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esident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón, along with Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration (ASES by its Spanish acronym) Executive Director Jorge Galva, urged islanders on Thursday to enroll in the Government Health Plan, also known as the Vital Plan, in response to a temporary relaxation of the poverty limit.

During a press conference held at the HealthProMed Primary Center in Barrio Obrero in Santurce, González Colón said that as a result of the provisional income level increase authorized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, workers who earn up to $7.25 an hour or $1,202 monthly can request the government plan.

The resident commissioner added that “this now allows a family of four generating $29,000 a year to qualify for the health plan.”

“This means that people in the private sector who generate less money than this can be part of the plan,” she said, pointing out that the service is short-term financial aid for the island’s working class.

While noting that people who become eligible will be insured until Sept. 30, González Colón said she was working to make the extension permanent.

She said she has met with members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee to increase allocations to the island’s health program.

“We are requesting that this change in the poverty level for determining beneficiary eligibility in the health plan be made permanent and that 200,000 medically indigent individuals be able to benefit from the Vital Plan on a permanent basis,” the resident commissioner said. “Since this requires an additional appropriation of funds, many members of Congress are evaluating whether this temporary phase has been effective and if we don’t use the funds, we will not have a solid foundation for making the funds permanent.”

“This is the opportunity for many to catch up on their medical appointments and tests,” she added.

With the extension, a person with an annual income of $14,424, a family of two with an income of $19,248, a family of three with an income of $24,592, a family of four with an income of $29,616, a family of five with an income of $34,680, and a family of six with an income of $39,744 are eligible for the health plan, and the eligibility threshold continues to increase if the number of household members is higher.

“We still have more than 30,000 people left in the private sector who can benefit from this and have not applied for it,” González Colón said in an urgent appeal to individuals who lack medical coverage.

Galva said meanwhile that ASES is running an advertising campaign on different media outlets to persuade Puerto Rico residents to subscribe to the Vital Plan under the slogan “Vital Plan for People Who Work, Like You!” He also urged islanders to become informed, noting that the Vital Plan may cover minors even if parents are not eligible for the service as the income level is even more flexible under the Children’s Health Insurance Program, commonly known as CHIP. Citizens may apply for the benefits of the Government Health Plan through the website: www. medicaid.pr.gov.

Citizens who do not have access to the internet or have any difficulty filling out the application can contact the call center at (787) 641-4224 or TTY/TDD (787) 625-6955, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Longer curfew, limited hours of operation included in new COVID EO Retail and restaurant occupancy levels remain the same amid coronavirus case rise

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

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s announced in his State of the Commonwealth Message on Wednesday night, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia filed the new executive order (EO) Thursday to tackle the coronavirus pandemic in Puerto Rico. The revised EO goes into effect today with the purpose of “finding balance considering the economic sector and, overall, giving priority to the people’s health,” the governor said.

EO 2021-026, which will be effective until May 9, includes an extension of the nighttime curfew to 10 p.m.-5 a.m., while businesses and restaurants are ordered to close at 9 p.m. Meanwhile, retail and restaurant occupancy will continue at 50 percent capacity, as long as the six-foot spacing between tables is guaranteed.

“Although the vaccination process has been extremely efficient and effective, in recent days there has been an increase in [coronavirus] infections and hospitalizations,” reads the EO. “Studies show that 58% of infections are contracted in family activities, so we call on all citizens to continue to strictly carry out the precautionary measures imposed in this order.”

“However, given this increase, it is necessary to take certain measures to prevent further spread,” the EO continues.

“This will allow us to continue the recovery of the affected economic sector while safeguarding the health and safety of the entire population.”

Meanwhile, crowded activities held without dispensation from the Chief of Staff’s Office are prohibited.

Press Secretary Sheila Angleró told the STAR that event planners were not required to obtain authorization to conduct social activities in the previous EO; however, after the uptick in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the island, the new decree orders event planners to submit their proposals to be considered for approval and authorization from the aforementioned office.

“Such proposals will be evaluated subject to the implementation of safety and sanitation measures to mitigate the spread

Retail and restaurant occupancy will continue at 50 percent capacity, as long as the six-foot spacing between tables is guaranteed. of the virus and protect the health and safety of those participating in the event,” the EO says. “The dispensations shall warn that the owner, manager or similar person of the place or center of activity shall be responsible for compliance at all times with the precautionary measures and with the provisions of this Order.”

The new EO states that events such as weddings, birthday parties, quinceañeras, baby showers, gender reveals, graduations, award ceremonies, corporate activities, assemblies and other crowded activities not expressly permitted in the decree require dispensation.

Furthermore, event planners must hand over safety protocols two weeks before the event considering Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

Meanwhile, Pierluisi said in a written statement that aside from the decree, starting Monday the government will expand the COVID-19 vaccine campaign to every islander who is 16 years old and older.

“This will help us to speed up the vaccination of our people and achieve the herd immunity we are so eagerly awaiting,” the governor said as he urged citizens to cooperate in complying with the EO. “It’s up to all of us to do our part to end this pandemic,” Pierluisi added.

The EO also states that theaters may remain open at 30 percent capacity, subject to compliance with a protocol, but coliseums, activity centers, nightclubs and bars will not be allowed to open.

Schools will continue operating according to the community transmission analysis published by the island Health Department Surveillance System.

Likewise, the Health Department and the Puerto Rico Public Safety Department and all its components, including the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, the National Guard and any other relevant agency, are “ordered to take the necessary steps to increase resources to enforce compliance with the provisions of the Executive Order.”

Furthermore, the aforementioned agencies are requested to ensure compliance with quarantine orders related to travelers arriving in Puerto Rico, as imposed in the Bulletin.

Likewise, the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test requirement is maintained for travelers arriving on the island.

Marinas remain open, but the new EO prohibits the rafting up or mooring of several vessels together.

It also prohibits the crowding of people on beaches, rivers, spas, marinas, swimming pools and other bodies of water.

To this end, the obligation to maintain a

distance of no less than 10 feet between bathers who are not members of the same family unit is reiterated.

The maritime transportation services for the offshore islands of Vieques and Culebra will continue to operate for residents and people who work in those municipalities. Likewise, the opening of maritime transportation services for tourists to both islands will continue to be in effect, unless their respective mayors declare otherwise.

The EO lists the people and services excluded from the curfew, including gas stations and their distribution chains, but they will not be able to sell alcoholic beverages after 9 p.m.

On Wednesday, the Health Department Surveillance System classified 50 municipalities as having high or substantial COVID-19 transmission.

According to a report published the same day, which used data from tests performed between March 25 and March 31, 38 municipalities are at a “High Transmission” level.

The municipalities in the High Transmission level for the period covered by the report are: Aguada, Aguadilla, Cabo Rojo, Camuy, Canóvanas, Carolina, Cataño, Cayey, Ciales, Coamo, Comerío, Corozal, Dorado, Guayanilla, Hatillo, Hormigueros, Jayuya, Juncos, Lares, Las Marías, Loíza, Luquillo, Moca, Morovis, Naguabo, Naranjito, Orocovis, Quebradillas, Rincón, Río Grande, Sabana Grande, San Juan, San Lorenzo, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Trujillo Alto, Vega Alta and Utuado.

“Schools from kindergarten to 12th grade must be in exclusively virtual teaching modality,” the report said.

Meanwhile, another 12 municipalities are at the “Substantial Transmission” level: Adjuntas, Añasco, Barceloneta, Bayamón, Caguas, Guaynabo, Gurabo, Humacao, Las Piedras, San Sebastián, Vega Baja and Yauco.

According to the Health Department, this means that schools in those municipalities must adopt mechanisms to ensure twice-weekly COVID-19 screening tests for teachers and staff members.

Moreover, the agency stated that schools must offer weekly COVID screening tests to at least 10% of the students who are taking hybrid classes and have both the caregivers’ consent and the minor’s assent.

Additional testing is advised if the student is presenting symptoms related to the coronavirus.

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LUMA says it will welcome the unionization of its workforce

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xecutives from LUMA Energy and its subsidiaries Quanta Services and ATCO have said Thursday that workers employed by the private operator are free to unionize.

“The way this works is LUMA will hire employees.

When or if employees choose to form a union on their behalf, they will do that and LUMA will welcome that with open arms,” said LUMA Energy President Wayne Stensby.

Under a heavy police force, LUMA Energy officials on Thursday broke ground on the future LUMA College for Technical Training, a training facility being funded by LUMA parent companies ATCO and Quanta Services.

Outside of the facilities, dozens of Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER by its Spanish acronym) members protested against LUMA Energy, which as the operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution (T&D) system, refuses to acknowledge the acquired rights under the union’s collective bargaining agreement.

UTIER is the main union representing PREPA workers.

The college site will become fully operational in phases over the next few months to train technical workers as part of the “transformation of the power utility,” officials said.

“LUMA College represents a substantial investment, brings safety first to concrete reality,” Stensby said during the groundbreaking ceremony. “Here, our employees will develop the skills to rebuild the electrical infrastructure.”

“Nothing will deter us from our mission,” he added.

LUMA Energy is slated to take over control of bankrupt PREPA’s T&D system on June 1. The contract, signed last summer, is currently in the front-end transition phase.

Under the 15-year contract, PREPA will pay LUMA a fixed annual rate that will start at $70 million the first year, increase to $90 million the second year, and to $100 million the third year along with incentive payments for meeting certain goals.

The LUMA College campus is being built on a 24-acre plot in the San Isidro Industrial Park in the municipality of

LUMA Energy President Wayne Stensby Canóvanas. The town’s mayor, Lornna Soto, said she went after government officials to bring the LUMA facility to her municipality. The project will provide 50 jobs during the construction phase.

“There is no other opportunity in the world to build a world class, resilient electrical grid that brings a brighter future for tomorrow,” said Nancy Southern, chairwoman and CEO of ATCO, during the groundbreaking ceremony.

The facility will include an outdoor training yard, a learning lab and classrooms, administrative offices, and equipment and parking. LUMA College will offer customized education and practical training for LUMA employees and the next generation of skilled electrical workers in Puerto Rico. The LUMA College for Technical Training and its programs are modeled after the Northwest Lineman College, a leading technical training institution run by Quanta Services that has four campuses across the mainland United States.

Earl Duke Austin, CEO of Quanta Services, said students who graduate from one of several Quanta Services colleges go out to better jobs with good pay, comparing them to doctors.

“I rest my legacy on this company and this trans-

formation,” he said about PREPA’s transformation of its T&D system from a public entity to one under private management. “Let a hurricane come, we will run to it,” he added, in obvious reference to complaints that the LUMA Energy contract contains terms that will allow the private consortium to cancel the contract following a major natural event such as a hurricane.

LUMA is assuming that it will operate under the terms of the “supplemental terms of the agreement” portion of its contract, because PREPA has yet to file a debt adjustment plan as part of its bankruptcy, which began in 2017. That agreement would allow contract cancellation in the event PREPA does not complete the bankruptcy process in 18 months.

There are some 22 conditions that LUMA must meet before taking over in June, including having a Treasury order that grants it certain tax benefits and a tax opinion to the effect that PREPA’s bonds will not be adversely impacted by the process.

Stensby said “we have a fairly large number of items to be clear” and “we are confident that for the first of June we are going to clear on a lot of those requirements.”

While Stensby has said he would need 3,800 workers to operate PREPA’s T&D system, he has declined to divulge the exact number of workers who have been hired. He insisted that “[o]ur workforce is growing,” adding that some 14,000 people outside of PREPA are seeking jobs with LUMA. Austin said Quanta will provide any workers if LUMA falls short of staffing requirements.

“We want the people of PREPA to join LUMA. Their knowledge is very important to getting started and I don’t know why there is hesitancy,” Southern said, adding that the college is for everyone in PREPA. If the PREPA workers decide to create a union within LUMA Energy, the executives said they will welcome them. Stensby said Quanta has unionized workers.

Austin said he is pro-union.

“It is something I am passionate about. We work with unions daily,” he said. “We want as a company to provide better wages and have a good safety record.”

Lawmaker: Many citizens seek to work on island farms

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ep. Jorge Alfredo Rivera Segarra, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, on Thursday made available to island farm owners and administrators contact information for people who have called his office to express their interest in going to work on farms throughout Puerto Rico.

“My goal is that not a single tomato or coffee bean is lost, that every Puerto Rican agricultural product be used,” Rivera Segarra said in a written statement. “Contrary to what one might think, there are many people willing to go to work on the farms.

University students, retired people, parttime workers, among others, have called our office and authorized us to give their information to potential employers.”

The legislator, who represents Adjun-

tas, Utuado, Lares and Jayuya, offered the number of his office in the Capitol, which is 787-722-4296, from Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., so that the owners or administrators of farms can call and inform his staff on their hiring requirements.

“We welcome the Mexicans who came to the island to work on the farms, but given that there is so much work, more arms are needed ready to

harvest,” Rivera Segarra added.

The legislator added that those interested in earning money working on farms and who are receiving government income such as nutrition assistance or the government health plan will not see a reduction in their benefits.

“There are still many people interested in working on farms in different places on the island, but what was lacking was adequate guidance,” he said.

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Cause for arrest found against ex-Telecom Bureau president

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pecial Independent Prosecutors Ramón Mendoza Rosario, Leticia Pabón Ortiz and Juan Catalá Suárez presented three complaints Thursday at a determination hearing carried out against former Telecommunications Regulatory Bureau President Sandra Torres López.

Two of the complaints were for violations of Articles 4.2, subsections (b) and (m) of the Government Ethics Law, while the third was for a violation of Article 252 of the Penal Code of Puerto Rico.

Judge Ileana Blanco Maldonado, of the San Juan Investigations Unit, imposed a bond of $45,000 ($15,000 in each case).

Torres López’s former assistant, Exel López, alleged on Telemundo’s investigative

news program “Jay y sus Rayos X” that his former boss threatened to remove him from his post if he did not sell tickets for former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares’ re-election campaign.

López alleged that his former boss ordered him to sell the tickets to telecommunications companies.

According to media reports, the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (PFEI by its Spanish initials) has 18 witnesses in the case.

It was reported that Torres López will be booked today at 2 p.m. at PFEI offices in San Juan.

A preliminary hearing was scheduled for April 21 at 10 a.m.

The island Justice Department referred Torres López and agency officials to the PFEI on July 23, 2020.

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NPP secretary general chides Senate president for State of the Commonwealth outburst

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ew Progressive Party (NPP) Secretary General Carmelo Ríos criticized Senate President José Luis Dalmau on Thursday for “disrespecting the people of Puerto Rico” by using the chamber of the House of Representatives, during Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia’s State of the Commonwealth speech Wednesday night, to make “partisan political pronouncements.”

Senate president José Luis Dalmau

“What we saw yesterday [Wednesday] in the chamber of the House of Representatives was a real shame. The President of the Senate, who is also the president of the Popular Democratic Party [PDP], committed an embarrassing act last night, raising his voice and shouting totally partisan political statements,” Ríos said in a written statement. “We know that my friend Dalmau is trying to consolidate his leadership within that fractured party, but that is not his style. We expected that from the Speaker of the House, not from him.”

Ríos made his statements after Dalmau, at the end of Pierluisi’s message, shouted that the commonwealth was the solution and that his delegation, “which does not have a majority in the Senate, is the one in command.”

“The Governor is to be respected. Above all, the People of Puerto Rico are to be respected and what Dalmau did yesterday was disrespect our people,” said Ríos, who is the alternate spokesman for the NPP in the Senate. “Saying that the majority rules and not acknowledging that the majority sent [a message] on November 3 to seek statehood is an unreal act that, once again, we could expect from the Speaker of the [lower] Chamber, but not from Dalmau. Our conclusion is that the PDP has split, that its leadership is in question and he had to do this to please some sectors within that party, because, again, that is not the Dalmau that we all know.”

PDP Secretary General Ramón Luis Cruz Burgos responded in a written statement of his own.

“I acknowledge the annoyance of fellow NPP legislators, because they know that in 49 seconds José Luis Dalmau dismantled a message that took three weeks to rehearse and an hour and a half to read. Last night the president of

the Senate, José Luis Dalmau, made sure the Legislative Assembly would be respected using the same statements as the Governor, reminding him that according to himself he said ‘majorities are respected and in democracies, majorities rule,’” Cruz Burgos said. “In the Legislative Assembly, where the largest representation of the country is, the majority belongs to the Popular Democratic Party and must be respected, because that was the will of the people.

In the same way, he [Dalmau] reminded him [Pierluisi] that 100% of federal funds for recovery come to Puerto Rico by virtue of the Commonwealth. Instead of trying to obtain funds, the NPP government should manage the [efficient distribution] of the disbursement.”

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More contagious virus variant is now dominant in U.S., CDC chief says

By SHERYL GAY-STOLBERG and CARL ZIMMER

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highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that was first identified in Britain has become the most common source of new infections in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. The worrisome development comes as officials and scientists warn of a possible fourth surge of infections.

Federal health officials said in January that the B.1.1.7 variant, which began surging in Britain in December and has since slammed Europe, could become the dominant source of coronavirus infections in the United States, leading to a huge increase in cases and deaths.

At that point, new cases, hospitalizations and deaths were at an all-time high. From that peak, the numbers declined until late February, according to a New York Times database. After several weeks at a plateau, new cases and hospitalizations are increasing again. The average number of new cases in the country has reached nearly 65,000 a day as of Tuesday, concentrated mostly in metro areas in Michigan as well as in the New York City region. That is an increase of 19% compared with the figure two weeks ago.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, who warned last week that she felt a recurring sense of “impending doom,” said Wednesday that 52 of the agency’s 64 jurisdictions — which include states, some major cities and territories — are now reporting cases of these so-called “variants of concern,” including B.1.1.7.

The number of deaths, however, continue to decline — potentially a sign that mass vaccinations are beginning to protect older Americans and other highly vulnerable populations.

“These trends are pointing to two clear truths,” Walensky said.

“One, the virus still has hold on us, infecting people and putting them in harm’s way, and we need to remain vigilant. And two, we need to continue to accelerate our vaccination efforts and to take the individual responsibility to get vaccinated when we can.”

B.1.1.7, the first variant to come to widespread attention, is about 60% more contagious and 67% more deadly than the original form of the coronavirus, according to the most recent estimates. The CDC has also been tracking the spread of other variants, such as B.1.351, first found in South Africa, and P.1,

in behavior,” said Dr. Adam Lauring, a virologist at the University of Michigan.

But he noted that people were becoming less cautious at a time when they should be raising their guard against a more contagious variant. “It’s worrisome,” he said.

At the same time, the United States is vaccinating an average of about 3 million people a day, and states have rushed to make all adults eligible. The CDC reported on Wednesday that almost 110 million people had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, including about 64.4 million people who have been fully vaccinated. New Mexico, South Dakota, Rhode Island and Alaska are leading the states, with about 25% of their total populations fully vaccinated.

Scientists hope that vaccination will blunt any potential People wait for COVID-19 testing at a mobile testing vehicle, fourth surge. outside Our Lady off Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in On Tuesday, President Joe Biden moved up his vaccination Queens on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. timetable by two weeks, calling states to make every U.S. adult eligible by April 19. All states have already reached or expect to exceed this goal after he initially asked that they do so by May 1. which was first identified in Brazil.

The B.1.1.7 variant first arrived in the United States last The percentage of cases caused by variants is clearly increasing. Helix, a lab testing company, has tracked the relentless year. In February, a study that analyzed half a million coronavirus increase of B.1.1.7 since the beginning of the year. As of April 3, tests and hundreds of genomes predicted that this variant could become predominant in the country in a month. At that time, the it estimated that the variant made up 58.9% of all new tests.

That variant has been found to be most prevalent in Mi- CDC was struggling to sequence the new variants, which made it chigan, Florida, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Massachu- difficult to track them.

But those efforts have substantially improved in recent weeks setts, according to the CDC. Until recently, the variant’s rise was somewhat camouflaged by falling infection rates overall, leading and will continue to grow, in large part because of $1.75 billion some political leaders to relax restrictions on indoor dining, social in funds for genomic sequencing in the stimulus package that Biden signed into law last month. By contrast, Britain, which has distancing and other measures.

As cases fell, restive Americans headed back to school and a more centralized health care system, began a highly promoted sequencing program last year that allowed it to track the spread work, against the warnings of some scientists.

Federal health officials are tracking reports of increasing cases of the B.1.1.7 variant.

“We knew this was going to happen: This variant is a lot associated with day care centers and youth sports, and hospitals are seeing more younger adults — people in their 30s and 40s who more transmissible, much more infectious than the parent strain, and that obviously has implications,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, a are admitted with “severe disease,” Walensky said.

It is difficult for scientists to say exactly how much of the professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at Emory current patterns of infection are because of the growing frequency University. In addition to spreading more efficiently, he said, the B.1.1.7 strain appears to cause more severe disease, “so that gives of B.1.1.7.

“It’s muddled by the reopening that’s going on and changes you a double whammy.”

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Top official warned that COVID vaccine plant had to be ‘monitored closely’

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, SHARON LaFRANIERE and CHRIS HAMBY

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top federal pandemic official warned in June that Emergent BioSolutions, the government contractor that last month threw out millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines because of contamination, lacked enough trained staff and had a record of problems with quality control.

A copy of the official’s assessment, obtained by The New York Times, cited “key risks” in relying on Emergent to handle the production of vaccines developed by both Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca at Emergent’s Bayview plant in Baltimore.

The assessment, which has not been released publicly, was based in part on a visit to the plant just days after the government awarded Emergent a contract worth up to $628 million, mostly to prepare its factories to make coronavirus vaccines as part of Operation Warp Speed.

Addressing the problems “will require significant effort,” and the company “will have to be monitored closely,” said the report, which was written by Carlo de Notaristefani, a manufacturing expert who has overseen production of COVID-19 vaccines for the federal government since May. Though marked as a draft, federal officials said the report was considered to be final.

Ten months after his report, the plant has become a major headache for the team named by President Joe Biden to oversee the pandemic response. The Times reported on Tuesday on a host of quality control problems, flagged in audits and investigations by AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, two federal agencies and Emergent’s own quality evaluators.

Emergent has a federal contract to produce Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccines.

Federal officials ordered major changes to the plant after revelations late last month that Emergent had to jettison between 13 million and 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine. It is not clear what will happen to another 62 million doses of the vaccine produced at the plant, or whether Johnson & Johnson will be able to deliver the 24 million doses it has promised to the federal government by the end of the month.

So far, the Food and Drug Administration has not certified the factory to distribute any doses for public use, and the agency is not expected to do so until it conducts a thorough review, which can take weeks.

Asked about the June report, a company spokesman said Wednesday night: “Emergent’s top priority continues to be the strengthening of the supply chain for Johnson & Johnson’s vitally needed

COVID-19 vaccine.”

Biden administration officials insist that the government has enough doses from the other two federally authorized vaccine makers — Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — to cover the vast majority of the nation’s roughly 260 million adults.

But federal officials are still concerned about Emergent’s problems, not only because the federal government has invested heavily in the plant, but because there may be implications for the world’s vaccine supply if the issues are not resolved.

AstraZeneca was expected to fulfill the majority of the global need, but safety concerns have upended those plans. British officials said Wednesday that people under 30 should not take the

AstraZeneca vaccine, and authorities in the European Union said they had found a “possible link” between the vaccine and rare but worrisome blood clots. That makes Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine more important, experts say.

