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ouse Treasury Committee Chairman Rafael
“Tatito” Hernández anticipated Friday that at
some point this week lawmakers will be reintroducing tax reform legislation.
The initiative, he said, will include all of the drafted proposals, some of which stop the implementation
of the value-added tax (IVA by its Spanish acronym)
before April 1.
“The House speaker [Jaime Perelló] has given us
an order in the committee that is very clear, to avoid
at all costs the increase of any tax or any contribution
in Puerto Rico,” Hernández said in a radio interview
with WUNO.
He added that “all 3.5 million inhabitants of the
island agree that no more taxes should be imposed.”
Hernández explained that there will be a reform,
but it won’t include any taxes.
He noted that lawmakers are shuﬄing a reform
that enables a balance between contributions on income and a consumption tax, as well as increasing by
1.5 percent the tax imposed on foreign companies, as
well as a 10 percent tax.
“We are not defending any of them. We are simply going to make way for it in the legislative process,”
Hernández said.
However, he said that it
is nearly impossible to carry
out a reform in less than one
month of legislative work,
making it necessary to extend the period past April 1
to June.
“Extending the time
for the analysis until May 30
gives us practically 90 days of
work in both the upper and
lower chambers to be able to
culminate the legislative processes,” he said.
During his final State of
the Commonwealth message
last week, Gov. Alejandro
García Padilla revived the
proposal to eliminate income
taxes.
According to news reports, eliminating income
taxes could come hand in hand with the governor’s
original proposal of a 14.5 percent IVA. Hernández
said last week that he would revisit the tax reform.
“I am motivated to dust oﬀ the tax reform proposal and file it just for the record …,” Hernández said
in radio interview with Radio Isla. “I think I am becoming motivated, more so every day.”
He said he hasn’t recently heard about concrete
tax reform proposals that will help the island’s economy now, moreover when the implementation of the
IVA is about to go into eﬀect on April 1.
“Everybody has realized how ill-fated it has been
raising the consumption tax without balancing it with
the income tax,” he said. “That hurts the economy, the
working class, and the people in general.”
The tax reform bill was defeated in April 2015
with opposing votes from the New Progressive Party
(NPP) delegation and a group of Popular Democratic
Party (PDP) lawmakers known as dissidents (Luis
Raúl Torres, Luis Vega Ramos, Manuel Natal, Luisa
Gándara, Ángel Matos and the late Carlos Vargas).
The bill aimed to change the tax rates and deductions
and even sought to transform the structure of processing and administration at the Treasury Department.
As the legislation will be introduced once again
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this week, Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza will analyze the proposal made by
politicians and economists to delay putting into eﬀect the increase in the IVA on
business-to-business (B2B) transactions
from 4.5 percent to 11.5 percent, which has
been scheduled for April 1.
Last week, the governor did not provide details about the proposal that will
be presented to the Legislative Assembly
to complete the Tax Code changes that he
proposed last year.
He limited himself to repeating what
he indicated in his message, that his proposal is to “eliminate the principal tax.”
In another interview with Radio Isla,
La Fortaleza Chief of Staﬀ Grace Santana
said the García Padilla administration
would support an IVA of 14.5 percent.
Zaragoza also told Radio Isla that the
new development will influence whether
or not the Treasury postpones changes to
the IVA on B2B transactions -- as demanded by many sectors, including members of
the governing party.
The law approved last year to amend
the Internal Tax Code permits the Treasury
Department to postpone the IVA for 60 days.
“We are in the process, we are preparing to put the IVA into eﬀect in April.
We are going to be ready,” Zaragoza said.
“But all of this, the increase of the B2B, the
IVA, is what we are going to put on the
table now.”
SJ Mayor Notes Shared ‘Public Policy Vision’ with Bernier
By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
[email protected]
S
an Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín
Cruz said late last week that she
and Popular Democratic Party
(PDP) gubernatorial candidate David
Bernier concur on many things, as has
been shown in the past few weeks,
while noting that the work that is done
for the people “does not depend on a
political structure, but on a public policy vision.”
Cruz said she “always responds to
the people and to her conscience,” thus
dismissing the need to get into further
arguments with Gov. Alejandro García
Padilla, who launched several attacks
against her in recent days.
García Padilla recently said that
before he was able to obtain a loan for
San Juan to shore up the city’s finances,
everything was fine between Cruz and
himself.
“After I was able to help San Juan
is when the attacks against me started
coming,” he recently said.
The San Juan mayor said she and
the governor have basically been at
odds for the past three years or more.
Cruz was an active voice in the PDP
against the implementation of a valueadded tax (IVA by its Spanish acronym)
and hiking the sales and use tax (IVU)
from 7 percent to the current 11.5 percent. She has also disagreed with many
public policies implemented by the
García Padilla administration.
Last week, she said she preferred
to highlight the work carried out by her
administration, such as the opening of
a bakery in the La Perla community in
Old San Juan, the inauguration of Luis
Muñoz Marín Park in Hato Rey, and
the announcement of the first phase of
the Barceló Town Square.
“This week I gave back one cent of
the IVU to three organizations, giving
over $500,000 so they could continue
doing their jobs,” she said at a news
conference in La Perla. “That is what
keeps me busy and what will keep me
busy until the end of my days in the
public sector.”
Carmen
Yulín Cruz
She added that “I take care of the
projects we currently have and those
we will have in the future.”
“I care about advancing the well
being of the people of San Juan,” she
said. “I haven’t criticized, but rather I
have responded to the call of my conscience.”
The mayor added that increasing
water and electricity rates to pay oﬀ
bondholders is not the right thing to
do during an economic depression,
nor is it right to place the country at a
crossroads where it must choose between its future and the “indignity of a
federal control board.”
“I believe that Puerto Rico’s status has to be addressed in order to
provide the country the tools it needs
to move forward,” Cruz said. “I believe that the pensions have to be protected; I believe that municipalities
have to maintain their autonomy; I believe that the IVA is not good for the
people.”
She further noted that if the governor goes to the United Nations to
ask for fair treatment for Puerto Rico,
and asks for a process of free determination, she will be there by his side
just as she was when he took up the
fight to expand the rights of the gay
community or when he fought to expand the rights of immigrants on the
island.
But Cruz also said the “hike in
the tax on business transactions [or
B2B] is not right at this time and the
next governor of Puerto Rico, David
Bernier, agrees.”
“These are not criticisms, they
are the opinions of a person in a democracy,” Cruz said. “I am not against
anything, I just want the people to
have the tools they need and a better
quality of life.”
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Water Authority Projects $50 Million Deficit for Fiscal Year
By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
[email protected]
T
he Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer
Authority (PRASA) foresees it will
end the fiscal year with a budget deficit of some $50 million, President Alberto
Lázaro said late last week.
“Our revenues have been hurt this
year,” Lázaro said in a radio interview,
adding that some possible causes for the
loss of revenues is that the public utility
has lost customers while other customers
have reduced consumption.
The loss of customers, he said, could
be attributed to the migration of Puerto
Ricans to the mainland U.S. As of Jan. 31,
PRASA had 1,238,727 active clients, Lázaro said, down from 1,264,000 clients last
June.
As for the reduction in consumption,
Lázaro said that many customers may
have become accustomed to the patterns
they followed during last year’s dry spell,
which kept over one million people under
a water rationing plan. During that time,
some consumers spent up to four days
without potable water. Others had two
days of potable water and one day without.
“People adjusted to this ‘way of life’
and saw their water bills go down. So they
are possibly still following the same patterns, in terms of not wasting so much water, like watering the gardens every day,
washing their cars, among other adjustments,” Lázaro said.
The PRASA chief said original projections for the water utility for the end of the
fiscal year were that PRASA would end
with a $70 million deficit.
“But we made some adjustments, and
that is why we projected that we could be
able to absorb some $20 million from that
deficit,” he said. “Taking into account that
last year we got hit with a dry spell and
that these types of events significantly reduce billings, we are not that far behind
what we had estimated.”
He added that in some towns, such as
Salinas and Guayama, the water rationing
plans were in eﬀect until last month, “so
we are still seeing the water bills aﬀected
by the dry spell and the rationing plan.”
“From March on, the billing shouldn’t
be aﬀected by the dry spell or the rationing
plan,” he said.
Lázaro said that even though the public water utility has been aﬀected economically, the important thing is that rationing
created awareness among citizens on how
to use water and that it shouldn’t be taken
for granted.
The administrative order that was imposed and that fined consumers for misusing water during the dry spell also helped
create awareness, he noted.
“The objective of the order wasn’t to
collect funds, but rather for the people to
Alberto Lázaro
gain awareness that water is not an infinite
resource,” he said, adding that 280 tickets
were processed for a total of $97,500.
Out of that amount, $41,250 were commercial fines and $56,250 were residential
fines.
“When you compare it to the projected
deficit, collecting $97,500 in fines, is not a
lot money, but even so I think we were effective,” Lázaro said.
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La Fortaleza Meeting With Key Member of
Congress Called Step Toward Draft PR Bill
By JOHN MCPHAUL
[email protected]
G
ov. Alejandro García Padilla
and Rep. Rob Bishop, the
chairman of U.S. House of
Representatives Natural Resources
Committee, continued the dialogue
about a bill to address Puerto Rico’s
economic crisis that should be introduced to the full House before March
31, in a meeting in La Fortaleza on
Friday.
The meeting was held in the
morning hours with the participation
of the working groups of the governor and the Republican congressman
from Utah.
Commonwealth Public Aﬀairs
Secretary Jesús Manuel Ortiz said
Bishop made no particular petition
for economic or fiscal information
about the island, according to CyberNews.
“Bishop reaﬃrmed the commit-
Rep. Rob Bishop
ment of [U.S. House] Speaker [Paul]
Ryan to having a draft of legislation
on the way in order to share it near
the March 31 deadline and begin
holding conservations then with a
completed text,” Ortiz said.
The stipulated deadline was established by Ryan for the House committees to develop a measure that
will give some kind of tool to Puerto
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Rico to address its economic crisis.
Ortiz said the governor’s work
group handed over documentation
that give evidence of the eﬀects of
the lack of liquidity that has already
been identified.
“We presented the eﬀects that are
already apparent in the Puerto Rico
crisis, like the need to pay back tax
refunds and the debt that we have
with suppliers,” Ortiz said.
Senate President Eduardo Bhatia
said purpose of Bishop’s visit was
“to listen to the diﬀerent parties in
Puerto Rico” and not simply to go
forward with aspects of the legislation due March 1.
“He didn’t commit himself to
anything. What he was saying was
that no bill has been drafted [yet] …,”
Bhatia said. “The meeting was very
good, it was a cordial meeting. The
congressman didn’t go into details
on what is in the measure, but we did
talk more about the process and the
dates. March 31 is a key date because
there has to be a bill then to circulate
and for everyone to comment on.”
