check-ins.

First, find another human to talk to who has seen more (and hopefully knows more) than you. Then, do a quick nuts-andbolts audit of your financial standing. Finally, check in on your feelings — which can influence how you plot a recovery from a pandemic that has permanently expanded our understanding of what qualifies as a volatile industry.

Everyone can use a Stephen.

Good financial planners are a reliable source of guidance, but you may not be able to afford one right now — or find one who will take you on pro bono.

So consider that nearly every workplace or industry collective has a go-to guru or two for all matters of personal finance advice. Seek them out.

If that does not work, where else might you look in your acquaintance list?

Consider freelancers, especially people in creative industries. Sudden income shocks may be familiar to them because they often lack regular paychecks and usually know from dry spells.

Stephen Lee Anderson has been that person for up-and-coming theater actors in New York for many years. He is particularly adept at nudging them to pay themselves

first in a retirement account. “You give your agent 10%,” he told me this week. “Aren’t you worth at least that much?”

The Stephens (and Stephanies) of the world are still out there, dispensing all manner of useful advice to people who lack professional financial planning.

Or maybe you believe in strength in numbers. If you are hurting or trying to heal, there is a good chance others in your profession or at your job site are, too. Consider forming a support group — a kind of book club but for money. It may come with an uncomfortable amount of transparency, but it can help you learn and stay accountable for your decisions.

Get some certainty about debt and taxes.

Any rebound or reboot has to include the basics. Your credit file serves as a transcript and resume for lenders sussing you out, while your tax return is a kind of selfevaluation on earning, retirement savings and your own record-keeping skills.

Like it or not, credit bureaus like Equifax, Experian and TransUnion have enormous power over what you will pay when you borrow or whether you can even obtain a mortgage, credit card, auto loan or rental dwelling.

Perhaps you ran up credit card debt because you had to, or decided to spend more to make life easier and safer these past 18 months. If so, keep in mind that

provisions of the first big pandemic relief bill still require credit bureaus to mark many individuals as “current” on their accounts if they received certain types of payment accommodations from lenders. (Have you asked your lender for a break of some sort?

No time like the present, if you need one.)

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers plain-English advice on how these temporary rules are supposed to work, including what specific accommodations you can try requesting from a lender that should also protect your credit. The rules will apply until 120 days after the end of the national state of emergency, which the federal government has so far renewed throughout the pandemic.

And the credit bureaus currently allow people to check their reports weekly — without charge. If your credit is precarious, or even if not, take advantage of this.

The bureaus are notorious for the number of errors their reports contain. If you find any, dispute them. For starters, you will want to contact both the credit bureaus and the financial services company that may have furnished the incorrect information. (The consumer bureau has a good guide.)

As for that tax return, it never hurts to organize all the tax data you can during the last few months of the calendar year. It is a record of your recent past and a window into your long-term future (say,

via any notation about retirement savings).

The process may also serve as a reminder that there is often at least one more thing you could do in the present to help yourself while handing less money over to various governmental bodies.

Do not just contemplate catastrophe.

Now, for the searching questions about your feelings.

Even for those accustomed to financial uncertainty, the pandemic may have increased the kind of catastrophic thinking that can suffocate your ability to plan and prioritize.

Out in Hollywood, among a class of workers that resemble theater people like our money mentor Stephen, even the most successful were often gripped by fear, said Leighann Miko, whose financial planning firm works often with people who move from gig to gig.

“The fear was that things would take much longer to recover,” she said. “People thought they were going to have to pursue other means of employment.” What they really hoped to avoid was what she called “Plan Z,” the code for former jobs in different industries that they were hoping never to have to take again.

Miko sees a kind of psychological scarring all around her, even among people making $600,000 per year. Cry them a river, but they know good and well that even absent a pandemic, a year with just $30,000 in earnings could easily be around the next corner. To help those who cannot conceive of doing anything beyond the dream jobs they have worked so hard to obtain, she plans and schemes — and tries to get them to as well.

“Minimizing the catastrophizing means ensuring there are multiple layers to every safety net,” she said. “Because at some point or another, they are going to fall through the first one and then the second one.”

So rather than lose yourself in contemplating what unfathomable thing might be the next unfathomable thing, make an action plan for the next upheaval. It can be relatively simple: If income falls from B to A, tap C, D and E in that order and cut F, G and H. If that isn’t enough, swallow pride and ask people I and J for help.

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

11 Stocks

Back-to-school may lift U.S. retail shares after recent lull S

trong late-summer back-to-school sales could provide U.S. retailers some needed momentum after many sector shares lagged the broader market in recent months.

The S&P 500 retailing index (.SPXRT), which includes Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), is up just about 2% for the quarter so far, compared with a 6% gain in the S&P 500 (.SPX).

Some retailers, including Macy’s Inc (M.N) and Walmart Inc(WMT.N), cited upbeat back-to-school data recently as they increased annual U.S. sales forecasts, but further sales data and the U.S. August retail report are expected later this month. read more With the help of advance child tax credits and stimulus checks related to the pandemic, some consumers have had extra cash to load up on backpacks and other supplies.Still, signs of caution have been growing in some corners of the market, fueled in part by rising coronavirus cases across the country and uncertainty over how quickly the Fed will tighten monetary policy once it begins its taper.

With worries over the Delta variant looming, “to continue to question the rally because of seasonality makes sense,” said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade.

While major indexes stand near fresh highs, many stocks have been left behind. Tuesday marked the first time in nearly seven years that the S&P 500 hit a closing high while a 10-day total showed more stocks on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq making 52-week lows than making 52-week highs, according to Willie Delwiche, an investment strategist with market research firm All Star Charts.

Investors have also been cutting back on leverage, with margin debt dropping 4.3% to $844 billion in July even as the S&P advanced more than 2%, according to data from BofA Global Research. The S&P 500 has been lower 71% of the time one year after a peak in margin debt has been reached, the bank’s analysis showed.

Net leverage among hedge funds, meanwhile, stood at 50% at the start of the third quarter compared with 58% late last year, according to a Goldman Sachs report.

Though the market’s year-to-date gains have been spectacular, investors have questioned how much juice remains in the rally. A Reuters poll this week showed strategists believe the S&P 500 is likely to end 2021 not far from its current level.

A window into how the Delta variant has rippled through the economy will come next Friday, with the release of the U.S. jobs report for August, following recent weak readings on consumer sentiment and retail sales. The seven-day average of new reported cases reached about 155,000, the highest in about seven months, Reuters data through Thursday showed.

“When I sift through the noise … that’s what the market is focusing on right now, plain and simple,” said Jack Janasiewicz, portfolio manager at Natixis Investment Managers Solutions.

MOST ASSERTIVE STOCKS

PUERTO RICO STOCKS

COMMODITIES

CURRENCY

LOCAL PERSONAL LOAN RATES Bank

LOCAL MORTGAGE RATES Bank

FHA 30-YR POINTS CONV 30-YR POINTS

BPPR Scotia CooPACA Money House First Mort Oriental

3.00% 0.00 3.50% 0.00 3.50% 2.00 3.75% 2.00 3.50% 0.00 3.50% 0.00

3.50% 000 4.00% 0.00 3.75% 2.00 3.75% 2.00 5.50% 0.00 3.75% 5.50

PERS.

CREDIT CARD

AUTO

BPPR --.-- 17.95 4.95 Scotia 4.99 14.99 4.99 CooPACA

6.95 9.95

2.95

Reliable

--.-- --.--

4.40

First Mort 7.99 --.-- --.-Oriental 4.99 11.95 4.99

12

Monday, September 6, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Taliban fighters crush a women’s protest amid flickers of resistance

Taliban fighters on horseback at Qargha Lake, a popular recreational area, in Kabul on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021.

By ADAM NOSSITER

T

aliban fighters violently suppressed a women’s protest Saturday in Kabul, while 70 miles to the north ex-Afghan army and militia members battled the Islamist group in Panjshir province, as pockets of anti-Taliban resistance continued to flare up.

Several of the women, who were demanding inclusion in the yet-to-be named Taliban government, said they were beaten

by Taliban fighters — some of the first concrete evidence of harsh treatment of women by the group.

Since they swept to power last month Taliban leaders have been on a “charm offensive” seeking to convince the world, aid groups and their own population that the harsh rule they imposed in their last stint in power, from 1996 to 2001, was a thing of the past. But there was little restraint in evidence at the Kabul protest.

A 24-year-old participant said in a telephone interview that the Taliban tried to rout the gathering of about 100 women using tear gas, rifle butts and metal clubs or tools. She said she received five stitches to close a head wound after she was knocked unconscious with a blow from one of the metal objects.

“When I tried to resist and continue the march, one of the armed Taliban pushed me and hit me with a sharp metal device,” said the woman, who The New York Times is identifying only by her first name, Nargis, to guard against retribution.

“They pushed everybody away and forced us to leave while chasing us with their spray, weapons and metal devices,” said Nargis. “The Taliban kept cursing, using abusive language.” Video of the incident on Afghan news media outlets showed a bearded Taliban member, surrounded by gunmen, exhorting the women to disperse through a megaphone, which was then snatched from his hand by one of the women.

On Friday night, the Taliban pushed farther into the Panjshir Valley in an effort to crush resistance led by Ahmad Massoud, son of legendary resistance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who held off the Taliban 25 years ago.

Reports that the Panjshir Valley had fallen Friday night touched off bursts of celebratory Taliban gunfire in the capital, killing at least two. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid later criticized the gunfire and called on fighters to “thank God instead.”

Mujahid is likely to be named information minister in a new Afghan government whose composition has been the subject of rumors for days. The naming of the new ruling structure was delayed yet again Saturday, but it appeared increasingly likely that it would include only figures from the Taliban movement. That would contradict early suggestions that the group would reach outside its ranks in an effort to appear inclusive.

The local branch of ISIS, Islamic State-Khorasan, or ISISK, blamed for the deadly airport bombing in Kabul last month, continued to create problems for the Taliban. A senior official of

a prominent Western aid agency in Kunduz reported a number of killings of Taliban members in the last week of August, apparently

by ISIS-K members, and even the raising of an ISIS-K flag, later taken down.

Pakistan, whose intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, has provided funding and sanctuary to Taliban leadership for two decades, showed its hand Saturday. Both the Afghan and Pakistani news media reported that the head of the ISI, Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, flew into the Afghan capital for talks.

At the reopened money exchange, traders bemoaned the country’s faltering economy. Government workers are unable to get to their offices and are going unpaid, they said, while cash is increasingly scarce and prices are rising sharply.

“People are facing challenges,” said Haji Ghulam Hazrat, a money trader at the exchange. “Most of the people were government employees,” he said, referring to his customers, “and now they are jobless and at home,” Hazrat added: “In the last 12 days there have been no transactions, and people were unable to shop.”

With the aid-dependent country’s economy in free-fall — nearly 80% of the previous government’s budget came from foreign aid that has been cut off — the United Nations has convened a “high-level ministerial humanitarian meeting” in Geneva on Sept. 13 to appeal for aid. Nearly half the country is “malnourished,” said the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov. Nearly half of all children under the age of 5 are predicted to be acutely malnourished in the next 12 months, the U.N. said.

Still, there were signs of a creeping return to a kind of normality, as domestic flights resumed and the U.N.’s humanitarian flights restarted. Two cash transfer agencies, Western Union and MoneyGram, reopened for business, a vital step for a country with a large diaspora.

But for all the hints of resumption of daily life, there were as many that bespoke a future in Afghanistan very different from the immediate past. The violent suppression of the women’s demonstration was one of them.

Saturday’s marchers had wanted to “pay our respect to those soldiers” who had fought for the now-defunct republic, one of the protesters, a female ex-Afghan army company commander, said in a telephone interview. But after placing flowers at the former Defense Ministry “we were surrounded by armed Taliban from all sides,” said the woman, who The Times is identifying only by her first name, Rukhshana.

“They asked us to leave and stop the protest,” she said.

“Some of the Taliban beat us.

“They treated us like animals,” Rukhshana added.

“We were only launching a simple protest,” she said. “We wanted to ask for our rights through this rally and show that we exist. We have worked hard, we have studied and struggled, offered sacrifices, lost our husbands,” she said.

She vowed to keep protesting. “We will continue our struggle until we get our rights back in this government. They took over our country by the force of their weapons.”

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

13

Threats and fear cause Afghan women’s protections to vanish overnight

By ALISSA J. RUBIN

I

t took years for Women for Afghan Women to build up Afghanistan’s largest network of women’s protection services — 32 safe houses, family guidance centers and children’s homes in 14 provinces, growing by word-of-mouth and driven by the intense need for their services.

They started closing their doors in a matter of days as the Taliban began their lightning advance through Afghan cities on Aug. 6. Most of the shelter directors grabbed or burned records, packed a few belongings and fled with their clients as word arrived that the Taliban were coming.

A very few safe-house directors — not only those affiliated with Women for Afghan Women, but also with a handful of other long-established shelters — opted to stay where they were, but went silent, fearful that anything they said could bring harm to the women in their care. No one is accepting new cases.

“Our shelters, our women’s protection centers, are gone. It is highly unlikely that most of the work we do for women, we will be able to do as we have done it,” said Sunita Viswanath, the co-founder of Women for Afghan Women.

Even before the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan placed near the bottom of every list when it came to protections for women, and at the top in terms of the need for safe houses, counseling and courts that could help keep women safe.

