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sland Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López said a $217 million cut to the agency’s budget, as proposed by the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board, would have a negative impact on the services it provides.

He also acknowledged that the receipt of some $78.5 million in federal funds will help mitigate some of the cuts.

Mellado López said the Health Department requested a $1.2 billion budget but the oversight allocated $1 billion.

“The variances between the requested budget and the recommended budget represent a reduction in payroll, facilities, public services, professional services, investments, PayGo and the matching in federal funds as well as debt payments,” the Health secretary said.

Some cuts, by item, are as follows: $24.4 million less for payroll, a $14.8 million cut in professional services, a $6.7 million cut in public facilities and services, $12.4 million less in purchased services and $161.7 million less in permanent works.

By hospital facility, the Adult University Hospital suffers the main cut, totaling $20.7 million, when compared with the requested budget, followed by the Pediatric Hospital with a decrease of $18.4 million and the Bayamón Regional Hospital, which suffers a cut of $7.9 million.

“We have been emphatic with the board in requesting that our hospitals be allowed to use the money from their own income in its entirety to continue providing services to the population,” Mellado López said.

In the particular case of the payroll item, the requested budget of $173.6 million does not contemplate the $12 million needed to meet the salary of 250 employees inherited from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

In the capital improvements item, the Health Department requested $162.2 million for permanent improvements but the oversight board did not authorize any payment. The department has $243.7 million to continue with its capital improvement plan, which has projects starting in 2019 at the Cardiovascular Hospital and improvements to the Vieques Diagnostic and Treatment Center through the Infrastructure Financing Authority.

The Health Department also has $193 million in pending claims with the Federal Emergency Management Agency due to the devastation caused by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 and the January 2020 earthquakes.

Puerto Rico Diabetes Center (CDPR by its Span-

ish initials) Director Miguel José Bustelo Sanclemente charged that “the present budget allocation will not allow us to continue operating.”

Bustelo Sanclemente reported through an extensive explanatory memorandum that the CDPR has covered all its expenses through a reserve account that eight years ago amounted to $2.8 million but that currently, the reserve is insolvent and in deficit.

“Due to budget reductions, the Outpatient Dental Clinics, the Investigative Agenda, the Diabetes Prevention and Education Programs aimed at public employees and aimed at public housing and other communities, and the continuous development of new educational, preventive and education programs ceased to the community in general,” he said.

Medical Services Administration (ASEM by its Spanish acronym) Director Jorge Matta González pointed out that the reduction in patients treated at the Medical Center and an accumulated $84.8 million debt, including $19.9 million from insurers, led to a projected loss of $107.3 million.

Matta González said the recommended budget for ASEM amounts to $185.6 million, a decrease of $33.6 million compared to the requested budget.

ASEM has suffered a payroll reduction of 705 employees since 2018, and had an accumulated debt with suppliers as of June 30, 2020 totaling $66.8 million.

Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López said a $217 million cut to the agency’s budget, as proposed by the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board, would have a negative impact on services. (Photo by Johanna Sánchez)

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Puerto Rico sees sharp rise in online food shopping

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ver the past year, 79% of Puerto Rico residents have made internet purchases, placing the island among the top five most active places in online shopping.

Of that number, 48% have purchased food through online applications.

The data is part of preliminary results of a Consumer Survey 2021 study called “The Connected Consumer.” The rise in the use of digital platforms for online purchases motivated the Chamber of Food Marketing, Industry and Distribution] (MIDA by its Spanish acronym) and its Consumer Survey committee to measure the trend toward online food purchases in depth for the first time.

The complete study is to be presented through the Zoom platform on June 17 at 10 a.m.

In 2020, it was reported that 30% of users utilized online tools to buy food, a number that has grown to 48% in 2021.

In addition to the consistent growth that has been observed in the past 12 months in the use of digital platforms, one in three (33%) are new online food buyers.

“The Connected Consumer addresses the exponential increase in the use of digital platforms for the purchase of food in recent years,” said MIDA Executive Vice President

So far this year, 48% of island consumers have used online tools to buy food, up from 30% in 2020, according to preliminary results of a consumer survey-based study to be released later this month by the Puerto Rico Chamber of Food Marketing, Industry and Distribution.

Manuel Reyes Alfonso. “The Consumer Survey [CR by its Spanish initials] study reported in 2018 that 6% of online users purchased food online. In 2019, the number increased to 15% and in 2020, it reached 30%. Certainly, the pandemic accelerated the use of online shopping, but the industry was prepared.”

He added that for the food sector it is important to know the habits of the new consumer, so that the components can evolve and respond to their needs.

To get a clearer idea of who the connected consumer is, the poll revealed that 89% are women and 33% are in the 35 to 44 age group. In terms of income, 27% reported income of less than $10,000 per year in a household of 2 or 3 people (48%). About 53% do not receive funds through the federal nutritional assistance program, known locally by the Spanish acronym PAN, of which 67% are over 45 years of age.

“The focus of this study is to know in depth the consumer who makes online purchases,” Reyes Alfonso said. “This allows both retailers and suppliers to be prepared. We are living in times of constant development and the food industry is advancing with it.”

The CR study also seeks to identify the main motivators that consumers use to choose a digital platform to make food purchases, what limitations the connected consumer faces and what opportunities exist for the market segment, said Richard Valdés, chairman of the CR committee.

He noted that 13 percent of shoppers do 100 percent of their food shopping online. This population completely changed the way they do their shopping and no longer visit traditional (brick and mortar) establishments, Valdés said.

Senate looks to investigate rise in food prices

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he island Senate is on track to conduct an investigation into the rise in food prices and will pay special attention to the increase in the cost of fresh meat in Puerto Rico, the upper chamber announced Wednesday.

Senate Resolution (SR) 222 also orders the identification of the strategies that the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO by its Spanish acronym) will carry out to address the situation as well as the identification of alternatives to protect consumers from price gouging, said Sen. Gretchen Marie Hau of the Guayama district, the author of the measure.

“That citizens have to face hikes in the prices of products that are consumed daily is unjustifiable,” Hau said in a written statement. “To this we add the silence on the part of DACO, which limits its own powers and prerogatives [on behalf of] the thousands of Puerto Ricans who will have to choose between buying their food, medicine or paying for essential services such as water, electricity as well as gas.

or pay the [highway] toll.”

“Given this scenario and as [chairwoman] of the Senate Committee on [Economic Development, Essential Services and] Consumer Affairs, I am called to investigate what is happening, what the plans of the agencies concerned are to address this issue and how we can contribute legislation to benefit the working class of the country,” the senator added.

The April report of the Consumer Price Index of Puerto Rico revealed an increase of 1.4 percent when compared to April 2020. The highest growth was in the categories of food and beverages (1.4 percent), clothing (2.1 percent) and transportation (3 percent). Other categories that saw a price increase are gasoline and airfares.

“In the area of food, a substantial increase is expected in meats and chicken, which are central to most Puerto Rican dishes. Meanwhile, Héctor Román, a spokesman for the DACO Economic Studies Division, assures us that the rise in the price of fresh meat is justified, because the profit margin obtained by the sellers and distributors of the product is minimal,”

Hau said. “The question is, what will the agency do to prevent this rise? What will the agency do to ensure that citizens’ pocketbooks are not affected? We have to take action at once. We cannot continue imposing on and giving more burdens to consumers.”

The demand for meat consumption is expected to increase as more dishes are prepared on the grill due to the summer season and the extension in the hours of operation of places that prepare and sell food.

Likewise, a rise in poultry prices is expected. Data published in different media shows that more than 200 million pounds of chicken are imported into Puerto Rico per year.

“Only 20 percent of the total chicken consumed is produced on the island, which means that the prices of chicken that comes from abroad will also increase,” Hau said. “DACO is the agency that has the non-delegable responsibility of defending consumers against commercial interests. What we have shown, so far, is that they limit themselves to being proactive in promoting a fair balance

Sen. Gretchen Marie Hau that benefits our consumers.”

Hau said she expects that the measure will be approved so that the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Essential Services and Consumer Affairs can immediately begin the investigation ordered in SR 222.

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Trans activist urges Legislature to defeat bill that defines gender-confirming therapies involving minors as abuse

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

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rue Self Foundation Executive Director Joanna Cifredo on Wednesday urged the Puerto Rico Legislature not to pass House Bill (HB) 768, saying the legislation would infringe on the rights of transgender youth who have support from their families in confirming their gender identity “with the assurance of a physician or a team of health care professionals.”

On the third day of public hearings before the House Committee on Social Welfare, People with Disabilities and the Elderly chaired by the Dignity Project Rep. Lisie J. Burgos, Cifredo said allowing this legislation to become law would lead trans minors “to seek transitional treatments clandestinely.”

As the STAR reported May 21, HB 768, penned by Burgos, seeks to amend the Minors Safety, Welfare, and Protection Act to define as an act of abuse when parents allow their children under 18 to undergo gender-confirming hormone therapies or surgeries, Parents who make the difficult decision to accompany their children in this process are brave,” Cifredo said. “They have to deal with the ignorance and prejudices of people who do not understand our experiences and are not interested in learning about them.”

The bill also seeks to amend the Medical Licensing and Discipline Board Act to establish as “unprofessional conduct” the provision of hormone therapies or gender-confirming surgeries to a person under the age of 18, imposing a fine of $30,000 on the professional who fails to comply with the provision.

“In these hearings, lies about these young people have been perpetuated,” Cifredo said. “Allow me to clarify some points to the committee: it is not true that 80% of people with gender dysphoria detransition back to the sex assigned at birth.”

According to the True Self Foundation director, gender dysphoria is “a diagnosis proven when a person becomes insistent, consistent and persistent in recognizing that an incongruence exists between their physique and gender identity for an extended time.”

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Dignity Project Rep. Lisie Burgos (Photo by Johanna Sánchez) Furthermore, she told legislators on the committee, what is true is that the majority of young queer people who present fluidity in their gender expression eventually identify with their assigned sex.

“It’s not the same thing as gender dysphoria,” Cifredo said, noting that the World Health Organization does not recognize gender dysphoria “as a mental disorder, but [rather as] a medical condition that can be treated with either pharmaceutical or surgical procedures.”

“This is very different from young people who present different behaviors that do not correspond to the stereotypes attached to their assigned sex,” the activist pointed out.

Likewise, unlike other deponents who claimed that local health professionals are casually prescribing hormone therapies to minors, Cifredo stated that such prescriptions are “made with great consideration in consultation with the youth, their parents, and a medical team after much education and therapy.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, both feminizing and masculinizing hormone therapies, also known as gender-affirming hormone therapies, are prescribed to induce physical changes in the person’s body caused by hormones during puberty to promote the matching of their gender identity and body.

The nonprofit academic medical center established in 1889 states that such therapies can “make gender dysphoria less severe, reduce psychological and emotional distress, improve psychological and social functioning, improve sexual satisfaction and improve quality of life.”

Cifredo also stated that the hearings portrayed a “fantastic and sensationalist vision” of gender-confirming surgeries on the part of people who have never met anyone who underwent such a procedure.

“The idea of a gender-confirming surgery being done hastily is completely false and cannot be more divorced from reality,” she said, noting that the procedure is expensive, requires authorization from different healthcare professionals and can take between one and three years to complete.

According to Healthline.com, the name of the surgeries mentioned above has changed through time because “as many trans folks have noted, surgery doesn’t change one’s gender — it changes the body in which one experiences that gender.”

When Burgos asked about gender-confirming surgeries,

Cifredo told the legislator “there are no surgeons in Puerto Rico who specialize in this.”

“In the United States, there are around 15 doctors who have a long waiting list as more states are allowing health care plans to cover treatments for trans people,” she said. “Let me be very clear, there is no case in which a young person has been forced by their parents to take hormones and transition; that just does not happen.”

“According to what you’re saying, these parents are told by their children that they want to undergo these procedures?” the Dignity Project legislator asked.

Cifredo told Burgos that such proaction is common in trans youth who are aware of their gender identity. However, when they do not get the appropriate help, they face symptoms such as depression and anxiety, and are vulnerable to suicide.

Meanwhile, Burgos said HB 768 “is not transphobic,” adding that she has consulted people “who have this lifestyle.”

“I respect it,” Burgos said. “We don’t pretend to interfere with anyone’s intimacy, but we believe that we must protect minors.”

“This bill does not prohibit them from getting psychological treatment in order to find their orientation,” she added. “What it seeks to do is prevent minors from making momentous body choices that could be irreversible for those who identify with their biological sex. … We are preventing them from undergoing permanent mutilations.”

Cifredo responded that “being trans is an identity, not a lifestyle.”

“I don’t think you’re in the position of determining what’s transphobic to the trans community; we make that decision,” she said. “This piece of legislation is an anti-trans bill.”

Burgos, nonetheless, insisted that HB 768 is not a measure that seeks to harm trans lives in Puerto Rico as “it seeks to prevent children from having permanent mutilation of their biological genitals.”

“The fact that you describe a procedure that saved my life as a mutilation reflects a transphobic idea,” Cifredo replied.

“This sort of vocabulary is truly offensive and does not promote a respectful discourse.”

In another deposition, Dr. Iván Lladó, a cardiologist with 40 years of experience, said he is in favor of the legislation due to “the cardiovascular consequences that minors may face during their adult life.”

“I believe that these children and their families should be welcomed and cared for in the medical community, with charity and compassion, and with the proper professional care that the dignity of the patient requires,” he said. “Therefore, we must not enter into experimental and invasive treatments that threaten their physical integrity and healthy development.”

However, when Popular Democratic Party Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz asked Lladó if he, or any of his colleagues, had ever treated a minor patient with secondary effects due to gender-confirming hormone therapy, Lladó answered that neither he nor other health professionals on the island have received such a case in their practice.

Other deponents, such as former Dignity Project gubernatorial candidate Dr. César Vázquez Muñiz, recommended increasing the age prohibition in the bill up to 21 years.

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Public schools see dramatic rise in number of failing students

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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cting Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés said in a radio interview Wednesday that the number of students who are on track to not pass a grade this school year had reached 24,000 as of last Friday.

“Until last Friday, we had quite a drastic change: we had about 13,000 students who were no longer candidates to repeat the grade.

So that’s good news. We hope to have the final count today [Wednesday],” Ramos Parés said on the “Pegaos en la Mañana” program on Radio Isla. “For the 30 weeks there was a number [that surpassed] 37,000 students.

Already last Friday, the grades and numbers entered into the system showed some 24,000 students who failed.”

“But there were still grades in transit and

still being entered [into the Education Department’s information system]. That number [24,000 students] should drop somewhat, not substantially, but today [Wednesday] we must have a final number,” he added.

Regarding how the current numbers of failing students compare with the averages from other semesters, Ramos Parés said “We continue to have a high percentage, compared to other years.”

“It is a number that the department has seen previously. In percentage terms, when you compare it with the proportion of students that the department currently has and currently manages, well, yes, it is a much higher proportion,” he said. “In previous years, obviously last year is not the comparable year, but before that we are talking about four to six percent. Here we are talking about just over 10 percent of the students.”

The number of public school students who are on track to fail a grade this school year had reached 24,000 as of last Friday, according to the island Education Department.

Public housing leaders prepared to ‘take to the streets’ over PREPA-LUMA contract

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ommunity leaders from various public housing developments in Puerto Rico issued an open letter about the possible implications for their communities with limited resources due to the entry into force of the contract with LUMA Energy, which transfers the operations of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) transmission and distribution system into private hands.

“On July 27, 2020, leaders of public housing units expressed through an open letter our concern about how we would be adversely affected if the contract with LUMA was concluded. Immediately on July 28, 2020, the Government, through Mr. Fermín Fontanés, executive director of the PublicPrivate Partnerships Authority of Puerto Rico, responded to the media that the information we were raising was incorrect and could bring unrest and unnecessary confusion among the communities,” the leaders said in a written statement. “However, to this day and with the work of LUMA Energy beginning, the residents of our vulnerable communities of limited resources continue to be without answers to their concerns about such an essential service.”

The statement is signed by community leaders Mirta Colón Pellecier, from Las Gladiolas; Jonathan Colón Reyes, from Puerta de Tierra; Verónica Pizarro, from the San Antonio residential area; Luz G. Vázquez, from Torre

Community leaders from various public housing developments in Puerto Rico have issued an open letter about the possible implications for their low-income communities due to the entry into force of the contract with LUMA Energy, which transfers the operations of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority transmission and distribution system into private hands. de Francia; Karla Dalmau, from the Los Lirios residential complex; Monserrate Benjamín Rivera, from the Manuel A. Pérez residential complex; Juan (Joito) Rodríguez Pastrana, from the Monte Hatillo residential complex; Lucía

Santana Benítez, from the Manuel A. Pérez residential complex; Jeffrey Rivera, from the Youth Center Sector at the Luis Llorens Torres residential complex; Ivette Guadalupe, from the Nemesio R. Canales residential complex; and Iris Y. Ríos, from the Luis Llorens Torres residential complex, Sector El Medio.

“As we said in our previous statement, residents of public housing are the only sector that, if their electricity service is suspended, also lose their home. In other words, any increase in the cost of electricity has a terrifying chain effect because it would imply for our communities with limited resources the risk, not only of being left in the dark for not having enough to pay, but also of suspension due to non-payment,” the letter said. “It would also leave us on the street, because it is the policy of the Public Housing Administration to cancel the housing contract.”

“Since Governor Pedro Pierluisi did not fulfill his campaign commitment to review and amend the contract with LUMA and he did not care, as both the employees of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and the people in general were affected, we are obliged to publicly disapprove of their actions,” the community leaders said. “How is it possible that, in the middle of the hurricane season on the island, and with a pandemic affecting the world, the governor of Puerto Rico leaves the public housing residents adrift?”

“Where is the message of protection for the most vulnerable people on our island?” the letter said. “Apparently, that message is

used only to request federal funds that in the long run do not reach where the need exists.

We urge Mr. Fermín Fontanés to answer our questions as a collective. When he responded on July 28, 2020, he claimed willingness to meet with the community leadership, but did not take any action in this regard.”

The public housing community leaders said they learned through the news media that if an investigation is requested for overbilling, the public will have to pay for it.

“This clearly establishes that the users of the service, even if they are not satisfied with the invoices as is the case on many occasions, will not dare to refute them because of how expensive it will be to do so,” they said in the statement. “What does the future hold for vulnerable and economically disadvantaged populations in the face of this dire scenario?”

The public housing leaders reiterated their position of concern about the increase in the cost of electricity, which would cause further impoverishment to their sector, the possibility that the energy subsidy will be eliminated and the relief that LUMA Energy has requested, among other matters.

“We want to make our message clear that our communities will defend the right to decent housing and that the fight to keep our roof safe will take place in the appropriate scenario,” the statement said. “We raise our voice of protest over actions that go against our having a safe roof over our heads. If we have to take to the streets, we will do so, have no doubt.”

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In Tulsa, president tells of a massacre’s horrors

By KATIE ROGERS and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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century after a white mob destroyed a vibrant African American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, torching hundreds of homes and indiscriminately shooting people in the streets, President Joe Biden told a crowd of survivors and their families that the story of the massacre “will be known in full view.”

It was the first time a president visited the area to address what had happened in Greenwood, a prosperous African American community, which was one of the worst outbreaks of racist violence in the United States but was largely ignored in history books.

“For much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence,” Biden said. “While darkness can hide much, it erases nothing.”

Biden, who has made racial equity and justice central themes of his presidency, was in Tulsa to shed light on a painful part of the country’s history.