Also, Bhatia reiterated that in addition to a fiscal supervision board at
the federal level, the possibility of restructuring the debt of more than $70
billion has to be stipulated.
“The priority has to be to restructure the entire debt,” the Senate president said. “He said he was informed
that it had to be a broader mechanism
than Chapter 9 [the U.S. bankruptcy
law] because of the magnitude of the
Puerto Rico debt.”
Meanwhile,
Gov.
Alejandro
García Padilla, in a spare press communique on the result of the meeting with the Congressman, said that
Congress owes Puerto Ricans “an opportunity.”
“Legislation is urgent to promote the sustainability of the island
through tools of comprehensive restructuring, federal monitoring and
economic-growth measures,” the
governor in the statement. “Congress owes the 3.5 million American
citizens who live in Puerto Rico an
opportunity to struggle for their future.”
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residents who died when the
cargo ship El Faro sank in
October have accepted settlements
from the ship’s owner.
Court documents say the El Faro’s owner, Tote Services Inc., has
agreed to pay $500,000 to the families of Michael Holland, Danielle
Randolph and Dylan Meklin for
“pre-death pain and suﬀering” and
an unspecified amount for econom-
ic loss caused by the deaths.
The Portland Press Herald reports the notice filed last Tuesday
in Jacksonville, Florida means the
company has settled with the families of 14 of the 33 crew members
who died. It has said that it is pursuing settlements with the families
of all the victims.
The 790-foot-long El Faro sank in
Hurricane Joaquin Oct. 1 while sailing from Jacksonville to San Juan.
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Pierluisi Stresses Complexity of PR’s Problems in Meeting with Congressman
By JOHN MCPHAUL
[email protected]
R
esident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi said he tried to impress upon
Rep. Rob Bishop, the chairman of
the U.S. House of Representatives Natural
Resources Committee, the complexity of
Puerto Rico’s problems when the two oﬃcials met in Pierluisi’s oﬃce in Puerta de
Tierra last Friday.
“The problems that face in Puerto
Rico are complex,” the resident commissioner said in a statement. “We don’t have just
one crisis in Puerto Rico, but a rather series
of interrelated crises: an economic crisis, a
fiscal crisis, a liquidity crisis, a debt crisis,
a migratory crisis and a public administration crisis.”
Pierluisi said he thanked Bishop for
taking time to travel to Puerto Rico to
learn first-hand about the challenges that
confront the territory and speak personally with island leaders.
“Our conversation, like our previous
conversations, was positive and constructive,” Pierluisi said. “It is clear that Chairman Bishop is attending to this matter in
good faith and working hard to manage
the political and public policy implications
of the diﬀerent courses that legislation on
Puerto Rico might take. This is precisely as
it should be because politics is the art of
the possible.”
Pierluisi said his position has been
consistent through the course of the process of drafting legislation.
So that the legislation can be converted into law and truly improve the situation in Puerto Rico, the legislative package
currently being developed under Bishop’s
leadership must match a reasonable debt
restructuring mechanism with an independent mechanism on the budgetary
practices and fiscal policy of the Puerto
Rico government.
“A bill that contains one of these elements and not the other will not be able to
obtain the bipartisan support necessary to
become law, and if it could, it would not be
eﬀective,” Pierluisi said.
The resident commissioner said the
bill will ideally contain elements to improve the discriminatory treatment that Puerto Rico receives under federal law, which
is, he said, one of the principal reasons -- if
not the principal reason -- that Puerto Rico
is confronting such great challenges.
“As I have said before, the federal authorities cannot treat Puerto Rico residents
as second-class citizens and at the same
time expect the territory to enjoy a firstclass economy.”
PR’s Economic Crisis
On the Air in Florida
By JOHN MCPHAUL
[email protected]
T
he Christian organization Jubilee
USA has placed media messages in
Florida urging the state’s large Latin community to demand that presidential candidates take positions on Puerto
Rico’s economic crisis ahead of the March
15 Republican and Democratic presidential primaries in the Sunshine State.
Around one million Puerto Ricans
live in Florida, many of whom have fled
Puerto Rico over the past decade because
of the island’s economic crisis.
Jubilee USA represents religious
denominations in Puerto Rico which in
turn represent some 95 percent of islanders, its executive director Eric LeCompte
told a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee
on Feb. 2.
LeCompte told the committee that
Puerto Rico has around 50 percent of its
population living under the poverty line
and in addition has 50 percent of its children living in households that receive
some kind of government assistance.
Jubilee USA has remained active in
the conversations in Congress directed
toward giving the government of Puerto
Rico some type of tool to prevent a social
crisis.
“American citizens on the island are
being treated like second-class citizens
and Puerto Ricans in Florida will be voting with the crisis on their minds,” LeCompte said in the radio spots.
LeCompte emphasized that the
motivation is to prevent the island from
entering into a period of “humanitarian
crisis” because of a lack of resources due
to the scarcity of liquidity in government
coﬀers.
“Congress must provide Puerto
Rico with the tools it needs to resolve
the crisis in an opportune manner,” LeCompte said. “If the action of Congress
is not broad, Puerto Rico will continue to
the knock on Congress’ door.”
The messages also ran on Super
Tuesday in the state of Texas.
To listen to the Jubilee USA radio
message go to: http://www.jubileeusa.
org/ourwork/truth-about-debt/get-involved01.html
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Hope-Inspired Movement Inadvertantly
Sparks Leaving vs Staying Debate
By JAVIER LABOY
Special to The STAR
T
he Puerto Rico government is facing an economic crisis
unlike any in its history as well as an unprecedented
volume of migration topping that of the 1950s. As one of
many proposed plans, an 11.5 percent tax is scheduled to be
approved in April on business-to-business transactions -- the
so-called B2B tax -- as the latest of many burdens that have
been imposed on workers and businesses to keep the island
afloat economically.
For many demoralized Puerto Ricans, relocating is no
longer just a career move.
In one of many attempts to try and reignite inspiration
among Puerto Ricans for progress amid the island’s chronic
economic woes, a local automotive company created a simple
slogan with the intention of fostering hope, but the eﬀort has
unexpectedly backfired and has become a major topic of discussion on social media.
The hashtag “yo no me quito,” roughly translates to “I
won’t leave,” and its creator, Carlos López-Lay, president of
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the Bella Group automotive company in Puerto Rico, started
out as a more private message of encouragement for his employees. Soon after the message quickly spread through social media, gaining support from other companies and public figures relaying the same message of hope to the general
public.
The campaign began in mid-January, and gained momentum as it appeared in social media and even on highway
billboards.
The movement, however, has been heavily criticized
by Puerto Ricans who feel targeted or shamed for moving
to the States. Online users such as Isol Fernández Riverón
have even posted their own testimonials on why they chose
to leave, along with a counter-hashtag, “yosímequito,” which
has been adopted by many who identify with the out-migrants group.
In her online status, Fernández Riverón listed her reasons for leaving, among them: job scarcity, lack of government support for local businesses, crime and corruption.
“I left because for four years I couldn’t find a job that
would pay me $7.25 an hour even if I spoke Mandarin, I left
because when I open my business they (the government) taxed
me up to my nose instead of helping me be independent, I left
because local support meant support your friends (referring
to government aid), I left because I was tired of looking back
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with fear whenever I walked on the street, especially at night,
I left because I was tired of the government stealing and serving themselves from the big spoon when we, who have to
bust our butts working, have to think twice before even turning on the air conditioning or going out to eat on our lunch
break, I left because I don’t have a martyr’s soul and the world
is too full of beautiful places and people for me to cling to
misery,” Fernández Riverón said in her online post.
To clarify his intentions, López-Lay said at a press conference late last month how his message is not exclusive to
just the people on the island, but rather to all Puerto Ricans
“on or oﬀ the island” to support and give help to the commonwealth.
“It’s not about where I am or what I have, it’s about what
I do with what I have, where I am,” López-Lay said of the
movement.
Nelson Arnaldo Vera Hernández, a sociologist and chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla, says there
has always been a struggle between both groups and even
recalled an earlier but similar conflict between locals and socalled “newyoricans” decades before.
“Both groups are going to fight their hardest to show that
their reality is the best. ... Unfortunately, when they defend
themselves they are also creating labels for each other,” Vera
Hernández said.
Vera Hernández added that these sorts of conflicts are
common in any population, and especially among Puerto
Ricans, for whom there are pronounced divisions when it
comes to politics and religion.
Pair of Undocumented Brazilians
Intercepted at LMM
By The STAR Staﬀ
U
.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Field Operations oﬃcers in San Juan arrested two previously removed Brazilian men attempting to board a flight to
New York City late last week.
Jose Alejandro de Araujo Silva, 29, and Jose Mario Goncalves, 60, citizens of Brazil, will appear before U.S. Magistrate
Judge Bruce McGiverin to face separate charges for re-entering
after a previous removal.
“Undocumented migrants and criminals seek diﬀerent
paths to reach the continental United States,” said Marcelino
Borges, director of field operations for Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Virgin Islands. “CBP oﬃcers remain vigilant to arrest persons
trying to elude detection in violation of federal law.”
De Araujo Silva and Goncalves were found last Thursday
at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina attempting to board a domestic flight bound to John F. Kennedy
International Airport in New York. Both presented a passport
from Brazil as proof of identity, with no visa or entry stamp.
In secondary inspection, a biometric database revealed
that de Araujo Silva had been apprehended by Border Patrol
near Brownsville, Texas and removed in 2010. In 2015, he was
once again apprehended near Sarita, Texas.
In October 2015, de Araujo Silva was convicted for illegal
re-entry in the United States District Court Southern District of
Texas, and subsequently removed.
Goncalves was apprehended in 2003 near Abram, Texas
and admitted returning on February 2016 illegally along with other
migrants in western Puerto Rico.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Evelyn Canals will prosecute the
case.
If convicted, de Araujo Silva
could be fined, imprisoned not
more than two years, or both.
If convicted, Goncalves could
be fined, imprisoned not more
than six months, or both.
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White House and States to Craft
Zika Attack Plan at Summit
T
he White House will gather U.S. state and local oﬃcials next month to urgently craft a plan
to attack the notoriously hard-to-control mosquito that spreads the Zika virus ahead of its peak
season.
A sign explaining the parameters concerning the Zika virus
and blood donations is seen at the American Red Cross Charles
Drew Donation Center in Washington on February 16.
By June or July, federal health oﬃcials expect the
continental United States will see its first locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus, which has been linked
to thousands of suspected cases of microcephaly, a
rare birth defect, in Brazil.
The White House is inviting oﬃcials involved
in mosquito control and public health to an April 1
summit at the Atlanta headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to talk about
how best to track and control the spread of the virus,
and respond when people are aﬀected.
“The best-case scenario here is that we could either limit local transmission, or get ahead of it and
contain it as soon as possible,” said Amy Pope, the
deputy assistant for homeland security for President
Barack Obama, in an interview.
