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he Puerto Rico Planning Board on Wednesday ordered an immediate cease and desist of the construction work on recreational facilities that is being carried out at the Sol y Playa Condominium in Rincón.

Likewise, by resolution, the agency ordered its legal division to evaluate all the necessary alternative actions, including appealing to the courts, to process the revocation of the permit that gave rise to the controversial project.

The determination came about after the members of the Planning Board accepted the recommendations detailed in a report prepared by the agency’s audit office as part of an investigation conducted after the filing of three complaints that were consolidated. One of the complaints was presented by the Planning Board on its own initiative and the other two were filed by citizens.

The resolution also orders the legal division to convey the audit file to the Puerto Rico Engineers and Surveyors Examining Board and to the Puerto Rico Engineers and Surveyors Association for any corresponding action regarding possible faults on part of the design engineer.

“The Board has carefully and rigorously evaluated the administrative file of this case, including the report with eight findings prepared by the auditors, and strong decisions have been made in this regard with the intention of remedying the multiple breaches that were detected in this case,” said Manuel Hidalgo, president-designate of the Planning Board, in a written statement.

Likewise, Hidalgo emphasized that “the agency has acted diligently since the first complaints regarding this construction arose.”

“Immediately, a motu proprio complaint was filed, which is the one that allows the investigation to be expanded and an audit of all the processes be carried out,” he said. “While rigorously complying with the requirements of the administrative processes, this situation has become a controversy of high public interest. The Board, with its determination, is initiating the procedures leading to resolving all the aspects that are within its reach, which represent a substantial part, although not all, of the controversial issues in this case.”

The determinations broken down in the Planning Board’s resolution are based on the findings contained in the audit report, which was presented on Monday for evaluation by the board’s members, after presenting a preliminary report, according to protocol, to the Permits Management Office in order for that agency to issue its comments.

The audit report reflects that, although the project’s compliance was certified as a categorical exclusion, it did not comply with the provisions of Resolution R-11-17 of the Environmental Quality Board or with Administrative Order

2020-17, in force at the time of filing the consolidated construction permit. In addition, the project does not comply with the separation zones established in the current regulations or with the provisions of Planning Regulation Number 13 on Special Areas of Risk and Flooding.

The audit report states further that the project does not comply with the provisions of Regulation 4860 of the commonwealth Department of Natural and Environmental Resources.

Later on Wednesday, the Sol y Playa Condominium board of owners reacted to the determination by the Planning Board, saying in a written statement that “[w]e deeply regret the determination reached by these three [Planning Board members], since it is evident that it does not respond to the law but to media pressure and that of a small group that has opposed the reconstruction of our property.”

“The determination of the Planning Board will be challenged in the corresponding forums since we have not even had the opportunity of due process of law to demonstrate the legality of our permits,” the statement continues. “In addition, it is contradictory that the Planning Board itself, through the voice of its legal adviser, establishes that it wants to request the revocation of some permits, which it admits are valid. Today we reaffirm ourselves that obtaining the permit to rebuild the area followed all the parameters of the law and regulations in force, as recognized by the [Department of Natural and Environmental Resources] and the Permits Office.”

The owners said they had already decided to stop work “while these matters are clarified in the corresponding forums.”

“We have been the innocent victims of brutal selective persecution by people who are dedicated to destabilizing democratic systems of law and order,” the statement said.

“Not only have we been victims of vandalism, threats, persecution, abuse, defamation and deprivation of our private property, but now we are also victims of a Planning Board that distorts the current rule of law and seeks to strip us of our most elemental right to use and enjoy our private property.”

The Puerto Rico Planning Board has ordered that construction work cease and desist on a controversial seaside construction project at the Sol y Playa Condominium in Rincón.

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Judge denies Cobra petition to go after PREPA for grid repair payments

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.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is overseeing Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy proceedings, on Wednesday denied a petition from Cobra Acquisitions to pursue a claim against the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and a request to create a petition to create a creditors’ committee representing retail investors.

Swain denied a petition from Cobra Acquisitions to seek a lift of the bankruptcy stay so the firm could seek payment for work to fix the PREPA grid following the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

The dispute over some $300 million in charges related to Cobra’s work on the electrical grid has been ongoing since the contractor completed its work in March 2019.

Cobra’s request to lift a stay on its administrative expense motion has been in place since October 2019, but litigation in the matter has been on hold, pending a criminal case against Cobra’s president Keith Ellison, who is accused of participating in a bribery scheme involving kickbacks to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials in exchange for contract awards.

Abid Qureshi, a lawyer representing Cobra Acquisitions, said the court’s stay order, now in place for over 19 months, is hurting Cobra and raising PREPA’s debt with the firm. Qureshi said Cobra has sat in limbo for over two years since the completion of its work in March 2019

without any effective means of redress to resolve the millions of dollars in unpaid invoices that are accruing interest at $3 million per month.

He pointed out that while the government parties argued that Cobra has failed to “point to any material change in circumstance since the Court last extended the stay at the December 2020 omnibus hearing,” they ignore that, at that hearing, a status conference in the criminal matter was scheduled for March 23, 2021, when it was expected that the criminal court might enter a trial schedule. Instead, at that status conference, the criminal court determined to hold “setting Jury trial in abeyance” based on pending, but unidentified, issues in the case.

The indefinite abeyance of setting a trial in the criminal proceeding was a material change in circumstance since the last omnibus hearing, he said.

Lawyers for the Financial Oversight and Management Board said PREPA is reviewing invoices and also seeking to extend FEMA financing.

Swain denied Cobra’s request.

“The court imposed [the] litigation stay based on its conclusion that facts that could impact the administrative case could come out of the criminal case,” she said.

The judge also denied a request from individual bondholder Peter C. Hein for an order directing the appointment of a committee to represent retail investors in the eight retail investor classes in connection with the proposed debt adjustment plan.

Swain said that while the U.S. Trustee can appoint committees to represent

creditors it deems appropriate and the court may also order the appointment of a committee, Hein did not show that other creditors have not tried to maximize the recovery of bondholders or that their interests are not aligned with those of other bondholders.

She also said that per Hein’s request, the debt disclosure statement was amended to help retail investors understand the plan.

Swain also ruled that the Government Development Bank’s (GDB) Debt Recovery Authority (DRA) has standing to seek a court order for Puerto Rico to ensure collateral guaranteeing certain Highway and Transportation Authority (HTA) loans and bonds, and is protected from loss of value.

She denied the DRA’s request to lift the bankruptcy stay so it can pursue litigation to protect its collateral. Instead, she directed the Puerto Rico government and the DRA to submit a joint status report by next Wednesday, Aug. 11, that includes a stipulation addressing the timing of the litigation and the scope of activities the DRA seeks by way of lifting the automatic stay.

HTA has been in bankruptcy since 2017.

The DRA parties are AmeriNational Community Services LLC and Cantor-Katz Collateral Monitor LLC, a Delaware company that serves as the collateral monitor for Wilmington Trust NA in connection with new bonds that the DRA issued after the GDB restructured its debt in 2018.

The DRA succeeded the GDB as the holder of more than $1.7 billion in loans

to HTA and the holder of more than $200 million in Series 1998 HTA bonds. As collateral to secure the obligations owed to the DRA, HTA pledged excise tax revenues, gasoline taxes, gas, oil and diesel oil taxes, motor vehicle and license fees, toll revenues, petroleum products taxes and cigarette taxes.

In March of this year, the DRA went to court charging that the commonwealth has been diverting revenue that secures DRA’s collateral and that, for that reason, the DRA needed adequate protection as the government has diminished the value of the collateral.

Arturo García Solá, who represented the DRA, said the government has continuously depleted the value of the DRA’s collateral and has indicated that it will continue to do so for the duration of the commonwealth’s Title III bankruptcy cases. He said the government was using the funds to finance Puerto Rico’s debt adjustment plan to restructure $35 billion.

Mathew Kremer, a lawyer representing the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, said the DRA had no standing to seek the remedy. He said the DRA was created as part of the GDB’s Title VI Qualifying Modification process under the federal Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, or PROMESA. When GDB created the DRA, it was with the express understanding that the DRA would be a passive actor with respect to other commonwealth government entities and would only be permitted to act in HTA’s Title III case in very narrow circumstances, Kremer said.

Work to resume at docks after provisional agreement is reached

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ernán Ayala, vice president of operations at maritime cargo handling company Luis Ayala Colón, and Carlos Sánchez, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1740, announced on Wednesday that they reached an agreement which will enable work to resume today on the San Juan docks.

“We, on behalf of the union, decided to reach agreements with the employer for the good of Puerto Rico and continue at the negotiating table looking for the best alternative for everyone,” Sánchez said at a press conference.

After a dialogue at La Fortaleza mediated by Chief of

Staff Noelia García Bardales and Labor & Human Resources Secretary Carlos Rivera Santiago, the unionized employees will resume their jobs for a period of 45 days. After the 45 days have passed, the parties will resume negotiations.

“We hope to start operations tomorrow at seven in the morning and that the ships continue to arrive in San Juan as usual,” Ayala said.

García Bardales said that if good faith continues in the agreement, the government is willing to withdraw a lawsuit initiated by the Puerto Rico Ports Authority.

Those involved in the agreement noted that the preliminary solution consists of including an additional operator to enter the data from the containers in the computerized system.

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San Juan to require vaccinations for municipal employees

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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an Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced the signing of an executive order Wednesday requiring that all municipal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to carry out their work in person.

“According to data from the Department of Health, as of July 29, 2021, 72% of the population of San Juan has had at least one dose of the series of vaccines,” the mayor said. “However, only 60% of our population has completed the series of vaccines. During the period from July 16 to July 22, 2021, 212 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the Capital City. This represents an incidence of about 66.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which is above the average incidence in all of Puerto Rico.”

“Given the outlook, both in San Juan and in all of Puerto Rico, it is important that the Municipality of San Juan accept the recommendation made by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in Executive Order No. OE-2021058 through which he ordered compulsory vaccination of all employees of the Puerto

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo Rico government,” Romero Lugo added. “In doing so, we emphasize the interest that both

the government and the Municipality of San Juan have in safeguarding the lives of the

entire population and of our public servants.”

The executive order will go into effect on Aug. 16 and will apply to all municipal employees, including all career service employees, as well as employees appointed to positions of trust and employees with temporary status, regardless of the office, administrative unit or department to which they are attached.

As of the aforementioned date, all municipal employees will have to prove that they started the vaccination process with the first dose. By Sept. 30, all municipal employees must certify the administration of the second dose, if the type of vaccine that was administered requires it. Only those municipal employees who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinated and those whose religion does not allow it will be exempt from the requirement.

“The Capital City is home to 10% of the population of Puerto Rico and has over 5,000 municipal employees,” the San Juan mayor said. “Given this reality, it is essential that all municipal employees strictly comply with the provisions established by this executive order.

It is our highest responsibility to safeguard life and communal health.”

Education chief: Classes to start as planned despite uncertainties

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he return to classrooms at island public schools remains scheduled for Aug. 16, even with the rebound in COVID-19 cases reaching 10 percent positivity and despite the fact that the Puerto Rico Engineers and Land Surveyors Association (CIAPR by its Spanish initials) warned that many school structures are not suitable for receiving students.

In an interview with Julio Rivera Saniel on Radio Isla 1320, acting Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés said the determination is backed up by the reports of engineering firms that were hired to inspect the schools after the earthquake and aftershocks that the island experienced early last year.

“Obviously, we do have the short column issue that we are going to be repairing,” Ramos Parés said.

The repair work is to be carried out this year, and the acting secretary noted that the Infrastructure Financing Authority (AFI by its Spanish initials) granted a term of some 10 months to complete the repairs.

“There is a request from the communities to return [to classes],” he said. “There is a safety issue and we are going to be vigilant about everything that may be happening.”

Acknowledging the concern that the warning from the CIAPR may cause among parents, Ramos Parés encouraged

them to prepare.

“We are talking about preparation, because with the structures no one can be sure what is going to happen and what the reaction is going to be,” he said. “We do have the image of Agripina Seda [school] in Guánica, a structure that collapsed a day after that big earthquake in January [2020].”

In recent days, CIAPR President Juan Alicea Flores warned that the work described in the AFI auctions to repair public schools will not solve the problem of schools’ seismic vulnerability and will only work as a palliative in many cases.

He warned that if the overall condition of the structure of each school is not fully understood, the actions to be taken to reinforce them and their costs cannot be determined.

Faced with the management of COVID-19 in schools, the acting Education secretary said the protocols are still defined and that no changes have been made despite the rebound in positive cases. He also did not rule out the possibility that at some point there will be changes in the protocols.

“We have seen and we have remained in contact, not only with what is happening in Puerto Rico, but with what is happening in the United States,” Ramos Parés said. “We have seen that the key to stopping infections is not only distancing, but [also] other measures such as the use of a mask, hygiene and the rapid response that we can make in detecting and reacting to a suspected case.”

Acting Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés

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DNER asks public to stay off natural bridge in Cabo Rojo

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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oquerón State Forest Director Darien López Ocasio on Wednesday asked visitors to Los Morillos in Cabo Rojo not to cross or walk over a rocky natural bridge that is one of the tourist attractions in the area belonging to the Division of Protected Natural Areas of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER).

The request, the official said, arises after the series of tremors in the southwest of Puerto Rico that has weakened the natural bridge accessed by the Los Morillos Lighthouse in that municipality.

“The Natural Resources staff installed signs so that visitors to the area do not walk over or cross the bridge, which in turn is a cliff. Despite this, many continue to exceed the established limit and what we want is to avoid an accident or tragedy,” López Ocasio said in a written statement. “Right now it is a high-risk area and we do not know how compromised the bridge may be. We know that

The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources is calling on visitors to Los Morillos in Cabo Rojo to refrain from crossing or walking on top of a rocky natural bridge that is a tourist attraction on Puerto Rico’s southwestern coast. the area is beautiful and the photos there are very good, but we ask for caution and the cooperation of citizens so

that later we do not have to have regret.”

Likewise, she asked that if visitors want to take a photo, they do so from the perimeter established by the DNER and not cross into the area identified as a danger or precaution zone.

“Thankfully we have not had accidents reported there, but we do know that visits have increased, according to what the personnel who supervise and make rounds in the area tell us,” she added.

The Boquerón State Forest is administered by the DNER in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Municipality of Cabo Rojo. It comprises 4,773 acres that are located between the municipalities of Lajas, Cabo Rojo and Mayagüez.

It has nine important segments: the mangroves of the Guanajibo neighborhood in Mayagüez, the mangroves of Laguna Joyuda, Puerto Real, Boquerón, a wildlife refuge, part of the salt flats, Molinos, Pitahaya and Bahía Montalva. The forest is also home to the largest population of ladybugs in Puerto Rico.

Trial set for today in Mexico for teen brothers accused of sexual aggression

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wo Puerto Rican brothers, Luis and Eric Zapata, who have been in a Mexico jail since June 28, are slated to go to trial today on charges of sexual aggression against a 17-year-old girl.

The brothers, who are 18 and 19 years old, went on vacation with their parents to Playa del Carmen in Cancún, Mexico. The vacation turned into a nightmare when they were arrested at their hotel after a 17-year-old girl accused them of rape.

The charges were later reduced to sexual aggression after

officials could not find evidence of rape.

The girl, according to the Mexican newspaper La Verdad, contends she was walking on the beach with a group of friends but was left behind. While she was walking alone, two young men took her by force to an isolated area and raped her. The young girl charged that her two assailants were the young brothers.

Through tears, the mother of the Puerto Rican brothers told Telenoticias that she is worried about the boys’ physical condition.

“We saw the oldest, I hugged him, he is very big. I could hug him twice, he is skin and bones; that was horrible,” the woman said. “The youngest told me that his hair is falling out a lot.”

The brothers’ lawyer has claimed to have exculpatory evidence, stating that both the victim and the witnesses have offered inconsistent versions of the events of that day. The defense has also charged that the brothers were processed in an irregular fashion. The court hearing is scheduled for this afternoon.

In an earlier televised report, the boys’ father, Luis Zapata, said the lawyers identified incidents in which the boys’ civil rights had been violated. For instance, the boys were placed under arrest by hotel security guards who have no jurisdiction to do so.

The U.S. consulate was not informed about the arrests either, he said.

PRITS issues RFI for tech, innovation & communications services

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he Office of Innovation and Technology Services (PRITS by its Spanish acronym) on Wednesday issued a request for information (RFI) in order to evaluate organizations interested in providing technology, innovation and communications services to any Puerto Rico government agency.

The RFI will allow the evaluation of potential candidates that could later be added to the PRITS Registry of Technology Providers. It was reported that, in order to promote transparency, the registry will be required for any government contract related to technology.

“As part of our responsibility to direct the development of the technological and innova-

tion infrastructure on the island, we launched this request for information in order to know the available resources, their availability and the experience they can contribute to the government infrastructure,” said Enrique Völckers Nin, the chief executive officer of innovation & information and director of PRITS, in a written statement.

Völckers Nin added that “Puerto Rico has a large number of innovators in technology and communications, and their talent will make a great contribution to the development of our infrastructure.”

“We invite all those interested to send us their requests so that they can be part of this important accomplishment at the local level,” he said.