He recalled in detail the horror that occurred from May 31 to June 1, 1921, when angry white people descended on Greenwood, killing as many as 300 people and destroying more than 1,250 homes.

“My fellow Americans, this was not a riot,” Biden said, as people in the crowd rose to their feet. “This was a massacre.”

A man was strapped to a truck and dragged through the street, the president said. The bodies of a murdered family were draped over a fence outside their home. An older couple was shot while praying.

“We do ourselves no favors by pretending none of this ever happened,” Biden told the crowd. “We should know the good, the bad, everything. That’s what great nations do: They come to terms with their dark sides.”

The president’s visit was also intended to highlight steps his administration is taking to close the wealth gap between Black and white people in the United States, even as activists criticized him for

who was accused of assault against Sarah Page, 17, a white elevator operator.

Accounts vary about what happened, but a common theory suggests Rowland tripped and grabbed onto the arm of Page while trying to catch his fall. She screamed, and he ran away, according to the commission report.

As Biden toured the Greenwood Cultural Center, he was told that within 24 hours of that encounter, the white mob that formed after Rowland’s arrest destroyed much of Greenwood. The case was later dismissed.

“The attack on Black families and Black wealth in Greenwood persisted across generations,” Biden said Sunday in a proclamation honoring the anniversary of the Tulsa massacre. “The federal government must reckon with and ackPresident Joe Biden walks to Marine One at the Ellipse in Washington on Tuesday, June 1, nowledge the role that it has played in 2021, for a trip to Tulsa, Okla. President Biden went to Tulsa to commemorate the 100th stripping wealth and opportunity from anniversary of the massacre of Black citizens at the hands of a white mob.

Black communities.”

The president’s trip came as the country struggles to confront police not doing enough to correct historical suppress the economic prosperity of brutality toward people of color a year wrongs and put the disadvantaged on Black Americans across the nation,” after the killing of George Floyd by a equal footing.

Derrick Johnson, the NAACP president, Minneapolis police officer galvanized Administration officials on Mon- said in a statement. “You cannot begin Black Lives Matter protesters nationday detailed efforts to direct more federal to address the racial wealth gap without wide.

But the political response to respending to small and minority-owned addressing the student loan debt crisis.” businesses, fair housing enhancements On the way to Tulsa, Karine Jean- cent killings remains uncertain. Biden and programs intended to repair the Pierre, the White House principal depu- had vowed to secure passage of the damage to neighborhoods divided by ty press secretary, told reporters aboard George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Air Force One that the administration by May 25, the anniversary of Floyd’s transportation projects.

Missing from the rollout, though, had provided billions in funding to death. The bill would ban the police’s was a plan to cancel student debt — Black colleges as part of its $1.7 tri- use of chokeholds, impose restrictions which disproportionately affects Black llion coronavirus plan. But she did not on deadly force and make it easier to students — or to address the issue of answer questions about alleviating the prosecute officers for wrongdoing. The reparations, federal repayments that re- financial stress of those who currently administration missed that deadline, but lawmakers in both parties have latives of Tulsa victims say could restore have student debt. what was erased. White House officials In a briefing for reporters Monday expressed optimism that they would have said that the president supports a night, administration officials insisted be able to reach a compromise on the study of the issue, as he does with the that the other steps would help Black legislation in the coming weeks.

Officials said that Biden’s visit broader issue of reparations for Black people around the country, particularly Americans. hard-hit communities like Greenwood. Tuesday was intended to signal a new The NAACP and other civil rights Biden’s visit to Tulsa was a som- emphasis on racial equity and justice for groups have criticized the Biden ad- ber one. Before he delivered remarks, Black Americans. Biden also said that ministration for not taking the step to he met privately with survivors of the he had directed Vice President Kamala cancel student loans, saying it is one massacre, each between the ages of Harris to lead Democrats in a sweeping of the biggest obstacles holding back 101 and 107, whom he mentioned legislative effort to protect voting rights, an issue that is critical to his legacy but Black people from sharing in the wealth throughout his speech. of other Americans.

The violence started after the arrest faces increasingly daunting odds in the “Student loan debt continues to of Dick Rowland, 19, a Black shoe shiner Senate.

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With homicides rising, cities brace for a violent summer

Law enforcement at the scene of a shooting outside a banquet hall near Miami on Sunday.

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

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he upbeat mood at an album release party at El Mula Banquet Hall in Miami-Dade County was shattered when three men in ski masks jumped out of a stolen white Nissan SUV and fired randomly into the crowd early Sunday.

Some revelers fired back. The whole encounter unrolled in about 10 seconds, leaving two people dead and 21 others injured. It was one of the worst shootings in the Miami area in recent memory, and came just a day after one person died and six were wounded in a drive-by shooting in another part of the city.

Memorial Day weekend typically kicks off a threemonth summer season for violent crime, and in the past few days there were also homicides at a nightclub in Dallas, on a freeway in Detroit and in an apartment building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where a 1-year-old was among the three people killed.

With the pandemic precautions that kept people at home receding, officials and police departments are bracing for a violent summer. “We are seeing an uptick in violent crime across the country, specifically gun violence,” Daniella Levine Cava, the mayor of Miami-Dade County, said. “People have been cooped up, they have been psychologically affected by this pandemic.”

The question now is whether the rising level of

killings in American cities that began last year, as the pandemic wrought economic and social hardship, will continue to climb.

The FBI does not release full statistics until September, but homicide rates in large cities were up more than 30% on average last year, and up another 24% for the beginning of this year, according to criminologists.

In some places, there was less violent crime this Memorial Day weekend than in 2020. In Chicago, there were 27 shootings, 32 people struck and four deaths, according to the Chicago Police Department, compared with 94 shootings, 114 people hit and 33 killed over the holiday weekend in 2020.

The drop was attributed to a number of factors, including the deployment of more police officers on troubled blocks, the presence of more community activists and some bad weather.

Superintendent David Brown, the head of the Chicago Police Department, noted that the four deaths were the fewest in a decade, but said it was too soon to celebrate. “It’s a long summer,” he told a news conference Tuesday.

Given the high numbers in 2020, no rapid decrease should be anticipated this year — the hangover from any significant crime wave continues after the peak is reached, police and criminologists said.

“Even though the pandemic is receding, it casts a

really long shadow, along with the social unrest related to policing,” said Max Kapustin, an assistant professor of economics and public policy at Cornell University who studies crime.

Overall crime figures were down during the coronavirus pandemic. Rape, robbery and petty thefts — which constitute the vast bulk of the numbers — tend to be crimes of opportunity, and with people staying home and businesses shuttered, there were far fewer chances. Those numbers should rebound as life across the United States returns to more normal patterns, analysts said.

Homicides were a notable exception, however, with almost every major city in the United States seeing large increases in 2020. In Chicago and several other cities, last year was the worst year for killings since the mid-1990s.

Homicides in Portland, Oregon, rose to 53 from 29, up more than 82%; in Minneapolis, they grew to 79 from 46, up almost 72%; and in Los Angeles the number increased to 351 from 258, a 36% climb, according to statistics analyzed by Jeff Asher, a former crime analyst for the New Orleans Police Department.

Those increases have continued in many cities this year.

Trying to ascribe reasons for a crime wave is often a puzzle, but the pandemic is considered an important contributing factor to the elevated homicide rates. It created economic turmoil and widespread unemployment as well as other side effects like leaving domestic abuse victims trapped at home. Police departments in New York and Detroit saw occasional periods of fewer officers on the streets when COVID-19 outbreaks forced significant numbers to isolate or quarantine.

Guns contributed to the equation as well. “Were it not for the proliferation of firearms through our society and in our big cities, we would not have seen these big jumps in homicide,” said Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri in St. Louis.

Homicide rates, already ticking up in the few months after March 2020 when the pandemic began, exploded last summer. This is partly because of what criminologists refer to as the “seasonal effect,” the habitual rise in crime during the warm months in northern cities, starting with Memorial Day. Some police officials said the outlook for addressing violent crime appeared bleak, especially with no bipartisan effort to reduce crime or gun violence materializing. “I am very sad to say that this summer is going to be a long summer for the American people,” Art Acevedo, the Miami police chief, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

The lingering question is whether 2020 and its aftermath will prove to be an outlier, with the toll receding toward the record lows seen around 2013 or stopping somewhere higher than it was before the pandemic.

“We are basically up but decelerating,” Asher said.

“We are still looking at a horrific increase in violence.”

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For many workers, change in mask policy is a nightmare

By NOAM SCHEIBER

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he Kroger supermarket inYorktown,Virginia, is in a county where mask wearing can be casual at best. Yet for months, the store urged patrons to cover their noses and mouths, and almost everyone complied.

“People don’t like to wear masks here,” said Janet Wainwright, a meat cutter at the store, “but very few people would go without it.”

That changed in mid-May after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised vaccinated Americans that they could go maskless in most indoor settings. The next week, the store told employees that they could no longer ask customers to cover their faces. So mask use plummeted, and the anxiety of Wainwright and other workers shot up.

“We just feel like we’re sitting ducks,” said Wainwright, who estimated that far fewer than half of patrons wore masks on a recent Sunday. “Now it’s just a free-for-all.”

More than a dozen retail, hospitality and fast-food workers across the country interviewed byThe NewYorkTimes expressed alarm that their employers had used the CDC guidance to make masks optional for vaccinated customers. Some, like Wainwright, said they had been vaccinated but worried they could still get sick or infect family members who were not or could not get vaccinated. Others said they had yet to be vaccinated.

Public health experts say people who are fully vaccinated have a very low risk of developing serious illness from COVID-19. Vaccinated people are also less likely to transmit the virus to others. Overall cases have fallen substantially in recent weeks, and vaccines are widely available.

Kroger, like all the employers contacted for this article, pointed to the new CDC guidance in explaining the change in masking policy. The CDC did not respond to a request for comment.

The effect of the change appears to be most acute in politically mixed or conservative areas, where many people have chafed at mask requirements and vaccination rates are lower. In liberal enclaves, where public support for masking has generally been high, many customers continue to wear masks whether or not they are required.

In mixed and conservative areas, workers said, employer policies were often the only thing standing between them and customers who were neither masked nor vaccinated. As a result, they feel far more exposed now.

“Retailers were asking and requiring you to wear masks,” said Willy Solis, a shopper for the delivery app Shipt in Denton, Texas, who works in stores like Target, Kroger and CVS. “A large majority of people were still doing the right thing and wearing them.”

Since the CDC announcement, however, “it’s been a complete shift,” Solis said. Denton, like Yorktown, sits in a county that supported former President Donald Trump by a single-digit margin in the November election.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 97% of Democrats said in a March poll that they wore a mask “at least most of the time” when they might be in contact with people outside their homes, and a similar portion of Democrats said they believed masks limit the spread of coronavirus.

That compared with only 71% of Republicans who said they wore a mask outside the home at least most of the time, and just half said they thought masks were effective.

That suggests that a significant number of Republicans have worn masks only to comply with rules, not because they believed it was important, said Ashley Kirzinger, the Kaiser foundation’s associate director for public opinion and survey research. She cited polling showing that Republicans were also less likely to be vaccinated.

Matt Kennon, a room-service server at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, said that before the CDC relaxed its recommendations, the resort’s policy was that all guests must wear masks in common areas unless they were eating, drinking or smoking, and that it was strictly enforced.

“There were several security checkpoints around the place where we’d have someone from security let them know, ‘Please put on a mask,’” said Kennon, a shop steward with his union, UNITE HERE. “There were stations with disposable masks for guests to wear in case they didn’t have one.”

Kennon said the policy remained in place even after the governor lifted a statewide mask mandate in early March but changed after the CDC announcement. Vaccinated guests are allowed to walk around without masks, but there is no way to verify vaccination status and fewer than half of guests are wearing them, according to Kennon.

“Security won’t ask them to show a vaccine card,” he said. “It’s certainly stressful amongst my co-workers.”

By contrast, in Bethesda, Maryland, in a county where the vast majority voted for President Joe Biden, mask-wearing appears to be largely unaffected by the CDC shift.

Linda Bussey, a merchandise manager in the health, beauty and care department of a Safeway there, said that her store put signs up May 21 indicating that vaccinated customers could enter without wearing a mask and instructed employees not to approach maskless customers, but that the rate of mask wearing appeared unchanged.

The experience of employees at REI, the outdoor equipment retailer, reflects the experience of many workers across the country. While many REI stores are in or near liberal communities, they often abut more rural areas, leading to frequent interactions between employees and more conservative customers.

“If you go two minutes in any direction, it’s a bloodred state,” said Mike Mason, an employee at an REI store in Bellingham, Washington. “It’s a weird mix of two different personalities.”

Mason, along with REI employees in five other states, said the company had previously been strict about its mask policy, with many stores employing a greeter to remind customers.

But REI shifted its policy within 24 hours of the CDC announcement, telling stores that they “do not need to enforce mask policies with either employees or customers who may no longer wish to wear one,” according to an internal message from a top executive.

The next week, the retailer announced that it would not require vaccinated customers to wear face coverings where allowed by local authorities and instructed employees to assume that patrons were following the policy in good faith.

Janet Wainwright, a meat cutter at a Kroger supermarket in Yorktown, Va. Mason, along with employees of REI stores near Salt Lake City, Des Moines, Iowa, and Columbus, Ohio, said the percentage of customers wearing masks had dropped significantly after the change. The timing was an additional source of stress because the retailer began its annual anniversary sale a few days later — typically one of its busiest periods of the year.

“We had people walking in, not buying anything, just chewing gum with their mouths open — a ‘see if anyone stops me’ kind of dance,’” said Mason, who is vaccinated but worries about infecting his toddler and the baby he and his wife are expecting. “I’m already taking prescription meds for anxiety.

I had to increase my dosage to keep my heart from racing.”

At an REI store in Portland, Oregon, several employees walked off the job after the new policy was announced. Later that day, REI reversed itself and announced that stores in Oregon would maintain their masking requirement at least until the annual sale ended.

“The fact that they announced it out of the blue with no guidance, nothing,” said Brian Levitt Smith, one of the employees who left work, “it was kind of shocking.”

David Michaels, a former head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said the patchwork of responses from employers highlighted the importance of a set of federal workplace rules, known as a standard, that the government could enforce.

“This underscores the need for a standard right now,” said Michaels, now at the George Washington University School of Public Health. “Many employers are following state guidance, which is throwing public health precautions out the window.”

Wainwright, who serves as a shop steward for her local United Food and Commercial Workers union, said she and her colleagues were scarred by what they had seen during the pandemic. Several of her co-workers at Kroger in Yorktown contracted the virus, and one woman died last spring. A man in his 20s who was not vaccinated was out sick for weeks this spring.

Kroger did not respond to questions about workers who became ill.

“Everyone is scared,” Wainwright said. “We have had so much COVID anyway, and that was with a mask mandate.

Without the mask mandate, we have a fear of the unknown.”

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To test COVID protocols, cruise lines turn to volunteer guinea pigs fully vaccinated.

Several major cruise companies have already announced Alaska sailings starting in late July, which will require all passengers to prove that they are vaccinated. But in Florida, the cruise lines’ biggest U.S. departure point, recently enacted state law bans businesses from requiring proof of immunizations from people seeking to use their services.

Florida officials have said they will not exempt the cruise lines. If cruise companies decide to sail with a mix of vaccinated and non-vaccinated passengers, they will have to carry out simulation cruises with volunteers to test health and safety protocols.

That has avid cruisers like Mark Zumo, 53, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, eager to help out, even though, he said, Cristie Nino in Monterey, Calif., May 21, 2021. Nino worked in a hospital during he realizes the test cruises will not be like the worst of the pandemic, making her the perfect choice for a test sailing, she the real thing. (He had 20 cruises cancesays, because, “I’m not scared.” led during the pandemic and has already booked 25 between this August and DeBy CEYLAN YEGINSU dustry, which has been decimated by the cember 2022.) pandemic. For others it’s a chance to get “A lot of people think it’s going to be ince March 2020, cruise ships ca- a feel for what post-pandemic cruising will a free holiday, but I realize that it won’t rrying more than 250 people have feel like. But for most who’ve raised their be,” he said. “It’s about testing COVID been prohibited by the Centers for hands, it’s a way to sate their longing to get protocols and could mean being confined Disease Control and Prevention from sai- back on a boat after more than a year of to your room for the entire cruise.” ling in U.S. waters. To start again, they being stuck onshore.

“But I’m more than willing to do it,” need to follow a complex process that, “The CDC has been holding us all he continued. “When you look at the dein some cases, involves simulated crui- captive and I really can’t wait any longer; vastation caused by the shutting down of ses designed to test COVID-19 protocols. I can’t wait until July,” said Justin Marks, the cruise industry, it reaches so far — Hundreds of thousands of frustrated and a 59-year-old retired Alabama resident, from farmers to port workers to hotels and restless cruise fans have lined up to be gui- referring to one target date that has been taxi cabs. I’ll do whatever I can to help get nea pigs. floated for when ships might start sailing. things running again.”

Jennifer Juenke is one of them.

Marks, who has 12 cruises booked The simulated voyages must be bet“Ever since the CDC shut down through 2022, is undeterred by the out- ween two to seven days in length with at the cruise industry, we have been living breaks onboard cruise ships at the start of least one overnight stay, according to CDC through a complete nightmare,” said the pandemic last year. guidelines. They are required to test em“I’m dying to be picked for the test barkation and disembarkation procedures, Juenke, one of more than 250,000 people who signed up for a test sailing with Royal cruise, mostly because I need to start crui- medical evacuations, onboard activities Caribbean, a major cruise company. “It sing again for my sanity,” he said, “but also such as meal service and entertainment, has been too long, and we are just raring because I want to show the world how recreational activities like fitness classes much safer a cruise ship is than any plane and swimming, and shore excursions. to go.”

On Tuesday, Royal Caribbean beca- or hotel that has been allowed to operate All volunteers will be issued with a me the first cruise line to receive approval throughout the whole pandemic.” written notice advising them about the from the CDC to conduct simulated voyaExactly how the cruise lines will risks of participating in health and safety ges, which are planned for its Freedom of return to operations in the United States protocols that are unproved and untested the Seas ship starting from PortMiami in remains unclear. In May, the CDC said it in the United States.

Florida in late June. would allow cruise lines to skip test voyaMost of the simulation cruise volunFor some of the volunteers, it’s a ges if they attest that 98% of the crew and teers said they are fully vaccinated and do way to offer support to the $150 billion in- 95% of passengers on board a cruise are not have safety concerns about testing out

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health protocols for upcoming voyages.

More than 66,000 people joined Royal Caribbean’s Facebook group “Volunteers of the Seas” to express interest in the initiative.

“I feel safer on a cruise ship than I do in my grocery store,” Juenke said. “Cruises have restarted in Europe, and it’s going fine.”

MSC, a global cruise line based in Geneva, Switzerland, was the first major cruise company to resume international sailings in Europe, which it started in August. It has relied on a stringent testing and contact tracing program to avoid large COVID outbreaks like the one on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan last year where 700 people became infected with the disease and 14 people died.

“At the beginning we must appreciate that no one knew anything about the virus and how it behaved and was transmitted,” said Pierfrancesco Vago, executive chair of MSC Cruises and global chair of the Cruise Lines International Association, the industry’s trade group.

“We have come so far from that moment in terms of scientific knowledge and technology,” he said.

