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n the framework of International Women’s Day commemorations, workers from the island Family Department rallied at the Capitol in Puerta de Tierra on Monday to demand wage justice and better employment conditions.

“Today we are here representing each and every one of the administrations of the Family Department -- ADSEF, ADFAN, ASUME, ACUDEN and the Secretariat -- to demand better wages and working conditions,” said Karimir Torres Rosa, president of the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union ProSol Family Department Chapter. “At the juncture of March 8 and in view of the appointment hearings for the Family secretary, Carmen González Magaz, and Senate Resolution 92, under the slogan “we bring bread to the table help us to bring bread to ours,” we are demanding that we receive wage justice in order to improve our quality of life. Poverty has the face of a woman and in the Family Department the vast majority of us are women. There are single mothers, and elderly women over 60 who have not yet been able to retire due to the economic precariousness that retirement offers.”

Torres Rosa, accompanied by male and female workers who occupy different positions in the various divisions of the Family Department, which as she said since day one of the pandemic “have worked to bring bread to thousands of Puerto Rican families,” noted that meetings have been held with different legislators to whom they have presented their claims, and who have been astonished to learn about their wages, since most were unaware of the situation.

“A year ago, just before this quarantine [due to the coronavirus pandemic], we also demonstrated in front of the secretariat,” Torres Rosa said. “Today we take to the streets again and we call on the governor, the Legislature and the Family secretary-designate that justice be done for us. Today we want the country to know our precarious and unfair salary situation.”

The union leader said Family Department employees are victims of institutional abuse.

“On January 24, 2021 a state of emergency was declared due to gender violence, an executive order was signed indicating that ‘all violence is repudiable’ [and] establishing mechanisms to supervise, follow up and monitor, [and] creating a committee chaired

by the secretary-designate of the Family Department, Carmen González Magaz,” Torres Rosa said. “A manifestation of violence is the precariousness of our salaries. The secretary is obliged to support our demand that justice be done for us.”

The average salary that the group of workers earn monthly is $1,341, which after deductions does not give them enough to survive, she said.

“Family Department workers lack economic stability, which has repercussions and is manifested in many ways,” the union leader said. “We have a monthly salary of barely enough to live on. We live in precariousness, we do not qualify for benefits, exemptions. We live paying one month for water and the other for electricity, in fear that our services will be suspended. We have postponed goals such as being able to buy our home since our salary does not provide enough for us. This is institutional abuse.”

Torres Rosa stressed that the Family Department should use the salaries paid to professional service employees hired to work in the Social and Family Assistance Technician program and at the Pandemic EBT Call Center as a frame of reference for doing salary justice, since those salaries exceed the earnings of department staff.

“We, the workers of the Family Department, are obliged to present ourselves after emergencies and natural disasters, working in subhuman conditions that threaten our health and safety,” Torres Rosa said.

“To this day, there are offices in total deterioration, waiting to be rehabilitated after the past natural events of hurricanes and earthquakes. That not only affects the worker, it also affects the people we serve.

It is time for our claims to be heard and justice be done for us now.”

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Health chief calls on citizens to keep using face masks ‘even if CDC says otherwise’

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

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ith the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) establishing that people who are already vaccinated against the coronavirus can remove their face masks among themselves in enclosed spaces, Puerto Rico Health Secretary-designate Carlos Mellado López expressed concern over the recent guidelines on Monday and urged citizens to continue practicing safety measures to prevent COVID-19 from spreading.

During a press conference at the agency’s headquarters to provide an update on the island government’s vaccination campaigns, Mellado López said that even if the federal agency advises otherwise, the guidelines could be seen as “a subterfuge or an inducement” to refrain from what has been established as a valid health safety measure.

Thus the Health secretary-designate said citizens who have received COVID-19 shots should continue using their face masks “to protect those who have been unable to receive the vaccine.”

“My concern is that it can be confusing.

I don’t have a tattoo that says I’m vaccinated.

People don’t know if I’m vaccinated,” Mellado López said. “With all due respect to the CDC, it could generate a false sense of safety in the public when everyone has been told that, even though you are vaccinated, you must use the mask.”

“I can be vaccinated and not have a reaction in me, but I can be a vector and maybe pass it on to a person who is not vaccinated,” he added. “From that point of view, it does cause me concern, but everything in life is to educate. If you ask me if I would take off my mask, the answer is no.”

Regarding the vaccination process, Mellado López announced that, as of Monday, 900,000 doses had been distributed and 567,813 doses had been registered. As for “ultra-frozen live doses,” he said 80,000 are ready to be distributed.

“The difference in the numbers [between distributed and registered vaccines] stems from more than 100,000 doses distributed to the Retail Pharmacy Program that does not exactly report to us, as they report to the CDC,” he said.

As of Monday, around 188,427 people in Puerto Rico who are 65 years of age or older had been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Of that number, 5,133 are from elderly care centers, 4,747 are bedridden patients, 66,380

are enrolled in long-term care facilities, 2,745 have intellectual disabilities, 94,008 belong to both the public and private education system, and 19,025 are from correctional facilities.

As for distributed vaccines, 69,400 Pfizer doses have been distributed, and 9,324 first shots and 12,497 booster shots have been received.

In addition, 34,200 Moderna doses have been distributed to the island and 13,200 shots will be delivered among 16 vaccine providers, and 28,000 Johnson & Johnson shots have been allocated and 12,800 doses have been received.

Puerto Rico National Guard Adj. Gen. José Reyes announced meanwhile that 100% of the eligible population in Vieques and Culebra will be inoculated against COVID-19.

“We are more than hopeful that these would become the first two municipalities that will be able to reach that 70-80 percent of vaccinations to reach herd immunity,” Reyes said, adding that the vaccine campaign began yesterday and is expected to conclude Friday.

‘No major changes’ anticipated for next COVID-19 emergency decree Earlier Monday, when asked about the next executive order to control the coronavirus emergency amid recent crowding issues, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said there won’t be major changes in the next executive order.

However, he urged citizens to keep their guard up until they get their coronavirus vaccinations.

“Be patient,” the governor said. “I am asking the people in general not to claim victory, not to lower their guard. We have to continue protecting ourselves.”

When asked again if there will be greater restrictions, Pierluisi said “the new order will be looking to avoid crowding.”

“I am not ready to allow large-scale gatherings. The restrictions on occupancy in commercial establishments will continue to be in effect,” he said. “There may be a change, but it will remain in force. I will be watching to see that enclosed places are not crowded with people. It cannot happen.”

Gov’t urges local business owners to request disaster relief aid ‘to promote economic growth’ Programs using federal CDBG-DR funds can ‘increase job opportunities,’ governor says

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

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced Monday that owners of small and midsize businesses are still on time to apply to two financial aid programs that use Community Development Block Grants-Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) funds and whose purpose is “to promote economic growth.”

During a press conference at La Fortaleza after a meeting with the Social Welfare Task Force, Pierluisi said the Economic Development Bank, which is under the Puerto Rico Housing Department, has $225 million remaining in the program to finance small and medium-sized enterprises that were affected by hurricanes Irma and Maria.

The governor said enterprises could obtain up to $50,000 in direct subsidies and, currently, around $17 million has been obligated for 300 small businesses.

Pierluisi said candidates have until April 3 to file a request with the financing program.

“I want to bring to the attention of the people the efforts that the [designated] secretary of Housing [William Rodrí-

guez Rodríguez] has been making to ensure that mayors have access to this program, particularly to revitalize their urban centers, because the revitalization of urban centers is also of great help to all commerce in Puerto Rico and that economic activity we all wish for,” Pierluisi said. “I am sure this program would be of great help for either enterprises or microenterprises to increase the job opportunities that could be provided for the people.”

Meanwhile, the governor said the second financial aid resource, the Economic Development Investment Program, has around $800 million to provide “loans with low-interest

ratings, long-term payments” that could go up to $50 million to “cover commercial development, mixed uses, and infrastructure expenses.”

“This program is focused on promoting economic revitalization in all of Puerto Rico,” Pierluisi said. “Once again, I am urging people, businesses and industries of all kinds to take advantage of these investment programs that the Housing Department has under CDBG-DR.” The governor said business owners must submit a general description of the project they intend to start, its preliminary budget, and other required information to the agency. The Housing Department will allocate the amount of the loan “after it analyzes the spectrum of proposals that are eligible to be awarded these incentives.”

Rodríguez said the department’s CDBG-DR division would be working along with the Department of Economic Development and Commerce and the Reconstruction Council, established in Executive Order-2021-011, to “evaluate every project to conduct well-planned economic development considering the different aid programs available in Puerto Rico.”

The island Housing secretary-designate added that it is preferable to submit projects that “are ready to begin working and only require funding to take action.”

He said those interested can access www.cdbg-dr.pr.gov for more information and have until April 5 to file a request.

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As PREPA workers protest LUMA contract, governor sees no reason to delay private operator’s T&D takeover

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s the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) gets ready for a one-year work stoppage to protest the LUMA Energy contract, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Monday that he sees no reason to delay the date when the private operator is slated to take control of the power utility’s transmission and distribution (T&D) system.

LUMA Energy was hired last summer to manage PREPA’s T&D, customer service and billing. The contract is currently in the front-end transition period but on June 1, the consortium will take full control of PREPA’s T&D. On Friday, at a hearing in the island Legislature, it was revealed that two PREPA board members asked

the governor to postpone the implementation of the contract because June 1 coincides with hurricane season and the utility has no employees.

Pierluisi said he has a steering committee, headed by designated Secretary of State Larry Seilhamer, that is overseeing the contract and will eventually provide him with a report.

“If there is a need to delay the contract, they

will let me know, but that decision has not been taken and I don’t think there is a need,” he said.

In a separate press conference, Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) Executive Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez said the P3A has not been asked to amend the LUMA Energy contract.

PREPA’s unionized workers will hold a protest today at the Legislature against the LUMA Energy contract. The island House of Representatives is slated to vote on a report that would refer Edison Avilés, the head of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, to the Government Ethics Office for his role in the approval of the LUMA contract.

PREPA’s director of transmission and distribution, José Sepúlveda Aponte, said “the

supervisors of the different technical offices, together with the management personnel of the public corporation, will deal with any situation that may arise during the hours of the strike.”

PREPA Client Service Director Noriette Figueroa Meléndez said the utility’s commercial offices “will open for regular hours to serve clients who have a prior appointment as assigned by turnospr.com, following our health protocols.”

The official noted that PREPA customers can receive services and pay their bills 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through www.aeepr. com and the Customer Service Center 787-5213434. She also emphasized that consumers can make payments using the automated line 787-521-2121.

P3 Authority announces two proposed public-private partnerships

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ublic-Private Partnerships (P3) Authority Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez announced two new P3 projects on Monday.

The first project calls for a contract with a private entity to manage the island’s regional airports and the second would help modernize and optimize the Treasury Department’s tax collection processes, taxpayer services and the call center.

The goal of the latter project is to provide the Treasury Department with robust procedures and capacities in collections, taxpayer orientation and service channels, as well as enable the agency to increase collections and generate efficiencies and savings. The strengthening of collections would have a special emphasis on delinquent accounts and difficult-to-collect segments, among other functions.

Fontanés said the Treasury P3 would represent important benefits in the public interest, as 1) it would allow the modernizing of Treasury Department processes and capacities in an accelerated manner; 2) it would strengthen education for taxpayers and Treasury personnel; 3) it would consistently and permanently increase the collections of theTreasury Department, which in turn would strengthen the fiscal condition of Puerto Rico; and 4) it would improve the provision of services by the government to citizens.

A study is being conducted to determine the feasibility of the Treasury P3.

Meanwhile, the concession for the island’s eight regional airports, located in Aguadilla, Arecibo, Ceiba, Culebra, Humacao, Mayagüez, Ponce and San Juan (Isla Grande), seeks to increase their operational and maintenance efficiency, and the monetization of the Regional Airport Network to optimize their

use and commercial performance, Fontanés said.

As part of the project evaluation process, the feasibility of grouping the airports by region is being analyzed as an alternative that would involve granting more than one P3 agreement.

The P3 agreement (or agreements) for the airports represents an opportunity for economic growth through different regions in Puerto Rico, Fontanés noted. By maximizing the particular attributes of each airport, and by increasing air traffic and activities related to the operations and services they provide, the objective of having a favorable impact on the regions where they are located would be achieved, he said.

The ideas for the new P3s came after government agencies in January were given until March to make new proposals for P3s.

“For the P3 [Authority] it is essential to continue identifying opportunities for transformation that translate into benefits for citizens and for Puerto Rico,” Fontanés said. “The public-private partnership mechanism is an effective and proven one. Not only does it have a positive impact on the provision of public goods and services to citizens, but it also has favorable implications for the development, construction and maintenance of the island’s infrastructure.”

In 2020, the P3 Authority brokered public-private partnership agreements for the transformation of the transmission and distribution (T&D) system of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), and the transformation of the ferry service of the Maritime Transportation Authority (ATM by its Spanish initials). The agreement for the transformation of PREPA’s T&D system was awarded to LUMA Energy in June 2020 as a result of an 18-month bidding process. Under an operation and maintenance (O&M) structure and for a term of 15 years, the project is currently in the transition phase, which is expected to culminate in June.

P3 Authority Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez Fontanés emphasized that “the agreement between LUMA, PREPA and the P3 Authority seeks to execute the public policy for the transformation of the electric power system, by express provision of the Law to Transform the Puerto Rico Electric System (Law 120).”

“This agreement also complies with the mandate of the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act (Law 17), which specifically provided for the function of operating the electric power transmission and distribution system to be transferred to the private sector through an alliance agreement,” he said.

Likewise, another significant P3 agreement was granted last October to HMS Ferries for the operation and maintenance of the ATM and municipal islands assets, for a term of 23 years.

The selection of HMS Ferries was the result of a bidding process lasting more than 27 months with the purpose of optimizing the operation of the ferry service offered by the ATM to residents of Puerto Rico, especially residents of the offshore island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra.

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No water rationing in sight, says head of PRASA

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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oriel Pagán Crespo, executive president of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), said Monday in a radio interview that “at this time” there is no need for water rationing, despite the fact that some areas of Puerto Rico are experiencing a drought.

“At this time, with the adjustments we have made proactively, we have been able to handle the situation,” Pagán Crespo said in an interview on Radio Isla 1320 AM with journalist Julio Rivera Saniel. “At this time we do not anticipate an operational adjustment plan.”

“The Carraízo reservoir is at an overflow level. The La Plata reservoir is at a safe level. We only have the Toa Vaca reservoir at the observation level, but we believe that we should not have any inconvenience. And the Guajataca reservoir is at the observation level,” Pagán Crespo said. “What we need is

greater observation, since as we have seen -- specifically in the report of the Drought Monitor in recent weeks -- drought this year, contrary to last year, which was mostly concentrated in the eastern area, this year it is in the northern area, in the

municipalities of Arecibo, Manatí and Aguadilla. Basically the drought is concentrated in this area so far and then we are observing the behavior of the Guajataca reservoir. We have already made some adjustments without affecting customers.”

PRASA waits for FEMA to schedule Carraízo, La Plata dredging

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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uerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo said Monday in a radio interview that the utility is waiting for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to schedule a time for dredging the Carraízo and La Plata reservoirs.

Pagán Crespo said the federal government has approved $3.7 billion for dredging.

“As soon as they [FEMA] assigned the funds to us, as quickly as in a week we were already submitting the three projects,” she said.

The head of PRASA said the authority hired a company that will conduct engineering studies and evaluate the most costeffective options for dredging and controlling sedimentation in the reservoirs.

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Fully vaccinated people can have small gatherings indoors, CDC says

By RONI CARIN RABIN

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he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday issued longawaited guidance to Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19, freeing them to take some liberties that the unvaccinated should not, including gathering indoors with others who are fully vaccinated without precautions while still adhering to masking and distancing in public spaces.

The agency offered good news to grandparents who have refrained from seeing children and grandchildren for the past year, saying that fully vaccinated people may visit indoors with unvaccinated people from a single household so long as no one among the unvaccinated is at risk for severe disease if infected with the coronavirus.

That means fully vaccinated grandparents may visit unvaccinated healthy adult children and healthy grandchildren without masks or physical distancing. But the visit should be limited to one household: If the adult children’s unvaccinated neighbors drop by, the visit should move outdoors and everyone should wear masks and distance.

The recommendations arrived as state officials move to reopen businesses and schools amid a drop in virus cases and deaths.

Federal health officials repeatedly have warned against loosening restrictions too quickly, including lifting mask mandates, fearing that the moves may set the stage for a fourth surge of infections and deaths.

The new advice is couched in caveats and leaves room for amendments as new data become available. The agency did not rule out the possibility that fully vaccinated individuals might develop asymptomatic infections and spread the virus inadvertently to others, and urged those who are vaccinated to continue practicing certain precautions.

Agency officials encouraged people to get vaccinated with the first vaccine available to them, to help bring the pandemic to a close and resume normal life. The agency emphasized that vaccines are highly effective at preventing “serious COVID-19 illness, hospitalization and death,” and said its guidance “represents a first step toward returning to everyday activities in or communities.”

“We know that people want to get vaccinated so they can get back to doing the things they enjoy with the people they love,” said Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, CDC

director. “There are some activities that fully vaccinated people can begin to resume now in the privacy of their own homes.”

Still, she added, “Everyone, including those who are vaccinated, should continue with all mitigation strategies when in public settings.”

Many more Americans will need to be fully vaccinated before mitigation measures can be suspended, she and other officials said, as the majority of Americans have yet to get the vaccine.

As of Sunday, about 58.9 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, including about 30.7 million people who have been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. Providers are administering about 2.16 million doses per day on average.

The CDC’s advice is aimed at Americans who are fully vaccinated, meaning those for whom at least two weeks have passed since they received the second dose of a two-dose vaccine series of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, and those for whom at least two weeks have passed since receiving a single dose of the Johnson and Johnson single-dose vaccine.

What is safe for newly vaccinated Americans and their unvaccinated neighbors and family members has been uncertain in large part because scientists do not yet understand whether and how often immunized people may still transmit the virus. If so, then masking and other precautions are still be needed in certain settings to contain the virus, researchers have said.

There is also uncertainty about how well vaccines protect against emerging variants of the virus and how long the vaccine protection lasts.

The CDC said Monday that “a growing body of evidence” suggests that people who are fully vaccinated are less likely to have asymptomatic infections and “potentially less likely to transmit the virus that causes COVID-19 to other people.” Still, the agency did not rule out the possibility that they could inadvertently transmit the virus.

Given the current state of research, the CDC advised: — Fully vaccinated Americans may gather indoors in private homes with one another in small groups without masks or distancing. Vaccinated people may gather in a private residence with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at

low risk for developing severe disease if they contract the coronavirus, also without masks or distancing.

— Vaccinated Americans need not quarantine or get tested if they have a known exposure to the virus, as long as they do not develop symptoms of infection. If they do develop symptoms, they must isolate themselves, get tested and speak with their doctor.

— In public, vaccinated people must continue to wear masks and maintain social distance, and take other precautions, such as avoiding poorly ventilated spaces, covering coughs and sneezes, washing hands often and following any other protocols that are in place.

— Vaccinated people should continue to avoid large and medium gatherings, although the agency did not specify the gathering size with numbers.

The agency did not revise its travel recommendations, continuing to advise that all Americans refrain from travel unless necessary.

The advice is not legally binding, but the agency’s recommendations are usually followed by state public health officials. The recommendations seem likely to incentivize vaccination for many hesitant Americans by promising modest liberties after months of restrictions.

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Top state leader says ‘Cuomo must resign.’ Governor says ‘no way.’