More than half of all Afghan women reported physical abuse and 17% reported sexual violence, while almost 60% were in forced marriages as opposed to arranged marriages, according to studies cited by the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs — and underreporting is rampant.

Honor killings, child marriages, the payment of a bride price for a woman, and the practice of baad — the trading of young girls to pay the debts of the elders, which is tantamount to selling a child into slavery — still occur in rural areas. Everywhere, harassment of women in workplaces and in public is a constant, as is psychological abuse, according to recent studies.

As the insurgency advanced, the first concern of the staff of Women for Afghan Women and others running similar shelters was what the Taliban might do to punish

them. As the country’s rulers in the 1990s, the Taliban strenuously opposed women traveling on their own or gathering together.

Relatively recent examples of Taliban conduct have been worrying. When the Taliban briefly took over the city of Kunduz in 2015, the Women for Afghan Women shelter operators and clients all fled as threatening calls flooded in from the insurgents.

The shelter director described being actively hunted, and said she was getting calls from the Taliban saying they would capture her and hang her in the village square as an example.

But it is not just fear of the Taliban that has frightened the shelter operators and their clients this time. Taliban fighters have come to some of the shelters in recent weeks. Sometimes they have vandalized the premises and taken over the buildings, but there have been no reports of their harming anyone yet, said Viswanath, the group’s co-founder.

“None of our staff has been beaten, attacked, killed, as far as I know,” she said.

Much of the concern has come from the waves of prisoners set free during the Taliban advance. Among them were men imprisoned under women’s protections laws that were enacted with Western support over the past 20 years. The former prisoners have a grudge to bear not just against the female relative who spoke out against them and humiliated them publicly, but also against all those who supported that effort — the safe house directors, counselors and lawyers.

The shelters have long been targets.

For many in Afghanistan’s harshly patriarchal society — not just the Taliban — a woman who is on her own or who leaves her family is often viewed as a prostitute.

Some see shelters for battered women as thin disguises for brothels.

Over the past 15 years, however, despite the societal antagonism toward protections for women, more began seeking out shelters. Often bearing ghastly injuries — broken bones or internal injuries from being severely beaten — women would again and again knock at the unmarked gates or ordinary homes where women’s aid groups took people in.

Whether those operations will continue is firmly in the hands of the Taliban, who are expected to announce their own laws

to govern women’s conduct. That will leave the former Afghan government’s Elimination of Violence Against Women Act, and other protections, on uncertain footing.

For now, Taliban officials have offered assurances that women would be allowed to work and in some cases travel without a male relative’s escort — “as allowed for under Shariah,” or Islamic law. The Taliban’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, surprised some when he acknowledged, after other Taliban officials urged Afghan women to stay home temporarily for their own safety, that many within the Taliban ranks could not be trusted to treat women civilly, and would need to be educated.

But the Taliban made similar statements after taking control of the capital and most of the country in 1996.

“The explanation was that the security was not good, and they were waiting for security to be better, and then women would be able to have more freedom,” said Heather Barr, the associate director of women’s rights at Human Rights Watch. “But of course in those years they were in power, that moment never arrived — and I can promise you Afghan women hearing this today are thinking it will never arrive this time, either.”

Mahbouba, whom the Times is identifying by just one name to protect her and her organization, oversees a long-established safe house for women. She has not fled, or closed its doors, but she is keeping a low profile and calibrating what she says to the news media, she said.

When some Taliban recently came to her office saying that the women were being kept against their will, Mahbouba said she did not let them in, but went outside to talk with them.

They told her they had heard that “some women are kept prisoners here.” She rejected that, saying instead she was defending the honor of Afghan women.

“I do not let them go on the street to be used and abused by other people; these are the victims of family violence,” she recalled saying. “So, instead of running away and having them go to prostitution, I have kept their honor and I am keeping them safe.”

The Taliban appeared to accept that explanation, and Mahbouba said she was determined to have a dialogue with them.

But she also made a request: Please, she said, “keep watching, and if our world goes haywire and it becomes really terrible, we can let people know.”

A woman walks through Kabul, Afghanistan, July 2, 2021. More than half of all Afghan women reported physical abuse and 17 percent reported sexual violence, while almost 60 percent were in forced marriages as opposed to arranged marriages, according to studies cited by the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs — and underreporting is rampant.

14

Monday, September 6, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Vaccine passports roll out, and so do unruly anti-vaccine protests

Anti-vaccine and pandemic restriction protesters at a Liberal campaign event Sunday.

By IAN AUSTEN

A

crowd rallying against vaccination for COVID-19 clogged the streets outside a hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, last week, haranguing and, in one case, assaulting health care workers, slowing ambulances, delaying patients entering for treatment and disturbing those recovering inside.

Kennedy Stewart, the city’s mayor, was among the many people to quickly condemn the protesters.

“When I see folks blocking health care workers who are working flat out to save people dying of COVID, it makes me sick,” he wrote on Twitter.

While polls show that Canadians opposed to vaccines are a decided minority, the Vancouver protest was not an isolated event. In British Columbia, protesters were out in Kamloops, Victoria, Kelowna, Prince George and Nanaimo. A hospital area in downtown Toronto saw a similar rage-filled protest, and an anti-vaccine group made its way through downtown Montreal.

All this, of course, followed the angry and often profane protests that have tracked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the federal election campaign, forcing the cancellation of one event out of safety concerns.

Trudeau and Liberals have not been the only targets.

Anti-vaccine protesters twice showed up at the home of Stephen Lecce, the education minister in Ontario’s

Progressive Conservative government. When protesters learned Lecce wasn’t home, they heckled his neighbors.

Coincidentally or not, public anti-vaccine rage emerged in a week that brought developments in some provinces requiring proof of vaccination for entrance to some public places. The vaccine-verification system in Quebec, which includes a phone app, went into effect Wednesday. And in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford backed away from his long-held resistance to vaccine passports and announced a program that will be fully phased in by late October.

Ford’s announcement means Ontario joins British Columbia and Manitoba in addition to Quebec in requiring proof of vaccination for some activities. (Saskatchewan is working on the development of a vaccination passport, but it has not made vaccination mandatory for any activity or job.)

There are significant differences between the provinces’ approaches. For example, Quebec’s list of places that require vaccination is longer and more stringent than Ontario’s will be when it starts later this month. Dining at a restaurant in Quebec will require vaccination whether indoors or on an outdoor terrace.

Ontario’s measure will apply indoors only, raising questions about how patio diners will use washrooms or, at many locations, even enter the outdoor dining spaces.

The reaction from businesses is mixed. The Cana-

dian Chamber of Commerce last month called for clear mandatory vaccination rules from governments and vaccine passports. But some business owners, particularly those with restaurants, have raised concerns about vetting their customers and enforcing the rules.

No province has a blanket mandatory vaccination policy. But vaccine passports and vaccination mandates by employers or governments have raised some privacy and human rights concerns.

Errol Mendes, a professor of law at the University of Ottawa and a human rights specialist, said that someone fired for refusing vaccination under a vaccine mandate set by an employer could bring a case under provincial human rights codes. Similarly, labor unions could argue that firings break their collective agreements. In the case of government-imposed vaccines, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms would come into play.

“But it’s not a certainty that any of these legal challenges would necessarily be successful,” Mendes said.

It’s much more likely, he said, that any such case would follow the pattern set by the Supreme Court of Newfoundland when a provincial travel ban was challenged. It found that the ban did indeed violate part of the charter but was nevertheless legal because it was a reasonable restriction in the context of the pandemic.

Before calling the election, Trudeau said the government would require vaccines for its public servants, employees in federally regulated industries and passengers on trains, planes and cruise ships. Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party, made a similar proposal and even set Monday as a deadline. Erin O’Toole, the Conservative leader, does not support mandatory vaccinations.

As was the case in British Columbia and Quebec, Ontario’s announcement about vaccination proof was immediately followed by an increase in vaccination bookings.

As for the anti-vaccine protesters, there’s no immediate sign that they will follow the advice of Vancouver’s mayor and stay home. But they are probably not who they claim to be. The Ontario Hospital Association said that, contrary to the protesters’ claims in Toronto, it believes “that the majority of participants taking part in these rallies were not health care workers.”

It also made it clear that their protests are unwelcome.

“By denying the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines they also inflicted moral injury on health care workers who are working tirelessly on the front lines caring for patients sick and dying from this dangerous virus,” the group said. “It is a bitter irony that should any of these anti-vaccine protesters get sick or seriously ill from COVID, it will be hospitals and front line workers that they turn to for care.”

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

15

The American empire in retreat

By ROSS DOUTHAT

I

n one of the more arresting videos that circulated after the fall of Kabul, a journalist follows a collection of Taliban fighters into a hangar containing abandoned, disabled U.S. helicopters.

Except that the fighters don’t look like our idea of the Taliban: In their gear and guns and helmets (presumably pilfered), they look exactly like the American soldiers their long insurgency defeated.

As someone swiftly pointed out on Twitter, the hangar scene had a strong end-of-the-Roman Empire vibe, with the Taliban fighters standing for the Visigoths or Vandals who adopted bits and pieces of Roman culture even as they overthrew the empire. For a moment, it offered a glimpse of what a world after the American imperium might look like: Not the disappearance of all our pomps and works, any more than Roman culture suddenly disappeared in 476 A.D., but a world of people confusedly playacting American-ness in the ruins of our major exports, the military base and the shopping mall.

But the glimpse provided in the video isn’t necessarily a foretaste of true imperial collapse. In

PO BOX 6537 Caguas PR 00726 Telephones: (787) 743-3346 • (787) 743-6537 (787) 743-5606 • Fax (787) 743-5100

Dr. Ricardo Angulo Publisher Manuel Sierra

Ray Ruiz

General Manager

Legal Notice Director

María de L. Márquez

Sharon Ramírez

Business Director

Legal Notices Graphics Manager

R. Mariani

Aaron Christiana

Circulation Director

Editor

Lisette Martínez

María Rivera

Advertising Agency Director

Graphic Artist Manager

other ways, our failure in Afghanistan more closely resembles Roman failures that took place far from Rome itself — the defeats that Roman generals suffered in the Mesopotamian deserts or the German forests, when the empire’s reach outstripped its grasp.

Or at least that’s how I suspect it will be seen in the cold light of hindsight, when some future Edward Gibbon sets out to tell the story of the American imperium in full.

That cold-eyed view, taken from somewhere centuries hence, might describe three American empires, not just one. First there is the inner empire, the continental USA with its Pacific and Caribbean satellites.

Then there is the outer empire, consisting of the regions that Americans occupied and rebuilt after World War II and placed under our military umbrella: basically, Western Europe and the Pacific Rim. Finally, there is the American world empire, which exists spiritually wherever our commercial and cultural power reaches, and more practically in our patchwork of client states and military installations. In a way, this third empire is our most remarkable achievement. But its vastness inevitably resists a fuller integration, a more direct kind of American control.

Seen from this perspective, the clearest American defeats of our imperial era, first in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and then in the Middle East and Central Asia after 9/11, have followed from the hubristic idea that we could make the world empire a simple extension of the outer empire, making NATO-style arrangements universal and applying the model of post-World War II Japan and Germany to South Vietnam or Iraq or the Hindu Kush.

We have experienced similar failures, with less bloodshed but more significant strategic consequences, in our recent efforts to Americanize potential rivals. Our disastrous development efforts in Russia in the 1990s led to a Putinist reaction, not the German- or Japanese-style relationship we had imagined. The unwise “Chimerican” special relationship of the past two decades seems to have only smoothed China’s path to becoming a true rival, not a junior partner in a peaceful world order.

Both kinds of failures and their consequences — Russian revanchism and growing Chinese power combined with quagmire in Iraq and defeat

A flag ceremony before Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York, Oct. 8, 2018. in Afghanistan — have meaningfully weakened the American world empire, and extinguished our post-9/11 fantasy of truly dominating the globe.

But so long as we have the other two empires to fall back on, from our cold-eyed Gibbonian perspective the situation still looks more like a scenario where Rome lost frontier wars to Parthia and Germanic tribes simultaneously — a bad but recoverable situation — than like outright imperial collapse.

That said, defeats on distant frontiers can also have consequences closer to the imperial core.

The American imperium can’t be toppled by the Taliban. But in our outer empire, in Western Europe and East Asia, perceived U.S. weakness could accelerate developments that genuinely do threaten the American system as it has existed since 1945 — from German-Russian entente to Japanese rearmament to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

Inevitably those developments would affect the inner empire, too, where a sense of accelerating imperial decline would bleed into all our domestic arguments, widen our already yawning ideological divides, encourage the feeling of crackup and looming civil war.

Which is why you can think, as I do, that it’s a good thing that we finally ended our futile engagement in Afghanistan and still fear some of the possible consequences of the weakness and incompetence exposed in that retreat.

And applied to the American empire as a whole, this fear points to a hard truth: You might think that our country would be better off without an imperium entirely, but there are very few paths back from empire, back to just being an ordinary nation, that don’t involve a truly wrenching fall.

16

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

Se extiende tiempo del centro de acopio en WIPR Se recibirán artículos para Haití hasta el día de hoy a la medianoche, vía servi-carro POR EL STAR STAFF

D

ebido a que la respuesta del público al centro de acopio de WIPR-Radio y Televisión ha sido extraordinaria, hemos decidido ampliar el tiempo hasta el día de hoy lunes, para dicho propósito.