On MSC European cruises, all guests receive antigen tests when they board and if they test positive, they are given an additional PCR test. Non-vaccinated guests boarding its cruises in Britain must also present proof of a PCR test taken 48 hours before they embark. Passengers are also tested mid-cruise after three or four days and are required to wear contact tracing bracelets so that they can be tracked down if someone they have come into contact with tests positive.

Vago views MSC’s protocols — which run to 700 pages — as a model for the industry and after participating in a recent technical roundtable discussion between the CDC and cruise industry representatives in Washington, he said he is optimistic that U.S. cruises will begin again this summer.

“People have been really affected psychologically by this pandemic and we understand how important and urgent it is for them to be able to get back out there and see a sunset and mingle,” Vago said.

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Wall St rises ahead of key economic data this week; AMC soars W all Street’s main indexes firmed ahead of closely watched economic data this week as investors grappled with concerns over inflation and the latest leg of a surge in so-called “meme stocks”.

Stocks such as Tesla and Amazon, which have struggled in recent weeks as bond yields advanced due to rising inflation worries, were among the top boosts to the benchmark S&P 500 index with the 10-year U.S. Treasury note holding below the 1.6% level.

“The main thing I am looking at always is still the bond yields, that seems to be the driver. If we are still below 1.6%, that looks pretty good to me,” said Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.

“There is going to be some inflation but then it comes back to whether it is temporary or not. Until I see those bond yields pick up significantly, I think you are kind of buying right now.”

Higher yields pressure growth stocks, many of which are technology and tech-related, whose future cash flows are discounted at higher rates.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.2 points, or 0.01%, to 34,314.66, the S&P 500 gained 7.84 points, or 0.19%, to 4,195.97 and the Nasdaq Composite added 80.93 points, or 0.59%, to 13,738.11.

After fears of rising inflation roiled Wall Street’s main indexes earlier this month, all eyes will be on the closely watched monthly U.S. personal consumption report, the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge, due later in the week.

Multiple Fed officials have commented in recent days on inflation, maintaining the central bank views it as transitory and has the tools to clamp down if it begins to run too hot. However, they have also edged closer to starting the debate about tapering, or reducing, its massive fiscal stimulus plan.

With the S&P 500 sitting just about 1% away from its record high, strategists expect the benchmark index to end the year only about 2.5% above its current level as concerns over increasing inflationary risks weigh, according to a Reuters poll.

Trading volumes are likely to lessen heading into the extended Memorial Day holiday weekend, which could exacerbate price moves.

Amazon gained 0.40% after announcing it is buying MGM, the U.S. movie studio home to the James Bond franchise, for $8.45 billion, giving it a huge library of films and TV shows and ramping up competition with streaming rivals led by Netflix and Disney+.

Drug retailers such as Walgreens, CVS Health and Rite Aid Corp all lost ground after a report Amazon is considering the launch of physical pharmacies in the United States.

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Come on in, boys’: A wave of the hand sets off Spain-Morocco migrant fight

Young Moroccan migrants sitting amid concrete blocks near the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa.

By NICHOLAS CASEY and JOSÉ BAUTISTA

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aouda Faye, a 25-year-old migrant from Senegal, was elated when he heard that Moroccan border guards had suddenly started waving in migrants across the border to Ceuta, a fenced-off Spanish enclave on the North African coast. “‘Come on in, boys,’” the guards told him and others as they reached the border on May 17, Faye said.

And in they went — by the thousands.

Normally, Morocco tightly controls the fenced borders around Ceuta, a 6-mile-long peninsula on Morocco’s northern coast that Spain has governed since the 1600s. But now its military was allowing migrants into this toehold of Europe. Over the next two days, as many as 12,000 people flowed over the border to Ceuta in hopes of reaching mainland Spain, engulfing the city of 80,000.

The crisis has laid bare the unique pressure point Morocco has over Spain on migration. Spanish government officials and other experts say Morocco increasingly sees the migrants as a kind of currency and is leveraging its control over them to extract financial and political prizes from Spain.

“It’s not acceptable that a government allows for attacks on their borders” because of disagreements over foreign policy, Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, said Monday.

Hours after the migrants began pouring into Ceuta, Spain approved 30 million euros, about $37 million, in aid to Morocco for border policing. The transaction was reminiscent of Turkey’s deal with the European Union under which it was paid to stem the flood of migrants onto European shores after the Arab Spring and decades of turmoil in Afghanistan.

For years, Morocco has been a staging ground for migrants and refugees coming from North and West Africa, seeking to start anew in Europe. As many as 40,000 undocumented migrants from other countries are in Morocco, according to the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations agency.

Moroccan security forces are often one of the last obsta-

cles in an arduous journey, patrolling the land and water borders and taking back many deportees who escape into Ceuta and Melilla, another Spanish enclave on its coast, under an agreement between the countries.

But tensions between the two countries over migrants have worsened during the pandemic, which has crippled economies on both sides of the border. Morocco has already received an estimated 13 billion euros in development funds from the European Union since 2007 in exchange for strict border controls. Experts say it is seeking more money transfers this year.

Morocco’s interests and its tensions with Spain go beyond funding, however.

In April, Spain said it had allowed Brahim Ghali, a rebel leader at war with Morocco, to be hospitalized in mainland Spain with COVID-19. Ghali’s organization, the Polisario Front, has spent decades fighting the North African kingdom for control over the region of Western Sahara, which used to be a Spanish colony.

In early May, Morocco’s Foreign Ministry warned Spain that there would be consequences for helping the Polisario leader.

José Ignacio Torreblanca, a politics professor at the National Distance Education University in Madrid, said Morocco was now using its control over migrants at the border to pressure Spain to take its side in the Western Sahara conflict — following the lead of the Trump administration, which last year recognized Morocco’s claim of sovereignty over Western Sahara.

“They’re weaponizing migration,” he said.

On Monday, Morocco’s Foreign Ministry did not respond to Spain’s accusation that it had used migration for leverage.

“The origins of the crisis are well known, especially by the Spanish public,” it said in a statement, and did not elaborate further.

The situation has left migrants like Faye, a university student who had hoped to study in Paris, sleeping on a beach on Ceuta’s rocky shore, the Rock of Gibraltar visible off in the distance.

“They have used us as pawns,” he said.

Faye said he had been living as an undocumented migrant for a year in Casablanca when he heard in mid-May that the Moroccan border guards were allowing people to cross into Spanish territory. He packed his passport, computer and two pairs of shoes before taking a taxi to a point near the border.

From there, he said, Moroccan soldiers gave him some helpful advice by telling him to continue on foot.

By the morning of May 17, the start of the two-day influx, many others were arriving in Ceuta by sea.

Spanish rescue units scrambled to save babies as families were swept away by the currents while trying to swim around a border fence. Videos showed Moroccan border guards opening a gate as more migrants flowed in by land.

For those who did make it inside, many of the inundated shelters turned away the new arrivals, leaving many to fend for themselves on Ceuta’s beaches, ditches and even an abandoned prison. Spanish military units deployed to the enclave to restore order.

Braulio Varela Fuentes, who leads an aquatic rescue team

with Spain’s Civil Guard, said reports began to arrive around 8 a.m. on May 17 that a group of migrants were swimming around a border fence. He arrived at the site to find seven people, mainly men.

But the numbers were growing. By about 2:30 p.m., there were hundreds in the water, including entire families with young children who could not swim.

“How could they throw themselves in the water with a baby?” Varela Fuentes said. He said two bodies of migrants were later found. They had likely drowned that day.

Spanish authorities deported about half of the migrants, mainly Moroccans, within the first hours over the objections of human rights groups. Minors may remain legally under Spanish law, along with asylum-seekers.

Juan Sergio Redondo, who leads the local chapter of Spain’s far-right movement, Vox, was alarmed by the situation for different reasons. While waves of migrants had entered Spain before, it had not reached these levels. The arrivals were altering the “Spanish” nature of Ceuta, he said.

“We’ve gone from being a city in the Mediterranean with an Andalusian character to one which has become like part of Morocco,” he said.

Last week, Vox planned a rally in Ceuta. It was quickly abandoned as thousands of counterprotesters from Ceuta’s Muslim community took to the streets. Many waved Spanish flags, appropriating a symbol often associated in Spain with the far right.

Hundreds banged pots, blasted bullhorns and clashed with police who chased them down the Ceuta’s alleyways with batons and rifles.

“These are the seeds of discord,” said Juan Jesús Vivas, Ceuta’s mayor. “This is not something to be played around with.”

At a beach down the street looking out toward the mountains in Europe, Halima Hassen, a Ceuta resident, drove up in her car. She had spent most of the day making tomato sandwiches — about 200 of them — to drop off to a group of new arrivals camped on the beach.

A hungry crowd quickly arrived.

Away from the glare of the streetlights, the migrants were making their beds on the beach. A group of West Africans talked in English and French about what they had done before they arrived in Ceuta. One had worked in a beauty salon; another said he was an opposition politician in Guinea looking for asylum.

The next morning, Sabah Ahmed, a 59-year-old store owner, opened an empty home she owned so nearby migrants could shower. Because there were not enough bathrooms in the house, Ahmed asked the men to strip down on the roof and scrub with soap while someone showered them with a hose.

Ahmed said few outside Ceuta seemed interested in the migrants’ plight.

But Ceuta was small, she said. There was not enough room in the tiny enclave for everyone who wanted to come.

“I have to give them a chat,” she said. “I say, ‘We always will give you help. But here is my advice: In the long run, it’s going to be better if you go back to your home.’”

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Have three children?

No way, many Chinese say

By VIVIAN WANG

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fter China said it would allow couples to have three children, the state news media trumpeted the move as a major change that would help stimulate growth. But across much of the country, the announcement was met with indignation.

Women worried that the move would only exacerbate discrimination from employers reluctant to pay maternity leave. Young people fumed that they were already hard-pressed to find jobs and take care of themselves, let alone a child (or three). Working-class parents said the financial burden of more children would be unbearable.

“I definitely will not have another child,” said Hu Daifang, a former migrant worker in Sichuan province. Hu, 35, said he was already struggling, especially after his mother fell ill and could no longer help care for his two children. “It feels like we are just surviving, not living.”

For many ordinary Chinese, the news about the policy change on Monday was only a reminder of a problem they had long recognized: the drastic inadequacy of China’s social safety net and legal protections that would enable them to have more children.

On Weibo, users complained of mounting education expenses, sky-high housing prices and unforgiving work hours. They pointed out China’s shortage of child care services, which forces many young parents to rely on their own parents to watch their children.

“I recommend you first fix the most basic problems with maternity rights and the discrimination women will inevitably face in the workplace, and then encourage them to have children,” read the most popular comment under an article about the policy change by Xinhua, the state news agency.

Another commenter was more direct: “Get out of here! Will you help us take care of the kids?

Will you give us a house?”

In response to a poll by Xinhua that was titled: “Are you ready for the three-child policy?” just a tiny fraction of respondents chose “I’m ready, I can’t wait.” Of roughly 22,000 people who had responded to the poll at one point, 20,000 chose “I won’t consider it at all.” The poll was quickly deleted.

In its announcement, the government promised to help families with education costs and child care, but gave little detail.

China has long promised to overhaul policies that affected families, but changes had been

slow. The only real shift in the last five years, said Lu Hongping, a professor of population studies at Hebei University, had been a lengthening of statutory maternity leave to around 160 days in most areas. But even then, he said, it was too short.

“They haven’t done it well. Essentially, they haven’t done it,” Lu said of the reforms. “And if it’s not done, then the costs are too high, and many people will feel that they can’t afford too big of a family.”

On the same day that the government announced it would relax birth limits, Li Li, a middle-level manager at a technology company in Beijing, was approached by her boss. He anxiously asked Li, 35, who is pregnant with her second child, how long exactly she would be away on maternity leave.

She quickly reassured him that she would be gone only three or four months and that she could work during the tail end of her leave, if necessary.

Pregnancy discrimination is widespread in China, with women reporting being fired or demoted after telling their bosses they were expecting a child. Some women have even reported being forced to sign contracts promising not to get pregnant within a certain period at new jobs.

“As a woman, you’re inherently at a disadvantage in the workplace,” Li said.

Li said she was sympathetic to her boss’s concerns. She did believe that as a manager, her absence would be inconvenient for the company.

She acknowledged that she herself, when interviewing candidates, would sometimes wonder whether a new hire would soon leave to give birth.

It was nonetheless unfair to women, Li said. She said the government should reimburse employers for maternity pay, as some other countries do, and mandate paternity leave, so women would not be singled out for being parents.

In an acknowledgment of the problem, the government said on Monday that it would “protect the legitimate rights and interests of women in employment.”

Some women pointed out that the government had already barred employers from asking women about their marital or childbearing status in 2019, and the problem was weak enforcement.

The government has often encouraged women to retreat to more traditional gender roles, in an effort to increase the birthrate.

“Our government is very good at empty talk,” said Lu Pin, a Chinese feminist activist. “It’s meaningless to just look at a few things they said.”

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Global cactus traffickers are cleaning out the deserts

A photo provided by Andrea Cattabriga shows Italian investigators with Operation Atacama prepare a specimen of Copiapoa solaris for shipment back to Chile from a greenhouse in Milan, Italy.

By RACHEL NUWER

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ndrea Cattabriga has seen a lot of cactuses where they didn’t belong.

But he’d never seen anything like Operation Atacama, a bust carried out last year in Italy. A cactus expert and president of the Association for Biodiversity and Conservation, Cattabriga often helps the police identify the odd specimen seized from tourists or intercepted in the post.

This time, however, Cattabriga was confronted by a stunning display: more than 1,000 of some of the world’s rarest cactuses, valued at over $1.2 million on the black market.

Almost all of the protected plants had come from Chile, which does not legally export them, and some were well over a century old. The operation — which occurred in February 2020, but is being made public now because of the cactuses’ recent return to Chile — was most likely the biggest international cactus seizure in nearly three decades. It also highlights how much money traffickers may be earning from the trade.

Seeing the collected cactuses brought a profound sadness to Cattabriga.

“Here is an organism that has evolved over millions of years to be able to survive in the harshest conditions you can find on

the planet, but that finishes its life in this way — just as an object to be sold,” he said.

As with the market for tiger bones, ivory, pangolin scales and rhino horn, a flourishing illegal global trade exists for plants.

“Just about every plant you can probably think of is trafficked in some way,” said Eric Jumper, a special agent with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Cactuses and other succulents are among the most sought after, along with orchids and, increasingly, carnivorous species.

Trafficking can take a serious toll.

Over 30% of the world’s nearly 1,500 cactus species are threatened with extinction.

Unscrupulous collection is the primary driver of that decline, affecting almost half of imperiled species. Yet this realm of illegal trade is typically overlooked, a prime example of “plant blindness,” or the human tendency to broadly ignore this important branch on the tree of life.

“The basic functioning of the planet would effectively grind to a halt without plants, but people care more about animals,” said Jared Margulies, a geographer at the University of Alabama who studies plant trafficking. “A lot of plant species are not receiving the amount of attention they would be if they had eyes and faces.”

Yet the size of Operation Atacama could be a notable exception. It is also the

largest known example of cactuses stolen from the wild being repatriated for reintroduction into their native habitat.

Experts also hope the case can be a turning point for how countries, collectors, conservationists and the industry deal with the thorny issue of international cactus trafficking.

“Society as a whole can no longer continue to have a naive view of this problem,” said Pablo Guerrero, a botanist at the University of Concepción in Chile.

Passion for rarity Cactuses and other succulents are hot business today. They have become the darlings of social media, promoted by indoor plant influencers for their outlandish looks and minimal care requirements. The pandemic only increased their popularity, with shops struggling to keep some species in stock.

The average hipster’s cactus collection will include only common species propagated in nurseries. But for some specialist collectors — who tend to be middleaged or older men — the hobby is much more serious.

“A lot of what drives the interest and passion for these plants is their uniqueness and rarity,” said Bárbara Goettsch, co-chair of the Cactus and Succulent Plant Specialist Group at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Many cactus species are highly localized, found, for example, only on certain steep limestone cliffs in Mexico, or a single sandy patch of less than 1 square mile on Peru’s coast. They also tend to be extremely slow-growing. Larger specimens, which are more highly sought after, can be decades or even hundreds of years old. These features make cactuses particularly sensitive to over-harvesting, but also particularly attractive to collectors interested in exclusivity.

Purchasing rare species legally, however, can be difficult to impossible. All cactuses and many other types of succulents require permits to be traded internationally, if they can be legally traded at all. Most countries also prohibit collection of some or all of these species from the wild, including the United States.

Although no estimates exist for the scope of the illegal cactus trade, many experts believe it is increasing. “It was a much smaller issue 20 years ago, but now,

it is major,” said Jeff Pavlat, president of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America.

“Entire populations are being stripped.”

Carrots and sticks Operation Atacama is by far the biggest bust in recent history, but there are other signs that law enforcement is beginning to take note of cactuses. Six men were sentenced to a number of penalties after recent federal convictions involving a cactus trafficking ring that poached thousands of living rocks in southwest Texas for smuggling to Europe and Asia. Additional cactus-related prosecutions have taken place in California and Arizona.

But while stronger law enforcement is welcome, a variety of experts believe prohibition, on its own, will not stop trafficking. Instead, they favor meeting demand through sustainably managed collection of seeds or cuttings of wild plants, which could be used for artificial propagation by certified greenhouses.

Sales of these legally sourced plants could help offset illegal trade. Preferably, the proceeds would go directly to communities living alongside the species, the experts say, creating incentives to protect them. The cactus and succulent trade is “big business, but the majority of that money is not centered in countries of origin,” Margulies said. “I think there should be a push to engage in this more from a social justice lens.”

Many countries’ domestic legislation prohibits these types of activities, however, as do strict international trade laws and bureaucracy. The result, Cattabriga said, is a system that “discourages the reproduction of rare plants in captivity, and has the side effect of exacerbating the illicit trade.”

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The radical modesty of Biden’s budget

By PAUL KRUGMAN

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any reports about the Biden administration’s budget proposal, released last Friday, convey the sense that it’s huge. President Joe Biden, scream some of the headlines, wants to spend SIX TRILLION DOLLARS next year. (Sorry, can’t help doing my best Dr. Evil imitation.) It takes some digging to learn that the baseline — the amount the administration estimates we’d spend next fiscal year without new policies — is $5.7 trillion.

In fact, one of the most striking things about Biden’s budget initiative — arguably about his whole administration — is its relative modesty in terms of both money spent and claims about what that spending would accomplish. He is neither proposing nor promising a revolution, just policies that would make Americans’ lives significantly better.

And I, for one, find this hugely refreshing after Former Guy’s achievement-free bombast.

Now, the Biden plan is by no means trivial.

The budget proposes spending 24.5% of GDP over the next decade, up from a baseline of 22.7%. That increase, mainly driven by increased expenditures for infrastructure and families, is bigger than it

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looks because so much of the baseline is devoted to the military, Medicare and Social Security. But it’s not socialism, either. It would still leave the United States with a smaller government than most other wealthy countries’.

Still, the extra spending would make a huge difference to some economic sectors, notably renewable energy, and vastly improve some American lives, especially those of lower-income families with children.

Notably, however, the administration is not claiming that these policies would dramatically accelerate economic growth. Former Guy’s economists predicted that their policies would produce sustained GDP growth of 3% a year, which would have been extraordinary in an economy whose working-age population is barely growing. Biden’s economists are projecting growth of less than 2% after the economy has bounced back from the pandemic.