The RFI will be open and has no closing date. Any interested person or entity may respond to the RFI; PRITS will send certification notifications by email.

The information provided should include, among other details, the specialty of the company, the services to be subcontracted, the number of employees and certain key details about their functions, as well as details about the history of the company.

Interested individuals or entities may send their information to the attention of the designated chief executive officer of innovation & information and director of PRITS, Enrique Völckers Nin, to the email proposal@prits. pr.gov.

For more information about the applica-

tion, the PRITS website can be accessed at https://www.prits.pr.gov.

Enrique Völckers Nin, director of the Puerto Rico Office of Innovation and Technology Services

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‘Completely violated’: Women describe Cuomo’s groping and intimidation

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER

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he governor placed his finger on the back of the trooper’s neck, standing behind her in an elevator at his Manhattan office, tracing the path of her spine with a two-word narration: “Hey, you.”

Sometimes, he asked questions — Why didn’t she wear a dress? Why pursue marriage when “your sex drive goes down” afterward?

Could he kiss her? — and sometimes, he made statements: He remarked that his ideal girlfriend could “handle pain.” He said that the trooper, in her late 20s, was “too old” for him. He directed her to say nothing of their conversations.

The trooper was perhaps most unsettled after an event on Long Island in 2019. As she held a door open for him, she felt the palm of his hand on her bellybutton, pressing toward her right hip, where she kept her gun. “I felt completely violated,” she later told investigators. “But, you know, I’m here to do a job.”

Doing a job at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo was long known to be taxing and often demeaning work. But a 165-page report released Tuesday by the state attorney general is at once the fullest accounting yet of his executive misdeeds and a meticulous rendering of how that conduct was permitted to fester in the first place.

To exist as a woman in Cuomo’s orbit, the report suggested, was to live “the dichotomy between fear and flirtation,” a space where the boss could toggle between intimate and intimidating and where his senior-most aides seemed to operate with a singular focus on the governor’s reputation and personal comfort.

In fact, the report says, as Cuomo sexually harassed women inside and outside his government, greater pains were taken to protect him from himself: The executive chamber declined to report harassment allegations from an executive assistant, Charlotte Bennett, to the appropriate state agency and moved instead to establish a practice preventing certain female staff members from being left alone with the governor.

The composition of his circle, in the report’s telling, was likewise intended to minimize exposure for Cuomo and accentuate a culture of fear around confronting him, with access granted chiefly to those with “a proven, personal loyalty.”

Those with Cuomo’s ear included state employees like Melissa DeRosa, his top aide, and outside advisers like his brother Chris Cuomo, the CNN anchor, with no formal obligation to the state. The result, investigators wrote, was that “employees who are not part of this inner circle of loyalists would rightfully believe — and did believe — that any complaint or allegation about the governor would be handled by people whose overriding interest is in protecting the governor.”

So bleak were the options available to Cuomo’s victims, witness interviews showed, that even unwelcome sexualized attention could be seen as “a better alternative to the otherwise tense, stressful and ‘toxic’ experience in the executive chamber.”

More often, unbridled belligerence and belittling were “part of the deal” for anyone in the governor’s employ, one veteran of state government suggested in an email quoted by investigators.

“There are several orders of victims in this issue: first and foremost the women who experienced these things with him,” another senior staff member wrote to herself in March 2021, as the allegations against Cuomo mounted. “Second though, and unrecognized are the staff. We are almost uniformly good people who killed ourselves … to accomplish his agenda — for his political glory, and for the feeling that he would make decisions with public service as his driving goal. I feel cheated out of that.”

Cuomo on Tuesday proceeded with characteristic defiance and deflection, broadly denying wrongdoing, calling the review biased and politically motivated and raising a family member’s own experience with sexual violence.

“I understand these dynamics,” he said, accusing those attacking him of diminishing the plight of “legitimate sexual harassment victims.”

But at times in the report, the governor’s interview with investigators only serves to reinforce a sense, pervasive throughout the document, that he has constructed a workplace intended to shield him from accountability for his own behavior.

He claims an executive assistant who accused him of unwanted advances was “the initiator of the hugs.” He says it was Bennett who raised the topic of potential girlfriends

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sexually harassed women inside and outside his government, according to a report released on Tuesday. with him. He insists he never meant to make anyone uncomfortable and didn’t know he had.

The investigators found his denials “contrived.” They had company.

“I’m disgusted that Andrew Cuomo — a man who understands subtle power dynamics and power plays better than almost anyone in the planet — is giving this loopy excuse of not knowing he made women feel uncomfortable,” the senior official wrote in that March 2021 message to herself, after the governor had spoken publicly about Bennett’s allegations for the first time. “Either he knew exactly what he was doing (likely) or he is so narcissistic that he thought all women wanted these kinds of questions (crazy excuse even to write it).”

Such was the mind-warp that often visited people in Cuomo’s world, a kind of inescapable psychological warfare — with him, with colleagues, with oneself — that permeated his office, as if the collective discomfort fueled him in a grueling job.

“On the one hand, he makes all this inappropriate and creepy behavior normal and like you should not complain,” Alyssa McGrath, an executive assistant, told investigators. “On the other hand, you see people get punished and screamed at if you do anything where you disagree with him or his top aides.”

Ana Liss, a former aide in the executive chamber, who felt she had been treated as “eye

candy,” said she had come forward to describe what she considered minor transgressions because she believed a “tolerance for those micro flirtations” had created a permission structure for Cuomo to “act a certain way behind closed doors with women in more serious manners.”

At times, Cuomo seemed to commingle an instinct for political survival with an expectation that those around him would look out for him, too.

He could do his own bidding, as in his aggressive flirtations with the female trooper — instructing her, “Don’t tell anyone about our conversations,” according to her account.

But almost without fail, the governor had reinforcements.

The trooper told investigators that she hoped her story would “validate these women” accusing a “vindictive” governor of misconduct. But she said she still fears retribution for speaking, even without being named publicly.

She recalled how a security detail commander had responded to hearing Cuomo ask why the trooper wasn’t wearing a dress as she drove them to an event.

After she left the vehicle, unnerved by the exchange, the trooper received a message from the commander, advising discretion.

“Stays in the truck,” it read.

It did, until it didn’t.

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New body camera video shows turmoil after the Florida building collapse

By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ

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mother called to her son from a balcony. A woman yelled for help from a parking garage. And a security guard who called 911 said she was not sure how she made it out.

The harrowing scenes immediately after a 13-story beachfront condominium complex partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, were caught on police body camera videos that the town released Tuesday, providing a new look at the disaster that killed 98 people.

In the footage, made public several weeks after the release of almost two dozen 911 calls documenting the aftermath of the June 24 collapse, a police officer approaches a parking garage at Champlain Towers South and finds people asking for help.

“Are you OK?” the officer calls out. “Is anybody down there injured?”

Unable to reach the victims because of the wreckage, the officer runs around to another part of the parking garage in an attempt to find them.

From the wreckage, people are heard shouting “help” and “over here,” many of their cries muffled by the sound of wind, sirens and the officers’ movement.

Moments later, the officer finds a MiamiDade County firefighter and asks how he can help. The firefighter asks the officer to secure a perimeter around the building.

“Nobody in. I don’t care who they are,” the firefighter says. “Keep everybody out.”

The footage then shows the officer urging people to stay away. “We don’t know if this is going to fall this way. I need you to go, please.”

In another of the three videos that were released, offering almost 53 minutes of overall footage, a man runs up to an officer as he appears to call up to his mother on a balcony. The man pleads with officials to help, appearing panicked and struggling to complete sentences.

“Please,” he says to the officers.

“We were told by rescue not even we can help her,” someone tells the man. “They’re coordinating something to help get everybody out.”

“I can’t let you go in there,” the person tells the man.

Only two people were pulled from the wreckage alive, both shortly after the collapse, and one of them later died at a hospital. It ultimately took more than a month to identify the final victim from one of the worst structural collapses in U.S. history.

The cause of the collapse is still under investigation, but three years ago a consultant found concerning evidence of “major structural damage” to the concrete slab below the pool deck and “abundant” cracking and crumbling of the columns, beams and walls of the parking garage under the building.

In some of the footage released Tuesday, a security guard tells police officers how she heard several booms, and then called 911 when she saw that the building had collapsed.

“I don’t even know how I made it out,” she says.

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Passenger arrives taped to his seat after assault of 3 flight attendants

By NEIL VIGDOR

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Frontier Airlines passenger assaulted three flight attendants, punching one and groping the breasts of two others, on a weekend flight from Philadelphia to Miami, prompting one crew member to tape him to his seat until the plane landed, the authorities said.

Part of the altercation was caught on video by other passengers, who jeered as the man was restrained for the remainder of Flight 2289, which left Philadelphia at 10:41 p.m. Eastern time Saturday and landed 2 hours and 37 minutes later.

Frontier Airlines said in an initial statement Tuesday that the flight attendants would be “relieved of flying” while it investigated, which drew sharp criticism from the Association of Flight Attendants, the nation’s largest flight attendants union. Later Tuesday, the airline said that paid leave was in line with “an event of this nature.”

The Association of Flight Attendants said that the encounter was emblematic of the hostilities faced by airline crews since the loosening of travel restrictions that had been put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. It came amid a surge of reports filed by airlines with the Federal Aviation Administration about unruly passengers, who have faced steep fines for disruptions.

In one video, which was obtained by several television stations and received widespread attention online, the man, who police said had been drinking, repeatedly cursed at other passengers and at the crew. He said that his parents were worth “2 million goddamn dollars.”

The Miami-Dade Police Department identified the man as Maxwell Berry, 22, of Norwalk, Ohio, who it said in a criminal complaint had been charged with three misdemeanor counts of battery.

It was not immediately clear if Berry had a lawyer. Messages left by phone at his family’s home in Ohio and by email Tuesday were not answered.

Berry was booked into the MiamiDade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department on Sunday and was released later that day. Court date information was not immediately available from the department.

The trouble began when Berry ordered his third alcoholic beverage of the flight and brushed his empty cup against a flight attendant’s backside, according to the criminal complaint, which said that the flight attendant told him “don’t touch me.”

Berry, who had been sitting in seat 28D, then emerged from the bathroom shirtless after spilling his drink, prompting a flight attendant to tell him that he needed to be fully dressed, the complaint said. The flight attendant helped him get a shirt out of his carry-on luggage, and Berry walked around the cabin for about 15 minutes.

That’s when he groped the breasts of another flight attendant, who told him not to touch her and to sit down, officials said. In the criminal complaint, officers wrote that Berry later put his arms around the same two flight attendants and groped their breasts.

When a male flight attendant approached and asked him several times to calm down, officers said, Berry punched him in the face with a closed fist.

Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said in a statement Tuesday that the encounter was one of the worst disruptions experienced by airline crews this year.

“A drunk and irate passenger verbally, physically, and sexually assaulted multiple members of the crew,” Nelson said. “When he refused to comply after multiple attempts to de-escalate, the crew was forced to restrain the passenger with the tools available to them onboard. We are supporting the crew.”

In their complaint, officers said that several other passengers had helped to restrain Berry, whom the video showed being secured to a seat by a male crew member with what appeared to be packing tape. A seatbelt

A photo provided by Miami-Dade County Corrections shows Maxwell Berry, 22, who was arrested and charged with three misdemeanor counts of assault. extender was also used as a restraint, the police said. Some other passengers laughed and pulled out their cellphone cameras to record the scene.

“Frontier Airlines maintains the utmost value, respect, concern and support for all of our flight attendants, including those who were assaulted on this flight,” the Denver-based carrier said. “We are supporting the needs of these team members and are working with law enforcement to fully support the prosecution of the passenger involved.”

But the flight attendants union criticized the airline’s response.

“Management suspended the crew as a knee-jerk reaction to a short video clip that did not show the full incident,” said Nelson, the union’s president. “Management should be supporting the crew at this time, not suspending them.”

Frontier did not answer questions about the airline’s policies and procedures for restraining unruly passengers, including whether tape had been approved for that purpose.

In the criminal complaint, the arresting officers said that they had referred the matter to the FBI, but that it had declined to pursue federal felony charges against Berry.

Berry’s legal problems may be just beginning, though.

The FAA has fined several passengers tens of thousands of dollars this year for clashing with airline crews over mask requirements and other safety instructions. This year, the agency imposed a zero-tolerance policy for interfering with or assaulting flight attendants that carries a fine of up to $35,000 and possible jail time.

An FAA spokesperson said in an email Tuesday that the agency investigates all reports of unruly passengers, but that it could not comment on individual cases.

“Cabin crews are responsible for deciding how to respond to unrulypassenger incidents,” said the spokesperson, Ian Gregor.

Berry graduated in May from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he received a values in action award from the Greek life community for being a “perfect role model” and for leading “the fight to dismantle fraternity stereotypes.” The university posted a Zoom video of the presentation.

“Ohio Wesleyan is saddened to learn of this situation with one of our graduates,” Cole Hatcher, a spokesperson for the university, said in an email Tuesday. “The case does not involve the university, and the incidents depicted do not reflect Ohio Wesleyan’s values.”

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After months of avoiding the vaccine issue, companies begin to mandate

By MICHAEL CORKERY, LAUREN HIRSCH, BROOKS BARNES and KELLEN BROWNING

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ome of the nation’s largest employers, for months reluctant to wade into the fraught issue of whether COVID-19 vaccinations should be mandatory for workers, have in recent days been compelled to act as infections have surged again.

On Tuesday, Tyson Foods told its 120,000 workers in offices, slaughterhouses and poultry plants across the country that they would need to be vaccinated by Nov. 1 as a “condition of employment.” And Microsoft, which employs roughly 100,000 people in the U.S., said it would require proof of vaccination for all employees, vendors and guests to gain access to its offices.

Last week, Google said it would require employees who returned to the company’s offices to be vaccinated, while Disney announced a mandate for all salaried and nonunion hourly workers who work on-site.

Other companies, including Walmart, the largest private employer in the U.S., and ridesharing services Lyft and Uber, have taken a less forceful approach, mandating vaccines for white-collar workers but not for millions of frontline workers. Those moves essentially set up a divide between the employees who work in offices and employees who deal directly with the public and who, collectively, have been more reluctant to get the shots.

“We did not take this decision lightly,” Tyson’s CEO, Donnie King, wrote in a memo to employees announcing the company’s full mandate. “We have spent months encouraging our team members to get vaccinated — today, under half of our team members are.”

The moves brought praise from the White House.

“I want to thank Walmart, Google, Netflix, Disney, Tyson Foods for their recent actions requiring vaccination for employees,” President Joe Biden said in a press briefing Tuesday. “Look, I know this isn’t easy — but I will have their backs.”

“Others have declined to step up,” he said. “I find it disappointing.”

But most other big employers have avoided mandates entirely. Amazon, the secondlargest private employer in the country, has not announced any plans to require immunizations, nor has Apple or many of the biggest banks.

“We are strongly working to get our employees vaccinated,” Amazon’s chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky, said in a call with repor-

effects or bristle at the idea of an employer interfering in what they regard as a personal health decision.

Marc Perrone, the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, representing 1.3 million employees in grocery chains like Kroger and at large meatpacking plants, said he would not support employer mandates until the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the vaccine, which is being administered on an emergency basis. “You can’t just say, ‘Accept the A sign warns visitors of requirements due mandate or hit the door,’ ” Perrone said Monday. to the pandemic at Walt Disney World After Tyson announced its vaccine manin Orlando, Fla., on April 27, 2021. date Tuesday, Perrone issued a statement that the union “will be meeting with Tyson in the ters last week, “and we hope everyone else gets coming weeks to discuss this vaccine mandate and to ensure that the rights of these workers are vaccinated and this goes away.”

The coronavirus, however, shows no signs protected and this policy is fairly implemented.”

Asked whether he supported vaccine of going away. With vaccination rates stagnating in many parts of the country and the delta va- mandates, Appelbaum said, “I am not prepared riant surging, a new wave of infections is forcing to answer that yet.” But he did say that companies needed to closely negotiate the terms of any businesses to act.

Douglas Brayley, an employment lawyer such requirements with workers and that they at Ropes & Gray, said “the rise of the delta va- also needed to expand benefits, such as paid sick time, for workers during the pandemic. riant is on people’s minds.”

Together, Perrone’s and Appelbaum’s “I think they are looking around and seeing a greater number of employers start to unions represent more than 30,000 workers mandate, and so they’re wondering whether in Tyson plants, which complicates the meat company’s plans for a mandate. they should reconsider as well,” he said.

Tyson and others in the meatpacking inBut vaccine hesitancy remains an entrenched and emotionally charged issue inside many dustry were criticized during the pandemic’s early stages for not doing enough to protect American workplaces.

Many companies, already facing staffing workers as several meat plants became virus hot shortages, are worried that requiring vaccines spots. Now, it is requiring its leadership team to could give employees another reason to quit. At be vaccinated by Sept. 24 and the rest of its offithe same time, companies are struggling for new ce workers by Oct. 1. Front-line employees have ways to encourage workers to get vaccinated until Nov. 1 to be fully inoculated, extra time the after efforts like offering cash bonuses did not company is providing because there are “significantly more front-line team members than office boost immunization rates quickly enough.