While most people bitten by an infected insect experience only mild illness, pregnant women need to
take extra precautions, the CDC has said. Scientists
are also studying a potential link between Zika and
Guillain-Barre, a rare neurological disorder that can
cause paralysis.
More than a dozen suspected cases of sexual
transmission, and one case of suspected transmission through a blood transfusion have raised questions about other ways that Zika may spread.
The CDC had originally expected localized outbreaks of zika in some southern states through local
transmission, and said widespread use of air conditioning, window screens and regular garbage collection would mitigate the risk.
“We’ve had surprises,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat,
the CDC’s principal deputy director, noting the suspected cases of sexual transmission may prompt the
agency to reassess its projections.
“We’re in a posture of knowing that time is precious and collaboration is essential,” Schuchat said in
the interview.
‘TIME IS PRECIOUS’
The outbreak has already aﬀected large parts of
Latin America and the Caribbean. The World Health
Organization estimates Zika could eventually aﬀect
as many as 4 million people in the Americas.
There have already been more than 100 cases in
Puerto Rico, with thousands more expected this year,
Schuchat said.
“We are extremely concerned about Puerto Rico,”
she said.
CDC Director Thomas Frieden on Monday will
make his first trip to the island territory since the
outbreak to spend a few days talking with government oﬃcials and CDC workers about the spread, she
said.
Much remains unknown about Zika, including
whether the virus actually causes microcephaly in
babies, a condition defined by unusually small heads
that can result in developmental problems. Brazil said
it has confirmed more than 640 cases of microcephaly,
and considers most of them to be related to Zika infections in the mothers. Brazil is investigating more than
4,200 additional suspected cases of microcephaly.
The species of mosquito that carries Zika likely
will begin to emerge in the continental United States
in April or May.
“It’s hardy. It lives in dark corners. It’s resilient,”
Pope said, noting communities across the country
have diﬀerent approaches to controlling the insect.
“While individual communities may have their
own plans, there’s no coordinated planning at this
point, and we think that needs to happen,” she said.
Obama has asked the Republican-controlled U.S.
Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency
funding to fight the virus, but several top lawmakers
have balked, saying he should first draw from other
health funding.
“If we don’t get funding until after we see transmission in the United States, until after we see children born with birth defects, then we’re well behind
the curve,” Pope said.
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Monday, March 7, 2016
Bold Promises, But Thin Agenda
So Far for Ryan-Led House
H
ouse Speaker Paul Ryan promises a bold election-year agenda of replacing the health care
law and fighting poverty. Until then,
it’s the BRICK Act.
While GOP task forces are talking about national security, jobs and
health care, the House floor has largely been turned over to the obscure and
the arcane. Instead of wrapping up a
typical day’s work at suppertime, early
afternoon getaways are the norm. And
it could remain that way for much of
the year.
Last week was typical. Monday was
reserved for noncontroversial bills like
a measure to renew authorization of
the Federal Emergency Management
Agency. Tuesday was largely devoted
to naming post oﬃces. Wednesday’s
legislation, passed 406-0, sought to ensure health care providers terminated
from a state’s Medicaid and children’s
health insurance programs can’t keep
doing business in other states.
Then, on Thursday, after a 238-163
vote to delay new Environmental Protection Agency rules for brick makers
— that’s the Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns, or BRICK,
Act — the House exited Washington
before noon for a week’s vacation.
“There’s not a single priority issue,” said No. 2 House Democrat Ste-
ny Hoyer of Maryland, citing issues
absent from the floor such as renewal
of federal aviation programs, funds to
combat the Zika virus, financial relief for Puerto Rico, and aid to Flint,
Michigan, as it grapples with tainted
drinking water. “That is a substantial
dereliction of duty.”
The light schedule is due in part to
a battle over spending that has stalled
the budget, which GOP leaders had
hoped to consider this week. There is
also disagreement over a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization
bill. Those measures could bring more
heft to the floor schedule this spring,
along with upcoming legislation to
combat heroin and opioid abuse and
reform the criminal justice system.
Ryan doesn’t set the day-to-day
schedule of the House, and his chief
focus is on the longer term.
“This is going to be our contribution to this campaign in 2016,” Ryan
told reporters on Thursday. “A bold
agenda that unites conservatives and
gives the country a very clear choice.”
Last year, GOP leaders filled the
floor with initiatives taking on President Barack Obama.
“There was an enormous amount of
energy expended doing nothing, but it
takes eﬀort to have shutdown votes or
defund Planned Parenthood, knowing
it’ll go nowhere. But I’ll give credit to
the Republican leadership: They put
energy into getting nothing done,”
said Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. “This
year, there’s not even an eﬀort to fake
it. We’re just not doing anything.”
Well, the House is in fact passing
some legislation. It’s just that most of
it is not very important. There was a
bill to require the White House to rebundle information about the national
debt. On Monday, the House voted to
scrub outdated and oﬀensive terms
like “Negro” and “Oriental” from a
1976 statute.
Last Tuesday, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who sets the
floor schedule, praised the Medicaid
measure for stopping fraud and abuse,
and Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said the
measure protects taxpayers. “This will
save millions of dollars for taxpayers
who are tired of seeing their money,
their taxpayer dollars being wasted in
Washington,” Scalise said.
Republicans got more attention on
Tuesday, however, when nine conservatives voted against naming a post
oﬃce in North Carolina for iconic African-American poet Maya Angelou,
citing her leftist views.
A spokesman for McCarthy cited a
number of other bills — on new sanctions on North Korea, and holding
Veterans Administration bureaucrats
more accountable for agency missteps, among others — as evidence the
House has been keeping busy.
But for now, the floor schedule is
remarkably thin. One recent marquee
item was a bill called the Fraudulent
Joinder Prevention Act, dealing with
whether lawsuits belong in state or
federal courts. Another was an amalgam of provisions billed as boosting
the rights of sportsmen, including
allowing the importation of about 40
banned polar bear hides and heads
from Canada and making sure the
government doesn’t restrict lead content in ammunition.
In the Senate, where most legislation
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., joined by House Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy of Calif., speaks at a news
conference on Capitol Hill in Washington last Tuesday.
crawls along even if it’s got sweeping
bipartisan support, it’s easier to stretch
out a thin floor schedule. That’s been
the case with a still-unfinished energy
bill that occupied much of February.
Meanwhile, the trouble in putting together a GOP budget resolution could mean that the floor agenda
remains light. While debate on the
budget resolution — a nonbinding
measure setting out tax and spending goals for the upcoming decade —
usually only takes a couple of days or
so, passage of the measure clears the
way for action on follow-up spending
bills.
These appropriations bills typically occupy the House for weeks in
late spring and into the summer and
if they’re not available later in the year
to occupy lawmakers, the early afternoon adjournments and long weekends could multiply.
The House is only slated to work
slightly more than 100 days this year,
a schedule truncated in part because
the national political parties are holding their conventions in July. That will
stretch the monthlong August recess
to seven weeks.
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Florida Revamps Death Penalty, Making
It Harder to Sentence Someone to Die
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
W
ith Florida’s capital punishment system
at a standstill, the state Senate passed a
compromise bill late last week that would
overhaul Florida’s death sentencing law, allowing
the state to resume death penalty prosecutions
by making it harder for juries to send someone to
death row.
The legislation, which seeks to address the objections of the Supreme Court in its decision to strike
down Florida’s capital punishment law, passed the
Senate on Thursday by a vote of 35 to 5. The measure was to be sent to Gov. Rick Scott, who was
expected to sign it into law.
While the state Senate had sought a tougher,
broader bill on death penalty sentencing, it agreed
to a compromise with the more conservative Florida House. Florida has one of the more active death
rows in the country, with 390 prisoners, and a brisk
pace of executions. After the Supreme Court decision in January, two death row inmates were granted indefinite stays of execution pending, in part,
a fix to Florida’s death penalty law. Death penalty
prosecutions have mostly stalled in the courts.
The new legislation does not resolve the issue
of when executions in the state would resume and
which death row inmates, if any, would be resentenced to life in prison without parole under the
State Senator Rob Bradley, a Republican, center, at a committee
meeting in January about Florida’s death penalty.
expected new law. Those decisions will be left to
the state courts.
The compromise bill would make it more diﬃcult to hand down death sentences by requiring a
jury vote of 10 to 2. Jurors currently can recommend
a death sentence by a simple 7-to-5 majority vote.
The change falls short of the unanimous verdict
that death penalty critics in Florida sought for capital punishment cases. It continues to make Florida
an outlier; only one other state, Alabama, allows a
10-to-2 death verdict as opposed to a unanimous
decision in capital punishment cases.
Republican supporters of the bill said that if it
became law, Florida’s death penalty system would
be stronger and satisfy the Supreme Court. Democrats did not entirely disagree, but they expressed
disappointment over the Legislature’s decision to
dodge the chance to bring Florida in line with other states.
“This is a step in the right direction,” said Senator Arthenia L. Joyner, the Democratic leader. “I
would prefer a unanimous jury verdict, but you
can’t always get what you want when you want
it.”
The bill also addresses the Supreme Court’s
chief grievance in its January ruling: that Florida
law gave too much power to judges in death penalty sentences and not enough to juries. Under the
bill, juries would have to decide unanimously on
the aggravating factors that warrant a death sentence. Aggravating factors include circumstances
that are especially brutal, for example, or a murder
committed with premeditation. Under current law,
some jurors could decide on one aggravating factor, others could decide on another, and some could
choose no factors. No unanimity was required.
The legislation would require a jury to turn over
its findings on aggravating factors to the presiding
judge. The judge would then issue a sentence based
on only those aggravating factors, although the bill
gives the judge the power to override the jury and
sentence someone to life in prison. Florida judges
do not currently know which aggravating circumstances juries have selected, making them free to
choose their own, essentially overriding the jury’s
grounds for recommending death. The Supreme
Court ruled this a violation of the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the rights of people accused of crimes.
Supporters of the compromise pointed out that
the House and Senate bill went further than necessary by requiring a 10-to-2 jury verdict on the
overall death sentence. This was not something the
Supreme Court addressed directly.
But death penalty experts said it was only a matter of time before the issue of nonunanimous death
penalty verdicts cropped up before the court. Karen M. Gottlieb, a director of the Florida Center for
Capital Representation at Florida International University’s law school, said “many lawsuits” would be
filed on that issue. Florida, Alabama and Delaware
are the only states, out of the 31 with death penalty
laws, that do not require a unanimous verdict. Delaware’s system, which requires a 7-to-5 jury majority, is under review and at a standstill.
Alabama faces problems now, too. On Thursday, a state court judge ruled that Alabama’s death
penalty law was unconstitutional because its use of
aggravating factors was so similar to Florida’s old
system, among other things. The judge said Alabama’s law was even worse than Florida’s because
it allowed judges to override a jury’s life sentence
in favor of death, noting that judges did that all too
often. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange
said that the judge’s decision applied only to four
cases in the Birmingham area.