By JESSE McKINLEY and DAVID GOODMAN

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n a potentially crippling defection in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s efforts to maintain control amid a sexual harassment scandal, the powerful Democratic leader of the New York state Senate declared on Sunday that the governor should resign “for the good of the state.”

The stinging rebuke from the Senate leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins — along with a similar sentiment from the Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, who questioned the “governor’s ability to continue to lead this state” — suggested that Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, had lost his party’s support in the State Capitol, and cast doubt on his ability to withstand the political fallout.

Once hailed as a pandemic hero and potential presidential contender, the governor has seen his political future spiral downward over eight perilous days in the wake of a New York Times report about Charlotte Bennett, a former aide to Cuomo.

In a series of interviews with The Times, Bennett, 25, said that Cuomo, 63, had asked her invasive personal questions last spring about her sex life, including whether she had slept with older men, and whether she thought age made a difference in relationships.

Bennett is one of five women who have come forward in recent days with allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior against Cuomo, with one predating his tenure as governor.

Cuomo, however, was adamantly resisting calls for his resignation, arguing he was elected by the people, not “by politicians.”

“I’m not going to resign because of allegations,” the governor said, calling the notion “anti-democratic,” and a violation of the due process clause of the Constitution.

“There is no way I resign.”

The governor’s statements on Sunday afternoon came not long after Stewart-Cousins had informed Cuomo in a phone call that she was about to call for him to step down, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation; the governor then quickly convened his own news conference to preempt her announcement.

He told reporters that his remarks were directed at “some legislators who suggest that I resign.”

Undeterred, Stewart-Cousins fired back, releasing her statement not long after Cuomo concluded his news conference.

Mr. Cuomo took issue with a recent allegation of untoward behavior, suggesting that the accuser had been a “longtime political adversary.”

“We need to govern without daily distraction,” said Stewart-Cousins, citing the allegations of sexual harassment and a “toxic work environment,” and his handling of the state’s nursing homes during the pandemic.

“Gov. Cuomo must resign.”

Stewart-Cousins is the most prominent New York state official to call for Cuomo’s resignation, and her statement carries significance: Her Senate would be the jury for any impeachment trial of the governor, if such an action were passed by the Assembly.

It also carries symbolic weight: In 2008, when Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned during a prostitution scandal, his decision was partially precipitated by a loss of support from Albany’s legislative leaders.

Heastie did not call for Cuomo to resign, but suggested that it was time for him “to seriously consider whether he can effectively meet the needs of the people of New York.”

The steady drumbeat of allegations — including a pair published on Saturday night

by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal — pushed Stewart-Cousins to take the remarkable step of calling for Cuomo’s resignation.

Late last week, in a conference with Democratic lawmakers, she said that her standard was that if any more accusations emerged, she would move forward, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

She also felt a special obligation, the

person said, as the only woman among the state’s top leadership, which includes Cuomo and Heastie. Her fellow Democratic senators backed her on calling for resignation.

The governor on Sunday reiterated his message to New Yorkers that they should withhold judgment until an inquiry overseen by the state attorney general, Letitia James, could examine the allegations, a process that could stretch on for months.

Cuomo also suggested some of the claims lacked credibility, taking particular issue on Sunday with an account in The Post concerning Karen Hinton, a former aide who was working as a paid consultant for Cuomo when he was U.S. secretary for Housing and Urban Development. Hinton told The Post that in 2000, Cuomo summoned her to a hotel room and gave her an unsolicited “intimate embrace.” She said he attempted another, which she said she resisted.

Cuomo rejected this account as a lie.

“Every woman has a right to come forward. That’s true. But the truth also matters.

What she said is not true,” Cuomo said of Hinton. “She has been a longtime political adversary of mine.”

On Sunday, Hinton said in a statement to The Times that “truth is the ‘longtime adversary’ that Cuomo fears the most.”

“Trump may be gone, but Cuomo has stepped right into his shoes by blaming the abused for his own abusive behavior,” she added.

But the scrutiny over Cuomo’s behavior — and a separate firestorm over his top aides concealing data on nursing home deaths in the pandemic — has already altered the balance of power in New York, loosening Cuomo’s once firm grip on state governance.

On Friday, the Democratic-dominated Legislature voted to curtail the sweeping emergency power it granted Cuomo at the start of the pandemic last spring; a day later, The Times Union of Albany, the capital’s most influential newspaper, called on Cuomo to resign over his handling of nursing homes.

Cuomo said he would sign the Legislature’s measure limiting his own powers.

Lawmakers will now have the ability to review and comment on any changes to pandemic guidance — such as his decision, which he announced on Sunday, to increase restaurant capacity outside of New York City to 75%.

The second account that emerged on Saturday night came from Ana Liss, a former aide who told The Wall Street Journal that the governor had made her uncomfortable by asking her questions about her romantic life and kissing her on the hand. On Sunday, Liss said on Twitter she shared her story because she believed it “may help bolster those shared by other women.”

“This is just ‘how things are’ for women in Albany, in politics, in any high-pressure workplace,” she wrote. “I think we deserve better.”

Cuomo said that exchange was consistent with his general comportment with his staff — an explanation that he has used when asked about the accounts of his questionable behavior with the women who have come forward in recent days.

“I say to people in the office, ‘How are you doing? How’s everything? Are you going out? Are you dating?’” Cuomo said when asked of Liss’ accusations. “That’s my way of doing friendly banter.”

Bennett said the governor had complained to her of being lonely and wanting a girlfriend in Albany, and said he “was fine” with being involved with women in their 20s, statements she took as clear indications of a sexual overture.

“I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me,” Bennett told The Times.

“And felt horribly uncomfortable and scared.”

Cuomo did not deny asking personal questions of Bennett and others, but has tried, repeatedly, to argue that he was not making advances, and that some of his statements may have been misconstrued.

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These YMCA camps served children for 100 years. Now they are shut.

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

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uan Escobar was 12 and skinny when he first went to a YMCA summer camp. He weighed only 65 pounds, often did not get enough to eat and had chronic asthma.

For much of his childhood, he lived with his mother and grandmother in a public-housing complex in the South Bronx, where, he said, he was in constant fear of robbers and bullies.

But at the camp, in upstate New York, “I didn’t have to worry about dodging bullets,’’ Escobar, 29, said.

Instead, he was surrounded by trees.

Wholesome food and fresh air improved his health, he said, and the welcoming environment helped him gain confidence and relate to people from different backgrounds. The YMCA gave him financial aid so he could afford to attend the camp, which he did throughout his teenage years before becoming a counselor. He is now a police officer in the Bronx.

Since 1918, the three summer camps run by the YMCA of Greater New York have offered a change of scenery for generations of children, many of them Black and Latino and from families that could not otherwise afford to provide them a summer in the country.

That was before the pandemic, which forced the camps to shut down last year and decimated the YMCA’s finances. Now, the organization is closing the camps for good and has put the grounds up for sale.

The move came as a surprise to members of the camps’ Board of Managers, an advisory group that works with the YMCA Board members said they had not been consulted about the planned sale.

“Our hope and expectation was that as an active and dedicated group of volunteers that we would have garnered some respect,” said Emily Van Ingen, 51, deputy director of a nonprofit group in the East New York section of Brooklyn, and a member of the board.

YMCA officials declined to comment on board members’ complaints about not being notified of the decision to sell the camps.

A sale would allow the YMCA to cut costs while bringing in money that is desperately needed after a dismal year that left many of its most lucrative services, including gyms, either closed or severely limited because of the virus, said Ronnie Tucker, a YMCA spokeswoman.

The organization has laid off nearly 2,000 employees, or more than half its workforce, and faced a $100 million budget shortfall last year, Tucker said.

Closing the camps, Tucker said, had been “a very painful and very, very difficult decision for our organization.”

Escobar said he had hoped to send his son, who is 6 months old, to a YMCA camp one day.

“I’m so sad and angry that this is happening,” he said “This is my home.”

The three camps cover more than 1,000 wooded acres in Huguenot, New York, about 60 miles northwest of New York City. In 2019, the last summer they were

open, 60% of the campers were from the city and over 70% were children of color.

In a typical summer, about 1,200 children from 7 to 16 have attended the camps, with roughly a third receiving some financial assistance, YMCA officials said.

“I view this as a civil rights issue,” John Block, 69, a documentary filmmaker who was a counselor and a former member of the Board of Managers, said in an email. “The camp closing is yet another example of the poor minority community taking an especially hard hit.”

Sleepaway camps across the United States experienced financial losses last year after government regulations prompted by the pandemic mostly kept them closed. Rules vary by state this year, but many camps will be allowed to reopen with social distancing guidelines in place. Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York has indicated that camps in the state will be able to open this year, but he has not provided clear guidelines for how they will do so yet.

“It’s a fragile situation,” said Tom Rosenberg, president and CEO of the American Camp Association, an industry group. “Camps are doing everything they can.”

The YMCA of Greater New York said it hoped to sell the upstate camps for around $5 million. It declined to disclose other details about a potential sale or to comment on whether it would sell only to a buyer who pledged to keep the properties as summer camps.

To campers, their families and a vast network of alumni, the camps’ looming shutdown came as an

unexpected blow.

“The idea of selling this camp that’s been with us for 102 years, at a time when New York City children absolutely need it the most, is disappointing beyond words,” said Monica Bermiss, 48, an assistant middle school principal, former camper and a Board of Managers member.

After learning that the camps were for sale, some former campers and counselors have been trying to raise enough money to buy the properties, while acknowledging that it was unlikely they would succeed.

Tucker, the YMCA spokeswoman, said it had become too costly to maintain the camps and their grounds, which include three lakes, horse stables, ropes courses, a wood shop and an inflatable floating obstacle course.

As for the organization’s 22 branches in the city, member services, like pools, had only reopened in the 10 that serve the largest number of members, Tucker said.

Membership at those 10 branches has plunged about 40% since the pandemic started.

YMCAs across the country are facing similar hardship, said Paul McEntire, YMCA of the USA’s chief operations officer.

“Last spring, all Ys had to close down for some period of time, which meant billions of dollars of lost membership and programmatic revenue,’’ he said in an email, adding, “Some have had to make the very difficult decision to close or sell branches or camps.”

Cate Jennings at camp in 2015, when she was 7. About one-third of the children who attended an overnight Y.M.C.A. summer camp received some financial assistance.

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Rescue package includes $86 billion bailout for failing pensions

Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, has been leading the effort to rescue the ailing pension plans.

By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH and ALAN RAPPEPORT

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ucked inside the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that cleared the Senate on Saturday is an $86 billion aid package that has nothing to do with the pandemic.

Rather, the $86 billion is a taxpayer bailout for about 185 union pension plans that are so close to collapse that without the rescue, more than 1 million retired truck drivers, retail clerks, builders and others could be forced to forgo retirement income.

The bailout targets multiemployer pension plans, which bring groups of companies together with a union to provide guaranteed benefits. All told, about 1,400 of the plans cover about 10.7 million active and retired workers, often in fields like construction or entertainment where the workers move from job to job. As the workforce ages, an alarming number of the plans are running out of money. The trend predated the pandemic and is a result of fading unions, serial bankruptcies and the misplaced hope that investment income would foot most of the bill so that employers and workers wouldn’t have to.

Both the House and Senate stimulus measures would give the weakest plans enough money to pay hundreds of thou-

sands of retirees — a number that will grow in the future — their full pensions for the next 30 years. The provision does not require the plans to pay back the bailout, freeze accruals or to end the practices that led to their current distress, which means their troubles could recur. Nor does it explain what will happen when the taxpayer money runs out 30 years from now.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who has been leading the charge to rescue the ailing pension plans, said that including the provision in the relief bill is a “really big deal” for both the retirees who depend on the money and the employers now being crushed by promises they cannot afford to keep.

“It goes back to the fact that these workers didn’t do anything wrong,” Brown said in an interview Thursday. “They have earned these pensions.” He added that the pandemic had worsened the crisis facing the plans.

The measure has received criticism, with some experts calling it a Band-Aid. “Imagine that you have a collegeaged kid who runs up $1,500 in credit card debt,” said James P. Naughton, an actuary now teaching at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “If you give him $1,500 dollars and you don’t do anything else, the odds that the problem is going to

get fixed are pretty low.”

At the same time, Republicans assailed it as a union handout masquerading as pandemic relief. They have tried to turn the provision, which would benefit only union workers and retirees, into a political liability for Democrats.

“Just to show you how bad this bill is, there’s more money in this to bail out union pension funds than all the money combined for vaccine distribution and testing,” Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., said last week.

On Friday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, RIowa, introduced his own legislative proposal for the failing pension plans, which he said would bring structural reforms to make them solvent over the long term. He called the measure put forth by Democrats “a blank check” and tried to have it sent back to the Senate Finance Committee for retooling.

“Not only is their plan totally unrelated to the pandemic, but it also does nothing to address the root cause of the problem,” Grassley said in a statement. His motion failed in a vote of 50-49.

Using taxpayer dollars to bail out pension plans is almost unheard-of. Previous proposals to rescue the dying multiemployer plans called for the Treasury to make them 30-year loans, not send them no-strings-attached cash. Other efforts have called for the plans to cut some people’s benefits to conserve their dwindling money — such as widow’s pensions, early retirement subsidies and pensions promised by companies that subsequently left their pools.

The federal government does provide a backstop for certain failing pension plans through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which acts like an insurer and makes companies pay premiums, but does not get taxpayer dollars. Currently, the pension agency has separate insurance programs for singleemployer and multiemployer pensions. The single-employer program is in good shape, but the multiemployer program is fragile. As of 2017, the country’s 1,400 or so multiemployer pension plans had a total shortfall of $673 billion.

The grants are intended to pay the retirees their full pensions, a much better deal than the pension agency’s regular multiemployer pension insurance, which is limited

by statute to $12,870 per year. Many retirees in the soon-to-be rescued plans have earned pensions greater than that.

The taxpayer money will also be used to restore any pensions that were cut in a 2014 initiative that tried to revive troubled plans by trimming certain people’s pensions. The stimulus bills — there is a House version and a Senate version that have minor differences — call for the affected retirees to get whatever money was withheld over the past six years.

The legislation requires the troubled plans to keep their grant money in investment-grade bonds, and bars them from commingling it with their other resources.

But beyond that, the bill would not change the funds’ investment strategies, which are widely seen as a cause of their trouble.

For decades, multiemployer pensions were said to be safe because the participating companies all backstopped each other.

If one company went under, the others had to cover the orphaned retirees. Because they were considered so safe, multiemployer pensions never got much oversight.

While companies that run their pension plans solo must follow strict federal funding rules, multiemployer plans do not have to. Instead, the companies and unions hammer out their own funding rules in collective bargaining. Both sides want to keep the contributions low — the employers to reduce labor costs, and the unions to free up more money for current wages. As a result, many of the plans have gone for years promising benefits without setting aside enough money to pay for them.

In hopes of making up for the low contributions, the plans often invest unduly aggressively for their workers’ advancing age. In bear markets they lose a lot of money, and they can’t ask the employers to chip in more because the employers are often struggling themselves.

The new legislation does nothing to change that dynamic.

“These plans are uniquely unable to raise their contributions,” said Naughton, whose clients included multiemployer plans when he was a practicing actuary. “When things go well, the participants get the benefits. If things go badly, they turn to the government to make it work.”

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S&P 500, Dow advance as stimulus bill gets Senate nod

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he S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes came under pressure on Monday as climbing Treasury yields and prospects of rising inflation triggered valuation concerns, hitting shares of high-flying growth companies.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, and investors are expected to look for any potential changes to the central bank’s dovish outlook in recent months.

Shares of Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc, Tesla Inc, Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc resumed their slide from the previous week, falling between 0.7% and 5%.

A largely upbeat fourth-quarter earnings had powered Wall Street’s main indexes to record highs earlier last week, but the rally lost steam on fears of a potential snag in countrywide inoculation efforts and inflation concerns rising from a raft of stimulus measures.

“There’s little new money going into the market. It is like everyone has bought in and, at some point, there’s an exhaustion of buyers and the market tends to come down a little bit,” said David Keller, chief market strategist at StockCharts.com.

“The market is recognizing the general euphoric sentiment conditions that we’ve had.”

The benchmark 10-year yield was little changed on Monday but had been as high as 1.394% overnight, the highest since Feb 2020.

The S&P 500 was down 21.41 points, or 0.55%, at 3,885.30, on track for a five-day losing, its worst in one year.

Value stocks have outperformed growth shares in February, with investors betting on a rebound in industrial activity and a pick up in consumer demand as countries roll out vaccines to tame the pandemic.

The S&P 500 industrials and financial sector rose 1.0% each, while energy stocks surged 4.3% on higher oil prices.

At 12:04 p.m. ET, the Nasdaq Composite was down 234.03 points, or 1.69%, at 13,640.44, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 29.43 points, or 0.09%, at 31,523.75, with Walt Disney Co boosting the bluechip index.

Discovery Inc jumped 9.2% after the media company said it was expecting 12 million global paid streaming subscribers by the end of February, as coronavirus-led restrictions kept people at home.

Kohl’s Corp gained 9.4% after a group of activist investors nominated nine directors to the department store chain’s board.

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In Nepal and across the world, child marriage is rising

Sapana, 17, at home in Rapti Sonari, Nepal.

By BHADRA SHARMA and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

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apana dreamed of becoming a government official. Each night, in her hut along a bumpy dirt road, the 17-year-old lit a single solar-powered bulb dangling from the ceiling and hit the books, plotting out a future much different than her mother’s.

But as the coronavirus crept across Nepal, closing the schools, Sapana lost focus.

Stuck in her village with little to do, she struck up a friendship with an out-of-work laborer.

They fell in love. Soon they married.

Now, Sapana has given up her professional dreams, with no plans to return to school.

“Things might have been different if I hadn’t discontinued my studies,” Sapana said recently, as she sat breastfeeding her 2-monthold son on the floor of her simple home. Her family name was withheld to protect her privacy.

What happened to Sapana in a small town in Nepal is happening to girls across the developing world. Child marriage is increasing at alarming levels in many places, the United Nations says, and the coronavirus pandemic is reversing years of hard-earned progress toward keeping young women in school.

In a report released Monday, the U.N. Children’s Fund predicted that an additional 10 million girls this decade will be at risk of

child marriage, defined as a union before the age of 18. Henrietta Fore, UNICEF’s executive director, said that “COVID-19 has made an already difficult situation for millions of girls even worse.”

What especially concerns advocates for children is the clear link between marrying early and dying young. Pregnancy complications and childbirth are the leading cause of death in girls ages 15 to 19 in developing countries, according to the World Health Organization, and the children of child brides are at a much higher risk of infant mortality.

Experts say the pandemic has intensified the factors that drive child marriage, such as a lack of education, economic hardship, parental death and teen pregnancy, which has been amplified by disruptions in getting contraception.

“COVID-19 has definitely taken us backward,” said Nankali Maksud, a senior adviser at UNICEF. In some cases, young girls are forced by parents or other authority figures into marriage with older men. But child advocates also worry about the young women who, because of the pandemic’s effect, are drifting away from school and see early marriage as their only option, abandoning ambitions for an education and a better life.

Many child marriages are never registered. UNICEF estimates that 650 million girls

and women alive today were married in childhood. Child advocates say they are seeing an upsurge in places where it has long been a problem, such as India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and Malawi, where teen pregnancies in some areas have tripled.

In Nepal, where the legal age for marriage is 20, the situation seems especially acute. Interlocking problems particular to the country and this moment make it difficult for many young women to avoid early marriage.