Much of the remaining hesitancy to vac- workers who still need to be vaccinated,” a Tycines appears to be rooted in a complex mix of son spokesperson said.

Throughout the pandemic, companies politics, cultural beliefs and misinformation that no cash payment or gift certificate from an em- have treaded carefully in implementing public health measures while trying to avoid harm to ployer can overcome.

“The reason many workers are refusing their businesses.

Walmart announced last week that it was the vaccine has been for political and ideological reasons,” said Stuart Appelbaum, the presi- requiring the roughly 17,000 workers in its Arkandent of the Retail, Wholesale and Department sas headquarters to be vaccinated but not those Store Union, which represents workers in food in stores and distribution centers, who make up manufacturing plants in the Midwest, where va- the bulk of its 1.6 million U.S. employees.

In a statement, the retailer said that the ccination rates are relatively low. “In places where we have the largest number of Trump suppor- limited mandate would send a message to all ters is where we are seeing a large number of workers that they should get vaccinated.

“We’re asking our leaders, which already vaccine resisters.”

But many unions are wary of mandates for have a higher vaccination rate, to make their a different set of reasons. They say many of their example clear,” the company said. “We’re homembers are worried about potential health side ping that will influence even more of our front-

line associates to become vaccinated.”

Uber and Lyft last week both told their corporate employees they would need to show proof they had been inoculated before returning to company offices.

Requiring vaccinations “is the most effective way to create a safe environment and give our team members peace of mind as we return to the office,” said Ashley Adams, a spokesperson for Lyft.

But those mandates did not extend to the workers the companies contract with to drive millions of customers to and from their destinations. The drivers are being encouraged to be vaccinated, but neither Lyft nor Uber has plans to require them.

Public health experts warn that limited mandates may serve to reinforce the gaping divide between the nation’s high- and low-wage workers without furthering the public health goal of substantially increasing vaccination rates.

They also say it’s naive to think that workers who resisted vaccines for ideological reasons would suddenly change their mind after seeing a company’s higher paid executives receive the shots.

“Ultimately we want to ensure that they really have the broadest reach,” Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, the vice dean for population health and health equity at the University of California, San Francisco, said of company directives. “Failing to do that, I think, will only cause others to be more suspicious of these types of mandates.”

Legally, companies are likely on solid ground if they mandate vaccines. Last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said employers could require immunization, though companies that do could still face lawsuits.

George W. Ingham, a partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells, said companies with mandates would potentially have to make difficult decisions.

“They are going to have to fire high performers and low performers who refuse vaccines,” he said. “They have to be consistent.” Reasons an employee could be exempted include religious beliefs or a disability, though the process of sorting those out on an individual basis promises to be an arduous one.

Companies may also have to contend with pushback from state governments. Ten states have passed legislation limiting the ability to require vaccines for students, employees or the public, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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S&P 500 falls from record high as job growth slows

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he S&P 500 fell from a record high on Wednesday as data signaled a slowdown in job growth last month, while General Motors tracked its worst day in more than a year despite a record pre-tax profit.

GM’s shares (GM.N) slumped 8.3% to a two-week low, underscoring the uncertainty facing global automakers at a time of technological and economic disruption. Shares of rival Ford Motor Co (F.N) fell 3.2%.

Ten of the 11 S&P indexes were lower, with industrials (.SPLRCI) and energy (.SPNY) slipping 0.3% and 2.1%, respectively, as data showed U.S. private payrolls increased far less than expected in July, likely constrained by shortages of workers and raw materials.

The blue-chip Dow (.DJI), heavily weighted toward economically-sensitive stocks, tumbled 0.8%.

“The market is expensive where it is and people are worried about any chance of inflation and rates going higher, which would justify a little bit of compression of multiples,” said Olivier Sarfati, head of equities at GenTrust.

After six straight month of gains, the benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX) has struggled to rise higher in August as surging cases of the Delta variant of the coronavirus and fears of higher inflation have overshadowed a stellar corporate earnings season.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida said on Wednesday the central bank should be in the position to begin raising interest rates in 2023, as data showed a measure of U.S. services industry activity jumped to a record high last month.

Heavyweight technology stocks including Netflix Inc (NFLX.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O), which were deemed “stay-at-home-winners” during last year’s COVID-19 lockdowns, outperformed the broader market as bond yields dipped.

“The drop in bond yields is like a canary in the coal mine and is for now helping growth stocks, while large cyclical stocks are showing signs of weakness maybe because investors are questioning the passage of the huge infrastructure package,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.

Investor sentiment received a boost on Monday after the Senate introduced a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, but the Democratic and Republican leaders have squabbled over debate on amendments.

Focus now turns to the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report on Friday.

At 11:57 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.84% and the S&P 500 was down 0.41%. The techheavy Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) was flat.

In earnings-related moves, BorgWarner Inc (BWA.N) slid 3.9% even as it beat profit expectations on strong consumer demand for new vehicles, while Kraft Heinz Co (KHC.O) tumbled 4.2% after warning of margin pressure from higher prices of ingredients.

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Mastermind of Moïse killing may still be at large, Haiti’s caretaker leader says

By ANATOLY KURMANAEV

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he mastermind behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti is most likely still at large a month after a crime that shattered the nation and left a political void, said the country’s caretaker leader.

“I think there were a lot of people involved; there were people with access to a lot of money,” Prime Minister Ariel Henry said Tuesday at his residence in the capital, Port-auPrince. “The people they have accused up until now, I don’t see that they have the capacity, the web, to do it.”

More than 40 people have been detained after Moïse was shot 12 times and his wife seriously injured on July 7 by a group of assailants who stormed into his bedroom. The police and the prosecutor’s office continue to issue warrants for new suspects on a near daily basis.

But none of the detained have been brought to court.

Few in Haiti believe the authorities have yet closed in on the people who organized and financed the complex plot that appears to have been planned for months in Florida and Haiti and involved flying in two dozen Colombian ex-commandos to the country.

Although the president had many enemies, Henry, who was appointed by Moïse shortly before his death, said he remained baffled by the crime’s ultimate motive.

“Maybe I’m at risk, too, from the people who killed him,” Henry said. “Could they do it again? I don’t know.”

The opposition had said that Moïse’s

Prime Minister Ariel Henry of Haiti at his residence in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Aug, 3, 2021. The mastermind behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse is most likely still at large a month after a crime, Henry said Tuesday. five-year term should have ended Feb. 7, five years to the day since his predecessor, Michel Martelly, stepped down. But Moïse had clung to power, ruling by decree for more than a year.

Protesters had taken to the streets of Haiti demanding his removal.

But Moïse had said he would not seek another term in the general elections scheduled for Sept. 26 and had been expected to step down seven months before the killing.

Claude Joseph, then the prime minister, took control of Haiti’s government immediately after the assassination, but pressure from foreign powers led to an agreement to let Henry, 71, take office July 21.

On Monday, Port-au-Prince’s chief pro-

secutor began issuing the first charges in the assassination investigation, and the arrested suspects — who include Moïse’s security chiefs, the Colombian ex-commandos and Haitian businessmen — have been moved to a jail in preparation for trial. But despite some progress, the investigation has been mired from the start in irregularities and attempts at subversion.

At least three judicial officials who compiled evidence and conducted initial interviews with key suspects are now in hiding after receiving numerous death threats.

Henry said his main goal now is to hold free and fair elections to stabilize the country.

He said he was in talks with political parties and civil leaders to appoint a new electoral

board and draft a new Constitution that will be presented to voters for approval.

He promised to improve Haiti’s dire security crisis before the vote: Swaths of the capital remain in the control of the gangs. He also ruled out requesting troop assistance in preparation for the vote from allies, including the United States, saying that the task would be handed by the national police.

Henry said he would not run for office in the elections. Despite the challenges of guiding the country through a political and security crisis, he said, he continues to practice his main profession, as a neurosurgeon. He will perform his next surgery Thursday.

“My mission is to set an environment for elections with a large participation,” he said, adding that he hoped the vote would help to break Haiti’s chronic political instability. “If we can have one, two democratic transfers of power, Haiti will be fine.”

But, raising a note of uncertainty, the caretaker prime minister said Haiti’s security and political challenges made the expected election date, Sept. 26, unlikely. He declined to provide a new time frame.

His ambivalence on keeping the election date has been criticized by some Haitian politicians, who say the country needs a road map to a new government to avoid mass unrest in the aftermath of Moïse’s murder.

“If they don’t hold the elections before 2022, this country will explode,” said Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections, who was organizing the coming vote in Moïse’s government. “It’s a volcano burning inside.”

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Taliban claim responsibility for major attack in Afghan capital

By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM

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he Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack on the home of a top military official in Kabul that killed eight people, highlighting the insurgents’ ability to strike in the heart of the Afghan capital as they continue their sweeping military campaign.

The raid began around 8 p.m. Tuesday with a car bomb that detonated outside the home of Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, the acting defense minister. For several hours afterward, other blasts and sporadic gunfire could be heard in the center of the city after gunmen stormed the building and security forces fought to rescue the roughly 80 people trapped inside.

The complex attack — the largest the Taliban have carried out in the city in nearly a year — penetrated a neighborhood that is home to many high-ranking Afghan officials and close to Kabul’s heavily fortified green zone.

It comes as the insurgents push the front lines of their military campaign from rural areas deep into provincial capitals in the south and west of Afghanistan.

A Taliban spokesman described the raid in Kabul as “the beginning of retaliatory attacks,” suggesting that the insurgents planned to target Afghan military officials and the small contingent of foreign troops that remain in the country to protect diplomats and Kabul’s international airport after the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

The Taliban “will no longer remain indifferent” to those groups and “will stand against them with full force,” said the spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid.

Minutes before the initial explosion Tuesday, Mohammad Azim Mohsini, a member of parliament who is Mohammadi’s neighbor, left his home where dozens of

As an attack took place on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan, a group of Afghan men poured onto streets of central Kabul in protests against the Taliban. people had gathered earlier in the night for a prayer ceremony to mourn the death of his mother. After the blast, one attacker entered his house, killing four people, while other assailants opened fire from outside, he said.

“A number of our civilian neighbors — including women, children and men — were also killed and wounded,” Mohsini said.

Two police officers as well as an employee with the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation and his child were among the eight people killed in the raid, officials said. The defense minister survived the attack, but some of

his security guards were among the 20 people wounded, he said in a video message posted to Twitter.

“I assure all of you that such incidents won’t have the slightest impact on our morale or resolution to defend you and my homeland,” he said, addressing the Afghan public.

Still, that the Taliban could attack the home of a top military official in the middle of Kabul sent an alarming message to the country’s military leaders, whose forces have been battered since international troops began withdrawing in May and the Taliban started a major military offensive.

In a serious escalation of its campaign, the group has laid siege in recent weeks to three provincial capitals — Herat in the west and Lashkar Gah and Kandahar in the south — after sweeping through much of the country’s rural areas. The insurgents now control more than half of the country’s 400-odd districts, according to some assessments.

As the assault unfolded Tuesday, hundreds of Afghans poured onto the streets of Kabul, chanting “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” to show support for Afghan security forces. As others joined the chanting from rooftops and windows, the booming sound of their voices echoed across the city.

The day before in Herat, the capital of the province of the same name, residents also marched through the streets, shouting the phrase in a show of defiance against the Taliban as they besieged the city.

But in a sign of the conflict to come as the Taliban advance on modern urban areas, Mujahid on Wednesday called the protesters “American slaves and seculars.”

Anyone who sides with Afghan forces, he added, “will be reckoned with for God’s sake.”

Cyberattackers shut down vaccine bookings for Rome and its region

By EMMA BUBOLA

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he Lazio region of Italy, which includes Rome, has been unable to offer vaccination appointments online for three days because of a cyberattack on its website over the weekend, part of what the authorities said was probably Italy’s most serious ransomware case to date.

Ransomware attacks, in which criminals break into a computer system, encrypt the data it contains and demand money to release it, have struck health care systems in many countries, paralyzing hospitals, clinics and testing centers from California to Ireland and New Zealand. The attack in Italy is one of the largest to affect a vaccination campaign, raising alarms about its potential effect.

“It’s hitting one of the things that in 2021 are fundamental,” said Stefano Zanero, a professor of cybersecurity at the Polytechnic University of Milan.

The attack against the regional information technology services began at midnight on Saturday. It came at a fraught

time, as the Italian authorities are grappling with vaccine skepticism and the spread of the delta variant, which is dominant in the country.

Italy’s postal police, who have jurisdiction over cyberattacks, are still investigating the identity of the attackers, but the president of the Lazio region, Nicola Zingaretti, said on Monday that the police knew it had come from abroad. He called the attack “very powerful and very invasive.”

A ransomware attack in May on the Colonial Pipeline, which transports fuel from Texas across the southeastern United States as far as New Jersey, caused a shutdown that lasted several days and prompted panic buying of gasoline in the United States. In Ireland, an attack paralyzed the health services’ digital systems for more than a week in June, delaying COVID-19 testing and medical appointments.

Italy’s regional governments have extensive powers over vaccinations in Italy, and the Lazio region, home to nearly 6 million people, prided itself on an efficient campaign. About 70% of the region’s adult population is fully vaccinated, the

highest figure in the country; for Italy as a whole, the figure as of Tuesday was 53%, according to a New York Times tracker.

Vaccinations are going ahead in Lazio, and the 500,000 people who had booked appointments before the cyberattack will still receive their shots, the authorities said. After Aug. 13, though, the region’s vaccination schedule is empty.

Alessio D’Amato, the region’s top health care official, said that bookings would become available again by the end of the week.

Several other public services have also been affected by the attack, including health care appointments, but the authorities said personal health and financial information had not been breached or stolen. Residents can still download the health pass that will be required for many social activities starting Friday.

Some vaccination sites in the region are offering shots without appointments, including one at the Rome-Fiumicino International Airport, and officials are sending vans to distribute shots in remote villages. But their capacity is limited.

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As Ethiopia’s civil war rages, bodies float downriver into Sudan

Emergency food distribution in the city of Mekelle in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on June 26, 2021.

By SIMON MARKS and DECLAN WALSH

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he bodies floated over the border in ones and twos, bloated and bearing knife or gunshot wounds, carried on waters that flow from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.

At least 40 bodies have washed up on a riverbank in eastern Sudan in the past week, in some cases just a few hundred yards from the border with Ethiopia, according to international aid workers and doctors who helped retrieve the corpses.

The grisly finds at the river are apparent evidence of the latest atrocities in a brutal, nine-month civil war between Ethiopian federal forces and their allies, and fighters in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia — a conflict accompanied by reports of massacres, ethnic cleansing and widespread sexual assault.

Few of the bodies have been identified, but several contained tattoos that suggested they were ethnic Tigrayans, and many bore signs of a violent death or had their hands bound behind their backs, witnesses said.

“They were terribly injured, and some were riddled with bullets,” said Tewodros Tefera, a surgeon with the Sudanese Red Crescent Society, a humanitarian group, who works in a refugee camp beside the border.

Tewodros, who himself fled Ethiopia for Sudan at the start of the war in November, said in a telephone interview that he personally had buried two bodies pulled from the Sitit River (known as the Tekeze River in Ethiopia) near the village of Hamdayet, on Sudan’s border with Ethiopia.

The surgeon said the bodies had come from the direction of Humera, an Ethiopian town on the river 6 miles upstream, which has become a recent focus of the intensifying war between Tigrayan forces and those allied with Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed.

The killings came to public attention Monday after images of grotesquely bloated bodies floating in the river circulated on social media, recalling the horrors of the genocide in the East African nation of Rwanda in 1994, when the bodies of victims also flowed over an international border.

Ethiopia’s government denounced the pictures appearing this week as fakes, orchestrated by its Tigrayan foes to discredit Abiy.

Abiy, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, has faced a stream of reports of atrocities committed by Ethiopian troops and their allies in Tigray in recent months.

His government has hit back with claims that the Tigrayans have also committed abuses, including recruiting child soldiers to their cause.

In a text message, Abiy’s spokesperson, Billene Seyoum, referred to a government statement from July 22 that appeared to anticipate the controversy, accusing Tigrayan forces of dumping in Humera the bodies of 300 people who had been killed in other parts of Tigray in an effort to generate “made-up propaganda of a massacre.”

A senior official with an international aid organization, however, confirmed that 40 bodies had been pulled from the river near Hamdayet, and broadly supported the accounts given by Tewodros and two other refugees at the camp. The official requested anonymity to avoid imperiling his organization’s relationship with Ethiopian authorities.

The gruesome spectacle highlighted how the accelerating conflict in Tigray, where at least 400,000 people are living in famine-like conditions, is spreading to other parts of Ethiopia and even across the country’s international borders.

In recent weeks fighting has raged in Ethiopia’s neighboring Afar region to the east of Tigray, displacing thousands of civilians, as Tigrayan fighters seek to pressure Abiy’s government by trying to cut off the country’s most important supply route.

Friction is also mounting between the Ethiopian government and international aid agencies trying to stave off a humanitarian crisis in Tigray. On Tuesday, two major aid groups, the Dutch arm of Doctors Without Borders and the Norwegian Refugee Council, said Ethiopia had suspended their operations for three months.

In the capital, Addis Ababa, the visiting United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said Ethiopian accusations, made last month by a Cabinet minister, that international aid groups are aiding the Tigrayan rebels, were “dangerous.”