Death penalty opponents said defendants in
Florida courts were found guilty or innocent for
civil or criminal crimes by unanimous juries. Yet,
they said, sentencing somebody to death does not
require unanimity. Critics said that was one reason
Florida has the highest number of exonerations,
with 26.
“When the message to the jury is you don’t have
to be unanimous, each juror doesn’t feel the same
responsibility,” Ms. Gottlieb added.
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Rubio, Cruz Forge Loose Alliance to Block Trump
F
or months, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio tried to
tear each other down in a bid to become Donald
Trump’s top challenger. The senators are now unlikely allies in an eﬀort to stop Trump’s march toward
the Republican nomination.
The strategy shift was on full display in last Thursday’s GOP debate. Rubio and Cruz ignored each other
almost entirely, choosing to instead fully focus their attention on the billionaire businessman whose surprising dominance of the 2016 race has shaken the Republican Party to its core.
Cruz and Rubio’s moves underscore the desperate
situation in which they find themselves. A clear path
to winning the nomination through the traditional primary process seems increasingly out of reach. Instead,
they’re eying a deeply complicated, long-shot plan to
stop Trump at a contested convention.
It’s a blueprint that probably only works if Rubio
and Cruz, along with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, stay in
the race, siphoning delegates away from Trump as the
primary process weaves its way across the country for
months to come.
So when Rubio and Cruz took the stage in Detroit
on Thursday, they shelved their well-practiced attacks
on each other’s immigration policies, national security
views and campaign tactics.
Instead, Rubio hammered Trump for manufacturing his branded clothing in China and Mexico, not the
United States, and challenged the practices of a Trumpbranded educational company that’s facing lawsuits.
Cruz questioned why the Republican front-runner had
donated to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, and
accused him of having “used government power for
private gain.”
“Do you understand the principles that made America great in the first place?” Cruz asked Trump, knocking the billionaire’s now-famous campaign slogan.
At several points during the two-hour debate,
Trump appeared to be trying to pivot toward the general election, a strategy often employed by a party’s
presumptive nominee. He never flinched when asked
about his campaign contributions to Clinton, embraced a “softening” of his position on allowing visas
for highly skilled overseas workers, and suggested he
would be willing to negotiate on his broader immigration policy, as well as on other areas.
“You have to show a degree of flexibility,” Trump
said. “If you’re going to be one way and you think it’s
wrong, does that mean the rest of your life you have to
go in the wrong direction because you don’t think you
want to change?”
If Rubio and Cruz succeeded at anything Thursday
with their constant barrage of attacks, it was blocking
Trump from fully evolving into a more palatable general election candidate. Their needling rattled the firsttime candidate, sending him back to his deep reserve
of biting personal insults.
He repeatedly belittled “Little Marco” and “Liar
Ted.” And in a stunning moment on a presidential debate stage, he rebuﬀed Rubio’s mocking of his hand
size — widely viewed as an insult about his sexual
prowess — by declaring, “I guarantee you, there’s no
problem” in that area.
The prospect of Trump, with his over-the-top persona and vague, shifting policy positions, winning
the nomination has plunged the Republican Party into
chaos and sent GOP elites on a desperate search for
ways to stop him.
They’re motived by a belief that Trump would lose
a general election to Clinton and hurt down-ballot candidates in competitive races, and a fear that his nomi-
nation would split the party so deeply that it could take
decades to make it whole again.
After strong showings in the first rounds of primary
contests, Trump has claimed 329 delegates, with Cruz
capturing 213, Rubio 110, and Kasich 25. The three candidates chasing Trump are now in a fight to keep him
from getting the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the
nomination.
Cruz did his part by winning his home state of
Texas on Super Tuesday. Rubio and Kasich will need
to win at home as well when Florida and Ohio vote on
March 15.
Under this admittedly challenging scenario, the
field would press on through the spring, with all of the
candidates picking up delegates, but none reaching the
number needed to clinch the nomination. The Republican nominee would then be decided upon at the party
convention in Cleveland in July.
The strategizing over a contested convention has
been layered with angst-filled discussions among some
conservative leaders about whether they could rally
around a third-party candidate if Trump does become
the nominee.
But Rubio and Cruz made clear they wouldn’t join
those seeking an alternative option if they can’t stop
Trump.
After two hours of pummeling Trump’s character
and castigating his readiness to be president, both said
unequivocally that they would fall in line behind the
businessman and support his candidacy if he becomes
the Republican nominee.
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PenFed Credit Union Opens San Patricio Branch
By The STAR Staﬀ
I
nfluential community, business and military leaders
from San Juan joined board members and executives
from PenFed Credit Union in the opening of the $19
billion firm’s new location in Guaynabo late last week.
The event began with distinguished San Juan lea-
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO
AVISO PÚBLICO
SOLICITUD DE PERMISO FORMAL PARA LA EXTRACCIÓN
DE LA CORTEZA TERRESTRE
Este Aviso se publica a tenor con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 132 de 25 de
junio de 1968, según enmendada, mejor conocida como, Ley de Arena, Grava y
Piedra, y el Reglamento Conjunto de Permisos para Obras de Construcción y Usos
de Terrenos del 24 de marzo de 2015.
La siguiente Solicitud de Permiso para la Extracción de Materiales de Corteza Terrestre
ha sido radicada ante la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos OGPe.
Por este medio se notifica al público en general, entidades gubernamentales
y/o partes interesadas, sobre la acción propuesta. Copia electrónica de dicho
documento está disponible para revisión en el portal de internet de la agencia
www.sip.pr.gov. Las personas que tengan información o comentarios que puedan
ser útiles en la evaluación de la acción propuesta, pueden enviar los mismos a la
dirección de correo electrónico notificació[email protected] y/o PO Box 41179, San
Juan PR 00940-1179, dentro de un término de diez (10) días calendario a partir de
la publicación de este aviso.
Se le apercibe que dentro de un término de diez (10) días calendario a partir de
la publicación de este aviso, la OGPe motu propio podrá celebrar vista pública
si surgieren comentarios, controversias u objeciones en cuanto a la solicitud.
Transcurrido dicho término no se considerará ninguna solicitud a estos efectos y
la Agencia procederá con la evaluación y trámite del documento presentado. Se
le apercibe además que, la celebración de la vista, de ser concedida, se llevará a
cabo de acuerdo al Capítulo 7 del Reglamento Conjunto y en conformidad con lo
dispuesto en el Artículo 3 de la Ley Núm. 132, supra. La vista será presidida por un
panel técnico legal. Durante la misma se permitirá la participación o intervención
de cualquier persona que lo interese. Los cargos en que se tenga que incurrir para
la celebración de la vista serán de carga del proponente de la acción.
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En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de febrero de 2016.
Arq. Alberto Lastra Power
Director Ejecutivo
ders and PenFed board representatives and executive team
members participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the
San Patricio branch.
PenFed’s delegation, led by Board Chairman Ed
Cody, President and CEO James Schenck and Chief Operating Oﬃcer Kevyn Myers, were on hand to greet members
and make a special presentation during the opening ceremonies. The celebration was open to the public and featured live music from local Latin jazz band Pedregal.
More than 100,000 of its members reside in Puerto
Rico, and the island has long been a key market for PenFed,
also known as Pentagon Federal Credit Union. The credit
union serves a diverse population, and no military service
is required to join. PenFed oﬀers an easy application process and provides many paths to membership, including
numerous employee groups and association aﬃliations.
Cody and Schenck expressed their appreciation for
Puerto Rico’s robust membership.
“Our brand has done particularly well here and it’s
wonderful to have the opportunity to come down and meet
some of our members in Puerto Rico,” Cody said. “They
are the people responsible for much of the success PenFed
has enjoyed here.”
Meanwhile, Schenck honored the long tradition of
Puerto Rican men and women answering the nation’s call
to duty and the many ways in which they have distinguished themselves over the decades.
“PenFed’s sole mission is to help our nation’s defenders and those who support them ‘Do Better’ in their financial lives,” Schenck added.
Argentina Eyes Return to Market
With $11.68 Billion Debt Sale
A
rgentina plans to return to international credit markets in April with three bonds sales
totaling $11.68 billion under U.S. law if Congress swiftly approves a debt deal for holdout creditors, top finance ministry oﬃcials told Congress late
last week.
Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said the
bonds, which will be used to finance the payouts to
investors holding unpaid debt stemming from the
country’s 2002 default, would carry maturities of
five, ten and thirty years.
Prat-Gay and his deputy, Luis Caputo, on Friday
presented a package of debt agreements brokered
with creditors, including a $4.65 billion cash payout
to the main holdouts suing in a Manhattan court led
by billionaire Paul Singer.
Argentina has now reached provisional settlements with about 85 percent of bondholders and says
negotiations continue with the rest.
“If the deal extends to all holdout investors, the
bond issue will be for $11.684 billion. That’s what
we need to close this chapter definitively,” Prat-Gay
said.
The debate in Congress is the first major political test of President Mauricio Macri’s ability to
garner cross-party support for his economic reform
package, the success of which hinges on ending the
festering 14-year debt battle.
Legislators will also be asked to repeal two laws
blocking settlement of the debt case.
Macri’s government is confident it can corral the
votes needed to win approval even though the opposition holds a majority in the Senate and Macri holds
only the largest minority in the lower chamber.
Caputo told legislators the bonds would carry
an interest rate in the region of 7.5 percent. While
debt brokers see healthy appetite for Argentine debt
after its prolonged absence from global debt markets,
the gloomy global context may weigh.
“That rate could be diﬃcult to get,” said local
brokerage Puente.
Argentina has been a financial markets pariah
since its record default on $100 billion in 2002.
Argentina’s Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay
(L) speaks next to Finance Secretary Luis Caputo during a news conference in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, February 29.
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Monday, March 7, 2016
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Aubrey McClendon, Restless and Reckless Wildcatter, Was Deal-Making to the End
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
I
n the days leading up to Aubrey McClendon’s
death in a car crash last Wednesday, the
pressure on him had become unrelenting.
He knew only too well, friends said, that
he was facing federal bid-rigging charges over
oil and gas leases; the indictment came on Tuesday. And like other executives in the industry,
he was coming under severe financial stress because of the plunge in commodity prices.
But virtually to the end, Mr. McClendon,
the pioneering wildcatter, was weaving and
bobbing like a boxer trying to win a fight he
was losing, seeking to spread globally the shale
boom that he had helped pioneer in the United
States.
Even while scaling back investments in
the United States to stay afloat, the private company he founded after he was forced out of Chesapeake Energy three years ago was making
deals from Australia to Mexico.
As recently as January, Mr. McClendon
moved to take advantage of a new political
wave in Argentina favoring foreign investment
to enter into a joint venture with the national oil
company there to develop a shale field in Patagonia. He was not only doubling down in a
challenging place at a time of low oil and gas
prices, but doing so in a country where usually
only oil giants like Exxon Mobil and Chevron
had previously dared to invest.To the end, Mr.