Emergent was forced to discard the Johnson & Johnson doses after checks revealed contamination with a virus used in the production of the AstraZeneca vaccine. An investigation is now underway, but federal and former company officials suspect the lot was tainted because an employee moved from AstraZeneca’s section of the plant to Johnson & Johnson’s without showering and taking other precautions.

Between October and January, Emergent threw away five lots of the AstraZeneca vaccine — each the equivalent of 2 million to 3 million doses — because of contamination or suspected contamination, The Times reported Tuesday.

By giving Emergent a key role in its coronavirus response, the government was counting on the company to deliver on a promise made more than eight years earlier. To ensure a domestic supply of vaccines in a pandemic, the government had awarded Emergent a $163 million contract in 2012 to ready the Baltimore plant for mass production in a crisis.

But de Notaristefani wrote that Emergent had used the site primarily for smaller development projects. To make large amounts of COVID-19 vaccines, the company “will have to strengthen” its quality controls, requiring “significant resources and commitment,” he wrote.

His report was based in part on a visit to the plant on June 4, as well as information provided by the company and conversations with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the federal agency that awarded Emergent the manufacturing contract.

It is unclear what action, if any, the Trump administration took in response, or whether the Biden administration reviewed the findings before the recent problems arose.

De Notaristefani, a former top executive at two major pharmaceutical companies, cited “significant” personnel problems, writing that plans to increase staffing seemed “inadequate to enable

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He also noted that audits by the FDA and individual companies that had hired Emergent “highlighted the need for extensive training of personnel, and strengthening of the quality function.”

Nonetheless, he wrote,“the organization has the necessary experience/competence” to scale up its manufacturing. He wrote that “management is knowledgeable and appears self-confident,” and with enough government oversight, “risks can be mitigated.”

At the time of the visit, Emergent also planned to make a third COVID-19 vaccine, developed by Novavax, but that company has since partnered with another manufacturer in a government-backed deal. “Offloading the Novavax program to a different facility will also help reduce the load on Emergent Bayview,” de Notaristefani wrote.

Emergent is a longtime federal contractor in the area of biodefense. Sales of its anthrax vaccines accounted for nearly half the Strategic National Stockpile’s half-billiondollar annual budget through most of the last decade, The Times reported last month.

That left the government with less money for

April 9-11, 2021 items needed in a pandemic, and last year, the stockpile’s shortage of basic medical supplies became a symbol of the government’s bungled coronavirus response.

Though the original federal contract for the Baltimore plant required Emergent to demonstrate large-scale manufacturing of a pandemic influenza vaccine — envisioned by health officials as a pressure test of its abilities — Emergent had yet to do so, The Times reported Tuesday. The company risked defaulting on the original deal, which had set a deadline of June 2020. The company also has separate agreements with the two vaccine makers worth more than $875 million.

In the effort to resolve the factory’s troubles, federal officials have simplified Emergent’s mission, limiting it to only producing Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and forcing AstraZeneca to move its production lines elsewhere. Johnson & Johnson is also now asserting direct control over the manufacturing, although the workforce at the plant in southeast Baltimore remains Emergent’s.

The existence of de Notaristefani’s assessment was reported earlier by Politico, but its details were not previously known. Asked about the report Wednesday, the White House

spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said she“would have to check on the specifics.”

De Notaristefani’s concerns were echoed by two former plant supervisors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of career repercussions. In interviews with The Times, they cited crushing workloads and shortcuts taken to meet unrealistic timetables.

De Notaristefani noted that Emergent planned to boost the factory’s workforce to

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nearly 300. It now has 600 workers, according to the company’s spokesman. Even so, the exsupervisors said, employees are overwhelmed, and some are often forced to work more than 70 hours a week.

A review of months of company logs obtained by The Times showed that employees repeatedly said they deviated from manufacturing standards because of a lack of manpower and shortened production times.

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For these Republicans, 2024 is just around the corner

By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

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resident Joe Biden told reporters last month that his “plan is to run for reelection,” despite already being the oldest person to have won a presidential election. So, for now at least, the question of who will lead the Democratic ticket in 2024 has been put to rest.

On the Republican side, however, certainty is in short supply. It’s beyond early to be talking about the next presidential election (we’re still hardly even ready to talk about the midterms!) — but that’s only if you aren’t planning to run. Some Republican candidates have already made trips to Iowa and New Hampshire, and others are laying plans to go, in what often represents the first step in building out a campaign operation in those early-voting states.

And on Wednesday, in a conspicuously forward-looking move, former Vice President Mike Pence announced the formation of a new political organization, Advancing American Freedom, whose advisory board is stacked high with former Trump administration officials and allies.

The news came on the same day Simon & Schuster announced that it would publish Pence’s autobiography as part of a two-book deal.

The GOP is badly fractured, trying to hold together a dominant base of those loyal to former President Donald Trump and a stubborn minority of pro-decorum, anti-Trump conservatives. Anyone looking to grab the Republican mantle will have to find some way of satisfying both camps — and maybe even expanding upon them.

A national poll from Pew Research Center last month found that most Republicans didn’t think the GOP should be accepting of elected officials in the party who openly criticize Trump.

But looking at the nation at large, Pew also found that a majority of Americans called Trump either a

“poor” or “terrible” president. So it may be tough for Republicans to get very far in a general election if their candidate is seen as too staunch of a Trump loyalist.

With all these factors at play, I caught up with our political reporter and Trump guru Maggie Haberman. Here’s what she had to say.

Q. Mike Pence on Wednesday announced that he had started the group Advancing American Freedom, with the self-described mission of “promoting traditional conservative values,” advocating “the successful policies of the Trump administration” and opposing Biden’s “expansion of government.” Is this a preliminary move toward a possible 2024 run?

A. It most certainly gives Pence a perch from which to run, and, more significantly, to differentiate himself from Trump to the best of his ability. He has more of a challenge than most of the potential 2024 candidates in presenting himself as a continuation of what Republicans

liked about the Trump era, without the parts they didn’t.

Q. A stubborn divide remains between the party’s Trump-supporting base and its establishment wing. Pence, for one, has always done his best to skate along that divide. For Republican presidential hopefuls, will there be any room for being even semi-critical of Trump?

A. I think they all have to survive a GOP primary, and the bulk of the Republican base is going to want someone who resembles Trump in some way.

There is going to be little room for a Republican to separate from Trump in the primary — barring new circumstances that change Trump’s standing with those voters — and then pivot back in a general election and be viable with swing voters.

Pence has also been so, so reluctant to criticize Trump, even after his own life was at risk in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6.

Q. A number of other prominent Republicans have recently been laying groundwork in Iowa. (Despite the 2020 Democratic caucus shenanigans, the state is certain to hold an early contest in 2024.) Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida just went there, and others are reportedly planning trips. After the Conservative Political Action Conference last month, what clues are you seeing about how the 2024 field will shape up?

Does any one figure seem particularly well positioned?

A. It’s so early in the cycle, it’s very hard to say. We don’t know what the world — or the country — will look like closer to 2024, although the midterms will tell us something about the mood of the electorate.

Scott is in a bit of a different position than some candidates, having been a governor and now a senator. Scott surprised leaders in his own party by siding with Trump’s objections to the electoral certification, which helps him in a primary but which could be a challenge in other ways.

Q. Where does Trump himself stand in all this? He has been relatively quiet since January, his speech at CPAC aside — but he’s still running a political operation out of his residence in Florida. Whether or not he runs again in three years, is it safe to say he will be playing an active role in the race somehow?

A. Remember, Trump keeps telling people he’s running. While most of his own advisers are skeptical that he will do it, it could have a chilling effect on the field for a while. He wants to remain dominant in the party and he is a major factor in down-ballot primaries so far.

But that isn’t the only impactful factor in these races. He wants to be relevant; remember that only a narrow majority of Republicans want to see him as the nominee again.

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After pandemic, shrinking need for office space could crush landlords

By PETER EAVIS and MATTHEW HAAG

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s office vacancies climb to their highest levels in decades with businesses giving up office space and embracing remote work, the real estate industry in many American cities faces a potentially grave threat.

Businesses have discovered during the pandemic that they could function with nearly all of their workers out of the office, an arrangement many intend to continue in some form. That could wallop the big property companies that build and own office buildings — and lead to a sharp pullback in construction, steep drops in office rents, fewer people frequenting restaurants and stores, and potentially perilous declines in the tax revenue of city governments and school districts.

In only a year, the market value of office towers in Manhattan, home to the country’s two largest central business districts, has plummeted 25%, according to city projections released Wednesday, contributing to an estimated $1 billion drop in property tax revenue.

JPMorgan Chase, Ford Motor, Salesforce, Target and more are giving up expensive office space, and others are considering doing so. Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, the largest private sector employer in New York City, wrote in a letter to shareholders this week that remote work would “significantly reduce our need for real estate.” For every 100 employees, he said, his bank “may need seats for only 60 on average.”

And just as Coca-Cola’s profits would take a seismic hit if consumers abruptly cut back on sodas, owners of office buildings, many of which are owned by pension funds, insurance companies, individuals and other investors, could be pummeled if many businesses rent less space. “The pandemic has proven that work from home is viable,” said Jonathan Litt, chief investment officer of Land & Buildings, a real estate investment firm that has taken a bearish view of the New York office market. “It’s not going away; businesses are going to adjust, and office real estate is going to take it on the chin during that adjustment period.”

Across the country, the vacancy rate for office buildings in city centers has steadily climbed over the past year to reach 16.4%, according to Cushman & Wakefield, the highest in about a decade. That number could climb further, even as vaccinations allow some people to go back to work, if companies keep giving up office space because of hybrid or fully remote work.

So far, landlords like Boston Properties and SL Green have not suffered huge financial losses, having survived the past year by collecting rent from tenants locked into long leases — the average contract for office space runs about seven years.

But as leases slowly come up for renewal, property owners could be left with scores of empty floors. At the same time, many new office buildings are under construction — 124 million square feet nationwide, or enough for roughly 700,000 workers. Those changes could drive down rents, which were touching new highs before the pandemic. And rents help determine assessments that are the basis for property tax bills.

Many big employers have already given notice to the owners of some prestigious buildings that they are leaving when their leases end. United Airlines is giving up some 150,000 square feet,

An empty conference room in New York, which is among the cities with the lowest rate of workers returning to offices. or over 17% of its space, at Willis Tower in Chicago, the third tallest building in the country and a prized possession of Blackstone, the Wall Street firm. Salesforce is subletting half its space, equivalent to roughly 225,000 square feet, at 350 Mission St., a San Francisco tower designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and owned by Kilroy Realty.

Roughly 17.3% of all office space in Manhattan is available for lease, the highest proportion in at least three decades. Asking rents on the island have dropped to just over $74 a square foot, from nearly $82 at the beginning of 2020, according to a recent report by the real estate services company Newmark. Elsewhere, asking rents have largely stayed flat from a year ago, including in Boston and Houston, but have climbed slightly in Chicago.

The stock prices of the big landlords, which are often structured as real estate investment trusts that pass almost all of their profit to investors, trade well below their previous highs, even as the wider stock market and some companies in other industries like airlines and hotels that were hit hard by the pandemic have hit new highs. Shares of Boston Properties, one of the largest office landlords, are down 29% from the prepandemic high. SL Green, a major New York landlord, is 26% lower.

Fitch Ratings estimated that office landlords’ profits would fall 15% if companies allowed workers to be at home just 1 1/2 days a week on average. Three days at home could slash income by 30%.

Senior executives at property companies claim not to be worried. They argue that working from home will quickly fade once most of the country is vaccinated. Their reasons to think this?

They say many corporate executives have told them that it is hard to effectively get workers to collaborate or train young professionals when they are not together.

Large tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Goo-

gle and Apple, have added office space in New York City during the pandemic, and some of them are planning expansions elsewhere. Last week, Amazon told employees it would “return to an office-centric culture as our baseline.”

“Companies that work in person are going to be more successful going forward than those that work virtually,” Owen Thomas, chief executive of Boston Properties, said in an interview.

The recession caused by the pandemic is different from past ones in an important way that could benefit landlords. After the financial crisis, banks, insurance companies, investment firms and other such businesses shed some 600,000 employees. But now companies that employ lots of office workers have been relatively unscathed. “Our customers are doing well — most of them are not experiencing a recession,” Thomas said.

Predictions of a return to offices have often come up empty.

A year ago, many real estate executives said that state-imposed lockdowns would be relaxed by the summer. A year later, many states have eased restrictions and roughly 3 million Americans are getting vaccinated daily. Yet, on average, just a quarter of workers in the 10 biggest urban areas have returned to offices, a rate that has stayed mostly the same for months, according to Kastle Systems, a security company.

The cities with the lowest return rates are on the coasts, places like New York, San Francisco and Washington, Kastle said, where long commutes, often on dysfunctional transit systems, are common. Moody’s said in March that office landlords with many buildings in coastal cities would come under the most financial pressure in the coming years.

“We are just going to be bleeding lower for the next three to four years to find out what the new level of tenant demand is,” said Litt, the investor.

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Biden’s tax plan aims to raise $2.5 trillion and end profit-shifting

By JIM TANKERSLEY and ALAN RAPPEPORT

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arge companies like Apple and Bristol Myers Squibb have long employed complicated maneuvers to reduce or eliminate their tax bills by shifting income on paper between countries. The strategy has enriched accountants and shareholders, while driving down corporate tax receipts for the federal government.

President Joe Biden sees ending that practice as central to his $2 trillion infrastructure package, pushing changes to the tax code that his administration says will ensure American companies are contributing tax dollars to help invest in the country’s roads, bridges, water pipes and other parts of his economic agenda.

On Wednesday, the Treasury Department released the details of Biden’s tax plan, which aims to raise as much as $2.5 trillion over 15 years to help finance the infrastructure proposal. That includes bumping the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%, imposing a strict new minimum tax on global profits and levying harsh penalties on companies that try to move profits offshore.

The plan also aims to stop big companies that are profitable but have no federal income tax liability from paying no taxes to the Treasury Department by imposing a 15% tax on the profits they report to investors. Such a change would affect about 45 corporations, according to the Biden administration’s estimates, because it would be limited to companies earning $2 billion or more per year.

“Companies aren’t going to be able to hide their income in places like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda in tax havens,” Biden said Wednesday during remarks at the White House. He defended the tax increases as necessary to pay for infrastructure investments that America needs and to help reduce the federal deficit over the long term.

Still, his 15% tax is a narrower version of the one he proposed in the 2020 campaign that would have applied to companies with $100 million or more in profits per year.

Biden’s proposals are a repudiation of Washington’s last big tax overhaul — President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

Biden administration officials say that law increased the incentives for companies to shift profits to lower-tax countries, while re-

President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Biden has assembled a team of economists and tax professionals who spent the last several years critiquing the Trump administration’s tax law and proposing new measures to reform it, in hopes of stomping out profit shifting. ducing corporate tax receipts in the United States to match their lowest levels as a share of the economy since World War II. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in rolling out the plan, said it would end a global “race to the bottom” of corporate taxation that has been destructive for the American economy and its workers.

“Our tax revenues are already at their lowest level in generations,” Yellen said. “If they continue to drop lower, we will have less money to invest in roads, bridges, broadband and R&D.” At the core of the proposal is an attempt to rewrite decades of tax-code provisions that have encouraged and rewarded companies who stash profits overseas.

It would increase the rate of what is essentially a minimum tax on money American companies earn abroad, and it would apply that tax to a much broader selection of income. It would also eliminate lucrative tax deductions for foreign-owned companies that are based in low-tax countries — like Bermuda or Ireland — but have operations in the United States.”

“We are being quite explicit: We don’t think profit-shifting is advantageous from a U.S. perspective,” David Kamin, the deputy director of the National Economic Council, said in an interview. “It is a major problem,” he said, adding that with the proposed changes, “We have the opportunity to lead the world.”

The corporate income tax rate in the United States is currently 21%, but many large American companies pay effective tax rates that are much lower than that. Corporations that have operations in multiple countries often shift assets or income — sometimes in physical form, but other times, simply in their accountants’ books — between countries in search of the lowest possible tax bill.

Companies also shift jobs and investments between countries, but often for different reasons. In many cases, they are following lower labor costs or seeking customers in new markets to expand their businesses. The Biden plan would create new tax incentives for companies to invest in production and research in the United States.

Previous administrations have tried to curb the offshoring of jobs and profits.

Trump’s tax cuts reduced the corporate rate to 21% from 35% in the hopes of encouraging more domestic investment. It established a global minimum tax for corporations based in the United States and a related effort meant to reduce profit-shifting by foreign companies with operations in

the country, though both provisions were weakened by subsequent regulations issued

by Trump’s Treasury Department.

Conservative tax experts, including several involved in writing the 2017 law, say they have seen no evidence of the law enticing companies to move jobs overseas.

Biden has assembled a team of tax officials who contend the provisions have given companies new incentives to move investment and profits offshore.

Biden’s plan would raise the rate of Trump’s minimum tax and apply it more broadly to income that American companies earn overseas. Those efforts would try to make it less appealing for companies to book profits in lower-tax companies.

Neil Bradley, an executive vice president and the chief policy officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement on Wednesday that the proposal would “hurt American businesses and cost American jobs” and that it would hinder their ability to compete in a global economy.

Still, some companies expressed an openness to certain tax hikes.

John Zimmer, the president and a founder of Lyft, told CNN that he supported Biden’s proposed 28% corporate tax rate.

“I think it’s important to make investments again in the country and the economy,” Zimmer said. “And as the economy grows, so too does jobs and so too does people’s needs to get around.”

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen meets with President Joe Biden at the White House on March 5, 2021. Yellen has said that Biden’s tax plan would end a global “race to the bottom” of corporate taxation that she said has been destructive for American workers.

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S&P 500 scales new record high on tech boost T he S&P 500 hit a record peak on Thursday, helped by gains in tech-related stocks as weaker-than-expected jobless claims data bolstered the Federal Reserve’s stance to keep interest rates lower for a longer period.The industrials, materials and healthcare sectors weighed the most on the S&P 500.

Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Corp and Amazon.com Inc rose between 1% and 1.5% and were among the top boosts to the benchmark index.

High-growth tech stocks have recovered in recent sessions as U.S. 10-year bond yield backed off from its 14-month peak, pushing the tech-heavy Nasdaq to a seven-week high and within 2% of its record closing high.

Latest data showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, but the increase likely understates the rapidly improving labor market conditions.

“While states balance the vaccine rollout with stop and start reopening plans, the labor market continues to feel the heat,” said Mike Loewengart, managing director of investment strategy at E*TRADE Financial.

“But the disappointing read actually puts some firepower behind the Fed’s accommodative stance.

The Fed acknowledged the economy was on its path to a strong rebound backed by massive fiscal spending and accelerating vaccinations, minutes released on Wednesday showed. However, the central bank noted it would be “some time” before conditions improve enough for the Fed to rein in its support.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak at a virtual International Monetary Fund event at 1200 ET (1600 GMT).

The tech sector hit a record high, while economylinked financials, industrials, materials and energy fell the most among major S&P sectors.

The Russell 1000 growth index, which consists of techrelated stocks, gained about 1%, while its value counterpart, comprising mostly financials and energy names, dropped about 0.3%.

At 11:31 a.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.04 points, or 0.00% , to 33,447.30, the S&P 500 gained 13.09 points, or 0.32 %, to 4,093.04 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 117.70 points, or 0.86%, to 13,806.54.

The sharp run up in earnings expectations could set up for disappointment, a market expert said.

JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said the United States could be in store for an economic boom through 2023 if more adults get vaccinated and federal spending continues.

At 11:47 a.m. EDT the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 52.86 points, or 0.16% , to 33,377.38, the S&P 500 lost 1.02 points, or 0.03 %, to 4,072.92 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 15.45 points, or 0.11 %, to 13,682.93.

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AstraZeneca vaccine faces new setbacks in U.K. and European Union

By BENJAMIN MUELLER

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ritain said on Wednesday that it would curb the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine in adults under 30 because of the risk of rare blood clots, a blow to the efforts of scores of countries reliant on the vaccine to stamp out the coronavirus pandemic amid a global surge in cases.

Adding to the unease, the European Medicines Agency outlined a “possible link” between the vaccine and rare clots, even as it said that COVID-19 remained the far greater threat, leaving decisions about how to use the vaccine in the hands of the 27 member states of the European Union.

Taken together, the decisions represented a considerable setback for the AstraZeneca shot, which has been seen as the principal weapon in the battle to reduce deaths in the vaccine-starved global south.

The world’s most widely administered coronavirus vaccine, it is far less expensive and easier to store than some of the alternatives, spurring its use in at least 111 countries, rich and poor. AstraZeneca, based in Britain, has promised to deliver 3 billion doses this

A woman receives the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Milan, Italy, on Friday, March 19, 2021.

year, enough to inoculate nearly 1 in 5 people worldwide.

Britons under 30 will receive another vaccine if one is available, with limited exceptions, officials said.

Until Wednesday, Britain had not wavered in its use of the homegrown vaccine, holding out even as many European neighbors paused injections over the unusual, though sometimes fatal clots.

But cases began to appear in Britain as well, and a consensus has since emerged among global regulators that the evidence points to a plausible link, as yet unexplained, between the vaccine and rare clots.

Amid a vicious wave of COVID-19 in Europe, the safety concerns have delayed inoculations, sunk confidence in the shot and created a patchwork of different policies across the continent. The most devastating effects of the safety scare, though, may yet fall on poorer nations entirely reliant on AstraZeneca’s vaccine.

The concerns have arisen even though the clots are exceedingly rare. As of Sunday, officials said, European regulators had received reports of 169 clots in the brain and 53 other clotting events, often combined with low platelets, among roughly 34 million people who had received the AstraZeneca vaccine across Europe.

Britain has purchased enough vaccines from multiple makers that the policy change on AstraZeneca should not significantly slow the pace of inoculations.

But other countries are starved for doses. Cameroon and Congo have already delayed injections of AstraZeneca’s vaccine amid mounting concerns in Europe.

Any further hesitation, scientists said, could cost lives.

“In developing countries, the dynamic is to either use the vaccine you have, or you have nothing,” said Penny Ward, a visiting professor in pharmaceutical medicine at King’s College London. “In which case, carnage ensues.”

For the vast majority of people, British and European regulators said Wednesday, the benefits of AstraZeneca’s shot far outweigh the risks. The clotting problems were appearing at a rate of roughly 1 in 100,000 recipients across Europe. Meanwhile, in Britain, the vaccine has driven down hospitalizations from COVID-19 — which can, itself, cause serious clotting problems — and saved thousands of lives, regulators said.

British health officials estimated that the risk of being admitted to an intensive care unit for COVID-19 exceeded the dangers of the unusual blood clots in almost all age groups, and at almost every level of outbreak.

But because younger people are less likely to develop severe COVID-19, regulators said, any vaccine being given in that age group has to clear a higher safety bar.

British data also suggest that younger people are more prone to the rare clots, making health officials there and

in Europe warier about giving them the vaccine.

In response to the new regulatory guidance, Italy on Wednesday recommended not giving the AstraZeneca shot to people under 60. A number of countries, including Germany, France, Canada and the Netherlands, had already stopped using it in younger people, setting the age limit at 55 or 60. Norway and Denmark have put a total halt on the shot while they investigate.

“The balance of benefits and risks is very favorable for older people, but it is more finely balanced for the younger people,” said Dr. June Raine, Britain’s chief medicines regulator.