Why this modesty? Part of it may be political strategy: Biden likes to underpromise and overdeliver, the way he did with vaccinations. The administration’s economists are actually quite optimistic, for example, about the possibility that child care and other family policies would expand labor force participation and that investing in children would yield big economic returns in the long run.

But they also know history. Governments can do a lot to fight short-term recessions (or make them worse), but the fact is that it’s very hard for policy to make a big difference to the economy’s long-term growth rate.

This is something the right has never unders-

tood. (It’s difficult to get people to understand something when their salaries depend on their not understanding it.)

Conservatives are constantly pushing the claim that tax cuts, in particular, will supercharge growth; they love to cite the supposed economic triumph of Ronald Reagan. But Reagan presided over only a couple of years of very rapid growth, as the economy recovered from a severe recession. Over the course of the 1980s, the economy grew only 0.015 percentage points faster — basically a rounding error — than it did in the troubled 1970s.

And looking more broadly across history at both the national and the state levels shows predictions that tax cuts will produce economic miracles have never panned out — not once. Neither, by the way, have predictions that tax hikes, like the increased levies on corporations and the wealthy that Biden is proposing, will lead to disaster.

So it makes sense for the Biden administration to avoid making big claims about economic growth.

But does this mean that its plans are no big deal?

Not at all.

You see, while government policies rarely have major effects on the economy’s overall growth rate, they can have huge effects on the quality of people’s lives. Governments can, for example, ensure that their citizens have access to affordable health care; they can drastically reduce the number of children whose lives are scarred by poverty. The Biden plan would take big steps on these and other fronts.

And this is the sense in which the Biden plan, despite its relatively moderate price tag, represents a radical departure from past economic policy.

For the past four decades, U.S. economic debate has been dominated by an ideology fundamentally opposed to spending money to help ordinary citizens: We can’t borrow more, lest we provoke a debt crisis. We can’t raise taxes on those able to pay, lest we destroy their incentive to create wealth.

The Biden budget, however, reveals an administration free from these fears. The budget doesn’t propose huge deficit spending, but it does point out that the burden of federal debt, properly measured, is minimal. And administration officials have made it clear that they don’t buy into low-tax propaganda.

You could say that the most important thing about this budget isn’t so much the dollars it would deliver as the dogma it dismisses. And if Biden’s presidency is seen as a success, this ideological liberation will have huge consequences.

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San Juan y BDE otorgan subvención federal millonaria para comerciantes de la Capital POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El alcalde de San Juan, Miguel Romero Lugo y el presidente del Banco de Desarrollo Económico (BDE), Luis Alemañy, anunciaron el miércoles el desembolso de 4.4 millones de dólares en ayudas económicas a pequeños empresarios de San Juan que sufrieron pérdidas a raíz del paso de los huracanes Irma y María.

Estos comerciantes lograron acceder a ayudas de hasta 50 mil dólares como parte del programa de Financiamiento para Pequeñas Empresas (SBF, por sus siglas en inglés) bajo fondos CDBG-DR. “Mediante el programa SBF continuamos asistiendo a nuestros comerciantes sanjuaneros a continuar impulsando sus negocios. Somos conscientes de que ya van más de tres años de los huracanes, pero las necesidades aún continúan, por lo que la asistencia también”, sostuvo el primer ejecutivo municipal en comunicación escrita.

Romero Lugo añadió que “aún existe oportunidad y disponibilidad de fondos para aquellos comerciantes que no se han beneficiado de esta oportunidad.

Puerto Rico cuenta con una base sólida de empresarios que han demostrado su talento, tesón y dedicación, y el gobierno debe apoyarles con las herramientas para continuar estimulando la econo-

mía local. Permanecemos a su disposición para apoyarles en el proceso”.

La asignación de fondos bajo SBF responde a la mitigación de daños ocasionados por lo huracanes Irma y María a pequeños comerciantes. Los fondos se pueden utilizar para compra de inventario o equipo, pago de renta o hipoteca; nómina; así como servicios de agua, internet, gas propano, luz y teléfono.

Por su parte, el presidente del BDE expresó que “estamos muy agradecidos del apoyo del alcalde para promover esta oportunidad a los pequeños y

medianos comerciantes de la ciudad capital. Es importante que sepan que los fondos van dirigidos a la retención y creación de empleos, así como a la compra de equipos y materiales. Es requisito que los comerciantes puedan demostrar haber sufrido pérdidas físicas o económicas debido al paso de los huracanes para solicitar estas ayudas.

También pueden solicitar aquellos que tuvieron que cerrar operaciones como consecuencia de los huracanes, pero han abierto un nuevo negocio”.

Asimismo, el secretario del Depar-

tamento de la Vivienda, William Rodríguez Rodríguez manifestó que “estamos muy satisfechos con el trabajo realizado por parte de los municipios y los subrecipientes de los programas disponibles bajo los fondos CDBG-DR. Desde que asumimos la encomienda delegada por el gobernador Pedro Pierluisi, trazamos metas claras para lograr poner en las manos las ayudas disponibles para los afectados por los huracanes. Ciertamente, esto incluye a nuestros pequeños comerciantes que continúan dando la lucha para sacar adelante sus empresas”.

Los negocios que se han beneficiado de estas ayudas incluyen a Martínez Leiseca, CSP; La guardería infantil Natural Babies; VIP Energy Consultants Corp.; Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Puerto Rico; MCG and the Able Child at Centro Multidisciplinario del Caribe, Inc.; Merfy’s Hair and Nails Salon; Casa Hogar Victoria Incorporado; y Montehiedra Home Inc. Según los sectores económicos, los subsidios en San Juan han beneficiado a un 68% en empresas de servicios, 22% de comercio, 4% de manufactura y turismo, y 2% del sector agrícola.

Las personas interesadas en solicitar la asistencia del programa, pueden hacerlo en la página web https://www. cdbg-dr.pr.gov/financiamiento-para-pequenas-empresas/.

Salud reporta cuatro muertes, 108 personas hospitalizadas y 40 nuevos casos positivos en pruebas de COVID-19 POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe del Departamento de Salud de este miércoles reportó cuatro muertes por COVID-19, mientras que se registraron ocho casos confirmados, seis probables y 26 sospechosos adicionales, para un total de 40 nuevos casos positivos en pruebas para detectar el coronavirus, en muestras tomadas desde el 17 al 31 de mayo de 2021.

Las personas con al menos una dosis de vacuna contra el COVID-19 alcanzan 1,769,845. Las personas que han completado sus dosis de vacunación llegan a 1,366,491.

Hay 121,227 personas que han padecido Covid-19,

recuperadas o en proceso de recuperarse del virus.

Hay hospitalizadas 108 personas, 11 más que el martes. Entre los hospitalizados hay 82 pacientes adultos, 12 más que el día anterior y 26 casos pediátricos, uno menos que el miércoles.

En intensivo se encuentran 24 pacientes adultos, dos menos que el día anterior, y dos caso pediátricos, la misma cifra que el martes.

Mientras que en ventilador hay 14 pacientes adultos, dos menos que el día anterior y dos pediátricos, la misma cifra que el martes.

En total hay reportadas 2,509 personas fallecidas por Covid-19, cuatro más que en el informe del martes.

El reporte de decesos puede variar en la medida en que se dan los procesos de registro y codificación de las causas de muerte, lo que podría tomar varios días.

Para más información, puede acceder a través de la página web del Departamento de Salud.

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Marina’s music was caught between worlds. Now she’s making her own.

By PHOEBE REILLY

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arina Diamandis moved from London to Los Angeles during the pandemic fall, but she has already discovered some of the city’s trendiest literary emissaries.

“Eve Babitz didn’t get her due,” she said recently, scanning the shelves at West Hollywood’s Book Soup for the author’s “Slow Days, Fast Company,” a cult favorite of California-set vignettes.

“Joan Didion kind of eclipsed her.” With a wry smirk, she added, “There’s only ever room for one woman.”

The 35-year-old singer known as Marina (formerly Marina & the Diamonds) is fed up with this myth of scarcity on her fifth album, “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land,” due June 11. “I don’t want to live in a man’s world anymore,” she proclaims in her sterling soprano on its first single, “Man’s World.” The accompanying video, directed by Alexandra Gavillet, features women of various ages, sizes and ethnicities standing like placid warriors in Technicolor tunics.

The music business is its own kind of man’s world, and Diamandis has been navigating its waters since her 2010 debut, “The Family Jewels,” a boisterous collection of piano ballads, synth-pop and theatrical hip checks.

“Along with British songwriters like Lily Allen and Kate Nash, she’s redefining songs about coming of age, and the aftermath, with bluntness and crafty intelligence,” The New York Times’ chief pop critic, Jon Pareles, wrote ahead of its release.

Three more albums followed between 2012 and 2019 that saw Diamandis wrestling with embracing and rejecting the mandates of the industry — striving for mainstream acceptance then pulling back, making music with the flavor of an indie artist in a major label ecosystem. The ambitious “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land” is another kind of calibration.

“The way that we treat people is linked to our connection to the planet,” she said while discussing its second single, the propulsive “Purge the Poison.”

(It also has a remix featuring Pussy Riot.)

“It’s all tied to a degrading of femininity.

Across this album, there’s such a yearning for a focus on the feminine.”

In 2019, Diamandis put out a call on social media looking for female collaborators. Sifting through recommendations from fans and friends, she formed a team that included Gavillet, the photographer Coughs and the producer Jennifer Decilveo, who has worked with Beth Ditto and Bat for Lashes. Decilveo and Diamandis, who teamed on those first two singles, wrote music together at Diamandis’ West Hollywood home over Sunbasket meal-kit dishes that she had prepared.

“This is going to sound taboo, but I was drawn to the fact that Marina’s a woman, and I’m one of the only female producers in the business, and we spoke each other’s language,” Decilveo said in a phone interview. “She’s the real deal and, in this strange pop market, it’s refreshing to have somebody with lyrics that are going against the grain.”

With a singsong rhythm punctuated by snare drums, Diamandis impersonates Mother Nature avenging human failures on “Purge the Poison,” including capitalism, racism, pollution, Harvey Weinstein and the treatment of her beloved Britney Spears.

“On ‘Purge,’ I wasn’t trying to be nice,” Decilveo added. “I knew it needed to be a sock in the face.”

The second half of “Ancient Dreams” is more inward-focused — a breakup album — including “Highly Emotional People,” a delicate ballad interrogating male stoicism, and the plangent closer, “Goodbye.” During the pandemic, Diamandis split from her longtime boyfriend, Jack Patterson of the British electro-pop band Clean Bandit, with whom she shared a house and several cats.

Over the years, Diamandis’ albums have revealed an intriguing if uneasy dialogue with her own pop persona, beginning with “The Family Jewels,” which showcased her impressive vocal range and heralded a confident, unpredictable new artist.

“She was ahead of the curve,” said Derek Davies, her longtime friend and A&R representative, and a co-founder of Neon Gold Records, which released her first singles in the United States. “At the time, it was all about huge melodies and Max Martin. Marina was writing these deeply personal lyrics, which probably impeded her commercial radio viability.”

For her 2012 follow-up, “Electra Heart,” Diamandis said she felt pressured by her major label to work with au courant hitmakers like Diplo and Stargate. The experiment yielded the gold-certified single “Primadonna,” written with a team including Dr. Luke, which bore the influence of Diamandis’ tour dates opening for Katy Perry but flattened her idiosyncratic style.

In 2019, Diamandis dropped the Diamonds from her moniker, for “Love + Fear.” She once again relied on cowriters, including OzGo (Pink) and Joel Little (Lorde, Taylor Swift), and as a result achieved “a more commercial sound,” she said. It armed her with both the con-

fidence to finally leave her British management and switch to Atlantic’s U.S. division, and to revert to writing solo on “Ancient Dreams,” which she considers her best album.

“It’s the closest cousin in the discography to that first record,” Davies said.

“It’s her most indie, alternative record yet.”

It’s also her strongest political statement, and for that she partly credits this strange and terrifying past year.

“I would hope people don’t hear it as preaching,” she said. “The pandemic allowed a lot of us to step back and look at what kind of lives we’re living, and nothing feels sustainable.”

Diamandis already noticed pushback online to some of her positions on current issues.

“I like seeing comments like, ‘She used capitalism to get where she is,’ because it does make me think about my own place,” she continued. “But we’re all allowed to challenge the system that we’re in.”

The singer and songwriter Marina Diamandis in Malibu, Calif., May 27, 2021. The musician’s albums reveal an intriguing if uneasy dialogue with her own pop persona — her fifth LP, “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land,” is a firm statement of self.

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Was 1971 the year ‘music changed everything’?

The Staple Singers, as seen in the eight-part Apple TV+ documentary “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything.” The group released its self-titled album in 1971.

By CHRIS VOGNAR

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verything changed with the music of 1971. No, wait. It was 1973. Check that — 1974 was the year, except it was music, film and television, but only in Los Angeles.

If you’re writing a book, or adapting one for television, you could do worse than choosing a specific year as your organizing principle. That’s especially true when you’re dealing with the tumultuous early ’70s, when pop culture seemed to go down in flames and then rise again on a regular basis.

The latest to take up the challenge are the makers of “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” based on the David Hepworth book “Never a Dull Moment: 1971 — The Year That Rock Exploded.” Released

in full last week on Apple TV+, the eight-part docuseries offers plenty of evidence that its human subjects are convinced of the premise, as they typically are. “Music said something,” Chrissie Hynde says over the opening credits; “We were creating the 21st century in 1971,” says David Bowie.

But however hard it may be to avoid some boomer bias — a sense of generational self-importance is, after all, baked into the premise — it’s perhaps even harder to confine the scope of such endeavors to a single year: Did the music of 1971 really change things more than ’72? What would 1969 have to say about it? How to begin even making the case?

“Sometimes you’ve got to make a bold statement,” Asif Kapadia, overall director of the series and one of its executive producers,

said in a video call from London. “From our research, there was something amazing about that particular moment, where it comes after the ’60s, where it comes in terms of the ’70s, as a turning point.”

The series assembles so many captivating clips and strings together so much recent history that it’s hard to deny the results, whether you buy the premise or not.

In 1971, Marvin Gaye was transforming the protest song with the sublime “What’s Going On”; the Rolling Stones were hammering away on their raw classic “Exile on Main St.” (and doing copious amounts of heroin) in a rented villa in the South of France; Aretha Franklin was showing her public solidarity with incarcerated Black activist Angela Davis; and David Bowie was writing the book on rock ’n’ roll androgyny.

It was also a remarkable coming-out year for female artists: Carole King, who split with husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin in 1968, released “Tapestry” in 1971, and Joni Mitchell put out “Blue,” after the end of her relationship with Graham Nash. These weren’t just great albums; they were also personal statements of independence, resonant cries of defiance and vulnerability in what was still often a man’s world.

But life simply doesn’t organize itself according to 12-month periods, even when books and TV series ask it to. No project of this kind could impart the proper context without spending time, for example, on the Manson “family” massacre and the disaster in Altamont, California, in which four people died at a free concert headlined by the Rolling Stones — two 1969 events that signaled the end of the Flower Power era. The Kent State shootings of 1970 were another such bellwether, helping set the table for the mood and music to come.

Even as it strays from 1971, this is firstrate cultural history with a killer beat. So

sometimes, you bend the rules a little.

Consider Bowie, who ends up with the last word in the series. “The Man Who Sold the World” was released in the United States in 1970, but in Bowie’s native England in 1971.

He recorded the bulk of “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars,” which provides the series’s climax, in 1971, but the album was released in 1972. Similarly, the Stones recorded most of “Exile” in that villa in 1971, but they finished it in 1972, the year the album was released.

“We had a very basic rule that it had to have a very heavy footprint in ’71,” said series producer Danielle Peck, who directed four of the episodes. “It might start in 1969, and it might finish two years later. But the bulk of the event had to be felt in ’71, because we needed to have some way of filtering out all these amazing stories.”

These were times of social upheaval, not just great music. But they were emboldened by the music, by the empowerment of women and African Americans, and by gender-bending warriors. Was 1971 the gold standard for pop, rock and soul? Any answer would be drenched in subjectivity. But it was absolutely an exit point from the ’60s into a hectic new era, hard to define but rich in conflict and possibility.

“I’m sure different people have different arguments,” Kapadia said, “but our point was there was something special going on in that moment with the end of the Beatles and the beginning of other artists, who then create what we can now see was the music of the future.”

When you watch “1971,” it’s probably best not to worry if it was “the year music changed everything.” Maybe it’s enough to appreciate the era and its soundtrack without fact-checking the title.

Now, let’s take a look at what albums came out in 1975.

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Paying the price for sun damage

By JANE E. BRODY

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ick your favorite cliché: Do as I say, not as I do; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; better safe than sorry; forewarned is forearmed.

Mea culpa. All the above relate to my failure to follow the well-established health advice about sun exposure that I’ve offered repeatedly to my readers: Routinely protect your skin from the cancer-causing and aging effects of the sun’s ultraviolet rays.

For decades I’ve failed to practice what I preached (OK to wince) and am now paying for my negligence with unsightly splotches, bumps and bruises and at least one cancerous lesion on my sun-damaged skin. My litany of excuses has included: hats mess up my hair, long sleeves and pants are too hot in summer and exercising while coated with sunscreen is suffocating.

Annually vowing to do better, every summer I dutifully purchase the latest dermatology-recommended sunscreen that, alas, spends the summer unopened on a bathroom shelf. I hereby pledge to do better this year, albeit late in the game.

A new report from a dermatology team at Kaiser Permanente health care centers in California has prompted me to reform. The team, headed by public health researcher Lisa Herrinton in Oakland, followed nearly half a million patients seen at the centers for up to 10 years. Half had already developed one or more actinic keratosis, a precancerous rough, scaly skin lesion caused by years of unprotected sun exposure.

As you might expect, these lesions most often form on the face, ears, back of the hands, forearms, scalp and neck and are — or should be — routinely removed when found by dermatologists to prevent progression to cancer. The lesions are markers of sun damage and can serve as an early warning system for people at risk of developing cancer somewhere on sunexposed skin.

While the hazard is greatest for people with light skin, blue eyes, freckles or red hair, having a dark complexion is not a free pass. Tanning, not just burning, is a form of sun damage.

Among patients in the Kaiser Permanente study who were younger than 50, those with a diagnosis of actinic keratosis were nearly seven times more likely to de-

A new report from a dermatology team at Kaiser Permanente health care centers in California show half had already developed one or more actinic keratosis, a precancerous rough, scaly skin lesion caused by years of unprotected sun exposure. velop a skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma during the decadelong followup. The cancer risk was eight times higher among patients older than 50 who had one or more actinic keratosis removed, and the more such lesions these patients had, the more likely they were to develop skin cancer during the follow-up.

Furthermore, the older the patient, the sooner cancer was diagnosed after actinic keratosis was found and presumably treated. It took seven to eight years for 10% of patients in their 50s with an actinic keratosis to receive a diagnosis of skin cancer, but it took only three to four years for patients in their 70s and one to two years for those in their 80s.

Alas, those of us in the upper decades of life knew little in our younger years about the risks of sun damage beyond the need to avoid a bad sunburn. Many youngsters like me swam, hiked, biked and played sports minimally clothed while the sun tanned or burned our skin. We sunbathed coated in baby oil in a misguided effort to acquire a rich tan. And many of us, myself included, failed to reach adulthood with sun-protective habits that could have prevented the skin damage now woefully apparent.