McClendon was a risk taker, a man who friends
said typically talked on his phone while driving because he was always in a rush to do
several tasks at once. He often neglected to use
his seatbelt, his friends said, which was the case
Wednesday morning when he died after crashing into a bridge at high speed in Oklahoma
City.
His indictment last Tuesday on charges of
conspiring with two unnamed companies, believed to be Chesapeake Energy and SandRidge Energy, to fix prices of leases in Oklahoma
came as a surprise to the oil world, but friends
say Mr. McClendon had known it was coming a
few days before the announcement.
The case had been building for years, after Reuters, the news agency, revealed in 2012
that Chesapeake had discussed with another
company how to suppress land lease prices in
Michigan. Last year, Chesapeake settled that
case, paying $25 million as compensation to
landowners with leases.
Mr. McClendon was nothing if not restless and reckless. While on an acquisition spree
at Chesapeake, he intertwined his personal financial well-being with that of the company, taking a personal stake in its wells and then using
those investments as collateral for up to $1.1 billion in loans to himself.
Aubrey McClendon in 2012. The oil and gas
entrepreneur died in a car crash on Wednesday.
“Aubrey always believed that he could
change the future,” said Tom Price, a former
Chesapeake senior vice president and a friend
of Mr. McClendon’s, who said he continued making deals even when he knew the Justice Department was investigating him. “He was a guy
who was always willing to charge the hill. He
believed in himself so thoroughly.”
Almost immediately after the activist investor Carl C. Icahn and the Chesapeake board
forced him in 2013 to leave the company he had
been a co-founder of 24 years before, he started
another company, American Energy Partners,
focusing on developing oil and natural gas fields
in Ohio, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas.
Oil prices were high in 2013 and 2014 as Mr.
McClendon tried for a second act of his acquisition frenzy, which was one of the highlights of
the national shale boom since 2005. And while
natural gas prices were low, there was the prospect that improving production eﬃciencies and
the demise of coal burning would help start a
comeback for gas.
But gas prices kept falling, and over the
last 20 months oil prices collapsed as well, by
roughly 70 percent, forcing scores of drilling
companies into bankruptcy.
While others decommissioned their rigs
and sold oﬀ properties, Mr. McClendon continued to do what he had done at Chesapeake:
pare back some eﬀorts even as he expanded
others to position himself for the next market
shift.
Taking a page from his old playbook, Mr.
McClendon tried to stay afloat by putting up his
own assets, from homes to vintage wines to his
part ownership of the Oklahoma City Thunder
basketball team, as collateral.
One aﬃliate of American Energy Partners
that tried to raise $2 billion in an initial public
oﬀering in November came up with only $11.2
million. The eﬀort was then canceled.
Just a few days ago, American Energy
Partners confirmed to The Oklahoman newspaper that it planned to spin oﬀ two subsidiaries that were developing fields in the Permian
Basin of West Texas and New Mexico and the
Woodford shale field in Oklahoma.
Requests for comment from American
Energy were not answered, and Mr. McClendon’s
lawyers declined to comment.
One of American Energy Partners’ lead
investors, the Texas-based private equity firm
Energy and Minerals Group, refused to invest
in some of Mr. McClendon’s recent projects and
eventually cut ties with his firm.
Still, Mr. McClendon carried on by making new exploration agreements with service
companies to drill in Oklahoma and with multiple eﬀorts abroad. And associates said his workaholic ways continued at a breathtaking pace.
“You can’t do as much as Aubrey did
trouble-free,” said T. Boone Pickens, the prominent oil executive who knew Mr. McClendon
for 25 years. “As fast as he was moving, you
are going to have some problems. He went by
Mexico for a minute, and then headed for Argentina.”
Last fall, Mr. McClendon decided to take
advantage of a new constitutional reform in
Mexico that encouraged foreign investment in
oil exploration and production. So far auctions
for drilling rights there have shown mixed results as oil companies have cut back on investing, but Mr. McClendon was not deterred.
By partnering with a Mexico City private
equity fund led by the former President Vicente
Fox, Mr. McClendon oﬀered his experience exploring the Eagle Ford shale field in southern
Texas, whose extension into northern Mexico
remains largely unexplored.
At the same time, Mr. McClendon was
doing business in Australia, a giant natural
gas producer and exporter; he announced four
deals involving more than 50 million acres of
petroleum fields only days after the Mexico deal
was executed. Again, he showed a penchant for
going where others did not dare; months earlier,
Chevron and ConocoPhillips had abandoned
lackluster exploration eﬀorts in Australia.
“It fit his personality,” said Philip H.
Weiss, chief investment analyst at Baltimore
Washington Financial Advisors, who has followed Mr. McClendon’s career for years. “For
all the issues of how he did things, few could
match his willingness to take risk and go to new
places.”
The biggest deal, at least potentially, was
his new $447 million venture with YPF, the national oil company in Argentina, to explore the
Vaca Muerta, or Dead Cow, shale field.
Argentina has long been a challenge for
foreign investors, but the Vaca Muerta is potentially the most productive shale field outside the
United States. A new government is seeking
foreign investment after more than a decade of
populist rule.
Many companies have given up exploration in shale fields globally because of cost, political risk and the geological complexity of shale
fields in places like Eastern Europe and China.
But Mr. McClendon frequently said that
shale could be an energy game changer internationally, as it has been in the United States in
recent years, converting the country from an
energy importer to exporter.
“We decided over a year ago that we
should take the expertise we’ve developed to
those countries around the world where the
shale code hasn’t been cracked yet,” Mr. McClendon told The Oklahoman after striking the
deal in Argentina. “We think we have a high
level of technical expertise and the ability to
watch costs and be the prime mover in combining this world-class technology with worldclass cost control.”
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Jobs Data Helps Market Add to a Winningg Streak
A
modest gain for stocks extended a winning streak into
a fourth day.
Indexes ended higher on Friday after the government
reported another increase in hiring last month, the latest encouraging sign for the U.S. economy.
It was the third straight weekly gain for the stock market.
Bond prices fell, sending yields higher.
Mining stocks rose more than the rest of the market as
metals prices continued to climb. Freeport-McMoRan jumped
7 percent. Energy stocks also rose along with the price of oil.
The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index added six points,
or 0.3 percent, to end slightly under 2,000. The Nasdaq composite climbed nine points, or 0.2 percent, to 4,717.
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 62 points, or
0.4 percent, to 17,006.
JOBS The job market proved resilient in February, when
employers added a net 242,000 workers and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.9 percent. The increase in jobs was
above expectations for 195,000 and suggested that the economy was not losing much momentum despite turbulence in
stock markets and a slowdown among global trading partners like China.
While the strength could bolster the chance of another interest-rate increase by the Federal Reserve in coming
months, investors seemed to be focused on the improvement
in the economy.
THE BIG PICTURE This week stocks have risen after
reports that showed the economy was doing fairly well, including data on construction spending and manufacturing.
Kate Warne, investment strategist for Edward Jones,
said she expected continued job and economic growth.
“The worries that we’ve been hearing recently about
the economy sliding into recession aren’t warranted,” she
said. Combined with low inflation rates, she said, it meant
good news for investors.
BIG SCREEN GETS BIGGER AMC Theaters, owned by
the Wanda Group of China, said it would buy Carmike Cinemas for $1.1 billion. The deal would create the biggest movie
theater chain in the world. Earlier this year, Wanda said it
would buy Legendary Entertainment, a studio that helped
finance movies including “Jurassic World” and “The Dark
Knight.” Carmike shares climbed about 16 percent.
GOING UP Hewlett Packard Enterprise, an information technology products and service company, reported a
stronger profit and greater sales than analysts had expected.
Its stock rose more than 13 percent.
TAXED H&R Block stock tumbled after its quarterly
profit and revenue disappointed investors. The company said
people were filing their taxes later and refunds were taking
longer to process as eﬀorts to fight tax fraud increased. The
stock dropped more than 16 percent.
HEALTH CARE Shares of the multiple sclerosis drug
maker Biogen lost 0.9 percent, and shares of the health care
products company Endo International slid 2.5 percent.
OFFICE WOES Staples stock was down 2.1 percent after the company reported profit and sales figures that were
weaker than expected.
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Does a Carbon Tax Work? Ask British Columbia
By EDUARDO PORTER
T
ed Cruz says climate change is not happening. Donald Trump says he doesn’t believe
in it. Marco Rubio, whose hometown, Miami, is projected to be largely underwater within
the not too distant future as ice caps shrink and
the sea level rises, argues that government eﬀorts
to combat it will “destroy our economy.”
But those views are not widely shared by conservatives elsewhere around the world. Indeed,
not that long ago in a not too distant country, a
right-leaning party that shares many of the antitax, pro-business beliefs of Republicans in the
United States did exactly what its unbelieving
candidates so fear.
In 2008, the British Columbia Liberal Party,
which confoundingly leans right, introduced a
tax on the carbon emissions of businesses and
families, cars and trucks, factories and homes
across the province. The party stuck to the tax
even as the left-leaning New Democratic Party
challenged it in provincial elections the next year
under the slogan Axe the Tax. The conservatives
won soundly at the polls.
Their experience shows that cutting carbon
emissions enough to make a diﬀerence in preventing global warming remains a diﬃcult challenge. But the most important takeaway for American skeptics is that the policy basically worked as
advertised.
British Columbia’s economy did not collapse.
In fact, the provincial economy grew faster than
its neighbors’ even as its greenhouse gas emissions declined.
“It performed better on all fronts than I
think any of us expected,” said Mary Polak, the
province’s environment minister. “To the extent
that the people who modeled it predicted this, I’m
not sure that those of us on the policy end of it
really believed it.”
The tax, which rose from 10 Canadian dollars
per ton of carbon dioxide in 2008 to 30 dollars by
2012, the equivalent of about $22.20 in current
United States dollars, reduced emissions by 5 to
15 percent with “negligible eﬀects on aggregate
economic performance,”according to a study last
year by economists at Duke University and the
University of Ottawa.
The tax made fuel more expensive: A gallon of
gas, for example, costs 19 United States cents more.
It encouraged people to drive somewhat less and
be more careful about heating and cooling their
homes. Businesses invested in energy eﬃciency
measures and switched to less polluting fuels.
Despite the price increases, voters warmed to
the tax. Last year only 32 percent of British Columbians opposed the tax, down from 47 percent
in 2009.
Perhaps most surprisingly, so did big business.
And for good reason. As it turns out, a carbon tax
A Lafarge cement plant in Richmond, British
Columbia. Cement makers, whose business
is energy-intensive, said imports from China
and the United States increased when the carbon tax was instituted.
is the most eﬃcient, market-friendly instrument
available in the quiver against climate change.