Some experts said the pauses were understandable, but the flip-flopping was disorienting, all the more so amid an ugly squabble between European lawmakers and AstraZeneca over drastic reductions in supply that prompted some political leaders to falsely malign the vaccine. Surveys began to show that in Germany, France and Spain, most people doubted the vaccine’s safety.

Overall, use of the shot has suffered: Across Europe, 64% of delivered doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine have been injected into people’s arms, markedly lower than the rates for other shots.

“One hoped there would have been collaboration, and more discussion, between regulators, instead of lots of different countries going off in all sorts of directions,” Ward said. “That aspect has really been the most unhelpful.”

As doctors across Europe have investigated the rare blood clots, they have become more convinced of a link, however poorly understood, with the vaccine.

More women than men have suffered those clotting problems, but British regulators said that appeared to be a result of women being vaccinated in higher numbers because of front line medical roles.

Regulators have asked vaccine recipients and doctors to watch for certain symptoms, including severe and persistent headaches and tiny blood spots under the skin. Doctors’ groups have circulated guidance about how to treat the disorder.

As of March 22, regulators had carried out detailed review of 86 cases, 18 of which were fatal, they said.

Concerns about the shot became acute enough in Britain this week that the University of Oxford, which developed the vaccine with AstraZeneca, stopped giving doses as part of a two-month-old trial in children.

“Safety has been our priority throughout the development of the vaccine,” Andrew Pollard, the Oxford researcher in charge of the trials, said on Wednesday. The identification of the clots, he added, “shows that the safety system works.”

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Powerful men fall, one after another, in France’s delayed #MeToo

By NORIMITSU ONISHI

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hen Sandra Muller launched France’s #MeToo social media campaign in 2017, tens of thousands of women responded to her calls to “Expose Your Pig,” or #balancetonporc.”

But the backlash was overwhelming.

Some of the most prominent women in the country, led by Catherine Deneuve, denounced the movement in a letter that came to define France’s initial response to #MeToo. In 2019, Muller lost a defamation case against a former television executive she had exposed on Twitter, with France appearing immune to the larger global forces challenging the dominance of men.

Last week, Muller won her appeal. although there were no new facts, a powerful ruling by the appeals court underscored how things have changed in the past two years.

“Before the ruling, I thought there were stirrings,” Muller said in a phone interview from New York, where she now lives. “Now, I have the impression that there’s been a leap forward.”

Since the beginning of the year, a series of powerful men from some of France’s most prominent fields — politics, sports, the news media, academia and the arts — have faced direct and public accusations of sexual abuse in a reversal from mostly years of silence. At the same time, confronted with these high-profile cases and a shift in public opinion, French lawmakers are hurrying to set 15 as the age of sexual consent — only three years after rejecting such a law.

The recent accusations have not only led to official investigations, the loss of positions for some powerful men and outright banishment from public life for others. They have also resulted in a rethinking of French masculinity and of the archetype of Frenchmen as irresistible seducers — as part of a broader questioning of many aspects of French society and amid a conservative backlash against ideas on gender, race and postcolonialism supposedly imported from American universities.

“Things are moving so fast that sometimes my head spins,” said Caroline De Haas, a feminist activist who in 2018 founded #NousToutes, a group against sexual violence. She described herself as “super optimistic.”

Haas said that France was going through a delayed reaction to #MeToo after

a “maturation” period during which many French began to understand the social dimensions behind sexual violence and the concept of consent.

That was especially so, Haas said, after the testimony in the past year of Adèle Haenel, the first high-profile actress to speak out over abuse, and of Vanessa Springora, whose memoir, “Consent,” documented her abuse by pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff.

“The start of 2021 has been a sort of aftershock,” Haas said. “What’s very clear is that, today in France, we don’t at all have the same reaction that we did four, five years ago to testimonies of sexual violence against well-known people.”

Last month, Pierre Ménès, one of France’s most famous television sports journalists, was suspended indefinitely by his employer after the release of a documentary that exposed sexism in sports journalism, “I’m Not a Slut, I’m a Journalist.”

Just a few years ago, few criticized him for behavior that they now don’t dare defend in public, including forcibly kissing women on the mouth on television and, in front of a studio audience in 2016, lifting the skirt of a female journalist — Marie Portolano, the producer of the documentary.

“The world’s changed, it’s #MeToo, you can’t do anything anymore, you can’t say anything anymore,” Ménès said in a television interview after the documentary’s release. He said he didn’t remember the skirt incident, adding that he wasn’t feeling like himself at the time because of a physical illness.

The list of other powerful men is long and getting longer. There is Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, France’s most famous news anchor, who is being investigated for rape of a young woman and who defended himself on television by saying that he belonged to a generation for whom “seduction was important” and included “kisses on the neck.” He has denied the rape accusations.

There is Georges Tron, a former government minister, who was cleared in 2018 for raping an employee but was sentenced in February to five years in prison in an appeals court ruling that, according to Le Monde, reflected the fact that society’s “understanding of consent has unquestionably changed.”

There is Gérard Depardieu, France’s biggest film star, and Gérald Darmanin, the powerful interior minister, also under investigation in rape cases that were reopened

last year. Both have said they are innocent.

Olivier Duhamel, a prominent intellectual, and Richard Berry, a famous actor, have both been recently placed under investigation after accusations of incest by family members. Berry has denied the accusations; Duhamel has not commented on the charges against him.

Claude Lévêque, the internationally known artist, is under investigation for rape of minors and was publicly accused for the first time in January by a former victim. He has denied the accusations.

Dominique Boutonnat, a movie producer whom President Emmanuel Macron named president of the National Center for Cinema last year, was placed under investigation in February for attempted rape and sexual assault of his godson and has said he is innocent.

“This recent wave in France, it’s a delayed reaction to the Matzneff affair,” Francis Szpiner, the lawyer representing Muller, said, adding that the downfall of the pedophile writer and of Duhamel made people realize that powerful men in France were not “untouchable.”

Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, a leading feminist philosopher, said that it was significant that the men now under investigation were leaders in a diversity of fields.

Revelations surrounding them have undermined the myths of Frenchmen as great seducers and of a refined romantic culture

where “we, French, in our interplay of seduction, know how to interpret nonverbal signs and we have this art of seduction, a gentle commerce between the sexes,” she said.

“These are men who all embody, in some ways, the old patriarchal order of things — of men of power and men who have used and abused their power to sexually exploit the bodies of others, whether they be women or young men,” FroidevauxMetterie said, adding, “Perhaps we are experiencing the first real shock to that system.”

France’s initial reaction to #MeToo was to reject it as an American distortion of feminism, the same way French conservatives are now trying to dismiss ideas on race and racism as irrelevant American concepts, said Raphaël Liogier, a French sociologist who teaches at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence and who was recently a visiting scholar at Columbia.

As Deneuve and other women in 2017 denounced #MeToo as a product of “puritanism” and a threat to “sexual freedom,” conservatives pushed back by arguing that American women were sexually repressed and actually less free than Frenchwomen, Liogier said.

“So, in fact, in France, our line of defense consisted of saying, ‘It’s not us, it’s the Americans,’” he said, adding, “Today, that line of defense has collapsed.”

Protesting the nomination of Gérald Darmanin as interior minister in July. Mr. Darmanin is under investigation in a rape case that was reopened last year.

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‘No more parties’: Mexico’s piñata makers badly bruised by pandemic

By OSCAR LOPEZ

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he sight is jarring against the backdrop of smog and concrete that marks this part of Mexico City, a tangle of freeways and overpasses with old buses rumbling by and belching smoke.

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But there, bursting like flowers amid the ashen buildings, they hang in row upon row: piñatas, painted every color, from bright fuchsia to midnight blue to Baby Yoda green. On the sidewalk, a Spider-Man piñata stands beside Batman, while Mickey Mouse leans against Sonic the Hedgehog.

And included among the copyright-be-damned cartoon characters, superheroes and doe-eyed Disney princesses is a more recent addition to the Mexican piñata repertoire. Painted lime-green with a gold crown, spikes erupting in all directions, the coronavirus glares at passersby.

The pandemic piñata is one of his most popular options, said Ivan Mena Álvarez, who runs one of the oldest stores in the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood known for its piñatas.

Transforming a deadly virus into a comic effigy might strike some as a risky business move, especially in a country with the world’s third-highest COVID-19 death toll. But Mena said his customers welcomed a chance to pummel a stand-in for an adversary that has wreaked havoc on the economy and devastated whole communities.

“We Mexicans laugh even at death,” Mena said. “It’s become just another monster.”

Piñata makers, often close-knit families whose business depends on the social gatherings that have largely halted during the pandemic, have, like much of the country, suffered both financially and personally for the past year.

Mena said that his sales had plummeted, putting him in a dire economic situation, but that the personal losses had been even worse. Eleven members of his extended family have died of COVID-19, as well as more than two dozen others he knows of in the industry.

“It’s so hard for a lot of us,” he said. “It just never crossed your mind that there would be so many dead in so little time.”

Last month, the Mexican government updated its official figures, showing that the virus may have claimed more than 300,000 lives, an astonishing toll for the country of 126 million people.

The effect of the pandemic on the economy has been almost as ruinous. Last year, Mexico suffered its biggest annual economic slump since the Great Depression, and the financial fallout may push millions into poverty.

The piñata trade, a national tradition in Mexico dating back to the 16th century, has been largely idled by the restrictions on birthday parties and other get-togethers, where cracking open the treat-filled figures is a central part of many celebrations.

The pain has been felt across the country.

“You can’t work, there are no more parties, nobody buys from you,” said Dalton Ávalos Ramírez, who runs a piñata store in the city of Reynosa, near the U.S. border. He said he had gone from selling 20 to 30 piñatas a week before the pandemic, ranging from about $15 to $125 each, to just one or two some weeks.

Mena, in Mexico City, is the fourth-generation piñata maker in a family that he said had been in the business for almost a century. His great-grandparents, he said, were among the first to set up shop in this part of the capital.

“We are the piñata pioneers,” he said proudly.

Mena made his first piñata when he was just 6. On his work desk is a photo of him at 9, when he made some of his first large-

scale piñatas in the shape of a seven-pointed star, a central part of Mexico’s Christmas tradition.

“You develop a love for this craft,” he said. “It’s in your blood.”

Nothing could prepare Mena for the devastating impact of the pandemic. When much of the country shut down at the end of March last year, sales dropped by 90%, he said. Five workers had to leave Mexico City after being furloughed.

To survive, Mena began improvising. Along with the coronavirus piñata, his shop began selling effigies of Susana Distancia, Mexico’s social-distancing superhero, as well as of Hugo LópezGatell, the country’s coronavirus czar who has been much maligned for vastly underestimating the pandemic’s toll on Mexico.

People “would beat him but because he wasn’t telling the truth,” Mena said of the López-Gatell piñata.

To boost sales, Ramírez, the shop owner in Reynosa, also decided to diversify his store’s offerings. He began learning how to bake cakes, while his sister learned how to make arrangements with balloons.

“If we don’t have work in one thing, well, let’s help by making something else,” he said.

But despite the ingenuity of these craftsmen, sales have risen little, and the Mexican government has given businesses next to nothing in terms of stimulus to get by.

Sitting between a Wonder Woman piñata and a portrait of the Virgin Mary, Mena wiped away tears as he recalled how things got so desperate last summer that his clients and neighbors began adding food parcels to their payments for piñatas to help him, his family and other piñata makers who supply his business get by.

“People already knew us, thank God, good people,” he said. “They helped us.”

While the present situation remains grim, Mena is feeling more optimistic about the future. With vaccines rolling out, although slowly, he believes his business, and the centuries-old industry he is so proud of, will finally start to recover.

“Like a phoenix from the ashes,” he said, “the piñata trade is starting to pull through.”

The piñata industry, dependent on social gatherings, has seen sales plummet. Some artisans, in a creative bid to survive, have added coronavirus figures to their lineups of superheros and princesses.

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Republicans have declared war on Coca-Cola and baseball

By MICHELLE COTLE

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re you a Republican voter irked by the state of American politics? If so, party leaders have some exciting marching orders for you: Dump your Diet Coke and shut off that episode of “NCIS” — or whatever ViacomCBS show you may be watching. Cash in your Delta plane tickets, close your Citibank account, flush your Merck meds and tell your kids not to ship you anything via UPS. And, oh, yeah, no patronizing Major League Baseball until further notice. Not the Yankees. Not the Dodgers.

Not even the poor Pirates.

These restrictions may sound extreme, especially for a pandemic-weary populace, but they are part of a crucial new front in the culture war, the latest mark of true MAGA patriotism.

The Republican Party has declared war on segments of corporate America for daring to protest, through words or, worse still, direct action, the ongoing assault on voting rights, and the troops are being rallied. Starting out, this means boycotts. Sprawling ones.

(The hundreds of verboten Coca-Cola products alone are hard to keep track of — Dasani, Vitaminwater, Topo Chico!) But even more sacrifices, and chaos, may be yet to come.

Ordinarily, Republicans enjoy a snuggly relationship with corporate America, which appreciates the party’s tax-slashing, anti-regulatory inclinations. But the GOP’s latest crusade hasn’t been so much pro-business as anti-democratic: pushing hundreds

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of measures in dozens of states that are expected to make voting more burdensome, especially for poor and minority communities.

In Georgia, for instance, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill last month that contains “16 key provisions that will limit ballot access, potentially confuse voters and give more power to Republican lawmakers,” according to a Times analysis.

These include tightening restrictions on absentee voting and making it illegal to provide water to people waiting in line to vote. (It remains unclear when proper hydration became part of a partisan power grab by Democrats.)

This manipulation of the electoral system has sparked a fierce backlash. Activists, including some of Georgia’s faith leaders, have moved to organize boycotts against locally based companies they say did too little to oppose the bill. They also have called on companies to stop donating to lawmakers who backed it.

Prominent executives, some of whom said precious little about the bill before its passage, have been speaking out in recent days. “Let me be crystal clear and unequivocal. This legislation is unacceptable,” James Quincey, CEO of Cola-Cola, told CNBC last week. The CEO of Delta, Ed Bastian, was similarly emphatic. “I need to make it crystal clear that the final bill is unacceptable and does not match Delta’s values,” he said in a memo to employees on Wednesday.

On Friday, Major League Baseball turned up the heat, announcing that it is was pulling July’s All-Star Game and the MLB draft out of the state.

It’s a pity that these heavy hitters were not so clear about their objections before the bill passed. It’s easier to stop a noxious law than to repeal one — although the history of so-called bathroom bills shows that a reversal is possible. In 2016, North Carolina legislators passed a measure restricting which public restrooms could be used by transgender people. The legislation spurred widespread pushback. Businesses froze planned investments in the state. Concerts and TV projects were canceled. The NCAA and NBA pulled games. Key elements of the law were repealed in March 2017, and similar efforts were ultimately abandoned in other states.

Determined not to let this happen with their beloved voting restrictions — in Georgia or elsewhere — Republicans are launching a counterpressure campaign. From his Elba-like exile at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump issued a call on Saturday for the MAGAverse to boycott many of the companies speaking out against the restrictive voting measures. “Don’t go back to their products until they relent,” he directed. “We can play a better game than them.”

The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has proclaimed corporations’ meddling “stupid” and released this ominous statement: “Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order. Businesses must not use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas that

citizens reject at the ballot box.”

What sort of “serious consequences”? Well, some Republican senators are calling to remove pro baseball’s antitrust exemption, and there is talk of punishing other purveyors of “woke capitalism” using tax law. Last Wednesday, the Georgia House voted to strip Delta of a major tax break. With the session ending, the state Senate declined to take up the matter, but the message was clear. Economic blackmail, indeed.

With all the talk of boycotts and other penalties, it is increasingly difficult to know what political statement one would be making by enjoying an ice-cold Fresca. Which is precisely the sort of muddiness and confusion that suits Trump and his merry band of nihilists.

Republicans have made clear that their preferred outcome in this matter is for corporations to shut up and go back to serving as campaign cash machines. During a Monday gripe session about how these businesses should “stay out of politics,” McConnell clarified that he was “not talking about political contributions.” Of course not. Fighting to classify unlimited campaign cash as constitutionally protected speech has been a cornerstone of his political career. In that one area, he is happy for corporate America to sound off all it wants.

As you’d imagine, the late-night comedians are having a field day with this mess. “Republicans say they’re going to boycott baseball,” riffed Jimmy Fallon on Monday. “They’re already boycotting the NFL and the NBA. Soon their only sports will be golf and Jarts.”

Jarts are hilarious. Less so is the saga of how the Republican Party gave up on winning over voters with its ideas and instead adopted an anti-democratic, anti-majoritarian strategy of retaining power.

The right to make one’s voice heard is a fundamental tenet of democracy. Efforts to undermine that right cannot go unchallenged. No matter how confounding the debate gets, the issue is too important for anyone, including America’s corporations, to stay silent.

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Presidenta de AAA presenta primer plan de trabajo a FEMA Por THE STAR

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a presidenta ejecutiva de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA), ingeniera Doriel Pagán Crespo, presentó el jueves el primer plan de trabajo requerido por la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés), bajo el programa FEMA Accelerated Award Strategy, que será actualizado cada 90 días.

“En cumplimiento con el programa de Asistencia Pública de FEMA y luego de la asignación de $3,662 millones en fondos para la reconstrucción de la infraestructura de agua potable y alcantarillado sanitario, estamos sometiendo el primer plan de trabajo que será actualizado cada 90 días y ha sido preparado según las guías de FEMA”, explicó Pagán Crespo en conferencia de prensa.

Este plan de trabajo describe cómo se utilizarán los fondos obligados a corto, mediano y largo plazo en un periodo total de diez años. Precisamente, tiene como objetivo medir el progreso del trabajo realizado.

“Los proyectos de reconstrucción serán de beneficio para los 78 municipios. Es tiempo de comenzar a ejecutar y optimizar la infraestructura de la AAA.

De igual forma, agradezco al personal de FEMA y a la Oficina de Reconstrucción y Recuperación (COR3, por sus siglas en inglés)”, explicó la presidenta ejecutiva.

“La aprobación por FEMA de $3,700 millones a la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados bajo la Estrategia de Aceleración de Subvenciones (FAAST por sus siglas en inglés), representa una de las asignaciones más significativas realizadas por la agencia.

Es una oportunidad sin precedente, para reconstruir de una manera más resiliente y moderna los sistemas

de acueductos y alcantarillados de la Isla. FEMA continúa firme en su compromiso con la recuperación en estrecha colaboración con el Gobierno de Puerto Rico, sus agencias y los municipios”, manifestó el coordinador federal alterno de Recuperación de Desastres para Puerto Rico, Andrés García Martinó.

Por su parte, el director ejecutivo de la Oficina Central de Recuperación, Reconstrucción y Resiliencia (COR3, por sus siglas en inglés), ingeniero Manuel Alejandro José Laboy Rivera, indicó que “estamos comprometidos en ser facilitadores en las obras de reconstrucción de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados. Actualmente hay nueve proyectos a desarrollarse alrededor de la isla, bajo la Estrategia Federal de Otorgación Acelerada (FAAST, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Sección 428 de la Ley federal Robert T. Stafford, que redundarán en un mejor servicio para el pueblo puertorriqueño. Confiamos que, mediante las estrategias que hoy se presentan pronto comenzaremos a ver los resultados del esfuerzo realizado al trabajar en equipo”.

Pagán Crespo realizó la presentación durante una conferencia de prensa junto a Andrés García coordinador alterno de recuperación de FEMA y el director ejecutivo de COR3, Laboy Rivera.

Buscan resolver problemas de infraestructura y títulos de propiedad en sector la Playa de Ponce Por THE STAR

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l miércoles se celebró en la comunidad Puerto Viejo en la Playa de Ponce la primera vista comunitaria de la Comisión para el Desarrollo y la Fiscalización de Fondos Públicos de la Región Suroeste que preside el representante Ángel Fourquet Cordero.

“Es importante que las agencias le pongan rostro a los reclamos del pueblo, urge humanizar el gobierno, y la mejor forma es tirarnos a la calle a ver de primera mano la necesidades de la gente”, expresó Fourquet Cordero en comunicación escrita.

“Sin duda alguna, la oportunidad de tener a todos las partes en la misma mesa de trabajo y escuchar de voz de los propios residentes sus reclamos y preocupaciones, ayudará a atender de forma ágil y diligente las necesidades de los ponceños”, añadió.

Residentes y el liderato comunitario expusieron problemas como el desbordamiento de aguas usadas, alumbrado eléctrico, limpieza de estructuras abandonadas, desembolso de fondos asignados, uso de instalaciones recreativas, gestión de títulos de propiedad, entre otras.

A la vista asistieron los directores regionales de Ponce y representantes de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, el Departamento de Recursos Naturales, la Oficina de Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Comunitario (ODSEC), la Autoridad del Puerto Las Américas, la Autoridad de Carreteras y el Municipio Autónomo de Ponce en respuesta a la convocatoria que hiciera el Representante Fourquet Cordero.

Las agencias concernientes tienen 15 días para someter sus planes de trabajo a corto y mediano plazo. La

Comisión les dio 30 días para atender y resolver situaciones menos complejas como el alumbrado y la limpieza de la comunidad. Los trabajos de infraestructura, incluido el sistema pluvial, deben iniciar no más tarde de 30 días.

La Resolución 303 de la Cámara de Representantes ordena a la Comisión para el Desarrollo y la Fiscaliza-

ción de Fondos Públicos de la Región Suroeste de la Cámara la investigación exhaustiva de la situación económica y social de los municipios de Guánica, Yauco, Guayanilla Peñuelas, Ponce, Jayuya, Adjuntas, Utuado y Lares.

Las vistas públicas comunitarias se realizarán mensualmente en las distintas comunidades mediante coordinación con los líderes y residentes.

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Music and meditation fuels Laura Donnelly

By ALEXIS SOLOSKI

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orthern Irish actress Laura Donnelly doesn’t love the “strong female character” label. “I always exchange the word ‘strong’ for ‘complex’ because that’s what we’re looking for,” she said on a video call in late March. “We’re after complexity. We’re after fully rounded, well-drawn characters to get our teeth into.”

This may explain why Donnelly recently made an overdue visit to the dentist. An actress of ferocity, precision and jet-black wit, Donnelly played a stern Highland lady on “Outlander” and earned a Tony nomination as a volatile widow in “The Ferryman,” a role written for her by her partner, playwright Jez Butterworth. In “The Nevers,” which debuts on HBO on April 11, she plays a Amalia True, the leader of a band of Victorian women who manifest unusual abilities. “I wouldn’t quite say superpowers,” Donnelly said.

“They’re not all useful.”

Amalia, gifted with foresight, has a shadowy past, a legendary right hook and a habit of ditching her walking dresses mid-brawl, because a long skirt can really spoil a roundhouse kick.

“You throw yourself at danger like you think it’s going to propose,” a colleague tells her.

Donnelly lives more quietly, though she did quit drinking early in the pandemic, which must qualify as an unusual ability. Production on “The Nevers” won’t resume for a few months, so she is locked down in London — in the home that she and Butterworth share with their two daughters, 3 and 4 — mothering, batch cooking, trying to get a decent night’s sleep with the help of some meditation apps.

Just before she left to receive her first COVID-19 vaccine dose, she detailed a cultural regimen that includes cartoons, poetry and Prince.

These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

WEDNESDAY In the morning, I worked out with my stunt trainer. We have “Beyoncé Wednesdays.” It’s the middle-of-the-week slump, and I definitely need energy. We usually put on “Homecoming: The Live Album.” Before I started my training, I watched that documentary and I was like, OK, if Beyoncé can be Beyoncé at Coachella then I can definitely do six weeks’ stunt training.