Las emisoras del pueblo de Puerto Rico han estado sirviendo de centro de recolección de artículos de gran necesidad para los hermanos caribeños de Haití, quienes recientemente sufrieron el embate de un terremoto de magnitud 7.2 en el que, al momento, ha tenido un saldo de alrededor de 2,200 fallecidos, cerca de 12,300 heridos, 400 desaparecidos y más de 30,000 desamparados. Esta catástrofe ha destruido unas 53,000 viviendas y causado daños a otras 77,000.

Se continuarán recibiendo artículos hoy lunes desde las 6:00 am hasta la medianoche.

Entre los artículos que pueden donarse están ropa y zapatos en buen estado para niños y niñas, pañales para niños y adultos, sábanas, catres y casetas de campaña, alimentos secos y enlatados (que no expiren en las próximas semanas), mascarillas, toallas húmedas antibacteriales, desinfectantes de manos, alcohol, agua oxigenada, vendajes, gazas y otros artículos de primeros auxilios. Igualmente, se puede colaborar con

medicamentos tales como acetaminofén, ibuprofeno, triple antibiótico, los especializados para las alergias y enfermedades estomacales (OTC), sueros de rehidratación oral, multivitaminas y suplementos nutricionales para niños y adultos.

Todos los empleados de WIPR-Radio y Televisión agradecen infinitamente las muchas donaciones realizadas hasta el momento e instan a los que así lo deseen, aprovechen estos días para hacerlo fácil y rápidamente, vía servi-carro, en nuestras instalaciones en la avenida Hostos 570, de la urbanización Baldrich en Hato Rey. La intención de WIPR- Radio y TV es hacerse accesible a ciudadanos que vivan o laboren cerca de las instalaciones de las emisoras para que se les sea más fácil colaborar, tanto por la ubicación como porque pueden hacerlo durante el fin de semana y un período de tiempo extenso.

Estos artículos donados serán entregados al centro de acopio principal designado por el gobierno de Puerto Rico, ubicado en el Muelle Navy Frontier en Puerta de Tierra, San Juan. Los que así lo deseen también pueden hacer sus donaciones allí, de lunes a domingo, entre 8am a 5pm.

“Mil gracias a todos los que han traídos artículos que tanta falta le hacen a nuestros hermanos caribeños de Haití. No dudamos nunca de la generosidad de nuestro pueblo y, por eso, extendemos el período

para poder llevarle a estos desamparados más ayuda.

De nuevo, esperamos por sus donaciones en las instalaciones de WIPR-Radio y Televisión”, comentó el presidente de las emisoras, Eric Delgado.

Finalmente, todo lo que sea donado por el pueblo de Puerto Rico se hará llegar con urgencia a través de la Alianza Solidaria Puertorriqueña y otras entidades sin fines de lucro quienes, a su vez, las entregarán de forma diligente y segura a quienes más lo necesitan en Haití.

Gobernador defiende labor del Departamento de Justicia en investigación del voto ausente de Rosselló Nevares y su esposa POR CYBERNEWS

R

ÍO GRANDE -- El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia defendió el viernes la labor del Departamento de Justicia en la investigación del caso por voto ausente del exgobernador Ricardo Rosselló Nevares y su esposa Beatriz Areizaga para las elecciones de los cabilderos/delegados por la estadidad.

“Me consta que son dos fiscales honestos, serios y diligentes los que estuvieron a cargo de esa investigación. Y que el secretario les dio todo el espacio para que ellos tomaran su determinación y el secretario la avaló. Yo entiendo que no tengo mas nada que decir, salvo que ese caso a nivel penal ya está cerrado”, dijo Pierluisi Urrutia a preguntas de la prensa.

Cuestionado sobre las denuncias en el informe radicado por los fiscales Rufino Jiménez Cardona y

Gretchen Camacho Rossy de que la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE) no pudo proveer documentos que permitieran radicar el caso en los tribunales, a pesar de que los fiscales concluyeron que Rosselló

Nevares y su esposa violaron el Código Electoral, el gobernador contestó que “lo importante es que el Departamento de Justicia cumplió su misión, lo hizo responsablemente. Si por esta situación surge una posible enmienda al Código Electoral, yo la evaluaré.

Ahora mismo se está considerando enmendar el Código Electoral. Pues si quieren entrar en esta materia para evitar que una situación como esta se repita lo pueden hacer”.

Según la investigación de los fiscales, los documentos para solicitar el voto ausente de Rosselló Nevares y su esposa, que fueron enviados mediante correo electrónico, no están juramentados ni firmados.

Tampoco la CEE pudo proveer un documento original, sino una fotocopia. Esta y otras situaciones encontradas durante la investigación llevaron al Ministerio Público a no radicar cargos contra el matrimonio.

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

17

Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the power of terrifying legends

By CANDICE FREDERICK

W

hen Nia DaCosta was a child in 1992 New York, you couldn’t tell her that the villain in the original horror film “Candyman” didn’t really exist. In fact, she vividly remembers the story of a woman who was killed in those days by someone who climbed through her bathroom mirror. “It was something that we talked about because it happened at the projects behind my elementary school,” the director said. “So, for me growing up, Candyman was real. He wasn’t coming from a movie.”

It might sound like the naive belief of a young girl, but when you reconsider the brutal back story of “Candyman” — a 19th-century Black male artist who was murdered by a mob of white men for falling in love with a white woman — the legend feels startlingly real.

It’s one reason DaCosta revisited that story with the new “Candyman,” starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Anthony, a painter struggling to contend with a white art world as he becomes horrifyingly obsessed with the story of Candyman. His girlfriend and the director of the gallery that shows his work, Brianna (Teyonah Parris), wants to bury the legend and stop it from recurring.

The director, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, traveled to the Chicago neighborhood that was once home to the Cabrini-Green projects where the first movie was set, to absorb as much as she could about an area that is now almost completely gentrified. For her, it was about contextualizing a long history of racial atrocities that extend far beyond Candyman through the perspectives of both current and former residents. “You really have to hold as many stories as possible in your hands before you figure out how to tell your singular story in the best way,” DaCosta said.

The new film reexamines the myth and wrath of a man who has haunted this neighborhood for hundreds of years, even now in the new film when his story has almost faded into history. But say his name five times in a mirror and you’ll meet a bloody fate that won’t be soon forgotten.

“It’s all about, My name is to be remembered, My story is to be remembered — by this community in particular,” DaCosta added. “Because the community doesn’t exist anymore, and gentrification changed the demographics of the community.”

Calling from Britain, where she is shoo-

ting the superhero film “The Marvels,” the filmmaker talked about the cyclic nature of storytelling and legends in Black communities, paying respect to Cabrini-Green and the gargantuan undertaking that is “Candyman.” These are edited excerpts from our conversation.

Q: There was an outpouring of love when it was announced that you were directing “Candyman,” yet your name was omitted from many initial headlines, which upset those fans. What was your reaction to all of that?

A: So, I try not to read anything because the bigger the things I do, the more pressure it is. The pressure can be so distracting and overwhelming, and it can stop you from doing well and consume the process. And, probably to a fault, I can be a bit self-deprecating.

(Laughs) I was prepared for no one to care that I was a part of it. I didn’t really think about it much until people on Twitter were like, “Excuse me, it’s Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman.’ ” I was like, “Oh, that’s really sweet.” I’m sure if it were another female filmmaker, I would have been doing the same thing. Like, “Hey, you should probably be talking about the woman making the movie, not just the guy who’s more famous.”

Q: Speaking of navigating pressure, I would imagine taking on “Candyman” was daunting because fans are so protective of it.

Did you have any hesitation?

A: I was really excited because Jordan Peele was co-writer and a producer — nobrainer. So, I felt really safe in the process because I’m a huge fan of his. But then, of course, reality sets in. It’s not even, like, “Oh, the fans really want ...” It’s a studio film. They have what they wanted to do, which is basically make a trillion dollars and be critically acclaimed. I think that was when I was like, “Oh, no.” Then you have the community that I made the movie for, which is my community in a macro sense — the Black community. But then in the micro sense, a community I’m not a part of, the Cabrini-Green community. So, there are a lot of people that you want to do well for, and that can be daunting. But I think I just wanted to end with an open heart and humility as a fan of the original “Candyman,” as well as a respect for what we’re portraying.

I have to have faith that would guide me to do the best I could.

Q: What kind of research did you do on Cabrini-Green?

A: A book that was the first touchstone for me was “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and

the Fate of American Public Housing” by Ben Austen. That was really amazing, because I like to have some historical point of view, especially with what the movie was about — the history and what makes history repeat itself and the history of race. Then we had an amazing historian and researcher on the film. And absolutely going into the community, starting out with just standing and walking around, then talking to people who live there, and the people who had to leave, and hear their stories.

Q: You use shadow puppets to retell the legend of Candyman. That creates a striking visual. Even when the camera pans all the way out during the murder of Finley (Rebecca Spence), an art critic, she resembles a puppet.

A: Yeah, she becomes another pawn or piece in this legend.

Q: What drew you to that imagery?

A: Shadow puppetry came out of the desire to not do flashbacks that were scenes from the original film cut into our film or recreated with different actors. (Laughs) We

were like, “That’s terrible.” We realized that shadow puppetry is good not just for the flashbacks, but codifying the storytelling, the legend. Shadow puppets are much cruder, much more over-the-top. It’s illustrating this isn’t real life and the way we think of real life.

This is a story, even though it’s based on real life. We also got to tell the story of Candyman without showing that violence. So, it could still be evocative and sad, but we could not create more disturbing imagery of Black people being brutalized by race violence.

Q: It also helps thread what becomes central to the narrative: navigating whiteness in the art world. What made you decide to base the story here?

A: I think it’s a really great way to show this Black man trying to navigate a very white world, someone who is also being asked to exploit his community in order to make art.

He’s trying to write a thesis, trying to get inspiration for his work and get out of the slump he’s in. Almost all Black artists, no matter what industry they’re in, deal with this.

Nia DaCosta, the director of the new “Candyman” movie, in London, Aug. 7, 2021. For her remake of the horror film, DaCosta confronted the pressures of success. “There are a lot of people that you want to do well for, and that can be daunting,” she said.

18

Monday, September 6, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star

Willard Scott, TV’s clown prince of sun and showers, is dead at 87

Willard Scott in 1980, when he was hired to help NBC’s “Today” compete with its chief rival, ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

By MARGALIT FOX

W

illard Scott, the antic longtime weather forecaster on the “Today” show, whose work, by his own cheerful acknowledgment, made clear that you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, died Saturday at his farm in Delaplane, Virginia. He was 87.

His death was confirmed by his wife, Paris Keena Scott.

She did not specify a cause, saying only that he had died after a brief illness.

Scott, who had earlier played both Bozo the Clown and the original Ronald McDonald on television, was among the first of a generation of television weather forecasters who stressed showmanship over science. Throughout the late 20th century, he was also a ubiquitous television pitchman.

A garrulous, gaptoothed, boutonnière-wearing, funny-hatted, sometimes toupee-clad, larger-than-life American Everyman (in his prime, he stood 6-foot-3 and weighed nearly 300 pounds), Scott was hired in 1980 to help NBC’s “Today” compete with its chief rival, ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Joining “Today” that March, Scott went on to sport a string of outré outfits, spout a cornucopia of cornpone humor and wish happy birthday to a spate of American centenarians, all while talking about the forecast every so often, until his retirement in 2015.

Though he was meant to represent the new, late-model television weatherman, Scott brought to the job a brand of shtick

that harked back to earlier times. He seemed simultaneously to embody the jovial, backslapping Rotarian of the mid-20th century, the midway barker of the 19th and, in the opinion of at least some critics, the court jester of the Middle Ages.

There was the time, for instance, that he delivered the forecast dressed as Boy George. There was the time he did so dressed as Carmen Miranda, the “Brazilian bombshell” of an earlier era, dancing before the weather map in high heels, ruffled pink gown, copious jewelry and vast fruited hat. There was the time, reporting from an outdoor event, that he kissed a pig on camera.

The pig did not take kindly to being kissed and squealed mightily.

Scott, who began his career in radio before becoming a weatherman at WRC-TV, an NBC affiliate in Washington, had no background in meteorology or any allied science. But as he readily acknowledged, the weatherman’s job as reconstructed for the postmodern age did not require any.

“A trained gorilla could do it,” Scott said in 1975, while he was at WRC. The only scientific asset one actually needed, he pointed out, was the telephone number of the National Weather Service.

Scott’s on-screen persona — by his own account little different from his off-screen persona — divided viewers. Some adored him, inundating him with gifts, which he might display on the air. (Among them, the 1987 article in the Times reported, was “an airplane built out of Diet Coke cans.”)

In January 1989, the country’s new first lady, Barbara Bush,

broke ranks from the inaugural parade for her husband, George H.W. Bush, to dart over to Scott, broadcasting from the sidelines, and plant an impromptu kiss on his cheek.

“I don’t know Willard Scott,” Bush explained afterward. “I just love that face.”

Then again, as The Boston Globe reported in 1975, there was this incident, from Scott’s days at WRC: “He was pushing a shopping cart in a Virginia supermarket recently when a little old lady charged by and smacked him with her umbrella. ‘I can’t stand you,’ she said.”