Given that the risk of ultraviolet light

to healthy skin has since been widely publicized, I’m astonished at how many people today visit tanning salons or use tanning beds at home, damaging the wholesome cutaneous barrier nature gave us.

Happily, the new study suggests that more people now have a greater understanding and respect for the sun’s effects on skin and can look forward to a healthier future, said Dr. Sangeeta Marwaha, a dermatologist in Sacramento, California, and co-author of the study. Among people who entered the study in 2018, the risk of developing skin cancer was two-thirds that of study entrants in 2008 who were followed for an equal number of years.

“There’s been an increase in sun-protective habits and a resulting decrease in the development of skin cancer,” Marwaha said in an interview. “Parents today are more likely to protect their children from undue sun exposure, and the use of sunscreen is now more mainstream.”

But there’s still a long way to go. Fostering a healthy respect for sun protection in young children is especially important because experts estimate that 80% of a person’s lifetime sun exposure is acquired before age 18.

Repeated exposure to the sun’s ul-

traviolet radiation causes most of the skin changes — wrinkles, age spots and tiny broken blood vessels — generally considered a normal result of aging. Yes, aging plays a role, but these effects occur much earlier in life on sun-exposed skin. UV light damages the elastin fibers in skin, causing it to stretch, sag and wrinkle. It also damages surface blood vessels, rendering them more fragile and easily bruised.

And Zachary W. Lipsky, a biomedical engineer at Binghamton University, found that UV radiation weakens the bonds that help the cells in the top layer of skin stick together, damaging the skin’s structural integrity and leaving it more vulnerable to infection.

But while some of these effects can be masked by cosmetic treatments and plastic surgery, the most serious damage done by UV radiation — to the DNA of skin cells — is permanent and irreversible and can result in cancer-causing mutations.

Furthermore, preventing sun damage is easier and cheaper than reversing it and less likely to result in premature wrinkles and scars. Try to schedule your outdoor activities early or late in the day, avoiding the peak sun hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Routinely apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher to exposed skin year-round even on cloudy days, using at least a quarter teaspoon on your face alone. Apply sunscreen half an hour before going out and reapply it every two hours and after being in the water.

Modern sunscreens are not greasy or pasty, but they lose effectiveness with time so be sure to check the expiration date. Even if you sit under an umbrella at the beach or in the park, the sun’s reflected rays will hit your skin.

Wear a hat with a wide brim, especially important for men who are balding.

If you have the means, invest in top-quality sunglasses and clothing, including swimwear, with built-in SPF protection. The darker and heavier the fabric, the better. “A plain white T-shirt has an SPF of 4, whereas dark blue denim jeans could have an SPF of 2000,” Marwaha said.

This summer I plan to apply sunscreen daily and wear a long-sleeved sunprotective shirt when I walk, cycle and garden, even on cloudy days, a habit I wish I’d cultivated decades ago.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

FELIX FIGUEROA CARDONA; CARMEN SOCORRO MELENDEZ RIVERA; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, NATALIA FIGUEROA MELENDEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: NSCI200800333.

(307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, a la demandada 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 26 de junio de 2020 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $93,803.28 de principal, dictada en el caso el 14 de noviembre de 2008, notificada y archivada en autos el día 20 de noviembre de 2008, 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, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en: el Municipio de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: UNIDAD DE VIVIENDA 13-C, UBICADO EN EL PROYECTO VILLA MARINA VILLAGE, INC., QUE RADICA EN FAJARDO, EN EL BARRIO SARDINERA EN PUERTO RICO. ESTA UNIDAD DE VIVIENDA ESTA FABRICADA DE CONCRETO REFORZADO. ESTA CONSTITUIDA DE LOS NIVELES QUE SE SEÑALAN, SIENDO DEL PRIMER PISO, EL PISO TERRERO CON SU PUERTA DE ENTRADA POR EL LINDERO OESTE Y POR ELLA SE SALE A LA VIA DE ACCESO QUE CONDUCE DIRECTAMENTE AL EXTERIOR. LINDEROS: POR EL SUR, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE DOCE PUNTO CINCUENTA PIES LINEALES

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(12.50) CON ÁREA DE USO COMÚN GENERAL; POR EL NORTE EN UNA DISTANCIA DE DOCE PUNTO CINCUENTA PIES LINEALES (12.50) CON ÁREA DE USO COMÚN GENERAL QUE LA SEPARA DEL ÁREA DE ESTACIONAMIENTO; POR EL ESTE, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE CINCUENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y SEIS PIES LINEALES (59.256) CON UNIDAD DE VIVIENDA TRECE D(13.D) Y POR EL OESTE, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE CINCUENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y SEIS PIES LINEALES (59.256) CON UNIDAD DE VIVIENDA TRECE B (13-B).

ESTA UNIDAD DE VIVIENDA TIENE UNA SUPERFICIE TOTAL HABITABLE DE MIL CIENTO NOVENTA Y DOS PUNTO SETECIENTOS SETENTA Y CINCO PIES CUADRADOS (1192.775). DE ESTE TOTAL MIL SIETRE PUNTO SEISCIENTOS VEINTICINCO PIES CUADRADOS (1007.625) ES ÁREA CONSTRUIDA INCLUYENDO ÁREA DE SERVICIOS Y CIENTO OCHENTA Y CINCO PUNTO QUINCE PIES CUADRADOS (185.15) ES ÁREA DE PATIOS. NIVELES: EL PRIMER NIVEL TIENE UN ÁREA DE CONSTRUCCIÓN DE CUATROCIENTOS VEINTISIETE PUNTO CERO OCHO (427.08) PIES CUADRADOS, PRODUCTOS DE DOCE PUNTO CINCUENTA (12.50) PIES DE ANCHO POR TREINTA Y CUATRO PUNTO CIENTO SESENTA Y SEIS (34.166) PIES DE FRENTE A FONDO, EN LA ESTRUCTURA PRINCIPAL MAS CIENTO VEINTIOCHO PUNTO CUARENTA Y SIETE (128.47) PIES CUADRADOS DE DOS TERRAZAS IRREGULARES, UNA AL FRENTE Y OTRA AL FONDO. EL SEGUNDO NIVEL TIENE UN ÁREA DE CONSTRUCCIÓN DE CUATROCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y DOS PUNTO CERO OCHO (452.08) PIES CUADRADOS, PRODUCTO DE DOCE PUNTO CINCUENTA (12.50) PIES DE ANCHO POR TRESCIENTOS SESENTA Y UNO PUNTO SESENTA Y SEIS (361.66) PIES DE FRENTE A FONDO. SUS PATIOS TIENE LAS SIGUIENTES ÁREAS: A) PATIO POSTERIOR TIENE UN ÁREA DE CIENTO VEINTITRES PUNTO CERO CERO (123.00) PIES CUADRADOS, B) EL PEQUEÑO PATIO INMEDIATO A LA TERRAZA DEL FRENTE TIENE UN ÁREA DE TREINTA Y CINCO PUNTO NOVENTA (35.90) PIES CUADRADOS Y C) EL PEQUEÑO PATIO INME-

DIATO A LA TERRAZA POSTERIOR TIENE UN ÁREA DE VEINTISEIS PUNTO VENTICINCO (26.25) PIES CUADRADOS. ESTA UNIDAD CONSTA EN EL PRIMER NIVEL DE SLA-COMEDOR, COCINA CON GABINETES Y FREGADERO, LAVANDERÍA Y CALENTADOR, BAÑO EQUIPADO CON INDODORO Y LAVAMANOS CON ACCESORIOS; FOYER, ESCALERA, CLOSET, PATIOS, ÁREA DE SERVICIO Y TERRAZA. EL SEGUNDO NIVEL CONSTA DE DOS CUARTOS DOMITORIOS, CLOSET, Y CLOSET VESTIDOR; BAÑO EQUIPADO CON BAÑERA, INODORO Y ACCESORIOS, TOCADOR Y LAVAMANOS APARTE, CORREDOR Y ESCALERA. SE LE HA ASIGNADO A ESTE UNIDAD, COMO ELEMENTO COMÚN LIMITADO EL DERECHO EXCLUSIVO A ESTACIONAMIENTO. EL PORCENTAJE ASIGNADO A ESTA UNIDAD EN LOS ELEMENTOS COMUNES GENERALES, ASI COMO EN AL VOTACIÓN PARA PARTICULARES DE ESA INDOLE ES IGUAL A CERO PUNTO CERO CERO SEIS CUATRO CUATRO OCHO UNO (0.0064481%). EL PORCENTAJE ASIGNADO A ESTA UNIDAD EN LOS ELEMENTOS COMUNES LIMITADOS DEL EDIFICIO, PROPORCIÓN DE GANANCIAS Y PERDIDAS, ASI COMO EN VOTACIÓN DE ASUNTOS RELACIONADOS CON ESOS ELEMENTOS COMUNES ILIMITADOS ES IGUAL AL CERO PUNTO UNO SEIS CINCO CINCO SEIS DOS POR CIENTO (0.165562%). CONSTA INSCRITA AL FOLIO 113 DEL TOMO 346 DE FAJARDO, FINCA NÚMERO 14,873 DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE FAJARDO. 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 Fajardo, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $93,803.28 de principal, 6.50% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $191.60 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, $130.00 de otros gastos; mas los intereses que se acumulen hasta el pago total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados en 10% del principal del Pagaré. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es

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$98,800.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad antes 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; $65,866.66. 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; $49,400.00. Art. 104 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30 L.P.R.A. sec.

2721. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 15 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 22 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 29 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo. Del Estudio de Titulo realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior, el que será objeto de ejecución por esta subasta: Hipoteca constituida por los esposos Félix Figueroa Cardona y Carmen Meléndez Rivera; y Natalia Figueroa Meléndez, mayor de edad, soltera, en garantía de un pagaré bajo aff. #4630 a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por $24,700.00 al 6.50% anual, vencedero el 1 de octubre de 2033, según Esc. #1144, otorgada en San Juan, el 16 de septiembre de 2003, ante Pedro Nel Arevalo Martínez, inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca #14873 de Fajardo, inscripción 6ta. 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 le 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, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal 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

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Thursday, June 3, 2021 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. 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 en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser 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.

Y para conocimiento de la demandada, 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 06 de mayo de 2021. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

CARLOS COLL ESCUDERO T/C/C CARLOS DAVID COLL ESCUDERO; LIZ BETZAIDA LOPEZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: N3CI2009-0174.

Sobre: IN REM COBRO DE DINERO & EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, a la demandada 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 24 de marzo de 2021 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $79,918.82 de principal, dictada en el caso el 25 de marzo de 2010, notificada y archivada en autos el día 30 de marzo de 2010, 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, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en: Municipio de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: APARTAMENTO NUMERO OCHOCIENTOS UNO (801) DEL EDIFICIO OCHO (8) DEL CONDOMINIO LOMAS DE RIO GRANDE, QUE SE COMPONE DE UN AREA DE SALA Y COMEDOR, UNA COCINA CON LAVANDERIA (“LAUNDRY”), UN DORMITORIO PRINCIAPAL (“MASTER”) CON ARMARIO (“CLOSET”), DOS DORMITORIOS ADICIONALES CON ARMARIO (“CLOSETS”), DOS BAÑOS Y UN BALCON. TIENE UN AREA DE OCHOCIENTOS VEINTICUATRO PUNTO SETENTA Y CINCO (824.75) PIES CUADRADOS, EQUIVALENTES A SETENTA Y SEIS PUNTO SESENTA Y CINCO (76.65) METROS CUADRADOS. EN LINDES POR EL NORTE, EN VEINTIUN PIES SEIS PULGADAS (21’6”), CON AREA COMUN QUE COLINDA CON EL ESTACIONAMIENTO DEL CONDOMINIO; POR EL SUR, EN VEINTIUN PIES SEIS PULGADAS (21’6”), CON ESCALERA COMUNAL Y AREA COMUN DE SEIS (6”); POR EL OESTE, EN CUARENTA PIES SEIS PULGADAS (40’6”), CON AREA COMUN QUE COLINDA CON TERRENOS DE LA FINCA DE FLORA BORINQUEÑA; POR EL ESTE, EN CUARENTA PIES SEIS PULGADAS (40’6”), CON EL APARTA-

MENTO NOVECIENTOS UNO (901). ESTE APARTAMENTO TIENE UNA PARTICIPACION DE PUNTO OCHOCIENTOS TREINTA Y TRES Y UN TERCIOPORCIENTO (.833 1/3%) EN LOS ELEMENTOS COMUNES DEL CONDOMINIO. A ESTE APARTAMENTO LE CORRESPONDE UN ESPACIO DE ESTACIONAMIENTO IDENTIFICADO CON EL MISMO NUMERO DEL APARTAMENTO. INSCRITA AL TOMO KARIBE DE RIO GRANDE, FINCA 27,961, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE CAROLINA, SECCIÓN TERCERA (III). 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 Fajardo, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $79,918.82 de principal; 6.50% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $143.88 por concepto de cargos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda; más $505.00 de otros gastos, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el pago total de la deuda, más costas gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $85,260.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad antes 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; $56,840.00. 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; $42,630.00. Art. 104 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30 L.P.R.A. sec.

2721. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 15 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 22 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 29 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores. Se le ad-

vierte 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, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal 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. 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 en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser 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. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 06 de mayo de 2021. SHIRLEY SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #161.

DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE HELEN RIVERS BURGOS, COMPUESTA POR EDELMIRO ALVAREZ SOTO POR SÍ, Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, JENNIFER ALVAREZ SOTO, MICHELLE ALVAREZ SOTO, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN, EL HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado Civil Núm.: DCD2017-0354.

Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 25 de marzo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Sierra Bayamón, situado en el Barrio Hato Tejas del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de dicha urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: 1 del bloque 97. Área del solar: cuatrocientos cincuenta y dos metros cuadrados con doscientos diez y siete milésimas de metro (452.217 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, en trece puntos ochocientos setenta y cinco metros con el solar número 8; por el SUR, en 3 alineaciones, siete puntos setecientos veintidós metros, un arco de once punto setecientos trece metros y cinco punto setecientos noventa y seis metros, con la calle número #13; por el ESTE, en 21.17 metros con la administración de terreno; y por el OESTE, con 25 .00 metros con el solar número #2. Inscri-

to al folio 150 del tomo 17 de Bayamón Norte, finca número #502 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Bayamón. La propiedad ubica en: 97-1, Calle 83, Brisas de Sierra Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 15 de agosto de 2017 y notificada el 2 de mayo de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $137,738.85 adeudada al 1ro de octubre de 2016, la cual se desglosa en $122,741.03 por concepto de principal; $772.90 por concepto de intereses acumulados, $422.39 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito; y la suma de $13,802.50 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $138,025.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $92,016.66, 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 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE en el quinto piso, Sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $69,012.50, 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

Thursday, June 3, 2021 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de mayo de 2021.

JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

IRIS VIVIANA GÓMEZ PANET, PEDRO GÓMEZ ROSARIO t/c/c PEDRO GÓMEZ, IRIS YOLANDA PANET SERRANO y

la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. JU2019CV00080.

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 julio de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 17 de septiembre de 2019 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 18 de septiembre de 2019 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 2 de agosto de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (#1), Intersección con la Número 189, Entrada Norte, Urb. Bairoa, Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbanización Senderos de Juncos en el Barrio Gurabo Abajo del término municipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, identificada en el plano de inscripción Final de la Urbanización con el Número 40, con una cabida superficial de 300.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 12.50 metros con terrenos marcados de Teresa Méndez Sánchez; por el SUR, en una distancia de 12.50 metros, con la Calle Número Uno (1); por el ESTE, en una distancia de 24.00 metros con el lote número 41; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 24.00 metros con el lote número 39. Discurre servidumbre de paso de líneas telefónicas a favor de la Junta Reglamentadora de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico de 1.50 metros de ancho a todo lo largo del frente de este solar y una servidumbre de paso a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de 9.14 metros por 0.72 metros de ancho en su colindancia. Enclava una casa de hormigón armado y bloques de concreto de una sola planta de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios en solar interior diseñada para fines residenciales y construida de acuerdo con los planos y especificaciones aprobados por la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos de Puerto Rico. La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 173 del tomo

433 de Juncos, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II, Finca número 16605.

Inscripción segunda. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: SENDEROS DE JUNCOS, BARRIO GURABO ABAJO, LT40 CALLE 1, JUNCOS, PR 00777. Primera Subasta: 2 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $84,840.00. Segunda Subasta: 9 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $56,560.00.

Tercera Subasta: 16 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:30 am, Tipo Mínimo: $42,420.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $84,840.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 9 de agosto de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $56,560.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta día 16 de agosto de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $42,420.00. 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. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Presentación: Presentada el 8 de abril de 2019, al asiento 2019-035730-CA01, Demanda de fecha 1 de abril de 2019, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número JU2019CV00080, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Iris Viviana Gómez Panet, Pedro Gómez Rosario también conocido como Pedro Gómez y su esposa, Iris Yolanda Panet Serrano, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $77,450.51 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Nota: Los demandados Pedro Gómez e Iris Panet comparecen como co-deudores de la hipoteca. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $77,450.51 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha

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suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $536.01 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,484.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes. 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de mayo de 2021.

ALBERTO NEGRON ROMAN, Alguacil Placa 435, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN de EDDIE WILLIAM NEGRÓN MARTÍNEZ t/c/c EDDIE WILLIAM NEGRÓN compuesta por: EDDIE ALBERTO NEGRÓN NEGRÓN, FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, posibles herederos desconocidos; RICARDO ANTONIO SOTO NEGRÓN

t/c/c RICARDO ANTONIO SOTO NEGRO

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. CG2019CV02291.

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 28 de enero de 2020, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 24 de febrero de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 4 de marzo de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 2 de agosto de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (#1), Intersección con la Número 189, Entrada Norte, Urb. Bairoa, Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 02-302. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, de una planta, identificado con el número 02-302, localizado en la tercera planta del Edificio B-2 del Condominio Valle Santa Cecilia, localizado en la Avenida Espíritu Santo Final, Barrio Tomás de Castro del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con la descripción, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación. En lindes por el NORTE, con elementos comunes y con el vestíbulo de entrada al apartamento; por el SUR, con elementos comunes; por el ESTE, con elementos comunes; y por el OESTE, con el vestíbulo de entrada al apartamento, con elementos comunes y con el apartamento numerado 02-301. Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Norte que da hacia el área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al edificio. Consta de balcón, sala, comedor, cocina, una alacena que combina con el área de lavandería, un área de “family room”, un baño completo, dos cuartos con un closet cada uno, dos closet en el pasillo que da acceso a los cuartos, un cuarto principal con su propio baño completo y un área de “walk in closet” y un closet cuya puerta que da hacia el área de pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al edificio. El área total del apartamento y sus anejos es de 2,092.96 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 194.448 metros cua-

drados, que se distribuyen en la siguiente forma: Área del apartamento: 1,804.96 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 167.691 metros cuadrados. Área de estacionamiento: 288.00 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 26.757 metros cuadrados. Le corresponden a este Apartamento, como Anejo, 2 espacios de estacionamiento, cubierto uno detrás de otro descubierto, ambos marcados con el numero 2.302 AB, ubicados en las áreas de estacionamientos del Condominio, según ilustrados en el “Plot Plan” del Apartamento que se acompaña en la Escritura Matriz. A este Apartamento, además le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de 0.42556%. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 29 del tomo 1741 de Caguas, Finca Número 60359, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 1755 de Caguas, Finca Número 60359, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción quinta. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: VALLE SANTA CECILIA, 100 AVE. DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO, APT. 2302, CAGUAS, PR 00725-3031.