In the afternoon, I cooked a shepherd’s pie. I figured lamb was almost seasonal. I listened to Judi Dench’s “Desert Island Discs,” the greatest radio show ever. Someone comes on, and they have to choose a certain number of songs that if they would listen to if they were

stuck on a desert island. They’re also allowed to choose one book and a luxury item. The most fascinating episodes are always the politicians, because they try to pretend that they are real people with souls and things.

Judi Dench, hers is hilarious, she has such trouble trying to bring it down to eight songs, and I feel her pain completely. I always thought that if I was on it, I’d be very tempted to go for a very literal take on being on a desert island — Caribbean stuff. My luxury item would have to be hand cream. I can’t tolerate being anywhere with dry hands.

I had a bath, and then I listened to a meditation app for sleep. Meditation was one of those things I’ve kind of done in bits over the years. I’m still not very good at doing it regularly.

I should be practicing it more than I do. But most nights I will do a sleep one, usually on Buddhify or Insight Timer. Normally once I closed my eyes, it would take about an hour for my brain to wind down. But with those I am always without fail asleep before the end of the meditation and.

I genuinely do find that my quality of sleep is totally different, it’s much deeper and much more peaceful.

THURSDAY Before a day of press, my hair and makeup team came. We listened to Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison, mostly for calmness and comfort. I use music for everything. I use it to energize, I use it to relax, I use that to enhance a feeling or change up a bad feeling. It’s the single most important art form in my life.

Just before the junket began, I listened to Prince’s “When Doves Cry” and then “I Want You” by Marvin Gaye to put me slightly more in a socializing mood. For a junket like that, it’s six minutes with any journalist and, most of the time, similar questions over and over again. I want to be genuine, I want to engage as best I can. But I’m not a hugely sociable person. I wouldn’t naturally drift towards parties and events. I was pretty comfortable with the level of social interaction I was getting in lockdown.

Afterward, I listened to an audiobook, “Conflict Is Not Abuse,” by Sarah Schulman. It has to do with mutual accountability in a culture of underreaction to abuse and overreaction to conflict. Our current tendency to scapegoat people really results in a lack of accountability and a lack of self-examination. I find it particularly fascinating, just in regards to our cancel culture, because I’m trying to get my head around it.

Laura Donnelly at home in London on March 26, 2021. When she’s not promoting HBO’s ‘The Nevers,’ the actress listens to Judi Dench’s desert island playlist and watches ‘Harry Potter’ with her kids.

FRIDAY I was up at 7 a.m. with my kids. They didn’t have to go to school, and we had a nice lazy start to the day. We watched “Dora the Explorer.” I know a lot of “Dora the Explorer.” And all of her many songs. The vast majority of my cultural consumption at the moment is aimed at my children. Lots of Disney films, lots of Pixar, all that stuff.

I had another press junket day and got in very late. My mind was racing at the same time as I was physically exhausted. So I did a sleep meditation and went off to sleep.

SATURDAY I had a rare lie in, and I read a quick chapter of Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography. That man’s life was something else. I put less pressure on myself to fully consume something. Biographies I find good for that. I tend to have several books on the bedside, and I go in and out of whatever I feel like that day. Joan Didion always works. I don’t tend to read a lot of modern fiction. The only exception recently was “Shuggie Bain” by Douglas Stuart. It’s just the most beautiful, beautiful piece of fiction and so tenderly written.

With the girls, we listened to a playlist of The Faces and Bert Jansch. Ninety-eight percent of the music that I listen to is from the last century, mostly from before I was born. We made a pact that as much as we could, we’d introduce the girls to our music from the start. We just didn’t want to be listening to the Little Mermaid on a loop for four hours. So we decided really early that they weren’t going to know what kids’ music was.

At lunchtime, we watched “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” They’re still too young to really move on to the next one. I had never watched them [the “Harry Potter” movies]. It’s genuinely a world I know so little about, so it we’ll be discovering it together.

In the evening, we watched “The Innocent Man” on Netflix. I will watch anything about either a true crime or a cult. I’ve watched “The Jinx” about six times. I’m just constantly looking for somebody else to watch “The Jinx” with. I love a documentary, my favorite one of late was Fran Lebowitz’s “Pretend It’s a City.” I don’t think I’m alone in wishing she and I were best friends. And “In and of Itself” on Hulu. Oh my goodness, I was thinking about it for weeks afterwards.

SUNDAY I had a long car ride by myself, precious time, despite going to get my mouth prised open by the dentist. I have been long avoiding the dentist. I listened to a friend of mine’s podcast.

It’s called “Persistent and Nasty.” The women presenting it are actresses, and so they have very intelligent and bold and powerful conversations with other women in the arts.

The dentist was really amazing. He has cured me of my aversion. On the way home I listened to Catherine Gray’s “The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober.” Toward the start of lockdown, I decided to stop drinking alcohol. And that was just based around a desire to feel more present in my life. I like listening to books like this, and hers is particularly lovely, because it’s not a deep and dark dive into someone’s terrible addiction.

It’s a celebration of everything that she has gained from not drinking.

In the afternoon, I dipped into “The Poetry Pharmacy” by William Sieghart. God, it’s a lovely book. It has a list of what do you want from a poem and then it gives you a poem.

The condition I read on was failure to live in the moment. So I read “Golden Retrievals” by Mark Doty: “A Zen master’s bronzy gong, calls you here,/ entirely, now: bow-wow, bow-wow, bowwow.”

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At 91, John Cullum is ready to try something new

By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

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n a sunshiny August afternoon in 2019, actor John Cullum stood singing and storytelling beside an upright piano in a rehearsal space off Columbus Circle, inside a building that no longer exists. Hopscotching through reminiscences of his six-decade stage career, tweaking the script as he went along, he was readying for a cabaret show in September that would never come to be.

Cullum is 91 now and freshly vaccinated (both doses), but in that last pre-pandemic summer he was 89, with the lean frame of the competitive tennis player he once was, and a stockpile of anecdotes about Broadway musicals that he’s been building since 1960, when he successfully auditioned — “slightly snockered,” he says, charmingly — for the original production of “Camelot.”

“Does this bore everybody?” he asked uncertainly, interrupting a recollection to check with the handful of intimates in the room, who reassured him. David Thompson, the show’s director and book writer, sat behind a laptop, while Georgia Stitt, the music director, was stationed at the piano — though in the Tennessee lilt that Cullum has never bothered to lose, that instrument is pronounced “pianah.”

The solo show that they were making, “John Cullum: An Accidental Star,” is a tribute to a career in musicals that, enamored with Shakespeare as he was, he didn’t set out to have. Along the way he won two Tony Awards: for “Shenandoah,” in 1975, and “On the Twentieth Century,” in 1978.

But his retrospective would be thwarted — first by illness, then by the theater shutdown — before morphing in January of this year into a performance filmed, sans audience, at Irish Repertory Theater, and streaming online April 8 to 22.

Television viewers know Cullum from series like “Northern Exposure” and “ER,” while Broadway audiences have seen him more recently in shows like “The Scottsboro Boys” and “Waitress.” Stitt considers collaborating with Cullum, whose two Tony nominations in this century came for “110 in the Shade” and “Urinetown,” a kind of service to musical theater history.

“To get to work with someone who made the cast albums that I grew up listening to,” she said, “and has stories about working with the famous people that I idolized, and can still sing those songs and still make that music, feels in many ways like: Right. This is part of what I moved here to do, to just be part of this lineage.”

On that August afternoon in rehearsal, though, each adjustment that Cullum and his colleagues considered for the show — adding an underscore, providing a bit of explanation — was focused on the near future: a five-show run at Feinstein’s/54 Below less than a month away. It was detailed work, and for an actor as full-body expressive as Cullum, physically demanding.

When he had been at it for about 90 minutes, Stitt, who knew just what he would enjoy, produced a cache of

chocolate-covered snacks for him to munch on.

“I thought singers weren’t supposed to have chocolate,” Thompson said, mildly.

“You’re not,” Cullum agreed, happy to break the rule.

“But I’ve been doing a lot of singing.”

One week later, at Cullum’s Flatiron district home — a building that he and his wife, dancer and choreographer Emily Frankel, bought circa 1960 for $67,000 — he was dressed for health and hot weather in what he called his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit: white compression socks (“to keep my legs from swelling up,” he said) under long basketball shorts.

When he starts philosophizing about the connection between theater and religion, he traces it from the ancient Greeks straight through his own childhood reflex of snapping to attention when the preacher “would rant and rave and cry and emote in all sorts of ways.”

“In a sense,” he said, “I learned my acting from a preacher. And of course, in the church, you memorized a lot of passages of the Bible and did ’em out loud, and you sang songs, and you told stories.”

John Cullum, a Tony-winning musical theater actor, rehearses for his solo show, “John Cullum: An Accidental Star,” in New York, Aug. 9, 2019. The TV star planned to debut a cabaret show in 2019. Illness hit, then the pandemic. But he hasn’t been stopped.

When Cullum came to New York in 1956 to try to make it as an actor, he was swiftly cast as Rosencrantz in a production of “Hamlet.” He was at rehearsal when his father called, that October, to tell him that his mother had been killed in a car accident. Cullum went home to Tennessee and didn’t return for months.

“We cut it out of the show,” he said, meaning that memory, “but it truly affected me in a way that, uh, I never fully recovered from that moment. Losing her was bad, because I knew I would never be able to share anything with her.”

It is a striking thing to hear, more than 60 years after a parent’s death, but that is how grief works sometimes. And it is, perhaps, related to the freshness of emotion in Cullum’s acting: his ability to summon undiluted feeling from long ago.

Nine days after that interview, Cullum’s publicist called to say that he was in the hospital with pneumonia, and the show was off. Heart surgery would follow.

Then, of course, live performance shut down. And somewhere in there, the building where they’d held that rehearsal — when it was already marked for demolition — was taken down. Currently it is a construction site.

It’s not a spoiler to say that a mention of Cullum’s mother has found its way back into “An Accidental Star,” which Cullum conceived with his manager, Jeff Berger. In a coproduction with the Vineyard Theater and Goodspeed Musicals, the show arrived on the Irish Rep stage more personal and less dishy than the rehearsal version of 20 months ago.

Directed by Lonny Price and Matt Cowart, “An Accidental Star” was shot on three cameras over four days in front of a small masked and distanced crew. Stitt, by then signed on to music direct the film of her husband Jason Robert Brown’s musical “13” for Netflix, had to bow out as Cullum’s music director. Julie McBride stepped in.

By phone recently from home, where Cullum and Frankel have largely isolated during the pandemic, Cullum said he had been unbothered by the lack of an audience.

“I was performing for the people who were shooting the show,” he said. “When you’re a performer and you’ve performed all your life, you always make an audience out of whoever is around. You do it in an elevator for the elevator operator.”

The last time we’d spoken, in 2019, he mentioned having gotten so ill during the run of “Waitress” that on Jan. 28, 2018, he’d had to drop out of the show. He went into the hospital, had a heart procedure and healed, but he wondered if he would ever again do eight shows a week.

Right then, it struck him as a grind.

But Cullum is an actor, the theater is where he belongs, and the other day he said he hopes it isn’t through with him.

“If even one good line in a script is presented to me,” he said, “I will do it onstage.”

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Grenache three ways, and over many decades

By ERIC ASIMOV

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ack in the 1980s, when I was learning about wine, I used to cherish Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It seemed like an important and wonderful appellation. Certainly the bottles impressed me, with their dignified crests embossed right on the glass and their imposing labels, often in Gothic fonts.

More to the point, these grenache-based wines from the Southern Rhône Valley were aspirational wines that I could afford. I had a particular affinity for Bosquet des Papes — considered an old-school producer even then — which offered the lift that comes with lively acidity.

I loved the gravelly red fruit and the herbal flavors that I found in these wines. But sometime in the 1990s, I lost the taste for Châteauneuf. Or rather, as the wines evolved stylistically to become fruitier and sweeter, sometimes bordering on syrupy, they lost me.

It was not just Châteauneuf. For a long time, its excesses seemed echoed in many wines made of grenache, or garnacha, as it is called in Spain, where the grape originated. Whether from other Southern Rhône appellations; Priorat, perhaps the leading garnachabased wine in Spain; or myriad other expressions of the grape, they all seemed to be traveling the same multilane freeway of force and flamboyance.

I offer this background only to give context to what is now an entirely new age of grenache. All over the grenache- and garnacha-producing world, power has made way for wines of elegance and transparency.

Fans of the big wines still have plenty of options, but it’s heartening to see a much richer spectrum of stylistic expressions of the grape.

What does history tell us? Efforts to narrow the stylistic or quality potential of many grapes are doomed to failure. Somewhere, an idealistic winemaker will pop up with wines that prove the narrative wrong.

We have seen this again and again, whether it’s to demonstrate that aligoté is not always thin and acidic, that zinfandel need not be heavy and alcoholic or that silvaner can be inspiring rather than insipid.

Here at Wine School, we never want to blame the grape. We try to keep in mind that the wine in the bottle is most often dictated not only by the grapes but also by the site in which they were grown, the character of the vintage, the farming, the winemaking and the choices made by the people in charge of production.

It’s not easy to keep all that in mind. If your ideas about wine were shaped, say, from 1995 to 2010, you may have thought that grenache’s character was meant to be fruity and alcoholic. Even with my own

From left, Los Vascos Colchagua Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, La Vieille Ferme Vin de France Red 2019 and Masciarelli Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2018, in New York, March 22, 2021. Once you get below $10 for a bottle of wine, compromises are inevitable. memories of counterexamples and earlier iterations of grenache, I concluded in those years that I was not a grenache fan.

I am sad to say that I have had to learn this lesson many times and no doubt will again. That’s why I try to catch myself when I think in fallacious generalizations, the same sort that I hear all the time: “I don’t like red wine.”

“I can’t drink riesling, it’s too sweet.”

“Italian wines are not for me.”

At Wine School, because we understand how easy it is to fall into these traps, we periodically try to test our beliefs. If you think you don’t like a certain type of wine, try it again in a few months or in a year, or try a different producer. Over time, the narrow perception of what a wine can be evolves. So do our own tastes.

Grenache is an excellent example. Over the last month we have been examining three different expressions of the grape. I suggested three bottles: A Tribute to Grace Santa Barbara County Gre-

nache 2018, Comando G Vinos de Madrid Sierra de Gredos La Bruja de Rozas 2018 Domaine Gour de Chaulé Gigondas Cuvée Traditions 2016.

The idea was to see how three wines made from the same grape from different parts of the world might differ. Let me be clear: This was not meant as a conclusive demonstration of three different terroirs.

The word terroir is thrown around a lot. I do my fair share of it, and I believe in its importance absolutely. But it is foolish to think that tasting three wines will reveal much of anything about terroir. Too many variables prevent us from coming to meaningful conclusions. Speaking knowledgeably about how any wine expresses its place of origin requires years of close-up experience.

But we can still learn by comparing these three bottles. The Tribute to Grace was fresh, energetic and lively with aromas and flavors of red berries, flowers and herbs. I loved the elegance of this wine. Over the course of several days it turned a little earthier but always retained a crystalline purity.

The Comando G seemed a little more intense and forceful than the California wine. It was likewise fresh and light on its feet and earthy from the start, with a sort of chalky mineral quality.

Both of these producers exemplify the new wave of grenache. They make wines that demonstrate freshness rather than power and they view grenache as a grape eminently capable of expressing minute differences of terroir, very much like pinot noir.

I know Comando G has been inspired by Château Rayas, a cult Châteauneuf producer whose wines have always been shimmering and pure regardless of the fads of the moment. I suspect that Angela Osborne, the proprietor of A Tribute to Grace, has been inspired by them as well.

While these two wines are entry-level introductions to the wineries’ styles, made by blending grapes from multiple vineyards, both producers also make exceptional single-vineyard wines that are fascinating to compare.

The Gigondas was entirely different from the other two. If anything, it was a throwback to the sort of wines from the Southern Rhône I recall from the ’80s. The techniques used are time-honored: fermenting whole bunches of grapes, stems intact, rather than destemming, and long aging in large oak vats.

The result is a wine that is by no means sleek.

Rather, it’s rustic in the best way, structured with grippy tannins, and spicy, herbal and floral along with flavors of red berries. Like all Gigondas, it’s not made

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entirely of grenache. It’s a blend: 80% grenache with the remainder equal parts syrah and mourvèdre.

These wines are not shy. Tribute to Grace is 14.2% alcohol, and the other two are 14.5%. But that’s less than the 15% to 16% monsters. (By the way, Comando G also uses whole bunches of grapes; A Tribute to Grace is about 80% destemmed.)

What I love about these three wines together is that they all show the personality of the grenache grape while also telling us something about their places of origin and the producers’ styles. I suppose I could have included a wine demonstrating the extravagant powerhouse approach for the sake of contrast.

But the fact is, I would have spent much more time griping about that style. This way is more fun.

Quite a few readers found similarities to pinot noir in the Tribute to Grace and Comando G wines.

Not in terms of flavors, but I think in their graceful freshness and seeming transparency. One reader, Gunnar Stahl of Iceland, enjoyed A Tribute to Grace 2012 with salmon, a classic pinot noir pairing.

Others, like George Erdle of Charlotte, North Carolina, found these wines difficult to match with foods.

Several interesting questions came up in the comments. Chris of Brighton, Michigan, took to task wine writers who “ignore the importance of yeast in determining the flavors of wine.”

Chris is partly right. Winemakers can use types of yeasts to enhance various aromas, flavors and other qualities of wines. You see this with processed wines in particular and sometimes with producers that purport to aim higher. But you would not see that level of manipulation in wines, like these bottles, that are intended to express their places of origin.

Angel Delgado of Barcelona said he was “unpleasantly surprised” that I had chosen a wine from the Sierra de Gredos as “representative of such wines in Spain.”

Just to be clear, none of these wines are meant to represent anything other than themselves. I could easily have chosen a garnacha from Navarre, as Delgado would have preferred, or maybe even a grenache from Sardinia, where, as Mikael of Amsterdam pointed out, it’s known as cannonau.

Finally, Keith W. Hall of Steelton, Pennsylvania,

drank the Gour de Chaulé and asked, “How can a wine lacking complexity, with no distinguishing or compelling characteristics, taste so good?”

It’s simple. Wine is not just a collection of characteristics. That’s why efforts to define a wine by breaking it down into component parts are so unsatisfying. It’s the whole of its parts, best experienced in unity. In this case, the wine was delicious. That’s a pretty good outcome.

—When you need a wine under $10 Over the years, we’ve defined wines most often

by appellation, occasionally by grape and, once in a while, by popularity.

But many readers have suggested that we look at wines by price. Essentially, this group resists all but the cheapest bottles possible.

Most of the time for Wine School, that’s not practical. If you want to explore the world of wine, to really get to know it, you have to be willing to spend some money. You do not get to know Bordeaux, say, or Napa Valley, or anywhere else, really, by chasing the cheapest options. But I do try to avoid excessively costly bottles and to seek value in my suggestions.

So what is available at the low end of the price spectrum? Where do the wines come from and what do you get for the price? This month we’re going to explore red wines that are under $10 a bottle. Here are the three bottles I recommend: La Vieille Ferme Vin de France Red 2019 (Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, Alabama) $8 Masciarelli Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2018 (Vintus, New York) $9 Los Vascos Colchagua Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 (Taub Family Selections, Boca Raton, Florida) $9 Now, I know someone, somewhere, is saying: “$9 for a bottle of wine? Nobody has to spend more than $5!”

For $5, you will most likely get some pretty bad wine that has been heavily manipulated, farmed industrially or perhaps sold extremely cheaply on the bulk market for some other reason.

I’m very curious about these three roughly $10 wines. For years my position has been that the best values in wine are between $15 and $25. Good wines in that range cost enough (barely) to finance conscientious farming and non-manipulative winemaking. Once you get below $10, compromises are inevitable.

I expect that will continue to be my position after this month. Nonetheless, I hope that these wines will all be honest expressions, even if they turn out to be not the most complex bottles and are unable to articulate a sense of place. They ought to be relatively simple and satisfying, nonetheless.

Each of these bottles is well distributed. But if you can’t find one of them, the solution is easy. Pick a red wine that’s equally inexpensive.

Enjoy — and no complaints about the prices.

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Umami is often a flavor bomb. In this creamy pasta, it’s a balm.

By ERIC KIM

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n 1908, Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda discovered that an amino acid called glutamate in kombu, or dried kelp, was responsible for the wonderful savoriness in his wife’s dashi, a stock that forms the basis of many dishes including miso soup, shabu shabu and okonomiyaki.

Because that unique flavor was not salty, sweet, sour or bitter, Ikeda called this fifth taste “umami,” which roughly means “essence of deliciousness.” There is no perfect English translation.

Today, when we talk about umami in home cooking, we often think of the loud, tongue-latching savoriness of, say, a tomato sauce imbued with anchovies or deeply caramelized onions.

Meatiness also comes to mind, appropriately: Umami is a specific taste that our tongues perceive when coming into contact with foods rich in glutamates, like grilled steak. It is found in dishes anchored to miso, mushrooms and fish sauce as well, where it detonates with the kind of big flavor that’s a reminder of the inherent goodness of eating.

But one thing to know: Umami doesn’t always land like a bomb.

Sometimes, it’s quiet and fuzzy at the edges, like a good sweater. Taste its subtlety in green vegetables like spinach, broccoli and asparagus, or in leafy kale, roasted until crisp like potato chips. The soft umami of dried seaweed — as in a well-balanced dashi — floats on the tongue with gentle savoriness. Salt can help accentuate its very best features.

In Korean cooking, kelp is essential to building layers of umami, the zephyrlike kind that lingers. Rife on the shores of the Korean Peninsula, seaweed is harvested, then sold in many forms — especially raw, dried and roasted — and can increase the glutamate quotient in certain beloved dishes.

Dried seaweed is rehydrated into long, diaphanous tangles for miyeokguk, a soup traditionally boiled for birthdays as often as it is on weeknights. Jumeokbap, which translates to “fist rice,” are soul-soothing, seaweed-flecked rice

balls that can relieve a tired parent trying to feed a picky child. Dasima (also Romanized as dashima and known as kombu in Japanese) is a dried kelp product that Korean cooks boil with anchovies to make an umami-rich stock called yuksu.

In this pasta dish, thick tubes of chewy rigatoni are boiled in a quick dasima yuksu, which both seasons and thickens the cream sauce at the end of cooking. Onyx-black filaments of gim (sometimes spelled kim), or Korean roasted seaweed, are often sold shiny with sesame oil and sprinkled with salt as ready-to-eat banchan or snacks.

Showered over the finished pasta, gim adds a nutty, saline note — an indelible savory quality — that takes the feel and flavor of this dish into shrimp Alfredo territory.

In fact, you could add shrimp if you’d like, or even a dribble of fish sauce.

But asparagus, a particularly umami-rich vegetable, is just perfect with the pasta by itself. When umami quietly hums like that, full of nuance, each comforting bite builds upon the last. It’s hard to translate that sensation into words, but “flavor balm” comes close.