In western Tigray, tensions have been rising as the pro-government forces that control the area — ethnic militia fighters from the neighboring Amhara region of Ethiopia and allied soldiers from the country of Eritrea, to the north — gird for an expected Tigrayan assault.

The Tigrayans, known as the Tigray Defense Forces, have been threatening to attack western Tigray since they won a series of battles in late June, including the recapture of the provincial capital, Mekelle.

In Humera, Amharan and Eritrean forces have dug trenches, amassed military equipment and detained local civilians they accuse of helping the Tigrayan forces, according to refugees and aid workers.

Amhara militia fighters, known as the Fano, have ordered ethnic Tigrayan residents to leave, several refugees said. The number crossing the border into Sudan has increased fivefold to about 50 a day, the aid official said.

“They are walking from house to house, intimidating people,” said one of those refugees, Filmon Desta, 23, in a video interview over WhatsApp. “It’s obvious that it’s ethnic cleansing.”

At the same time, the bodies have been floating across the border. Nine corpses have been pulled from the water near Hamdayet, and another 29 from a village 45 miles downstream called Wad al-Helew, Tewodros said.

Two victims were identified by Tigrayans who knew them, and two others had tattoos in the Tigrinya language.

The bodies that floated over the border this week washed up on the northern edge of al-Fashaga, a triangle of land that has been the subject of a border dispute between Ethiopia and Sudan for more than a century.

After years of intermittent clashes, the dispute flared late last year after the Ethiopian troops that controlled much of al-Fashaga suddenly left to fight in Tigray.

Weeks later, Sudanese troops went on the offensive and captured a large swath of the disputed territory.

The dispute, one of numerous challenges confronting Abiy, has the potential to be a “detonating point for the region,” said Jonas Horner, an analyst with the International Crisis Group, a conflict research body.

Among the bodies that washed up in Sudan recently was that of a woman identified as Feven Berha, a resident of Humera.

Awet Yiscer, a refugee, said Feven had gone missing from Humera in late July.

Three days later, her body turned up in Sudan with both eyes missing. As word of her death spread, scores of Tigrayans fled over the border into Sudan.

“I can’t even begin to express the situation,” said Awet, who fled his home recently after 40 years. “These are very dark days.”

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What if humans just can’t get along anymore?

By FARHAD MANJOO

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t the broadest level, human history is a story about cooperation. Individually, we big-brained, hairless primates are fairly ridiculous creatures, easy pickings for any dad-bod Simba roaming the plains. But get us together and we achieve dominion over land and sky.

Reluctantly, violently, often after exhausting every other possibility, people keep stumbling toward one another to get pretty much everything done. From the family to the village to the city, nation-state and global mega-corporation, cooperation and coordination among groups of increasing size and complexity is, for better or worse, how we all got to now.

But what if we’ve hit the limit of our capacity to get along? I don’t mean in the Rogers way. I’m not talking about the tenor of our politics. My concern is more fundamental: Are we capable as a species of coordinating our actions at a scale necessary to address the most dire problems we face?

Because, I mean, look at us. With the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, humanity is contending with global, collective threats. But for both, our response has been bogged down less by a lack of ideas or invention than by a failure to align our actions as groups, either within nations or as a world community. We had little trouble producing effective vaccines against this scourge in record time — but how much does that

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matter if we can’t get it to most of the world’s people and if even those who have access to the shots won’t bother?

Global failures of cooperation are, of course, nothing new; we did have those two world wars. But now we’re facing something perhaps even more worrying than nationalist enmity and territorial ambition. What if humanity’s capacity to cooperate has been undone by the very technology we thought would bring us all together?

The internet didn’t start the fire, but it’s undeniable that it has fostered a sour and fragmented global polity — an atmosphere of pervasive mistrust, corroding institutions and a collective retreat into the comforting bosom of confirmation bias. All of this has undermined our greatest trick: doing good things together.

It is true that each of us is affected differently by a changing climate and COVID-19, but with both, our fates are linked; what happens to each of us is tied up with the actions of others. Often the links are blurry. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest could well affect the sea level in Florida, but it’s probably difficult to forge much common cause between poor farmers in Brazil and retirees in Boca Raton.

Sometimes, though, our fates are so obviously intertwined, you want to scream. Vaccines work best when most of us get them. Either we all patch up this sinking ship or we all go down together. But what if lots of passengers insist the ship is not sinking and the repairs are a scam? Or the richest passengers stockpile the rations? And the captain doesn’t trust the navigator and the navigator keeps changing her mind and the passengers keep assaulting the crew?

I should say there is a good chance my take is too dreary. There has been a great deal of scholarship on how humans coordinate their actions in response to natural threats, and a great deal of it has echoed my pessimism — and been wrong. In 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin published a famous essay arguing that because people tend to maximize individual utility at the expense of collective good, our species was doomed to blindly exploit the world’s resources. He called this the “tragedy of the commons,” and in the following years he was among a group of intellectuals who advocated tough measures to avert the coming “population bomb,” among them curtailing the “freedom to breed.”

But Hardin was proved wrong both on the theory and on the prediction. (He was wrong about a lot of other things, too: He opposed immigration and global famine relief, and he maintained an interest in eugenics. The Southern Poverty Law Center says that white nationalism “unified his thought.”)

The population bomb never went off. The world’s birthrate declined as the poorest people were lifted out of poverty. And as pioneering political economist Elinor Ostrom showed over a lifetime of research, there are countless examples of people coming together to create rules and institutions to manage common resources. People aren’t profit-maximizing automatons; time and again, she found, we can make individual sacrifices in the interest of collective good.

Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009. In her prize lecture she wrote that “humans have a more complex motivational structure and more capability to solve social dilemmas” than rationalchoice economists have given us credit for. The key to unlocking these capabilities, she said, was building the right institutions. Capitalist markets and nation-states had taken us only so far. Now, she suggested, we needed to imagine new kinds of groups that could improve how humans innovate, learn and adapt together to take on looming environmental challenges.

She died in 2012, so she did not witness what came next: the rise across much of the world of conspiratorial alternate realities and intense polarization that have hampered progress on so many global problems. As a species, we are still searching for the institutions that Ostrom predicted we’d need to focus humanity’s collective power. I hope she was right that we are up to the task — but I can’t say I’m optimistic.

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Aeropuertos regionales recibirán millonaria asignación de fondos federales para su recuperación POR CYBERNEWS

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UAYNABO – Los aeropuertos regionales de la Isla recibirán una asignación de 1.7 millones de dólares por parte de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés), destinada a la reparación de sus instalaciones, anunció el miércoles, el coordinador federal de Recuperación por Desastres de Puerto Rico, José G. Baquero.

Los fondos federales serán recibidos por la administración de los aeropuertos de Aguadilla, Ceiba, Culebra, Mayagüez y San Juan (Isla Grande)para trabajos de obra permanente.

“Esta red forma parte esencial de la industria turística de Puerto Rico y son la carta de presentación para muchos visitantes, por ejemplo, desde el aeropuerto Internacional de Aguadilla.

Por eso es importante que estas instalaciones estén en óptimas condiciones y funcionamiento para una mayor competitividad como destino turístico”, indicó Baquero.

La Agencia destinó cerca de $164,000 al Aeropuerto Internacional Rafael Hernández de Aguadilla para obras de seguridad dirigidas a cumplir con la reglamentación de la Administración Federal de Aviación, y cerca de $430,900 para atender la fase de estudios de arquitectura e ingeniería de las

obras de construcción y remodelación.

Localizado en las antiguas instalaciones del Aeropuerto Ramey de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos, el aeropuerto regional de Aguadilla provee vuelos directos semanales, en ambas direcciones, a la República Dominicana y a las ciudades de Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Nueva York, Newark

y Filadelfia. Según la agencia el aeropuerto es el mayor tráfico de pasajeros, con casi 130,000 personas entre 2020 y 2021, y cuenta con una plantilla de aproximadamente 400 empleados.

“El aeropuerto internacional Rafael Hernández de Aguadilla es la segunda instalación aeroportuaria de la Isla en términos de pasajeros, con la pista más

Hospital de Veteranos suspende visitas POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Como resultado del aumento de casos de COVID-19 en Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes, y como medida preventiva para mantener la salud y bienestar de nuestros veteranos, familias y nuestro personal, el Sistema de Salud de Veteranos del Caribe (VACHS) informó este miércoles, que efectivo el 5 de agosto del 2021, las visitas

a la institución han sido suspendidas hasta nuevo aviso.

Este cambio solo aplica a las visitas a pacientes recluidos en el Hospital y visitas a los veteranos residentes del Centro de Cuidado Extendido. Las citas con clínicas ambulatorias no son afectadas por este cambio. Acompañantes a pacientes de clínicas ambulatorias tampoco serán afectados.

Exhortaron a los veteranos y al pú-

blico en general a obtener información actualizada del Sistema de Salud de Veteranos del Caribe a través de la página cibernética www.caribbean.va.gov, o en Facebook www.facebook.com/vacaribbean. También pueden llamar al 787641-7582, extensión 131932.

El Sistema de Salud de Veteranos del Caribe sirve unos 60,000 veteranos, y recibe aproximadamente un millón de visitas al año.

larga del Caribe. Los fondos de FEMA asignados a este aeropuerto son sumamente importantes para la seguridad de los miles de pasajeros que lo utilizan y los cientos de personas que aquí trabajan”, indicó el director del Negociado de Aviación de la Autoridad de los Puertos y gerente del aeropuerto, José A. Riollano Irizarry.

Asimismo, partidas fueron aprobadas para estudios en otros aeropuertos regionales que contemplan sobre $401,000 para el aeropuerto regional Fernando Ribas Dominicci de Isla Grande, cerca de $132,000 para el aeropuerto José Aponte de la Torre, en Ceiba, y sobre $88,000 para el Aeropuerto Benjamín Rivera Noriega de Culebra.

De igual manera, se destinaron sobre $147,000 al Aeropuerto Eugenio María de Hostos de Mayagüez para trabajos de seguridad en el perímetro que protege esta importante instalación.

Según la Autoridad de Puertos de Puerto Rico (APPR), el movimiento de pasajeros entre todos los aeropuertos regionales –incluyendo los de Ponce y Humacao– fue de sobre 1.2 millones de viajeros entre 2018 y 2019, antes de comenzar las restricciones a los vuelos impuestas por la pandemia del COVID-19. Mientras, en lo que va del 2020 al 2021 se han registrado sobre 863,000 viajeros.

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After uproar, Matt Damon tries to clarify comments on anti-gay slur

By ISABELLA GRULLÓN PAZ

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acing a backlash after he was quoted saying he had recently decided to “retire” a homophobic slur, the actor Matt Damon said in a statement earlier this week that “I do not use slurs of any kind.”

The statement followed an interview published this week by The Sunday Times in which Damon recounted a conversation with his daughter during which he “made a joke” that moved her to write him an essay on the historical harm of what she calls “the ‘f-slur for a homosexual.’”

“She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous,” Damon said, according to The Sunday Times, a British newspaper. “I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”

In the statement, which was obtained by Variety, Damon said that he had never “called anyone” the word in his “personal life” and that he understood why his framing in the interview “led many to assume the worst.”

He added that in the conversation with his daughter, he had recalled that as a child growing up in Boston he had heard the slur being used on the street “before I knew what it even referred to.”

“I explained that that word was used constantly and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a movie of mine as recently as 2003; she in turn expressed incredulity that there could ever have been a time where that word was used unthinkingly,” Damon said in the statement. “To my admiration and pride, she was extremely articulate about the extent

to which that word would have been painful to someone in the LGBTQ+ community regardless of how culturally normalized it was. I not only agreed with her but thrilled at her passion, values and desire for social justice.”

“This conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening,” he continued. “I do not use slurs of any kind.”

In the Sunday Times interview, Damon seemed

Matt Damon at the New York premiere of “Stillwater” last week.

to suggest that the word had come up in a joke.

“The word that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application,” Damon said in the interview. “I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table. I said, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movie “Stuck on You”!’”

He did not specify in the interview which of his daughters the interaction happened with.

Many on social media were unimpressed by Damon’s story, saying that he should have known better years — not months — ago. Some also wondered why Damon shared the story in the first place.

Charlotte Clymer, a former Human Rights Campaign press secretary, said on Twitter that although she understood the sentiment of the story, “This is like 10+ years ago kinda stuff. And he knows better.”

This is not the first time that Damon has courted controversy with comments about LGBTQ people.

In 2015, he told The Guardian that in acting, it was key that “people shouldn’t know anything about your sexuality because that’s one of the mysteries that you should be able to play,” adding that he imagined “it must be really hard” for gay actors to be public about their sexuality. On The Ellen Show, Damon defended the remarks, saying that “actors are more effective when they’re a mystery.”

In his statement on Monday, the actor acknowledged that “open hostility” against LGBTQ people was not uncommon.

“To be as clear as I can be, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community,” he said.

‘Pray Away’ review: Atoning for an anti-gay stance

By BEN KENIGSBERG

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he Netflix documentary “Pray Away” profiles several people who, in the public sphere and in the context of Christianity-cloaked “conversion therapy,” peddled the idea that homosexuality could be changed, and who now regret the suffering they caused. It also features one activist, Jeffrey McCall, who identifies as previously transgender and still pushes the ideas the others believed in.

Director Kristine Stolakis devotes much of the film to the past lives the members of the first group have disavowed. Yvette Cantu Schneider speaks of how she went to Washington, D.C., in the 1990s and became a savvy spokesperson for the Family Research Council, the rightwing Christian organization. Michael Bussee, a founder of Exodus International, considered one of the major orga-

nizations that preached that sexual orientation could be changed, was both an early promoter and an early skeptic.

The harms conversion therapy causes, and the tactics it uses, aren’t news at this point, and “Pray Away” is more interesting when it focuses on how most of its subjects eventually embraced gay and bisexual identities despite having formerly been so public in their homophobia. Some shifts weren’t long ago.

Randy Thomas says that after seeing the protests that followed the passage of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California (but was ultimately overturned), “a voice inside me said, ‘How could you do that to your own people?’ ” Julie Rodgers describes appearing on TV opposite conversion therapy survivors and feeling like she was “sitting on the wrong side of the circle.” In 2013, The New York Times quoted her as saying she would stay single

rather than date women. The movie follows her as she prepares to marry her fiancée.

“Pray Away” is more interesting when it focuses on how most of its subjects eventually embraced gay and bisexual identities despite having formerly been so public in their homophobia.

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A remarkable work of family history vividly recreates the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany

By JENNIFER SZALAI

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he title of Rebecca Donner’s astonishing new book is a line by Goethe, from a volume of his poems that had been smuggled into the cell of Mildred Harnack — an American woman who was shackled in a Berlin prison, awaiting her death sentence by the Nazi regime. On Feb. 16, 1943, the day she would be taken to the execution shed and beheaded, a chaplain found Mildred hunched over the poems, scribbling in the margins. The heavy gothic font of the German original was accompanied by the ghostly script of her English translation, written with a pencil stub.

Donner includes an image of that page in “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” a book about Harnack’s life and death that turns out to be wilder and more expansive than a standard-issue biography. (A diligently researched book about Harnack was published two decades ago, by Shareen Blair Brysac, titled “Resisting Hitler.”) Donner is Harnack’s great-great-niece, so this is a family history too.

It is also a story of code names and dead drops, a real-life thriller with a cruel ending — not to mention an account of Hitler’s ascent from attention-seeking buffoon to genocidal Führer.

Mildred Fish was born in Milwaukee in 1902; her husband, Arvid Harnack, was German. They met as graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, and eventually settled in Berlin. After Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, they started holding secret meetings in their apartment for underground resisters. Mildred was teaching English and found recruits among her impoverished students; by 1935, Arvid had landed a job at the Ministry of Economics, where he was privy to intelligence that he would eventually give to the Soviets. Whether this fateful decision had to do with anti-fascist expedience or pro-Communist ideology — the Nazis would later call the espionage group Red Orchestra — Donner doesn’t quite decide.

Donner pieces together Mildred’s life from fragments, sifting through government archives, interviews, photographs, diaries and letters — though some of those diaries and letters were destroyed, and the most personal items weren’t always revealing. “Her aim was self-erasure,” Donner writes; such effacement was a matter of survival.

Several letters show Mildred trying to present a brave face for her worried family back in the United States. Staying meant risking imprisonment and perhaps death; leaving would have meant abandoning Germany to the Nazis.

Even at the end of this extraordinarily intimate book, Mildred remains somewhat of an enigma. “Despite her wish to remain invisible,” Donner writes, “she left a trail for us to follow.”

What emerges is a portrait of a woman who had already noticed how economic suffering was tearing the frac-

tious Weimar Republic apart. When establishment conservatives pushed for Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, he had been widely derided as too bumbling and ludicrous to ever obtain any real power. “All feel the menace but many hide their heads in the sand,” Harnack wrote to her mother in 1932. Donner evokes a Berlin on the brink, teeming with linden blossoms and swastikas.