Primera Subasta: 2 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:45 am, Tipo Mínimo: $161,600.00. Segunda Subasta: 9 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:45 am, Tipo Mínimo: $107,733.33. Tercera Subasta: 16 de agosto de 2021 a las 9:45 am, Tipo Mínimo: $80,800.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $161,600.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 9 de agosto de 2021, a las 9:45 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, $107,733.33.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta día 16 de agosto de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $80,800.00. 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. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Eddie William Negrón Martínez también conocido como Eddie William Negrón, compuesta por Eddie Alberto Negrón Negrón,

22 Fulano y Mengano, Ricardo Antonio Soto Negrón también conocido como Ricardo Antonio Soto Negro, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número CG2019CV02291, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $141,963.95 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de junio de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Caguas. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $141,963.95 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.5% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $184.20 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $16,160.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes. 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de mayo de 2021.

ALBERTO NEGRON ROMAN, Alguacil Placa 435, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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

Lime Homes, LTD Plaintiff, v.

Jose Ramos Berrios a/k/a Jose Orlando Ramos Berrios, Marilyn Santos Rodriguez and the Conjugal Partnership constituted among them

CIVIL NO: 3:20-cv-01132-PAD. RE: Collection of Money and Mortgage Foreclosure. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Jose Ramos Berrios a/k/a Jose Orlando Ramos Berrios, Marilyn Santos Rodriguez and the Conjugal Partnership constituted among them, General Public,First Bank and all parties that may have an interest in the property

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $118,722.47 plus interest at a rate of 6.000% 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 ($11,815.00) 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, Mr. 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 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 87 del bloque ‘C’ en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Villa Verde, radicado en el

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 273.12 metros cuadrados.

Colinda por el Norte, en una distancia de 10.308 metros, con terrenos propiedad de Sucesión Espinal; por el Sur, en una distancia de 10.30 metros con la calle número 10 de la Urbanización; por el Este, en una distancia de 26.684 metros con el solar número 86 del bloque ‘C’; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de 26.335 metros con el solar número 88 del bloque ‘C’. Sobre el antes descrito solar se ha edificado una casa de hormigón reforzado dedicada a vivienda. The property is identified with the number 60,527 and is recorded at page number 101 of volume number 1,350 of Bayamón, in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 133 of volume number 1,849 of Bayamón, eight inscription in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage note and the mortgage deed were modified pursuant to Deed Number 546 executed on November 22, 2010, before Notary Public Teresa Jiménez Meléndez, in which the principal balance was modified to the sum of $128,568.63, the maturity date extended to November 1, 2050 and the interest rate modified as follows: i) From November 22, 2010 until November 1, 2012 at a rate of 5.50%. ii) From December 1, 2012 until November 1, 2050 at a rate of 7.50%. The modification deed is recorded at page number 133 of volume number 1,849 of Bayamón, 9th inscription in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, First Section. WHEREAS, The mortgage note and the mortgage deed were modified through a of Home Affordable Modification Agreement executed on October 14, 2016, pursuant to which the new principal balance was modified to $146,674.74 of which $25,924.74 constituted a deferred principal balance. The interest rate was also reduced to 6.000% per annum, with a balloon payment of $14,400.95 due at the new maturity set for November 1, 2054. WHEREAS, On November 17, 2017 as part of the moratoriums offered by the passage of Hurricanes María and Irma over Puerto Rico, by virtue of a Deferral Offer, the amount of $1,993.14 was deferred. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by Firstbank de Puerto Rico vs. José Orlando Ramos Berrios and Marilyn Santos Rodríguez and the conjugal partnership cons-

tituted among them, before the Bayamon Court of First Instance, docket number DCD 20130927 (504), regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $127,503.38, as per complaint dated April 11, 2013. Recorded at page 183 of volumne 1849 of Bayamon. Annotation A. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc., vs. José Orlando Ramos Berrios and Marilyn Santos Rodríguez and the conjugal partnership constituted among them, before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:20 CV 01132-PAD regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $118,722.47, as per complaint dated March 10, 2020. Recorded at the Bayamon Karibe volume, annotation A. 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 JULY 2, 2021 AT 9:45 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $118,150.00. 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 JULY 9, 2021 AT 9:45 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $78,766.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on JULY 16, 2021 AT 9:45 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $59,075.00. 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 May 21, 2021. Sing. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Special Master. (787)

565-0515. Email: rondajoel@ CALLE 538, CAROLINA, PR 00985. La propiedad tiene el me.com. siguiente Número de Catastro LEGAL NOTICE del CRIM: 20-064-052-377ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 07-001. El embargo de esta DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- propiedad fue anotado al Tomo NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Karibe de Carolina, Finca NúCENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- mero 8857, Anotación A, por la LINA SALA SUPERIOR DE suma principal de $106,083.45, intereses vencidos que al 20 de CAROLINA. LUNA ACQUISITION, LLC diciembre de 2019, ascienden a la suma de $17,555.97 y los Demandante vs.

ANGEL REYES LAYER que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago Demandado (s) total y completo de la obligaCIVIL NÚM.: CA2019CV02638 ción, la suma de $2,584.97 (407). SOBRE: COBRO DE DIpor concepto de cargos por NERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. demora, más la cantidad de LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE $12,500.00 para costas, gastos AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE y honorarios de abogado seDE LOS E.E. U.U. EL ESTADO gún pactados, hasta su total y LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERcompleto pago. Esta propiedad TO RICO. SS: Yo, SAMUEL se subastará para satisfacer GONZALEZ ISAAC, Alguacil a la parte demandante con el del Tribunal Superior de Puerproducto de la subasta, hasta to Rico, Sala de Carolina, al donde alcance, el pago de las Público HAGO SABER: Que cantidades adeudadas a la en cumplimiento de un Mandaparte demandante de acuerdo miento de Venta en Pública Sucon los términos dispuestos en basta que se me libró con fecha la Sentencia Enmendada Nunc del 30 de abril de 2021, por la Pro Tunc dictada por el HonoraSecretaria de este Tribunal en ble Tribunal de Primera Instanel caso de epígrafe, venderé en cia, Sala Superior de Carolina, pública subasta y al mejor posen este caso, el día 7 de febrero tor, la siguiente propiedad emde 2020, notificada y archivada bargada por el Banco demanen autos el 20 de febrero de dante, perteneciente a la parte 2020. La subasta se llevará a demandada, ANGEL REYES efecto en mi oficina, situada en LAYER, por la suma principal el local que ocupa este Tribunal de $106,083.45 y otras sumas, en el Centro Judicial de Carolicuya descripción registral lee na, el día 28 de junio de 2021, como sigue: URBANA: Solar a las 11:00 de la mañana. Conmarcado con el número seis forme surge del Registro de la del “QQ” del plano de inscripPropiedad de Carolina, Sección ción de la cuarta extensión, terPrimera, la propiedad antes cera etapa de la Urbanización descrita se encuentra afecta al Country Club, situada en el Basiguiente gravamen preferente, rrio Sabana Bajo del municipio a favor de la parte demandande Carolina, Puerto Rico, con te: Hipoteca en garantía de un una cabida superficial de trespagaré a favor de Master Mortcientos treinta y siete metros gage Corporation, por la suma cuadrados con cincuenta centíde $125,000.00. Intereses a metros, lindes: por el NORTE, razón de 7.75% anual. Fecha en trece metros cincuenta cende vencimiento: 1 de agosto tímetros (13.50mc) con la calle de 2036. Número de Testimoquinientos treinta y ocho (538); mio: Autenticado bajo testimopor el SUR, trece metros cinnio número 1158; Tasación: cuenta centímetros (13.50mc) $125,000.00. Así resulta de la con terrenos propiedad de escritura 158 otorgada en San Puerto Rico Homes, Inc; por el Juan, Puerto Rico, el 31 de juESTE, en veinticinco metros lio de 2006, ante notario David (25.00m) con el solar número E. Vera Umpierre, Inscripción siete (7); y por el OESTE, n 10ma. Dicha subasta se celeveinticinco metros (25.00m) brará para satisfacer a la parte con el solar número cinco (5). demandante el balance de las Inscrita al folio 149 del tomo sumas adjudicadas por senten233 de Carolina, Finca Número cia en cobro de dinero y pen8,857, Registro de la Propiedad diente de pago al momento de de Puerto Rico, Sección I de la subasta, advirtiéndose que el Carolina. Por su procedencia que obtuviere la buena pro conestá afecta a: Servidumbres a signará en el acto del remate el favor de Fomento Industrial de importe de su oferta en moneda Puerto Rico, Central Victoria, legal, en adición a los gastos de Inc., Autoridad de Acueductos y la subasta. Del producto obteniAlcantarillados de Puerto Rico, do en dicha venta, el Alguacil, Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviapagará hasta donde alcance, a les de Puerto Rico; Finca 6044 la parte demandante el balance propiedad de W. Clay Jackson pendiente de pago de la senEnterprises, Inc., Municipio de tencia, es decir, la suma prinCarolina; Condiciones Restriccipal de $106,083.45, intereses tivas Sobre Edificación y Uso. vencidos que al 20 de diciemLa dirección fisica del inmuebre de 2019, ascienden a la ble anteriormente descrito es suma de $17,555.97 y los que URB. COUNTRY CLUB, QQ-6

se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, la suma de $2,584.97 por concepto de cargos por demora, más la cantidad de $12,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactados hasta su total y completo pago. Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina durante horas laborables. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y grávamenes posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 11 de mayo de 2021. SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SUBSECCIÓN DTTO MUNICIPAL QUEBRADILLAS-SUPERIOR,

ESTRELLA HOMES, LLC Demandante v.

SUCESION DE HECTOR ARTURO DELIZ MUÑOZ, HILDA BORGES HERNANDEZ compuesta por FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL Y MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL como miembros desconocidos de la sucesión; CENTRO DE DEPARTAMENTO

DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISION DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. CICD2017-0006 (101). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES

YO, LUIS E. ROMAN CARRERO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, al público en general, POR LA PRESENTE HAGO SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, en mi oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, el día 15 de junio de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela número siete (7) radicada en el Barrio Cacao de Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de mil ochenta y tres punto ochenta y cuatro (1,083.84) metros cuadrados. En linderos por el NORTE, con solar número seis (6); por el SUR, con solar número ocho (8); por el ESTE, con Rocabel Román; y por el OESTE, con Calle Municipal.

Consta inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 233 de Quebradillas, finca 12400, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Segunda Sección. La dirección física es: San Javier 7, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico 00678. El tipo mínimo fijado para la ejecución del bien inmueble antes mencionado lo es la suma de $188,000.00. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pasado 15 de octubre de 2019 y notificada el 25 de octubre de 2019 en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $149,353.13 de principal, más $4,339.48 de intereses acumulados hasta el 15 de diciembre de 2016 más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la cantidad de $58.64 por recargos, más la suma de $18,800.00 por honorarios de abogados pactados. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 22 de junio de 2021, a las 10:30

The San Juan Daily Star de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para ésta será $125,333.33 que es las dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 29 de junio de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para esta subasta será $94,000.00 que es la mitad del precio mínimo pactado para la primera subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuera 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 fuere mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acordadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal. La subasta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. El inmueble antes relacionado NO consta de afectos de gravámenes preferenciales ni posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsistentes; entiéndase que el rematante los acepta y quedan subrogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana, durante dos semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el presente en Camuy, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de mayo del 2021.

WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, Alguacil Regional. LUIS E. ROMAN CARRERO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAMUY. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

CARMELA VENTURA REYES Demandante V.

NELSON R. SANCHEZ SANCHEZ

Demandado(a) Civil: SJ2020RF01259. (708).

Sobre: DIVORCIO (R.I.). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

Thursday, June 3, 2021 A: NELSON R. SANCHEZ SANCHEZ.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de marzo de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de mayo de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 7 de mayo de 2021.

GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN J. CASTRO SERRANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN DE WILFREDO MORALES ROSADO compuesta por MARIELA MORALES y FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL como miembros desconocidos.

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2018CV06629.

Sobre: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.RAVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE WILFREDO MORALES ROSADO compuesta por MARIELA MORALES y FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL como miembros desconocidos y PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 13 de mayo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nom-

bre del Alguacil del Tribunal la siguiente propiedad: [Condominio Villa Magna, 103 Apt, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00921.

Dirección Postal: 1783 Carr.

21, Apt. 103, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00921-3321] y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Apartamento 103. Apartamento individualizado de hormigón armado, bloques de hormigón y paredes “Dry Wall” de uso residencial localizado en el lado SUR del primer piso del edificio conocido como Condominio Villa Magna, localizado en la carretera #21 en Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento tiene una cabida superficial de 622.97 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente y consta de salacomedor, balcón, un dormitorio, un baño, pasillo interior, una cocina y closet. La puerta principal está localizada en la sala, comedor, la cual lo comunica con el pasillo de uso común que conduce a los ascensores, escaleras y la calle. Colinda por el NORTE, con corredor interior del edificio; por el SUR, colinda con elementos, exteriores del edificio; Por el ESTE, colinda con el Apartamento #104 y por el OESTE, colinda con el Apartamento #102. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales equivalentes a .625% y un espacio de estacionamiento para su uso exclusivo marcado con el #172. Finca 23936 inscrita al folio 267 del tomo 781 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: i) HIPOTECA constituida por Wilfredo Morales Rosario, soltero, en garantía de un pagaré, aff. #117, a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, por $87,250.00, al 6% vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2043, según Esc. #53, en San Juan, el 29 de abril de 2013, ante Frank M. Norris Agosto, inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 974 de Monacillos, finca #23936 inscripción 9na. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 28 de junio de 2019, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad de $81,993.72 de principal, interés por $2,871.48 que continuarán acumulándose al 6.00% anual desde el día 1 de enero de 2018 hasta el saldo total, $469.51 de balance cuenta escrow, $94.14 de cargos por atraso, $1,269.81 otros cargos, $8,725.00 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. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 28 de junio de 2021, a las 10:30 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 $87,250.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjud1cación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 de julio de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $58,166.66 Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 de julio de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $43,625.00. 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de mayo de 2021.

EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESION DE CARMEN OJEDA NEGRÓN, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV01311 (406. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 13 de mayo de 2021 que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor,

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en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera 3 Kilómetro 11.7, Carolina, Puerto Rico (Entrada de la Urbanización Mansiones de Carolina), todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Sucesión de Carmen Ojeda Negrón, compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos. Dirección Física: Villa Carolina, #11 Blk 34, 13th, Carolina, PR 00985.

Finca 15343, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 390 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Carolina. URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina que se describe con el número once del bloque treinta y cuatro con un área de quinientos sesenta y cinco metros cuadrados con sesenta y tres centímetros y en lindes por el NORTE, con una alameda distancia de treinta y cuatro metros cincuenta centímetros; por el SUR, con el solar número diez, dos distancias de veinticinco metros y tres metros veinte y cinco centímetros y con la calle número trece, distancia de nueve metros cincuenta centímetros; por el ESTE, con el solar número doce distancia de dieciocho metros setenta y cinco centímetros; y por el OESTE, con una alameda distancia de quince metros cincuenta centímetros.

Finca 15,343. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. b.

Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Carolina. d. Condiciones restrictivas de edificación y uso.

Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $126,400.00, con intereses al 9% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2009, constituida mediante la escritura la escritura número 34, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de febrero de 1999, ante el notario José Carlos González Bonilla y aclarada mediante la escritura número 591 otorgada en San Juan , el día 22 de octubre de 199, ante el notario Luis Fernando Castillo Cruz, e inscritas al folio 147 del tomo 1138 de Carolina, finca número 15,343, inscripción 13ra. b. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 13ra, en cuanto al vencimiento que será el 1

de marzo de 2029 y último pago el cual será de $1,022.39, mediante número 590, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de octubre de 1999, ante el notario Luis Fernando Castillo Cruz, e inscrito al folio 147 del tomo 1138 de Carolina, finca número 15,343, inscripción 13ra. c. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Centro Hipotecario de Puerto Rico, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $20,000.00, con intereses al 12.95% anual, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre de 2015, constituida mediante la escritura número 191, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de octubre de 2000, ante la notario Teresa González Ferrer, e inscrita al tomo móvil 1316 de Carolina, finca número 15,343, inscripción 14a. d. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 14, en cuanto al principal que será $6,935.23, con intereses al 8.50% anual, vencedero el 1 de noviembre de 2029, con un vencimiento de 15 años, mediante la escritura número 219, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de octubre de 2014, ante el notario Neftalí García Sánchez, e inscrito al folio 185 del tomo 1525 de Carolina, finca número 15,343, inscripción 16ta. e. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 13ra, en cuanto al principal que será $124,536.69, con intereses del mes 1 al 60 al 2.50%; del 61 al 72 al 3.50%; del 73 al 84 al 4.50%; del 85 al 96 al 5.50%; del 97 al 108 al 6.50%; del 109 al 120 al 7.50%; del 121 al 480 al 8.50%, vencedero el 1 de noviembre de 2054, mediante la escritura número 220, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de octubre de 2014, ante el notario Neftalí García Sánchez, e inscrito al folio 185 del tomo 1525 de Carolina, finca número 15,343, inscripción 17a. f. Postergada la modificación de la inscripción 16 en beneficio de la modificación resultante de la inscripción 17ma, mediante la escritura número 62, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de mayo de 2017, ante el notario Neftalí Rosado Casillas, e inscrito al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 15,343, inscripción 17. g. Demanda de fecha 6 de mayo de 2009, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en el Caso Civil Número FCD090910, seguido por Doral Bank, contra (no expresa), por la suma de $113,538.96, e inscrita al folio 123 del tomo 1329 de Carolina, finca número 15,343, inscripción 15ta., como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 10 de junio de 2013, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010.