Creamy asparagus pasta Yield: 4 servings Total time: 30 minutes Ingredients: 20 grams gim, often labeled as roasted seaweed 2 (4-inch) squares dasima or kombu (dried kelp) 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 pound rigatoni 1 1/2 cups heavy cream 1 small red onion, halved and thinly sliced 2 large garlic cloves, finely grated 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste 1 teaspoon rice vinegar 1/2 pound asparagus, thinly sliced at an angle

Dasima (dried kelp) and gim (roasted seaweed) add seaside nuance to a creamy asparagus pasta in New York on March 17, 2021. A versatile pantry staple in many cuisines, dried seaweed can lend a quiet savoriness to dishes, like this simple asparagus rigatoni.

1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil Flaky sea salt, for serving Preparation: 1. Fold the gim in half and, with very sharp kitchen shears or a chef’s knife, slice into thin strips. Set aside for serving.

2. In a large pot, combine 1 dasima square with 8 cups cold tap water. Bring the water to a boil and season with the kosher salt. Tumble in the pasta and cook for half the time the package tells you is al dente. Reserve 1 cup of the pasta water. Drain the pasta, then add it back to the pot. (Discard the dasima.)

3. Add the remaining dasima square, cream, red onion, garlic, black pepper and reserved pasta water to the pasta. Bring to a boil over high heat, then immediately reduce the heat to a gentle simmer. Stirring occasionally, cook the pasta until the onion-infused cream has thickened significantly, thinly coating the noodles, 4 to 5 minutes.

4. Turn off the heat. Add the vinegar and asparagus, and stir to combine for 1 minute. The residual heat from the pasta will gently cook the asparagus to tender-

crisp. Stir in the sesame oil and season with more black pepper, if desired. Divide the pasta among serving dishes, discarding the dasima, and shower with the reserved gim and sprinkle with flaky sea salt. Serve immediately, before the gim wilts and turns soggy.

And to Drink ...

The complex flavors of this dish, combining creaminess, umami and the slightly bitter pungency of asparagus, require an incisive white wine, with little discernible oak, as the tannins will clash. That leaves many options. Grüner veltliner and sauvignon blanc are classic accompaniments to asparagus, although if I were picking a sauvignon blanc I would aim for a restrained version. A village-level Chablis would be delicious, as would unoaked chardonnays. You could try an aligoté from Burgundy, too.

Numerous Italian whites would be good choices, like vermentinos from Liguria or verdicchios from the Marche region.

Sparkling wines like Champagne or those made similarly, like cava or many American sparklers, would be great. As a wild card, consider fino sherry, which is often superb with dishes rich in umami.

24 por el SUR, en dos alineaciones distintas, en una distancia ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de 17.522 metros con el solar DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- número A-34 y en otra distancia NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de 2.478 metros con el solar SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- A-35; por el ESTE, en una disLINA tancia de 25.00 metros con el WILMINGTON SAVINGS solar A-42; y por el OESTE, en FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS una distancia de 25.00 metros TRUSTEE OF STANWICH con el solar A-44, todos estos solares y la calle pertenecienMORTGAGE LOAN tes al referido desarrollo urbaTRUST A no. El inmueble antes descrito Demandante Vs. contiene una casa de concreto DANIEL ANTONIO diseñada para una sola familia, FUENTES ESCALERA, construía de acuerdo con plano MADELINE DE LA y especificaciones sometidas CRUZ MARTINEZ Y LA y aprobadas por las agencias SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE e instrumentalidades pertinenBIENES GANANCIALES tes. FINCA 16415 INSCRITA AL FOLIO 200 DEL TOMO 408 COMPUESTA POR DE CANOVANAS, REGISTRO AMBOS DE LA PROPIEDAD DE CADemandados ROLINA, SECCIÓN TERCECivil Núm.: FBCI201001579.

RA. Propiedad localizada en: (0004). Sobre: COBRO DE Ciudad Jardín de Canóvanas DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE II, A-43, Barrio Canóvanas, HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORCanóvanas, PR 00729. Según DINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASfiguran en la certificación reTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE gistral, la propiedad objeto de AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE ejecución está gravada por las DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, siguientes cargas anteriores EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAo preferentes: Nombre del TiDO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: A: LA PARTE N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) N/A. Según figuran en la certiSECRETARIO( A) DE ficación registral, la propiedad HACIENDA DE PUERTO objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas RICO Y AL PÚBLICO posteriores a la inscripción del GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que crédito ejecutante: Nombre del en cumplimiento con el Man- Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: damiento de Ejecución de N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: Sentencia que me ha sido diri- N/A. Se entenderá que todo gido por el (la) Secretario(a) del licitador acepta como bastante Tribunal de Primera Instancia, la titularidad de la propiedad Sala Superior de Carolina, en y que todas las cargas y grael caso de epígrafe procederá vámenes anteriores y los prea vender en pública subasta ferentes al crédito ejecutante al mejor postor en efectivo, antes descritos, si los hubiere, cheque gerente, giro postal, continuarán subsistentes. El cheque certificado en moneda rematante acepta dichas carlegal de los Estados Unidos de gas y gravámenes anteriores, América al nombre del Alguacil y queda subrogado en la resdel Tribunal de Primera Instan- ponsabilidad de los mismos, cia, en mi oficina ubicada en sin destinarse a su extinción el el Tribunal de Primera Instan- precio del remate. Se establece cia, Sala de Carolina, el 3 DE como tipo mínimo de subasta la MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 11:45 suma de $237,510.00, según DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho acordado entre las partes en el título, participación o interés precio pactado en la escritura que le corresponda a la parte de hipoteca. De ser necesaria demandada o cualquiera de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por ellos en el inmueble hipoteca- declararse desierta la primera, do objeto de ejecución que se la misma se celebrará en mi ofidescribe a continuación: UR- cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de BANA: Solar número A-43 de la Primera Instancia, Sala de CaUrbanización Cuidad Jardín de rolina, el 10 DE MAYO DE 2021 Canóvanas, segunda sección, A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y localizado en el Barrio Canó- se establece como mínima para vanas del municipio de Canó- dicha segunda subasta la suma vanas, Puerto Rico, con una de $158,340.00, dos terceras cabida superficial de 500.00 (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo metros cuadrados. En lindes establecido originalmente. Si por el NORTE, en una distancia tampoco se produce remate ni de 20.00 metros con la calle Al- adjudicación en la segunda subahaca de dicha Urbanización; basta, se establece como míni-

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ma para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $118,755.00, 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 17 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $223,040.98 de principal, intereses al tipo del 5.75000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de junio de 2010 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $23,751.00 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 l6 de marzo de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, 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 CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE V.

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

JORGE ENRIQUE ROSA RIVERA, LIZA DANETTE VIDAL ACEVEDO Y LA SOCIEDAD Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS Civil Núm. BY2019cv03912.

Sobre: ACCION IN REM Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, 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 25 de enero de 2021 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $144,649.82 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada, notificada y archivada en autos el 18 de diciembre 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: 10 Flamingo Apartments, Apt. 11-103, Bayamón, PR 00959.

URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número ciento once cero tres (11103).

Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, localizado en el primer nivel del Edificio número once (11) del Condominio Flamingo Apartments, radicado en los Barrios Págaros y Hato Tejas del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada del apartamento es de mil trescientos treinta punto cincuenta y ocho (1,330.58) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento veintitrés punto sesenta (123.60) metros cuadrados, la cual está distribuida de la siguiente manera: doscientos veintitrés punto dieciocho (223.18) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a veinte punto setenta y tres (20.73) metros al área del patio trasero y mil ciento siete punto cuarenta (1,107.40) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento dos punto ochenta y siete (102.87) metros cuadrados, las demás área del apartamento.

Son sus linderos por el NORTE,

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Friday, April 9, 2021 en una distancia de treinta y cuatro pies con nueve pulgadas (34‘ 9”) con elementos comunes generales; por el SUR, en una distancia de veintitrés pies con nueve pulgadas (23’ 9”) con elementos comunes generales; por el ESTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y cuatro pies con ocho pulgadas (44’ 8”), con el apartamento número ciento once cero dos (11102) y con elementos comunes generales; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de treinta y nueve pies con siete pulgadas (39’ 7”), con el apartamento número ciento once cero cuatro (11104) y con elementos comunes generales.

La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Oeste. Consta de una sala comedor, una cocina, un balcón, un dormitorio principal con baño, un cuarto con closet, un pasillo principal en el cual están localizados un “laundry”, un linen closet, un cuarto con closet, un pasillo principal en el cual están localizados un “laundry”, un linen closet, un baño y un cuarto con closet. Este apartamento tiene derecho al uso exclusivo de un patio trasero.

Le corresponde a este apartamento dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número del apartamento. Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto cinco dos tres uno seis cero ocho uno cero (0.523160810%) en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Consta inscrita al folio 170 del tomo 1891 de Bayamón Sur, finca #78,424, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. 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: $144,649.82 de principal, 4.5% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $32.16 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 $167,611.00 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; $111,740.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $83,805.50.

La primera subasta se llevará a

cabo el 19 de abril de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 26 de abril de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 3 de mayo de 2021, a las 10:15 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón. 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 30 de marzo de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE V.

MARIA CARATTINI ALVARADO; ERNESTO CARATTINI ALVARADO

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. ECD2016-1308 (801). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ALBERTO NEGRON ROMAN, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas 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 13 de noviembre de 2019 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $62,232.92 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 9 de noviembre de 2017, notificada y archivada en autos el 1 de agosto de 2019, 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 Cidra, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Barrio Rincón, Sector La Línea, carretera 7731 Km.0 Cidra, PR 00739. PARCELA DE TERRENO: Radicada en el Barrio Rincón, Sector La Línea, carretera siete mil setecientos treinta y uno (7731), kilómetro cero (0), Cidra, Puerto Rico, compuesto de una cabida de cuatrocientos cuarenta punto cinco mil trescientos cuarenta y cinco diezmilésimas (440.5345) metros cuadrados equivalentes a punto once veintiún (.1121) cuerdas con lindes por el Norte en tres (3) alineaciones con Aida Rodríguez y Dominga Rodríguez en seis punto dos mil doscientos treinta y uno

diezmilésimas (6.2231) doce mil punto mil ciento cincuenta y nueve diezmilésimas (12.1159) y trece mil punto cinco mil cuatrocientos noventa y uno diezmilésimas (13.5491) por el Sur con la Sucesión Andrés Negrón en dos (2) alineaciones de diecisiete mil punto siete mil cuatrocientos cincuenta diez milésimas (17.7450) y veintiún mil punto cuatro mil cincuenta y cinco diezmilésimas (21.4055) y por el Este, en doce mil punto novecientos cincuenta milésimas (12.950) metros con camino vecinal. Que la finca antes descrita tenía la misma descripción física desde antes del mil novecientos cuarenta y cuatro (1944). Enclava edificio utilizado como vivienda de tres (3) cuartos y un (1) baño. Codificación número cuarenta y cuatro guión doscientos noventa y nueve guión cero sesenta y cuatro guión ciento sesenta y cinco guión diez guión cero cero uno (#44-299-064-16510-001). Inscrita al folio 145 del tomo 474 de Cidra, Finca 17,541, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. 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: $62,232.92 de principal, 5% de intereses, y $135.88 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $48.94 de reserva “escrow”, más $6,223.29 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado.

El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $69,197.00. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $46,131.33.

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; $34,598.50. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 19 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 26 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 3 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el si-

The San Juan Daily Star guiente gravamen: Condiciones Restrictivas de Venta por el término de 10 años impuestas por la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de P.R. por haber concedido una suma de dinero para sufragar gastos de cierre, según Esc.#168 en San Juan el 27 de abril de 2010 ante Gadiel O. Rosario Rivera inscrita al folio 145 del tomo 474 de Cidra, finca #17541 inscripción 3ra. 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 31 de marzo de 2021. ALBERTO NEGRON ROMAN, ALGUACIL. ***

Friday, April 9, 2021 LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC DEMANDANTE VS.

BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA PUERTO RICO; AHORA ORIENTAL BANK; ARTURO DELIZ VELEZ, EVELYN LYMARIE ORENGO GONZALEZ T/C/C EVELYN LYMARI ORENGO GONZALEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2021CV01203 (803). SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ 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: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, demandados desconocidos cuya dirección se desconoce

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCION DE UN PAGARE EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el testimonio núm. 4,246 a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $461,487.00, devengando intereses a razón del 4.50% por ciento anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de julio de 2039, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 78 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 26 de junio de 2009, ante el Notario José García Noya, la cual consta inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil 637 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 14,672, inscripción Séptima (7ma). Dicha Hipoteca fue modificada según la Escritura número 196, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2013, ante el Notario Luis Yamil Rodríguez San Miguel, para un nuevo principal de $441,878.00, intereses al 3.50% por ciento anual, con pagos mensuales de principal e intereses de $1,984.23 y con vencimiento el 1ro de septiembre de 2043, dicha modificación consta inscrita al Folio 39 del Tomo 660 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 14,672, inscripción Octava (8va) y última. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez

en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramaiudicial.pr/surnac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. 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 oirle(s).

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 17 de marzo de 2021, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Linda Levy Rodriguez, Secretaria de Servicio a Sala.

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

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC Demandante Vs.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO UN POSIBLE SUCESOR DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION (ACREEDOR HIPOTECARIO ORIGINAL); FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO COMO UN POSIBLE SUCESOR DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION (ACREEDOR HIPOTECARIO ORIGINAL); VICTOR RAUL CALO CASTRO, DOLORES FERNANDEZ LEON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE;

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MELENDEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS LUIS LOZADA Demandados MELENDEZ, VICTOR Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV01832.

ANGEL LOZADA 602. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE MELENDEZ, ANGEL LUIS PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMLOZADA MELENDEZ, PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. HECTOR LUIS LOZADA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉMELENDEZ, SARA RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL LOZADA MELENDEZ, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LEGAL NOTICE ADELAIDA LOZADA DE PUERTO RICO. MELENDEZ, VICENTE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO A la parte co-demandada: DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- LOZADA MELENDEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA NELIDA LOZADA ROE, DEMANDADOS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- MELENDEZ, OLGA IRIS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE DESCONOCIDOS LOZADA MELENDEZ, CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE AÑASCO EDWIN LOZADA ORIENTAL BANK DESCONOCE. MELENDEZ, DAVID Demandante V. Se les notifica por este medio LOZADA MELENDEZ que en el caso del epígrafe se PABLO ALEQUIN RAMOS Y LA SUCESION DE Demandado(a) solicita la SUSTITUCIÓN DE HERIBERTO LOZADA UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO Civil: AÑ2020CV00031. Sobre: notarizado bajo el número de COBRO DE DINERO ORDINA- MELENDEZ COMPUESTA testimonio #5,355 a favor de RIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENPOR SUS MIEMBROS Doral Mortgage Corporation, TENCIA POR EDICTO. HERIBERTO LOZADA A: PABLO ALEQUIN o a su orden, por la suma de ALLENDE, EDIRIS $54,950.00, devengando inRAMOS. BRISAS DE LOZADA GUZMAN, tereses a razón del 7.50% AÑASCO, BB3 CALLE 16, MARISELY LOZADA por ciento anual, vencedero AÑASCO, PR 00610-2821. el primero (1ro) de mayo de (Nombre de las partes a las que se le GUZMAN Y MARA 2028, garantizado con hipoteca notifican la sentencia por edicto) LOZADA GUZMAN RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

constituida mediante escritura número 326 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 30 de abril de 1998 ante el Notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, la cual consta inscrita al Folio Móvil del Tomo 1430 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 2,873, inscripción Décimo Tercera y última. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. 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, conce-

diéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s).

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 6 de abril de 2021, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRLSELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN E. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de marzo 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 29 de marzo de 2021. En Añasco, Puerto Rico, el 29 de marzo de 2021. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN PADILLA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESION DE MILAGROS LOZADA

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 5 de abril de 2021. En VEGA BAJA, Puerto Rico, el 5 de abril de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, Sec Auxiliar.

sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de abril de 2020. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico , el 30 de abril de 2020. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. F/ ELIZABETH OLIVERA PEREZ, Sec Auxiliar.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

JAVIER AGUIRRE TORRES Y ALTAGRACIA EMILIA CALZADA FERNÁNDEZ T/C/C ALTAGRACIA CALZADA FERNÁNDEZ

Demandante v.

SUCESION DE MARIA ANTONIA BAEZ PEÑA Y SUCESION DE ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ CANALES COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV00430.

(409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

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

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de marzo de 2020 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

cretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $41,978.92 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $7,926.70. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $7,926.70 para cubrir intereses en adición a los

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. VB2019CV00259.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Demandado(a) Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA Civil Núm. BY2019CV04687.

VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICASALA 505. Sobre: COBRO DE CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR DINERO Y EJECUCION DE EDICTO. HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN A: DAVID LOZADA DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

MELENDEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE MILAGROS LOZADA MELENDEZ Y EDIRIS LOZADA GUZMAN COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE HERIBERTO LOZADA MELENDEZ Y DE LA SUCESION DE MILAGROS LOZADA MELENDEZ

(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 5 de marzo de 2020 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

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULEGAL NOTICE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Estado Libre Asociado de Puer- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL LINA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriBANCO POPULAR DE mera Instancia Sala Superior PUERTO RICO de BAYAMON. Demandante Vs.

A La Parte CoDemandada: JAVIER AGUIRRE TORRES Y ALTAGRACIA EMILIA CALZADA FERNÁNDEZ T/C/C ALTAGRACIA A: FULANO DE TAL CALZADA FERNÁNDEZ, Y ZUTANO DE TAL A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDA: FÍSICA DESCONOCIDOS DE LA Y POSTAL: APT. 4-23 SUCESION DE MARIA CALLE 535 COND. ANTONIA BAEZ PEÑA VIZCAYA EDIF. #4 Y DE LA SUCESION DE CAROLINA, PR 00985.

ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ Por la presente se le(s) notifica CANALES que se ha radicado en la Se-

26 garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 331, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de mayo de 2011, ante el notario Humberto Soto Mainardi, de la finca número 52,018, inscrita al Folio 175 del Tomo 122 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 30 de marzo de 2021, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOURDES DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR TRIBUNAL I.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOSÉ RAFAEL ECHEVARRÍA ROMERO, SU ESPOSA AIDA

MARITZA MONTALVO PÉREZ T/C/C AIDA MERITZA MONTALVO PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2019CV02127. Sala: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2019CV02146.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. EDICTO DE INTERPELACIÓN.

SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO A: AIDA MERITZA LOPEZ SANTANA MONTALVO PEREZ Y COMPUESTA POR LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL SUS HEREDEROS DE GANANCIALES CONOCIDOS CARMEN COMPUESTA CON SU LOPEZ CARRERO ESPOSO JOSE RAFAEL Y JAIDY LOPEZ ECHEVARRÍA ROMERO. CARRERO; SUCESIÓN (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) DE TAXILA CINTRON EL SECRETARIO(A) que susTORRES; FULANO DE cribe le notifica a usted que TAL SUTANA DE TAL el 26 de marzo de 2020, este COMO HEREDEROS Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, DESCONOCIDOS Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Y/O PARTES CON en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada INTERÉS EN DICHAS en autos donde podrá usted SUCESIONES. 7 LOT, KM enterarse detalladamente de 62.2, PR #149 NABORI los términos de la misma. Esta COMM., ROMERO WD. notificación se publicará una VILLALBA, PR 00766; sola vez en un periódico de URB. MONTE BRISAS circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los M16 CALLE H FAJARDO, 10 días siguientes a su notificaPR 00738. ORDEN AL ción. Y, siendo o representando AMPARO DEL ART. 1,578 usted una parte en el procediDEL NUEVO CÓDIGO miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia CIVIL DE PUERTO RICO.

Se ordena a la parte demandada SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO LOPEZ SANTANA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS CARMEN LOPEZ CARRERO Y JAIDY LOPEZ CARRERO; SUCESIÓN DE TAXILA CINTRON TORRES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES a que, dentro de un término no mayor de 30 días, después de la publicación del presente edicto, informen si aceptarán o repudiarán la herencia de los aquí causantes mediante la preLEGAL NOTICE sentación de su contestación ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO a través del Sistema Unificado DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- de Manejo y Administración de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE acceder utilizando la siguiente BANCO POPULAR DE dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr; salvo PUERTO RICO que se represente por derecho Demandante Vs. propio, en cuyo caso deberá SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO presentar su contestación en LOPEZ SANTANA la secretaría del tribunal. Se apercibe a los demandados COMPUESTA POR que de no aceptar o repudiar la SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS CARMEN herencia dentro del término de 30 días antes indicado, se tenLOPEZ CARRERO drá por aceptada la herencia Y JAIDY LOPEZ pura y simplemente, según lo CARRERO; SUCESIÓN establece el Artículo 1,578 del DE TAXILA CINTRON Nuevo Código Civil de Puerto TORRES; FULANO DE Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. §11,021. En 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 1 de mayo de 2020. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 1 de mayo de 2020. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PEREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

The San Juan Daily Star

Friday, April 9, 2021 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de marzo de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIVEE MORALES SÁEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante v.

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 5 de abril de 2021. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 5 de abril de 2021. VIVIAN Y FRESSE GONZALEZ, Secretaria. F/ YANITZA IGLESIAS MALDONADO, Sec Auxiliar.

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

SUCESION ISRAEL BRAVO CRUZ T/C/C MMG I PR CFL, LLC ISRAEL BRAVO Plaintiff V. COMPUESTA POR JOHN MARIA ESTHER DOE Y JANE DOE COMO FERREIRA SÁNCHEZ; POSIBLES HEREDEROS FERNANDO RAÚL DESCONOCIDOS; MONTIVEROS FERREIRA SUCESION GUADALUPE Defendants FERMAINT RODRIGUEZ Civil No.: 19-CV-01731. (DRD).

T/C/C GUADALUPE CRUZ COLLECTION OF MONIES & COMPUESTA POR JOHN FORECLOSURE OF MORTROE Y JANE ROE COMO GAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. To: MARÍA ESTHER POSIBLES HEREDEROS FERREIRA SÁNCHEZ; DESCONOCIDOS; FERNANDO RAÚL ESTADOS UNIDOS DE MONTIVEROS FERREIRA: AMERICA; CENTRO WHEREAS: Judgment was enDE RECAUDACIÓN DE tered in favor of Plaintiff, secuINGRESOS MUNICIPALES red by the property described,

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. AR2020CV00477.

Sobre: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN ISRAEL BRAVO CRUZ T/C/C ISRAEL BRAVO; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN GUADALUPE FERMAINT RODRIGUEZ T/C/C GUADALUPE CRUZ.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de marzo 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

in the amount of $108,051.65 of principal, plus interest, which as of August 21, 2020, amounts to the sum of $18,016.99 plus $2,451.04 in late charges and other fees, disbursements, costs and agreed upon attorney’s fees in the amount of $12,639.57. 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, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following properties will be sold at public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Dieciocho (18) del bloque P, situado en la Urbanización Levittown, barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de TRESCIENTOS DIEZ PUNTO CINCUENTA (310.50) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros con solar número diecisiete; por el SUR, en veintitrés metros con el solar número diecinueve; por el ESTE, en trece punto cincuenta metros con el solar número siete; y por el OESTE, en trece punto cincuenta metros con la calle Luz Oeste, según plano calle cuatrocientos cuarenta. Inscrito al folio cuarenta y dos del tomo ciento doce de Bayamón, finca siete mil doscientos nueve. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. WHEREAS:

This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: a) None. Junior Liens: a) Lis pendens dated July 3, 2019, recorded on October 21, 2019 in the Karibe system for Toa Baja, property #7,209, in the amount of $108,051.65, for case #19-01731. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE for the herein described property, shall be held on MAY 14, 2021 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $120,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MAY 21, 2021 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is two thirds of the minimum bid for the first public sale. lf said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on MAY 28, 2021 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is half the minimum bid for the first public sale. 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 the Clerk of the United States District Court. Other liens: Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. lt 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. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master designated by the Court is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, but the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed prior to the issuance of said order as allowed by applicable law and regulations.

In Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, this 30 day of March 2021. Michel A. Rachid Fournier, Special Master.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

ELIUD FIGUEROA

NAVEDO, SU ESPOSA REINA N. GARCIA ROSA TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO REINA NOEMI GARCIA ROSA, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2019CV00750.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: ELIUD FIGUEROA NAVEDO, SU ESPOSA REINA N. GARCIA ROSA TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO REINA NOEMI GARCIA ROSA, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Yo, FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS #325, 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 3 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, 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 Guaynabo 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 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Veintiséis (26) de la Manzana “R” del plano preparado por la Autoridad Sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico hoy la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para su proyecto de sola-

res denominado ZENÓN DÍAZ VALCÁRCEL P.R.H.A.-11., radicado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo (Amelia) del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DOSCIENTOS TREINTA Y CINCO PUNTO OCHENTA Y CINCO (235.85) METROS CUADRADOS, en lindes: por el NORTE, con la servidumbre de paso de la Calle número Ocho (8) de la mencionada Urbanización, distancia de DIEZ PUNTO SESENTA Y UNO (10.61) METROS; por el SUR, con solar número Veintinueve (29) de dicho proyecto, distancia de DIEZ PUNTO SESENTA Y UNO (10.61) METROS; por el ESTE, con solar número Veintisiete (27) de la susodicha Urbanización, distancia de VEINTIDÓS PUNTO VEINTISIETE (22.27) METROS; y por el OESTE, con solar número Veinticinco (25) del mencionado proyecto P.R.H.A.-11, distancia de VEINTIDÓS PUNTO DIECINUEVE (22.19) METROS. En dicho solar enclava una casa que se describe como sigue: Casa terrera de concreto que mide aproximadamente QUINCE PIES (15’) de frente por TRECE PIES (13’) de fondo y está compuesta de sala-comedor, una (1) habitación dormitorio, teniendo además un servicio sanitario, separado de la estructura principal. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 3 vuelto del tomo 1350 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, finca número 12,014, inscripción Octava. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Zenón Díaz Valcárcel (PRHA-11), Solar 26, Manzana R, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $59,764.74 de principal, intereses al 6.125% anual, desde el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $8,000.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $88,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $58,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $44,000.00.

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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 3 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, 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 Guaynabo 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 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado.

La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar No. 875 del Bloque “M-28” de la URBANIZACIÓN LUIS MUÑOZ RIVERA del Barrio Los Frailes de Guaynabo, con cabida de 411.70 metros cuadrados; linda por el Norte, en 16.86 metros, con terrenos de Higinio Solis y con terrenos propiedad del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; por el Sur, en 13.20 metros, con Calle “J”; por el Este, en 26.89 metros, con solar No. LEGAL NOTICE 876; y por el Oeste, en 27.10 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO metros, con solar No. 874. La DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- escritura de hipoteca se enNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA cuentra inscrita al folio 76 del SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY- tomo 390 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de GuayNABO BANCO POPULAR DE nabo, Finca No. 10367, Inscripción 13ª. La dirección física PUERTO RICO de la propiedad antes descrita Demandante Vs. Urbanización Luis Muñoz ELENA DIAZ TORRES, es: Rivera, Calle Zafiro, Número TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA 33, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. La COMO ELENA KIDDER; subasta se llevará a efecto para VIRGINIA DIAZ TORRES satisfacer a la parte demandanDemandados te la suma de $26,669.91 de Civil Núm.: GB2019CV01281. principal, intereses al 7 5/8% (201). Sobre: COBRO DE DI- anual, desde el día 1ro. de ocNERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- tubre de 2017, hasta su comTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA- pleto pago, más la cantidad RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. de $6,400.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de Al: PÚBLICO EN abogado, más recargos acuGENERAL. todas cuyas sumas A: ELENA DIAZ TORRES, mulados, están líquidas y exigibles. Que TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA la cantidad mínima de licitación COMO ELENA KIDDER; en la primera subasta para el VIRGINIA DIAZ TORRES. inmueble será de $64,000.00 y Yo, FRANCES TORRES CON- de ser necesaria una segunda TRERAS #325, Alguacil de este subasta, la cantidad mínima Tribunal, a la parte demandada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 5 de abril de 2021. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS #325, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.

Friday, April 9, 2021 será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $42,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $32,000.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 5 de abril de 2021. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS #325, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

KOREN WON RAMOS SON

Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02273.

(403). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: KOREN WON RAMOS SON.

Yo, SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, 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 3 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Residential apartment number 9-M, located at INTERSUITES CONDOMINIUM, which is irregular in shape with a superficial area of 796.76 square feet, measuring 26’6” in width at in Eastern and Western wall, by 33’9” in length at its Northern and Southern wall. Its boundaries are as follows: by the North, with the exterior walls; by the South, with the corridor; by the West, with apartment number 9-L and janitors closets; and by the East, by the stairs and exterior wall. It consists of living dining area, two bedrooms with closets, a bathroom with toilet, wash basing and bathtub, an interior wall, a kitchen with sink, electric range, a water heater and a front porch. A este apartamento se le asigna el área de estacionamiento number 9-M. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 130 vuelto del tomo 974 de Carolina Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera,

finca número 27,869, inscripción Sexta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Intersuites, Apartamento 9-M, Carolina, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $54,908.27 de principal, intereses al 5% anual, desde el día 1ro. de agosto de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $7,500.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $75,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $50,000.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $37,500.00.

Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para

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conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 5 de abril de 2021. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

EFRAIN ESTRADA PABON SU ESPOSA YANIRA ISABEL FERNANDEZ DELGADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV04036.

(409). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: EFRAIN ESTRADA PABON SU ESPOSA YANIRA ISABEL FERNANDEZ DELGADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y/O SUCESOR EN DERECHO, POR TENER HIPOTECA EN GARANTÍA DE PAGARÉ A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $53,500.00; BANCO SANTANDER DE PUERTO RICO, POR TENER AVISO DE DEMANDA A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $53,500.00.

Yo, SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, 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 3 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables. Que en

caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento No. SE-306, dos habitaciones.

Apartamento No. SE-306. Localizado en el tercer piso del Edificio “SE” del CONDOMINIO COSTA MAR BEACH VILLAGE WEST, en el Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico. Área neta del apartamento: 1,519.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 141.13 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el Norte, colinda con espacio exterior del Edificio “SE”, en 27’ lineales, equivalentes a 8.23 metros lineales; por el Sur, colinda con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento No. SE-301, pasillo y escalera comunes limitadas a los apartamentos del tercer piso del Edificio “SE”, en 27’ lineales, equivalentes a 8.23 metros lineales; por el Este, colinda con espacio exterior del Edificio “SE”, en 35’5” pies lineales, equivalentes a 10.82 metros lineales; y por el Oeste, colinda con pasillo común limitado a los apartamentos del tercer piso del Edificio “SE” y pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento No. SE-305, en 36’ lineales, equivalentes a 10.97 metros lineales. El apartamento consta de dos niveles, el primer nivel esta dividido en los siguientes elementos: sala-comedor, dos dormitorios, cocina, closet, dos baños con “vanity”, puertas de espejos, lavandería, balcón, calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. En el segundo nivel esta ubicada la terraza con colindancias de: en lindes por el Norte, colinda con espacio exterior del Edificio “SE”, en 18’6” lineales, equivalentes a 5.67 metros lineales; por el Sur, colinda con pared medianera, en 13’6” lineales, equivalentes a 4.14 metros lineales, que lo separa del apartamento No. SE-401; por el Este, colinda con espacio exterior del Edificio “SE”, en 28’1” lineales, equivalentes a 8.56 metros lineales; y por el Oeste, colinda con pared medianera, en 28’1”, equivalentes a 8.56 metros lineales, que lo separa del apartamento No. SE-401.

La puerta principal de entrada de este apartamento esta situada en su lindero Oeste y por ella sale al pasillo común limitado a los apartamentos del tercer piso del Edificio “SE” y

luego al área de circulación del proyecto. Este apartamento tiene una participación de 0.87% en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio. Le corresponde a este apartamento los espacios de estacionamientos Nos. 158 y 225. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 185 del tomo 216 de Loíza, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca número 10141, inscripción 2ª. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Costamar Beach Village West, Apartamento SE-306, Loíza, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $56,734.14 de principal, intereses al 5.875% anual, desde el día 1ro. de abril de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $7,599.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $75,990.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $50,660.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $37,995.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de Santander Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $53,500.00, con intereses al 7.375% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2021, según consta de la Escritura Número 577, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de octubre de 2006, ante la Notario Público Nay Del Carmen Rodríguez González; inscrita al folio 109 del tomo

28 219 de Loíza, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca 10,141, inscripción Tercera. Aviso de Demanda, del día 22 de noviembre de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV04519, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Banco Santander Puerto Rico, versus Efraín Estrada Pabón, por la suma de $53,500.00 , más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 13 de agosto de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Loíza, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca 10,141, Anotación B. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas.

Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 5 de abril de 2021. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

Civil Núm.: CM2019CV00626.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE PETRA WINIFRED HEREDIA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR ÉDGAR C. RODRÍGUEZ HEREDIA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 5 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, el 5 de noviembre de 2020, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 10 de noviembre de 2020. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación LEGAL NOTICE en la primera subasta a celeESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO brarse, se celebrará una SEDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- GUNDA SUBASTA para la venNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2021, A SALA DE CAMUY BANCO POPULAR DE LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni PUERTO RICO adjudicación, se celebrará una Demandante Vs. TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 SUCESIÓN DE PETRA DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 WINIFRED HEREDIA DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina RIVERA COMPUESTA sita en el lugar antes indicado.

Que en cumplimiento de un POR ÉDGAR C. RODRÍGUEZ HEREDIA, Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado FULANO DE TAL Y por la Secretaría del Tribunal de SUTANO DE TAL COMO Primera Instancia, Sala de CaPOSIBLES HEREDEROS muy, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 18 de febrero de 2021, DE NOMBRES procederé a vender en pública DESCONOCIDOS, subasta y al mejor postor, todo CENTRO DE derecho, título e interés que RECAUDACIONES tenga la parte demandada de MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS epígrafe en el inmueble de su ESTADOS UNIDOS DE propiedad ubicado en: Calle 4 AMÉRICA C-20 (5C – Ext. Del Carmen) Demandados Urb. Del Carmen Bo. Puente,

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Camuy, PR 00627, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Puente de Camuy, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número 20 del Bloque “C” de la Urbanización Del Carmen, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar diez y siete del propio bloque, en una longitud de trece metros; por el SUR, con la Calle cuatro, en una longitud de trece metros; por el ESTE, con el solar diez y ocho del propio bloque, en una longitud de veinticinco metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar veintiuno del propio bloque en una longitud de veinticinco metros. Enclava en este solar una casa de concreto dedicada a vivienda.

Finca número 5,668, inscrita al folio 65 del tomo 109 de Camuy. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Arecibo. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $135,000.00, por concepto de balance de principal, más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 7.00% por ciento anual hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $13,500.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 77, otorgada el día 24 de febrero de 2010, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Ana V. Piñero Parés y consta inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 312 de Camuy, finca número 5,668, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II de Arecibo. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la

subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $135,000.00, con intereses al 7.00% anual, vencedero el día 23 de abril de 2088 constituida mediante la escritura número 78, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de febrero de 2010, ante el notario Ana V. Piñero Parés, e inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 312 de Camuy, finca 5,668 inscripción 14ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $135,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $90,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $67,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto

de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Camuy, Puerto Rico, a 10 de marzo de 2021. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAMUY.

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

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS ROSA T/C/C ÁNGEL L. RÍOS ROSA COMPUESTA POR MAGDALIS RÍOS

VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, AIDÉ RÍOS MELÉNDEZ, ÁNGEL OTILIO RÍOS CRUZ, ÁNGEL ANTONIO RÍOS CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ROSA MARÍA VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VAZQUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VÁZQUEZ DE RÍOS COMPUESTA POR MAGDALIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: C4CD2017-0108.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS ROSA T/C/C ÁNGEL L. RÍOS ROSA COMPUESTA POR MAGDALIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, AIDÉ RÍOS MELÉNDEZ, ÁNGEL OTILIO RÍOS CRUZ, ÁNGEL ANTONIO RÍOS CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ROSA MARÍA VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VAZQUEZ T/C/C ROSA M. VÁZQUEZ DE RÍOS COMPUESTA POR MAGDALIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL LUIS RÍOS VÁZQUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera

Instancia, Sala de Manatí, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 6 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 25 de julio de 2019. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 13 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Manatí, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 7 de octubre de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: 57 Pedro Muniz Rivera St Luchetti Dev, Manatí PR 00674, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Fraternidad del Municipio de Manatí, con una cabida superficial aproximadamente de 247.71 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE en 24.30 metros, con solar propiedad del municipio de Manatí; por el SUR, en 24.45 metros, con solar ocupado por Luis Rivera; por el ESTE, en 10.55 metros con solar ocupado por el Sr. Arturo Garcia Rosa; por el OESTE, en 10 metros, con una faja de terreno de 1.50 metros de ancho reservado para la futura construcción de a acera en la Calle Fraternidad. Enclava una casa de bloques y cemento armado.

Finca número 4,213, inscrita al folio 16 del tomo 133 de Manatí.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las canti-

dades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $$68,971.34, incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 14 de marzo de 2017, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.154% por ciento anual, hasta su completo pago; más la cantidad de $16,200.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 57, otorgada el día 30 de junio de 2014, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Rosa M. Vazquez de Rios y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Manatí, Puerto Rico, finca número 4,244, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, Sección de Manatí.

Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $162,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $108,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $81,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedo-

The San Juan Daily Star res que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo

de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, a 10 de marzo de 2021. WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ CARRIÓN, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #135, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MANATÍ.

Friday, April 9, 2021 MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $254,609.71, according to the affidavit of indebtment filed by the Plaintiff (Docket No. 29), plus the interest rate convened of 3.264% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, The Estate of Rufino Néstor Vale López composed of Maricarmen Vale Vázquez, Néstor Vale Vázquez, John Doe and Jane Doe and; The Estate of Myrna Vázquez García composed Maricarmen Vale Vázquez, Néstor Vale Vázquez, Angel Vale Vázquez, John Doe and Jane Doe, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Reverse LEGAL NOTICE Mortgage Funding, LLC all adUNITED STATES DISTRICT vances made under the mortgaCOURT DISTRICT OF PUERge note including but not limited TO RICO to insurance premiums, taxes REVERSE MORTGAGE and inspections as well as 10% FUNDING, LLC ($53,100.00) of the original Plaintiff V. principal amount to cover costs, ESTATE OF RUFINO expenses, and attorney’s fees NÉSTOR VALE LÓPEZ guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the COMPOSED OF case and of these proceedings MARICARMEN VALE may be examined by interested VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR parties at the Office of the Clerk VALE VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL of the United States District VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN Court, Room 150 or 400 FedeDOE AND JANE DOE AS ral Office Building, 150 Chardon A POSSIBLE MEMBERS Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the WITH UNKNOWN terms of the aforementioned NAME; THE ESTATE Judgment, Order of Execution, OF MYRNA VÁZQUEZ and the Writ of Execution theGARCÍA COMPOSED reof, the undersigned Special OF MARICARMEN VALE Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currenVÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR VALE VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL cy in cash or certified check without appraisement or right VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN of redemption to the highest DOE AND JANE DOE AS bidder and at the office of the POSSIBLE MEMBERS United States Marshal for the District of Puerto Rico, Room WITH UNKNOWN 200 – Federal Office Building, NAME; CENTRO 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, DE RECAUDACIÓN Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover DE INGRESOS the sums adjudged to be paid MUNICIPALES; UNITED to the plaintiff, the following STATES OF AMERICA property. “URBANA: Solar Defendants marcado con el número 8 del Civil Action No.: 3:19-cv-01388. Bloque A de la Urbanización NOTICE OF SALE. Villas Del Pilar, localizado en el Barrio Monacillos de la MuniTo: THE ESTATE OF RUFINO NÉSTOR VALE cipalidad de San Juan, Puerto LÓPEZ COMPOSED OF Rico, con un área superficial de 403.00 metros cuadrados.

MARICARMEN VALE Colindando por el NORTE con VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR el solar número 7 del bloque A, VALE VÁZQUEZ, en una distancia de 26.00 meJOHN DOE AND JANE tros; por el SUR, con el solar 9 del bloque A en una distancia DOE; THE ESTATE OF MYRNA VÁZQUEZ de 26.00 metros; por el ESTE con los solares número 2 y 1 GARCÍA COMPOSED del bloque A, en una distancia MARICARMEN VALE de 15 metros 50 centímetros y VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR VALE por el OESTE con la calle QueVÁZQUEZ, ANGEL VALE brada Arenas, en una distancia VÁZQUEZ, JOHN DOE de 15.50 metros. Sobre el desAND JANE DOE; CENTRO crito solar enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciaDE RECAUDACIONES les.” Property Number 7,082 DE INGRESOS recorded at page 171 of volume

233 of Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section V of San Juan. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, at page 133 volume 314 of Monacillos Este y el cinco, 18th 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 $531,000.00, due on May 1st, 2087 pursuant to deed number 124, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 29, 2010, before notary María Isabel García Mantilla, and recorded, at page 133 of volume 314 of Monacillos, property number 7,082, 19th 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 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $531,000.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $354,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $265,500.00, 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. WHE-

REAS: 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 16th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

LIVE WELL FINANCIAL, INC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE PORRATADORIA A/K/A ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE DE RODRIGUEZ COMPOSED OF MARIBEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JOSÉ GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, GRACIELA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE AND CARLOS SERGIO RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-3004ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE PORRATADORIA A/K/A ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE DE RODRIGUEZ COMPOSED OF MARIBEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JOSÉ GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, GRACIELA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE AND CARLOS SERGIO RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS

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MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $91,149.92, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Altagracia Romanacce Porratadoria a/k/a Altagracia Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane Doe and John Doe to pay Live Well Financial, Inc., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (18,750.00) 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 400 or 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 400 or 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: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbanización San Demetrio del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico e identificada en el Plano de Inscripción final de la Urbanización San Demetrio, con el número cuarenta (40) del Bloque “X” con un área superficial de trescientos cincuenta punto cero cero metros cuadrados (350.00 m/c). Colinda por el NORTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00m), con el solar número cuarenta y uno (41); por el SUR, en veinticinco punto cero cero metros (25.00m), con el solar número treinta y nueve (39); por el ESTE, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00), con la Calle “C”; y por el OESTE, en catorce punto cero cero metros (14.00m), con el solar número catorce (14). Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales.” Property

Number 6,007 recorded at page 136 of volume 125 of Vega Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón. The mortgage is recorded at Karibe Volumen, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón, inscription 9th. 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 $187,500.00, due on January 31, 2087 pursuant to deed number 160, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 23, 2014, before notary María I. García Mantilla, and recorded, at Karibe volume, property number 6007, 10th 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 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:25 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $187,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:25 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $125,000.00, 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 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:25 AM. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $93,750.00, 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 3rd day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOT ICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ANA ROSA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ A/K/A ANA MARÍA JIMÉNEZ COMPOSED OF MAGALY NIEVES JIMENEZ, GISELLA NIEVES JIMENEZ, CARLOS M. NIEVES JIMENEZ, DAMARIS E. NIEVES JIMENEZ, AND SAMUEL NIEVES JIMENEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:15-cv-2285PAD. COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTAGAGE FORECLOSURE COMPLAINT. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ANA ROSA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ A/K/A ANA MARÍA JIMÉNEZ COMPOSED OF MAGALY NIEVES JIMENEZ, GISELLA NIEVES JIMENEZ, CARLOS M. NIEVES JIMENEZ, DAMARIS E. NIEVES JIMENEZ, AND SAMUEL NIEVES JIMENEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $87,989.00, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% accumulated since March 7, 2016 per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant The Estate of Ana Rosa Jiménez Ayala a/k/a Ana Jiménez Ayala a/k/a Ana Jiménez a/k/a Ana María Jiménez composed of Magaly Nieves Jimenez, Gisella Nieves Jimenez, Carlos M. Nieves Jimenez, Damaris E. Nieves Jimenez, and Samuel Nieves Jimenez 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% ($18,450.00) 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: “RUSTICA: Parcela número 2 en al Barrio Pugnado Afuera del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,537.36 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela o predio número 1 del plano de inscripción que se adjudicara a Dolores Jiménez Ayala; al Sur con el remanente de la finca que se adjudicara Agapito Jiménez Ayala; al ESTE, con más terrenos del remanente o finca principal; y al OESTE, con una franja de terreno de 5.50 metros de anche por 14.60 metros de largo, dedicada a uso público.” Property Number 12,754, recorded at page 250 of volume 222 of Vega Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón. The mortgage at the Karibe volume of Vega Baja, property number 12,754, 6th 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 $184,500.00, due on February 22, 2080, pursuant to deed number 189, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on December 28, 2012, before notary Alfonso J. Gómez Roubert, and recorded, at Karibe volume of Vega Baja, property number 12,754, 7th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $184,500.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $123,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $92,250.00, 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

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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 2nd day of March of 2021.

PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA A/K/A SOE LONGORIA A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA VIUDA DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. BEY A/K/A ZOE LONGOVIA QUIÑONES COMPOSED OF MARITZA BEY, MANUEL BEY LONGORIA AND EDALIZ BEY LONGORIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-3065SEC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA A/K/A SOE LONGORIA A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA VIUDA DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. BEY A/K/A ZOE LONGOVIA QUIÑONES COMPOSED OF MARITZA BEY, MANUEL BEY LONGORIA AND EDALIZ BEY LONGORIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES 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 $164,065.82, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendants, the Estate of Zoe Longoria Quiñones a/k/a Zoe Longoria Quiñonez a/k/a Soe Longoria Quiñones a/k/a Soe Longoria Quiñonez a/k/a Zoe Longoria a/k/a Soe Longoria a/k/a Zoe Longoria Viuda de Bey a/k/a Zoe L. de Bey a/k/a Zoe L. Bey a/k/a Zoe Longovia Quiñones composed of Maritza Bey, Manuel Bey Longoria and Edaliz Bey Longoria, 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% ($26,250.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número mil ciento sesenta y nueve (1169) en el bloque M guión treinta y siete (M-37) del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Luis Muñoz Rivera radicado en el Barrio Frailes del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos sesenta punto sesenta y tres (360.63) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro punto noventa y ocho (24.98) metros, con el solar número mil ciento setenta (1170) del bloque M guión treinta y siete (M-37); por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto noventa y ocho (24.98) metros, con el solar número mil ciento sesenta y ocho (1168) del bloque M guion treinta y siete (M-37); por el ESTE, en catorce punto ochenta y cinco (14.85) metros, con la calle denominada Street G; y por el OESTE, en trece punto noventa y dos (13.92) metros, con el solar número mil ciento sesenta y cuatro (1164)

del bloque M guion treinta y siete (M-37) del mencionado plano. Según inscripción segunda (2da) se expresa que se ha edificado una residencia de hormigón reforzado de una sola planta que consta principalmente de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón.”