When Mildred learned she was pregnant in the summer of 1933 — a pregnancy she had spent two years preparing for — she was so unnerved by what was happening in Germany that she traveled to London for an abortion; another pregnancy several years later ended in a miscarriage. Donner writes sensitively about Mildred’s travails while also describing how women were expected to serve a Nazi regime dedicated to the idea that “the role of women is to populate Germany with good Germans.” According to a friend, Mildred was “awkward in all practical things of life” — an inept cook and an indifferent housekeeper.

But with her “wheat-colored hair” and “gray-blue eyes,” she certainly looked the part of what the Soviets called “an intensely Nordic type,” and she used her appearance to her

advantage, presenting herself as an ardent Nazi supporter in order to throw any informants off the scent.

Sometimes the disguise worked too well. On a trip to London, Mildred obtained an introduction to the writer Rebecca West and tried to recruit her, sussing her out by telling her that Hitler was a fan of her books. West was immediately disgusted. “I threw her out of the front door,” West later recalled, adding a remark she would later regret: “I hope Hitler does to you the worst thing he ever did to a Jew.” Donner alternates sections about Mildred with sections titled “The Boy” — referring to Donald Heath Jr., the 11-year-old son of Donald Heath, an American diplomat who was gathering anti-Nazi intelligence while working for the embassy in Berlin. Twice a week, Donald Jr., or Young Don, as he was called, visited Mildred in her apartment, where they would talk about books and she would slip a note for his father into his knapsack. Donner tracked down Young Don in California and interviewed him in 2016, when he was 89. He recalled how Mildred kept pushing him to remember things. “You have a good memory,” she would tell him. “Don’t forget.”

“All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days” is so finely textured that I can’t even begrudge Donner’s decision to narrate events in the present tense; a choice that can sometimes seem like a stagy effort to amp up the drama instead comes across as an effective device for conveying what it felt like in real time to experience the tightening vise of the Nazi regime.

Amid all the tension and the horror, Donner has an eye for stray bits of grim comedy. A coterie of Soviet spies in Brussels set up an import-export company for cover, giving it the absurdly conspicuous name of Foreign Excellent Trench Coats.

Mildred and Arvid escaped Germany in September 1942, intending to get to Sweden from Nazi-occupied Lithuania, where they were swiftly arrested and hauled back to Berlin. When Donner describes them awaiting trial for treason, the dearth of information about Mildred feels especially wrenching; we catch her only in glimpses, looking ever more emaciated and ill, while she was kept in strict solitary confinement. Arvid was soon sentenced to hang; Mildred was sentenced to six years of hard labor.

But Hitler intervened to overturn Mildred’s sentence, insisting on another trial that would deliver the death sentence he desired. Wielding that kind of absolute power was unfathomable to what most people had expected of Hitler less than a decade prior. Back then, Mildred and Arvid believed that for all of Hitler’s noisy bombast, he was bound to fail. “They’re convinced that Germans will revolt against this lunatic politician,” Donner writes, in a chapter covering the years 1933 and 1934. “It’s just a matter of time.”

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A coronavirus epidemic hit 20,000 years ago, new study finds

By CARL ZIMMER

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esearchers have found evidence that a coronavirus epidemic swept East Asia some 20,000 years ago and was devastating enough to leave an evolutionary imprint on the DNA of people alive today.

The new study suggests that an ancient coronavirus plagued the region for many years, researchers say. The finding could have dire implications for the COVID-19 pandemic if it is not brought under control soon through vaccination.

“It should make us worry,” said David Enard, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who led the study, which was published last month in the journal Current Biology. “What is going on right now might be going on for generations and generations.”

Until now, researchers could not look back very far into the history of this family of pathogens. Over the past 20 years, three coronaviruses have adapted to infect humans and cause severe respiratory disease: COVID-19, SARS and MERS. Studies on each of these coronaviruses indicate that they jumped into our species from bats or other mammals.

Four other coronaviruses can also infect people, but they usually cause only mild colds. Scientists did not directly observe these coronaviruses becoming human pathogens, so they have relied on indirect clues to estimate when the jumps happened. Coronaviruses gain new mutations at a roughly regular rate, and so comparing their genetic variation makes it possible to determine when they diverged from a common ancestor.

The most recent of these mild coronaviruses, called HCoV-HKU1, crossed the species barrier in the 1950s. The oldest, called HCoV-NL63, may date back as far as 820 years.

But before that point, the coronavirus trail went cold — until Enard and his colleagues applied a new method to the search. Instead of looking at the genes of the coronaviruses, the researchers looked at the effects on the DNA of their human hosts.

Over generations, viruses drive enormous amounts of change in the human genome. A mutation that protects against a viral infection may well mean the difference between life and death, and it will be passed down to offspring. A lifesaving mutation, for example, might allow people to chop apart a virus’s proteins.

But viruses can evolve, too. Their proteins can change shape to overcome a host’s defenses. And those changes might spur the host to evolve even more counteroffensives, leading to more mutations.

When a random new mutation happens to provide resistance to a virus, it can swiftly become more common from one generation to the next. And other versions of that gene, in turn, become rarer. So if one version of a gene

dominates all others in large groups of people, scientists know that is most likely a signature of rapid evolution in the past.

In recent years, Enard and his colleagues have searched the human genome for these patterns of genetic variation in order to reconstruct the history of an array of viruses. When the pandemic struck, he wondered whether ancient coronaviruses had left a distinctive mark of their own.

He and his colleagues compared the DNA of thousands of people across 26 different populations around the world, looking at a combination of genes known to be crucial for coronaviruses but not other kinds of pathogens.

In East Asian populations, the scientists found that 42 of these genes had a dominant version. That was a strong signal that people in East Asia had adapted to an ancient coronavirus.

But whatever happened in East Asia seemed to have been limited to that region. “When we compared them to populations around the world, we couldn’t find the signal,” said Yassine Souilmi, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Adelaide in Australia and a co-author of the new study.

The scientists then tried to estimate how long ago East Asians had adapted to a coronavirus. They took advantage of the fact that once a dominant version of a gene starts being passed down through the generations, it can gain harmless random mutations. As more time passes, more of those mutations accumulate.

Enard and his colleagues found that the 42 genes all

had about the same number of mutations. That meant that they had all rapidly evolved at about the same time. “This is a signal we should absolutely not expect by chance,” Enard said.

They estimated that all of those genes evolved their antiviral mutations sometime between 20,000 and 25,000 years ago, most likely over the course of a few centuries.

It’s a surprising finding, since East Asians at the time were not living in dense communities but instead formed small bands of hunter-gatherers.

Aida Andres, an evolutionary geneticist at the University College London who was not involved in the new study, said she found the work compelling. “I’m quite convinced there’s something there,” she said.

Still, she didn’t think it was possible yet to make a firm estimate of how long ago the ancient epidemic took place. “The timing is a complicated thing,” she said.

“Whether that happened a few thousand years before or after — I personally think it’s something that we cannot be as confident of.”

Scientists looking for drugs to fight the new coronavirus might want to scrutinize the 42 genes that evolved in response to the ancient epidemic, Souilmi said. “It’s actually pointing us to molecular knobs to adjust the immune response to the virus,” he said.

Anders agreed, saying that the genes identified in the new study should get special attention as targets for drugs.

“You know that they’re important,” she said. “That’s the nice thing about evolution.”

20 LEGAL NOTICE M&T 42416 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Lime Homes, LTD Plaintiff, v.

María de los Ángeles Hernández Echevarría

Defendants CIVIL NO: 3:20-cv-01714 FAB. RE: Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: María de los Ángeles Hernández Echevarría, General Public, and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $172,833.73 plus interest at a rate of 4.000% per annum since May 1, 2019 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($16,000.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número de solar 22 de la manzana 4-S. Area del Solar 337.56 metros

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cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar número 21, distancia de 23.450 metros; por el Sur, con la calle número 322, distancia de 19.950 metros en arco; por el Este, con la Calle número 320, distancia de 11.007 metros y 2.75 metros en arco; y por el Oeste, con el solar número 1, distancia de 14.507 metros. Contiene una casa para una sola familia. The property is identified with the number 11,959 and is recorded at page number 108 of volume number 315 of Carolina, in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number asiento abreviated 180 of volume number 1,056 of Carolina, third inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Section. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: A. MORTGAGE: A promissory note in favor of DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, doing bussiness as H. F. MORTGAGE BANKERS, or to its order, for the original loan amount of $40,000.00, bearing annual interest at a rate of 7.95%, payable August 1st 2034, as per deed number 1358, executed in Carolina, August 5, 2004, before Luis Archilla Diaz. Recorded at page 180 of Volume 1056. Third inscription. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST public sale will be held on SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $160,000.00. 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 SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $106,666.67. If said second auction does not

result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $80,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this day of July 15, 2021. (SING) Joel RondaFeliciano, Special Master (787) 565-0515. Email: rondajoel@ me.com.

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CARMEN LUZ MÁRQUEZ MOLINA Y SAMUEL OBED RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: N3CI2017-00299.

(002). 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 27 de febrero de 2020, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 4 de febrero de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 9 de febrero de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 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: Solar marcado con el Número Uno (1) en el caso número 77-22-B-385-CPD, radicado en el Barrio Jiménez de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, con una cabida

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de 723.204 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 3 distancias, una de 22.009 metros y otra de 7.372 metros, todas con Juan Sanjurjo; por el SUR, en 27.710 metros con la Calle; por el ESTE, en 2 distancias, una de 5.270 metros y otra en 11.904 metros, con la franja de ensanche de la Carretera Estatal Número 186; y por el OESTE, en 25.230 metros con el Solar Número Dos (2). Edificación: Enclava una casa de bloques y cemento para fines residenciales con un primer nivel compuesto de marquesina doble, un cuarto de baño y un cuarto de lavandería y un segundo nivel compuesto de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, un baño, sala-comedor, cocina y balcón, valorada en $45,000.00, según Escritura Número 25, otorgada en Río Grande, Puerto Rico el 31 de marzo de 1993, ante el Notario Eduardo García Rexach. Inscrita al Folio 65 vuelto del Tomo 374 de Río Grande, Finca Número 22693, Inscripción quinta.

La propiedad consta inscrita al Folio 63 del Tomo 374 de Río Grande, Finca Número 22693, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al Folio 172 vuelto del Tomo 509 de Río Grande, Finca Número 22693, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción undécima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: SOLAR #1, BO JIMÉNEZ, CARR. 186 KM 25.3, VILLA CALZADA, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $232,440.00. SEGUNDA: 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $154,960.00.

TERCERA: 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $116,220.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $232,440.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 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, $154,960.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $116,220.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca

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Thursday, August 5, 2021 a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $200,074.25 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.375% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2016 hasta su completo pago, más $103.60 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $23,244.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores que afectan a la propiedad en cuestión: A) Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Carmen Luz Márquez Molina y Samuel Obed Rodríguez Rivera (ambos solteros), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Río Grande, en el Caso Civil Número N3CI2017-00299, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $200,074.25 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 13 de junio de 2017.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Río Grande. Anotación A. B) Embargo Federal: Anotado contra R. Nieves Cruz & S. Rodríguez Rivera, Seguro Social Número XXX-XX-9318, por la suma de $13,017.97, según notificación número 405150320, presentada el 13 de abril de 2020 al asiento 2020-001717-FED del Libro de Embargos Federales Número Karibe. Nota: No podemos precisar si el embargado y el titular son la misma persona. C) Embargo Federal: Anotado contra Samuel Rodríguez, Seguro Social Número XXX-XX-2894, por la suma de $2,875.55, según notificación número 206936116, presentada el 20 de abril de 2016 al asiento 2016-003927-FED del Libro de Embargos Federales Número Karibe. Nota: No podemos precisar si el embargado y el titular son la misma persona. D) Embargo Federal: Anotado contra Samuel Rodríguez, Seguro Social Número XXX-XX-2648, por la suma de $50,356.73, según notificación número 395987219, presentada el 16 de enero de 2020, al asiento 2020-000121-FED del Libro de Embargos Federales

Número Karibe. Nota: No podemos precisar si el embargado y el titular son la misma persona.

Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de junio de 2021.

SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.

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SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL OCASIO ROMÁN COMPUESTA POR: RAFAEL ANTONIO OCASIO YRADY T/C/C RAFAEL OCASIO, IMABEL MICHELL OCASIO YRADY T/C/C

IMABEL M. OCASIO YRADY, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2019CV00664.

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 17 de diciembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 13 de febrero de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 14 de febrero de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 12 DE OCTUBRE 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: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Número 11-12A. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la segunda planta del edificio número A-12-A del Condominio Vista Real, situado en el Barrio Sardinera del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada es de 1218.19 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 113.21 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia máxima de 37’4” con el área exterior; por el SUR, en una distancia máxima de 37’ 4” con área exterior, área común y con Apartamento Ocho (8); por el ESTE, en una distancia de 39’4” con área exterior y con área de escalera común; y por el OESTE, en una distancia máxima de 39’4” con área exterior. La puerta de entrada del apartamento está situada en su lindero Sur. Consta de

sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, tres (3) dormitorios, pasillo y dos (2) baños. Le corresponde el uso exclusivo de dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número del apartamento. Este apartamento tiene un por ciento de participación de 0.5003% de los elementos comunes del Condominio. La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al Folio 205 del Tomo 482 de Fajardo, Finca Número 18402, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción cuarta. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: COND. VISTA REAL, APTO 12-11-A, FAJARDO, PR 00738. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $133,700.00. SEGUNDA: 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $89,133.33. TERCERA: 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $66,850.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $133,700.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 19 DE OCTUBRE 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, $89,133.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE OCTUBRE 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, $66,850.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $94,046.53 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.125% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $405.36 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,370.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes

The San Juan Daily Star posteriores que afectan la propiedad en cuestión: a) Bitácora: Al Asiento 2016-035000-FA01, presentada el 5 de mayo de 2016, según la Escritura Número 4 de Testamento, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 19 de marzo de 2010, ante el Notario Ángel M. Rivera Munich, por Rafael Ocasio Román e instituye como sus herederos en el tercio de legítima estricta a sus hijos Rafael Antonio e Imabel Michelle de apellidos Ocasio Yrady; el tercio de legítima larga mejora a favor de sus dos (2) hijos Rafael e Imabel de apellidos Ocasio Yrady y el tercio de libre disposición a sus hijos Rafael e Imabel de apellidos Ocasio Yrady con un valor de $150,000.00. Pendiente de inscripción. b) Bitácora: Al Asiento 2019-110054-FA01, presentada el 16 de octubre de 2019, Demanda de fecha 14 de junio de 2019, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el Caso Civil Número FA 2019CV00664, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. La Sucesión de Rafael Ocasio Román, compuesta por Rafel Antonio Ocasio Yrady, también conocido como Rafael Ocasio e Imabel Michelle Ocasio Yrady también conocida como Imabel M. Ocasio Yrady, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, por la suma de $133,700.00 con un balance de $94,046.53 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. 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 gra-

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vámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de junio de 2021.

SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266.

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SUCESIÓN de OSVALDO CORA LÓPEZ BAYRON compuesta por FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, posibles herederos desconocidos; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA por conducto de la DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. FA2019CV00528.

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 25 de noviembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 17 de enero de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 21 de enero de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, a las 11:30 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: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Monte Brisas Tercera Extensión, situada en el Barrio Que-

brada Fajardo del Municipio de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, marcado con el Bloque Tres B (3B), Solar Número Veinte (20), con un área de 325.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en distancia de 13.00 metros, con la Calle D de dicha Urbanización; por el SUR, en distancia de 13.00 metros, con la Calle Número Ciento Uno (101) de dicha Urbanización; por el ESTE, en distancia de 25.00 metros, con el Solar Número Veintiuno (21) de dicho bloque; y por el OESTE, en distancia de 25.00 metros, con el Solar Número Diecinueve (19) de dicho bloque. Contiene una casa.

La propiedad consta inscrita al Folio 180 del Tomo 267 de Fajardo, Finca Número 10948, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Fajardo, Finca Número 10948, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción décimo primera. (11ma). DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. MONTE BRISAS 3, 3B20 CALLE 101, FAJARDO, PR 00738-3405.

Primera Subasta: 12 de octubre de 2021 a las 11:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $94,261.00. Segunda Subasta: 19 de octubre de 2021 a las 11:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $62,840.66. Tercera Subasta: 26 de octubre de 2021 a las 11:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $47,130.50. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $94,261.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $62,840.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta día 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, a las 11:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $47,130.50. 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 $91,989.55 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.25% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $148.40 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $9,426.10 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 pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Sucesión de Osvaldo Cora López Bayron compuesta de Fulano y Mengano de Tal, posibles herederos desconocidos, Departamento de Hacienda y el Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el Caso Civil Número FA 2019CV00528, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $91,989.55 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 16 de mayo de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Fajardo. Anotación B y última. 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. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Fajardo Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de junio de 2021.

Shirley Sánchez Martínez, Alguacil Regional #161. POR: Sandraliz Martínez Torres, Alguacil Auxiliar #737, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.

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LIME HOMES, LTD. Demandante Vs.

NIURCA TORRES FIGUEROA

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV06218.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Palacios Reales localizada en los barrios Ortiz y Piñas del Municipio de Toa Alta, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan continuación: Número del solar C-17. Área del solar 450.00 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar C-18 en una distancia de 30.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar C-16 en una distancia de 30.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle Número 4 en una distancia de 15.00 metros y por el OESTE, con el solar C-14 en una distancia de 15.00 metros.