One of Asia’s poorest nations, Nepal relies on remittances and tourism. The pandemic has devastated both. Usually, at this time of year, foreign tourists head for the mountains to begin expensive treks into the Annapurna Range and up the slopes of Mount Everest.

This year, the money that flows from them into so many layers of Nepal’s economy has all but dried up.

Millions of laborers from Nepal work abroad, often as cooks, cleaners, maids, guards and nannies in India or the Middle East. In 2019, Nepal earned $8.25 billion from foreign remittances. But with most of the world’s economies hurting, that remittance stream has also dwindled. Legions of young Nepali men, many of them single, have recently returned home.

Many others have lost their jobs in Nepal’s cities. A great number of young men now roam around their mountainside villages, bored and broke. That was how Sapana met her husband, Hardas.

Hardas, who said he was around 20, used to work as a traveling mason, often in cities such as Kathmandu and Nepalgunj. But after he was laid off in April, at the beginning of the pandemic, he came back to his native Rapti Sonari, a small town of about 10,000 people, 300 miles west of Kathmandu.

The houses are spread out in a maze of dirt roads beneath the hills. Most are made from mud and stone. Sapana’s father, Ram Dayal, bought an auto rickshaw right before the lockdown hit. Now he has monthly payments of 30,000 rupees (around $250) and almost no customers.

Dayal was not happy that his daughter married so young, but he conceded that her leaving the house helped ease his financial burden. He has five other mouths to feed.

“She would have had a better life if she completed 10th grade,” Dayal said.

Ghumni, his wife and Sapana’s mother, agreed. She, too, was a child bride and ended up with four children and zero education.

Activists who fight child marriage say they are working in the most difficult conditions they have ever faced, even as the problem worsens. Nepal has imposed harsh restrictions on vehicular movement. When infections surged, activists were confined indoors like everybody else. Several said that the number of child marriages in their areas had doubled or nearly doubled during the pandemic.

“We are at back to square one,” said Hira Khatri, an anti-child-marriage activist in the district that includes Rapti Sonari.

Across central Nepal, many families shared stories of watching their daughters disappear into early marriages.

Mayawati, 17, who also lives in Rapti Sonari, dreamed of studying agriculture. But her family’s struggles during the pandemic made her feel guilty about being a burden to her parents. She dropped out of school, then married a man who worked as a menial laborer. Her dreams, too, have quietly slipped away.

“We have no money,” said Mayawati, whose last name was also withheld. “How was I supposed to continue my studies?”

Mayawati said that most of her friends who had married during the lockdown were now pregnant.

Some people in Nepal feel strongly about what they see as the benefits of child marriage. Several elders in the Madhesi community, based on the southern plains near the border of India, said they had falsified their daughters’ birth certificates to avoid getting in trouble.

“Marrying daughters in their young age has made me happier. It’s our practice,” said Mina Kondu, who said she recently doctored her 16-year-old daughter’s birth certificate, making her appear to be 19, which was still below the legal age but close enough, the family believed.

“The police cannot stop us,” she said.

Kondu, who lives in a village about three hours’ drive from Sapana’s, said that if the families didn’t arrange for their daughters to marry young, the daughters would do it anyway, without permission, and dishonor the family.

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Swiss voters narrowly approve a ban on face coverings

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE

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witzerland on Sunday became the latest European country to ban the wearing of face coverings in public places, prohibiting the veils worn by Muslim women.

Official results of the nationwide referendum showed 51.2% of voters supported the ban on full facial coverings, which was proposed by the populist, anti-immigrant Swiss People’s Party (SVP), compared with 48.8% opposing it, a much narrower margin of victory than pollsters had initially predicted.

The initiative, started long before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, makes exceptions for facial coverings worn at religious sites and for security or health purposes, but also bans coverings like the ski masks worn by protesters. Officials have two years to write legislation to put the ban into effect.

The federal government had urged voters to reject the ban as tackling a problem that did not exist and arguing that it would damage tourism.

Critics of the ban cited a study showing only some 30 women in Switzerland wear the veils and most of them were born in Switzerland and had converted to Islam. The only people seen wearing the burqa, a full head-to-toe covering, are visitors from the Middle East, mostly wealthy tourists from the Persian Gulf bringing welcome revenue to the country’s hospitality industry.

France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria ban face coverings, and opinion polls at the start of the year showed the Swiss initiative garnering the backing of around 65% of voters, but the gap narrowed quickly as liberals and women’s groups pushed back against a ban they condemned as racist, Islamophobic and sexist.

The Swiss People’s Party has “always profited from campaigning against minorities, and feel they have to keep doing it,” said Elena Michel, a manager of a campaign against the ban for Operation Libero, an activist group supporting liberal causes. “In the end, all our freedoms are at stake. If we open that door, it shows a tendency that it’s OK to take away the

A demonstration in Bern, Switzerland, shortly after the country approved an initiative to ban full facial coverings in public places. fundamental rights of minorities.”

Switzerland’s Central Council of Muslims called the result of the vote “a dark day” for Muslims and issued a statement saying, “Today’s decision opens old wounds, further expands the principle of legal inequality, and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the Muslim minority.”

The proposal put forward by the Swiss People’s Party, the country’s largest, did not mention Islam or niqabs and burqas — veils traditionally worn by Muslim women — calling instead for a ban on “full facial covering.” But the party left no doubt as to whom it was targeting.

Menacing campaign posters depict-

ing a black-garbed woman scowling from behind her veil carried the slogan “Stop Extremism!”

The initiative evoked memories of a successful 2009 campaign by the SVP to ban the construction of minarets, the towers from which mosques traditionally broadcast the call to prayer. Switzerland had three minarets at the time, but the party challenged such architecture as alien to the Alpine nation’s culture and landscape, and hammered home the message with posters depicting minarets as missiles.

The SVP framed its campaign leading up to Sunday’s vote as part of a “war

of civilizations” in which it was defending Switzerland against “the Islamization of Europe and our country.”

To win support from other parts of the political spectrum, the party also framed the initiative as liberating women from religious oppression and said it would help the police deal with hooligans in street protests and at sporting events.

Some liberal-leaning Muslims supported the ban.

“What the full veil represents is unacceptable; it is the cancellation of women from public space,” Saïda KellerMessahli, president of the Forum for a Progressive Islam, told Swiss media.

Social commentators say Switzerland’s 400,000 Muslims, who make up around 5.5% of the population, are better integrated than those in France or Germany.

Some who campaigned against the ban called the outcome better than expected.

“We lost the battle, but not the war,” said Ines el-Shikh, a Muslim and co-founder of the Violet Scarves, a feminist group, who celebrated the sharp drop in support for the ban. “This is huge. It shows the power that feminism as an organized movement can bring to public debate.”

Others said they feared the outcome would merely stoke the politics of division and fuel anti-Muslim sentiment.

“Things are going in a bad direction, and this is going to make them worse,” Sanija Ameti, a political activist and member of the Green Liberals Party, said.

“That frightens me.”

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

What we learned from Meghan and Harry’s interview

Oprah Winfrey’s highly anticipated two-hour interview with Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, aired on CBS on Sunday night.

By SARAH LYALL and TARIRO MZEZEWA

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prah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had been teased for days.

So it was a shock to find when it aired Sunday night that it included a number of explosive revelations about the couple and their fraught relationship with the British royal family.

Here are the main takeaways: Meghan said that life as a royal had made her suicidal.

Over the years, Harry has openly discussed mental health, grief and other issues that, in the past, were taboo coming from a royal. But audiences have rarely heard Meghan talk about her own mental health, with the exception of a 2020 article in The New York Times’ Opinion section about her miscarriage.

One of the most revelatory moments of the CBS interview broadcast Sunday night came when Meghan talked about contemplating suicide while living and working as a member of the British royal family.

“I was ashamed to have to admit it to Harry,” she said of her suicidal thoughts. “I knew that if I didn’t say it, I would do it. I just didn’t want to be alive anymore.”

Meghan said that at one point she asked a senior royal about the possibility of seeking inpatient care, and was told that would not be

possible because it “wouldn’t be good for the institution.”

The interview provided a reminder that Harry and Meghan weren’t afraid to talk about the mental health challenges they have dealt with, and their responses to Winfrey’s questions underscored a message they seemed keen to send to the world: In some capacity or another, they will continue doing work similar to what they were doing as members of the royal family.

Ultimately, hearing Meghan talk about navigating life in the palace with Harry as the sole source of support confirmed something that has seeped its way into news coverage of the couple over the past year: They say they did not receive adequate support from Harry’s family when they were struggling and seeking assistance.

She was subjected to relentless racist attacks.

From the beginning, the couple said, the tabloids were vicious to Meghan, making unabashedly racist comments about her. The question of her race also infused her relationship with the royal family, the couple said. They believed it might have been a factor in the family’s decision not to grant their son, Archie, a title or to provide security protection for him.

In one of the most shocking moments in the interview, Meghan mentioned a conversation Harry had with a member of the royal

household while she was pregnant with their firstborn.

“We have in tandem the conversation of ‘He won’t be given security, he’s not going to be given a title’ and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born,” Meghan said.

Harry said that someone had expressed worry about, as he put it, “what will the kids look like?”

Britain’s children minister, Vicky Ford, said in response that such comments were unacceptable.

“There is absolutely no place for racism in our society,” she said in an interview with Sky News.

Of his father, Harry said, ‘I feel really let down.’

One of the most memorable moments of Harry and Meghan’s wedding is the image of Prince Charles, Harry’s father, walking Meghan down the aisle and Harry saying to his father, “Thank you, Pa.” The moment earned Charles supporters around the globe for appearing to be a loving father and father-in-law who was taking in his new daughter-in-law at a moment when her own father wasn’t showing up for her.

How things have changed.

It was striking to hear Harry describe his father as not taking his phone calls and asking him to put things into writing when he and Meghan were weighing taking a step back from their roles as senior royals. Harry later said that Charles was now taking his calls again, but that “there’s a lot to work through there.”

“I feel really let down, because he’s been through something similar,” Harry said, referring to the way the news media had hounded his mother, Princess Diana.

Prince William was barely mentioned in the interview, but when he did come up, Harry said that their “relationship is space, at the moment.”

More than once, both Harry and Meghan drew distinctions between the queen and the rest of the royal family. They told stories of interacting with her during their time in London and after stepping back from their roles as senior royals. There was a decipherable shift in tone, however, when discussing others, particularly William; his wife, Kate Middleton; and Charles.

The royal family failed to correct the false narrative around her, Meghan said.

The tabloid stories came one after the other, Meghan said: About her diva-like behavior, about how she had bullied her staff, about her supposed rift with her sister-in-law, Kate, the

Duchess of Cambridge.

Not only were they not true, Meghan said, but the royal family did nothing to correct them.

She came to understand, she said, that the royal family was “willing to lie to protect other members of the family, but they weren’t willing to tell the truth to protect me and my husband.”

In a particularly resonant example, she said, the tabloids reported, long after her wedding, that she had made Kate cry before the lavish event over the bridesmaid’s dress that Kate’s daughter was meant to wear. In fact, Meghan said, it was Kate who made her cry.

Kate apologized and sent her flowers, Meghan said. But when the tabloid reports came out, no member of the royal family made an effort to correct the record.

“I’m talking about things that are super artificial and inconsequential,” Meghan said. “But the narrative about, you know, making Kate cry, I think was the beginning of a real character assassination. And they knew it wasn’t true.”

She added, “I thought, well, if they’re not going to kill things like that, then what are we going to do?”

‘My family literally cut me off financially.’

Most members of the royal family receive money each year from the family coffers in exchange for carrying out official engagements.

But when he introduced Meghan to the family, Harry said, that arrangement already seemed to be in jeopardy.

Members of his family suggested that she continue acting, “because there wasn’t enough money to pay for her,” Harry said. “There was some real obvious signs before we even got married that this was going to be really hard.”

He and Meghan said they pleaded with the royal family to pay for security for them and their son, only to be refused each time.

Then, when he and Meghan moved to the United States, Harry said, the royal family stopped giving them money.

“My family literally cut me off financially,” Harry said. When Oprah pressed him on the point, he amended it to “the first half, the first quarter of 2020,” leaving open the question of whether any money had arrived after that.

In any case, he said, speaking of his life in the United States, “I’ve got what my mum left me, and without that, we would not have been able to do this.”

At another point, Harry described feeling “trapped” in his life before being with Meghan and noted that, “without question, she saved me.”

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This is not the coronavirus anniversary Cuomo planned on

By GAIL COLLINS and BRET STEPHENS

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ail Collins: Well, Bret, much to talk about as always. But I guess we should start with Andrew Cuomo.

Bret Stephens: I can’t believe I’m saying this, Gail, but Cuomo may make former Gov. Eliot Spitzer look good by comparison.

At least Client 9’s behavior was, well, transactional, as compared to Cuomo’s creepy come-ons. And the cover-up of the nursing home COVID death count strikes me as possibly criminal and definitely worthy of impeachment. Especially since he was also trying to peddle a book about his COVID leadership skills while he was busy fudging the numbers.

What’s your view?

Gail: Have to admit it makes me sad. But the double whammy seems impossible to overcome. If it had just been the sex part we could have had some interesting conversations about what’s acceptable in an era that combines feminism with a fairly expansive view of what people — at least unmarried people — can and can’t do.

Bret: “If It Had Just Been The Sex Part” could have been the title of a memoir by anyone from Caligula to Johnny Rotten. Sorry, go on.

Gail: But the nursing home cover-up is something that could have ruined Cuomo’s career all by itself. All the stuff we need our leaders to be pandemic-cautious about, and there’s the governor concealing the real story on how many nursing home deaths New York had under his watch.

Bret: The cliché is that the cover-up is worse than the crime, but in this case I’d say they’re about equal. Cuomo is also the guy who effectively required nursing homes to admit patients with coronavirus,

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Gail: Still, I have to admit the sex part fascinates me. The easiest way to judge fairly, I think, is to ask yourself how the public would react if a woman governor had been coyly propositioning young men in the administration.

Bret: My gut reaction to your scenario is that it sounds very “Ooh la la,” like it could be a movie starring Cate Blanchett as Gov. Fatale, whereas Cuomo’s behavior is strictly “Ugh Yuck,” like it could be a movie starring Mickey Rourke. I just don’t think it works in quite the same way.

Gail: If young workers in a state Capitol started complaining that their female governor was touching them inappropriately, I sorta doubt the voters would see it as a glamorous movie.

Bret: Fair enough. But I think there’s a larger point, which has to do with the perils of de facto one-party rule. Cuomo behaved the way he did, in part at least, because he felt his power was unchecked and unlimited. That kind of power always corrupts. At this rate, maybe there could even be a Republican comeback in the Empire State.

Gail: You know, voters in super-Democratic places aren’t always scared of electing Republicans to high office. Look at Gov. Charlie Baker in Massachusetts — not to mention Mitt Romney. We’ve had Republican governors in New York. We’ve had Republican mayors in New York City. Voters don’t think they can do much harm when they’re blocked by Democratic legislators. And I think they imagine it might save some money.

Don’t have much faith in that last part of the theory myself, but hope springs eternal.

Bret: I’ve always been a fan of blue or purple-state Republican governors, like Larry Hogan or Chris Sununu. They’re good at taking care of the nuts-and-bolts of governance while steering clear of the moralistic thunder and lightning.

Gail: By the way, have you been following all the controversies about voting rights? Republicans around the country have been trying to make it tougher for people to vote — eliminating mail ballots, imposing tougher registration rules. They’re even trying to get rid of Sunday voting in Georgia, where congregants from Black churches go together to the polls after service.

Bret: One of the many reasons I despise Donald Trump is that he took perfectly legitimate policy issues, distorted and lied about them to suit his personal needs, and rendered them politically radioactive. Ballot integrity and public confidence in elections is a legitimate issue. In New York’s upstate 22nd District, we had a congressional race that took over three months to resolve because of a lack of uniform ballot-counting standards and a tidal wave of absentee ballots. In Pennsylvania, a state court ruled that the deadline for late-arriving mailin ballots would be extended, resulting in the addition of about 10,000 ballots to the overall vote tallies and giving fodder to people claiming the election was rigged. It’s bad for democracy.

Gail: One problem has always been that people who were elected to office under the old rules are not always enthusiastic about spending a lot of money to make the system more efficient for their future opponents.

Another is that the folks who get disenfranchised by a complicated set of rules are generally lower-income, frequently younger and often minorities. Back in the day I sat through a lot of legislative debates on these issues and I did notice that Republicans were always

coming up with ideas to make the system more secure that would also make it more intimidating for nervous beginners.

Bret: I’m all for making sure that everyone has access to the ballot, particularly those for whom access isn’t easy. I also think that last year was an exceptional one on account of the pandemic. But we shouldn’t want to make the exception the rule going forward, for instance, by making ballot harvesting legal in every state. We don’t need election night to turn into election month.

Gail: Ballot harvesting is that system where a person receives an absentee ballot, fills it out, and then relies on somebody else to get it returned. That can be a good deed — or a system party workers use to control the voting. We just need to make sure it’s only used for good purposes. There was a big scandal in North Carolina a while back involving (cough, cough) Republicans.

Bret: Well, exactly, and it kinda makes my point: Republicans cheat, too, and every time there’s too much of a gap between the voter and the ballot box, there’s also an opportunity for mischief. So there ought to be a bipartisan interest in forbidding ballot harvesting, period.

Meantime, it looks like Joe Biden is going to get his stimulus package passed, after some legislative nips and tucks. I take it you’re pleased with the overall result?

Gail: There are some nips and tucks I could live without, but the big idea is right on. The way out of this crisis is to spend tons of money getting people vaccinated and giving the economy a very big boost.

Spending saves lives.

I take it you don’t agree?

Bret: Well, if it were up to me we’d have a much smaller bill and the Fed would at least signal that it’s prepared to raise interest rates to avert inflation. The usual argument for big government spending is to soften the effects of a downturn, but now we’re pumping money into a giant upturn. Steven Rattner is right: Once the inflation tiger is out of its cage, it will be hard and painful to put it back in.

Gail: Just taking one second to imagine the inflation tiger. Maybe he’s one of those circus ones who comes when you crack a whip.

Bret: Or Shere Khan from “The Jungle Book.” As for the bill itself, the most I can say on its behalf is that I’m happy Joe Manchin is in the Senate as a Democrat. We should not pay people more money to be on unemployment than to have a job, especially as the economy opens up again. We should not be sending benefit checks to people with upper middle-class incomes. We should not make it harder for restaurants and other small businesses to hire people by raising the federal minimum wage.

Gail: We should just make it harder for people working in restaurants and small businesses to survive? Maybe we can hold a little party on June 16 to celebrate the anniversary of the longest period in American history without a federal minimum wage increase.

Bret: I guess this is how democratic government is supposed to work: Neither side is getting quite what it wants and the moderates are in the driver’s seat. Neither of us can totally complain.

Gail: Well, we can still complain a little, right? Otherwise we’d have to change the name of The Conversation to Quiet Contemplation of a Perfect World.

Bret: Agreed. Let’s keep finding things to complain about. You know, the masks are about to come off, which means the gloves are, too.

Gail: I have confidence we’ll come up with a gripe or 40.

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Delegación PIP en la Legislatura presenta medidas que buscan reducir brecha de inequidad por razón del género Por THE STAR

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a delegación legislativa del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP) presentó el lunes, en ocasión de la conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer Trabajadora, un conjunto de medidas legislativas dirigidas a reducir la brecha de inequidad que todavía existe por razón del género.