(Fue presentado el día 29 de

mayo de 2009 al Asiento 1425 del Diario 386). h. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 18 de abril de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV01311, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Carmen Ojeda Negrón, Víctor Gómez Rivera y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, por la suma de $120,970.42, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el 17 de mayo de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 15,343, Anotación D. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 15,343 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 29 de julio de 2021 a las 10:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $124,536.69, Hipoteca: Escritura Número 34, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 27 de febrero de 1999, ante el Notario José Carlos González Bonilla, modificada mediante Escritura Número 590, otorgada el 22 de octubre de 1999, ante el Notario Luis Fernando Castillo Cruz. Segunda Subasta: 5 de agosto de 2021 a las 10:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $83,024.46. Tercera Subasta: 12 de agosto de 2021 a las 10:30AM, Precio Mínimo: $62,268.35. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 29 de marzo de 2021 y archivada en los autos el 31 de marzo de 2021, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $120,970.42, más $25,084.75, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del

24 ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de mayo de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 28 de junio de 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 8 de diciembre de 2020, la cual se notificó y archivó en auLEGAL NOTICE tos el día 10 de diciembre de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 2020. Los autos y todos los doDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcumentos correspondientes al NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA procedimiento incoado, estarán SALA DE SAN JUAN. de manifiesto en la Secretaría WILMINGTON SAVINGS durante horas laborables. Que FUND SOCIETY, FSB, en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera como fideicomisario subasta a celebrarse, se celede FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED brará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha SECURITIES propiedad, el día 6 de julio de ACQUISITION TRUST 2021, a las 9:00 de la mañana; 2019-HB1 y en caso de no producir remaDEMANDANTE V. te ni adjudicación, se celebrará Sucesión de Carmen una tercera subasta el día 13 de junio de 2021, a las 9:00 de Lydia Jiménez Reyes t/c/c Carmen L. Jiménez la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en Reyes t/c/c Carmen cumplimiento de un MandaLydia Jiménez t/c/c miento de Ejecución de SentenCarmen Jiménez Reyes cia que ha sido liberado por la compuesta por Fulano de Secretaría del Tribunal de PriTal y Sutano de Tal como mera Instancia, Sala Superior posibles herederos de de San Juan, en el caso de epínombres desconocidos; grafe con fecha de 15 de abril de 2021, procederé a vender Centro de Recaudación en pública subasta y al mejor de Ingresos Municipales; postor, todo derecho, título e Estados Unidos de interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inAmérica mueble de su propiedad y que DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: SJ2020CV01264. se describe a continuación: URSALA: 604. SOBRE: Cobro de BANA: Solar radicado en Dos Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca Pinos Town Houses Developpor la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO ment, situado en el Barrio Sabana Río Piedras, San Juan, DE SUBASTA, Al: Público en General Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la UrA: SUCESIÓN DE con el número uno CARMEN LYDIA JIMÉNEZ banización, guión D (1-D), con área de solar

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de ciento noventa y cuatro punto seiscientos cinco (194.605) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintisiete punto cero cinco (27.05) metros, con el solar número dos (2); por el SUR, en veintinueve punto doce (29.12) metros, con acera y el centro cultural de esta Urbanización; por el ESTE, en siete punto treinta y seis (7.36) metros, con la Calle Rosario A. Timothee; y por el OESTE, en siete punto cero cero (7.00) metros, con el solar número dieciseis (16). Contiene una casa. Finca número 12,234, inscrita al folio 43 del tomo 285 de Sabana Llana. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: BD-1 Thimothee Street Dos Pinos Development San Juan PR 00923. 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: $264,521.71, por concepto de balance de principal, más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.060% por ciento anual hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $27,300.00, 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 131, otorgada el día 26 de abril de 2012, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Jorge Laborde Corretjer y consta presentada al Asiento 322 del Diario 901 de Sabana Llana, finca número 12,234, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del

remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $273,000.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 3 de noviembre de 2077 constituida mediante la escritura número 132, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de abril de 2012, ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer, presentada al Asiento 323 del Diario 901 de Sabana Llana, finca 12,234. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $273,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $182,000.00; 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 $136,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente

para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 25 de mayo de 2021. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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

ORIENTAL BANK

Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO A: Sucesión De Gloria COMO POSIBLES Maria Paris Poupart, TENEDORES Y Compuesta Por Sus CUALESQUIER PERSONA Herederos Conocidos, DESCONOCIDA CON David Valete Paris, Angel POSIBLE INTERÉS EN Valete Paris, Fulano de LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA Tal y Sutana de Tal Como CANCELACIÓN POR Herederos Desconocidos DECRETO JUDICIAL SE Y/O partes con interés en SOLICITA. dicha sucesión Por la presente se le notifica

SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

(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 21 de mayo 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 24 de mayo de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 24 de mayo de 2021.

LCDA MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a).

F/ KEILA GARCIA SOLIS, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

WANDA MARIE MCKISSEN RIVERA Demandante V.

ORIENTAL BANK; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados Civil Núm.: TA2021CV00404.

SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE MARÍA PARÍS POUPART PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Y OTROS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉDemandado(a) RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE Civil Núm. CA2020CV02551 LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL (402). Sobre: COBRO DE DIESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIDE PUERTO RICO, SS. POTECA . NOTIFICACIÓN DE Demandante v.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO

que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $15,000.00. El pagaré por fue suscrito el día 12 de septiembre de 2002, ante el notario Pedro R. Cintrón Rivera, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 82, otorgada en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, inscrita al folio 193 del tomo 519 de Toa Alta, inscripción 9na, sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar número tres, radicada en el Barrio Quebrada Cruz del término Municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil trescientos setenta tres punto ochenta y un metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORESTE, en diecinueve punto catorce metros con el solar número seis del mismo proyecto; por el SUR, en cuarenta y un punto cincuenta y cuatro metros con el solar número dos del mismo proyecto; NOROESTE, cuarenta y cuatro punto nueve metros con el solar número cuatro; y por el OESTE, en veinte punto noventa y seis metros con la carretera estatal ochocientos veinticuatro. Finca número 3531 inscrita al folio 107 del tomo 81 de Toa Alta.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría 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 le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda.

Zilmarie Delgado Fieras, 33 Calle Resolución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 782-6500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de mayo de 2021.

LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIRIAM HERNÁNDEZ OTERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

RINCON BROS 3 OZF, LLC, Demandante V.

RICHARD M. WESTON T/C/C RICHARD MICHAEL WESTON URSOPERNICE T/C/C/ RICHARD MICHAEL WESTON; CHERYL MOY GOON YEE T/C/C CHERYL MOY GOOY YEE T/C/C CHERLY MOY GOON YEE T/C/C CHERYL MOY WESTON, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS Demandados CIVIL NÚM: AU2021cv00146 (0002). SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO CONTRACTUAL; CUMPLIMIENTO ESPECÍFICO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: Cheryl Moy Goon Yee t/c/c Cheryl Moy Gooy Yee t/c/c Cherly Moy Goon Yee t/c/c Cheryl Moy Weston, por sí y como miembro de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta entre esta y su esposo, Richard M. Weston t/c/c Richard Michael Weston Ursopernice t/c/c/ Richard Michael Weston 76-16 271st St., Queens, NY 11040; 7616-, 271 Street, New Hyde Park, NY 11040.

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda de Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cumplimiento Específico de Contrato.

Se le emplaza y requiere para

The San Juan Daily Star que notifique a: Ferraluoli Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández RUA Núm. 16,736 P.O. Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5 168 Tel.: 787-766-7000 / Fax: 787-766-7001 lparrilia@ferraiuoli.com Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto y radicar el original de dicha contestación en este Tribunal en donde podrá enterarse de su contenido. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá anotársele la rebeldía. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 17 de mayo de 2021. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, Secretaria RegionaI. ERIKA 1.

CRUZ PEREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

ARLENE AROCHO HERNÁNDEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: MO2020CV00167.

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

A: ARLENE AROCHO HERNÁNDEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia,

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Sala de San Sebastián, P.O. Box , San Sebastián, Puerto Rico y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 28 de abril de 2021. JUANITA IBARRONDO ESPINOZA, Secretaria.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANK RIVERA SANABRIA T/C/C FRANK RIVERA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, LA SUCESIÓN DE ZULMA VÁZQUEZ NEGRÓN T/C/C ZULMA VÁZQUEZ COMPUESTA POR EPHRAIM SUÁREZ VÁZQUEZ; SUTANO Y PERENGANO 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. CA2019CV02086.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO e INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: EPHRAIM SUÁREZ VÁZQUEZ, HEREDERO DE ZULMA VÁZQUEZ NEGRÓN T/C/C ZULMA VÁZQUEZ a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: 3670 SE 1ST CT,

HOMESTEAD, FL 330337455; VILLA FONTANA, TL2 VÍA 22, CAROLINA, PR 00983-3950 y a su correo electrónico fsurarez@1967@gmail. com.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $75,208.13 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.875% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $158.00 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $9,680.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar localizado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana, situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, marcado en el número 2 de la manzana TL, en un área de 279.30 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con el solar número 1 distancia de 32.00 metros; por el SUR: en el solar número 3 distancia de 21.00 metros; por el ESTE: con la calle número 2 distancia de 13.30 metros; y por el OESTE: con un paseo distancia de 13.30 metros.

Enclava una casa de concreto para una familia. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 176 de Carolina, Finca 6258. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca y su modificación constan inscritas al folio 186 del tomo 948 de Carolina, Finca 6258. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción novena y décima.

La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción.

Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento al Artículo 1578 del Código Civil entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación respon-

siva en la secretaría del Tribunal Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda.

Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail. com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 24 de mayo de 2021 en Carolina, Puerto Rico.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIDRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDIClAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR.

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC DEMANDANTE vs.

IGNACIO FLORES FlGUEROA, CARMEN IVETTE APONTE COLON, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSlBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: HU2021CV00275 (208). SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNlDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

A la parte co-demandada: IGNACIO FLORES FIGUEROA, a su última dirección conocida: FISICA: (a) 56 CALLE 3, URB. RERARTO ARENALES, LAS PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO 00771 y POSTAL: (b) 56 CALLE 3, URB REPARTO ARENALES, LAS PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO 00771.

Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la SUSTITUCION DE UN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO notarizado bajo el número de testimonio #1,799 a favor de GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE CORP., o a su orden, por la suma principal de 568,950.00 con intereses al 8% anual, vencedero el dia 1ro de mayo

de 2027, garantizado con hipoteco constituida mediante escritura de hipoteca número 278, otorgada en Humacao, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de abril de 1997, ante el notario público Alberto C. Rafols Méndez, e inscrita al folio 107 del torno 1844 de Las Piedras, finca número 9,706 inscripción quinta (5ta). Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicara una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicara una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general.

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

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerco Rico 00936- 6221; Tel (787) 621-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s) EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 21 de mayo de 2021, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. Dominga Gomez Fuster, Secretaria, Ileana Miranda Arroyo, Sec Auxiliar.

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO AGUAS BUENAS Parte Demandante

YAITZA E. RODRIGUEZ RIVERA

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: CG2021CV00380.

SALA: 802. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS

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UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES

diéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. - DADA hoy 25 de mayo de 2021, en Ciales, DESCONOCIDO Puerto Rico. Vivivan Y Fresse A: YAITZA E. DEMANDADOS RODRIGUEZ RIVERA CIVIL NÚM.: MT2021CV00064 Gonzalez, Sec Regional. Madeline Garcia Perez, Sec Auxiliar.

POR LA PRESENTE se le em(101). SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN plaza y requiere para que notiLEGAL NOTICE DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. fique a: EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- Estado Libre Asociado de PuerAGS LEGAL COLLECTIONS, LLC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL Lcdo. Ricardo A. Acevedo Bianchi AMÉRICA, El Presidente de DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriLcdo. José R. González Rivera Lcdo. Juan A. Santos Berríos los Estados Unidos, El Estado mera Instancia Sala Superior P.O. Box 10242 Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. de CAROLINA. Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792 A la parte co-demandada: REVERSE MORTGAGE Teléfono: (939) 545-4300 Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o JOHN DOE Y RICHARD FUNDING LLC jrg@agslegalpr.com ROE, demandados Demandante v.

POR LA PRESENTE se le desconocidos cuya SUCN LUIS HERNANDEZ emplaza para que presente al dirección se desconoce AMARO T/C/C Y OTROS tribunal su alegación responsiDemandado(a) va, con copia a la parte deman- Se les notifica por este medio dante, dentro de los 30 días que en el caso del epígrafe se Civil: CA2019CV04159 (407). de haber sido publicado este solicita la SUSTITUCION DE Sobre: MANDAMIENTO DE INemplazamiento, excluyéndose UN PAGARE EXTRAVIADO TERPELACION POR EDICTO. el día su publicación. Usted notarizado bajo el testimonio NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENdeberá presentar su alegación núm. 12,678 a favor de FIRST CIA POR EDICTO. CARIBBEAN A: CARMEN ORTIZ DE responsiva a través del Sistema FINANCIAL Unificado de Manejo y Adminis- CORP., o a su orden, por la ALBA T/C/C CARMEN R. tración de Casos (SUMAC), al suma de $47,546.00, deven- ORTIZ HERNANDEZ T/C/C cual puede acceder utilizando gando intereses a razón del CARMEN RITA ORTIZ DE la siguiente dirección electróni- 7.06% por ciento anual, venALBA T/C/C CARMEN cedero e! primero (1ro) de juca: https://unired.ramaiudicial.

ORTIZ, EN CUANTO pr/sumac/, salvo que se repre- nio de 2025, garantizado con A LA CUOTA VIUDAL sente por derecho propio, en hipoteca constituida mediante cuyo caso deberá presentar escritura número 74 otorgaUSUFRUCTUARIA, su alegación responsiva en la da en San Juan, Puerto Rico LUIS HERNANDEZ secretaría del tribunal. Si usted el 19 de mayo de 1995, ante ORTIZ, JR, JOHN DOE el Notario Rogelio I. Guzmán deja de presentar su alegación Y JANE DOE COMO responsiva dentro del referido Lloveras, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo 285 de Ciales finca POSIBLES MIEMBROS término, el tribunal podrá dicDE LA SUCESION LUIS tar sentencia en rebeldía en su número 11,515, inscripción contra y conceder el remedio Segunda (2da) y última. Este HERNANDEZ AMARO solicitado en la demanda, o Tribunal ha ordenado que se T/C/C LUIS ENRIQUE cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto HERNANDEZ T/C/C LUIS el ejercicio de su sana discre- que se publicará una sola vez ENRIQUE HERNANDEZ ción, lo entiende procedente. en un periódico de circulación AMARO T/C/C LUIS general.

Por tratarse de una Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello HERNANDEZ del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puer- obligación hipotecaria y pudien(Nombre de las partes a las que se le to Rico, hoy dia 25 de mayo do usted tener interés en este notifican la sentencia por edicto) de 2021. Carmen Ana Pereira caso o quedar afectando por el EL SECRETARIO(A) que susremedio solicitado, se le emplaOrtiz, Secretaria. Glorimar Ricribe le notifica a usted que vera Rivera, Sec Auxiliar del za por este edicto que se publiel 28 de abril de 2021, este cará una vez en un periódico Tribunal I. de circulación diaria general de Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, LEGAL NOTICE Puerto Rico. Usted deberá pre- Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debiESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO sentar su alegación responsiva damente registrada y archivada DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- a través de! Sistema Unificado en autos donde podrá usted ende Manejo y Administración de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA terarse detalladamente de los Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AREtérminos de la misma. Esta noCIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE acceder utilizando la siguiente tificación se publicará una sola dirección electrónica: https:// CIALES. unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, vez en un periódico de circulaSUN WEST MORTGAGE salvo que se represente por ción general en la Isla de PuerCOMPANY, INC derecho propio, en cuyo caso to Rico, dentro de los 10 días DEMANDANTE VS. deberá presentar su alegación siguientes a su notificación. Y, FIRST FINANCIAL responsiva en la secretaría del siendo o representando usted CARIBBEAN tribunal y notifique copia de la una parte en el procedimiento Contestación de la Demanda sujeta a los términos de la SenCORP, DESPUÉS a las oficinas de CARDONA & tencia, Sentencia Parcial o ReDORAL FINANCIAL MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, solución, de la cual puede estaCORPORATION, P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo. blecerse recurso de revisión o DESPUÉS DORAL Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, apelación dentro del término de FINANCIAL CORP, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, 30 días contados a partir de la DESPUÉS DORAL Puerto Rico 00936-622 1; Tel publicación por edicto de esta BANK AHORA BANCO (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625- notificación, dirijo a usted esta POPULAR DE PUERTO 7001, Abogado de la Parte De- notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publiRICO; RUBEN ROSARIO mandante. Dentro de los treinta cación de este edicto. Copia de (30) días siguientes a la publiOTERO, JESENIA cación de este Edicto, aperci- esta notificación ha sido archiCHINEA RIVERA Y LA biéndole que de no hacerlo así vada en los autos de este caso, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE dentro del término indicado, el con fecha de 24 de mayo de BIENES GANANCIALES Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebel- 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto día y dictar Sentencia, conce- Rico, el 24 de mayo de 2021.

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

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 Demandante v.

SUCESION CONCEPCIÓN GONZALEZ CASTRO T/C/C CONCEPCION GONZALEZ CASTRO T/C/C CONCEPCION SABINES T/C/C CONCEPCION M. GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR ROLANDO L. SABINES GONZALEZ, RAMON JOSE SABINES GONZALEZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado(a) Civil: GB2019CV00592. Sala 201. Sobre: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION CONCEPCIÓN GONZALEZ CASTRO T/C/C CONCEPCION GONZALEZ CASTRO T/C/C CONCEPCION SABINES T/C/C CONCEPCION M. GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR ROLANDO L. SABINES GONZALEZ, RAMON JOSE SABINES GONZALEZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

(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 21 de mayo 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 25 de mayo de 2021. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 25 de mayo de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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

LIME HOMES, LTD Demandante V.

SAMUEL BORRERO DE JESUS, GLADYS VELAZQUEZ VELAZQUEZ, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; LORNA Y. GONZALEZ ACEVEDO

Demandados Civil Núm.: JCD2010-0989.

(406). 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 Ponce, 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 Ponce, el 7 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda

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a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: SOLAR #17 DEL BLOQUE B DEL PLANO DE URBANIZACION VALLE ALTO, RADICADO EN EL BARRIO CERRILLOS DEL TERMINO MUNICIPAL DE PONCE, PUERTO RICO, COMPUESTO DE 337.50 METROS CUADRADOS. COLINDA POR EL NORTE Y POR EL SUR EN 25.00 METROS CON EL SOLAR B-16 Y CON EL SOLAR B-18, RSPECTIVAMENTE; POR EL ESTE Y OESTE EN 13.50 METROS CON LA CALLE 4 Y CON EL SOLAR B-12 RESPECTIVAMENTE. EN ESTE SOLAR ENCLAVA UNA CASA DE HORMIGON REFORZADO Y BLOQUES, DEDICADA A VIVIENDA. Propiedad localizada en: 4 St., B-17 Valle Alto Dev., Ponce, PR 00731. 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: 0.00. 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. HIPOTECA Samuel Borrero De Jesús y su hoy esposa Lorna Yannisse González Acevedo y Gladys Velázquez Velázquez, soltera, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $40,000.00, con intereses al 10.50% anual y vencimiento a la presentación. Constituida mediante la escritura 195 otorgada en Ponce el 15 de diciembre de 1997 ante el notario José Oswaldo Coll Díaz. Inscrita el 17 de marzo de 1998 al folio 171 del tomo 1823 de Ponce Norte, finca 36408, inscripción 3ª. b. HIPOTECA constituida por Samuel Borrero De Jesús y su hoy esposa Lorna Yannisse González Acevedo, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Alberto González Domínguez y Norma Acevedo Muñiz, por la suma de $40,000.00, con intereses al 6% anual y vencimiento en 12 meses. Constituida mediante la escritura 3 otorgada en Salinas el 12 de marzo de 2010 ante el notario Kevin A. Deynes Romero. Inscrita el 13 de septiembre de 2010 al folio 85 del tomo 2101 de Ponce Norte, finca 36408, inscripción 4ª. 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 car-

gas 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 $66,400.00, 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 Ponce, el 14 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 3:30 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $44,266.67, 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 $33,200.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 21 DE JULIO DE 2021, A LAS 3:30 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 $48,634.09 de principal, intereses al tipo del 7.37500% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de octubre de 2009 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $6,640.00 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 públi-

cos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de mayo de 2021. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY Demandante, v.

FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2021CV00606.