En este solar se ha construido una vivienda de bloques y hormigón reforzado para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 455 de Toa Alta, finca número 23388, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. Propiedad localizada en: C-17, Urb.

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Palacios Reales, Toa Alta, PR 00953. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 8 de noviembre de 2010 radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Toa Alta en el caso civil número DCD2010-3957 sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Citimortgage Inc., demandante v. Niurca Torres Figueroa, demandada.

Por la misma se reclama el pago del préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $194,700.00 ampliada a $202,013.19, de las inscripciones 1ª y 2ª antes relacionadas, reducida a $196,787.48 al momento de radicar la demanda.

Anotada el 20 de enero de 2011 al folio 51 del tomo 522 de Toa Alta, finca 23388, anotación “A”. b. AVISO DE DEMANDA con fecha 21 de octubre de 2019 seguida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número BY2019CV06218 sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc., demandante v. Niurca Torres Figueroa, demandada. Por la misma se reclama el pago $224,394.28, más otras sumas, correspondiente al préstamo Hipotecario garantizado con la Hipoteca por $194,700.00, posteriormente ampliada a $202,013.19, según relacionado en las inscripciones 1ª y 2ª de esta finca. Anotado el 17 de noviembre de 2020 al Tomo Karibe, finca 23388 de Toa Alta, anotación “C”. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $194,700.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su-

basta la suma de $129,800.00, dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $97,350.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 4 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. 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 $224,394.28 de principal, intereses al tipo del 2.50000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de septiembre de 2018 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $19,470.00 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 07 de julio de 2021. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN JUAN F. ESTEVES MÁRQUEZ, T/C/C JUAN FRANCISCO ESTEVES MÁRQUEZ COMPUESTA POR LIZETTE RAMOS OLMO POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; JUAN CARLOS ESTEVES CORREA; MAGDA MARÍA ESTEVES CORREA; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: FCD2010-1315.

(406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, 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 3 de febrero de 2021 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $61,781.33 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 29 de junio de 2016, notificada y archivada en autos el 11 de julio de 2016, 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBAN: Apartment #10-K of irregular shape located in Laguna Gardens Condominium IV, tenth floor which is turn is located at km 8.2 of State Road #26in the ward of Cangrejo Arriba, municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico, with a total private area of 1119.01 square feet, equivalent to 104.00 square meters, being its lineal measurements 20’ 3’ long by 42’ 11’ wide, bounding by the NORTH with exterior yard in a distance of 42’ 11’ by the EAST, with the exterior yard, in a distance of 29’ 3’ by the SOUTH with the common corridor in a distance of 42’ 11’, by the WEST, with LEGAL NOTICE the exterior yard, in a distance ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO of 4’ 2’ with apartment 10-L, in DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUa distance of 24’ 5’. Le corresNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ponde el derecho de use del SALA DE CAROLINA área de estacionamiento mar-

LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD.

22 cado con el número del apartamento. Inscrita al folio 239 del tomo 561 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera, finca 28077.

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: $61,781.33 de principal, 6.875% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $108.48 de cargos por mora a razón de 5% de todos los pagos con atrasos; más costas, gastos y honorarios del pleito equivalentes a $7,500.00. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $75,000.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $50,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo para esta, la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $37,500.00.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 27 DE AGOSTO 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 de Carolina. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 2 de julio de 2021. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.

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LIME HOMES LTD. Demandante V.

REYNALDO SANTIAGO CRUZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: FBCI201500565.

(0004). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, 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 Carolina con fecha del 12 de abril de 2021 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $247,320.68 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el 27 de enero de 2021 y notificada el 29 de enero de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del

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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 Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: 11-BB Tallaboa St. River Plantation, Canóvanas, PR 00729. URBANA: Parcela identificada en el plano de inscripción como el solar número once (11) del bloque “BB” de la Urbanización River Plantation, localizada en el Barrio Canóvanas del término municipal de Canóvanas, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos dieciséis punto seis seis seis siete (416.6667) metros cuadrados. En lindes; por el Norte, con Tallaboa Street; por el Sur, con el solar número dos (2) del bloque “BB”; por el Este, con el solar número doce (12) del bloque “BB”; y por el Oeste, con el solar número diez (10) del bloque “BB”. Enclava una casa para fines residenciales.

Inscrita al folio 98 del tomo 423 de Canóvanas, finca número 16,818, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, cuyas cantidades son las siguientes: $247,320.68 de principal; 3.375% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; gastos por mora, equivalentes a 5% de todos los pagos atrasados más de 15 días de la fecha de vencimiento y los créditos adelantados hechos de acuerdo con el pagare hipotecario y la escritura de hipoteca, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, y 10% del principal del pagare, equivalente a $24,400.00 para cubrir costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $251,689.67 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $167,793.29.

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; $125,844.98. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021; A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el

20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021; A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021; A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina. Del Estudio de Título realizado los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Embargo Federal contra Reinaldo Santiago, seguro social #xxx-xx-1456 por $8,363.25 notificación # 206936916, presentado y anotado el 13 de abril de 2016 al asiento 2016003936-FED del Sistema de Embargos y Sentencias Karibe.

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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 2 de julio de 2021. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.

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Parte Demandante Vs.

ALBA YANIRA TORRES CINTRON también conocida como Alba Y. Torres Cintrón

Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: BCD20170003. SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO, ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Aibonito, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $113,430.50, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 5.50% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $11,343.05 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número ciento tres 9103) radicado en la Urbanización Colinas de San Francisco, situada en el barrio Llanos Adentro del término Municipal de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos punto dieciséis (300.16) metros cuadrados. Colindando por el Norte, en veintidós punto cuarenta (22.40) metros, con el solar cinto dos (102); por el Sur, en veintidós punto cuarenta (22.40) metros, con el solar número ciento cuatro (104); por el Este, en trece punto cuaren-

ta (13.40) metros, con la Calle Paloma; y por el Oeste, en trece punto cuarenta (13.40) metros, con el solar número setenta y seis (76). Enclava una casa de hormigón de una planta, con tres (3) dormitorios, un baño, sala, comedor, cocina, balcón y marquesina.

Afectado en su frente por una servidumbre te3lefonica de uno punto cincuenta (1.50) metros de ancho. Inscrita al folio doscientos noventa y seis (296) del tomo doscientos nueve (209) de Aibonito, finca número once mil cuatrocientos veintisiete (11,427). Dirección Física: G103 Paloma St., Colinas San Francisco Dev., Aibonito, Puerto Rico 00705. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 2 de septiembre de 2021 a las 11:00 de la mañana, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $125,500.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 9 de septiembre de 2021 a las 2:00 de la tarde y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $83,666.66.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 16 de septiembre de 2021 a las 2:00 de la tarde y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $62,750.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la res-

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

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Aibonito, Puerto Rico a 20 de julio de 2021. Carlos E Rodriguez Melendez, Alguacil Confidencial, Placa #773.

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ACM CDGY VI LN LLC Demandante v.

OSVALDO NESTOR CABRAL CALVO T/C/C OSVALDO CABRAL CALVO

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. PO2020CV01072.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: OSVALDO NESTOR CABRAL CALVO T/C/C OSVALDO CABRAL CALVO; DORAL BANK O A SU ORDEN; EVELYN QUIÑONES

CARRASQUILLO: Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: DORAL BANK o a su orden: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Pagaré por la suma principal de $33,000.00, con intereses al 5.95% anual, vencedero el dia 1 de julio de 2035, constituida mediante la escritura #56, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el dia 30 de junio de 2005, ante la Notario Ivelisse Toro Zambrana, inscrita al folio 47 vuelto del tomo 2039 de Ponce, finca #61,598, inscripción Sta. DORAL BANK: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Aviso de Demanda (no expresa fecha), expedido en el Tribunal de Primera instancia, Sala de Ponce, en el Caso Civil #JCD2011-0004, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank versus Osvaldo Néstor Cabral Calvo, soltero, por la suma de $122,576.13, más costas y gastos, anotado el 23 de febrero de 2011, al folio 48 del tomo 2039 de Ponce, finca #61,598, Anotación A. EVELYN QUIÑONES CARRASQUILLO: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito una Sentencia dictada Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el Caso Civil #JPE2010-0459, seguido por Evelyn Quinones Carrasquillo, versus Osvaldo Cabral e Hijos, Inc. y Osvaldo M. Cabral Calvo, por una cuantía de $18,550.00, más intereses, anotado el dia 23 de septiembre de 2010 y presentado el dia 16 de agosto de 2011, al folio 38 del tomo de Registro de Sentencias #7. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 3 de mayo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y

The San Juan Daily Star venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: Dirección Física: Condominio Paseo Príncipe, Apartamento 415, Ponce, P.R. 00716. URBANA: Apartamento número 415 de hormigón armado y bloque, para fines residenciales, localizado en el cuarto piso del Edificio C del Condominio conocido con el nombre de Paseo Príncipe, ubicado en el Paseo Jardines Fagot del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Consta de un área superficial de 1,263.79 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 117.41 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en veintisiete pies diez pulgadas, equivalentes a ocho punto cuarenta y ocho metros, con el apartamento 416 y en catorce pies cuatro pulgadas, escalera del edificio; por el SUR, en treinta y dos pies once pulgadas, equivalentes a diez punto cero tres metros, con el apartamento número 414 y en nueve pies tres pulgadas, donde ubica el edificio; por el ESTE, en treinta y cinco pies tres pulgadas, equivalentes a diez punto setenta y cuatro metros, con el solar donde ubica el edificio; por el OESTE, en treinta y un pies siete pulgadas, equivalentes a nueve punto sesenta metros, con el solar donde ubica el edificio y en tres pies nueve pulgadas, equivalentes a uno punto catorce metros, con la escalera del edificio.

Este apartamento tiene acceso exclusivo a la azotea a través de una escalera en espiral que sale desde la terraza, cuya área superficial es de mil trescientos veintidós puntos sesenta y cuatro pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento veintidós puntos ochenta y ocho metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en cuarenta y cuatro pies dos pulgadas, equivalentes a trece puntos cuarenta y seis metros, en la terraza del apartamento 416; por el SUR, en treinta y dos pies once pulgadas, equivalentes a diez punto cero tres metros, con la terraza del apartamento de 414 y en once pies tres pulgadas equivalentes a tres punto cuarenta y tres metros, con el solar donde ubica el edificio; por el ESTE, en treinta y cinco pies tres pulgadas, equivalentes a diez punto setenta y cuatro metros, con el solar donde ubica el edificio; y por el OESTE, en treinta y cinco pies tres pulgadas, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y cinco pies tres pulgadas, equivalentes a diez punto setenta y cuatro metros, con el solar donde ubica el edificio, para un área total de dos mil quinientos ochenta y seis punto, cuarenta y tres pies cuadrados, equivalentes a doscientos cuarenta punto veintinueve metros cuadrados. Dicho apartamento

consta de tres cuartos dormitorios con sus closets, dos vestidores en el dormitorio principal, dos cuartos de baño, cocina, sala comedor, terraza y área de lavandería con sus closets, dos vestidores en el dormitorio principal, dos cuartos de baño, cocina, sala comedor, terraza y área de lavandería con sus closets. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes generales una participación de punto cero cientos setenta y ocho, equivalentes a uno punto sesenta y ocho por ciento, y se le asigna dos are de estacionamientos identificados con los numero ciento diecinueve y ciento veinte. Inscrita al folio 47 del tomo 2039 de Ponce, Finca número 61,598; Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera de Ponce.

El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 26 de febrero de 2021, en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $114,554.71 al 17 de agosto de 2020, lo cual se desglosa en $95,907.06 de principal, $4,532.26 de intereses, los cuales continúan aumentado a razón de $15.85 al día (“per diem”) hasta el pago total de la deuda, $850.16 de cargos por demora, $63.13 por concepto de deficiencia denla cuenta de reserva (“negative escrow”), $2.10 por concepto de deficiencia en contribuciones sobre la propiedad (“CRIM”), costas, gastos y la suma de $13,200.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado, según pactados en la escritura de hipoteca. Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $132,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la mis-

Thursday, August 5, 2021 ma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $88,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $66,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes

anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de julio de 2021. Miguel A Torres Ayala, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Ponce. ***

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

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITIONS TRUST 2018-HB1 DEMANDANTE Vs

JULIO RAMOS MATOS Y OTROS

DEMANDADO Civil Núm.: CA2019CV04297 (403). Sobre: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA . NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JULIO RAMOS MATOS T/C/C JULIO RAMOS, ISABEL CRUZ BOLTRON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL(LA) SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de julio de 2021 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial 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 o Sentencia Parcial, 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 29 de julio de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 29 de julio de 2021.

LCDA MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria Regional. f/LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, Secretario (a) Auxiliar.

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FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

BANCO POPULAR PUERTO RICO como sucesor en derechos de Banco de Ponce; John Doe y Richard Roe como posibles tenedores con interés.

Demandados CIVIL NUM. SJ2021CV03954.

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (personas desconocidas con posible interes)

En este caso Ia parte demandante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un pagare a favor de Banco de Ponce o a su orden por la suma de $56,340.00 intereses al 8% anual y fecha de vencimiento al 1 de octubre del 2006, constituido mediante la escritura 162 otorgada en San Juan el 3 de septiembre de 1976 ante el Notario Publico Miguel Bustelo Garriga. inscrita al folio 288 del tomo 556 de Sabana Llana finca 22,790 inscripción 1era., Registro de Ia Propiedad Sección Quinta de San Juan, y este garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en Urbanización Los Cantizales de Sabana Llana Solar 33, San Juan, que se describe como sigue: URBANA: URBANIZACION LOS CANTIZALES de Sabana Llana Solar 33: cabida 541.602 metros cuadrados.

Linderos: NORTE, en una distancia de veintisiete metros con ochenticinco centímetros (27.85 m) con el solar numero 32 de la urbanización los cantizales. Sur, en una distancia de cuarenta y cinco metros con diecisiete centímetros (45.17 m) con el solar numero 34 de la Urbanización Los Cantizales.

Este en un arco de siete metros ochenticinco centfmetros (7.85 m) con la calle que da acceso a la Urbanización Los Cantizales.

Noroeste en una distancia de veintiocho metros con treinticinco centímetros (28.35 m) con solares de la Urbanización Villa Andalucía antes Andalucía Corporation. Sobre el solar antes descrito se ha construido una estructura de concreto reforzado, hormigón y bloques diseñada para él use residencial de

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una familia. Inscrita al folio 288 del tomo 556 de Sabana Llana, finca numero 22,790, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. La parte demandante alega que dicho Pagare se ha extraviado, según mas detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaria de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicara en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de Ia parte demandante. Lcdo. Jorge Garcia Rondon, de PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del termino de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotara la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin mas citarles ni oirles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de julio de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria. Myriam Rivera Villanueva, Sec Serv a Sala.

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FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante V.

DOMINGO ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ CRISOSTOMO T/C/C DOMINGO SANCHEZ CRISOSTOMO, CARMEN ANA CASTRO DELGADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV04266.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la sala 503 sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. Lagos De Plata M-5 Calle 12 Toa Baja, PR 00949 y que se describe a continuación: Urbana: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Lagos de Plata, Primera Sección, situada en el Barrio Sabana Seca del término municipal de Toa Baja, que se describe en eplano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se describen a continuación: Número del Solar: 5 del bloque ‘M’. Área del Solar: 227.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en 9.08 metros, con la Avenida Lagos de Plata; por el Sur, en 9.08 metros, con la calle número 12 de dicha Urbanización; por el Este, en 25.00 metros, con el solar número 4 del bloque ‘M’; y por el Oeste, en 25.00 metros, con el solar número 6 del bloque ‘M’. Contiene una casa de hormigón reforzado para fines residenciales. TRACTO REGISTRAL: Se segrega de la finca 10966, inscrita al folio 269 del tomo 222 de Toa Baja.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 196 del Tomo 259 de Toa Baja, finca número 15745, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $80,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en la sala 503 el día 4 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo

mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $53,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en la sala 503 el día 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $40,000.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 117, otorgada el día 9 de diciembre de 2008, ante el Notario Patricia Pérez Surillo y consta inscrita en el Folio 121 del Tomo 679 de Toa Baja, finca número 15745, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda, inscripción cuarta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $68,235.32 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.250% anual desde el día 1 de julio de 2017. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $8,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $8,000.00para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $8,000.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil.

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

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

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que

24 tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de julio de 2021. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131.

de $16,64000, con vencimiento el 01 de mayo de 2014, y habiéndose constituido por la escritura número 202 otorgada el 27 de abril de 1999, ante el Notario Público Jose David Medina Rivera, inscrita al folio 63 del tomo 607 de Santurce Norte, finca número 21671, inscripción 4ta. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA 9019 GA 24 Ave. Ramirez de Arrellano Gardens Hills, Guaynabo PR 00966 Tel/Fax.: (787) 998-7415 lcdaeneIperez@gmail .com Se le apercibe que si no comparecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual Puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direccion electronica: https //unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle.

Dado en San Juan, 28 de julio de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretario. Nancy I Garcia Figueroa, Sec Serv a Sala.

DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: UT2018CV00290.

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

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA ROSARIO GARCÍA NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA R. GARCÍA NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA ROSARIO GARCÍA T/C/C MARÍ R. GARCÍA NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA GARCÍA T/C/C MARÍA R. NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA R. GARCÍA NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA ROSARIO GARCÍA T/C/C MARÍA NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA G. NEGRÓN COMPUESTA POR VILMA RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA, MARISA RODRIGUEZ GARCÍA, JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA, 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, JOSÉ F. RIVERA PÉREZ #477, Alguacil del Tribunal de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Primera Instancia, Sala de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Utuado, a los demandados, LEGAL NOTICE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la proESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SALA DE UTUADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUREVERSE MORTGAGE piedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en geneNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA FUNDING, LLC ral, por la presente CERTIFISALA SUPERIOR DE SAN Demandante Vs. CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSJUAN. SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA TAR: Que el día 2 DE ADA PLAZA RIVERA ROSARIO GARCÍA SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS Demandante vs.

NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA R. 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficiPOPULAR MORTGAGE, GARCÍA NEGRÓN T/C/C na, sita en el Tribunal de PrimeINC.; JOHN DOE & MARÍA ROSARIO GARCÍA ra Instancia, Sala Superior de RICHARD ROE Utuado, Utuado, Puerto Rico, T/C/C MARÍ R. GARCÍA procederé a vender en Pública Demandado NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA Subasta, al mejor postor, la proCIVIL NUM. SJ2021CV04645.

GARCÍA T/C/C MARÍA R. piedad inmueble que más adeSOBRE: Cancelacion de Pagare Extraviado. EDICTO. ESNEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA lante se describe y cuya venta TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA en pública subasta se ordenó R. GARCÍA NEGRÓN EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EST/C/C MARÍA ROSARIO por la vía ordinaria mediante TADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO dictada en el caso de GARCÍA T/C/C MARÍA Sentencia LIBRE ASOCIADOS DE PUERepígrafe, la cual se notificó y NEGRÓN T/C/C MARÍA G. archivó en autos el día 9 de diTO RICO. SS. NEGRÓN COMPUESTA ciembre de 2019. Los autos y A: JOHN DOE & POR VILMA RODRÍGUEZ todos los documentos corresRICHARD ROE pondientes al procedimiento inGARCÍA, MARISA Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentaRODRIGUEZ GARCÍA, coado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas do en le Secretaría de este TriJOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ bunal la demanda del caso de GARCÍA, FULANO DE TAL laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación epígrafe solicitando la cancelaY SUTANO DE TAL COMO en la primera subasta a celeción del Pagaré suscrito a favor POSIBLES HEREDEROS brarse, se celebrará una SEde Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a GUNDA SUBASTA para la venDE NOMBRES su orden, por la suma principal

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Thursday, August 5, 2021 ta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 9 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE 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 Utuado, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 21 de febrero de 2020, 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: 611 Road KM0.1 Vivi Abajo Ward Utuado, PR 00641, y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Localizada en el Barrio Viví Abajo del Municipio de Utuado, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de 2.505.2305 metros cuadrados. Linda: por el NORTE, con Juan Antonio Menchaca, Agustín Heredia y Juan Antonio Menchaca; por el SUR, con la franja destinada a uso público que la separa de los lotes 6 y 7; por el ESTE, con Juan Antonio Menchaca y la franja destinada a uso público que la separa de José Colón; y por el OESTE, con la parcela marcada con el número 2 en el Plano de Inscripción. Este es el remanente de esta finca luego de deducidas varias segregaciones. Finca Número 10,638, inscrita al folio 135 del tomo 263 de Utuado, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Utuado. 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: $89,973.24 de principal, más intereses acumulados al 31 de marzo de 2019, más la cantidad de 16,050.00, 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 433, otorgada el día 19 de diciembre de 2012, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Lizbet Aviles Vega y consta inscrita al folio 75 del tomo 488 de Utuado, Puerto Rico, finca número 10,638, Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado,

Sección de Utuado. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $160,500.00 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 $107,000.00; 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 $80,250.00. 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 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. 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 Utuado, Puerto Rico, a 19 de mayo de 2021. JOSÉ F. RIVERA PÉREZ, ALGUACIL #477, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE UTUADO.

t/c/c José Hernández t/c/c José Hernández Quilan compuesta por Hilda Esther Rivera Berríos, Randall Rivera, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles miembros de nombres desconocidos; Sucesión de Laura E. Berrios De Hernández tic/e Laura Hernández t/c/c Laura E. Hernández t/c/c Laura Berrios Rivera t/c/c Laura Esther Berrios Rivera t/c/c Laura Esther Berrios t/c/c Laura E. Berrios compuesta por Hilda Esther Rivera Berríos, Randall Rivera, Fulano y Sutano de Tal como posibles miembros de nombres desconocidos Centro de Recaudación Ingresos Municipales; Estados Unidos de América y Departamento de Hacienda.

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CA2020CV00554.

SALA: 407. SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. MANDAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: ORDEN. Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud aceptada la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así corno la interpelación judicial de la parte demaridante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787. Se Ordena los herederos.del causante a saber, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, herederos de nombres desconocidos a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante José Hernández Kuilan t/c/c José Hernandez t/c/c Jose Hernandez Quilan. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencioLEGAL NOTICE nados: (a) Que de no expreESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO sarse dentro del término de 30 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUdías en torno a su aceptación o NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA repudiación de herencia la misSALA DE CAROLINA. ma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Reverse Mortgage Que luego del transcurso del Solutions, Inc. término de 30 días contados DEMANDANTE vs. a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, Sucesión de José se presumirá que han aceptado Hernández Kuilan

la herencia del causante y por consiguiente, responden por la cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de los causantes José Hernández Quitan y Laura E. Berrios De Hernández, incluyen como herederos a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de julio de 2021. FDO. THAINIE REYES RAMIREZ, JUEZ. Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante José Hernández Kuilan t/c/c José Hernández t/c/c José Hernández Quilan.

Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Carolina, Puerto Rico hoy día 2 de agosto de 2021. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Rosa M Viera Velazquez, SubSecretaria.

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

SUCESIÓN DE AGUSTÍN ELÍAS RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN T/C/C AGUSTÍN RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN T/C/C AGUSTÍN ELÍAS RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C AGUSTÍN E. RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C AGUSTÍN RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR PETER RODRÍGUEZ VÉLEZ, BRUNILDA RODRÍGUEZ VÉLEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE HENORY BRUNIDA VÉLEZ ORTÍZ T/C/C HENORY B. VÉLEZ

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sentando 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 60 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 29 de julio de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de julio de 2021. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. f/ Elsa Magaly Candelario Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Tribunal General de Justicia TRIBUParte Demandada NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIVIL NÚM: SJ2019CV01375 SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUA(604). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DILLA. DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICAREVERSE MORTGAGE CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR FUNDING, LLC. EDICTO. Parte Demandante Vs.

A: PETER RODRÍGUEZ VIG MORTGAGE CORP; VÉLEZ, BRUNILDA SUN WEST MORTGAGE RODRÍGUEZ VÉLEZ, COMPANY, INC.; FULANO DE TAL Y HIPOLITO GONZALEZ SUTANO DE TAL COMO TORRES T/C/C POSIBLES HEREDEROS HIPOLITO GONZÁLEZ; DE NOMBRES EDGARDO GONZÁLEZ DESCONOCIDOS TODOS GARCÍA POR SÍ Y EN MIEMBROS DE LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE SUCESIÓN DE AGUSTÍN LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL ELÍAS RODRÍGUEZ DE GANANCIALES COLÓN T/C/C AGUSTÍN COMPUESTA CON RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN MIRIAM HILDA T/C/C AGUSTÍN CRUZ QUIÑONES; ELÍAS RODRÍGUEZ MIRIAM HILDA CRUZ T/C/C AGUSTÍN E. QUIÑONES POR SÍ Y EN RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C REPRESENTACIÓN DE AGUSTÍN RODRÍGUEZ LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GANANCIALES DE HENORY BRUNIDA COMPUESTA POR VÉLEZ ORTÍZ T/C/C EDGARDO GONZÁLEZ HENORY B. VÉLEZ T/C/C GARCÍA; FULANO DE HENORY VÉLEZ ORTÍZ TAL Y SUTANA DE ORTIZ T/C/C HENORY TAL COMO POSIBLES BRUNILDA VÉLEZ T/C/C TENEDORES DEL HENORY B. VÉLEZ T/C/C PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO HENORY VÉLEZ HENORY Y CUYA IDENTIDAD BRUNILDA RODRÍGUEZ SE DESCONOCE AL T/CC HENORY B. VÉLEZ PRESENTE DE RODRÍGUEZ Parte Demandada

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de julio de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o repre-

CIVIL NÚM. AG2019CV01528.

SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE EXTRAVIADO PAGARÉ. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA ENMENDADA POR EDICTO

A: HIPOLITO GONZÁLEZ TORRES T/C/C HIPOLITO GONZÁLEZ; EDGARDO GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA POR SÍ EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON MIRIAM HILDA

DINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE CRUZ QUIÑONES, MIRIAM HILDA CRUZ SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FELIPE AQUINO QUIÑONES POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE PEREZ, ARLEEN DENISE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL RODRIGUEZ PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE DE GANANCIALES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR COMPUESTA POR EDGARDO GONZÁLEZ CADA UNO DE SUS GARCÍA MIEMBROS COMO DIRECCIÓN: SR 459 KM COADMINISTRADORES 15.5 INT. 5 MIRADOR DEL CIELO DEy. BAJURAS URB.TREASURE VALLEY A18 CALLE MEJICO, WD., CIDRA PR 00739; ISABELA, PR 00662 KERRYKDALE STREET, P/C: LCDA. GENEVIEVE DELTONA FL 32738 LOPEZ STIPES EL(LA) SECRETARIO(A) que GLS LEGAL SERVICES, suscribe le notifica a usted que LLC el 30 de junio de 2017 este PO BOX 367308 Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia SAN JUAN, PR 00936 o Sentencia Parcial en este

EL SECRETARIO que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de julio de 2021, este tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recursos de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 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 julio de 2021.

En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, A 29 DE JULIO DE 2021. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretaria Regional. ARLENE GUZMAN, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOT ICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Caguas.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE Vs

FELIPE AQUINO PEREZ, ARLEEN DENISE RODRIGUEZ PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADO Civil Núm.: ECD2016-1177.

Sala 801. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA OR-

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 o Sentencia Parcial, 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 29 de julio de 2021. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de julio de 2021.

Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria Regional Interina. F/ Eneida Arroyo Velez, Secretario (a) Auxiliar.

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A: JOHN DOE Doral Mortgage Corp., COMO TENEDOR o a su orden, en el DESCONOCIDO DEL cual se garantizaba la hipoteca constituida por PAGARÉ como tenedor la escritura 757 otorgada desconocido de Pagaré por la cantidad de en esa misma fecha $133,000.00 a favor de ante el Notario Reina Doral Financia! Corp., Ido Segurola Pérez. El Pagaré quedó notarizado haciendo negocios como H.F. Mortgage Bankers, o en virtud del número a su orden, en el cual se de testimonio 12,228, e inscrita a la finca número garantizaba la hipoteca 21,652 de Bayamón Sur, subordinada constituida por la escritura 260, Registro de la Propiedad, otorgada en Ponce, Primera Sección de Puerto Rico, el día 14 Bayamón.

Por la presente se le emplaza de julio de 2003, ante el y notifica que debe contestar la notario Felix A. Llorens demanda incoada en su contra Santini, e inscrita al dentro del término de treinta folio 94 del tomo 2013 (30) días a partir de la publicade Ponce, finca número ción del presente edicto. Usted 62,122. deberá presentar su alegación

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ DIAZ & SÁNCHEZ LLP Edificio Ochoa Suite 200 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdslawpr.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 2 de agosto de 2021. LUZ MALEGAL NOTICE YRA CARABALLO GARCIA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Sec Aux del Tribunal I. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE SALA DE PONCE. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO BANCO POPULAR DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL PUERTO RICO, INC., GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIDemandante, v.

BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANPEDRO ENRIQUE MUÑIZ CIA SALA DE GUAYNABO

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

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ DIAZ & SÁNCHEZ LLP Edificio Ochoa Suite 200 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdslawpr.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy LEGAL NOTICE 02 de agosto de 2021. LCDA. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSECRETARIA REGIONAL. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SANDRA I. CRUZ VÁZQUEZ, SALA DE BAYAMÓN SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS BANCO POPULAR DE A SALA.

PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOHN DOE

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2021CV02957.

Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ.

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

A: JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ como tenedor desconocido de Pagaré por la cantidad de $133,000.00 a favor de

DIAZ, JOHN DOE,

Demandadas CIVIL NÚM.: PO2021CV01722.

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VIA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. SS.

ESTRELLA HOMES, LLC Demandante V.

CANDIDA GONZÁLEZ CORDOVA

Demandado Civil Núm.: GB2019CV00294.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VIA ORDINARIA). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL

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

Está construida de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto con un área de piso de 121.11 metros cuadrados, más o menos la cual comprende el área entre la cara interior de sus paredes exteriores. Dicho apartamento está localizado frente a la sala-comedor y comunica inmediatamente con el pasillo que a su vez comunica inmediatamente con el vestibulo del elevador que es uno de los elementos comunes del edificio y conduce a la Calle Número 3 de la Urbanización Mansiones de Garden Hills. Colinda por el NORTE, en 6.33 metros más o menos, con la cocina y la lavandería del apartamento número 14-D, en 12.7 metros más o menos con el pasillo que comunica con el vestíbulo del elevador; por el SUR, en 18.39 metros más o menos con la pared exterior Sur; por el ESTE, en 8.42 metros más o menos con la pared exterior, en 0.93 metros más o menos con el pasillo de acceso al apartamento; por el OESTE, en 1.71 metros más o menos con el pasillo de acceso al apartamento, en 0.53 metros más o menos con el vestíbulo del elevador, en 2.16 metros más o menos con el pasillo entre el vestíbulo del elevador y la escalera, en 2.34 metros más o menos con la escalera, en 0.81 metros más o menos con el cuarto de baño de servicio, en 1.83 metros más

o menos con la pared exterior del Oeste. Este apartamento será usado para propósitos residenciales y contiene lo siguiente: sala-comedor, cocina, lavandería, tres dormitorios con sus respectivos guardarropas, un pasillo que comunica a los dormitorios, dos baños, un guardarropa de cama y un balcón. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales una participación de 0.659% y dos espacios de estacionamientos marcados con el número A-90 cubierto y número B-50 cubierto. Finca 27022 al folio 250 del tomo 680 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la suma de $223,250.00 con intereses al 6.25% anual y vencimiento 1 de diciembre de 2033.

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

(615/515) Cancelada Parcialmente en una suma de $32,481.18 y Modificada en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su principal por $190,768.82 con intereses comenzando el 1 de agosto de 2015 al 1 de julio de 2018 al 3.850%, comenzando el 1 de agosto de 2018 al 1 de julio de 2055 al 6.250%, con un pago final por $7,642.69 y vencimiento 1 de julio de 2055, según consta de la escritura 15 otorgada en San Juan el 27 de junio de 2015 ante el notario Miguel A. Romero Lugo, e inscrita al folio 135 del tomo 1528 de Guaynabo, finca 27022, inscripción 10ª, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 28 de enero de 2020, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $181,366.30 de principal, más intereses que continuarán acumulándose desde el día 1 de diciembre de 2017 hasta el saldo total al 6.25% anual, $981.42 de cargos por atraso, $1,796.97 de otros cargos, $22,325.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de

26 siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $223,250.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $148,833.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $111,625.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuestos al gravamen del actor y a los dueños poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en título trasmisible por en-

doso al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor, y con los cuales no hubiese tenido el efecto la notificación del escrito inicial y del Mandamiento de requerimiento de pago para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviene o satisficiera antes del remate el importe del crédito de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados, asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, una vez confirmada la venta o adjudicación, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

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

FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL #325, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYNABO.

y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretarla del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de julio de 2021. SRA. GUILLERMINA TORRES PAGAN, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO. f/MARIA AVILES BONILLA, Sec Auxiliar.

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE CABO ROJO

CORPORATION; JULIO SANTOS GONZALEZ, ROSA IRMA RIVERA FONTANEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C DORAL MORTGAGE LLC Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV00964. Sala: 504. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO LEGAL NOTICE POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUPOR EDICTO. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA A: CARIBBEAN SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO FINANCIAL SERVICES ROJO.

Parte Demandante VS

FRANK M. RAMIREZ FAGUNDO

Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM. CB2021CV00030.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO.

A: FRANK M. RAMIREZ FAGUNDO

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colon, P.O. Box 277, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, August 5, 2021

(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 12 de julio de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 2 de agosto de 2021. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 2 de agosto de 2021. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

HACIENDA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2020CV00554.