The son of Willard Herman Scott, an insurance salesman, and Thelma (Phillips) Scott, a telephone operator, Willard Herman Scott Jr. was born on March 7, 1934, in Alexandria, Virginia.

He was smitten with broadcasting from the time he was a boy, and at 16 he became a $12-a-week page at WRC-TV. After he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and religion from American University, Scott and a classmate, Ed Walker, took to the Washington airwaves with a comic radio show, “The Joy Boys.”

With time out from 1956 to 1958 for Scott’s Navy service, “The Joy Boys” was broadcast on WRC-AM from 1955 to 1972 and on WWDC-AM in Washington from 1972 to 1974. Featuring humorous improvisation and topical satire, it won a large following.

From 1952 to 1962, Scott also played the title character on “Bozo the Clown,” the WRC-TV version of a syndicated children’s show. In the early ’60s, on the strength of his Bozo, McDonald’s asked him to develop a clown character to be used in its advertising.

As Ronald McDonald, Scott did several local TV commercials for the franchise but was passed over — in consequence of his corpulence, he later said — as its national representative.

In 1967, he started doing the weather on WRC-TV. There, his exploits included emerging from a manhole one Groundhog Day dressed as an astoundingly large groundhog.

When Scott was hired by “Today,” he supplanted meteorologist Bob Ryan, who was fired to make way for him. Ryan, who held a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s in atmospheric science, had previously worked as a cloud physicist.

Scott’s early weeks at “Today,” he later recalled, were “touch and go.”

But by 1987, the Times reported, “his tenure there” was “credited with helping to catapult the show past ‘Good Morning America’ into first place in the breakfast-time sweepstakes.”

Scott’s first wife, Mary (Dwyer) Scott, whom he married in 1959, died in 2002. He married Paris Keena Scott, his second wife, in 2014. In addition to her, he is survived by two daughters from his first marriage, Sally Scott Swiatek and Mare Scott, and two grandchildren, Sally Marie Swiatek and John Willard Swiatek.

Scott was the author of several books, including “Willard Scott’s Down Home Stories” (1984) and “Willard Scott’s AllAmerican Cookbook” (1986).

For all its burlesque jocularity, Scott asserted, his job was no less taxing as a result.

“Everything I do looks like it just falls into place,” he told The Los Angeles Times in 1988. “Part of what I do is make it fall into place. You have to work at being a buffoon.”

The San Juan Daily Star por el NORTE, con la parcela 465 de la comunidad; por el ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SUR, con la parcela 462 de la DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- comunidad; por el ESTE, con NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA la Carretera Estatal Número SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- 874; y por el OESTE, con la LINA parcela 468 de la comunidad.

BANCO POPULAR DE La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 173 de CanóPUERTO RICO vanas, Finca Número 8507, ReParte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE DALTON gistro de la Propiedad de CaroSección III. La escritura de EMMANUEL HUERTAS lina, hipoteca consta inscrita como DOWNS COMPUESTA asiento abreviado al folio 1 del POR LEONARDO tomo 332 de Canóvanas, Finca Número 8507, Registro de la HUERTAS DOWNS, LEONARDA HUERTAS Propiedad de Carolina, Sección DOWNS, LEIDA HUERTAS III. Inscripción cuarta. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: COMUNIDAD DOWNS, ELEONOR RURAL SANTA CATALINA, HUERTAS DOWNS, BO. TORRECILLA ALTA, 467 MENGANO DE TAL, CARR. 874, CANÓVANAS, PR POSIBLE HEREDERO 00729. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 1 DE NOVIEMDESCONOCIDO; BRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:15 DE DEPARTAMENTO LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: DE HACIENDA POR $185,795.00. SEGUNDA: 8 DE CONDUCTO DE LA NOVIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $123,863.33. TERRELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE CERA: 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑAINGRESOS MUNICIPALES 2021 NA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $92,897.50.

(CRIM) El tipo mínimo para la primera Parte Demandada subasta será de $185,795.00.

Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02831. De no haber adjudicación en Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO la primera subasta se celebray EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ES- el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRI- 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MACA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ES- cual el tipo mínimo será de dos TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE terceras partes del tipo mínimo PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE fijado en la primera subasta, o PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Algua- sea, $123,863.33. De no haber cil que suscribe por la presente adjudicación en la segunda suanuncia y hace constar que en basta, se celebrará una TERcumplimiento de la Sentencia CERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE dictada el 5 de diciembre de NOVIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el Sentencia del 28 de enero de mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo 2020 y el Mandamiento de Eje- mínimo será la mitad del precio cución del 3 de febrero de 2020 pactado, o sea, $92,897.50. Si en el caso de epígrafe, proce- se declarase desierta la tercera deré a vender el día 1 DE NO- subasta, se adjudicará la finca VIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 a favor del acreedor por la totaDE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, lidad de la cantidad adeudada localizada en el Tribunal de si ésta es igual o menor que Primera Instancia, Centro Judi- el monto del tipo de la tercera cial de Carolina, Sala Superior, subasta, si el tribunal lo estima Carretera Número Tres (3) Km. conveniente. Se abonará dicho 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, monto a la cantidad adeudada Intersección Carr. Núm. 853, si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate Entrada Urb. Lomas de Caro- se llevará a cabo para con su lina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, al producto satisfacer a la demanmejor postor en pago de conta- dante el importe de la Sentendo y en moneda de los Estados cia por la suma de $154,723.11 Unidos de América, cheque de de principal, intereses sobre gerente o giro postal, todo títu- dicha suma de 5% anual desde lo, derecho o interés de la parte el 1 de enero de 2019 hasta su demandada sobre la siguiente completo pago, más $246.68 propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de recargos acumulados, marcada con el número 467 en más la cantidad estipulada de el plano de parcelación de la $18,679.50 para costas, gastos comunidad rural Santa Catalina y honorarios de abogados, así del Barrio Torrecilla Alta del tér- como cualquier otra suma que mino municipal de Canóvanas contenga el contrato del préstacon una cabida superficial de mo. Surge del Estudio de Título 0.1278 equivalentes a 502.42 Registral que sobre esta prometros cuadrados. En lindes

LEGAL NOTICE

@

Monday, September 6, 2021 piedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. La Sucesión de Dalton Emmanuel Huertas Downs compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Departamento de Hacienda, por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos y el Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2019CV02831, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $154,723.11 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 1 de agosto de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Canóvanas. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de junio de 2021.

MILDRED KAREN CASTRO ALICEA, ALGUACIL #298, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIONES DE ÁNGEL TOMÁS CORTIJO ROMÁN T/C/C ÁNGEL T. CORTIJO ROMÁN Y DE EVELYN ORTIZ DE JESÚS COMPUESTAS POR MARIVELIZ CORTIJO ORTIZ, JOSÉ ANGEL CORTIJO ORTIZ, SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ELSIE AMARILYS CORTIJO ORTIZ T/C/C ELSIE A. CORTIJO ORTIZ POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERA DE AMBAS SUCESIONES, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02659.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 17 de marzo de 2021, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 26 de mayo de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 1 de junio de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Tres (3) Km. 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, Intersección Carr. Núm. 853, Entrada Urb. Lomas de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número

(787) 743-3346

19 17-A del bloque “B” del plano de la Urbanización de Reparto Los Ángeles, sito en el Barrio Cangrejos Arriba de Carolina, con una cabida superficial de 252.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 12.00 metros con la Calle “A”; por el SUR, en 12.00 metros con el solar número 20 del bloque “B”; por el ESTE, en 21.00 metros con el solar número 18 de dicho bloque; y por el OESTE, en 21.00 metros con el solar número 17 de mismo bloque.

Una casa de hormigón armado de una sola planta, enclava sobre este solar. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 156 del tomo 621 de Carolina, Finca número 32427, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 59 del tomo 641 de Carolina, Finca número 32427, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción novena. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. LOS ÁNGELES, 17AB CALLE A, CAROLINA, PR 00979. Subastas: Fechas: Primera: 1 de noviembre de 2021 a las 9:30 de la mañana.

Tipo Mínimo: $96,000.00. Segunda: 8 de noviembre de 2021 a las 9:30 de la mañana. Tipo Mínimo: $64,000.00. Tercera: 15 de noviembre de 2021 a las 9:30 de la mañana. Tipo Mínimo: $48,000.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $96,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $64,000.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $48,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $73,497.29 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma de 8% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $304.68 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad

estipulada de $9,600.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Sucesión de Ángel Tomás Cortijo Román también conocido como Ángel T. Cortijo Román, compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Evelyn Ortiz de Jesús, Elsie Amarilys Cortijo Ortiz también conocida como Elsie A. Cortijo Ortiz, Departamento de Hacienda, y el Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2019CV02659, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $73,497.29 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 19 de julio de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

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

Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de junio de 2021. MILDRED KAREN CASTRO ALICEA ALGUACIL #298, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

ESTRELLA HOMES, LLC Demandante V.

CANDIDA GONZÁLEZ CORDOVA

Demandado Civil Núm.: GB2019CV00294.

Sobre: COBRO DB DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, hago saber a la parte demandada CANDIDA GONZÁLEZ CORDOVA, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 20 de mayo de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederá a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $223,250.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, a la propiedad que se describe a continuación, APT. 14-J, COND. GARDEN HILLS SUR, GUAYNABO, PR 00966: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORlZONTAL: Apartamento número 14-J en el inmueble sometida al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal conocido como Garden Hills Estates, Torre Sur, localizado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo del Municipio de Guaynabo y colindante en su frente oeste con la Carretera Estatal Número 19 en su frente Norte, con la Calle Número 3 de la Urbanización Mansiones de Garden Hills y en su frente Este, con el área de Parque de la Urbanización Mansiones de Garden Hills.

Está construida de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto con un área de piso de 121.11 metros cuadrados, más o menos la cual comprende el área entre la cara interior de sus paredes exteriores. Dicho apartamento está localizado frente a la sala-comedor y comunica inmediatamente con el pasillo que a su vez comunica inmediatamente con el vestíbulo del elevador que es uno de los elementos comunes del edificio y

conduce a la Calle Número 3 de la Urbanización Mansiones de Garden Hills. Colinda, por el NORTE, en 6.33 metros más o menos, con la cocina y la lavandería del apartamento número 14-D, en 12.7 metros más o menos con el pasillo que comunica con el vestíbulo del elevador; por el SUR, en 18.39 metros más o menos con la pared exterior Sur; por el ESTE, en 8.42 metros más o menos con la pared exterior, en 0.93 metros más o menos con el pasillo de acceso al apartamento; por el OESTE , en 1.71 metros más o menos con el pasillo de acceso al apartamento, en 0.53 metros más o menos con el vestíbulo del elevador, en 2.16 metros más o menos con el pasillo entre el vestíbulo del elevador y la escalera, en 2.34 metros más o menos con la escalera, en 0.81 metros más o menos con el cuarto de baño de servicio, en 1.83 metros más o menos con la pared exterior del Oeste. Este apartamento será usado para propósitos residenciales y contiene lo siguiente: sala-comedor, cocina, lavandería, tres dormitorios con sus respectivos guardarropas, un pasillo que comunica a los dormitorios, dos baños, un guardarropa de cama y un balcón. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales una participación de 0.659% y dos espacios de estacionamientos marcados con el número A-90 cubierto y número B-50 cubierto. Finca 27022 al folio 250 del tomo 680 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la suma de $223.250.00 con intereses al 6.25% anual y vencimiento 1 de diciembre de 2033.

Constituida por la Escritura 399 otorgada en San Juan el 8 de diciembre de 2003 ante el notario Nelson William González, e inscrita al folio 57 del tomo 1264 de Guaynabo, finca 27022, inscripción 9a, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo.

(615/515) Cancelada Parcialmente en una suma de $32,481.18 y Modificada en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su principal por $190,768.82 con intereses comenzando el 1 de agosto de 2015 al 1 de julio de 2018 al 3.850%, comenzando el 1 de agosto de 2018 al 1 de julio de 2055 al 6.250%, con un pago final por $7,642.69 y vencimiento 1 de julio de 2055, según consta de la escritura 15 otorgada en San Juan el 27 de ju-

20 nio de 2015 ante el notario Miguel A. Romero Lugo; e inscrita al folio 135 del tomo 1528 de Guaynabo, finca 27022, inscripción 10a, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 28 de enero de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $181,366.30 de principal, más intereses que continuarán acumulándose desde el día 1 de diciembre de 2017 hasta el saldo total al 6.25% anual, $981.42 de cargos por atraso, $1,796.97 de otros cargos, $22,325.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribual de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $223,250.00; sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $148,833.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo, mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $111,625.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la

secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuestos al gravamen del actor y a los dueños poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en título trasmisible por endoso al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor, y con los cuales no hubiese tenido el efecto la notificación del escrito inicial y del Mandamiento de requerimiento de pago para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviene o satisficiera antes del remate el importe del crédito de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados, asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, una vez confirmada la venta o adjudicación, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sellos de este Tribunal. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de junio de 2021.

FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL #325, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN-

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

CIA, SALA DE GUAYNABO.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

Sucesión de ARCELIO PÉREZ CARDONA compuesta por sus hijos VÍCTOR PÉREZ, WANDA PÉREZ y GLADYS PÉREZ, su viuda MARÍA DEL PILAR MOLINA MORALES, por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria, FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, como posibles herederos desconocidos

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SS2019CV00602 (SALÓN 0001). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo Luis A. Nieves Rivera, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 1 de julio de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada, Sucesión de Arcelio Pérez Cardona compuesta por sus hijos Víctor Pérez, Wanda Pérez y Gladys Pérez, su viuda María del Pilar Molina Morales por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria, Fulano y Mengano de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos. Dirección Física: 119RD, Km. 36.6, Hoyamala, San Sebastián, PR 00685. Finca 26,469, al folio 138 del tomo 580 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Sebastián.

RUSTICA: Sita en el Barrio Hoyamala de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de cero punto mil ciento setenta y cuatro (0.1174) cuerdas, equivalentes a cuatrocientos

sesenta y uno punto quinientos tres (461.503) metros cuadrados; Colindando por el NORTE, con José L. Méndez Serrano; SUR, con Judith Pérez; ESTE, con Gilberto Rodríguez y por el OESTE, con Carretera Municipal. Finca 26,469. Por su procedencia está: LIBRE DE CARGAS. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Firstbank de Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $70,550.00, con intereses al 6.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2038, constituida mediante la escritura número 105, otorgada en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de mayo de 2008, ante el notario Santiago Mari Roca, e inscrita al folio 138 vuelto del tomo 580 de San Sebastián, finca número 26,469, inscripción 3ra. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 16 de agosto de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Sebastián, en el Caso Civil número SS2019-CV00602, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Arcelio Pérez Cardona, María Del Pilar Molina Morales y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales, por la suma de $59,688.26, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 24 de febrero de 2020, al tomo Karibe de San Sebastián, finca número 26,469, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 26,469 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 22 de octubre de 2021, Hora: 11:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $70,550.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 105 sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el día 30 de mayo de 2008, ante el notario Santiago Mari Roca. Segunda Subasta: 29 de octubre de 2021, Hora: 11:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $47,033.33. Tercera Subasta: 5 de noviembre de 2021, Hora: 11:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $35,275.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 19 de abril de 2021, notificada el 3 de mayo de 2021 y publicada el 4 de mayo de 2021, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por

la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $59,688.26, más intereses a razón de 6.5%, desde el 1 de julo de 2018, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $209.78 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $7,055.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de julio de 2021. Luis A. Nieves Rivera, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.

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

ROOSEVELT CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY Plaintiff, v.

JOSE RICARDO LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ and his wife LIZBETH RIVERA FUENTES, and the conjugal partnership between them

Defendants CIVIL NO. 16-02440-PAD. FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: JOSE RICARDO LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ and LIZBETH RIVERA

FUENTES, and the Conjugal Partnership between them, General Public, and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $218,620.13, accrued annual interests in 4.50%, and deferred balance of $52,222.65 for a total of $270,842.78 and monthly late charges from the 1st day of March, 2017, until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The Defendants was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of $50.12 of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full.

Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($27,686.39) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st. floor, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Palacios del Prado localizado en el barrio Amuelas del terreno municipal de Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar 127 del bloque K. Área del solar 322.00 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 126 del bloque K, en una distancia de 23.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 128 del bloque K, en una distancia de 23.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle número 7, en una distancia de 14.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 124 del bloque K, en una distancia de 14.00 metros. En este solar se ha construido una vivienda de bloques y hormigón reforzado para una familia. Este solar se encuentra afecto a condiciones restrictivas de uso y edificación.” The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is re-

corded at page number 119 of volume number 498 of Juana Diaz, in the Registry of Property of Ponce, First Section, property number 18,326. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the first public sale will be held on October 15th, 2021 at 10:05 am and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $276,863.96. 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 October 22nd, 2021 at 10:05 am and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $184,575.97. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on October 29th, 2021 at 10:05 am and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $138,431.98. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 17th day of August, 2021. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Special Master. E-mail: rondajoel@me.com, Tel: 787565-0415.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC.

Parte Demandante Vs.

RAFAEL ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ ROSADO su esposa GLORIA ESTHER VILA RIVERA, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS y los Estados Unidos de América por conducto del Fiscal

Federal de la Corte de Distrito de Estados Unidos para el Distrito de Puerto Rico

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: SJ2020CV00588.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $46,914.62 de balance principal, los intereses vencidos sobre el principal computados al 9.99% anual desde el día 3 de noviembre de 2015, hasta su total pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad adeudada por concepto de cargos por demora desde el día 3 de diciembre de 2015 hasta su total pago; más la suma de $6,600.00 garantizada de la hipoteca para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del acreedor demandante, más cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquier concepto legal se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de esta sentencia hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Parcela marcada con el número cientos cincuenta guion A (150-A), en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Hill Brother del barrio sabana Llana del término municipal de san Juan, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cincuenta y cuatro punto cuarenta y uno (254.41) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número ciento cincuenta (150) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número ciento cincuenta guion C (150C) de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número ciento cincuenta y uno guion B (151-B) de la comunidad y por el OESTE, con la calle número treinta y siete (37) de la comunidad. Inscrita al tomo móvil novecientos setenta y siete (977) de sabana Llana, finca número treinta y dos mil doscientos ochenta y uno (32,281) del registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Dirección

The San Juan Daily Star física: Parcelas Falú 150-A, Calle 37, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico 00924. Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Embargo de Estados Unidos de América contra Rafael A. Rodríguez, por la suma de $2,803.12, notificación número 215121616, seguro social xxx-xx-3601, del 1 de junio de 2016, anotado el 17 de junio de 2016 al sistema Karibe asiento 2016-006007 FED. Embargo de Estados Unidos de América contra Annabel Guillén Rodríguez, por la suma de $25,706.51, notificación número 218066716, seguro social xxx-xx-2767, del 21 de junio de 2016, anotado el 20 de julio de 2016 al sistema Karibe asiento 2016-006764 FED. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 4 de octubre de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $66,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 12 de octubre de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $44,000.00.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 19 de octubre de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $33,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la res-

Monday, September 6, 2021

ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en San Juan, Puerto Rico a 18 de agosto de 2021.

PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

ALEX HIRAM MORALES CINTRÓN T/C/C ALEX H. MORALES CINTRÓN

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: BQ2019CV00147.

SALA: 001. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBAS-

TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, Comerío, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 12 de julio de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Barranquitas, en el caso civil número BY2019CV00147, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Alex Hiram Morales Cintrón también conocido como Alex H. Morales Cintrón, por la suma de $106,907.85 más otras sumas, anotado el día 28 de febrero de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Gurabo, finca número 19,441, anotación C. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de mayo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Grande del Término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de setecientos (700.00) metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, con José L. Díaz López; por el SUR, con servidumbre de paso que le sirve de acceso y el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con Sucesión Longino Mercado; y por el OESTE, con Rafael Díaz López, camino municipal y Ventura Ferrer. Inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 223, finca #13,821 de Barranquitas.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. La propiedad ubica en: PR 156 KM 19.0 Quebrada Grande Barranquitas, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el día 27 de enero de 2020 y notificada el 29 de enero de 2020, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $106,907.85 por con-

cepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 5.50% desde el 1ro de enero de 2017; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $12,240.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, Comerío, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $122,400.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el 8 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, Comerío, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $81,600.00, 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 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, Comerío, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $61,200.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones

de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. 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 Comerío, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de agosto de 2021.

JOSE JULIAN ORTIZ, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Superior de Comerío.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante, v.

ENTERTAINMENT PLUS, INC., ET AL

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. KCD2012-0417 (906). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE

21

PRENDA E HIPOTECA POR washer-dryer. Each bathroom LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE includes bathtub, lavatory and PÚBLICA SUBASTA. water closet. There is a water A: LOS CODEMANDADOS heater installed in the linen closet. The entrance door of this DE EPIGRAFE Y AL is located on the PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: apartment southwest boundary facing the El Alguacil que suscribe por la common corridor which gives presente anuncia y hace consaccess to stairs and elevators tar que en cumplimiento de una leading to the exterior. PORSentencia dictada en el caso de CENTAJE: Elementos Comuepígrafe el 9 de abril de 2013, nes Generales: 0.546%. Elenotificada el 23 de mayo de mentos Comunes Limitados: 2013 y de un Mandamiento de 1.686%. Finca número 8022, Ejecución emitido el día 25 de inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 260 enero de 2017, que le ha sido de Santurce Norte; Registro de dirigido por la Secretaria del Trila Propiedad de Puerto Rico de bunal de Primera Instancia, Sección Primera de San Juan.

Sala de San Juan, procederá a El siguiente pagaré consta insvender en subasta, y al mejor crito en la propiedad antes postor, por separado, de contamencionada y es el que se predo y por moneda de curso legal tende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por de los Estados Unidos de Amé$75,000.00, con intereses al rica, y/o giro postal, dinero en tipo anual fluctuante equivalenefectivo, cheque de gerente o te al 2% sobre la tasa de interés cheque certificado a nombre prevaleciente de tiempo en del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra tiempo en los principales banbancaria, con similar garantía cos de los Estados Unidos de de todo título, derecho o interés América, en garantía de un pade los demandados de epígrafe garé a favor del Banco Popular sobre el inmueble que adelante de Puerto Rico, o a su orden se describe. Se anuncia por la (no expresa fecha de vencipresente que la primera subasmiento). Según escritura #144, ta habrá de celebrarse el día 29 otorgada en San Juan, el 30 de de septiembre del año 2021 a septiembre de 2003, ante Juan las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi Antonio Ortiz Martínez, inscrita oficina localizada en el edificio al folio 237 del tomo 365 de que ocupa la Sala del Tribunal Santurce Sur, inscripción 7ma. de Primera Instancia, Sala de La referida hipoteca grava el San Juan, sobre el inmueble bien inmueble antes descrito. que se describe a continuación: Que según surge del estudio de RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT título, la propiedad se encuen#1404: URBAN: Residential tra afecta a los siguientes graapartment of irregular shape lovámenes posteriores: AVISO cated on the 14th floor of Plaza DE DEMANDA: De fecha 23 de 20 Condominium, at Hipódromo febrero de 2012, dictada en el corner of Georgetti streets, in Caso Civil #KCD2012-0417, the south section of Santurce Tribunal de Primera Instancia, ward, municipality of San Juan, Sala de San Juan; seguido por Puerto Rico. This apartment Banco Popular de Puerto Rico has a total private area of 924 (demandante) versus Entertainsquare feet, equivalent to 85.87 ment Plus, Inc.; MTVE, INC.; square meters, bearing its lineal Héctor Marcano Martínez y measurements 26’9” in the larSandra Inés Marcano Martínez gest length and 38’1” the lar(demandados). Se reclama el gest width. The boundaries and pago de la deuda garantizada dimensions are clockwise as con hipoteca de la inscripción follows: Northeast, one distan7ma., reducida a $24,492.67, ce of 38’1” with exterior yard más intereses y otras sumas, o facing neighboring lot separala venta de esta finca en públited by exterior wall, windows ca subasta. Anotada al tomo and terrace railing; Southeast, Karibe de la Sección I de San on a distance of 26’9” with Juan, finca #8022 de Santurce apartment #1403, separated by Sur, anotación A, con fecha de interior wall; Southwest, on a 8 de agosto de 2018. AVISO DE broken line, a distance of 24’6” DEMANDA: De fecha 12 de with common corridor separaenero de 2011, dictada en el ted by interior wall and entrance Caso Civil #KCM2010-3370, door, and a distance of 13’7” Tribunal de Primera Instancia, with apartment 1405, separated Sala de San Juan; seguido por by interior wall; Norhwest, on a Consejo de Titulares del Conbroken line, a distance of 26’9” dominio Plaza 20 (demandanwith apartment 1405 separated te) versus Sucesión de Antonia by interior wall. This apartment Martínez, compuesta por Hécunit consists of the following tor Marcano Martínez y Sandra rooms: living-dining, terrace, Marcano Martínez (demandakitchen with closet, master bedos). Se reclama la deuda acudroom with closet and private mulada por la cantidad de bathroom, corridor with linen $18,790.56. Se ordena al Alcloset, bedroom with closet (seguacil del Tribunal que proceda cond) and bathroom (second). a embargar muebles y otras The kitchen is equipped with pertenencias del demandado, base and wall cabinets, double para responder por la suma sink, range with oven and spaadeudada. Anotada al tomo Kace for refrigerator and clothes

ribe de la Sección I de San Juan, finca #8022 de Santurce Sur, anotación B y última, con fecha de 3 de octubre de 2018.

De fecha 12 de enero de 2011, dictada en el Caso Civil #KCM2010-3370, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan; seguido por Consejo de Titulares del Condominio Plaza 20 (demandante) versus Sucesión de Antonia Martínez, compuesta por Héctor Marcano Martínez y Sandra Marcano Martínez (demandados). Se reclama la deuda acumulada por la cantidad de $18,790.56. Se ordena al Alguacil del Tribunal que proceda a embargar muebles y otras pertenencias del demandado, para responder por la suma adeudada. Anotada al tomo Karibe de la Sección I de San Juan, finca #8022 de Santurce Sur, anotación B y última, con fecha de 3 de octubre de 2018. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $42,492.67 por concepto de principal, más $7,500.00 de honorarios de abogado según pactados, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el pago total de la deuda, más cargos por demora, costas y gastos del pleito; y se ordene en defecto al pago. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan, 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 al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de SETENTA Y CINCO MIL DÓLARES ($75,000.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse.