“No hay duda de lo mucho que hemos avanzado en las últimas décadas”, indicó la portavoz senatorial María de Lourdes Santiago en comunicación escrita, “pero todavía persisten el discrimen y la inequidad, evidenciadas en la violencia de género, en la paga desigual en ciertos renglones laborales, en la falta de reconocimiento al valor del trabajo doméstico no remunerado, en políticas médicas discriminatorias, como la realización de cesáreas sin justificación clínica, y en la negativa a incorporar la perspectiva de género no sólo al currículo escolar sino a toda gestión gubernamental.”

Por su parte, el representante Denis Márquez Lebrón, resaltó el compromiso “histórico e inquebrantable” del PIP en la lucha por garantizar y adelantar los derechos de las mujeres, al tiempo que describió las medidas legislativas radicadas hoy como “un paso importante en la lucha por lograr la equidad de género y seguir promoviendo la concienciación social en este asunto”.

El conjunto de medidas comprende cinco Proyectos de Ley y dos Resoluciones Conjuntas. Las mismas se desglosan de la siguiente manera: 1. PS 223 / PC 569: Ley para implementar el Plan para Cuantificar el Trabajo No Remunerado en Puer to Rico. El trabajo no remunerado que ha sido so cialmente asignado a las mujeres ha generado una clasificación de personas que trabajan sin remune ración ni derechos laborales. Este es uno de los mu chos impedimentos que tienen distintas mujeres para acceder al mercado laboral y lograr indepen dencia financiera. Esta ley propone la creación de un Comité Especial para Cuantificar el Uso de Tiem po en Puerto Rico, encargado, entre otras cosas, de medir el impacto que el trabajo no remunerado tiene en la economía del país y analizar la disparidad en tre géneros asociada a la participación en el trabajo no remunerado. Los estudios resultantes serán de utilidad para articular política pública sensible a las particularidades de la mujer puertorriqueña.

2. PS 224 / PC 567: Para enmendar la Ley para Re glamentar el Período de Lactancia o de Extracción de Leche Materna. Esta enmienda tiene por objeti vo eliminar la restricción de límite de tiempo que tienen las madres trabajadoras para extraerse leche materna o lactar a su hijo o hija durante la jornada laboral y aclarar que el tiempo utilizado para esos fines será considerado tiempo trabajado.

3. PS 225 / PC 570: Ley para el Acceso a la Informa ción de Estadísticas de Cesáreas en Puerto Rico. Se gún las estadísticas más recientes del Departamento de Salud, la tasa de cesáreas en Puerto Rico ascen día a 46% en 2016. Ese porciento excede significati vamente la tasa recomendada por la Organización Mundial de Salud, que oscila entre 10 y 15% e im plica una serie de riesgos importantes a la salud de la mujeres y personas gestantes. Esta ley propone que la División del Registro Demográfico del Depar tamento de Salud publique trimestralmente datos asociados a los nacimientos en Puerto Rico, inclu yendo los niveles de riesgo reconocidos en la prácti ca general de la obstetricia, e incluirán datos como tiempo de gestación, condiciones médicas y cesá reas previas.

4. PS 226 / PC 568: Ley para Garantizar el Análisis con Perspectiva Género en toda gestión de las tres ramas del Gobierno de Puerto. Esta Ley tendrá como propósito integrar un análisis de perspectiva de gé nero en los reglamentos y funciones de nuestras ins tituciones. Tomando en cuenta que la política públi ca afecta de manera particular a las mujeres, ubicán dolas usualmente en una posición de desventaja, tenemos la responsabilidad de identificar y corregir las instancias que producen ese trato desigual.

5. PS 227 / PC 571: Ley para la prevención, detec ción y tratamiento efectivo de la depresión pospar to. La depresión es una condición incapacitante y, en el caso del puerperio, afecta negativamente el bienestar de la madre y de su criatura. En Puerto Rico, la mayoría de las madres no son evaluadas con el propósito de detectar esta condición, por lo que muchas mujeres quedan a su suerte y confron tan la depresión sin una red de apoyo adecuada,

y sin las herramientas formales que ofrecen las disciplinas de salud mental. Esta Ley se crea con el propósito de subsanar los impedimentos estructurales que limitan el acceso de nuestras madres y personas gestantes a los servicios de salud mental.

Resoluciones Conjuntas 1. RCS 35 / RCC 80 Para ordenar a la Junta de Directo res de la Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difu sión Pública (WIPR) y al Presidente de la corpora ción, a realizar una campaña educativa sobre la perspectiva de género.

Las campañas publicitarias educativas o preventivas tienen un gran potencial para transformar las sociedades y encaminarlas hacia unas verdaderamente equitativas.

Estas pueden ayudar a prevenir la violencia de género en sus distintas manifestaciones y para eliminar los estereotipos de género que perpetúan la desigualdad. Esta resolución establece como función de WIPR, como difusor principal en Puerto Rico, incorporar una campaña educativa sobre la perspectiva de género como herramienta para erradicar las desigualdades basadas en el género y las violencias que genera.

2. RCS 36 / RCC 81 Para ordenar al Departamento de la Familia establecer el “Programa de Respiro Fa miliar” que preste atención temporal de calidad a personas adultas con diversidad funcional en situa ciones de dependencia.

Se estima que la cantidad de personas con diversidad funcional en Puerto Rico son 723,525. De esa población, 328, 387 tienen alguna condición física, mental o emocional que no les permite desempeñarse de forma independiente. Las personas cuidadoras principales, en su mayoría mujeres, corren el riesgo de sufrir ansiedad, estrés y falta de energía. Con esta resolución se propone un relevo temporal de las funciones del cuidador, siendo el Departamento de la Familia, quien provea este servicio.

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After pandemic, film industry’s Hollywood ending may have to wait

By BROOKS BARNES

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hat awaits Hollywood on the other side of the pandemic?

As vaccines have rolled out around the world, many film executives and theater operators have been predicting — hoping, praying — that a huge surge of ticket buying awaits. They hope the masses, desperate to get out of their homes (and tired of watching television), will begin to pour into cinemas as soon as they feel safe from the coronavirus and big movies begin to repopulate the marquees.

It could happen.

But early box office results indicate a messier recovery, with moviegoer tastes potentially shifting — particularly in China, now the No. 1 cinema market in the world — and behind-the-scenes spats between studios and theaters crimping film availability. Some traditional studios have started to prioritize streaming, to pushback from multiplex operators. “It’s going to take some time for things to settle out,” said David A. Gross, who runs Franchise Entertainment Research, a movie consultancy.

Over the weekend, for instance, the Walt Disney Co. released “Raya and the Last Dragon,” a rapturously reviewed animated adventure that cost an estimated $150 million to make. Featuring the vocal talents of Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina, “Raya and the Last Dragon” played in 2,045 theaters in North America, including some in New York City, where state officials allowed chains like AMC to resume operations (at 25% capacity) for the first time in a year.

Would strong reviews and pent-up demand drive audiences to theaters?

Not really: Ticket sales for “Raya and the Last Dragon” in the United States and Canada only totaled $8.6 million, according to Comscore, which compiles box office data.

Gross characterized that result as “soft,” even by pandemic standards. “Tom & Jerry: The Movie,” a poorly reviewed offering from Warner Bros. that cost roughly $80 million to make, arrived in theaters on Feb. 26 and collected $14 million over its first three days.

Gross assessed the “Tom & Jerry” turnout as “very good” and “a positive sign for the business.”

“Raya and the Last Dragon” was most likely held back for two reasons. Disney simultaneously offered the film to Disney+

subscribers — for a $30 “premium access” upcharge — and Cinemark, the No. 3 theater chain in the United States (behind AMC and Regal), refused to book it. Cinemark and Disney sparred over licensing terms, with Cinemark, citing the simultaneous streaming debut, insisting on a discount, and Disney giving little. “We are making near-term booking decisions on a discrete, film-by-film basis, focusing on the long-term benefit of exhibitors, studios and moviegoers,” Cinemark said in a statement.

Cinemark and other theater chains struck a deal with Warner to play “Tom & Jerry,” even though it was simultaneously available — with no upcharge — to HBO Max subscribers.

Disney declined to comment.

Muddying the situation further, it is possible that “Raya and the Last Dragon” did blockbuster business on Disney+. Only Disney knows. The company does not disclose financial figures for its premium access releases.

Jonathan Cohen, director of content and communications for ListenFirst, a social media analytics company, said there was “a high level of interest” in the PG film, which generated 84,897 posts on Twitter on Friday and Saturday. (But not as high as the PG-13 “Coming 2 America,” which became available to anyone with an Amazon Prime subscription on Friday and generated 243,769 tweets.)

Bob Chapek, Disney’s chief executive, has said that even after the pandemic, Disney will release movies in new ways, with some offered to theaters on an exclusive basis, some made available like “Raya and the Last Dragon,” and others debuting exclusively (and for no additional fee) on Disney+, which now has nearly 100 million subscribers worldwide. “I think the consumer is probably more impatient than they’ve ever been before,” Chapek said at a Morgan Stanley conference last week. “They’ve had the luxury of an entire year of getting titles at home, pretty much when they want them. And so I’m not sure there’s going back.”

Hollywood was also paying keen attention to the performance of “Raya and the Last Dragon” in China. Because Disney+ does not operate there, the film arrived exclusively in theaters — the first major Disney release in the crucially important market in six months.

In China, where the coronavirus is largely un-

der control, cinemas have been setting box office records, even with capacity limits, an encouraging sign for a strong global rebound.

But “Raya” collected just $8.4 million in China over its first three days, or roughly half of what non-franchise Disney films like “Zootopia” and “Moana” managed before the pandemic. Even “Tom & Jerry” took in $12.2 million last month.

What happened? It was unclear to box office analysts on Sunday, with some guessing that the film’s subject matter could have been a hindrance (dragons can be surprisingly tricky) and others pointing to a possible hangover from “Mulan,” which bombed in China in September after a filming location created problems. For others, the chilly reception added to fears that the Chinese market has shifted radically, with moviegoers now preferring local films like “Detective Chinatown 3” and “Hi, Mom” over American imports. “Wonder Woman 1984” (Warner Bros.) has taken in $25.5 million in China since its release on Dec. 18, about 70% less than its series predecessor collected in summer 2017.

Disney’s standard Sunday box office statement noted that “Raya and the Last Dragon” performed better in China than two recent Pixar films: “Onward” arrived to about

$2.8 million in ticket sales in August, and “Soul” collected $5.5 million in December.

Over the past year, as the pandemic has dragged on, Hollywood has pushed back the releases of dozens of films and rerouted others to streaming services. Studios have cited one primary reason: The No. 1 box office market in North America — New York City and its immediate suburbs — has remained closed. The gradual reopening of cinemas in the area, which began on Friday, immediately emboldened studios, with Sony speeding up the release of “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway” and Paramount giving “A Quiet Place Part II” similar treatment.

“We’re back!” the marquee at the IFC Center, a Manhattan art film complex, read on Saturday. Focus Features said that “Promising Young Woman,” a revenge drama starring Carey Mulligan, performed particularly well in New York, selling out available seats at multiple theaters. “Boogie,” another specialty release from Focus, found 20% of its audience in the area, with the AMC Empire in Times Square as its top location.

Cinemas in San Francisco also reopened on Friday, leaving the Los Angeles area as the only major U.S. market where theaters remain closed. About 80% of the theaters in North America are now able to operate.

Moviegoers at the AMC Empire on 42nd Street in New York, March 6, 2021. Early box office results indicate a messier recovery, with moviegoer tastes potentially shifting — particularly in China, now the No. 1 cinema market in the world — and behind-the-scenes spats between studios and theaters crimping film availability.

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Apes get experimental animal vaccine against coronavirus

By JAMES GORMAN

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he San Diego Zoo has given nine apes an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Zoetis, a major veterinary pharmaceuticals company.

In January, a troop of gorillas at the zoo’s Safari Park tested positive for the virus. All are recovering, but even so, the zoo requested help from Zoetis in vaccinating other apes. The company provided an experimental vaccine that was initially developed for pets and is now being tested in mink.

Nadine Lamberski, a conservation and wildlife health officer at San Diego Zoo Global, said the zoo vaccinated four orangutans and five bonobos with the experimental vaccine, which is not designed for use in humans.

She said one gorilla at the zoo was also scheduled to be vaccinated, but the gorillas at the wildlife park were a lower priority because they had already tested positive for infection and had recovered. Lamberski said she would vaccinate the gorillas at the wildlife park if the zoo received more doses of the vaccine.

Mahesh Kumar, senior vice president of global biologics for Zoetis, said the company is increasing production, primarily for its pursuit of a license for a mink vaccine, and will provide more doses to the San Diego and other zoos when possible. “We have already received a number of requests,” he said.

Infection of apes is a major concern for zoos and conservationists. They easily fall prey to human respiratory infections, and common cold viruses have caused deadly outbreaks in chimpanzees in Africa. Genome research has suggested that chimpanzees, gorillas and other apes will be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the pandemic. Lab researchers are using some monkeys, like macaques, to test drugs and vaccines and develop new treatments for the virus.

Scientists are worrying not just about the danger the virus poses to great apes and other animals, but also about the potential for the virus to gain a foothold in a wild animal population that could become a permanent reservoir and emerge at a later date to reinfect humans.

Infections in farmed mink have produced the biggest

scare so far. When Danish mink farms were devastated by the virus, which can kill mink just as it kills people, a mutated form of the virus emerged from the mink and reinfected humans. That variant showed resistance to some antibodies in laboratory studies, raising suspicion that vaccines might be less effective against it.

That virus variant has not been found in humans since November, according to the World Health Organization. But other variants have emerged in people in several countries, proving that the virus can become more contagious and in some cases can diminish the effectiveness of some vaccines.

Denmark ended up killing as many as 17 million mink — effectively wiping out its mink farming industry.

In the United States, thousands of mink have died, and one wild mink has tested positive for the virus.

Although many animals, including dogs, domestic cats, and big cats in zoos, have become infected by the virus through natural spread, and others have been infected in laboratory experiments, scientists say that widespread testing has yet to find the virus in any animal in the wild other than the one mink.

National Geographic first reported the vaccination of the apes at the San Diego Zoo.

Some gorillas in a troop at the San Diego Zoo tested positive for the coronavirus in January. Zoo officials have been using an experimental vaccine on other apes, like orangutans and bonobos.

The San Juan Daily Star LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

CONDADO 3 CFL, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

ORLANDO VARGAS MARZAN, EDNA AMPARO RIVERA VARGAS, A/K/A EDNA RIVERA VARGAS AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN

Defendants CIVIL NO. 16-2998 (JAG). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: ORLANDO VARGAS MARZAN, EDNA AMPARO RIVERA VARGAS, A/K/A EDNA RIVERA VARGAS AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN; JOHN DOE: AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $509,622.28 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $50,867.27, as of October 18, 2019, which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of $107.94 per diem, accrued late charges in the amount of $9,927.36, Force Place Insurance in the amount of $78.00, property preservation fees in the amount of $33.19 and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs and attorney’s fees in the amount of $53,500.00; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder to be held on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Special Master, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Lote dos (2). Solar radicado en el barrio San Anton del Municipio de Carolina, con una cabida superficial de dos mil doscientos uno punto cero dos (2,201.02) metros cuadrados, y en lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de Carmen Escobar, por el SUR, con terrenos del Club Yaucano; por el ESTE, con el lote número uno; y por el OESTE, con el

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lote número tres. Es el remanente de esta finca luego de deducidas las segregaciones practicadas. Consta inscrita al folio “229” del tomo “54” de Carolina, finca número “2,532”.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Seccion de II de Carolina. Physical address: Int. and West of PR-887 KM 1.5, San Anton Wd., Carolina, Puerto Rico 00979. The property is subject to the following Junior liens: 1. MORTGAGE: As a guarantee of a promissory note in favor of John Doe, for the sum of $300,000.00, responding this for $200,000.00, without interest and expires on presentation, according to deed # 120, granted in San Juan, on April 10, 2013, before the Notary José Rubén Vélez Marrero, inscribed on page 33 of volume 1509 of Carolina, property # 2, 532, inscription 20th. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 9th, 2021 at 10:15 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $535,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the April 16th, 2021 at 10:15 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $356,666.67, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:15 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $267,500.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. 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 Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 27th, 2021.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Spe- North, with Corazones Avenue, cial Master.. by the South and East, with remnant of the main parcel, and LEGAL NOTICE by the West, with the street that IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- give access to the Mayagüez TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- municipal cemetery. Contains a TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. commercial building. The property described above is recorSan José MRC LLC; ded at page 54 of volume 1,100 Plaintiff, v.

WESTERN BOWLING AND of Mayagüez, property number SPORTS CENTER, INC.; 33,335, Registry of Property, Section of Mayagüez. The ProTHE ESTATE OF MIGUEL perty is described in the SpaALBERTO PÉREZ COMAS nish language as follows: RÚSA/K/A MIGUEL A. PÉREZ TICA: Parcela radicada en el COMAS A/K/A MIGUEL Barrio Sábalos del término muPÉREZ COMAS FORMED nicipal de Mayagüez, con una cabida superficial de 5895.5935

BY MARILIZ PÉREZ, metros cuadrados, equivalenFABIOLA PÉREZ, AND tes a 1.5 cuerdas. Colinda al MIGUEL PÉREZ NORTE, con la Avenida corazoDefendants nes; al SUR y ESTE, con el reCivil No. 17-cv-1174 (JAG). manente de la finca principal; y COLLECTION OF MONIES al OESTE, con la calle que da AND FORECLOSURE OF acceso a Cementerio Municipal MORTGAGE AND PLEDGE. de Mayagüez. Contiene edificio NOTICE OF SALE. dedicado a comercio”. The proTO: DEFENDANTS AND perty described above is recorded at page 54 of volume 1,100 GENERAL PUBLIC Judgment was entered in favor of Mayagüez, property number of plaintiff, as of February 29, 33,335, Registry of Property, 2020, in the total amount of Section of Mayagüez. The pro$1,394,552.12, composed by perty is subject to the following the following: principal in the liens: BY ITS ORIGIN: By itself: amount of $838,401.99; inter- It’s bound by easements in faests in the amount of vor of the United States of Ame$176,677.55, which continue to rica and Puerto Rico Electric accrue until full payment of the Power Authority. BY ITSELF: debt at $93.16 per diem; ac- MORTGAGE in guarantee of crued late charges in the amou- payment in favor of Ponce Fent of $8,647.48; insurance pay- deral Bank F.S.B., or to its orments in the amount of der, in the principal amount of $16,838.10; other costs in the $1,000,000.00 with an annual amount of $3,987.00; and any interest rate of 1% over the Priother advance, charge, fee or me Rate, due on presentation, disbursements made by San as per Deed No. 719, executed José to Defendant under the on December 4, 1985, before Loan Agreement as well as un- Notary Public Wendell W. Coder the other loan documents, lon, recorded at page 57 of voplus agreed costs and lume 1100 of Mayaguez, 3rd attorney’s fees in the amount of inscription. MODIFICATION OF $300,000.00 under the Mortga- MORTGAGE of third inscription ge I, as modified, and for the amount of $854,304.32, $50,000.00 under the Mortgage as per Deed No. 26, executed II. Pursuant to the said judg- on February 6, 1987, before ment and/or the Order of Exe- Notary Public Wendell William cution of Judgment, the under- Colón, recorded at page 57 of signed appointed Special volume 1100 of Mayagüez at Master was ordered to sell, at the margin of the third inscrippublic auction for U.S. currency tion. MORTGAGE in guarantee in cash or certified check, of payment in favor of the Mawithout appraisement or right to yaguez Municipality, Puerto redemption, to the highest Rico, or to its order, in the prinbidder, at the office of the Clerk cipal amount of $403,000.0 with of the United States District an annual interest rate of 9%, Court for the District of Puerto due on presentation, as per Rico, Room 150 - Federal Buil- Deed No. 158, executed on Noding, Carlos Chardón Avenue, vember 6, 1985, before Notary Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at Public Frank M. Ramírez, recorany other place designated by ded at page 59 of volume 1100 said Clerk, to cover the sums of Mayaguez, 4th inscription. adjudged to be paid to the MODIFICATION OF MORTGAplaintiff, the following property: GE of third inscription, as per RUSTIC: Parcel located in Sá- Deed No. 123, executed on Debalos Ward of the municipality cember 17, 1997, before Notary of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, with Public José L. Landrón Ramery, a surface area of 5895.5935 recorded at mobile page 1402 square meters, equivalent to of Mayaguez, 4th inscription.