Property Number 12,174 filed at page 168 of volume 172 of Guaynabo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Guaynabo. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Guaynabo at page 31, volume 1,248 of Guaynabo. 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 $262,500.00, due on October 1st, 2078 pursuant to deed number 2, issued in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on January 15, 2013, before notary Saideth Cristóbal Martínez, and recorded, at page 31 of volume 1,248 of Guaynabo, property number 12,174, 13th 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 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $262,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $175,000.00, 9:30am, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $131,250.00, 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 4th day of March of 2021. 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.

GRECIA YOLANDA GUTIERREZ MARTINEZ A/K/A GRECIA Y. GUTIERREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 17-cv-1869.

NOTICE OF SALE.

To: GRECIA YOLANDA GUTIERREZ MARTINEZ A/K/A GRECIA Y. GUTIERREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $150,654.79, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.300% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Grecia Yolanda Gutierrez Martinez a/k/a Grecia Y. Gutierrez 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% (20,850.00) 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 – Federal Office Building, 150 or 400 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property. “URBANA: Solar veintidós A del Bloque 2C de la Urbanización Metrópolis, localizado en el Barrio Martín González del municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos treinta y seis metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar dieciocho A, en una longitud de catorce metros; por el SUR, con la Avenida C, en una longitud de catorce metros; por el ESTE, con el solar veintidós, en una longitud de veinticuatro metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar veintitrés, en una longitud de veinticuatro metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para vivienda.” Property Number 41,225, recorded at page 49 of volume 983 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Carolina II at page 42, volume 1,479 of Carolina. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $208,500.00, due on July 28, 2084 pursuant to deed number 970, issued in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on November 14, 2011, before notary María G. Chevere Mauriño, and recorded, at page 42 of volume 1,479 of Carolina, property number 41,225, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be

applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $208,500.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $139,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $104,250.00, 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 4th day of March of 2021. 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 ESTATE OF JUAN RAMÓN RIVERA REYES A/K/A JUAN R. RIVERA REYES COMPOSED OF DAMIÁN N. JIMENEZ, JANE DOE, JOHN DOE AND GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ

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LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 17-cv-1950.

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF JUAN RAMÓN RIVERA REYES A/K/A JUAN R. RIVERA REYES COMPOSED OF DAMIÁN N. JIMENEZ, JANE DOE, JOHN DOE AND GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES 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 $123,309.84, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Juan Ramón Rivera Reyes a/k/a Juan R. Rivera Reyes composed of Damián N. Jimenez, Jane Doe, John Doe and Gladys Margarita Jiménez López a/k/a Gladys Jiménez López; Gladys Margarita Jiménez López a/k/a Gladys Jiménez López, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($22,200.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest

bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.

“RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno con una cabida superficial de mil doscientos treinta y dos metros cuadrados con cincuenta y cinco centímetros (1,232.55 m.c.), en el BARRIO NARANJO de Comerío, Puerto Rico.

En lindes por el NORTE, con José A. Reyes; por el SUR, con el Río Arroyado, y la finca de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con la Carretera número 156; por el OESTE, con el Río Arroyata.” Property Number 6,275, recorded at page 177 of volume 88 of Comerío, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section Barranquitas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico page 191 of volume 152 of Comerío, Section of Barranquitas. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $222,000.00, due on May 19th, 2100 pursuant to deed number 4, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 26, 2013, before notary Fernando E. Doval, and recorded, at page 191 of volume 152 of Comerío, property number 6,275, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 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 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $148,000.00, 9:30am, 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 adjudica-

Friday, April 9, 2021 tion and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 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 4th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL AUGUSTO COGOLLO PUELLO, COMPUESTA POR: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, FREDESVINDA CINTRÓN ORTIZ, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2019CV01146.

(704). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo ALBERTO NEGRÓN ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #435, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera

Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 21 de noviembre de 2019 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, 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 Rafael Augusto Cogollo Puello, compuesta por: Fulano y Mengano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, Fredesvinda Cintrón Ortiz, por sí y en la Cuota Viudal Usufructuaria. Dirección Física: Urb. Santa Elvira, 5M, 14 St., Caguas, PR 00725. Finca 28,941, inscrita al folio 115 del tomo 865 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas.

URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero cinco de la manzana “M” en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Santa Elvira, situada en el Barrio Tomas de Castro de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos, sesenta y dos metros cuadrados, con setenta y cuatro centímetros y en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar “M” guion seis y la calle dieciséis, distancia de doce metros con cincuenta centímetros; por el SUR, con la calle número catorce, distancia de cinco metros cincuenta centímetros en arco y doce metros cincuenta centímetros; por el ESTE, con el solar “M” guion cuatro, distancia de veintitrés metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle número dieciséis, distancia de dieciséis metros y un arco de cinco metros cincuenta centímetros. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto, diseñada para una familia. Finca 28,941: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a.

Servidumbre a favor de la Eastern Sugar Association. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. d. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación de uso. e. Servidumbre a favor de Municipio de Caguas. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, con intereses al 13 ½ % anual, vencedero a la presentación, cons-

tituida mediante la escritura número 200, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de julio de 1998, ante la notario Carmen Del Pilar Rivera Fontanez, e inscrita al folio 118 vuelto del tomo 865 de Caguas, finca número 28,941, inscripción 4ta. b.

Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $49,000.00, con intereses al 10.95% anual, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2017, constituida mediante la escritura número 5, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de enero de 2001, ante el notario Miguel Alonso Cordero Gonzalez, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 1595 de Caguas, finca número 28,941, inscripción 5ta., c. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de octubre de 2009, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caso Civil número EACI-200904585, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, versus Rafael Augusto Cogollo Puello y su esposa Fredesvinda Cintron Ortiz, mediante la cual se reclama el pago de la hipoteca de la inscripcion 4ta., por la suma de $1,365.83 y otras sumas, al folio 2856 del tomo 1793 de Caguas, finca número 28,941, inscripcion 6ta, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 22 de noviembre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 1 de marzo de 2010 al Asiento 153 del Diario 1153). d.

Aviso de Demanda de fecha 7 de julio de 2017, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caso Civil número EDC-2017-0587, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico contra Rafael Augusto Cogollo Puello y su esposa Fredeswinda Cintrón Ortiz también conocida como Fredesvinda Cintrón Ortíz, mediante la cual se reclama el pago de la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta reducida a la suma de $41,094.42 y otras sumas, anotado el día 20 de mayo de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 28,941, Anotación “B”. e. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 4 de abril de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el Caso Civil número CG2019CV01146 seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Rafael Augusto Cogollo Puello y su esposa Fredeswinda Cintrón Ortiz, y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, mediante la cual se relama el pago de la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta reducida a $41,094.42, mas otras sumas, anotada el día 28

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de mayo de 2019 al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca número 28,941, Anotación “C” y última. f. AL ASIENTO 2018-070107CA01 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 24 de julio de 2018, Instancia expedida en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de junio de 2018, ante la notario Belma Alomar García, mediante la cual se solicita la cancelación de la hipoteca por la suma de $15,000.00, por estar prescrita. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 28941 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 26 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $49,000.00. HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 5, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 16 de enero de 2002, ante el Notario Miguel Alfonso Cordero González. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 3 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $32,666.67.

TERCERA SUBASTA: 10 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $24,500.00. 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 30 de agosto de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 7 de octubre de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 1 de febrero de 2017, las siguientes cantidades: la suma principal de $41,094.42, la suma de $15,524.34, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por

endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de marzo de 2021. ALBERTO NEGRÓN ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #435, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

CRISTALEX, INC.; FELIX VALOIS ROLON LA TORRE, MARTA LAURA PAGAN BATISTA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Estados Unidos de America

Demandados CIVIL NUM. DCD2016-1227 (506). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo Maribel Lanzar Velazquez, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, al público en general.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 6 de febrero de 2020 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Uni-

dos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, Sala 503 quinto piso local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Carretera 2 Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Calle Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, 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 Cristalex, Inc.; Felix Valois Rolón la Torre, Marta Laura Pagán Batista y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos. Dirección Física: Bo. Candelaria, Carr #2 KM 17.2, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 00949. Finca 29,064, inscrita al folio 210 del tomo 542 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Bayamón.

RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en la Comunidad Rural Candelaria del Barrio Candelaria del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil trescientos cuarenta y uno punto cincuenta y seis metros cuadrados (1,341.56 m.c.), formada por agrupación de las parcelas número doscientos veintitrés B y doscientos veintitrés C, en lindes por el NORTE, con las parcelas número doscientos veintitrés E, doscientos veinticuatro (224) y doscientos veinticuatro B (224-B) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la carretera estatal número dos (2); por el ESTE, con las parcelas número doscientos veintitrés y doscientos veintitrés D de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la parcela de terreno número doscientos veintirés A. Puerto Nuevo. Finca 29,064. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a) Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $175,000.00, con intereses al 7.75% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 15, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de abril de 2005, ante el notario Mario Muñoz García, e inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, finca número 29,064, inscripción 2da. b)Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $257,000.00, con intereses al 12%, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 319, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de junio de 2009, ante el notario Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, e inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, finca número 29,064, inscripción 3ra. c) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de

32 Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $75,000.00, con intereses al 12% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 188, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 5 de mayo de 2010, ante el notario Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, e inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, finca número 29,064, inscripción 4ta. d) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $33,000.00, con intereses al 12.00% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 71, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de agosto de 2013, ante el notario Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, e inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 586 de Toa Baja, finca número 29,064, inscripción 6ta. e) Embargo Federal 2016-003642-FED contra Cristalex Inc. A Corporation, según Certificación del día 24 de marzo de 2016, dirección RD KM17 2 Barrio Candelaria, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, 00949, por la suma de $25,320.61, notificación número 205080916, anotado el día 15 de abril de 2016, al Asiento 2016-003642FED del Sistema Karibe. f) Embargo Federal contra Cristalex, Inc., Corp., dirección P.O. Box 2654, Bayamón, PR 00960, por la suma de $9,625.62, notificación número 217848916, Certificación de fecha 20 de junio de 2016, anotado el día 27 de junio de 2016, al Asiento 2016006753FED del Sistema Karibe. g) Embargo Federal contra Cristalex, Inc., Corp., dirección RD 2 KM17, Bo. Candelaria, Toa Baja, PR 00949, por la suma de $7,507.57, notificación número 222742216, Certificación de fecha 26 de julio de 2016, anotado el día 11 de agosto de 2016, Asiento 2016007622FED del Sistema Karibe. h) Embargo Federal contra Cristalex Inc., seguro social patronal xx-xxx0143, Direccion PO Box 2654, Bayamón, PR 00960, por la suma de $30,581.15, notificación número 332187118, Certificación de fecha 7 de noviembre de 2018, anotado el día 13 de diciembre de 2018, al Asiento 2018011168-FED del Sistema Karibe. No podemos precisar que la entidad embargada y la entidad titular en esta finca sean la misma. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 24,510 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 2 de junio de 2021, Hora: 9:45AM, Tipo Mínimo: $175,000.00. Escritura Número 15, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 12 de abril de 2012, ante el Notario Mario Muñoz García. Segunda Subasta: 9 de junio de 2021, Hora:

9:45AM, Tipo Mínimo: $116,666.00. Tercera Subasta: 16 de junio de 2021, Hora: 9:45AM, Tipo Mínimo: $87,500.00. 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 16 de septiembre de 2019 y archivada en los autos el 7 de octubre de 2019, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: Al 1 de febrero de 2016, la suma de $512,289.04 dividido de la siguiente manera: $491,700.62 de principal, $19,336.97 en intereses y $1,251.45 por concepto de cargos por mora, más los intereses y cargos que se han acumulado y se siguen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago; se condena también a losa co-demandados a pagar honorarios de abogado por no menos del 10% del importe inicial del pagaré, todo según pactado. 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.

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do con acuse de recibo a la últiSOCIEDAD LEGAL DE ma dirección conocida de la BIENES GANANCIALES parte demandada, expido el COMPUESTA POR presente edicto bajo mi firma y AMBOS; JOHN DOE Y el sello de este Tribunal en BaRICHARD ROE COMO yamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de marzo de 2021. MARIBEL POSIBLES TENEDORES LANZAR VELAZQUEZ, ALDESCONOCIDOS GUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIDEMANDADOS MERA INSTANCIA, SALA SU- CIVIL NUM.: SJ202lCV0l208 PERIOR DE BAYAMÓN. (901). SOBRE: SUSTITUCION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. LEGAL NOTICE EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICIN THE UNITED STATES DIS- TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- AMERICA, El Presidente de TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. los Estados Unidos, El Estado REVERSE MORTGAGE Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

FUNDING, LLC, Plaintiff, v.

THE ESTATE OF JULIA MARÍA ÁLVAREZGUZMÁN, et al.,

Defendants.

Civil No. 16-2847 (FAB). NOTICE OF JUDGMENT BY PUBLICATION.

To: The Estate of Julia María Álvarez-Guzmán, a/k/a Julia M. ÁlvarezGuzmán composed of Luis Burgos-Álvarez, Inés Marilia Burgos-Álvarez, Nelly Burgos-Álvarez, Heidy RodríguezRivera, Carlos Rodríguez-Rivera, Víctor Rodríguez-Rivera and Irving RodríguezRivera; Centro de Recuadaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

The Clerk of the Court notifies defendants that on April 6, 2021, this Court entered a judgment that appears registered in the docket of this case, where you can be informed of its terms. This Notice shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico for ten (10) days after its notification. And, taking into consideration that you have been a party to this case and subject to the terms of the Judgment from which you can request reconsideration or appeal in the term of thirty (30) days from the date the notice of judgment by publication is published, this notice is entered, on April 6th 2021. MARIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ., CLERK OF THE COURT. By: Ana E. Duran-Capella, Deputy Clerk.

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SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC DEMANDANTE VS.

FEDERICO DOMINGUEZ CUEVAS, MINERVA MARIA BATISTA Y LA

A Ia parte co-demandada: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, demandados desconocidos cuya dirección se desconoce

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita Ia SUSTITUCION DE UN PAGARE EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el testimonio núm. 832 a favor de First Security Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por Ia suma de $106,540.00, devengando intereses a razón del 7.50% por ciento anual, vencedero eI primero (1ro) de marzo de 2026, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura número 109 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de febrero de 1996, ante ci Notario MarIa Eugenia Torres Gregory, Ia cual consta inscrita al folio 120 vuelto del tomo 890 de Monacillos, finca número 17,966, inscripción Décimo Segunda (l2da).

Dicha hipoteca fue modificada en cuanto a su principal que será de $89,103.48, en cuanto a su interés que será al 4.50%; en cuanto a su pago mensual de principal e interés será por Ia cantidad de $451.47, y en cuanto a su vencimiento que será el primero (1ro) de octubre de 2044, según consta de la escritura de modificación de hipoteca numero 461, otorgada el dIa 29 de septiembre de 2014, en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante Ia Notario Público Jaime E. Dávila Santini, Ia cual consta inscrita al Folio 120 vuelto del Torno 890 de Monacillos, finca n6mero 17,966, inscripción Décimo Segunda (l2da). Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se Ic emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diana general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente

dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramaiudicial.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 Ia Contestación de Ia Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de Ia Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a La publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo asI dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s).

EXPEDIDO bajo ml firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 23 de marzo de 2021, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Sec Regional.

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SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC DEMANDANTE vs.

R & G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, LUEGO SCOTlABANK DE PUERTO RICO AHORA ORIENTAL BANK; RICHARD FRANCIS AYALA MORALES, BRENDA AGOSTO SANTIAGO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: FA2021CV00204.

SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

A la parte co-demandada: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, demandados desconocidos cuya irección se desconoce

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCION DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el número de testimonio #2,997 a favor de R & G MORTGAGE CORPOID\ TION, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $55,000.00, con intereses al 7 1/2 % anual, Vencedero el día 1ro de noviembre de 2024, garantizado con la hipoteca constituida mediante

escritura número 282, otorgada en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de octubre de 1994, ante el notario José Herminio Santiago, e inscrita al folio 167 vuelto del tomo 131 de Luquillo, finca número 7,350, inscripción sexta (6ta). Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general.

Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sister.1 a Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lc1º· Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de loJ 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 oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 25 de marzo de 2021, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I SEGUI REYES, Sec Regional. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCIA, Sec Aux Tribunal I.

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SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC DEMANDANTE VS.

R & G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, LUEGO SCOTIABANK DE PUERTO RICO AHORA ORIENTAL BANK; RUTH CATALINA ROSARIO RIVIERE T/C/C RUTH CATALINA ROSARIO RIVIERI; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: BY2021CV01136.

SOBRE: SUSTITUCION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

A la parte co-demandada: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, demandados desconocidos cuya dirección se desconoce

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCION DE UN PAGARE EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el número de testimonio #5,110 a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $102,600.00, con intereses al 6% anual, vencedero el día 1ro de febrero de 2033, garantizado con hipoteca constituida mediante escritura de hipoteca número 18, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el dIa 8 de enero de 2003, ante el notario público Georgette M. Rodriguez, e inscrita al folio 265 del tomo 1775 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 71,531, inscripción segunda (2da). Modificada la hipoteca de Ia inscripción 2da, en cuanto al principal que será por $102,939.00, en cuanto al pago mensual de principal e intereses que será de $617.17 y en cuanto a que será vencedero el dIa 1ro de mayo de 2036, según la escritura numero 93, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ci dIa 28 de abril de 2006, ante el notario público José V. Gorbea, e inscrita al folio 7928 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 71,531, inscripción tercera (3ra). Modificada nuevamente la hipoteca de la inscripción 2da, en cuanto a que se cancela parcialmente por Ia suma de $1,836.49, para un nuevo principal que será por $101,102.51 y el interés que será al 4.50% anual, en cuanto al pago mensual de principal e intereses que será de $512.27 y en cuanto a que será vencedero el dIa 1ro de febrero de 2043, según La escritura número 49, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de enero de 2013, ante el notario público David Cardona Dingui, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 71,531, inscripción cuarta (4ta). Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se ic(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por ci 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 la Demanda a las oficinas de CAR.DONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo asI dentro del término indicado, ci Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose ci remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s).

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 24 de marzo de 2021, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria Regional. Yariliz Cintron, Sec Aux.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

ADLINE MARIE HORTA VELÁZQUEZ; JASON BRENES CATINCHI

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV08989.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 18 de marzo de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en

The San Juan Daily Star el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Adline Marie Horta Velázquez; Jason Brenes Catinchi. Dirección Física: Urb. Monte Atenas, B-10 Calle Rhodas, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Finca 17,423 inscrita al folio 231 del tomo 549 de Rio Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. URBANA: Solar identificado con el número diez (10) del Bloque B en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Chalets de Monte Atenas, situada en el Barrio Cupey de Río Piedras, del término municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos treinta y seis punto dos mil ochenta (236.2080) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en un distancia de diez punto treinta y seis (10.36) metros, con el solar número cinco (5); por el SUR, en una distancia de diez punto treinta y seis (10.36) metros, con la Calle número dos (2); por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintidós punto ochenta (22.80) metros, con el solar número nueve (9); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintidós punto ochenta (22.80) metros, con el solar número once (11).

Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa tipo hilera para fines residenciales.” Finca 17,423. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. d. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de San Juan. e. Servidumbre perpetua de paso peatonal y vehicular para la instalación de facilidades de servicio. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Asociación de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (AEELA), o a su orden, por la suma principal de $252,000.00, con intereses al 6.750% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2036, constituida mediante la escritura número 62, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de abril de 2006, ante el notario Guillermo Mojica Franceschi, e inscrita al folio 33 vuelto del tomo 714 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 17,423, inscripción 6ta. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Asociación de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (AEELA), o a su orden, por la suma principal de $63,000.00, con intereses al 6.5% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2021, constituida mediante la escritura número 63, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de abril de 2006, ante el notario Guillermo Mojica Franceschi, e inscrita al folio 34 del tomo 714

de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 17,423, inscripción 7ma. c. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 4 de septiembre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ-2019CV-08989, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Adline Marie Horta Velázquez y Jason Brenes Catinchi, anotado el día 10 de diciembre de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 17,423, Anotación “A”. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 17,423 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 10 de mayo de 2021, Hora: 9:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $252,000.00, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 62 sobre Primera Hipoteca, otorgada el día 25 de abril de 2006, ante el notario Guillermo Mojica Franceschi.

Segunda Subasta: 17 de mayo de 2021, Hora: 9:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $168,000.00. Tercera Subasta: 24 de mayo de 2021, Hora: 9:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $126,000.00. 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 diciembre de 2019, notificada el 2 de enero de 2020 y publicada el 10 de enero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $203,575.05, más intereses a razón de 6.75%, desde el 1 de junio de 2018, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $343.21 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $25,200.00 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

Friday, April 9, 2021 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 Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de abril de 2021. PEDRO HIYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO Parte Demandante VS

JOSÉ RAMÓN MONSERRATE SANTIAGO, SU ESPOSA LUIZABETH PABÓN ÀLVAREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. YU2018CV00327.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: JOSÉ RAMÓN MONSERRATE SANTIAGO, SU ESPOSA LUIZABETH PABÓN ÀLVAREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

El Alguacil que suscribe anuncia y hace constar que, en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia (In Rem) que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la parte

demandada sobre el inmueble que a continuación se describe: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: EL LEGADO CONDOMINUM REGIME ONE APARTMENT 613.

Square shaped one bedroom unit in the El Legado Condominium Regime I, located at Jobos Ward of the Municipality of Guayama with a total area of 724.6181 square feet, equivalent to 67.3192 square meters distributed in 639.2014 square feet, equivalent to 59.3838 square meters of enclosed area, and 85.4167 square feet, equivalent to 7.93547 of terrace. The main entrance located on the South East side of the apartment leading to the common hallway leading to the exterior of the building. This apartment is located in building six of the Regime, occupies part of the first floor of the building and has been assigned a share of .33% in the Common Elements of the Regime. The maximum length of this unit is 8.89 meters, and the maximum width is 8.43 meters. Its boundaries are: by the NORTH, in a distance of 8.89 meters with common green areas; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 5.59 meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment 614 and in a distance of 3.30 meters with the common lobby area; by the EAST, in a distance of 8.43 meters with the common wall which separates it from apartment 612; by the WEST, in a distance of 6.45 meters with the common wall which separates it from apartment 614 and in a distance of 1.90 meters with the green common area. This unit contains a foyer, living/dinning area, kitchen, bedroom with closet, bathroom, hall a laundry closet and a covered balcony. Finca diecinueve mil setecientos uno (19,701) inscrita al folio noventa y siete (97) del tomo trescientos cuatrocientos noventa y tres (493) de Guayama, última inscripción, según libro cuarta.