De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una segunda subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 6 de octubre del año 2021 a las 9:30 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subas-

22 ta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CINCUENTA MIL DÓLARES ($50,000.00) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 14 de octubre del año 2021 a las 9:30 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de TREINTA Y SIETE MIL QUINIENTOS DÓLARES ($37,500.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 24 de agosto de 2021, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. 24 de agosto de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE V.

ROSEMARIE RODRIGUEZ VARGAS

DEMANDADA Civil Núm.

DCD2016-2158 (504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 17 de mayo de 2021 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $99,714.42 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 31 de mayo de 2021, notificada y archivada en autos el 11 de junio de 2020, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Apartamento 51, 200 Cond. Park West, Bayamón, PR 00961.

URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular identificado con el número cincuenta y uno (51) del Condominio Park West, localizado en la zona urbana del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada de este apartamento es de ochocientos cincuenta punto setenta y ocho pies cuadrados (850.78 pc.), equivalentes a setenta y nueve punto cero cuatro metros cuadrados (79.04 mc.).

Colinda por el Noreste, en una distancia aproximada de treinta y dos pies nueve pulgadas (32’ 9”), con espacio aéreo común y con área común; por el Suroeste, en una distancia aproximada de veinticinco pies (25’ 0”), con espacio aéreo común; por el Sureste, en una distancia aproximada de treinta y dos pies nueve pulgadas (32’ 9”), con espacio aéreo común; y por el Noroeste, en una distancia aproximada de treinta y dos pies nueve pulgadas (32’ 9”), con espacio aéreo común.

La puerta de entrada a este apartamento está localizada en su colindancia Noreste a través de la cual se llega a los elementos comunes generales, por los cuales se tiene acceso a la vía publica. Este apartamento consta de sala-comedor, cocina, lavadero, dos (2) baños y tres (3) cuartos dormitorios.

Le corresponden como anejos los espacios de estacionamiento sencillos identificados con los números ciento siete (107) y ciento ocho (108). Tiene una participación equivalente a cero punto cero cero seis ocho seis nueve por ciento a (0.006869%) en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Finca 12,448, consta inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 256 de Bayamón Norte, Registro de la propiedad de Bayamón, Sección tercera.

Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $99,714.42 de principal, 6.25% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $163.55 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, mas costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado.

El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $106,250.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $70,833.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $53,125.00. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

el 16 de septiembre de 2021, a las 9:15 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 23 de septiembre de 2021, a la 1:15 de la tarde. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 30 de septiembre de 2021, a la 1:15 de la tarde.

La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico, servidumbre de paso y servidumbre a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen preferente: Condiciones Restrictivas de venta por el término de 10 años impuestas por la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por haber concedido la suma de $6,250.00 para sufragar gastos de cierre, según Esc. #42 en Bayamón el 31 de agosto de 2011 ante Cristian Bernaschina Bobadilla, inscrito al folio 55vto del tomo 256 de Bayamón Norte, finca #12448 inscripción 4ta. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior el cual podrá ser cancelado: Hipoteca constituida en garantía de un pagaré bajo aff. #13,330 a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., garantizado por la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden por $10,000.00 al 5 ½ % anual, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2041, según Esc. #44 en Bayamón el 31 de agosto de 2011 ante Cristian Bernaschina Bobadilla, inscrito al folio 56 del tomo 256 de Bayamón Norte, finca #12448 inscripción 5ta. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo

certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

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

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 25 de agosto de 2021. MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, ALGUACIL.

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 documentos presentados en esta acción serán sellados por el Secretario de este Tribunal y no se exhibirán a ninguna persona excepto a las partes de esta acción o sus abogaLEGAL NOTICE dos o según lo indique la orden ACCIÓN POR UN DIVORCIO de este Tribunal. Que la Corte TRIBUNAL SUPREMO DEL otorgue cualquier otra reparaESTADO DE NUEVA YORK ción adicional que la Corte considere apropiada y apropiada.

CONDADO DE SUFFOLK. Las partes han dividido la proNúmero de índice 19-02566 piedad conyugal y ninguna de Fecha de presentación de la las partes podrá reclamar una citación: distribución equitativa.

BERTHA YOLANDA

AUCAY FIGUEROA,

El demandante designa el condado de Suffolk como el lugar del juicio. La base del lugar es la residencia del demandante.

Demandante CONVOCATORIAS CON AVISO -en contraEl demandante reside en 51 Clifton Street, Farmingdale, NY 11735.

FELIX FIGUEROA,

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

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE CAGUAS Demandante Vs.

ÁNGEL LUIS LABOY SANTOS; SUCESION DE EMILIO LABOY ORTIZ; SUCESION DE MARTA MARGARITA SANTOS GUEVARA T/C/C MARGARITA SANTOS; HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS ABC

Demandados CASO NÚM: HU2019CV01001.

SALÓN NÚM. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: ÁNGEL LUIS LABOY SANTOS; SUCESION DE EMILIO LABOY

ORTIZ; SUCESION DE MARTA MARGARITA SANTOS GUEVARA T/C/C MARGARITA SANTOS; HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS ABC

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 24 de agosto 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la siguiente propiedad [Comunidad Rural Martorell Lote 66 Bo. Limones, Yabucoa, PR 00767]: FINCA: Número 5926, inscrito al folio 225 del tomo 133 de Yabucoa, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao.

RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número sesentiseis (66), en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad Rural Martorell del Barrio Limones del término municipal de Yabucoa, con una cabida superficial de dos cuerdas con nueve mil ciento noventidos diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a once mil cuatrocientos setentitres punto cuarenta metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con una quebrada que separa las parcela número sesenticuatro (64) de la misma comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número sesentisiete (67) de la misma comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número ochentiuno de la misma comunidad y por el OESTE, con la calle número once (11) de la comunidad y la parcela número sesenticinco (65) de la misma comunidad.

El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 31 de octubre de 2019 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $33,912.67 de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 9.95% anual que al día de hoy suma $7,152.47, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, recargos por demora por la cantidad al presente de $486.75, la cantidad de $400 de ‘Escrow’ y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del total pago de las mismas, más la suma de $4,050.00 para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogados. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posteriores 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 perso-

nas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectico (moneda de 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 15 de septiembre de 2021, A LAS 10:00 AM, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $40,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA , la misma se llevará a efecto el día 22 de septiembre de 2021, A LAS 10:00 AM, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $27,000.00, 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 29 de septiembre de 2021, A LAS 10:00 AM, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $20,250.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acordadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se 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 rema-

nente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, durante las horas laborables, todo esto en virtud del artículo 102 de la Ley Número 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 mejor conocida como la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de agosto de 2021. MARIA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, DIVISION DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA,SALA DE SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE V.

ROBERTO CARLOS FUSTER PEREZ, JOHANNA MARRERO ROMAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS Civil Núm. UT2019CV00344.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ISMAEL SERRANO CARDONA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Lares, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 19 de abril de 2021 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $94,520.14 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 8 de noviembre de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 13 de noviembre de 2020, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en

The San Juan Daily Star el Municipio de Lares, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: SR 124 KM 1.2 Int., Espino WD, Lares, PR 00669. RÚSTICA: Lote “A” en el plano de inscripción, radicada en el barrio Espino del término municipal de Lares, Puerto Rico, con una cbida de 548.49 metros cuadrados. En lindes: al Norte, en 15.33 metros con Félix Pérez al Sur, en 18.43 metros con uso público que separa de calle; al Este, en 38.67 metros, con remanente y al Oeste, en 25.20 metros con Pablo Méndez. Consta inscrita al folio 295 del tomo 267 de Lares, finca #13,994, Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado.

Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $94,520.14 de principal, 4.5% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $221.94 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, mas costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $106,037.68 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $70,691.79.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $53,018.84. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 15 de septiembre de 2021, a la 1:30pm de la tarde. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 22 de septiembre de 2021, a la 1:30pm de la tarde.

De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 29 de septiembre de 2021, a la 1:30pm de la tarde.

La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Lares. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior el cual podrá ser cancelado: Hipoteca constituida por los esposos Fuster-Marrero en garantía de pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of the United States por $7,082.37 sin intereses, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2034, según Esc. #77 en San Juan el 15 de junio de 2004 ante Hiram Rodríguez García, inscrita al folio 206vto del tomo 375 de Lares, finca #13994 inscripción 6ta. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación

Monday, September 6, 2021

se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

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

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Lares, Puerto Rico, a 27 de agosto de 2021. Evely Torres Rivera, Alguacil Regional Utuado. ISMAEL SERARNO CARDONA, ALGUACIL. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs.

DAVID RIVERA RAMOS y su esposa JANNETTE ALVAREZ RAMIREZ, también conocida como JEANNETTE ALVAREZ

RAMIREZ y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. BY2019CV01792 (505). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria) “IN REM”.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: DAVID RIVERA RAMOS y su esposa JANNETTE ALVAREZ RAMIREZ, también conocida como JEANNETTE ALVAREZ RAMIREZ y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

una distancia de treinta y cinco punto cero cero (35.00) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número Nueve (9) del Bloque “A”, en una distancia de treinta y cinco punto cero cero (35.00) metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle número Tres (3), en una distancia de veinte punto cero cero (20.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Avenida Los Palacios, en una distancia de veinte punto cero cero (20.00) metros. En este solar se ha construido una vivienda de bloques y hormigón reforzado para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 133 del tomo 542 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera, finca número 27,322, inscripción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanizaci‫ؚ‬ón Palacio Imperial, 8-A, Calle Francos, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $366,615.74 de principal, intereses al 5.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $41,686.90, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $416,869.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $277,912.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $208,434.50. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 16 de agosto de 2021. EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA 193, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON. ****

Yo, EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA 193, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 29 de septiembre de 2021 a las 11:15 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Sala 503, Quinto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón 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 6 de octubre de 2021, a las 3:15 de la tarde; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 14 de octubre de 2021, a las 3:15 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN PALACIO IMPERIAL, localizado en los Barrios Piñas y Ortiz del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar número Ocho (8) del Bloque “A”. Área de SETECIENTOS PUNTO CERO CERO (700.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por LEGAL NOTICE el NORTE, con el solar número ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Siete (7) del Bloque “A”, en

23

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL SEBASTIÁN. GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA Ana Delia SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO Suárez Rodríguez

PALMAS DEL MAR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC Demandante V.

EDGARDO R. LÓPEZ MILANO, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES SANTANA ZAPIEN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandante V.

Supermercados Econo, Inc.; Agustín Morales & Sons h/n/c Supermercados Econo De San Sebastián; San Sebastián Shopping Center, S.E.; Compañías XYZ; Aseguradoras M, P, y A

Civil SUMAC Núm.: SS2021CV00212. Sobre: Daños y perjuicios (Caída). EMDemandado(a) Civil: HU2020CV00176. Sobre: PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. COBRO DE DINERO ORDINA- ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN- RICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LITENCIA POR EDICTO. A: EDGARDO R. LÓPEZ BRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS..

MILANO, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES SANTANA ZAPIEN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: MARBELLA CLUB 100 OCEAN DRIVE APT 132 HUMACAO, PR 00791; P/C LIC JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA.

(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 30 de agosto de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de agosto de 2021. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 31 de agosto de 2021.

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

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN

A: San Sebastián Shoping Center, S.E.

Por la presente se notifica que la parte DEMANDANTE ha presentado una Demanda cuya naturaleza es en la materia de Daños y perjuicios por caída en el caso S520210V00212.

El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. Nelson Esteban Vera Santiago, P.O. Box 810, Moca, Puerto Rico 00676. 787-877-3516 De ser un demandado señalado, se le apercibe que deberá contestar la demanda dentro del periodo de 30 días de haberse publicado este edicto. Usted 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 de los efectos de no contestar la demanda, lo cual redundará en que se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Este edicto será publicado en una (1) ocasión en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Se identificará en letra negrillas tamaño 10 puntos toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se menciona en el mismo, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. En San Sebastian, a 23 de agosto de 2021. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretaria Regional.

Ortiz Quiñones compuesta por Juanita Ortiz Quiñones, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos, Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; y a los Estados Unidos de América.

ficación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Carmelo Ortiz Quiñones. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico hoy día 25 de agosto de 2021. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, SECREDEMANDADOS TARIA GENERAL. POR: MACIVIL NUM.: VA2021CV00123. RITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipote- SECRETARIA AUXILIAR TRIB ca. MANDAMIENTO. ESTA- I. DOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA LEGAL NOTICE EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO UNITED STATES DISTRICT LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha TO RICO. dictado en el presente caso la Finance of America siguiente Orden: ORDEN. ExaReverse, LLC minada la demanda radicada Plaintiff v. por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación conte- Zaida Clemente Irizarry; nida en la misma y examinados United States of America Defendants los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cvsu virtud acepta la Demanda en 1529-GAG. COLLECTION OF el caso de epígrafe, así como la MONIES AND FORECLOSUinterpelación judicial de la parte RE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE demandante a los herederos OF SALE.