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19 payment in favor to the Bearer, or to its order, in the principal amount of $500,000.0 with an annual interest rate of 10%, due on presentation, as per Deed No. 73, executed on December 22, 1998, before Notary Public Luis F. Carlo Mendoza, recorded at mobile page 1402 of Mayagüez, 8th and last inscription.

Entry 661 of Book 748, on October 11, 2011, as per Deed No. 27 of the Modification of Mortgage, executed on September 9, 2011, before Public Notary Alberto Ramos Zorrilla, for which Western Bowling and Sport Center, Inc., and Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Bank Puerto Rico, modify the mortgage over this property in its 3rd inscription, furthermore modify as for an extension due June 1, 2022.

Entry 2017-016049-MY01, on February 13, 2017, Complaint filed on February 7, 2017, in the United States District Court, Puerto Rico District, case No. 17-1174, followed by Triangle Cayman Asset Company vs.

Western Bowling and Sports Center, Inc., Miguel Alberto Pérez Comas a/k/a Miguel A. Pérez Comas a/k/a Miguel Pérez Comas; for which the claim of the mortgage payment recorded on the 3rd inscription, with a balance of $1,215,509.55.

Entry 2017-069335-MY01, filed on June 20, 2017, Judgment of October 22, 2014 by the First Instance Court of Mayaguez, Civil case No. ISCl201300338, Mayagüez Municipal vs. Western Bowling and Sports Center, Collection of Money, claiming the amount of $37,777.73.

LIEN in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico against Western Bowling and Sport Center, Inc., Certification of December 10, Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales, for the amount of $193,700.04, filed on January 15, 2016, page 4, order #12, lien’s book # 40 of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, lien #0-72-91-5034.

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

minimum bid amount is as follows: The amount of $1,000,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, as amended, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, twothirds of the aforementioned total amount or $666,666.67, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $500,000.00.

Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 26th day of March, 2021, at 10:30 a.m., on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 5th day of April, 2021, at 10:30 a.m., on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 12th day of April, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19th day of February, 2021. Aguedo de la Torre, Appointed Special Master.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

FRANCISCO FONTÁNEZ ROJAS, SU ESPOSA, MORAIMA CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. TA2019CV00470.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 9 de agosto de 2019, notificada el 12 de agosto de 2019 y publicada el 15 de agosto de 2019 y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 3 de enero de 2020, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Toa Alta, procederá a vender en subasta, por separado, y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 7 de abril del año 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Toa Alta, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela I identificada con el #15 en el plano de inscripción aprobado en el Caso #9- 73-4 URB., radicado en el barrio Piñas del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 1,038.12 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 24.10 metros, con los solares 5 y 6 aprobados en este mismo caso. SUR, en 24 metros, con Calle A, dedicada a uso público. ESTE, en 42.13 metros, con el solar 14 y OESTE, en 44.38 metros, con solar aprobado en el caso 5-72-343-LS. FINCA: Número tres mil quinientos sesenta y tres (3563), inscrita al folio ciento uno (101) del tomo

ochenta y dos (82) del Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sección III, demarcación Toa Alta. Dirección física: Lot 15 Elena St. Ayala Sector Toa Alta PR 00953. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $117,993.00, con intereses al 5-1/2% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor Preferred Mortgage Corporation, que vence el 1ro de enero de 2034. Según escritura #171, otorgada en San Juan, el 31 de diciembre de 2003, ante Rosendo E. Miranda López, inscrita en virtud de la ley 216 del 2010 para agilizar el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, en el tomo Karibe de la Sección III de Bayamón, finca #3563 de Toa Alta, inscripción 12da, con fecha de 28 de septiembre de 2016. CANCELACION PARCIAL Y MODIFICACION DE HIPOTECA: Cancelada parcialmente la anterior hipoteca, en la suma de $1,540.48, para un nuevo principal de $116,452.52. El interés anual será al 4.625%, el pago mensual de principal e intereses será de $598.73, con pagos comenzando el 1ro de octubre de 2011 y vencerá el 1ro de septiembre de 2041; el término será de 30 años (360 pagos).

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta, en caso de ejecución, será por $116,452.52. Según escritura #670, otorgada en San Juan, el 17 de agosto de 2011, ante Néstor Machado Cortés, inscrita en el tomo Karibe de la Sección III de Bayamón, finca #3563 de Toa Alta, inscripción 15ta., con fecha de 28 de septiembre de 2016. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: HIPOTECA: Por $4,422.00, sin intereses, en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Departamento de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda de los Estados Unidos de América. Según escritura #142, otorgada en San Juan, el 7 de julio de 2006, ante Luis A. Arrufat Pimentel, inscrita en virtud de la ley 216 del 2010 para agilizar el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, en el tomo Karibe de la Sección III de Bayamón, finca #3563 de Toa Alta, inscripción 14ta., con fecha de 28 de septiembre de 2016. POSTERGACION DE HIPOTECA: Se posterga la hipoteca por $4,422.00 que grava esta finca, según su inscripción 14ma a favor de la modificación de la hipoteca de la inscripción 12ma, modificada posteriormente según su ins-

20 cripción 15ta. Según escritura #769, otorgada en San Juan, el 8 de septiembre de 2011, ante Nestor Machado Cortes, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección III de Bayamón, finca #3563 de Toa Alta, inscripción 14ma. con fecha de 14 de julio de 2020. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $105,786.55 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 4.625% anual, más “escrow” en atraso, más 4% de todo pago en atraso, más $11,799.30 como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Toa Alta, durante las horas laborables.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de CIENTO DIECISÉIS MIL CUATROCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y DOS DÓLARES CON CINCUENTA Y DOS CENTAVOS ($116,452.52) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una segunda subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 14 de abril del año 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de SETENTA Y SIETE MIL SEISCIENTOS TREINTA Y CINCO DÓLARES CON UN CENTAVO ($77,635.01) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará

una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 21 de abril del año 2021 a las 9:00 de la mañana, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CINCUENTA Y OCHO MIL DOSCIENTOS VEINTISÉIS DÓLARES CON VEINTISÉIS CENTAVOS ($58,226.26) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 11 de febrero de 2021, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. JUAN AVILES VALLINES, Alguacil Auxiliar, Placa 793.

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

LIME HOMES, LTD., Demandante vs.

JUAN BAUTISTA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C JUAN B. SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; NILSA IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: SI2018CV00065.

SOBRE: ACCIÓN IN REM DE EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Hector I Ruiz Martinez, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Juana Diaz, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de Juana Diaz con fecha 27 de marzo de 2020 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $42,005.26 de principal; dictada en el caso de autos el 21 de octubre de 2019 y notificada por correo ese mismo día, publicada el 28 de octubre de 2019 en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” y notificada por correo certificado el 29 de octubre de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Guayama, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Calle Betances 55, Santa Isabel, PR 00757, URBANA: Solar núme-

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ro (12) en el plano radicado en el municipio de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de CIENTO OCHENTA Y OCHO METROS NOVENTA Y TRES CENTIMETROS CUADRADOS (188.93 M/C). En colindancias por el NORTE, con la Autoridad de Hogares de Puerto Rico; por el SUR con la calle Doctor Betances; por el ESTE, con la Autoridad de Hogares de Puerto Rico y por el OESTE, con el solar número trece (13) del plano. En su inscripción segunda (2da.) se expresa que dicho solar colinda actualmente por el NORTE y ESTE con la C.R.U.V. de Puerto Rico y por el OESTE, con Efigenio Vega.

Esta propiedad por sí y por su procedencia se encuentra libre de cargas. La Propiedad consta inscrita al folio doscientos cinco (205) del tomo treinta y dos (32) de Santa Isabel, finca número ochocientos cuatro (804) en el registro de Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. 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 Juana Diaz, cuyas cantidades son las siguientes: $42,005.26 de principal; intereses al 13.13880%, desde el 8 de diciembre de 2016, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; recargos a razón del 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de los quince (15) días después de la fecha de vencimiento; más el 20% del principal del pagaré, equivalente a $10,917.99, para cubrir costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactado.

El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $54,589.99 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $36,393.32.

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; $27,294.99. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 14 de abril de 2021; a las 10:00 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 21 de abril de 2021; a las 10:00 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 28 de abril de 2021; a las 10:00 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Juana

Diaz. Del Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes posteriores que deban ser cancelados. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

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

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, a 9 de febrero de 2021. Hector I Ruiz Martinez, Alguacil Auxiliar #219.

RAICES SANCHEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN, JOSE ROSSY MILLAN, LETICIA ROSSY MILLAN

Defendants CIVIL NO. 17-1964 (ADC). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE, NOTICE OF SALE,

TO: INMOBILIARIA ROSSY ASENCIO, S.E., ALFONSO ROSSY MILLAN, HIS WIFE, AIMEE RAICES SANCHEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN, JOSE ROSSY MILLAN, LETICIA ROSSY MILLAN; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE; WESTERNBANK PUERTO RICO: CITIBANK, N.A.: AND TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of: LOAN XXXXX0024.

The sum of $2,086,035.15 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $688,198.07, which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the established rate, forced placed insurance in the amount of $608.00 and any other advance or disbursement made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the term notes and/or mortgage deeds, plus costs and $240,000.00 in attorney fees. LOAN XXXXX0025.

The sum of $82,854.20 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $23,128.19, which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the established rate and $16,000.00 in costs and attorney fees.

LOAN XXXXX0026. The sum of $21,780.22 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $6,188.28, which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the established rate and $5,000.00 in costs and attorney fees. Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to LEGAL NOTICE the highest bidder to be held on IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- the sidewalk in front of the main TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. PRCI LOAN CFL, LLC Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or any Plaintiff, vs.

INMOBILIARIA ROSSY other place designated by said Master, to cover the ASENCIO, S.E., ALFONSO Special sums adjudged to be paid to the ROSSY MILLAN, plaintiff, the following property:

HIS WIFE, AIMEE

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número nueve (9) situado en la Urbanización Julio N. Matos en el Barrio Martin González del término municipal de Carolina, el cual tiene una cabida de diez mil seiscientos noventa y dos metros cuadrados con ochocientos centímetros cuadrados. Colindando por su lado NORTE, en ciento veinticinco metros novecientos cuarenta y un milímetros con el solar siete de la misma urbanización; por el ESTE, en ochenta y cuatro metros cincuenta y dos centímetros con área dedicada a calle publica que la separa en su mayor parte en dirección Sur del solar cinco; por el SUR, en ciento veintisiete metros noventa milímetros con el solar diez de la misma urbanización; y por el OESTE, en ochenta y cuatro metros cincuenta y tres con la Urbanización Jardines de Carolina, propiedad de Modern Home Construction, Inc., antes, Rosendo Vila. Consta inscrita al folio 36 del tomo 649 de Carolina, finca número 26,063.

Registro de la Propiedad, Sección II de Carolina. Physical address: Lot No. 14 Julio N. Matos Industrial Park, Carolina PR 00985. The property is subject to the following Junior liens: MORTGAGE: Constituted in favor of Note Holder, in the original principal amount of $540,000.00, with 15% annual interests, due on presentation, constituted by deed #297, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on December 26, 2000, before Notary Public Carlos M. Franco, recorded at page of mobile volume 1316 of Carolina, property #26, 063, 12th inscription.

MORTGAGE: Constituted in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico, in the original principal amount of $185,000.00, with 9.99% annual interests, (does not express expiration date), constituted by deed #1448, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on December 23, 2003, before Notary Public Adrian J. Hilera Torres and the Deed #525 “Act of Remediation”, issued in Mayaguez, on June 14, 2004, before the same notary, recorded at page 16 of volume the 1355 of Carolina, property recorded #26,063, at 14th page inscription. The parties of renounce to the prescriptive terms of 20 years in the mortgage constituted by this deed that establishes Art. 145 of the Mortgage Law and they prolong o amplify to 35 years beyond the date of presentation. MODIFICATION: The $540,000. 00 mortgage in the 12th inscription has been modified in the following manner: starting from the issue date of the deed, the annual interest rate will be 9. 999%, indicating that in case of payment default

in the principal or interest of the obligation, the amounts due will yield default interest by reason of the resultant by adding two percentage points to the type of interest agreed upon on the note and the expiration, according to that determined in Art. 145 of the Mortgage Law. This mortgage Lien is extended to 35 years from the issue date of this current deed which is #1447, executed in San Juan, on December 23, 2003 before Notary Public Adrian J. Hilera Torres, recorded on page 16 of volume 1355 in Carolina, property #26, 063, 16th inscription. MORTGAGE: Constituted in favor of Note Holder, in the original principal amount of $160,000. 00, with interest over the outstanding balance of 7.50% from this date and during the following 24 months, and during consecutive periods of the following 36 months, by a fixed rate resulting in adding 1% to the prime rate, as established from time to time by Citibank, N.A. in the City of New York, in force on the commencement of each consecutive period of 36 months, up to the total and complete payment, indicating that in case of payment default in the principal or interest of the obligation, the amounts due will yield default interest by reason of the resultant by adding two percentage points to the type of interest agreed upon on the note and the expiration. Authenticated of affidavit #2724. Guaranteed credits: Three additional sums equivalent to 10% of the original note of the principal are guaranteed to cover cost, expenses and lawyer fees in case of judicial foreclosure, to cover other anticipated expense that may incur under this mortgage and for interest in addition to those guaranteed by law, and due on presentation, as noted in deed #161, executed in Carolina, on March 13, 2006 before Notary Public Juan Carlos Ortega Torres, recorded on page 205 of volume 1357 in Carolina , property #26,063, 17th inscription.

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

applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the April 23rd, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $1,675,000.00. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the April 30th, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $1,116,666.67, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the May 7th, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $837,500.00, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. 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 Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 3rd , 2021.

AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Special Master.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

JESÚS GABRIEL SUÁREZ ORTÍZ T/C/C JOSE GABRIEL SUAREZ ORTIZ

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: AI2019CV00129.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 6 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO, SALA

The San Juan Daily Star SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: LOT 41 (25) CALLE PALESTINA COMUNIDAD SAN LUIS BARRIO LLANOS, AIBONITO, PR 00705 (25 CALLE PALESTINA BDA. SAN LUIS, AIBONITO, PR 00705) y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 41 en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural San Luis del Barrio Llanos del término municipal de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de .1961 de cuerda, equivalentes a 770.83 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Carretera Estatal número 724; por el SUR, con la Parcela número 35 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la Parcela número 40-A; y por el OESTE, con la Parcela número 42 de la comunidad.

Enclava una casa. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 90 del Tomo 111 de Aibonito, finca número 5,173, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $79,419.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $52,946.00.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 20 DE ABRIL DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $39,709.50.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 111 otorgada en Cayey, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de noviembre de 2010, ante el Notario Roberto Soto Tapia, y consta inscrita al folio 50 del tomo 265 de Aibonito, finca número 5,173, inscripción Octava (8va). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $69,573.64 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de

la obligación; cargos por demora en la suma de $318.47; y $7941.90, por concepto de costas y honorarios. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan a continuación. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $3,400.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 11 de julio de 2014, constituida mediante la escritura número 139, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de julio de 2008, ante el notario Magaly Rodríguez Batista, e inscrita al folio 21 vuelto del tomo 272 de Aibonito, finca número 5,173, inscripción 7ma.

Sujeto a Condiciones de venta bajo el Programa La Llave Para Tu Hogar, por un término de 6 años. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de febrero de 2021. JOSE O. MELENDEZ RODRIGUEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR.

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

MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Parte Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESION DE LUIS ANTONIO CASTRO FEBO COMPUESTA POR BENIGNO CASTRO FEBO, Y POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Administración Para el sustento de menores y Centro de Recaudacion de Ingresos Municipales

Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM. SJ2019CV10709.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $125,574.48, de balance principal, los intereses vencidos sobre el principal computados al 5.75% anual desde el día primero de abril de 2017 hasta su total pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad por

concepto de cargos por demora desde el primero de mayo de 2016, hasta su total pago; más la suma de $13,200.00 garantizada de la hipoteca para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del acreedor demandante, más cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquier concepto legal se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de esta sentencia hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero dos (2) del bloque EV del plano de inscripción de la segunda extensión de la Urbanización Country Club, situado en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Rio Piedras, con una cabida superficial de trescientos punto quince metros cuadrados (300.15). Colinda por el Norte, en trece punto cero cinco metros (13.05) con la calle numero cincuenta y cinco (55), por el Sur, en trece punto cero cinco metros (13.05) con el solar numero cuarenta y cinco (45), por el Este, en veintitres metros (23.00) con el solar numero tres (3), y por el Oeste, en veintitres metros (23.00) con el solar numero uno (1). Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado para vivienda. Sobre la superficie del techo de la vivienda existente antes mencionada, se ha identificado una segunda planta de concreto y bloques para una familia, segun consta de la inscripción décimonovena (19).

Inscrita al folio sesenta (60) del tomo ciento sesenta y nueve (169) de Sabana Llana, finca numero siete mil quinientos cuarenta y siete (7,547), Registro de San Juan quinta (5ta).

Dirección física: Urbanización Country Club, 1016 Calle Alejo Cruzado, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00924. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 30 de marzo de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $132,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 7 de abril de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $88,000.00.

Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 14 de abril de 2021, a las 10:30 de la mañana y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $66,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certifi-

cado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del

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Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en San Juan, Puerto Rico a 23 de febrero de 2021.

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

inscripción de la urbanización del licitador. Que se entenderá

LEGAL NOTICE

la calle denominado Street No. ponsabilidad de los mismos,

Reparto Universitario, radicado por todo licitador acepte como

en el barrio Sabana Llana de suficiente la titulación y que los

Ríos Piedras, con un área su- cargos y gravámenes anterioperficial de trescientos ochenta res y los preferentes al crédiy ocho (388) metros cuadrados to del ejecutante continuarán

con treinta y siete (37) centíme- subsistentes en entendiéndose

tros cuadrados y colinda por el que el rematador los acepta y

Norte, en diecisiete metros, con queda subrogado en la res-

2; por el Sur, en igual medida ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- con el solar ciento treinta y dos NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA (132); por el Este, en veintitrés (23) metros, con la calle denoSALA DE SAN JUAN. minada Caloca Street y por el FIRSTBANK

sin destinarse su extinción al

precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que

tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes

PUERTO RICO

Oeste, en igual medida, con hipotecados con posterioridad

ROBERTO LOPEZ PABON y su esposa DAISY RIVERA SOTO, por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos

Inscrita al folio ciento dieciséis ejecutante, o de los acreedores

Parte Demandante Vs.

Parte Demandada

el solar noventa y siete (97). a la inscripción del crédito del

(116) del tomo ciento seis (106) de cargas o derechos reales de Sabana Llana, finca número que los hubiesen pospuesto a

cuatro mil cuatrocientos noven- la hipoteca ejecutada y las perta y nueve (4499).