Se separa de la finca 18,397 inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 480 de Guayama. CARGAS Y GRAVÁMENES. Por su procedencia: Se halla afecta a servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Condiciones Restrictivas, servidumbre permanente de paso de agua a favor del Pueblo de Puerto Rico, dos derechos de servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico, y servidumbre de paso como predio sirviente a favor de la finca 17773 de Guayama como predio sirviente. Por sí: HIPOTECA constituida por los titulares registrales en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Cabo Rojo, por la suma de $117,725.00 con intereses

al 5.5% anual y vencimiento el 1ro de junio de 2034. Sujeta a Cláusula de Aceleración. Constituida por la Escritura #45, otorgada en Cabo Rojo, el 23 de mayo de 2014, ante el notario Luis Rivera Mendoza, e inscrita al folio 97 vuelto del tomo 493 de Guayama, finca 19701 e inscripción tercera. DEMANDA expedida el 7 de diciembre de 2018 ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Yauco, Caso Civil #YU2018CV00327, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Cabo Rojo, demandante versus José Ramón Monserrate Santiago y Luizabeth Pabón Álvarez, y la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por ambos, demandados. Por la cual se anota demanda por la suma de $121,613.37, inscrita el 20 de septiembre de 2019 al tomo Karibe, finca 19701 de Guayama. Anotación A. Trasladado el caso al Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, mediante orden del 3 de enero de 2019. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 6 de mayo de 2021; a las 10:30 de la mañana en la oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama, la cantidad mínima a aceptarse en la primera subasta será de $117,725.00 Dicha venta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el balance que refleja el préstamo hipotecario por la suma la suma de: $131,950.68. Si en la primera subasta no se produjese la venta del inmueble antes descritos, la SEGUNDA SUBASTA se efectuará el día 13 de mayo de 2021; a las 10:30 de la mañana en la oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama y la cantidad mínima aceptada será de $78,483.33. Si en esta segunda subasta no se produjese adjudicación, entonces la TERCERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 20 de mayo de 2021; a las 10:30 de la mañana en la oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama y el tipo mínimo de subasta a aceptarse será de $58,862.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento y se le adjudicará al demandante la finca objeto de este procedimiento, dentro de los diez (10) días subsiguientes a dicha tercera subasta por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Para mejor información las personas interesadas pueden examinar los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Este edicto de subasta se publicará una vez por semana por espacio de dos semanas en un diario de circulación general en Puerto Rico y en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acep-

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ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistente.

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

Se expresará que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. El abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, PO Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, teléfono 787-265-0334 / 787265-0335. DADA en Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de marzo de 2021. Litzy M. Cora Anaya, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYAMA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

LAUDELINO RIVERA ASIA, MYRNA IVETTE CIRINO PARRILLA T/C/C MYRNA CIRINO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2019CV01056.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 14 de febrero de 2020, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 20 de enero de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 21 de enero de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 6 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Sala Superior, Avenida Marcelito Gotay esquina Barriada Jerusalén, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número Diez B (10B) en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Saldaña del Barrio Río Arriba del término

municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 389.41 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con Regalado Medina; por el SUR, con Calle Número Seis (6) de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número Diez (10); y por el OESTE, con parcela número Diez C (10C). La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 341 de Fajardo, Finca Número 14637, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Fajardo, Finca Número 14637, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción duodécima. Dirección Física: Comunidad Saldaña, Bo. Río Arriba, B10 Calle 6, Fajardo, PR 00738. Dirección Postal: HC 66 Box 9497, Fajardo, PR 00738. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $73,641.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 13 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 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, $49,094.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta día 20 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $36,820.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia por la suma de $71,211.20 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.75% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $61.48 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,364.10 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 pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Doral Financial Corporation Vs. Miguel A. Rodríguez también conocido como Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Osorio, Juanita Álvarez Maldonado también conocido como Juana Álvarez Maldonado, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, en el Caso Civil Número NICI2003-0035, sobre Cobro

de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $13,482.23 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 14 de enero de 2003.

Anotada al folio 217 del tomo 413 de Fajardo. Anotación A. Nota: Dicha Demanda no surge cancelada por la venta judicial, en el caso civil número NICI 2003-0035. Se deberá presentar Acta Aclaratoria para que quede cancelada dicha Demanda. b. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Laudelino Rivera Asia y su esposa, Myrna Ivette Cirino Parrilla, también conocida como Myrna Cirino, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el Caso Civil Número FA2019CV01056, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de Hipoteca, con un balance de $71,211.20 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 30 de agosto de 2019.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Fajardo. Anotación B. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas 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 Fajardo Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de febrero de 2021. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737.

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French Open is delayed a week

By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

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he French Open has been postponed by one week and will be played from May 30 to June 13, the second year in a row it has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

France, which has faced a third wave of coronavirus infections, on Saturday entered a new nationwide lockdown that could last for more than a month. Nonessential shops and schools have been shut, and authorities have maintained a nighttime curfew that has been in place for months.

Organizers said Thursday that they hoped the new dates would allow spectators to attend in a safe way and give the public health situation more time to improve. The lockdown is expected to lift in mid-May, giving tournament officials about two weeks to prepare for the Grand Slam event.

“Every week is important and can make a difference,” the French Open organizers said in a statement.

The two-week tournament in Paris, one of the sport’s four Grand Slam events, was supposed to begin on May 23 and run through June 6. It will now start on May 30 and finish on June 13, only two weeks before the June 28 start of Wimbledon, which will not be delayed.

The president of the French tennis federation, Gilles Moretton, also suggested fans would be able to attend the event. The delay, Moretton said, “will give the health situation more time to improve and should optimize our chances of welcoming spectators at Roland Garros.”

“For the fans, the players and the atmosphere,” he added, “the presence of spectators is vital for our tournament.”

The main court was packed at the 2019 French Open.

The plan — an agreement with both government officials and international tennis leaders — means that for a second consecutive year the competition will not take place as scheduled. And while Wimbledon will keep to its schedule, the change in France probably will cause some shuffling of the series of grass-court tournaments that precede it.

Last spring, organizers shifted the start of the French Open to late September, believing that the pandemic that ravaged western Europe in the first months of 2020 would recede over the summer. The move, made with little consultation with organizers of other tennis events, caught the sport off guard.

It also ultimately helped cause several top European players, including the former world No. 1 Rafael Nadal, to skip the U.S. Open, which took place in early September.

Players had little time to recover from a Grand Slam event played on a hardcourt and prepare for one on clay. The move paid off for Nadal, who won a record 13th French Open men’s singles title in October. Organizers limited crowds to just 1,000 spectators each day.

For months, as infection rates in France have remained stubbornly high and as the European Union has struggled to distribute coronavirus vaccines, organizers of the French Open have been studying situations for once again holding the signature event in front of smaller crowds. Last week, however, President Emmanuel Macron of France enacted a third national lockdown as the rate of coronavirus infections continued to escalate, imperiling the tournament.

Afterward, Gilles Moretton, the president of the French Tennis Federation, said if France’s citizens were still under restrictions next month the organization might have to consider canceling the event.

Rafael Nadal won his record 13th French Open men’s singles title in 2020. The tournament was played in the fall instead of its traditional spring dates.

“If we are told a general confinement for two months, we will necessarily have to take measures — at worst, complete cancellation, but I dare not imagine that,” Moretton told Agence France-Presse.

Before the new lockdown, Macron had tried to keep France open, hoping that increasing vaccinations would help slow the spread of the virus. Instead, with the country’s death toll from COVID-19 approaching 100,000, he closed all but the most essential businesses, limited citizens to a six-mile radius from their homes, prohibited travel between regions and set a curfew from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Professional sports are still allowed to take place, but without spectators.

Macron has said he hopes to reopen the country by mid-May, which would leave mere days for organizers to prepare for the arrival of hundreds of players from dozens of countries, though many of them would presumably be coming from Italy after having played the Italian Open.

Touring tennis players have been living for months in a series of bubblelike settings that each tournament has created with the goal of keeping players and the local populace from transmitting the virus.

At the year’s first Grand Slam event, in Australia, which has all but eliminated community spread of the virus, organizers forced players arriving from overseas into a limited quarantine for two weeks before they could mix with the rest of the population, and dozens of them ended up in a hard two-week quarantine, after multiple people tested positive upon arrival.

The restrictions have begun to wear on players, who are unable to travel with their usual support teams and family members and must limit their movements to their hotels and the tennis venues.

“I understand the reasons for it, but from a physical and mental health perspective I don’t know if it is sustainable,” Danielle Collins, a top American player, said last week after her exit from the Miami Open. “It can be very challenging.”

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Where the NHL contenders stand before the trade deadline

By ANDREW KNOLL

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he last major window for NHL teams to bolster their rosters is closing as the Monday trade deadline nears.

Each of this season’s four makeshift divisions has a similar dynamic, with three teams comfortably situated at the top and then a pack of aspiring clubs seeking the fourth — and final — postseason spot. Only six teams are seven or more points out of a playoff spot.

This year’s deadline figures to be competitive, but activity is also likely to be fettered by logistical concerns.

Because of health protocols, players being traded across the U.S.-Canada border would be required to quarantine for seven days upon arrival at their new team.

Even players traded between two U.S.based teams, such as former New York Ranger Brendan Lemieux, who was traded to Los Angeles, may have to quarantine, with the length depending on several factors. The deadline is about a month before the end of the 56-game regular season, so teams will be making deals with the playoffs at top of mind.

The top teams may seek the final piece for a Stanley Cup run, while clubs a step below must decide to sell or make a move to try to vault into the postseason.

Furthermore, the salary cap was flat this season and will not go up next season. Some teams have set their maximum budgets below the cap, placing financial flexibility at a premium.

There are also teams looking to align their rosters to minimize the impact of the upcoming expansion draft, in which they will be able to protect up to 11 players and their entry-level players from being selected by the Seattle Kraken.

EAST DIVISION Contenders: New York Islanders, Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins The Islanders will be without Anders Lee, their captain, for the rest of the season, and they lost a solid contributor in defenseman Devon Toews over the offseason. The silver lining is that Lee’s shift to the long-term injured-reserve list gives them flexibility to take on prorated salaries.

A top-six forward to replace Lee and invigorate the Islanders’ middling offense and power play seemed like an obvious choice.

The Islanders acquired wing Kyle Palmieri and veteran center Travis Zajac from the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday in exchange for a first-round pick in 2021, a conditional fourthrounder in 2022 and a pair of minor-league forwards.

Taylor Hall, right, figures to be available before the trade deadline as Buffalo languishes at the bottom of the league standings.

The Devils retained 50% of Palmieri’s and Zajac’s salaries, which expire after this season, so the Islanders could still pursue another move before Monday’s deadline.

“I’m excited to have them a part of our organization right now,” said Lou Lamoriello, the Islanders’ general manager. Lamoriello had drafted Zajac in the first round in 2004 during his tenure with the Devils. “I know what they bring on the ice. I also know who they are as people, how well they will fit in the locker room here. Chemistry is extremely important to me.”

The Capitals and the Penguins are each up against the salary cap. Washington could most use depth at center, where a pair of injuries exposed the team early in the season, and in goal, where its two primary netminders had only 61 games combined of NHL experience entering this month.

Pittsburgh is peaking at the right time, and its recent play hasn’t shown many deficiencies.

In years past, the Penguins were bold at the trade deadline, but they are under new management, that of first-year general manager Ron Hextall, who in the past with the Flyers was traditionally more conservative than his predecessor, Jim Rutherford. The Penguins also do not have a first-, third- or fourth-round pick in the 2021 draft, but could have some salary cap flexibility if center Evgeni Malkin remains on long-term injured-reserve until the playoffs.

The Devils and Buffalo are likely to be sellers, with the Sabres having preemptively scratched Taylor Hall, the 2018 most valuable player, from recent games, according to multiple reports. Even after trading Palmieri, the Devils have three veteran defensemen headed toward unrestricted free agency this season and two more next year.

NORTH DIVISION Contenders: Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers The Maple Leafs have been the most formidable team in the division for most of the year and loaded up on grit with bargainpriced veterans such as Wayne Simmonds, Joe Thornton and Zach Bogosian in the offseason. They are tight against the cap, as are the Oilers, who would love to find a way to further augment the supporting cast around Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. McDavid ranks first in scoring leaguewide, and Draisaitl is second.

The second-place Jets should have around $3.5 million in flexibility, which could be used to acquire a solid piece if they are creative. General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff has been unabashed in pursuing big trades, acquiring Paul Stastny in 2018, Kevin Hayes in 2019 and Pierre-Luc Dubois this season.

The Jets also have some flexibility going into next season, should they opt to pursue a nonrental. The Jets will probably focus on their blue line, and the most coveted twoway defenseman would be Nashville’s Mattias Ekholm. But the Predators went on a sixgame win streak to close March and have set a high price.

Within the division, Vancouver defenseman Alex Edler is a veteran on an expiring deal who could waive his no-movement clause to join a contender, although his $6 million cap hit may be a bit unwieldy. Calgary center Sam Bennett asked for a trade before the Flames’ coaching change. Calgary winger Johnny Gaudreau, a potent scorer who is largely a finesse player, may not be an ideal fit for Darryl Sutter’s style of play.

Sutter, who rarely discusses individual players positively or negatively, took the occasion of Gaudreau’s 500th career game last month to employ sarcasm to ask for more from Gaudreau.

CENTRAL DIVISION Contenders: Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes The Lightning have turned in a magnificent title defense, even while not having wing Nikita Kucherov, their top forward, all season. Carolina was the Central’s top squad in March, riding breakout performances by forward Martin Necas — 17 points in 14 games — and goalie Alex Nedeljkovic, who went 6-1-1 with a 1.85 goals-against average.

Florida rode the combination of wingers Jonathan Huberdeau and Aleksander Barkov to another successful month in what has been one of the best seasons in franchise history.

While Tampa is up against the salary cap, Carolina and Florida, in particular, have flexibility. Most of Carolina’s defensemen probably would be subject to exposure in the expansion draft, so it’s possible the Hurricanes would deal one at the deadline to obviate a situation where they lose one of their regulars in the offseason. They would probably seek a forward in return, as their goaltending situation has been solidified between Nedeljkovic and the now-healthy Petr Mrazek, who returned to the lineup this week for the first time since Jan. 30.

Florida has the most cap space of any team in a playoff spot, but also has significant holes in its lineup. Aaron Ekblad, the Panthers’ top defenseman, will be out until June with a broken leg, creating a significant void. Nashville could shape the deadline day as a whole, as it may chart its course based on whether its late-March surge continues.

If the Predators opt to sell and reconfigure, they could put talented players such as Ekholm, forward Mikael Granlund and defenseman Ryan Ellis in play.

WEST DIVISION Contenders: Colorado Avalanche, Vegas Golden Knights and Minnesota Wild Opposing coaches and players such as the Kings’ Todd McLellan and Drew Doughty have conceded publicly that Colorado, Vegas and Minnesota have all but locked up playoff berths. That leaves St. Louis, Arizona and San Jose in a three-way melee for the final playoff spot.

Colorado had March’s top goal-scorer, right wing Mikko Rantanen, and top goaltender, Philipp Grubauer, who won a leaguebest 12 games with a 1.56 GAA. Vegas, which has been aggressive in its brief history, has a deep but already costly roster. While Colorado has some options, it also has a surplus of talent at nearly every position, with the possible exception of backup goaltender, given that Pavel Francouz has been injured all season.

Minnesota desperately needs help on a power play that ranks in the bottom five of the league. Despite the emergence of Joel Eriksson-Ek, the Wild lack a true No. 1 center, and a smooth passer could open up opportunities for play-drivers such as winger Kirill Kaprizov and defenseman Jared Spurgeon. A creative, playmaking centerman would probably top Minnesota’s wish list, but the market for centers is expected to be thin.

Anaheim is the most likely seller, although its position has been complicated by injuries, as forward Rickard Rakell and defenseman Hampus Lindholm are out.

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Tiger Woods was speeding about 40 MPH above the limit when he crashed

By KEVIN DRAPER

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iger Woods was speeding when he crashed his sport utility vehicle in February, reaching speeds of more than 80 mph in a 45 mph zone on a winding road near Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

Villanueva said Woods was traveling between 84 and 87 mph when he lost control, crossing over a median and hitting the curb on the opposite side of the road. The vehicle struck a tree at an estimated 75 mph and was sent airborne, eventually stopping in some brush.

“The primary causal factor for this traffic collision was driving at a speed unsafe for the road conditions and the inability to negotiate the curve of the roadway,” Villanueva said.

Woods was not cited for driving too fast and no criminal charges will be filed, Villanueva said. He added that there were no signs of impairment or intoxication, and that Woods was wearing his seat belt.

The captain of the Lomita Sheriff’s Station, James Powers, said that data was obtained from the vehicle’s event data recorder, known colloquially as the black box. The data showed that Woods had hit the accelerator throughout the crash, and that the pressure applied to the pedal was 99%. Powers said he believed that Woods inadvertently hit the accelerator while trying to brake.

Woods has no recollection of the collision, and there were no witnesses to the crash.

Woods was not cited, Villanueva said, because under California law that typically requires either an independent witness or a law enforcement officer to witness the excessive speed. He said that Woods did not receive any special treatment, and nobody would be cited for speeding in a solo vehicle collision without any witnesses.

Woods had to be extracted from his SUV after the crash on the morning of Feb. 23 and taken to the hospital, where he underwent several surgeries on his right leg. Doctors not involved in Woods’ care have predicted an extremely difficult

The Los Angeles County Sheriff said on Wednesday that Tiger Woods was driving at about 85 m.p.h. in a 45 m.p.h. zone when he crashed his sport-utility vehicle in February and that there were no signs of impairment. recovery from his injuries.

Woods crashed his car on a windy and tricky stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard that is known for car crashes near Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal city in Los Angeles County. According to data collected by the sheriff’s department, there were 13 crashes, four with injuries, from Jan. 3, 2020, to Feb. 23 of this year within a 1.35-mile stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard that includes the site where Woods crashed.

That stretch of road is also known for speeding. Deputy Carlos González, the first emergency responder to arrive at the scene, said at a news conference in February that he had sometimes seen vehicles going more than 80 mph on Hawthorne Boulevard.

According to a diagram of the collision shown by the sheriff’s department, there were four areas of impact. The first two were the sides of the median, the third was the curb and the fourth was the tree. Woods’ vehicle rolled several times before coming to a stop. After he hit the tree, his SUV went “airborne” where it did

“somewhat of a pirouette,” according to Powers.

Woods was quickly taken to HarborUCLA Medical Center, where he underwent emergency surgery, and then was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for follow-up procedures. He spent several days in the hospital receiving treatment, though there is still some confusion about the exact nature of his injuries.

Dr. Anish Mahajan, the acting chief executive of Harbor-UCLA, said in a statement the night after the crash that both bones in Woods’ lower right leg, the tibia and the fibula, had been broken in multiple places and were “open fractures,” meaning the bones had pierced his skin.

The statement did not describe any injuries to Woods’ left leg, though Daryl L. Osby, the Los Angeles County fire chief, had said earlier that Woods had “serious injuries” to both legs.

Woods underwent back surgery, his fifth, in December, just the latest injury to slow his golf career. He has won just one major golf championship since 2008.

February’s crash is not the first time Woods’ life, and career, has been derailed by a car crash. In 2009 he crashed his SUV into a fire hydrant outside his Florida home in the middle of the night.

He was knocked unconscious and was taken to a hospital in an ambulance, where he was treated for minor facial injuries.

But the incident is remembered mostly for what happened next and the fallout for his career. There were numerous reports of Woods’ infidelities and an apology in which he admitted cheating on his wife. He lost numerous sponsors and stepped away from golf for months.

Woods and Elin Nordegren eventually divorced.

Woods was also arrested in 2017 in Florida, after police found him asleep in his car on the side of a road at 3 a.m. with the engine running. Woods blamed the incident on the interaction of several prescription medicines, including Vicodin, and did not have any alcohol in his system. He eventually entered a diversion program for first-time DUI offenders, and pleaded guilty to reckless driving.

Powers said there was no odor of alcohol, open containers or any narcotics in the vehicle or on Woods after the February crash. Woods told law enforcement investigators that he had not been drinking and had not taken any prescription pills. Investigators did not obtain or test Woods’ blood.

Woods, who lives in Florida, was in Southern California to host the Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles the weekend before the crash.

Genesis Motor is a luxury vehicle division of Hyundai. Woods was driving a 2021 Genesis GV80 SUV, which was provided to him during the tournament; he is known for always driving himself in a courtesy car at tournaments.

Villanueva said at a news conference last week that the cause of the crash had been determined, but citing California privacy laws, said it could not be released without Woods’ consent. Woods eventually waived his right to privacy and authorized the release of the report.

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 38

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GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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Feel the need for a treat to pacify any edgy feelings?

If so, todays lunar tie to Uranus could inspire you to go for it. You might just need a little something to help you get started on a new week. But with the Sun continuing in your sign and Venus making some wonderful links, you’ll soon be firing on all cylinders.

New connections made can come laden with fresh opportunities.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

You might accidentally make a great impression, and if so, everyone will want to know your secret, Libra. It may be a happy accident, but don’t let on.

If you play your cards right, this could be a steppingstone to a new opportunity and a chance to connect with others on your wavelength. Need to resolve an issue with a partner? A healing aspect can assist with this.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

As articulate Mercury aligns with celestial Chiron in a sensitive zone, words can be very healing, especially if you are ready to hold a heartfelt chat with someone. Something could be resolved at last, and you’ll feel all the better for it. On a social note, a surprise call may brighten your day. If you haven’t heard from this person in a while, you’ll find them a welcome distraction.

Been hoping for a brainwave? You may just get one today, with a lively lunar tie perfect for off-the-wallideas that have a certain something about them.

Need answers to an issue, a creative plan or even the clue to a crossword? The trick might be to wander away from your project or matter of concern, and go do something else. In a flash, the answer may show up.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Feel like you’ll never get the hang of something?

Don’t believe it, Cancer. All you need to do is ask, and you’ll soon be on track. A helpful Mercury/Chiron merger, hints that once you get this sorted, your confidence will increase in leaps and bounds. Have a desire to reach out to a new group? If you do, you’ll benefit in so many positive ways from engaging with new people at this time.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

You may be drawn by someone’s engaging and refreshing attitude to life. Something they say might encourage you to sit up and take notice, especially if it makes a difference to your life. Sometimes the best advice comes from the least likely sources Scorpio, but don’t let this phase you. If you’ve been searching for the best way ahead, then go with whatever helps the most.

This can be one of those days when it helps to read instructions or follow directions. Still, if faced with a choice, you may find the effort too much trouble and decide to let someone else sort it out for you.

This could be a mistake, as with nebulous aspects on the go, it helps to take control rather than hope for the best. Whatever you need to accomplish, prepare first in some detail.

As the Moon briefly makes a sizzling connection, you may be inspired to experiment with interests you’ve never tried, but are naturally drawn to. A potent lunar phase in your sector of learning, can find you keen to explore an online course that enables you to learn a new skill. It might require hard work, but it could be in demand and something you will likely relish.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Something on your mind, Leo? Talk it over before you get on with your day, and you’ll feel all the better for it. Has this been bothering you for a while? A focus on your zone of opportunity, hints that a life coach or other mentor may be able to assist you in overcoming it. With so much going for you, don’t let any limitations hold you back. Soon you’ll be firing on all cylinders.

You could feel it’s your duty to handle everything that comes your way. But if you think like this, you might begin to wonder what you’ve let yourself in for. Cosmic forces suggest that you don’t have to do it all by yourself. You can reach out and ask for help. Even though Saturn in your sign encourages you to be more self-contained, others will be only too glad to assist.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

You can’t be all things to all people, but you might try, Virgo. Yet if you do find yourself rushing around and starting to feel overwhelmed, put a stop to it.

With Mars making an awkward angle to nebulous Neptune, you may feel guilty, but this won’t help you either. Firm up your boundaries by saying no, and feel the relief as the tension drains away and your sparkle returns.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

If you feel blocked regarding the expression of certain skills, talents or even feelings, this is not something to draw back from, but to deal with. You may have reached the edge of your comfort zone, and yet it is here that you might need to linger a little longer. Though it can be easier to avoid doing so out of fear, the cosmos suggests that edging your way forward could be very freeing.

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