Sala: 407. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO CUALQUIER MIEMBRO AÚN DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ KUILAN T/C/C JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ QUILAN.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House, lnc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $195,000.00, más intereses LEGAL NOTICE computados sobre la misma ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO desde su fecha hasta su total DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUy completo pago a razón de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA la tasa de interés de 5.060% SALA DE CAROLINA la cual será ajustada REVERSE MORTGAGE anual, mensualmente, obligándose SOLUTIONS, INC. además al pago de costas, gasDemandante Vs. tos y desembolsos del litigio, SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ más honorarios de abogados HERNÁNDEZ KUILAN en una suma de $19,500.00 T/C/C JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ equivalente al 10% de la suma T/C/C JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ principal original. Este pagaQUILAN COMPUESTA ré fue suscrito bajo el afidávit número 6,226 ante el notario POR HILDA ESTHER público Ileana Corral Lizardi.

RIVERA BERRÍOS, Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca HÉCTOR MANUEL constituida mediante la escritura número 120 otorgada el 28 RIVERA BERRÍOS, de mayo de 2010 en San Juan, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO Puerto Rico, ante el notario Ileana Corral Lizardi inscrita al POSIBLES MIEMBROS Folio 24 del Tomo 1,008 de CaDE NOMBRES rolina, Registro de la Propiedad DESCONOCIDOS; de Puerto Rico, Sección de I de SUCESIÓN DE LAURA Carolina finca número 11,064.

La Hipoteca grava la propiedad E. BERRIOS DE que se describe “URBANA: SoHERNÁNDEZ T/C/C LAURA HERNÁNDEZ lar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana situada en el BaT/C/C LAURA E. rrio Sabana Abajo, del término HERNÁNDEZ A/K/A municipal de Carolina, Puerto LAURA BERRIOS Rico, marcado con el número RIVERA T/C/C LAURA cuatro de la manzana cuatro GN, con un área de trescienESTHER BERRIOS RIVERA T/C/C LAURA tos metros cuadrados con siete centésimas de metro cuadrado ESTHER BERRIOS T/C/C en lindes: por el NORTE, con el LAURA E. BERRIOS solar número cinco, distancia COMPUESTA POR de veintiún metros con seisHILDA ESTHER RIVERA cientos cincuenta milésimas BERRÍOS, Y HÉCTOR de metro; por el SUR, con el solar número tres, distancia de MANUEL RIVERA veintiún metros con seiscientos BERRÍOS; CENTRO cincuenta milésimas de metro; DE RECAUDACIÓN por el ESTE, con el solar núINGRESOS mero nueve, distancia de trece MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS metros con ochocientos sesenUNIDOS DE AMÉRICA ta milésimas de metro; y por el Y DEPARTAMENTO DE OESTE, con la calle número

trescientos cuatro, distancia de trece metros con ochocientos sesenta milésimas de metro.

En dicho solar enclavada una vivienda de concreto para una familia.” Finca número 11,064 inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 292 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Carolina. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.jamajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 60 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 30 de julio de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

T/C/C LAURA E. HERNÁNDEZ A/K/A LAURA BERRIOS RIVERA T/C/C LAURA ESTHER BERRIOS RIVERA T/C/C LAURA ESTHER BERRIOS T/C/C LAURA E. BERRIOS COMPUESTA POR HILDA ESTHER RIVERA BERRÍOS, Y HÉCTOR MANUEL RIVERA BERRÍOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Y DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2020CV00554.

Sala: 407. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO CUALQUIER MIEMBRO AÚN DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LAURA E. BERRIOS DE HERNÁNDEZ T/CC LAURA HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C LAURA E. HERNÁNDEZ A/K/A LAURA BERRIOS RIVERA T/C/C LAURA ESTHER BERRIOS RIVERA T/C/C LAURA ESTHER BERRIOS T/C/C LAURA E. BERRIOS.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la SeLEGAL NOTICE cretaria de este Tribunal la ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Demanda del caso del epígraDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUfe solicitando la ejecución de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA hipoteca y el cobro de dinero SALA DE CAROLINA relacionado al pagaré suscrito REVERSE MORTGAGE a favor de The Money House, SOLUTIONS, INC. lnc., o a su orden, por la suma Demandante Vs. principal de $195,000.00, más SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ intereses computados sobre HERNÁNDEZ KUILAN la misma desde su fecha hasT/C/C JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ ta su total y completo pago T/C/C JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ a razón de la tasa de interés de 5.060% anual, la cual será QUILAN COMPUESTA ajustada mensualmente, obliPOR HILDA ESTHER gándose además al pago de RIVERA BERRÍOS, costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de HÉCTOR MANUEL abogados en una suma de RIVERA BERRÍOS, $19,500.00 equivalente al 10% FULANO DE TAL Y la suma principal original.

SUTANO DE TAL COMO de Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo POSIBLES MIEMBROS el afidávit número 6,226 ante DE NOMBRES el notario público Ileana Corral DESCONOCIDOS; Lizardi. Lo anterior surge de la SUCESIÓN DE LAURA hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 120 otorgaE. BERRIOS DE da el 28 de mayo de 2010 en HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el

LAURA HERNÁNDEZ

notario Ileana Corral Lizardi inscrita al Folio 24 del Tomo 1,008 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de I de Carolina finca número 11,064. La Hipoteca grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo, del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cuatro de la manzana cuatro GN, con un área de trescientos metros cuadrados con siete centésimas de metro cuadrado en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar número cinco, distancia de veintiún metros con seiscientos cincuenta milésimas de metro; por el SUR, con el solar número tres, distancia de veintiún metros con seiscientos cincuenta milésimas de metro; por el ESTE, con el solar número nueve, distancia de trece metros con ochocientos sesenta milésimas de metro; y por el OESTE, con la calle número trescientos cuatro, distancia de trece metros con ochocientos sesenta milésimas de metro.

En dicho solar enclavada una vivienda de concreto para una familia.” Finca número 11,064 inscrita al folio 114 del tomo 292 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Carolina. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.jamajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 60 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 30 de julio de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Andre De Grasse wins 200 meters, 2nd medal at 2020 Games

By SCOTT CACCIOLA

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ndre De Grasse of Canada claimed his second Olympic medal of the Tokyo Games on Wednesday, sprinting to gold in the men’s 200 meters in 19.62 seconds, a national record.

He was followed by three athletes from the United States: Kenny Bednarek won the silver (19.68), and Noah Lyles was third for the bronze (19.74). Erriyon Knighton, the 17-year-old high school student from Tampa, Florida, was fourth.

De Grasse, 26, won bronze in the 100 meters this week. He is now a fivetime Olympic medalist.

Here’s what else happened Wednesday evening in Tokyo.

Men’s 800 meters Taking the torch from their countryman David Rudisha, Kenyans finished one-two in the men’s 800 meters. Emmanuel Korir won the gold in 1 minute, 45.06 seconds, and Ferguson Rotich finished behind him for silver. Rudisha was the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion in the event and last raced competitively in 2017. Patryk Dobek of Poland finished third.

Clayton Murphy of the United States, the bronze medalist in 2016, finished ninth Wednesday.

Women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase With about four laps remaining in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, Courtney Frerichs decided to push the pace. She was rewarded with a silver

Andre De Grasse of Canada claimed the gold in the men’s 200 meters in 19.62 seconds. medal.

Frerichs, the American record-holder in the event and the silver medalist at the 2017 world championships, broke down in tears as she crossed the line in 9:04.79.

Peruth Chemutai of Uganda won the gold, and Hyvin Kiyeng of Kenya finished in third.

Emma Coburn of the United States, the bronze medalist at the 2016 Olympics, was laboring when she tumbled after hurdling a barrier. She finished in 14th place but was later disqualified because she had fallen inside the track.

Women’s 400-meter semifinals Allyson Felix of the United States ad-

vanced to Friday’s final, finishing second in her heat. Felix, competing in her fifth Olympic Games, needs one more medal for 10 in her career, which would match her with Carl Lewis as the U.S.’ most decorated track and field Olympian. Now 35, Felix has said that these are her final Olympics.

US baseball team defeats Dominican Republic

By JAMES WAGNER

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ehind one of its oldest and one of its youngest players, the United States toppled the Dominican Republic, 3-1, Wednesday at Yokohama Stadium to advance to the semifinals and preserve its gold-medal hopes.

Scott Kazmir, 37, who reached the major leagues this season after five years away, allowed just two hits over five scoreless innings while striking out five batters.

An All-Star with the Tampa Bay Rays

in his early 20s, Kazmir made a comeback this major league season, appearing in three games with the San Francisco Giants. When he was let go by the Giants, Team USA pounced, and the unemployed Kazmir seized the opportunity to pitch in the Olympics.

“I felt like I still had a lot in me, and I felt like the time off really did me well,” he said.

First baseman Triston Casas, 21, a top prospect for the Boston Red Sox, smashed a two-run home run in the first inning off Denyi Reyes, another player in

the Red Sox farm system. It was Casas’ third home run of the Olympics. Designated hitter Tyler Austin added a solo blast in the fifth inning.

Today at 6 a.m. Eastern Time the United States faces South Korea, which lost to undefeated Japan 5-2 on Wednesday. Another win, and the United States will play for its first gold medal in baseball since 2000.

Despite the loss, the Dominican Republic advanced to the bronze-medal game, where it could claim its first Olympic medal in baseball.

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To jump higher, Cunningham entrusted her father, the quarterback

By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

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here are not a lot of boxes left for Vashti Cunningham to check in the high jump.

Just 23, she has won national championships and an indoor world title. An Olympic medal, preferably gold, is just about all that is left for the athlete whose parents’ feats might help explain her jumping acumen.

Her father and coach, Randall Cunningham, the former NFL quarterback who played mostly with the Philadelphia Eagles, used to leap over very large offensive and defensive lineman to get into the end zone.

Her mother was a ballerina with the Dance Theater of Harlem, a profession that requires a good set of springs.

Maybe it’s little surprise their daughter is a world-class high jumper. Cunningham finished 13th at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016 when she was still a teenager, just five months after she won the world indoor high-jump title. At the World Athletics championships in Doha, Qatar, two years ago, she finished third.

To make the top step of the podium in Tokyo, Cunningham and her father have devised an unconventional strategy: She does not practice jumping very much at all. How little does Cunningham jump in training? As seldom as one day every three weeks and no more than 10 times on the jumping day. Instead of jumping, she focuses on strength and speed training and technique.

“I put my trust in God and in the weight room,” Cunningham said in an interview earlier this year.

The strategic shift was born somewhat out of necessity. Before the 2019 season, Cunningham had surgery to remove a bone spur from her ankle. After she recovered, going over the bar whenever she wanted was no longer an option. Her father insisted the key to her success involved jumping less and less. But one jumping day every three weeks?

That required a leap of faith that speaks to an ever-evolving and not always smooth, multifaceted relationship between Cunningham and her father. At any moment on any day, he wears the hat of dad, coach or preacher; Randall Cunningham is the senior pastor at Remnant Ministries church in Las Vegas.

It’s a lot of time with her father, especially for a 23-year-old woman. Trusting the path set for her by her father, who competed in the high jump in high school and went

Vashti Cunningham has been training under the idea that performing the high jump less often will be beneficial to her results.

as high as 6 feet, 10 inches, has had its moments.

Cunningham played just about every sport she could growing up: flag football, volleyball, soccer and basketball in addition to track.

As she entered high school, she wanted to be a three-sport athlete. Her father told her to pick two. She wanted to play basketball.

She played point guard and loved having the ball in her hands. But a talented track athlete she and her father knew had gotten hurt playing basketball. With his encouragement, she chose volleyball to go along with track, which was her best sport.

By her senior year of high school, Cunningham was the best female high jumper in the country. She was also very good at volleyball and was recruited by the University of Georgia and the University of Southern California for that sport.

She desperately wanted to leave Las Vegas and be a college student. She had just become the world indoor high-jump champion.

Sponsorship offers were beginning to arrive.

Randall Cunningham asked his daughter if she wanted to make money or be a broke college student. She chose what she thought was the obvious answer.

Initially, things did not go so well. Her father wanted her home by 9 p.m. every day, which did not sit well with an 18-year-old whose friends had a lot more freedom. At home, he sometimes would pull her in front

of a screen to watch high-jump videos until late into the night.

“It got tough, all the one-on-one time, doing all the hard work with no teammates and no one to joke around with,” Vashti Cunningham said. “It just got very serious. It became the center of everything in my life. It became more of a job.”

The happy medium arrived after a year, when Cunningham got her own apartment about a 20-minute drive from her parents and about 10 minutes away from the private gym and practice facility her father had built for her and the handful of athletes he coaches, including her older brother, who did not make the Olympic team.

Randall Cunningham said there were moments after his daughter passed on college — and still are today — when she would look at him and say, “I just want you to be my dad today.” He did, which helped convince her that he had her best interests at heart.

But then came the bone spur surgery, the rehab and a training regimen that did not involve much jumping at all. That is not a small ask in an event where confidence — the ability to look at a bar more than a halffoot above your head and say, ‘I can get my entire body over that’ — can play a big role.

With so much time between practice jumps, would the muscle memory still be there when competitions arrived?

That all depends on which school of training you subscribe to.

Cliff Rovelto, the high-jump expert who coaches at Kansas State University and has consulted with Cunningham, said the thinking on how often a young elite athlete should jump is “all over the map.”

Rovelto tends to be in the less-is-more camp that emphasizes weight training, technique and sprinting rather than flying over the bar several days a week.

“If you are going to compete at a high level, you’ve got to train,” Rovelto said.

“When you do more jumping, the body breaks down because the cumulative effect wears on you.”

He said a jumping session every two weeks is common among coaches who think like he does.

Randall Cunningham, though, has taken it a step further.

At first, the schedule terrified Vashti Cunningham. But then she went to a competition and realized how fresh and healthy she felt. Her body still knew what to do.

She makes up for the days and weeks without jumping by sitting quietly at night and visualizing herself in competition, rising up and over the bar and descending onto the crash mat.

It seems to be working. Earlier this year she set a personal best of 6 feet, 7 1/2 inches. Her competition is slated to begin today in Tokyo with the finals set for Saturday.

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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 30

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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You may think you’re making wise choices, but under the current skies it’s possible you could overestimate your chances or be too quick off the mark.

Add to this a dreamy Neptune influence, and your perceptions might be distorted. You can be tempted to do something on the spur of the moment to get things moving, but it may be better to wait and get your bearings first, Aries.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

The willingness to try out new experiences could be very liberating, with a chance to get involved in activities you’re really enthusiastic about. Conversation today might motivate you to join a group where you can flourish. Meanwhile, a focus on your spiritual sector suggests that enjoying some alone time is not only healing, but may help you see many things in perspective.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Someone could say something that you find irritating, and it might cause a temporary rift between you. Or it may be you that speaks your mind and upsets another. The coming day or so can be a tricky one for clear communication. It could be so easy to get the wrong end of the stick and then find it was all an error. If something seems off, find out why, and do something about it.

Do you love entertaining and cooking for friends? If so, you may be doing more than ever. Putting on a spread today? Then friends and family can really appreciate your efforts. Your imagination and creativity sparkle too, so if you’re thinking of adding a special touch to your home, it’s a good time to do so. Need to make an edgy announcement? Think it through first.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

You may be trying too hard to get through to someone, when meeting them halfway could help avoid further complications. With care and sensitivity, an upset can be a reason to become even closer. In addition, today’s Moon Neptune link suggests that a little white lie might be necessary to spare someone hurt feelings. You could be very honest, but what would it accomplish?

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

The focus on your social sector can tempt you to get involved with team projects you might enjoy, or to spend time with someone you care about.

Although you may have other urgent plans, the idea of unwinding in good company could act as a much-needed tonic. Have something edgy to discuss? Putting yourself in another’s shoes can help avoid any fallout.

Be ready to grasp an opportunity that could line up very nicely for you over coming days, Archer. Events can seem to slot into place one after the other, and this may prove very pleasing. If you have been waiting for a lucky break, this might be it. On another note, think before you speak, as you could inadvertently say something that causes an upset. Tact and diplomacy may be useful.

Misunderstandings, mixed signals or unexpected snafus, can make it difficult to get ahead. Yet despite any problems that come your way, a practical bias suggests you’ll easily be able to swap one plan for another. For instance, doing something creative, reading a good novel or watching a movie, could be a fine substitute. But if you need to get something sorted, take your time.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Distracting thoughts could make it hard to deal with any tasks that need completing. In addition, a secret yearning can see you daydreaming too. Yet a delightful Moon/Jupiter link may bring news that requires action. If you get a special invite or opportunity today, you might miss it, unless you’re willing to move fast. Plus, the key to resolving any issues is to communicate with care.

Your routines may not go like clockwork, so it can help to simplify things as far as possible. A relaxed and flexible approach could be just what’s needed to handle an unexpected snafus. There might be an upside to things not going to plan, as any detours you take may lead to brand new discoveries. You might have to accept each moment for what it is, and do your best Aquarius.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

The Mercury/Uranus link suggests that an unexpected mix-up could cause you to feel edgy. Just as you’re ready to forge ahead, you can veer off in another direction. Things might crop up when you don’t need them to, and this may eat into your time.

Rather than get anxious, slow down and try to be aware and as present as you can. You will get there in the end, Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

An awkward influence can mean that you end up trying your hardest to please someone important.

But do you really need to? They likely don’t expect it, and this might have more to do with a desire to be in their good books. You may even find that by being independent and perhaps challenging them at times, you begin to feel more self-assured in their company.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

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Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

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