Registro sonas interesadas en, o con de-

de la Propiedad de San Juan, recho a exigir el cumplimiento

Sección V. Dirección fisica: 328 de instrumentos negociables Citadel Rept Universitario, San garantizados hipotecariamente

Juan, PR 00926. La primera con posterioridad al crédito NUM. KCD2017-0229. subasta se llevará a cabo el día ejecutado, siempre que surSOBRE: EJECUCION DE 30 de MARZO de 2021, a las gen de la certificación registral, HIPOTECA POR LA VIA OR- 10:00 de la mañana, y servirá para que puedan concurrir a CIVIL

DINARIA IN-REM. ANUNCIO de tipo mínimo para la misma la la subasta si les convenga o DE SUBASTA, El suscribiente, suma de $156,892.49 sin admi- satisfacer antes del remate el Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera tirse oferta inferior. En el caso importe del crédito, de sus inInstancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de que el inmueble a ser subas- tereses, costas y honorarios de San Juan, a los demanda- tado no fuera adjudicado en la de abogados asegurados, quedos de epígrafe y al público en primera subasta, se celebrará dando entonces subrogados general hace saber que los au- una segunda subasta el día 7 en los derechos del acreedor tos y documentos del caso de de ABRIL de 2021, a las 10:00 ejecutante. La propiedad a ser epígrafe estarán de manifiesto de la mañana y el precio míni- ejecutada se adquirirá libre de

en la Secretaría del Tribunal mo para esta segunda subasta cargas y gravámenes posteriodurante horas laborables y que será el de dos terceras partes res. Y para conocimiento de venderá en pública subasta del precio mínimo establecido licitadores, del público en geneal mejor postor, en moneda para la primera subasta, o a ral y para su publicación en un de curso legal de los Estados sea la suma de $104,594.99. periódico de circulación general Unidos de América en efectivo, Si tampoco hubiera remate ni diaria en Puerto Rico y en los cheque certificado, o giro pos- adjudicación en la segunda su- sitios públicos de acuerdo a las

tal a nombre del Alguacil del basta, se celebrará una tercera disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 Tribunal de Primera Instancia, subasta el día 14 de ABRIL de de las de Procedimiento Civil, en mi oficina en este Tribunal 2021, a las 10:00 de la maña- así como para la publicación

el derecho que tenga la parte na, y el tipo mínimo para esta en un periódico de circulación demandada en el inmueble tercera subasta será la mitad general diaria y en el Estado que se relaciona más adelante del precio establecido para la Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico,

para pagar la SENTENCIA por primera subasta, o sea, la suma por espacio de dos semanas $145,490.34, de balance prin- de $78,446.24. El mejor postor con antelación a la fecha de la cipal, los intereses vencidos deberá pagar el importe de su primera subasta y por lo mesobre el principal computados oferta en efecto, cheque certifi- nos una vez por semana. Los al 5.750% anual desde el día cado o giro postal a nombre del autos y todos los documentos primero de junio de 2017, hasta Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se de- correspondientes al procedi-

su total pago; más el 5% com- clarase desierta la tercera su- miento indicado estarán de putado sobre cada mensuali- basta, se dará por terminado el manifiesto en la Secretaría del dad de $908.87 por concepto procedimiento, pudiendo adju- Tribunal durante las horas lade cargos por demora desde dicarse el inmueble al acreedor borables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley

el primero de julio de 2017, a hipotecario dentro de los diez núm. 210-2015). Expedido el razón de $45.44 mensuales días siguientes a la fecha de presente en San Juan, Puerto hasta su total pago; más la la última subasta, si así lo es- Rico a 23 de febrero de 2021. suma de $15,649.25 garantiza- timase conveniente, por la tota- PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ,

da de la hipoteca para costas, lidad de la cantidad adeudada ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE gastos y honorarios de aboga- conforme a la sentencia, si ésta PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA do del acreedor demandante, fuera igual o menor que el mon- DE SAN JUAN. más cualesquiera otras sumas to del tipo de la tercera subasta que por cualesquier concepto y abonándose dicho monto a

LEGAL NOTICE

basta. La propiedad a venderse queda sujeta al gravamen del en pública subasta se describe Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM

TRIANGLE CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY 2,

venta y seis (96) en el bloque y que el pago de dichas contriB guion seis (B-6) del plano de buciones es la responsabilidad

LUIS MANUEL MORALES SEDA, HIS WIFE SYLVIA ENID CABRERA ROMÁN,

legal se devenguen hasta el la cantidad adeudada si ésta IN THE UNITED STATES DIStotal y completo pago de esta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cual- TRICT COURT FOR THE DISsentencia hasta el día de la su- quier licitador que la propiedad TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

como sigue: URBANA: Solar sobre la propiedad inmueble marcado con el numero no- por contribuciones adeudadas

Plaintiff, v.

22 AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM,

Defendants.

Case No. 16-cv-3074 (JAG).

RE: BREACH OF CONTRACT, COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND PLEDGE. NOTICE OF SALES.

TO: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC

On October 11, 2019, the Court entered Judgment in favor of plaintiff, Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 (“Triangle”) and against defendants, Luis Manuel Morales Seda, his wife Sylvia Enid Cabrera Román, and their Conjugal Partnership (“Defendants”). As of August 31, 2017, the Defendants owe Triangle under the loan documents the principal amount of $2,076,432.20; interests in the amount of $180,553.51 which continue to accrue until full payment of the debt at $302.81 per diem; late charges in the amount of $8,800.00 and any other advances, charges, fees, or disbursements made by Triangle, on behalf of the Defendants, in accordance with the loan documents, plus costs and agreed attorney’s fees in the amount of $201,500.00. Pursuant to the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the Plaintiff, the following properties: Property I: RUSTIC: Located in Islote Ward in Arecibo, with a surface area of 9.833 “cuerdas”, equivalent to 3 hectareas, 86 areas and 48 centiareas of land dedicated to pastures and minor fruits, bounded by the North and West, with property of Carlos Domínguez, by the South and East, with Estate of Basilio Reyes. The property described above is recorded at page 67 of volume 42 of Arecibo, property number 2,138 of the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, First Section of Arecibo. Property I is described in the Spanish language as follows: RÚSTICA: Radicada en el Barrio Islote de Arecibo, tiene una cabida de 9.833 cuerdas, equivalentes a tres hectáreas, ochenta y seis áreas y cuarenta y ocho centiáreas de terreno dedicadas a pastos y frutos menores, en lindes por el NORTE

y OESTE, con tierras de Carlos Domínguez; por el SUR y el ESTE, con la Sucesión de Basilio Reyes. La propiedad antes descrita consta inscrita al folio 67 del volumen 42 de Arecibo, finca número 2,138 del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo.

Property I is subject to the following liens: Free of charge due to its origin. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $964,600.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to Westernbank Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banco Popular de Puerto Rico and thereafter endorsed to Triangle in the principal amount of $964,600.00 with an annual interest of 8% and due on presentation, as per Deed #365, executed on June 8, 2007, before Notary Public Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, recorded at page 41 of volume 1209 of Arecibo, 23rd inscription.

MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE of the 23rd inscription mortgage, as per Deed #182, executed on December 19, 2008, before Notary Public Genevieve López Stipes, recorded at Karibe of Arecibo, 25th inscription. COMPLAINT ANNOTATION regarding the Mortgage in the principal amount of $964,000.00 of the 23rd inscription, plaintiff Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 and defendants Luis Manuel Morales Seda, his wife Sylvia Enid Cabrera Román, and the Conjugal Partnership between them, regarding Breach of Contract, Collection of Monies and Execution of Mortgage, Case No. 16-3074 before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, recorded at Karibe of Arecibo, Annotation C, dated June 1, 2017. This complaint annotation was previously registered at entry 2016-124556-SJ02, dated December 9, 2016. LIEN (embargo) in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico against Luis M. Morales Seda in the amount of $2,525.22 for income tax, as per certification of August 15, 2017, registered on August 25, 2017, Lien #ARE17-3782. LIEN (embargo) in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico against Luis M. Morales Seda in the amount of $3,695.13 for income tax, as per certification of March 23, 2018, registered on April 19, 2018, Lien #ARE-17-3782. FEDERAL LIEN (embargo) against Luis M. Morales Seda, filed and registered on May 8, 2009, at page 5 of volume 4, entry 3 of federal liens book in the amount of $9,179.94. Property II: RUSTIC: Located in Islote Ward in Arecibo, with a surface area of 86,337.7160 square meters, bounded by the North, with public way from Arecibo to Barce-

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loneta; by the South, with Estate of Antonio Roses and United States; by the Outgoing, with United States and Estate of Carlos Domínguez, Juan Morales and Estate of Basilio Reyes; by the West, with Estate of Borrás, Antonio Roses, Crispina Maldonado, Marcelino Figueroa and Estate of Carlos Domínguez. This is a remnant of this land. The property described above is recorded at page 225 of volume 70 of Arecibo, property number 2,637 of the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, First Section of Arecibo. Property II is described in the Spanish language as follows: RÚSTICA: Radicada en el Barrio Islote de Arecibo, tiene una cabida de 86,337.7160 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con camino público de Arecibo a Barceloneta; por el SUR, con Sucesión de Antonio Roses y Estados Unidos; por el SALIENTE, con Estados Unidos y Sucesión de Carlos Domínguez, José Morales y Sucesión de Basilio Reyes; por el OESTE, con Sucesión Borras, Antonio Roses, Crispina Maldonado, Marcelino Figueroa y Sucesión de Carlos Domínguez. La anterior descripción corresponde al remanente de esta finca. La propiedad antes descrita consta inscrita al folio 225 del volumen 70 de Arecibo, finca número 2,637 del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo.

The property is subject to the following liens: Free of charge due to its origin. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $906,400.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to Westernbank Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Banco Popular de Puerto Rico and thereafter endorsed to Triangle in the principal amount of $906,400.00 with an annual interest of 8% and due on presentation, as per Deed #366 executed on June 8, 2007 before Notary Public Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, recorded at page 46 of volume 1209 of Arecibo, 31st inscription.

MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE of the 31st inscription mortgage, as per Deed #179 executed on December 19, 2008 before Notary Public Genevieve López Stipes, recorded at Karibe of Arecibo, 33rd inscription. COMPLAINT ANNOTATION regarding the Mortgage in the principal amount of $906,400.00 of 31st inscription, plaintiff Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 and defendants Luis Manuel Morales Seda, his wife Sylvia Enid Cabrera Román, and the Conjugal Partnership between them, regarding Breach of Contract, Collection of Monies and Execution of Mortgage, Case No. 16-3074 before the United States District

Court for the District of Puerto Rico, recorded at Karibe of Arecibo, Annotation D, dated June 1, 2017. This complaint annotation was previously registered at entry 2016-124556-SJ02, dated December 9, 2016. LIEN (embargo) in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico against Luis M. Morales Seda in the amount of $2,525.22 for income tax, as per certification of August 15, 2017, registered on August 25, 2017, Lien #ARE17-3782. LIEN (embargo) in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico against Luis M. Morales Seda in the amount of $3,695.13 for income tax, as per certification of March 23, 2018, registered on April 19, 2018, Lien #ARE-18-3782. FEDERAL LIEN (embargo) against Luis M. Morales Seda, filed and registered on May 8, 2009, at page 5 of volume 4, entry 3 of federal liens book in the amount of $9,179.94. Property III: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Commercial Lot, of substantially rectangular shape, situated in the number 13 of the commercial first floor of the Darlington Building in the Muñoz Rivera Avenue in Río Piedras, San Juan, with a private area of 1,190 square feet, equivalent to 110.60 square meters, with lineal measures greater than 18’ and 33” in its width and 64’ 83” in its length. Bounded by the North, with wall that separates this commercial lot from commercial lot number 14; by the South, with wall that separates this commercial lot from commercial lot number 12; by the East, with exterior wall of the building that bounds with properties of Carmen Luisa Freites, Estate of Amoros and others; and by the West, with exterior wall of the building that bounds with Muñoz Rivera Avenue. The principal entrance door communicates directly and immediately with the access that leads and has exit to the public way, hence, the Muñoz Rivera Avenue. The percentage that corresponds in relation to the common elements is 1.2472%. The property described above is recorded at page 208 of volume 771 of Río Piedras North, property number 22,408 of the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Second Section of San Juan. Property III is described in the Spanish language as follows: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Local comercial de forma sustancialmente rectangular que radica en el #13 de la primera planta comercial del Edificio Condominio Darlington en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera de Río Piedras, San Juan, con un área privada de 1,190.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 110.60 metros cuadrados, siendo sus medidas lineales mayores de

dieciocho pies con treinta y tres centésimas de pie en su ancho por sesenta y cuatro pies con ochenta tres centésimas de pie en su largo. Colinda por el NORTE, con la pared que separa este local comercial del local comercial #14; por el SUR, con la pared que separa este local comercial del local comercial #12; por el ESTE, con la pared exterior del edificio que da a la colindancia con propiedades de Carmen Luisa Freites, Sucesión Amoros y otros; y por el OESTE, con la pared exterior del edificio que da a la colindancia con la Avenida Muñoz Rivera. Su puerta principal de entrada comunica directa e inmediatamente con los accesos que conducen y tiene salida a la vía pública, o sea, a la Avenida Muñoz Rivera. El porcentaje que le corresponde en relación con los elementos comunes es de 1.2472%. The property described above is recorded at page 208 of volume 771 of Río Piedras North, property number 22,408 of the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Second Section of San Juan. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Easement of Sewerage in favor of couple Clar Bossó. By itself: MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $98,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to The Bank & Trust of Puerto Rico, or to its order, subsequently endorsed to Westernbank Puerto Rico, thereafter endorsed to Banco Popular de Puerto Rico and thereafter endorsed to Triangle in the principal amount of $98,000.00 with an annual interest of 9.25% and due on presentation, as per Deed #89 executed on March 12, 1999 before Notary Public Luis M. Nolla Vilá, recorded at page 194 of volume 923 of Río Piedras, 17th inscription.

MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $32,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to R-G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, or its order, subsequently endorsed to Westernbank Puerto Rico, thereafter endorsed to Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, and thereafter endorsed to Triangle in the principal amount of $32,000.00 with an annual interest of 6.75% and due on presentation, as per Deed #12 executed on January 21, 2003 before Notary Public Joisette Marie Rosa Rodríguez, recorded at mobile page 1441 of Río Piedras, 18th inscription.

Pursuant to Deed #12 of first mortgage pari-passu, the mortgages at 17th and 18th inscriptions are equalized in ranking, both constituting first rank mortgages. MORTGAGE in the principal amount of $14,000.00, in guarantee of a mortgage note payable to Westernbank Puerto Rico, subsequently endorsed to

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, and thereafter endorsed to Triangle in the principal amount of $14,000.00 with an annual interest of 8% and due on presentation, as per Deed #368 executed on June 8, 2007 before Notary Public Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, recorded at page 82 of volume 1564 of Río Piedras, 19th inscription. MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE of the 17th inscription mortgage, as per Deed #363 executed on June 8, 2008 before Notary Public Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, and as per Rectification Act executed on July 23, 2008 before Notary Public Gary E. Biaggi Silva, recorded at page 82 of volume 1565 of Río Piedras, 20th inscription. MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE of the 18th inscription mortgage, as per Deed #364 executed on June 8, 2007 before Notary Public Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, and as per Rectification Act executed on July 23, 2008 before Notary Public Gary E. Biaggi Silva, recorded at page 82 of volume 1565 of Río Piedras, 21st inscription. MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE of the 18th inscription mortgage, as per Deed #178 executed on December 9, 2008 before Notary Public Genevieve López Stipes, and as per Notarial Act executed on January 9, 2009 before Notary Public Genevieve López Stipes, recorded at page 83 of volume 1565 of Río Piedras, 22nd inscription. MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE of the 17th inscription mortgage, as per Deed #180 executed on December 19, 2008 before Notary Public Genevieve López Stipes, and as per Notarial Act executed on January 9, 2009 before Notary Public Genevieve López Stipes, recorded at page 84 of volume 1565 of Río Piedras, 23rd inscription. MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE of the 19th inscription mortgage, as per Deed #181 executed on December 19, 2008 before Notary Public Genevieve López Stipes, and as per Notarial Act executed on January 9, 2009 before Notary Public Genevieve López Stipes, recorded at page 84 of volume 1565 of Río Piedras, 24th inscription. COMPLAINT ANNOTATION in favor of plaintiff Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2, versus defendants Luis Manuel Morales Seda, his wife Sylvia Enid Cabrera Román, and the Conjugal Partnership between them, regarding Breach of Contract, Collection of Monies and Execution of Mortgage, Case No. 16-3074 before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, recorded at Karibe of Arecibo, Annotation A, dated June 1, 2017. This complaint annotation was previously registered at entry

2016-124556-SJ02, dated December 9, 2016. LIEN (embargo) in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico against Luis M. Morales Seda in the amount of $2,525.22 for income tax, as per certification of August 15, 2017, registered on August 25, 2017, Lien #ARE17-3782. LIEN (embargo) in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico against Luis M. Morales Seda in the amount of $3,695.13 for income tax, as per certification of March 23, 2018, registered on April 19, 2018, Lien #ARE-18-3782. FEDERAL LIEN (embargo) against Luis M. Morales Seda, filed and registered on May 8, 2009, at page 5 of volume 4, entry 3 of federal liens book in the amount of $9,179.94. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The liens executed are over the properties, and for the purpose of the first judicial sales the minimum bid amount is as follows: a) Property I - The amount of $964,600.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $643,066.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $482,300.00. b) Property II The amount of $906,400.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $604,266.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $453,200.00. c) Property III The amount of $130,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deeds in pari-passu at 17th inscription ($98,000.00) and 18th inscription ($32,000.00), shall serve as the minimum bidding amount

for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $86,666.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $65,000.00.

Said sales to be conducted by the appointed Special Master are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the properties may be executed and delivered after the judicial sales.