“We were not very happy when it was first
announced,” said Jock A. Finlayson, head of policy at the Business Council of British Columbia.
Now, “within the business community there is a
sizable constituency saying this is O.K.”
Christopher Knittel, an expert on energy
economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said a properly calibrated carbon price
in the United States could eﬀectively replace all
the climate-related regulations businesses hate
so much, including renewable fuel mandates and
President Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
That would create a clear incentive for businesses and consumers to use less fuel, invest in
eﬃciency and switch to cleaner energy. The only
other necessary action, in Professor Knittel’s view,
would be more government support for research
and development to accelerate the quest for new
energy technologies.
Here in British Columbia, however, it wasn’t
the eﬃciency argument alone that won people
over. The pioneering legislation provided critical
political cover by ensuring every single carbon
tax dollar would be returned to families and businesses through a variety of breaks.
That “is the thing that saved us,” said Carole
Taylor, the provincial minister of finance at the
time the tax was introduced. “If I had said, ‘Give
us the carbon tax and trust us,’ I knew it would
have been a failure.”
The corporate income tax was cut to 10 percent from 12 percent, to stimulate a flagging economy in 2010. Though it is back to 11 percent, it
is still the lowest among Canada’s provinces. The
bottom two personal income tax rates were also
cut. Low-income families got a tax credit.
All in all, the government will return about
1.7 billion Canadian dollars to businesses and families this year, more than the 1.2 billion dollars
it expects to collect though the carbon tax, which
amounts to roughly 5 percent of the province’s total tax revenue.
According to the World Bank, about 12 percent
of the world’s global emissions of greenhouse ga-
ses are subject to a carbon price — either a tax or,
more commonly, a levy under a regime of cap and
trade like that in California and Europe, in which
permits to emit are auctioned among companies.
With few exceptions, British Columbia’s tax
is the steepest and broadest in existence. While
that sets British Columbia apart as a leader on the
cutting edge, it is also part of its problem. For the
policy to work best, it needs the rest of the world
to catch up.
Local leaders now recognize that they probably have to do more. Carbon emissions started
rising again after the province froze the tax at
30 Canadian dollars in 2012. An advisory panel
to the Ministry of the Environment recently laid
out the problem: British Columbia is missing its
goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by a
third from 2007 to 2020. On its current path, the
province will also miss its target of an 80 percent
reduction by 2050.
This is not entirely British Columbia’s fault.
True, the tax might have been too low. Spending
some of the money on green initiatives might
have curbed emissions faster. But its experiment
has battled a harsh headwind: a collapse in the
prices of oil and gasoline.
Look at it this way. A study by Michael
Greenstone and Thomas Covert of the University
of Chicago and Professor Knittel concluded that
at current battery prices, for an electric vehicle to
be cheaper to run than a gas-power car, oil would
have to cost $350 a barrel. Last year, it averaged
$50. To make up the diﬀerence would require a
carbon tax of $700 a ton of carbon dioxide.
Nobody in British Columbia is talking about
going that far. But to hit its long-term target, the
advisory panel concluded that the tax must start
increasing again in 2018, at a rate of 10 Canadian
dollars a ton a year, perhaps all the way to midcentury.
And that’s where the support from business
starts to break down. If British Columbia were to
proceed on its own without providing some form
of protection to its energy intensive industries,
Mr. Finlayson argued, they would simply lose
markets to producers outside its borders that pay
no carbon tax.
Cement makers, for instance, argue that imports from China and the United States grew
from 5 to 40 percent of the market as the carbon
price was introduced and raised gradually to 30
Canadian dollars. Teck, the Canadian mining
company, says that alone among its competitors it
pays 50 million Canadian dollars in carbon taxes.
Rather than seeing the tax burden rise further,
said Marcia Smith, senior vice president for sustainability, Teck wants the gap narrowed.
The advisory panel recommends unspecified
adjustments to protect such trade-exposed industries. Still, the Business Council of British Columbia opposed an increase.
“Keep the B.C. carbon tax in place at the current level over the balance of the decade,” it recommended. “Post-2020, policy makers should
review the tax in light of actions by other jurisdictions to narrow the existing gaps with B.C. in
carbon pricing.”
British Columbia could do with some help
from its neighbors. Four other provinces have
carbon prices either pending or in place, though
they are generally much lower. If more embraced
a carbon tax, they would mitigate many of the
concerns over competitiveness.
The new Canadian government, headed by
Justin Trudeau, seems ready to come on board,
imposing some pan-Canadian minimum price. If
the United States embraced a carbon tax as part
of a comprehensive overhaul of its tax system, the
path would be much easier.
That, however, would require Republicans in
Washington to recognize that the threat of climate change is not simply a left-wing fantasy. If they
do, British Columbia underscores there is a market friendly way to do something about it.
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The San Juan Daily Star
A Swedish Girl, ISIS and a Cautionary
Tale of Global Terrorism
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
I
t was a running-away-from-home nightmare for the
age of global terrorism. Marilyn Nevalainen, a pregnant teenager, decided to follow her boyfriend last year
when he set out to wage jihad, leaving the lakes and forests
of southwest Sweden for life under the Islamic State in the
desert heat of Iraq.
Apparently lacking any clear idea of what she was getting herself into, she ended up with militants near Mosul,
with a new baby to care for and her boyfriend dead on an
Iraqi battlefield.
An undated photograph of Marilyn Nevalainen. The
Swedish teenager ended up with Islamic State militants
near Mosul, Iraq, with a new baby to care for and her
boyfriend dead on the battlefield.
Remarkably, Ms. Nevalainen, now 16, and her infant
son made it out alive. Much remains unknown about how
she turned up two weeks ago in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, and she has not spoken publicly beyond abrief
television interview in which she contended that she had
followed her boyfriend without knowing “what ISIS means,
what Islam is, nothing.” She is now back in Sweden.
Europe has been troubled for several years by the number of its young people who have run oﬀ to join the Islamic
State, and is increasingly concerned about the potential for
them to come home to carry out terrorist acts in their native
countries. Ms. Nevalainen stands out as a rare case in which
a young European went unwittingly into the heart of jihadist territory, ending up with the Islamic State, also known
asISIS or ISIL, and was freed.
Her story seems less one of ideology than of teenage rebelliousness and naïveté gone awry in a world where, with
a bit of determination, a young woman can travel unchallenged from Sweden to the war zones of the Middle East.
The second of at least four daughters of Pasi and AnnKristin Nevalainen, Marilyn grew up in a village in Sweden’s rural Mark Municipality. It was a childhood troubled
enough that her family voluntarily placed her in the care of
a foster family, according to neighbors and social services
oﬃcials.
“She was a problem girl,” said a longtime neighbor, who
spoke on the condition that she be identified only as Annika. “She didn’t like to go to school and the parents tried
to help her, but they were too late and she went away. If she
didn’t get to do what she wanted, she rebelled.”
Annika knew the Nevalainen family from when they
lived in Lekvad, a hamlet of winding gravel roads, vast
fields and few people. When night falls, the only lights are
from the lanterns on distant farm porches.
By Ms. Nevalainen’s account, given on Kurdish television once she was out of the Islamic State’s territory, she
dropped out of school when she was 14 and fell for her
boyfriend, a Muslim from North Africa who was five years
older and had immigrated to Sweden on his own by 2012,
according to records from the Swedish migration board.
It was a little less than a year after they met that the pair
left for Syria, in the summer of 2015.
In a jarring video that appears to be addressed to her
parents and was obtained by a Swedish tabloid, the Aftonbladet, a bearded young man who seems to be her boyfriend
and identifies himself as Mokhtar Mohammed Ahmed
speaks into the camera in Swedish, saying, “You can just
forget about this little girl, because she is never coming
back.”
The circumstances of how she eventually did come
back remain unclear. Senior Kurdish oﬃcials say she was
rescued on Feb. 17 by Kurdish special forces without a shot
being fired. The oﬃcials said they were able to locate her
using information derived from her occasional use of the
Internet, but they oﬀered no details.
A sheikh interviewed in the Kurdish city of Erbil said
he had been approached by the girl’s uncle, who he said
worked for Unicef, to try to get her out. The sheikh said he
had received photos of landmarks from Tel Keif, a village
near Mosul, that Ms. Nevalainen was able to send to identify her whereabouts. He claimed he had been able to arrange her escape with smugglers and was supposed to be
paid $35,000. He said that the next thing he knew, he saw
the girl on television — and that he had never been paid.
The release of foreigners by the Islamic State is rare;
most cases have involved ransoms. Kurdish oﬃcials denied
that any ransom was paid, and the Swedish government
and the girl’s parents have declined to provide any details.
Ms. Nevalainen’s case highlights how even villages in
the heart of rural Sweden are grappling with the presence
of increasing numbers of Muslim refugees, some of whom
may bring with them preconceptions about the West and
even allegiances to groups in fiery Middle East conflicts.
In his video, the young man believed to be Ms. Nevalainen’s boyfriend says the reason he and Marilyn left Sweden was racism.
“You have forced me to leave because you would not let
the two of us live in peace,” he said. He says with anger: “I
can’t live there because they are racists. I can’t live with racist people. Damn racists.”
Kurdish oﬃcials said he was killed fighting in Ramadi,
in western Iraq, sometime last fall. It is not clear if Ms. Nevalainen was forced to marry another fighter or lived with
other women.
The number and activities of extremists in Sweden have
grown greatly over the past 15 years, according to terrorism
experts. Sweden now has more would-be jihadists per capita going to fight for extremist groups than any European
country other than Belgium, according to a 2015 study by
the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and
Political Violence.
Recruiters for the Islamic State and for Al Qaeda aﬃliates active inSyria and other groups, including the Shabab,
target the second generation of immigrants, terrorism experts said.
“The issue of the foreign fighters is quite serious given
the numbers, but until last year there were very few barriers to people going,” said Magnus Ranstorp, the research
director at the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the
Swedish Defense University.
Ms. Nevalainen’s grandfather, Tenho Nevalainen, told
a local newspaper that her parents were worried about her
liaison with Mr. Ahmed.
“The family tried to keep her away from him,” he said.
In her interview on Kurdish television, Ms. Nevalainen
said, “At first we were good together, but then he started to
look at ISIS videos and start to speak about them and stuﬀ
like that, and I don’t know anything about Islam, or ISIS, or
something, so I didn’t know what he meant.”
When her boyfriend said he wanted to go fight for ISIS,
“I say to him, ‘O.K., no problem,’ because I didn’t know what
ISIS means, what Islam is, nothing.”
Soon after she arrived in Mosul she began to reach out
to her mother, according to her own account. In the television interview, she said it “was a really hard life” there.
“In the house we didn’t have anything — no electricity,
no water — and it was totally diﬀerent from our life in Sweden,” she said. (The man believed to be her boyfriend, in his
video, said she lacked for nothing.)