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, Juanita Ortiz Quiñones, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, herederos de nombres desconocidos 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 de! 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, en vista de que la sucesión del causante Carmelo Ortiz Quiñones incluyen como herederos a Juanita Ortiz Quiñones, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un peLEGAL NOTICE riódico de circulación diaria geESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO neral de la Isla de Puerto Rico.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDADA en Vega Baja, Puerto NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Rico, hoy día 25 de agosto de SALA DE VEGA BAJA. 2021. f/JESSICA MORALES Reverse Mortgage CORREA, JUEZ. Por Cuanto: Funding, LLC Se le advierte a que, dentro del DEMANDANTE VS. término legal de 30 días contaSucesión de Carmelo dos a partir de la fecha de noti-

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

24 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 re-

sult 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 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 an-

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

num 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 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. 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.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse, LLC. Plaintiff v.

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 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 certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número siete (7) en el Plano de Inscripción de la finca principal, radicada en el Barrio Cañaboncito del término Municipal 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 GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de MAYAGÜEZ.

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante v.

EDWARD WILLIAM COLON QUETGLAS t/c/c EDWARD W. COLON QUETGLAS, EDWARD W. COLON t/c/c EDUARD WILLIAM COLON QUETGLASY Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMERICA

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CB2020CV00264 (306). Sobre: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: EDWARD WILLIAM COLON QUETGLAS t/c/c EDWARD W. COLON QUETGLAS, EDWARD W. COLON t/c/c EDUARD WILLIAM COLON QUETGLAS

(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 27 de agosto de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2021. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2021.

LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, Secretario(a). F/ JAZMIN SANABRIA TORRES, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante vs.

RAMON CINTRON MIRO T/C/C RAYMOND CINTRON MIRO T/C/C RAMON CINTRONMIRO T/C/C RAYMOND CINTRON T/C/C RAMON CINTRON POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; SUCES ION MARIA ESTHER ROSADO RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARIA E. ROSADO DE CINTRON T/C/C MARIA E. ROSADO RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARIA ROSADO

The San Juan Daily Star

RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARIA ESTHER ROSADO T/C/C MARIA E. ROSADO T/C/C MARIA ROSADO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Monday, September 6, 2021

LEGAL NOTICE

SECURITIES ACQUI SITI ON TRUST 2019- HBl

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Demandante vs .

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAHYR SCHMIDT NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA T/C/C NAHIR SCHMIDT TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSDemandados IRIZARRY T/C/C NAHIR CIVIL NUM. CA2021CV0177. TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SCHMIDT T/C/C NAHYR SOBRE: EJECUCION DE FAJARDO PUERTO RICO HIPOTECA. EMPLAZANIENSCHMIDT IRIZARRY; TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS PROPERTIES SOLUTION ESTADOS UNIDOS DE UNIDOS DE ANRICA EL PRELLC. AMERICA SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS Demandante V. Demandados UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE CIVIL NUM. GB2021CV00327.

ASOCIADO DE PUERTO AMERICA, ACTUANDO SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIRICO. SS. POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTOP POR CONDUCTO DE A: RAMON CINTRON OR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNILA ADMINISTRACION MIRO T/C/C RAYMOND DOS DE AMÉRICA EL PREDE HOGARES DE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS CINTRON MIRO T/C/C AGRICULTORES; JOHN UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE RAMON CINTRONASOCIADO DE PUERTO DOE; RICHARD ROE MIRO T/C/C RAYMOND RICO. SS. Demandado(a)

CINTRON T/C/C Civil: FA2021CV00517. Sobre: RANON CINTRON CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR A LA CUOTA VIUDAJ USUFRUCTUARIA; JOHN EDICTO. DOE Y JANE DOE COMO A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES POSIBLES MIEMBROS TENEDORES DEL DESCONOCIDOS DE PAGARÉ.

LA SUCESION MARIA (Nombre de las partes a las que se le ESTHER ROSADO notifican la sentencia por edicto) RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARIA EL SECRETARIO(A) que susE. ROSADO DE CINTRON cribe le notifica a usted que T/C/C MARIA E. ROSADO el 30 de agosto de 2021, este RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARIA Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución ROSADO RODRIGUEZ en este caso, que ha sido debiT/C/C MARIA ESTHER damente registrada y archivada ROSADO T/C/C MARIA E. en autos donde podrá usted enROSADO T/C/C MARIA terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta noROSADO

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

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

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 loo NEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309

MORALES BATISTA, COMPUESTA POR JANE DOE, JOHN DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES; HUMBERTO ÁLVAREZ MORALES, GUSTAVO VICTOR CRUZ VARGAS, ÁLVAREZ MORALES, STACY CRUZ, SUCESION JOVANA ÁLVAREZ DE MARIA COLON ORTIZ MORALES, ANITA COMPUESTA POR JUAN ÁLVAREZ MORALES DEL PUEBLO Y FULANO Y TATIANA ÁLVAREZ DE TAL MORALES Y CRIM

SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY- ROJO. Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances . Asencio@gmlaw. com NABO. MICHAEL ANGEL CRUZ Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello WILMINGTON SAVINGS VARGAS t/c/p MICHAEL del Tribunal, en Carolina, PuerFUND SOCIETY, FSB, A. CRUZ; ALBERT CRUZ to Rico, hoy 20 DE AGOSTO NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT VARGAS t/c/c ALBERT de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte SOLELY AS TRUSTEE CRUZ; SUSANA VARGAS Rodríguez, Secretaria RegionaI. Lysha M Cordero Danois, FOR FINANCE OF AMERI PAGAN Sec Auxiliar.

CA STRUCTURED DEMANDANTE VS.

tificación 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 31 de agosto de 2021. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 31 de agosto de 2021.

WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANA CELIS MÁRQUEZ APONTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

A: NAHYR SCHMIDT T/C/C NAHIR SCHMIDT IRIZARRY T/C/C NAHIR SCHMIDT T/C/C NAHYR SCHMIDT IRIZARRY

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

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

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700s 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy dia 16 de agosto de 2021. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Sec Regional II. f/Sara Rosa Villegas, Sec Trib Conf I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIA SALA SUPERIOR CABO

LEGAL NOTICE

DEMANDADO CIVIL NUM. CB2021CV00316.

SOBRE: DIVISION DE HERENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: STACY CRUZ VICTOR CRUZ VARGAS SUCESION DE MARIA COLON ORTIZ JUAN DEL PUEBLO FULANA DE TAL

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

LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS RUA: 15441 2510 carretera 100, kilómetros 3.5 de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623 787-851-3582 clsegarra@yahoo.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 26 de agosto de 2021. Veronica Martinez Ortiz, Secretaria.

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

LIME HOMES, LTD Demandante V.

LA SUCESION DE HUMBERTO ALVAREZ LOPEZ, LA SUCESION DE ISABEL MILAGROS

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 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 localiza-

25

da 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.

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 demandan-

te, 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 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 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

FlRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY Demandante vs.

ClTIBANK , N.A; CITIMORTGAGE, lNC; SR. LEONARDO FlGUEROA RODRIGUEZ, y su esposa, la SRA. JACQUELINE FIGUEROA LIMA , y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta por ellos; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MÁS CUAL

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. CA2021CV01833.

SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA REPRESENTADA

POR PAGARE. HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A : FULANO DE TAL, Y MENGANO MAS CUAL; el Sr. Leonardo Figueroa Rodríguez , por sí y en Rep. De La Sociedad Legal De Gananciales compuesta por él y su esposa, Jacqueline Figueroa Lima; la Sra. Jacqueline Figueroa Lima, por sí y en Rep. De La Sociedad Legal De Ganancia les compuesta por ella y su esposo, Leonardo Figueroa Rodríguez; y la Sociedad Legal De Gananciales compuesta por la Sra. Jacqueline Figueroa Lima y su esposo , el Sr. Leonardo Figueroa Rodríguez

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 pagare hipotecario que estaban en poder de CitiMortgage, Inc., y so licita que se ordene la cancelación de la hipoteca que lo garantiza.

El pagare fue librado por el Sr. Leonardo Figueroa Rodríguez, y su esposa, la Sra . Jacqueline Figueroa Lima, a favor de “Citibank , N.A.”, o a su orden, por la suma de $142,500.00, más intereses y créditos accesorios, según consta de la escritura #74, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 13 de marzo de 1998, ante el Notario Público Pedro Quiles Mariani. La referida escritura se encuentra inscrita bajo las fincas número 33,267 y 33,268. Los datos de inscripción de la hipoteca antes mencionada en dichas fincas son los siguientes: (i) en la finca #33,267 se encuentra inscrita al folio 22 vuelto del tomo 648 de Carolina Norte, del Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección l, inscripción lOma; y (ii) en la finca #33,268, se encuentra inscrita al folio 30 vuelto del tomo 648 de Carolina Norte , del Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I, inscripción 10ma. 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 , teléfono s 75 1-8834\3824 , a quien deberá notificar la contestación de la demanda dentro de los próximos 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto.

26 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 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 , Jo entiende procedente. Dado bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por Orden del mismo hoy 25 de agosto de 2021. Lcda.

Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Lysha M. Cordero Danois, Sec Auxiliar.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC. Parte Demandante Vs.

GABINA SUAREZ Y CAMEJO T/C/C GABINA SUAREZ CAMEJO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV01955.

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

100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309, Telephone: (954) 343 6273, Frances.Asencio@ gmlaw.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 24 de agosto de 2021.

GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE INC. Demandantes Vs.

NEW MORTGAGE CORPORATION, DESPUES R & MORTGAGE MORTGAGE CORP, DESPUES FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03673.

(504). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A la parte co-demandada: NEW MORTGAGE CORPORATION, A: GABINA SUAREZ Y DESPUES R & CAMEJO T/C/C GABINA G MORTGAGE SUÁREZ CAMEJO. CORPORATION, Quedan emplazado y notificaDESPUES FEDERAL do de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de DEPOSIT INSURANCE EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA CORPORATION, COen su contra. Se le notifica que DEMANDADO CUYA deberá presentar su alegación ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN responsiva a través del SisFÍSICA Y POSTAL tema Unificado de Manejo y CONOCIDA ES: 1601 Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder BRYAN STREET, DALLAS, utilizando la siguiente direcTEXAS 75201. ción electrónica: https://unired.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se ROE, DEMANDADOS represente por derecho propio, DESCONOCIDOS en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE Secretaría del Tribunal SupeDESCONOCE: rior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Greenspoon Marder, LLP, Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700,

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la CANCELACION de un pagaré extraviado a favor de New Mortgage Corporation, o a

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

su orden, por la suma principal de $58,100.00, intereses al 8 1/8% anual y vencimiento el 1ro. de septiembre de 2022, según consta de escritura número 70 otorgada el 24 de agosto de 1992 ante el Notario Guillermo Bobonis Diaz, inscrita al folio 240 del tomo 80 de Santurce Sur, finca número 3,743, inscripción Décima, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) citen usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general.

Pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de Ia Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P,S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. David Cardona Dingui, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 20 de agosto de 2021 en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Loyda M. Couvertier Reyes, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

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 señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. A: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico vs. (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 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

A: DEWEL REYES DE JESUS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2020CV03396. Sala: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: DEWEL REYES DE JESUS.

(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 27 de agosto de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de agosto de 2021. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 30 de agosto de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc. is proposing to construct a 35-foot overall height small cell pole telecommunications structure near Urb. Madrigal, Marginal Norte Street, Ponce, Puerto Rico (N18° 2’ 18.5”, W66° 38’ 18.9”). Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc. invites comments from any interested party on the impact the tower may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

Comments may be sent to Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Annamarie Howell, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004.

Comments must be received within 30 days.

For questions please call Ms. Howell at 770-6672040. X1749 DMG *** Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc. está proponiendo construir una estructura de telecomunicaciones de poste de celda pequeña de 35 pies de altura total cerca de Urb. Madrigal, Calle Marginal Norte, Ponce, Puerto Rico (N18 ° 2 ’18.5”, W66 ° 38 ’18.9”). Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc. invita a cualquier parte interesada a comentar sobre el impacto que la torre puede tener en cualquier distrito, sitio, edificio, estructura u objeto significativo en la historia, arqueología, ingeniería o cultura estadounidense que se enumeran o se determina que son elegibles para su inclusión en la lista de Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos. Los comentarios pueden enviarse a Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Annamarie Howell, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004. Los comentarios deben recibirse dentro de los 30 días. Si tiene preguntas, llame a la Sra. Howell al 770-6672040. X1749 DMG

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

27

Why does playing tennis make so many pros miserable?

By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

T

he moment resonated with nearly every player who has ever picked up a racket, and especially those who have reached the pinnacle of tennis.

A tearful Naomi Osaka sat behind a microphone late Friday and spoke of how the sport she has so dominated at times has become a joyless binary journey between relief after victories and sadness following losses. There is no contentment, no happiness.

Then came what may be her last public words for some time.

“I think I’m going to take a break from playing for a while,” she said.

How long is anyone’s guess. But while Osaka’s misery is her own — like the unhappiness of the unhappy families Tolstoy refers to at the start of “Anna Karenina” — tennis has seen this movie so many times before that an unavoidable question arises: What is it about this sport that makes so many of the best players in the world, a collection of athletes seemingly swaddled in wealth and fame and glory, so intolerably miserable?