Upon confirmation of the sales, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master –pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, on the 26th day of March, 2021, at 10:15 a.m. for Property I; at 10:20 a.m. for Property II; and at 10:25 a.m. for Property III, on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico– will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the properties described herein, the proceeds of said sales to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on the 5th day of April, 2021, at 10:15 a.m. for Property I; at 10:20 a.m. for Property II; and at 10:25 a.m. for Property III, on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico located at the address indicated above. Should the second judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on the 12th day of April, 2021, at 10:15 a.m. for Property I; at 10:20 a.m. for Property II; and at 10:25 a.m. for Property III, on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico located at the address indicated above. The records of the captioned case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Clerk’s Office of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 Federal Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San

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LEGAL NOTICE Area of the Apartment: 839.94 UNITED STATES DISTRICT square feet equivalent to 78.06 COURT DISTRICT OF PUER- square meters. Its boundaries TO RICO. are: by the NORTH, at a distanBAUTISTA REO PR CORP. ce of 18 feet equivalent to 5.49 meters with exterior wall that Plaintiff v. separates it from a general OROS VERDES, INC. common area composed of the Defendant CIVIL NO. 16-2836 (CCC). north or back patio; by the COLLECTION OF MONIES, SOUTH, at a distance of 18 feet MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE. equivalent to 5.49 meters with exterior wall that separates it NOTICE OF SALE. general common area TO: DEFENDANT AND from composed of the south or front GENERAL PUBLIC patio; by the WEST, at a distanOn February 16, 2018, this ce of 48 feet and 2 feet, totaling Court issued Opinion and Or- 50 feet equivalent to 14.63 meder, and on the same date, Jud- ters, 0.61 meters and 15.24 megment was entered in favor of ters with Apartment 502 and Bautista. To date, Defendant exterior wall that separates it has not satisfied the Judgment. from general common area Consequently, there is an outs- composed of the southern or tanding balance as of June 22, front patio; and by the EAST, in 2017, Defendant owes Plaintiff four distances of 18 feet 9 inthe sum of $141,171.54, which ches, 12 feet 3 inches, 17 feet consists of $107,935.07 in prin- and 2 feet totaling 50 feet equicipal; interests in the amount of valent to 5.72 meters, 3.73 me$14,483.81, which continues to ters, 5.18 meters, 0.61 meters accrue until full payment of the respectively with Apartment 202 debt at the rate of $19.49 per and exterior wall that separate it diem; accrued late charges in from general common area the amount of $3,3,471.16, va- (front or southern patio); And by luations and property inspec- the EAST in four distances of tions valued at $1,001.50, and 18 feet 9 inches, 12 feet 3 inany other advance, charge, fee ches, 17 feet and 2 feet totaling or disbursements made by Bau- 50 feet equivalent to 5.72 metista, on behalf of Defendant, in ters, 3.73 meters, 5.18 meters, accordance with the Loan Agre- 0.61 meters and 15.24 meters ement as well as under the with Apartment 204, stairway B, other loan documents, plus Apartment 204, and exterior costs and agreed attorneys’ wall that separates it from genefees in the amount of ral common area composed of $14,280.00. Pursuant to the the front or southern patio said judgment and/or the Order (SIC). This Apartment is comof Execution of Judgment, the posed of kitchen, living room, undersigned appointed Special open balcony, two bedrooms Master was ordered to sell, at each one with a closet. The public auction for U.S. currency master room has a private bath; in cash or certified check, linen closet and a common without appraisement or right to bathroom. Parking: To this redemption, to the highest Apartment belongs parking bidder, at the office of the Clerk #203 according to the inscripof the United States District tion plans. This Apartment has Court for the District of Puerto a 10% participation in the comRico, Room 150 - Federal Buil- mon elements of the building.” ding, Carlos Chardón Avenue, The property described above Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at is recorded at page 196 of voluany other place designated by me 271 of Luquillo, property said Clerk, to cover the sums number 12,874, Registry of adjudged to be paid to the Property, Section of Fajardo. plaintiff, the following property: The Property is described in the URBAN: HORIZONTAL PRO- Spanish language as follows: PERTY: Apartment number 203 URBANA: Propiedad Horizonof the Playa Fortuna Condomi- tal; Apartamento número 203 nium, located in the Mameyes del Condominio Playa Fortuna, ward of the municipality of Lu- situada en el Barrio Mameyes quillo, Puerto Rico. This del término municipal de LuquiApartment is built out of reinfor- llo, Puerto Rico. Este apartaced concrete and concrete mento está construido en horblocks and is composed of one migón armado y bloques de level. Its access door gives it hormigón. Consta de un solo access to the B stairway loca- nivel. Su puerta de entrada da ted in the EAST side of the buil- acceso a la escalera B, ubicada ding being continuous to the en el lado Este del edificio y la WEST and EAST terraces loca- misma es continua hasta las ted in the ground level which terrazas Oeste y Este, ubicadas border a communal sidewalk a nivel terrero, las cuales a su which grants access to the par- vez colindan con una acera coking area which borders public Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19th day of February, 2021. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Appointed Special Master.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 munal que da acceso al área de estacionamiento y este a su vez colinda con la calle pública número 1 que da acceso al solar donde se construyó el edificio.

Las escaleras, las terrazas, la acera y el estacionamiento son elementos comunes. Área; este apartamento tiene un área total de 839.94 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 78.06 metros cuadrados. Linderos; por el NORTE, en distancia de 18 pies, equivalentes 5.49 metros con pare exterior que lo separa del aérea común general constituida por el patio Norte o posterior; por el SUR, en una distancia de 18 pies, equivalentes a 5.49 metros, pare exterior que lo separa del aérea común general constituida por el patio Sur o delantero; por el OESTE, en 2 alineaciones, 48 pies y 2 pies que suman 50 pies, equivalentes a 14.63 metros, 0.61 metros y 15.24 metros respectivamente, colindando con apartamento 202 y con pared exterior que lo separa del área común general constituida por el patio SUR o delantero; por el ESTE, en 4 alineaciones, 18 pies 9 pulgadas, 12 pies 3 pulgadas, 17 pies y 2 pies que suman 50 pies, equivalentes respectivamente a 5.72 metros, 3.73 metros, 5.18 metros, 0.61 metros respectivamente colindando con apartamento 202 y con pared exterior que lo separa del área común general constituida por el patio SUR o delantero; por el ESTE, en 4 alineaciones, 18 pies 9, pulgadas, 12 pies 3 pulgadas, 17 pies y 2 pies que suman 50 pies, equivalentes respectivamente a 5.72 metros, 3.73 metros, 5.18 metros, 0.61 metros y 15.24 metros colindando cada alineación respectivamente, con apartamento 204, escalera B, apartamento 204 y pared exterior que lo separa del área común general constituida por el patio SUR o delantero (SIC).

Este apartamento consta de cocina, sala, comedor, balcón abierto, 2 dormitorios, cada uno con closet, el dormitorio principal cuenta con baño privado. “linen closet” (percha para ropa de cama), y un baño común.

Estacionamiento: A este apartamento le corresponde el estacionamiento #203, según marcado en los planos.

Participación: A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de 10%, en los elementos comunes del edificio.”

The property is subject to the following liens: BY ITS ORIGIN: Free and clear. BY ITSELF: MORTGAGE guaranteeing a note payable to the order of Doral Bank in the principal amount of $142,800.00 with an annual interest rate of 6.50% and due on February 1, 2032, as per deed number 69, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Ja-

nuary 31, 2002, before Notary Public Kristina Vivoni Girod, recorded at page 196 of volume 271 of Luquillo, 3rd inscription.

LIS PENDENS: Filed on October 17, 2016 to the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Civil Case #162836, about Collection of Monies and Foreclosure of Mortgage; plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company, defendant: Oros Verdes, Inc., amount owed $134,657.94; recorded on January 26, 2017 to the Karibe Volume, annotation A. (2016-104666-FA01). Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: The amount of $142,800.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $95,200.00 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $71,400.00.

Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 26th day of March, 2021, at 10:35 a.m., on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the

first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 5th day of April, 2021, at 10:35 a.m., on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 12th day of April, 2021, at 10:35 a.m. on the sidewalk in front of the main gate entrance of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 23th day of February, 2021. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, Appointed Special Master. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

HÉCTOR LUIS BANCHS PIERETTI, AMELIA VICTORIA VIÑAS OVALLES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

BANCO COMERCIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ POR CONDUCTO DE SU SUCESOR EN DERECHO, ORIENTAL BANK, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. FA2021CV00130.

SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El pagaré extraviado

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fue suscrito El 18 de mayo de 1989, Héctor Luis Banchs Pieretti y su esposa Amelia Victoria Viñas Ovalles, constituyeron hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Comercial de Mayagüez, o a su orden, por la suma de $68,000.00, intereses al 11 3/8% anual y vencimiento al 1ro de junio de 2019, según consta de la Escritura núm. 112 autorizada por el notario Víctor M. Domenech Picó, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Apartment #306.

Residential apartment located in the second level of building #3 of Project Yunque Mar, Mameyes Ward, State Road #968 kilometer 1.8, Municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. The apartment is irregular in shape with a total construction area of 1,119.97 square feet, equivalent to 104.09 square meters.

Their boundary areas follows: by the NORTH, with a total distance of 45’ 0” with communal patio; by the SOUTH, with a total distance of 45’ 0” with apartment #204 and main entrance; by the EAST, with a total distance of 26’ 9” with communal patio and by the WEST, with a total distance of 26’ 9” with communal patio and main entrance. The apartment includes one bedroom, one family room, kitchen, laundry area, one and half bathrooms, and a balcony area and living dining area. The kitchen is equipped with water heater and sink. The main entrance of the apartment face to the West which gives access to the exterior. The participation of this apartment in the common elements is 0.01180%.

Al descrito apartamento le corresponde como parte integrante del mismo el estacionamiento marcado con el #306.

La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 112 del tomo 351 de Río Grande, Finca 21754. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción primera.

La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico: oficinabelma-

alonso@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 febrero de 2021, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUI REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE Vs

CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Y OTROS

DEMANDADO Civil Núm.: CA2019CV04407.

SALA: 403 . Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL(LA) SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de mayo de 2020 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 dias 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 1 de marzo de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 1 de marzo de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria Regional. F/LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, Secretaria Auxiliar.

FUND SOCIETY, FSB, not in its individual capacity, but solely as trustee of RMF BUYOUT ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-1.

DEMANDANTE VS.

Sucesión de Domingo Negrón Negrón t/c/c Carlos Domingo Negrón Negrón compuesta por Maria Judith Negrón Marrero, Carmen Milagros Negrón Marrero, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles miembros de nombres desconocidos; Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales y a los Estados Unidos de América

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CD2016-0568.

SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: SUCESIÓN DE DOMINGO NEGRÓN NEGRÓN T/C/C CARLOS DOMINGO NEGRÓN NEGRÓN COMPUESTA POR MARIA JUDITH NEGRÓN MARRERO, CARMEN MILAGROS NEGRÓN MARRERO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Yo, Miguel Burgos Ortiz, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Toa Alta, 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 7 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 am en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Toa Alta, Toa Alta, 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, LEGAL NOTICE la cual se notificó y archivó en ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO autos el día 21 de mayo de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- 2019. Los autos y todos los doNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán SALA DE TOA ALTA. WILMINGTON SAVINGS de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que

24 en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 14 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 am; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 21 de abril de 2021, a las 9:30 am en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Toa Alta, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 29 de agosto de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: Lot 7 SR 164 KM 12.2 A Ortiz Sector Palmarejo, Corozal PR 00783, y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela número siete (7), parcela de terreno localizada en el barrio Palmarejo de Corozal, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de dos mil trescientos doce punto ocho mil treinta y dos (2,312.8032) metros cuadrados equivalentes a cero punto cinco mil ochocientos ochenta y cuatro (0.5884) cuerdas; en lindes por el NORESTE, con la Sucesión Luis Mediavilla (hijo) en treinta y cuatro punto trescientos setenta y cuatro (34.374) metros; por el SUROESTE, en tres distancias, la primera de veinticuatro punto cero treinta y nueve (24.039) metros, con camino a dedicarse a uso público, la segunda de forma indentada en diez punto cero cero (10.00) metros con área de viraje del camino para dedicarse a uso público y la tercera en quince punto cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve (15.469) metros, con la parcela número ocho (8); por el SURESTE, en sesenta y seis punto quinientos veintinueve (66.529) metros, con la parcela número seis (6); por el NOROESTE, en distancias en forma de curvas con la faja de protección del Rio Mavilla en setenta y cinco punto ciento sesenta y nueve (75.169) metros y con área de viraje del camino a dedicarse a uso público en cinco punto cero cero (5.00) metros. Finca número 12,133, inscrita al folio 203 del volumen 232 de Corozal. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. 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: $61,521.50, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados al

20 de mayo de 2016, y los cuáles continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.810% anual hasta su completo pago; más la cantidad de $10,200.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 26, otorgada el día 10 de marzo de 2010, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Carlos Domingo Negron Negron y consta inscrita al folio 171 del tomo 314 de Corozal, Puerto Rico, finca número 12,133, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $102,000.00 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 $68,000.00; 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 $51,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedo-

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res de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la

venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 25 de febrero de 2021. MIGUEL BURGOS ORTIZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE TOA ALTA.

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

Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC. DEMANDANTE VS.

Sucesión de Daisy J. Anadón Ramírez t/c/c Daisy Anadón viuda de Vasallo t/c/c Daisy Juanita Anadón Ramírez t/c/c Daisy Anadón compuesta por Víctor Anadón, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos, Centro de Recaudaciones Municipales; y a los Estados Unidos de América.

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: JCD2017-0449.

SALA: 406. SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: SUCESIÓN DE DAISY J. ANADÓN RAMÍREZ T/C/C DAISY ANADÓN VIUDA DE VASALLO T/C/C DAISY JUANITA ANADÓN RAMÍREZ T/C/C DAISY ANADÓN COMPUESTA POR VÍCTOR ANADÓN, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, 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 14 de abril de 2021, a las 1:45

de la tarde, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 3 marzo de 2020.

Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 21 de abril de 2021, a las 1:45 de la tarde; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 28 de abril de 2021, a las 1:45 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 15 de junio de 2020, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: 2745 (2nd) EL Monte Street, El Monte Development, Ponce, PR 00976, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Cerrillo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de Mil Quinientos Sesenta y Dos punto Nueve mil setecientos setenta y siete (1562.9777) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en treinta punto cincuenta y seis (30.56) metros, con parte de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el Sur, en dos alineaciones irregulares de diecisiete punto cincuenta y nueve (17.59) metros y dieciséis punto cincuenta (16.50) metros, con la Calle de la Urbanización El Monte; por el Este, en cincuenta punto catorce (50.14) metros, con el lote A de la Urbanización; y por el Oeste, en cuarenta y seis punto cincuenta y siete (46.57) metros, con el lote C de la Urbanización el Monte. Enclava una edificación de dos plantas. Finca número 35,266, inscrita al folio 72 del tomo 1578 de Ponce. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ponce. 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: $390,958.70, incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 30 de junio de 2017, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.79% por ciento anual, hasta su completo pago; más la cantidad de $41,700.00, 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 135, otorgada el día 13 de febrero de 2009, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Raul Rivera Burgos y consta inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 2031 de Ponce Norte, Puerto Rico, finca número 35266, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I de Ponce. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $417,000.00 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 $278,000.00; 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 $208,500.00. 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. 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 de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $625,500.00, con intereses al 3.79% anual, vencedero el día 17 de mayo de 2088, constituida mediante la escritura número 136, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de febrero de 2009, ante el notario Raúl Rivera Burgos, e inscrita al folio 1 vuelto del tomo 2031 de Ponce, finca número 35,266, inscripción 15ª.

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 rom-

per 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 04 de febrero de 2021.

MIGUEL A TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE.

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Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. DEMANDANTE VS.

Mercedes Quiñones Quiñones, t/c/c Mercedes Ortiz, t/c/c Mercedes Quiñones por sí y como miembro de la Sucesión de Augusto Elias Ortiz Brito; Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de la Sucesión de Augusto Elias Ortiz Brito, Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales y a los Estados Unidos de América.

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: PO2019CV03752, SALA: SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: MERCEDES QUIÑONES QUIÑONES, T/C/C MERCEDES ORTIZ, T/C/C MERCEDES QUIÑONES POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE AUGUSTO ELIAS ORTIZ BRITO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE AUGUSTO ELIAS ORTIZ

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BRITO, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. Yo, Manuel Maldonado, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, 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 14 de abril de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, 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 10 de noviembre de 2020, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 17 de noviembre de 2020. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 21 de abril de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 28 de abril de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado.

Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 19 de enero de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: Km 9.6 SR-132 Barrio Cotto Quebrada Peñuelas, PR 00624, y que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Solar que radica frente a una Carretera Municipal en el Barrio Coto del Municipio de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de setecientos setenta y tres punto treinta y tres (773.33) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto mil novecientos sesenta y ocho (0.1968) cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintisiete punto veintiocho (27.28) metros, con la Carretera que conduce del Barrio Coto a Peñuelas; por el SUR, ESTE y

OESTE, en veintisiete punto cero uno (27.01) metros y veintiocho punto sesenta y dos (28.62) metros y veintiocho punto sesenta y cinco (28.65) metros, respectivamente, con terrenos de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Enclava una casa de dos plantas.” Finca número 3,684 inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 255 de Peñuelas. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce.

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: $210,083.27, por concepto de balance de principal, más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.250% por ciento anual hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $25,500.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 22, otorgada el día 10 de diciembre de 2010, Ponce, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Luis A. Colón Ortiz y consta inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 255 de Peñuelas, finca número 3684, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II de Ponce. 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 $255,000.00, con intereses al 5.25% anual, vencedero el día 26 de febrero

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 de 2086 constituida mediante la escritura número 23, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de diciembre de 2010, ante el notario Luis A. Colón Ortiz, e inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 255 de Peñuelas, finca 3684 inscripción 9na. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $255,000.00 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 $170,000.00; 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 $127,500.00. 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 senten-

cia 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 19 de febrero de 2021. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

IVÁN SANTIAGO NIEVES, SU ESPOSA WANDA IVETTE CARABALLO MARTÍNEZ, T/C/C WANDA CARABALLO MARTÍNEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: FECI2015-00295.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO/ ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina,

a la parte 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 19 de julio de 2018 y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 3 de mayo de 2016, notificada el 27 de octubre de 2016, procederá a vender el día 7 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, 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: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Las Gloria del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 6,008.3487 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 1.5287 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, en dos alineaciones que suman 102.1988 metros, con terrenos de Dan F. Rodríguez antes, hoy Narciso Díaz Castro; por el SUR, en dos alineaciones que suman 90.9028 metros, con terrenos de la Sucesión Alemán; por el ESTE, en 77.4382 metros, con terrenos de Manuel Rodríguez O’Farrill, Blas Sandoval y con servidumbre de paso y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones que suman 59.3276 metros, con el lote número #1 del plano de inscripción aprobado. Es el Remanente de esta finca luego de haberse practicado unas segregaciones hechas al margen de la inscripción 3ra, al folio 290 del tomo 365, por la escritura número 2, otorgada en San Juan, el día 11 de febrero de 1993, ante el notario José A. Montañez Oquendo. Inscrito al folio 258 del tomo 365 de Trujillo Alto, finca número #20,792 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. La propiedad hipotecada ubica en: Carr. 851, Km 1.5, La Gloria Ward, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico 00976. Que 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 Superior de Carolina. La subasta se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE ABRIL DE 2021 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. La venta de la propiedad será realizada para cubrir el importe adeudado a la demandante, el cual al momento de la Sentencia ascendía a la suma de $57,431.10 adeudada según la Sentencia, más los otros gastos, intereses y recargos que se acumulan hasta la fecha de su total y completo pago. Se le advierte a los licitadores que

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la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, 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 termino 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 y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. 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. Y para conocimiento de la parte 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 4 de marzo de 2021. SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.

RAMOS FERRER Y SUCESION DE ROSA ROSARIO ROSADO compuesta por FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL como herederos descnocidos

SUCESION DE WILLIAM CARABALLO ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR WILLIAM YADIEL CARABALLO DEMANDADO MONTAÑEZ, WANDA LIZ Civil Núm.: AG2019CV01151. CARABALLO MONTAÑEZ Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO REPRESENTADA POR Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA SU MADRE CON PATRIA (VIA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICAPOTESTAD WANDA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR MONTAÑEZ CORIANO, EDICTO. MENGANO DE TAL, A: SUCESION DE EFRAÍN POSIBLE HEREDERO RAMOS FERRER Y DESCONOCIDO SUCESIÓN DE ROSA WANDA MONTAÑEZ ROSARIO ROSADO CORIANO POR SI Y compuesta por FULANO EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE USUFRUCTUARIA TAL como herederos DEMANDADO desconocidos Civil Núm.: CG2019CV02277.