An initial eﬀort to rescue her, in October, failed, according to several people close to the family. Her grandfather
described that rescue attempt as “botched.”
Those who know her and her family said they wanted
her homecoming to bode well, but they sounded unsure.
“You have to hope that it goes well for her in the future,”
said Lisbeth Pehrsson, who lived across the street from the
family for many years. “And for her little boy, I hope so.”
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Afghan Boys: The New Face of Europe’s Migrant Crisis
In this photo taken last Wednesday, Elyas, 17, whose
legal guardian in Norway asked that his surname
not be published waits at a bus stop in Alta, northern
Norway.
T
he job in the Moscow warehouse was nothing like Elyas
and his brother had been promised. They loaded and
unloaded trucks from 4 in the morning until 8 at night.
They got two days oﬀ a year. Their backs ached.
So when the Afghan teenagers heard last fall that the border to Norway was open, they went for it. They sneaked into
their manager’s oﬃce at night, stole about $1,000 in cash and
made the trip by plane, taxi and bicycle.
Now Elyas, 17, is in a shelter for unaccompanied minors in
Alta, in the northernmost part of Norway, waiting to learn if he
will be sent back. He moves lethargically, and the dark circles
beneath his watery eyes make him look sad and tired.
“I can’t sleep at night,” Elyas says, his voice soft and brittle
as he tells his story. “When I close my eyes, all the bad things
come back.”
Elyas, whose legal guardian in Norway asked that his
last name not be published, is one of the tens of thousands of
Afghan teenagers who showed up on Europe’s doorstep last
year, in perhaps the most unexpected and challenging aspect
of the migrant crisis. In a matter of weeks last fall, Sweden alone received more than 20,000 young Afghans — equaling the
number of unaccompanied minors that applied for asylum in
all of Europe the year before.
“I have been in this business for a very long time, but this
was the most remarkable development I have ever seen,” says
Anders Ryden, an Afghanistan expert at the Swedish Migration Agency.
As asylum-seekers stream into Europe, the number of
unaccompanied children and teenagers among them overall
is soaring. In Norway and Sweden, about one in five last year
was a minor traveling alone, up from one in 10 the year before. Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands
also registered higher shares of unaccompanied minors compared with 2014. Everywhere, Afghan boys led the flow — not
Syrians, who make up the biggest group of adult asylum-seekers and families.
The exodus has put a new, youthful face on migration into
Europe. But it has also strained Europe’s capacity to receive
migrants even more, because minors traveling alone are given
priority in the asylum process and require attention from social services.
“We had to establish many more reception centers and bigger reception centers that didn’t have any previous experience
with unaccompanied minors,” says Birgitte Lange, deputy director of the Norwegian Immigration Directorate.
In Norway, two-thirds of the 5,300 unaccompanied minors
who sought asylum in 2015 were Afghans. They are now spread
out in special shelters across the country. The Associated Press
gained rare access to one of those shelters in Alta, a popular
place to observe the aurora borealis, the spectacular display of
dancing lights that fire up the sky in northern latitudes.
Elyas lives here in a former hostel with about 40 other boys
from Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea and other countries. Many
are traumatized by years of war, oppression and abuse in their
home countries, or shaken by an agonizing journey to Europe
at the mercy of brutal human smugglers.
“They are bad people,” Abdulkabir, a 15-year-old with a
wispy mustache and thick eyebrows, says of the smugglers
who took him from Afghanistan to Iran, Turkey and Bulgaria.
“When we want water they say ‘don’t have water, go fast, fast.’
When someone is sick they don’t stop for him.”
Other boys recount crossing the Sahara desert with little
food and water. One says he thought he had a 50-50 chance of
reaching Europe alive when he fled from a military training
camp for teenagers in Eritrea. Another says he was captured
by bandits in Libya who demanded ransom money from his
family in Ethiopia. He clearly wants to talk about what happened to him, describing dates, times and other details of his journey with great precision. When the manager of the shelter
suggests a break, he asks her not to interrupt him.
Back from a Norwegian class in school, the boys play video
games or billiards. Some are camped in front of the TV or at a
row of desktop computers, where they reach out to friends and
family on social media. They cook their own food in the kitchen, a new experience for many who didn’t even know how
to fry an egg before they left their families.
Ann Roarsen, one of five nurses working with refugees at
the Alta Health Center, says it’s not uncommon for the boys to
show stress symptoms, including heart palpitations, sweating,
anxiety, muscle pain and diﬃculty sleeping, once they’ve settled down from their journey. Some get depressed and resort to
deliberate self-harm, she says, making a cutting gesture over
her arm.
“We also have youth with suicidal thoughts,” Roarsen says,
adding that only those with the most severe mental problems
are oﬀered psychiatric help.
How to deal with the unaccompanied minors has become
one of the most heated discussions in Europe’s handling of the
migrant situation.
In Sweden, Europe’s top destination for unaccompanied
minors, not a week goes by without newly arrived teenagers
being accused of stabbings, fights, vandalism or sexual assaults. Sometimes the young migrants are the targets of violence themselves, like in late January when a mob of masked
hooligans vowed to “clean up” an area in downtown Stockholm.
In Alta, the situation has been relatively quiet. The boys say
they are treated well by the local residents. Renate Moe, who
oversees the shelter and another one for adults in Alta, says
there haven’t been any “big issues.”
There was an incident in November, however, when two
16-year-old boys from the shelter were moved to another town
after they were accused of harassing a 12-year-old Norwegian
girl walking home from school. The details of what happened
are unclear, but the girl was very frightened.
“Maybe it was just two boys trying to get to know the girl,
we don’t know,” Moe said.
Analysts are still trying to figure out why the Afghan numbers soared so suddenly in the fall. Most cite a deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, where civilian casualties of the
war rose to record levels for the seventh year in a row in 2015,
according to the United Nations. They say the violence, along
with a drop in prices for human smuggling and the images of
Syrian refugees entering Europe, combined to make Afghan
families decide this was the time to send their sons abroad.
“They probably thought that you have to jump on this train
before the doors close. Because most have figured out that sooner or later Europe will close up,” says Ryden of the Swedish
Migration Agency.
That’s already happening. Several countries, including
Sweden and Norway, have stepped up border controls. Amid
suspicions that some who claim to be minors are older than 18,
the Swedish government plans to introduce age tests in cases
when there is doubt.
Elyas and his brother were among the more than 5,000 migrants who entered Norway from Russia in the second half of
2015.
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They were taken to Russia, he says, by a powerful man in
his village who promised them work so that they could send
money to their parents. Instead, they finished each 16-hour
shift dazed and exhausted. Then they slept on mattresses on
the warehouse floor until the next shift started.
“They made us work like animals,” Elyas says.
The brothers wanted to escape to Norway but had no money. That’s when they stole the 70,000 rubles to pay for plane
tickets to the Arctic city of Murmansk and a five-hour taxi
ride to the Norwegian border.
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They crossed the boundary on bicycles — pedestrians
weren’t allowed across. And they were greeted by polite
Norwegian border police, so unlike the police oﬃcers they
knew from Afghanistan or Russia.
Elyas says he felt “like a bird that is free.”
After a brief stay in a border camp, he was transferred to
the Alta shelter. Because his brother is 18, he was taken to an
ordinary refugee shelter.
Under the 24-hour winter darkness of the polar night, relief at being safe gradually gave way to angst.
Elyas, whose case is still being processed by Norwegian
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immigration authorities, worries about being sent back to
Russia, “where I’m sure they are waiting for me and my brother. When they catch us I don’t know what they are going
to do.”
But most of all he worries about his parents. He hasn’t
spoken to them since he left Afghanistan. They are poor and
have no phone or Internet access. The thought he doesn’t want
to think, but that keeps coming back, is whether they were punished for their sons’ escape from the warehouse in Russia.
“I don’t know if they are alive or not,” Elyas says. For a moment, he looks like he’s struggling not to fall apart.
Boko Haram Falls Victim to a Food Crisis It Created
By DIONNE SEARCEY
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saw.
t first, the attack had all the hallmarks of a typical
Boko Haram assault. Armed fighters stormed a town
on the border with Nigeria, shooting every man they
But this time, instead of burning homes and abducting
hostages, the fighters gathered cows, goats and any kind of
food they could round up, then fled with it all.
Boko Haram, the Islamist group terrorizing this part of
the world, is on the hunt — for food.
After rampaging across the region for years, forcing
more than two million people to flee their homes and farms,
Boko Haram appears to be falling victim to a major food crisis of its own creation.
Farmers have fled, leaving behind fallow fields. Herdsmen have rerouted cattle drives to avoid the violence.
Throughout the region, entire villages have emptied, leaving
a string of ghost towns with few people for Boko Harm to
dominate — and little for the group to plunder.
“They need food. They need to eat,” Midjiyawa Bakari,
the governor of the Far North region of Cameroon, said of
Boko Haram. “They’re stealing everything.”
Across parts of northeastern Nigeria and border regions
like the Far North, trade has come to a halt and tens of thousands of people are on the brink of famine, United Nations
oﬃcials say. Markets have shut down because vendors have
nothing to sell, and even if they did, many buyers have been
scared oﬀ by the suicide bombers Boko Haram sends into
crowds.
The hunt for food appears to be part of what is pushing
Boko Haram deeper into Cameroon, according to an American State Department review of attacks in the first few weeks
of this year.
“They started shooting, shooting, shooting,” said Matte
Bama, recounting the night Boko Haram raided her town,
Amchide. Now she shares a house with 23 others, wondering when she can return home. “They took our livestock,”
she said. “They took everything and they left.”
Such attacks are becoming increasingly common in the
areas bordering Boko Haram’s base in northeastern Nigeria. A military campaign by Nigeria and its neighbors has
chased fighters fromvillages they once controlled. Now, officials contend, the militants are left to scrounge for food in
the sparse Sambisa Forest during the dry season, or go out
raiding for whatever they can find.
“Their supply routes are blocked,” said Brig. Gen. Rabe
Abubakar, a Nigerian military spokesman. “They’re hungry.”
This week, dozens of emaciated Boko Haram fighters,
along with captive women and children, surrendered to military oﬃcials in Nigeria, a situation the authorities expect to
repeat itself in coming weeks.
“They have nowhere to go,” General Abubakar said.
By early February, Boko Haram was estimated to have
stolen at least 4,200 head of cattle in Cameroon. In one attack
in early January, the militants descended on a town in Cameroon and took dozens of bicycles, wheelbarrows, and 150
small animals like sheep and goats — and then kidnapped
six people to help lead the animals back into Nigeria, according to the State Department review.
Boko Haram has also taken hostages and forced them to
raid cattle from other villages, it said.
But while some elements of Boko Haram may be battered, fighters still manage to carry out devastating attacks,
the results of which are on full display at the hospital in Maroua, the capital of the Far North. Shrapnel and burn victims
from recent attacks across various towns recuperate together. One young woman lay in a coma, her hair arranged in
perfect skinny braids.