SOBRE: SUSTITUCION DE PAGARE HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL, o sea las personas desconocidas que puedan ser tenedores del pagare extraviado.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la presentación de una Demanda en su contra. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr , salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido 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. La parte demandante alega que es el acreedor de una facilidad de crédito garantizada, entre otros, por el siguiente pagaré hipotecario garantizado por la siguiente hipoteca que se describe a continuación: Pagaré hipotecario suscrito el 8 de septiembre de 2005 a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, autenticado mediante afidávit número 4,974, ante la Notario Público Elaine Villanueva Martínez, por la suma principal de $60,000.00, con intereses al 7.5% anual, y vencedero a la prestación. En la misma fecha y ante el mismo fedatario, Mario Vargas Montalvo y Milagros Matos Aguayo ( en lo sucesivo, los “Deudores”) constituyeron hipoteca en garantía del Pagaré Hipotecario mediante la Escritura de Hipoteca número 166 ( en adelante la “Hipoteca”) otorgada 8 de septiembre de

2005 inscrita al folio 69 vuelto tomo 332 de Mayagüez, Finca #9,991, inscripción 8va. Abreviada del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez ( en adelante, el “Registro”). La Hipoteca mencionada grava la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar de un área de trescientos diez punto ochenta y dos (310.82) metros cuadrados (según documento, pero según Registro esta finca tiene una cabida de 308.82 metros cuadrados), radicado en el Barrio Sábalos del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, colindando por el NORTE, con Solar que fue segregado de esta finca principal; por el SUR, con la Calle Juan Vicenty; por el ESTE, con Luis Zamora y Arcadia Araez y, por el OESTE, con la Sucesión de María Araez, hoy Milagros Olmeda. Finca número 9,991 inscrita al folio 66 del tomo 322 de Mayagüez , Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Mayagüez. El original del pagaré hipotecario antes mencionado se ha extraviado sin el mismo poder sido localizado a pesar de las gestiones realizadas por la parte demandante y el último acreedor conocido, y por ello comparece a este Honorable Tribunal solicitando su sustitución y/o reproducción. Que se incluye a Fulano De Tal y a Mengano Del Cual como posibles tenedores desconocidos del pagaré hipotecario extraviado. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto notificándole con copia de dicha contestación al Ledo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández, PO Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168 y/o 221 Avenida Ponce De León, Piso 5, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00917; sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo m1 firma y el sello del Tribunal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de mayo de 2021.

LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. Por: f/Rebeca Medina Figueroa, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR TRIBUNAL I.

COMPUESTA POR MARÍA CAMBIELLA, A : JOANNE VARGAS FULANO DE TAL Y T/C/C/ JOANNE SUAREZ SUTANO DE TAL COMO 1554 Union Port Rd, Apt. POSIBLES HEREDEROS 7-D Bronx, New York 10462 DESCONOCIDOS; POR LA PRESENTE se le emCENTRO DE plaza para que presente al triRECAUDACIÓN bunal su alegación responsiva DE INGRESOS a la Demanda que se acompaña con este Emplazamiento, MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS dentro de los treinta (30) días ESTADOS UNIDOS DE de haber sido diligenciado este AMÉRICA

TO DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

Emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento , notificando copia de la misma al abogado (a) de la parte Demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja del presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

VAZQUEZ & ASSOCIATES LAW OFFICES F:/ LCDO. ROSA LINDA VAZQUEZ LOPEZ RUA 17843 379 Calle Cesar González Hato Rey, San Juan, PR 00918 Tel (787) 766-0949 Fax (787) 771-2425 Email: vazquezyasociadospr@gmail.com Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de mayo de 2021. Wanda Seguí Reyes, Secretaria Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de PriLEGAL NOTICE mera Instancia Sala Superior ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de San Juan.

REVERSE MORTGAGE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANSOLUTIONS, INC., CIA SALA SUPERIOR DE RIO Demandante (a) VS. GRANDE. SUCESIÓN DE RUBÉN

EDWARD SUAREZ GONZALEZ T/C/C EDWARD SUAREZ

GUTIÉRREZ SILVA, T/C/C RUBÉN GUTIÉRREZ COMPUESTA POR Demandante vs.

FULANO DE TAL Y JOANNE VARGAS T/C/C/ SUTANO DE TAL COMO JOANNE SUAREZ POSIBLES HEREDEROS Demandada DESCONOCIDOS; CIVIL NÚM. RG2021RF00060.

SUCESIÓN DE ANA SALÓN: SOBRE: DIVORCIO CAMBIELLA DIEGUEZ, (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE).

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICT/C/C ANA CAMBIELLA

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV08366.

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

A: Rubén Gutiérrez Silva, t/c/c Rubén Gutiérrez; Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos de la Sucesion de Ana Cambiella Dieguez, t/c/c Ana Cambiella; Ana Cambiella Dieguez, t/c/c Ana Cambiella; María Cambiella, como cualquier otro miembro de la Sucesión de Ana Cambiella Dieguez, t/c/c Ana Cambiella; Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos de la Sucesión de Rubén Gutiérrez Silva, t/c/c Rubén Gutiérrez

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de mayo de 2021 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de mayo de 2021.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretario Regional. f/ Angela M. Rivera Hernández, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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Failed drug test confirmed for Derby winner Medina Spirit

By JOE DRAPE

M

edina Spirit’s positive drug test has been confirmed, setting the stage for the colt trained by Bob Baffert to be the second horse in the 147-year history of the Kentucky Derby to be disqualified as the winner of the race because of a failed drug test.

Clark Brewster, a lawyer who represents Medina Spirit’s owner, Amr Zedan, said a laboratory at the University of California, Davis, testing a second postrace sample from the Derby, confirmed the presence of the drug betamethasone, a corticosteroid that is injected into joints to reduce pain and swelling, at a prohibited level. Baffert chose the lab where the sample was tested.

In a text message, however, Brewster said the laboratory did not test the blood or urine samples for the presence of other compounds, “which could prove the trace positive came from an inadvertent and materially inconsequential contamination sourced from a topical ointment used to treat Medina Spirit for a skin lesion on his hip.”

Immediately after announcing Medina Spirit’s positive test May 9, Baffert gave a series of television and radio interviews, floating various theories about how the colt had tested positive for betamethasone — blaming “cancel culture” for the controversy and saying racing officials were out to get him.

He soon reversed himself, however, and acknowledged treating Medina Spirit for a rash by using an antifungal ointment called Otomax, which — to Baffert’s professed surprise — contained betamethasone.

Brewster said the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has agreed to send the original blood and urine tests to an independent and accredited laboratory for analysis to determine whether the specimens contain other components proving the source to be the topical ointment. It was not clear how long that process would take.

If Medina Spirit is disqualified from the Derby, Zedan will forfeit the more than $1.8 million first-place check he earned for crossing the finish line first. In 1968, Dancer’s Image’s Derby victory was taken away after a drug test showed the presence of a banned anti-inflammatory.

“If it was inadvertent contamination, that should be taken into account,” Brewster said in a telephone interview. “We’re hopeful

Medina Spirit was ridden by the jockey John Velazquez in the Preakness Stakes. that reasonable minds and good-intentioned regulators can see what it is, and what it is not, and not have a draconian response.”

Brewster, who breeds and owns horses, said the commission has foregone disqualifications in previous cases when it found mitigating circumstances.

Neither Baffert nor his lawyer, W. Craig Robertson III, returned emails or phone calls for comment.

In an email, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission declined to comment on the results of the second sample.

“The KHRC is not going to be providing comment or updates on the status of this ongoing investigation. We will provide information when the entire matter is complete,” said the spokeswoman, Sherelle Roberts.

Baffert already has earned the ire of Churchill Downs officials who have made it clear that if a second sample confirmed the presence of the drug, Medina Spirit would be disqualified and Mandaloun, the runnerup, would be declared the Derby winner.

The Medina Spirit controversy comes as horse racing, acknowledging it has a drug problem, prepares to implement the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, which was passed last year in Congress. It will take effect July 1, 2022, and calls for a board overseen by the Federal Trade Commission to write rules and penalties to be enforced by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

The agency, which regulates Olympic and other elite athletes in the United States,

revealed cyclist Lance Armstrong’s cheating and issued him a lifetime suspension in 2012.

In the span of four weeks during racing’s Triple Crown season, Baffert has gone from being the garrulous and voluble face of horse racing to a mostly silent poster boy for what is wrong with the sport.

For 25 years, New York City has been Baffert’s kind of town, and Belmont Park has been the racetrack that made him the most famous thoroughbred trainer in America.

Five times, he has brought the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner for the “Test of the Champion,” as the Belmont Stakes is known, with a Triple Crown hanging in the balance.

With American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2017, Baffert completed the sweep of the sport’s holy grail and left the city a conquering hero, bringing renewed attention to an often-forgotten sport. Over the years, he has thrown out the first pitch at a New York Mets game, dined in Manhattan’s finest restaurants and good-naturedly accepted the heckles and hurrahs from the Big Apple’s impassioned horseplayers.

For the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, however, Baffert will be in California after the New York Racing Association barred him from running his horses at state tracks because of Medina Spirit’s failed test. He has been shut out of one of the biggest days of horse racing.

While track operators in New York and at Churchill Downs have refused to allow Baffert to enter his horses, his stable continues to dominate races in California. He is the leading trainer at Santa Anita Park’s current meet with more than $3.6 million in earnings. The track is owned by the Stronach Group, which also owns Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore and allowed Medina Spirit to race in the Preakness after passing expanded drug testing.

The California Horse Racing Board said in a statement that like their counterparts in New York and Kentucky, their hands were tied until Medina Spirit’s second sample is confirmed and a complaint filed against Baffert.

“They face the same issue the CHRB does in that regulators cannot suspend or revoke occupational licenses without a hearing and due process,” the statement said.

“Should any regulatory body take action against any licensee, we would reciprocate

that action in California.”

Baffert also is the target of a couple of class-action suits brought by bettors.

Michael Beychok, the handicapper who won the 2012 National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s National Horseplayers Championship, filed a suit last month alleging that Baffert and Zedan doped the colt and committed fraud to win the Derby.

Beychok said he had made $966 in bets that would have earned him payoffs between $10,000 and $100,000 had Medina Spirit not won the race, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Three other horseplayers joined the suit, claiming they stood to make up to $40,000 if the Baffert colt had not finished first.

Beychok and his fellow plaintiffs argue that Baffert and Zedan are in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act and for state common law and equitable fraud.

In addition, the recent death of Noodles, a 2-year-old unraced colt in Baffert’s care, has rekindled the interest of animal rights activists in Baffert and the sport of horse racing.

A necropsy will be performed and a fatality review conducted pursuant to California regulations.

Baffert has gained the enmity of rivals who believe he has persistently cheated, suspicions fueled by 30 drug tests his horses have failed over four decades, including five in the past year or so.

The cases took months, if not years, to adjudicate and were met mostly with modest fines or brief suspensions as Baffert asserted he did nothing wrong and blamed environmental contamination or human error for the results. Still, deep-pocketed owners flock to Baffert’s stable.

If Medina Spirit is disqualified, Baffert and the colt will join Maximum Security and Dancer’s Image as the only horses to have their Derby victories overturned.

In 2019, Maximum Security was first across the finish line, only to be disqualified for almost knocking over a rival horse in the far turn and slowing the momentum of others. The next year, Maximum Security’s trainer, Jason Servis, was among the 27 people charged by federal prosecutors in a wide-ranging scheme to secretly dope horses and cheat the betting public.

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Naomi Osaka and the changing power dynamics in sports

By KURT STREETER

T

hirteen sentences.

That’s all we got from Naomi Osaka as she bowed out of the French Open on Monday after causing a ruckus over her plan to skip post-match news conferences.

She did not speak those sentences.

They were posted on her Instagram account. Nor did she provide anything like a deep explanation. A global icon at age 23, Osaka left unclear when she would return to the women’s tour. She revealed for the first time that she had struggled with depression since beating Serena Williams in a controversy-cloaked final at the U.S. Open in 2018.

Thirteen sentences.

That was all she needed to rock the sports world and to provide another lesson in the increasing power of athletes to own their message and set their terms.

She waded briefly into the water, made a splash and stepped away.

Using social media posts, first last Wednesday then on Monday, Osaka called out one of the most traditional practices in major sports: the obligatory news conference, vital to reporters seeking insight for their stories, but long regarded by many elite athletes as a plank walk.

After monumental wins and difficult losses, Osaka has giggled and reflected through news conferences and also dissolved into tears. In Paris, she said she wanted nothing to do with the gatherings because they had exacted a steep emotional toll.

So in her slim posts she sent a message with significant weight: The days of the Grand Slam tournaments and the huge media machine behind them holding all of the clout are done.

In a predominantly white, ritualbound sport, a smooth-stroking young woman of Black and Asian descent, her confidence still evolving on and off the court, holds the power.

Get used to it.

Intentionally or not, Osaka stands at the leading edge of a broad, transformational movement in athlete empowerment. What she does with this role will say a great deal about the power shift, for

Naomi Osaka defeated Patricia Maria Tig in straight sets in the first round of the French Open before withdrawing from the tournament.

better or worse.

This much is clear. By walking away from the French Open as she did, Osaka became an obsession in the sports world and far beyond.

Pundits, fans, fellow players and people who typically care little about athletes are analyzing her motivations. They worry about her future in tennis and, of course, her mental health.

They project what they want onto her and argue accordingly.

Some commentators say the press goes too far in dissecting athletes. Others say that Osaka is somehow symbolic of a new, far-too-coddled breed of star.

Still others suggest she struggles from being racially isolated, the rare champion of color in a tennis world dominated by fans, officials and a press corps that is overwhelmingly white.

One social media post, assessing Osaka’s refusal to play beyond the first round of the French Open, compared her to Malcolm X. And yet, once again, as befits a celebrity in our times, Osaka hewed to a minimalist approach. Thirteen sentences, just under 350 words, are all that exist for fans and foes to parse.

It is impossible to know the depth of Osaka’s internal anguish.

But we do know she has had difficul-

ty coping on the world stage at a young age.

“The truth is that I have suffered long bouts of depression since the U.S. Open of 2018 and I have had a really hard time coping with that,” she wrote, before noting that she often wears headphones during tournaments to “dull my social anxiety.”

She arrived in France committed to drawing a line and engaging in a power play with tennis officials who have a difficult time with anything that disrupts the status quo.

When Osaka took to social media last week and announced she wasn’t going to attend post-match news conferences, the game’s power brokers got their backs up, fined her $15,000 and threatened her with suspension.

Did she quit to get back at them, to show that she has the clout, and not them?

We don’t know because Osaka didn’t elaborate, and she definitely isn’t speaking to reporters.

That’s fitting — and unnerving to a journalist — because like so many of the biggest stars in modern sports, Osaka is now much more than an athlete.

She lives in the world of celebrity inhabited by her idol, Serena Williams.

Osaka is famed not just for the four

Grand Slam titles she has won since 2018 or because the $37.4 million she earned in the past year made her the highestpaid female athlete in the world.

Her background — raised primarily in the United States by a Japanese mother and an Afro Haitian father — gives her a potent allure. Add to the mix a disarming personality and a willingness to enter the fray on social issues that emerged during the pandemic, and she has become tennis’s newest supernova.

So it comes as no surprise that she feels less need to deal with the traditional press.

One of the highlights of sports in 2020 was Osaka’s willingness to go against the grain in tennis and take a stand against racial injustice. She decided not to play one day at a tournament last summer to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, saying on social media, “Before I am an athlete, I am a Black woman.”

Point made. Message delivered. The tournament paused for a day, allowing Osaka to keep her promise without defaulting.

She then went to the U.S. Open and again seized the conversation. This time it was with the masks she wore — adorned with the names of Black victims of racist violence — as she took to the court for each of the seven matches she played on her way to winning the tournament.

“What was the message you wanted to send?” she was asked.

“Well, what was the message that you got?” she replied, in a way that was heartfelt, simple and profound. “I feel like the point is to make people start talking.”

And that was it. She seized the moment with a snippet, directed the conversation by giving up little, and by turning the question back on itself.

What was the message that you got?

What do you, the fan, the reporter in the media scrum, the casual observer, see in me?

Whatever it is, deal with it.

She said much the same this week in Paris, delivered this time in 13 spare sentences. A strong statement, no doubt, and one that fits with the tone and technology of the present day, but count me among those who want to hear more.

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Today’s Quarter Moon encourages you to dream, and can see you weighing up various creative and imaginative ideas. With the Sun and thoughtful Mercury in Gemini, a logical perspective may tell you that a plan is tantalizingly out of reach. However, today’s potent aspect suggests that this might not be the case, and that with a little lateral thinking you could surprise yourself.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

With delightful Venus moving into your sector of communication from today, your everyday activities and encounters may be pleasant and agreeable.

Your social life can pick up over the weeks ahead, with opportunities to make new friends. Over the coming days, a sparkling encounter could gift you with information or an opportunity to get to know someone better.

Today can be a turning point, as a potent lunar phase encourages a decision. You’ll need to combine the wisdom of your head and heart, if you’re to do the right thing. If you’ve ignored your feelings, then acknowledging them may help you understand what is best for you. This might seem obvious Gemini, but what you think you want isn’t necessarily what you need right now.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

As the planet of harmony and beauty enters your sign, the coming weeks can see you keen to negotiate, and to give others an equal say in any discussions. Convivial Venus may inspire you to reach out and make new friends, or perhaps to initiate a gettogether. As she will also tie with upbeat Jupiter, a change of image that emphasises your best qualities might be on the cards.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

As sweet Venus sashays into a quiet and spiritual zone, her presence here can enhance feelings of caring and compassion. And while you might find it easy to direct them to others, this is also an opportunity to be kinder to yourself. If you’ve been busy and cut yourself little slack lately, make time to unwind and to indulge those activities that leave you recharged and happy, Leo.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

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Your social life may have extra sizzle from today as friendly Venus moves in, encouraging you to enjoy mingling and spending time in good company. A meeting over coming days Virgo, could inspire you to explore options that you might not have heard of before. These can bring encouragement to move in a new direction, and perhaps to forge a deep and supportive bond.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

The desire for a taste of freedom may clash with more selfless pursuits. The Gemini Sun might be the reason you’re tempted to explore far horizons. Yet if someone is depending on you, you could cast your plans aside to avoid feeling guilty. It’s a balancing act Libra, as you certainly deserve a chance to unwind as much as everyone else, so don’t put yourself last too often.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

With your travel and adventure sector now in focus, the coming weeks can bring opportunities to enjoy a romantic break or vacation with family or friends.

It is possible though, that someone might invite you to journey with them because they enjoy your company, and you could just take them up on it. If you do decide to go, then the trip can act as a catalyst to fresh opportunities.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Home comforts can tempt, and may be the reason that you refuse an invite to an event or the option to socialize with friends. A movie or a really good book that piques your imagination, could keep you quite happy. Plus, with delectable Venus moving into your sector of money and business, you might be keen to liaise with others who can help you move forward with your plans.

Need to get something completed? Today’s Quarter Moon encourages communication between everyone involved, so that you can navigate this final stretch with confidence. This is the time to tie up loose ends and make sure everyone is in agreement about the way forward. Want to see more of someone? Lovely Venus’s move into your relationship zone may help out, Capricorn.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today’s Quarter Moon in your personal money zone, can see you being generous to others. This might push you to share your time and resources, even if you lose out. At the same time, opportunities for outings and some relaxation may be on the agenda. Don’t leave yourself too depleted to do something nice Aquarius, as the only way to recharge is to give back to yourself.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

As luscious Venus moves into your sector of leisure and romance, the coming weeks can see you exploring hobbies that you may have enjoyed in your younger years, and that you are keen to take up once again. Over coming days, an encounter could show some promise, and might even have romantic potential. But unless you commit to connecting regularly, it could fizzle out.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

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Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

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