DIRECCION FISICA: Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, CAMASEYES WD 3-A EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA LOT SR 459 KM 2.1 INT POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOAGUADILLA, PR 00603; TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA DIRECCION POSTAL: POR EDICTO. A: WILLIAM YACIEL HC 5 BOX 57548 CARABALLO AGUADILLA, PR 00603 MONTAÑEZ, WANDA LIZ P/C LIC ADELA SURILLO GUTIERREZ CARABALLO MONTAÑEZ REPRESENTADA POR PO BOX 192963 SAN JUAN, PR 00919-2963 SU MADRE CON PATRIA (Nombre de las partes a las que se les POTESTAD WANDA notifica la sentencia por edicto) MONTAÑEZ CORIANO, EL(LA) SECRETARIO(A) que MENGANO DE TAL, suscribe le notifica a usted que POSIBLE HEREDERO el 12 de marzo de 2021 este DESCONOCIDO, Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial en este WANDA MONTAÑEZ caso, que ha sido debidamente CORIANO POR SI Y registrada y archivada en autos EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL donde podrá usted enterarse USUFRUCTURARIA detalladamente de los términos

de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 dias 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 3 de marzo de 2021. En AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, el 3 de marzo de 2021. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretaria Regional. ZUJEILY LEGAL NOTICE GONZALEZ AVILES, SecretaEstado Libre Asociado de Puer- ria Auxiliar. to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL LEGAL NOT ICE DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior Estado Libre Asociado de Puerde AGUADILLA. to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL BANCO POPULAR DE DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior PUERTO RICO de CAGUAS. DEMANDANTE Vs

SUCESION DE EFRAIN

PUERTO RICO

DEMANDANTE Vs

BANCO POPULAR DE

EL(LA) SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 3 de marzo de 2021 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 dias 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 4 de marzo de 2021. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 4 de marzo de 2021.

CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Secretario (a} Regional. f/ GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, Secretario (a) Auxiliar.

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The San Juan Daily Star

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Two players out of NBA All-Star Game because of virus protocols

By MARC STEIN

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he NBA All-Star Game was rocked just hours before tipoff Sunday when the league announced it would sideline Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons of the Philadelphia 76ers after they had contact with an individual who was confirmed to have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Numerous top players in recent weeks had questioned playing the exhibition at all during a pandemic, and some eight hours before the game’s scheduled 8 p.m. start, Embiid and Simmons were ruled out — with the league also saying their removals would have no effect on other All-Stars or 76ers coach Doc Rivers and his staff.

Their participation would not be affected, the league said, because those people “were not exposed to the individual in Philadelphia” before traveling to Atlanta. The Sixers’ staff earned the right to coach the team captained by the Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant because Philadelphia held the East’s best record at the All-Star break.

The news broke as numerous players were conducting video conference interview sessions from their hotel rooms.

Bradley Beal of the Washington Wizards, Paul George of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Nets’ James Harden were among those who responded by again questioning the wisdom of staging an All-Star Game amid a pandemic, as LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers and other stars had last month.

“I don’t want to say we didn’t have a choice, but it’s in our CBA, and our CBA says there has to be an All-Star Game every year,” Beal said of the league’s collective bargaining agreement. He added that “there’s still guys” with reservations, and he counted himself among that group.

George said he “personally didn’t agree with the game.” Harden described Sunday’s events, which were to include a 3-point contest and a skills competition before the game and a dunk contest at halftime, as “forced.” James, who is captain of one of the teams, called the situation “very unfortunate” and said “it’s all something that we thought could possibly happen.”

Joel Embiid, left, had been named to his fourth All-Star Game. Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans was set to replace him in the starting lineup.

The NBA flew the All-Star participants to Atlanta on private planes from their cities and required them to stay inside the league’s official hotel Saturday night — preferably in their rooms — after checking in by 7 p.m. Players were permitted to bring up to four guests, but it was not immediately known how many guests accompanied Embiid or Simmons.

The players traveled on separate planes and without other 76ers personnel, according to two people briefed on the situation who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Before arriving in Atlanta, Embiid and Simmons were exposed to a barber in Philadelphia who has since tested positive for the coronavirus. The Athletic first reported their exposure, which was confirmed by the two people. Having both registered negative coronavirus tests Sunday, Embiid and Simmons returned to Philadelphia on separate private planes before the All-Star Game began, the people said.

The first scheduled team meetings to bring players from the two All-Star teams together were not until Sunday at State Farm Arena. Both teams were scheduled to meet with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Michele Roberts, the executive

director of the National Basketball Players Association, within three hours of the opening tip. The schedule called for AllStar participants to leave Atlanta via private transportation immediately after the game.

Embiid, a prime Most Valuable Player Award candidate this season, had been selected to his fourth All-Star team and was to start at center for Durant’s team. Simmons, making his third All-Star team after being voted into the game as a reserve, was selected by James. Rivers chose Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans to start in Embiid’s place, but the league did not pursue replacements for either player with only hours remaining before the opening tip, opting for 11-man All-Star rosters instead of the usual 12.

Led by Milwaukee forward Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 35 points on 16-of-16 shooting, a new All-Star record for most attempts without a miss, Team LeBron rolled to a 170-150 victory. James sat out the entire second half and settled for just 4 points in 13 minutes. Portland’s Damian Lillard scored 32 points for James’ squad, including a shot from midcourt on the game’s final play, and Golden State’s Stephen Curry added 28 points after winning the 3-point contest for the second time.

In the dunk contest at halftime, Portland’s Anfernee Simons won narrowly over the New York Knicks’ Obi Toppin, while Indiana’s Domantas Sabonis defeated Orlando’s Nikola Vucevic in the skills competition final before the game.

The 2020-21 regular season started Dec. 22 after last season, delayed four months by the coronavirus pandemic, went all the way into October and required three months on a restricted-access campus at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, to complete.

In November, the league postponed its traditional All-Star Weekend, giving Indianapolis hosting rights in 2024 instead of this year. But the NBA never ruled out the prospect of resuscitating a game for 2021.

The league then hatched the idea to hold several All-Star events on one day, closed to the public apart from 1,500 invitationonly guests, and staged in Atlanta so Turner Sports could broadcast it all in its backyard.

Silver said in a news conference Saturday that “economic interests” were a factor in going ahead with a scaled-down version of All-Star festivities, but he also said that tremendous global fan interest had motivated the league just as much. League officials have said that a specific projection for revenue generated Sunday could not be immediately pinpointed, but various industry estimates have forecast Turner to make more than $20 million in advertising and sponsorship revenue through Sunday’s broadcast.

The league, having worked closely on the plans with Roberts and Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul, the president of the players’ union, also dedicated its All-Star festivities to promoting awareness of historically Black colleges and universities, pledging to donate at least $3 million to those institutions as well as communities of color affected by the pandemic.

“It’s my job to look out for the overall interest of the league,” Silver said Saturday.

“As I said earlier, I haven’t made it a secret out of the fact that economic interests are a factor. I’ll add, though, when I say ‘economic interests are a factor,’ it’s less to do with the economics of one Sunday night on TNT in the United States. It has more to do with the larger brand value of the NBA.” “We feel we’ve struck the appropriate balance here, looking out for the interests of everyone involved,” Silver said.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

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With reminders to ‘play boldly,’ DeChambeau wins Arnold Palmer Invitational

By BILL PENNINGTON

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fter sinking a testing 5-foot par putt on the 18th hole to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill, Florida on Sunday evening, Bryson DeChambeau said he had received a text message from Tiger Woods that morning.

“We just talked about keep fighting no matter what,” DeChambeau said, “and play boldly like Mr. Palmer said.

My heart has been heavy with Tiger and what’s going on with him. And I kept telling myself it’s not how many times you get kicked down but how many times you get back up and keep going.”

Wearing a red cardigan, a signature Palmer garment that is presented to the tournament champion, DeChambeau said the sweater was a tribute to Palmer, who died in 2016, and to Woods, who has won the Palmer Invitational eight times. Woods is recuperating in California from leg injuries suffered in a serious car crash on Feb. 23.

“Just knowing what place he’s in right now,” DeChambeau said of Woods, adding that he told him, “You’re going to get through this.”

The final round Sunday featured a duel between DeChambeau and Lee Westwood, who must have been feeling a displaced sense of déjà vu.

Westwood, 47, was once the young, barrel-chested strongman whose forearms propelled soaring iron shots into the sky. Westwood’s power game turned heads, and led to scores of tournament victories, a world No. 1 ranking and 10 Ryder Cup appearances.

But on Sunday, Westwood played the role of the aging challenger to a beefed-up modern version of his former self in DeChambeau, 27. They had a stirring clash until the final hole, but ultimately, Westwood did not turn back the clock as DeChambeau, whose consistency is underrated, steadily held off Westwood for a one-stroke victory.

Westwood has admired DeChambeau’s prodigious length off the tee, which became a sensational story line of the 2020 golf season. “It’s great to watch,” he said. “I like it. He can overpower a golf course.”

Bryson DeChambeau putting on the red cardigan awarded to the winner of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The sweater had been a signature Palmer garment.

DeChambeau trailed Westwood by one stroke entering the final round at Bay Hill Golf Course, and promptly fell back another stroke with a bogey on the first hole. But three holes later he had tied Westwood, and by the pivotal, par-5 sixth hole, which had been a stage for DeChambeau to showcase his unmatched power throughout the weekend, he seemed to seize the momentum with a memorable birdie in what had become a two-man competition for the tournament title.

As he had done in Saturday’s third round, DeChambeau took a radically aggressive line off the sixth tee by taking the most direct approach over a lake that required a 340-yard carry to keep the ball dry. DeChambeau’s tee shot sailed a little right but it still cleared the water and, with help from the wind, traveled 377 yards that left him just 88 yards away from the pin.

The next closest tee shot to the green

on the sixth hole Sunday was more than 200 yards away.

After his misstep on the first hole, DeChambeau made 15 pars and two birdies for a round of one-under-par 71, putting together an impressive exhibition of concentration and good course management on a day when the wind was gusting up to 25 mph and vexing most of the field.

DeChambeau also made critical, reasonably long par-saving putts on the second, third and 11th holes. On the fourth hole, he sank a 37-foot birdie putt. Afterward, DeChambeau said he does not believe he gets enough credit for his putting ability because his booming drives overshadow it.

“It’s a very underrated aspect of my game,” DeChambeau said.

Corey Conners, who began the day tied with DeChambeau, finished third.

Jordan Spieth had another strong tournament, one of a series of improved

performances for him this year, but finished Sunday’s round with a 75 to fall into a tie for fourth place.

The victory was DeChambeau’s eighth on the PGA Tour and the first for him this year, which will signal to the rest of his rivals that his breakthrough season of a year ago was far from a fluke. DeChambeau had 10 finishes in the top 10 at tournaments last year, including a victory at the U.S. Open, his first major championship.

But he said the victory at the Palmer Invitational was particularly emotional for him because Palmer had mailed him a congratulatory letter one week before he died. DeChambeau has framed the letter and hung it on a wall in his home office.

“I don’t even want to say what winning at Mr. Palmer’s event is going to mean to me,” DeChambeau said Sunday evening. “It’s going to make me cry.”

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Manchester United slows city’s march, but only for a day

By RORY SMITH

M

anchester United will recognize this feeling, the evanescent satisfaction of a battle won far too late in the day to have any hope of turning the tide of the war, the curious and complex pride that comes from celebrating a victory that highlights only how far you have fallen.

It is only three years, after all, since United experienced pretty much the same thing, in pretty much the same place, if not quite in the same circumstances. Manchester City was supposed to claim the Premier League title that afternoon — the first of Pep Guardiola’s reign — at home against its rival, neighbor and longtime persecutor in the spring of 2018.

The Etihad Stadium was packed and boisterous, relishing the prospect of the perfect scenario for clinching the championship, with United invited to play the part first of sacrificial victim, and then unwilling observer. What better way, after all, could there be to illustrate the power shift in Manchester, in England, and in Europe, than for City to win the league as United was forced to watch?

United, that day, proved recalcitrant guests. Guardiola’s team raced into a twogoal lead, and then hesitated, a brief flash of the old City, the one practiced in the art of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, bubbling up to infect the new. United took advantage, surged back and won.

It was clear and obvious at the time that this was a mere postponement of City’s celebrations — even José Mourinho, the United manager, congratulated Guardiola on his looming title win after the game — rather than a threatened cancellation. All concerned knew that City would be proclaimed champion, with ease, sooner rather than later. But for United, victory was a tonic, a solace, a shot across the bow, something to hold onto in the long night of the blue moon.

Sunday was not quite a carbon copy.

The details were a little different, for a start.

It is much earlier in the season, for one, and City remains some way from having the championship mathematically sealed.

The Etihad did not need to be silenced: Like every other stadium across Europe, it has been quiet for a year now, the noise and emotion of the fans an increasingly distant and sorrowful memory.

The Etihad Stadium was packed and boisterous, relishing the prospect of the perfect scenario for clinching the championship, with United invited to play the part first of sacrificial victim, and then unwilling observer.

The effect, though, was much the same. United won a penalty inside 38 seconds, Bruno Fernandes converted it within two minutes, and then Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team set about holding City at arm’s length. Early in the second half, Luke Shaw doubled United’s lead. Anthony Martial might have made it three, but the damage was done. For the day, at least.

The extent of the damage will not, in all likelihood, extend beyond that. The 21-game winning run that preceded this result, City’s first defeat since November, makes the Premier League title a foregone conclusion. Guardiola’s team still holds an 11-point lead at the top of the table, with 10 games to play.

This loss would need to presage a collapse that is all but unimaginable to prevent Guardiola’s claiming a third championship in four years. United can, once again, claim parochial primacy, but it is not enough to change the map of English soccer’s broader landscape.

A few days earlier, United had been flat and uninspired — and a little fortunate — to take a goalless draw at Crystal Palace.

Solskjaer’s players had only won twice in the Premier League since January, their stut-

tering form masked by the stuttering form of, well, everyone else, and in particular the apparently bottomless incompetence of Liverpool. This is not likely to be a corner turned. For United, victory in the derby was a welcome outcome, but nothing more, not really.

But that does not mean this was a game devoid of significance. For City, certainly, it would be worth pausing to reflect not only on the fact of defeat, but the nature of it. Its loss in this fixture in 2018 was sandwiched by two losses to Liverpool in the Champions League, one comprehensive, one narrow and unfortunate, but both enough to end the club’s hopes of winning its first European crown.

With the league title all but in hand now, that is where Guardiola’s focus will shift in the coming weeks. There are two domestic cups to be won, too, but it is that Champions League trophy that Guardiola — and much of City’s hierarchy — craves more than any other, that trophy which they believe will complete the club’s transformation into true European aristocracy.

It has been hard, over the past couple of months, to see who might realistically stop City. Real Madrid and Barcelona are

shadows of what they once were. Atlético Madrid is tiring, fast. Reigning champion Bayern Munich has developed a curious habit of giving almost all of its opponents a two-goal head start. Paris St.-Germain is undermined by inconsistency. No club has been quite so imperious this season as City; it is hardly bold to claim that this is, currently, and defeat notwithstanding, the best team in Europe.

All of those teams, then, will have welcomed United’s victory as proof that City is not invincible. They will have seen glimpses that, for all the resources that Guardiola has access to and for all that he has managed them expertly through this compact, condensed campaign, City’s players are not immune to fatigue. Kevin de Bruyne, in particular, seemed unable to influence this game as he would have wished.

Rivals will have taken heart from the first 20 minutes or so, when City repeatedly played its way into trouble, unable to find its rhythm, or to piece together United’s plan. And, most of all, they will have noted how Solskjaer — an underrated tactician in games of this ilk — neutralized João Cancelo, the fullback who becomes a midfield playmaker and, in doing so, makes this iteration of City tick.

Solskjaer’s antidote was a simple but nerveless one. He instructed Marcus Rashford to play high and wide on United’s left, forcing Cancelo into a choice: either come into midfield and leave space to exploit, or stay in his lane, and defang his own team’s attack. He chose both, and neither: It was no surprise that both of United’s goals originated on his side.

Cancelo has been one of City’s great strengths this season. His role has been the innovation that has re-energized Guardiola’s system. On Sunday at the Etihad, Solskjaer turned him into what City has seemed to lack for weeks and for months: a weakness. It will make not the slightest difference to the destiny of the Premier League title race, of course. Most teams will lack the personnel or the inclination to be able to repeat the trick.

But for those sides across Europe who stand in the way of Manchester City and a clean sweep of all four trophies, it will be something more than a solace, more than a tonic.

For Guardiola, and for City, it is a reminder and a warning, that so high are their sights that one battle lost can cost the entire war.

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

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

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

An idea, suggestion or virtual chat could boost your mood, and spending time with amusing companions or a romantic partner, leave you very buoyant. Even so, a developing Venus Neptune link hints that you might be a tad impulsive around spending, if you see something in a magazine or online that appeals. Ready to break the ice? This may be the perfect time.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Having three planets in your sector of leisure and pleasure, means it’s time to explore your options and consider how to make the most of them. With positive influences at your service, you might enjoy arty or crafty pastimes. But an indulgent Venus Neptune link, could also see you relishing a little self-care that may not be productive, but will give you that feelgood factor.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Taurus

A feeling of empowerment could see you pushing ahead with a bold plan. With Mars dancing through Gemini, you’ll also find you have the courage to tackle any challenging financial goals. A sense of fun and a determination to enjoy yourself, may generate a bright mood that you’ll love to share. Eager to make new connections? This is a good time to do so.

(April 21-May 21)

There’s plenty of activity on the home front, which may include expansion, renovation or a change in the family dynamic. While all of this could add to your sense of satisfaction, you might benefit from some peace and quiet too. Considering a virtual gettogether? If you have ideas or plans to discuss or you just want to connect for fun, then much can be accomplished Scorpio.

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

A positive blend of energies can help restore your faith in the future, and encourage you to broaden your horizons too. You may be very excited by the opportunities that study and travel could bring. Need to understand something in more depth? Solving riddles and picking up on subtle cues might be necessary to get to the heart of a matter that may have perplexed you.

You may feel motivated to pool resources and ideas to achieve a goal or collaborate on a project, that would otherwise be out of reach. By trusting your instincts on this, you might find it a lot easier to make wise decisions. A side of you could prefer to go it alone, but other cosmic influences suggest that teaming up with others can bring you the best chance of success, Cancer.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

The right kind of advice, along with the chance for a cosy chat, can certainly buoy up your spirits today, so spend time with those who have your best interests at heart. In addition, be ready to grab hold of a golden and potentially lucrative opportunity, that could come via a friend or even someone you knew in the past. Ready for sweet romance? It might be on the cards, Archer.

Financial considerations might turn your attention to your income and outgoings. With key planets involved, you may be actively looking for new ways to earn extra cash. Take stock of your skills, as one of them could hold the key to additional income. An indulgent aspect involving Venus and dreamy Neptune, can see you eager for a treat, and why not Capricorn?

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

The people around you seem confident and optimistic, perhaps giving you a reason to feel upbeat yourself. You may find their enthusiasm rubs off on you, making the day cheerier and brighter too. But in general, the coming days can see you benefiting in all kinds of ways from other people’s kindness. Someone who adores you might want to treat you, so let them Leo.

An enthusiastic mood, can inspire you to get moving on ideas that engage your best creative skills.

If there’s something you’ve been meaning to have a go at, then seize the moment. Your luck may be in, as there is a chance of a small windfall, receiving a gift or perhaps the offer of a meal or a fun outing.

Something delightful might occur that leaves you upbeat.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Someone may be keen to help you take advantage of a special opportunity. It might be a way of repaying you for a kindness you have done for them.

Accept this offer if it suits you, as it could open new doors for you over the long-term. Keen to develop a talent? If you feel passionate about making the most of it Virgo, then go for it and enjoy the challenge.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

With an intense Moon/Pluto tie in your social zone, the cosmic message seems to be that getting involved with others and moving in new circles, is the way ahead. If old fears are holding you back, the focus on a spiritual zone can be a call to process through them and let them go. The help of a friend or a life coach, could assist you in making good progress with this.

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