“I think with anything you’re passionate about, it’s always a love/hate relationship, because you want that thing so bad all the time, you want to be perfect,” Bianca Andreescu, a Canadian star who won the U.S. Open the first time she played it in 2019 but has battled injuries, inconsistency and the frustrations that come with both ever since, said after her third-round win Saturday. “In my case, it’s tennis.”

Careers cut short because of broken minds rather than aging bodies haunt tennis like ghosts.

Bjorn Borg of Sweden, a superstar of the 1970s and winner of 11 Grand Slam titles, lost his fourth U.S. Open final in 1981. He walked off the court, drove away in his car, and never played another Grand Slam tournament again. He was 25. Steffi Graf, winner of 22 Grand Slam singles titles, quit at 30, just weeks after a French Open title and a Wimbledon final, saying she had lost her motivation and passion for the game. Andre Agassi and Jennifer Capriati succumbed to drug abuse and, in Capriati’s case, addiction, though they managed to mount comebacks.

More recently, Paula Badosa of Spain

Naomi Osaka during her third round clash at the US Open.

has spoken of her battles with depression brought on in part by the frustrations and pressures of the game. Iga Swiatek of Poland, who won the 2020 French Open at 19, spoke after a recent loss of seeing little other than tennis balls when she closed her eyes at night. After losing a hard-fought match at the Olympics, she sobbed into a towel as if she had lost a close relative.

Athletes in team sports talk about the joy that comes from being a part of something larger than themselves, of heading into battle surrounded by a band of brothers and sisters.

Golfers play an individual sport filled with crushing frustrations, but they walk peaceful, beautiful grounds through a morning or afternoon, a caddie by their side lending advice and providing technical and emotional support. When they lose, the golf course gets the best of them.

Tennis players and coaches speak of the singular form of intensity and loneliness that accompanies the game.

From the time they are small children,

tennis players run on hard, often hot, and sometimes sweltering courts for hours as a human on the other side of the net tries to pound them into exhaustion and defeat. And they do it alone, prohibited from communicating with anyone during the most important matches.

They cross borders and time zones and oceans, often from week to week, during a grueling, 11-month season. Sometimes they compete at 11 o’clock in the morning. The next day they might start at 11 at night. Sleeping and eating schedules are discombobulated.

Tennis players talk differently when they talk about losing. The player not holding the trophy at the end of a tournament does not come in second place, and semifinalists do not finish in third or fourth. Pro golfers who finished fourth often say they had a great week. Marathoners and swimmers talk about being on the podium.

As Novak Djokovic, no stranger to tennis misery, said the other night, “We are a particular sport that only has one winner.”

The coronavirus pandemic has only magnified pressures and pitfalls, and added another kind of loneliness. For more than a year, at most tournaments players have had to limit their movements to their hotels, practice courts and competition venues, passing long hours alone in soulless rooms. They are tested for COVID-19 every few days, always one swab away from a 10-day isolation far from home.

Daria Abramowicz, a sports psychologist who travels with Swiatek, said the sport in its modern form is an energysucking journey of climbing the rankings ladder, defending your position and cultivating fans, as well as sponsors, who can provide a financial safety net but bring their own demands.

“If your tank is empty or almost empty, and if you feel burdened that there are a lot of challenges all around the performance, it is impossible to enjoy the process and enjoy this moment,” Abramowicz said.

For better or worse, Osaka has taken on burdens.

After the murder of George Floyd, she flew to Minneapolis to march with protesters. After the shooting of Jacob Blake, she single-handedly brought her sport to a standstill when she announced she would not play her semifinal match in the Western & Southern Open. She wore a mask with the name of a different victim of police violence onto the court for each of her matches at the U.S. Open last year.

“She allows herself to really feel and experience that sadness,” said Pam Shriver, a former top player and Grand Slam doubles champion.

After spending roughly two years on the pro tour with Swiatek, Abramowicz has concluded that players can survive careers — inevitably filled with losses and disappointment — only by working every day to build self-worth and self-confidence that is not measured by wins and rankings points but rather relationships. Only then can they find a way to enjoy the process, as enervating as it might be.

“You need to maintain the core values, because without that there is nothing,” Abramowicz said. “There is just burned ground.”

28

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

At the US Open, No. 1 Ashleigh Barty is stunned by Shelby Rogers

By DAVID WALDSTEIN

S

helby Rogers held an unusual distinction when she walked onto the court in Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York on Saturday. She was the last remaining American woman in the U.S. Open women’s singles draw, and it was only the third round.

Sofia Kenin, Serena Williams and Venus Williams all skipped the tournament with ailments, and stars like Coco Gauff, Sloane Stephens, Danielle Collins and Jessica Pegula had already been eliminated.

It was looking nearly as bad for Rogers, too. Trailing 5-2 in the third set to top-seeded Ashleigh Barty, Rogers completed a stirring comeback to the delight of the pro-American audience to score the biggest upset of the tournament, ousting the Australian 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (5).

Barty, the defending Wimbledon champion and winner of the 2019 French Open, has held the No. 1 spot in the WTA women’s rankings since Jan. 24, 2019, and had won five tournaments this year, including the Cincinnati event leading up to the U.S. Open. She went into Saturday’s match without losing a set in her first two encounters and held a 5-0 advantage over Rogers.

Barty was gracious after the loss, paying tribute to Rogers and saying she is prepared to move on knowing the year has been a success, overall.

“You can’t win every single tennis match that you play,” she said. “I’m proud of myself and my team for all the efforts we’ve put in in the last six months. It’s been pretty incredible.

I don’t think we could have asked for much more honestly. I wouldn’t change a thing.”

Rogers was equally effusive about Barty, noting that her opponent had not been home to Australia since February, in part to avoid complications and quarantines due to coronavirus travel restrictions.

“She’s resetting on the road, she’s worked through some

Ashleigh Barty, the top ranked women’s player, leaves the court after her loss.

injuries on the road,” Rogers said. “She’s won five titles. She’s remained No. 1. I mean, this girl is everything every player wants to be.”

With the home crowd behind her, Rogers, 28, won the first set easily. Perhaps Barty just needed waking up. It looked as if that might be the case when Barty cruised to an easy win in the second set and then went ahead 5-2 in the third. Victory was only a few points away.

“I think that game put some oxygen into her lungs,” Barty said.

There were moments in that seventh game where Rogers’ body language suggested that defeat was imminent. She slumped when shots went astray, walked from one end of the court to the other after losing a point without much conviction and appeared under siege at one point. But it was Barty who would not hold her nerve. She made three unforced errors in that game to allow Rogers to break her serve, and grasp onto hope.

With renewed energy derived in part from the supportive fans, Rogers held her serve and then broke Barty again. Generally, she prefers to strike balls firmly and close to the net, but Rogers recognized that Barty was having more trouble with high-bouncing balls, and began to rely on that tactic to push her advantage.

“It’s not the way I like to play,” she said in an interview on

court after the match, “But it was what I needed to do against her.”

Barty was now the one under siege and served tenuously, trailing 6-5. But at 40-30, Rogers mistimed an overhead slam and hit the ball into the net. They would go to a tiebreaker, and Rogers had the momentum.

Even though it would remain close, Barty was playing more desperately and struggling to keep pace, while Rogers surged on a wave of adrenaline, now running back to her spot and pumping her fist to the fans.

Most of the points Rogers won in the tiebreaker came off Barty’s mistakes as Rogers was content to keep pushing the ball back, often with a looping arc to it, and then waited for Barty to crack.

The final point, though, came on a strong serve by Rogers that overwhelmed Barty, and her backhand block went wide.

Rogers dropped her racket and put both hands to her face. She picked up the racket, went to the net to shake hands with Barty and the chair umpire, and then flung it to the side again and raised her arms to the crowd, half in triumph, half in disbelief.

Her next opponent is the exciting British teenager, Emma Raducanu, in the fourth round today.

A year ago, when Rogers was still working her way back from knee surgery, she reached the quarterfinal stage here.

She lost to Naomi Osaka, the eventual champion, in a stadium that was empty because of coronavirus restrictions. But fans are back in attendance at full capacity this year, and Rogers took advantage.

“The crowd has taken it to another level this year,” she told them on court.

“I’m thankful that I couldn’t hear myself breathing as heavily as I did last year in the empty stadium,” she said. “But, gosh, that was really something special. I got chills out there on the court. I don’t know if that’s normal when you’re playing a tennis match, but it happened. I will never forget that moment.”

Oscar De La Hoya drops out of comeback fight after being hospitalized with COVID-19

By LAUREN HARD

O

Oscar De La Hoya signed autographs at a media promotion last month in Los Angeles.

scar De La Hoya, the aging hall of fame boxer, said he has been hospitalized with COVID-19 and he will not take part in a comeback fight planned for later this month.

De La Hoya, 48, posted videos on Instagram and Twitter on Friday of himself in a hospital bed in Los Angeles. He says in Spanish to the camera that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19 even though he was fully vaccinated.

“Me siento mal, mal, mal, mal, tengo COVID, mi pecho no — no puedo respirar bien.” “I feel bad, bad, bad, bad, I have COV-

ID, my chest doesn’t — I can’t breathe well.”

The boxer, who retired with a 39-6 professional record and won numerous world titles, hasn’t fought in a professional boxing match since he lost to Manny Pacquiao in 2008. De La Hoya had been training in recent months for a match against Vitor Belfort, a former UFC champion, on Sept. 11 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

In recent years, De La Hoya, whose nickname was “Golden Boy,” has worked as a boxing promoter and last year helped push to bring boxing back during the pandemic, even if it meant there would be no fans in the arena. He will be replaced in the fight by Evander Holyfield, ESPN reported.

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

29

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 30

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

30

The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, September 6, 2021

(Mar 21-April 20)

The urge to get fit could motivate you to action. And with can-do Mars aligning with Pluto, you might set out at a fast and furious pace. Eating healthier meals and organic produce is a start, but regards workingout, don’t go too far too fast, as you may wear yourself out. With an uplifting and social aspect on the go, dancing can be another way to get some exercise this weekend.

Libra

With a focus on your spiritual and psychological sector, this can be a time when you’re keen to find closure on matters that are helping you progress. In need of inspiration? Reading books, surfing the Internet or talking to someone, could help you see things differently or rouse you to action. A fabulous Venus/ Jupiter link signals good fortune that might leave you truly uplifted.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Need a helping hand? Just ask Taurus. Uplifting influences could bring offers, making the task faster and fun. A strong desire to take on a challenge might find you eager to tackle a project. If it enhances your income and gives you more room to live your life as you want to, then do it. The entrepreneurial spirit is strong and so is the desire to learn, which may lead to a breakthrough.

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Have plans for a get-together? Dynamic influences suggest plenty of conversation, even if some of it is intense. If you have plans to discuss, then you could get quite a way ahead and make some key decisions while you’re at it. Plus, a Venus/Jupiter link can see you in a generous mood, and willing to spread good cheer by surprising someone with a special treat.

They won’t forget it.

With Neptune aligning with asteroid Pallas, this can be an opportunity to think sensibly about a dream project or job, especially if you’re in a restless mood.

Your plans may have great potential, but they need shaping in a savvy way. Pallas encourages you to cut through any foggy thinking and be clear about what you hope to accomplish, as this could help you be successful.

Sagittarius

You look to be fairly active, with the coming days keeping you on your toes, Archer. But you may find it hard to resist an invite that can show up out-ofthe-blue. If you’ve been putting energy into a collaboration or advancing a project, this could be a way to lighten up and take your mind off things. The chance to unwind means you’ll return to your task feeling energized.

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

(June 22-July 23)

A Mercury/Saturn link can see you acting on ideas that promote your work and connect you with those who could help and inspire you to study. But it might just as easily coincide with a desire to be with old and trusted friends you haven’t seen in some time.

Plus, you may get a surprise today as someone can show up out-of-the-blue. Will you be pleased to see them? It all depends.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

With a Mercury and diplomatic Venus link in a prominent zone, your confidence may be high, and with a little charm, it might be easy to make a good impression. Is there something you need to accomplish? If so, there is someone who can help. The way you approach them could be key to getting the best deal though, and these influences make it more than likely you’ll get along fine.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

The focus on finances can extend to your household budget, Leo. With a strong focus on your money zone, you may be keen to save. You’ll also be ready to make the most of your income, to recycle items and to sell what you no longer need. And if you did want to start a home business, you could feel an urgency to begin. A powerful aspect might pick you up and set you on your way.

Been valiantly attending to responsibilities? Take a break if you’re beginning to feel overwhelmed.

What you’re dealing with may be more emotionally intense than usual, which can take its toll. But there are bright opportunities showing, and one of them could really cheer you up. Something that seemed hard to get hold of might show up, and getting it may be easy.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

While you can be at your most practical and efficient, your feelings for another could draw you away from the demands of your work. Over coming days, you may register this quite strongly and potent emotions might see you imagining all kinds of possibilities. There’s also a likelihood that they may not materialise. Be as realistic regarding romance as you are in other areas, Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Lunar ties could leave you feeling edgy, and eager to do anything except what you’re supposed to.

Would this be so bad though? If this leads you to find something out, then it’s probably worth it. Someone may have plans for you, but don’t feel like you have to join in, no matter how persuasive they are. If you want to do your own thing, just go for it and don’t feel guilty, Pisces.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

Monday, September 6, 2021

31

CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

The San Juan Daily Star

Ziggy

32

Monday, September 6, 2021

The San Juan Daily Star