Until last summer, when the suicide attacks in Cameroon’s Far North began, the most common ailments at the
hospital were stomach trouble and motorbike mishaps. It
didn’t even have a surgeon. Doctors Without Borders arrived to set up a large triage tent, and in January, a team
from the health ministry flew in to train workers in treating
war wounds. Now the hospital has been converted into a
conflict zone clinic, with a full-time surgeon and more to
come.
Recent joint operations by the Cameroonian and Nigerian militaries have captured and killed numerous fighters
and seized suicide belts, weapons and equipment for making mines. Oﬃcials hope to squeeze the fighters from both
sides of the border so they have nowhere left to run.
But the multinational military force — which includes
Chad, Niger and the American military in an advisory role —
sometimes has trouble securing territory once it is cleared.
In Cameroon, soldiers drove Boko Haram fighters from
the border town of Kerawa in October, but it has since been
assaulted at least six times, with militants beheading a young
man in one attack. Early last month, a suicide bomber entered
Kerawa and blew himself up behind a house, killing a tailor.
According to a State Department report on the episode, the
bomber had been looking for a large group of people to kill,
but after all the attacks in the town, the streets were empty.
The mass displacement caused by Boko Haram — and
by thesometimes indiscriminate military campaign to defeat it — has left 1.4 million people in the region without
A village hosting internally displaced people in Mora,
Cameroon, where Boko Haram fighters have conducted
raids on livestock. The hunt for food appears to be pushing the militants deeper into Cameroon.
adequate food supplies, the United Nations says. In Borno
State in northeastern Nigeria, where the situation is the most
acute, humanitarian workers say that 50,000 people are one
step away from famine. Along the Chadian border, farmers
typically trade their pepper crops for imported cereals and
grains. But the pepper fields have been abandoned and there
is little left to trade.
“We’re looking at a large-scale crisis in very remote
areas,” said Denise Brown, the West and Central Africa regional director for the World Food Programme. “This is not
a today problem. This is a tomorrow problem and a next year
problem unless it’s contained, and I don’t see it coming to a
halt soon.”
In the Far North of Cameroon, this time of year is a
moonscape of bone-dry river beds and clouds of dust so
thick they look like misty fog. The region is moving into
the so-called lean season, the in-between months when the
fruits of the previous harvest are being depleted and next
year’s crop is not yet ready.
Last year’s harvest was already smaller than usual
because of low rainfall. Water tables are low, and worries
are mounting about an adequate supply of drinking water,
especially at the refugee camp here that has new arrivals
daily.
About 55,000 refugees from Nigeria have taken shelter
in the camp, while 158,000 Cameroonians have been scattered across villages, often crammed into tiny shacks with
relatives and strangers until they can safely return home.
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Another Viewpoint
Puerto Rico vs the Entire US Capitalist System
By NELSON DENIS
T
he problem with Puerto Rico is not its debt. The problem
is not the vulture funds, all demanding immediate payment. The problem is that Puerto Rico, a tiny island in
the Caribbean Sea, is staring into the rifle barrel of the entire
US capitalist system.
Sooner or later, there will be an explosion.
A HISTORY OF SHOCK
For 118 years, Puerto Rico has provided a textbook illustration of Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism.
The US “liberated” Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898. Later
that same year, Hurricane San Ciriaco destroyed thousands of
the island’s farms and nearly the entire year’s coﬀee crop. Of
fifty million pounds, only five million were saved.
INAUGURATION OF CHARLES HERBERT ALLEN,
THE FIRST U.S. GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO
American hurricane relief was bizarre. The U.S. government sent no money. Instead, the following year it outlawed all
Puerto Rican currency and declared the island’s peso, whose
international value was equal to the US dollar, to be worth only
sixty American cents. Every Puerto Rican lost 40% of his or her
money overnight.
In 1901, the US passed the Hollander Act, which raised the
taxes on every farmer in Puerto Rico.
With higher taxes, crippled farms, and 40% less cash, the
farmers had to borrow money from US banks. But with no
usury law restrictions, interest rates were so high that within
a decade, the farmers defaulted on their loans and the banks
foreclosed on their land.
The U.S., which was undergoing its industrial revolution,
then turned a diversified island harvest (coﬀee, tobacco, sugar,
and fruit) into a one-crop, cash-cow economy.
By 1930, all of Puerto Rico’s sugar farms belonged to 41
syndicates. 80% of these were US-owned and the largest four
syndicates -- Central Guanica, South Puerto Rico, Fajardo Sugar and East Puerto Rico Sugar -- were entirely US-owned and
covered over half the island’s arable land.
With no money, crops, or land, Puerto Ricans sought work
in the cities. When the Puerto Rican legislature enacted a minimum-wage law like the one in America, the US Supreme Court
declared it unconstitutional. This decision was reached despite
AFL-CIO President Samuel Gompers’ testimony that “the salaries paid to Puerto Ricans are now less than 50% what they
received from the Spanish.”
To make matters worse, US finished products -- from rubber bands to radios -- were priced 15% to 20% higher on the
island than the mainland. Again, Puerto Rico was powerless to
enact any price-fixing legislation.
The US did give Puerto Ricans one gift. Over the objection
of the Puerto Rican legislature, Puerto Ricans were declared
US citizens in 1917, just in time for military conscription into
World War I.
A CLASSIC COLONY
After a fraudulent plebiscite in 1952, in which voting for
independence could get you ten years in jail (see Public Law 53
-- the Gag Law), the US filed papers with the United Nations
Decolonization Committee, declaring that Puerto Rico had
chosen to become a “freely associated state” with the US, and
was no longer a colony.
However, to this day, US federal agencies control the
island’s international trade, foreign relations, banking system,
currency, shipping and maritime laws, customs, import/export
regulations, immigration, postal system, radio, TV, transportation, Social Security, military, environmental controls, coastal
operations, judicial code, civil and criminal appeals, cabotage
rights, and the US Congress has plenary jurisdiction over any
law or regulation promulgated by the Puerto Rico legislature.
Congress can veto any law passed in Puerto Rico.
The US military presence is overwhelming. At its peak, no
one could drive five miles in any direction without running
into an Army base, nuclear site or tracking station. The Pentagon controlled 13% of Puerto Rico’s land and operated five
atomic missile bases. The island of Vieques was bombed mercilessly for 62 years. From 1984 through 1998 alone, over 1,300
warships and 4,200 aircraft used the island for target practice
and pounded it with 80 million pounds of ordnance.
The colonial veneer is so ludicrously transparent that José
Trías Monge, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto
Rico who crafted the “Free Associated State” and drafted the
Puerto Rican “constitution,” finally threw up his hands and
wrote a book titled Puerto Rico: Trials of the Oldest Colony in
the World (Yale University Press, 1997).
OPERATION BOOBY TRAP
From the mid-1950’s through 2006, the US paved a red carpet from Wall Street to San Juan. US corporations were given
ten and twenty-year tax exemptions on all gross revenues, dividends, interest, and capital gains income. Instead of growing
fruit, coﬀee, and sugar cane, Puerto Ricans now manufactured
bras and razors behind concrete walls.
Unfortunately, once Playtex and Schick found cheaper labor in Asia, the factories all disappeared. Once the IRS 936
tax exemption expired in 2006, the pharmaceutical companies vanished. All of them had repatriated their profits back
to the US mainland. None of them had invested in Puerto
Rico. In the end, rather than providing a true economic base
and self-sustaining growth, these corporations only produced more dependency on the US, and more long-term unemployment.
The program was originally called Operation Bootstrap.
With typical wit and accuracy, Congressman Vito Marcantonio
named it Operation Booby Trap.
THE JONES ACT
The greatest booby trap of all is the Merchant Marine Act
of 1920, aka the Jones Act. Under Section 27 of this Act, all goods carried by water between US ports must be shipped on US
flag ships that are constructed in the US, owned by US citizens
and operated by US citizens. That means that every product
that enters or leaves Puerto Rico must be carried on a US ship.
This includes cars from Japan, engines from Germany,
food from South America, medicine from Canada - any product from anywhere. To comply with the Jones Act, all this
merchandise must be oﬀ-loaded from the original carrier, reloaded onto a US ship and then be delivered to Puerto Rico.
It all makes as much sense, as digging a hole and filling it up
again.
There is one major exception.
A foreign-flagged vessel may enter directly into Puerto
Rico - after paying an extreme levy of taxes, customs, and import fees which often double the price of the goods they carry.
This is not a business model. It is a shakedown. It’s the
maritime version of the “protection” racket. A 40-year study
of this “cabotage cost” to Puerto Rico shows the following results:
From 1970 through 2010, the Jones Act cost Puerto Rico $29
billion. Projected from 1920 till the present, this cost becomes
$75.8 billion.
Ironically, this $75.8 billion cost is higher than the amount
of Puerto Rico’s current public debt. In other words: if the Jones
Act did not exist, then neither would the public debt of Puerto
Rico.
Also, if the Jones Act did not exist, 30,000 to 50,000 maritime jobs would immediately shift to the island from Jacksonville, Florida.
FOURTH LARGEST MARKET FOR US CORPORATIONS
The tiny island of Puerto Rico -- with only 3.6 million residents -- is the fourth largest market in the world for US products. 85 percent of all products consumed in Puerto Rico are
sold by US corporations. Puerto Rico has more Walgreens per
square mile, than anywhere in the US -- and more Walmarts
per square mile, than anywhere on the planet.
Thanks to the Jones Act, all these US products have been
“price-protected” for the past 96 years. Automobile prices are
$6,000 higher in Puerto Rico than the US. Some products -particularly unprocessed food items -- cost twice as much in
Puerto Rico.
Thanks to the Jones Act, the cost of living is 12 percent
higher in Puerto Rico than in the US. The per capita income of
Puerto Rico is $16,400 -- roughly half that of Mississippi, the
poorest state in the US.
SHRINKING TAX BASE
When the IRS tax exemptions expired in 2006, dozens of
pharmaceutical companies abandoned the island, and unemployment became rampant. With no economy of its own, no
real private sector, the government of Puerto Rico became the
island’s largest employer.
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Another Viewpoint
Over the past ten years, nearly one million Puerto Ricans
have moved to the US, largely in search of employment. This population loss of 22% has eroded the island’s tax revenue and accelerated the issuance of public debt.
This unhealthy equation … shrinking tax base + large payroll + mounting public debt … has exposed the government of
Puerto Rico, to the ways and whims of Wall Street.
LIES FROM WALL STREET
Puerto Rico’s bonds are highly attractive because they are
triple-tax exempt: all capital gains are exempt from federal, state
and local taxes. But with a 22% population loss, Wall Street demanded a higher level of taxation from the remaining 78% of island residents. The Wall Street rating services -- Fitch, Moody’s,
Dun & Bradstreet -- insisted on “fiscal austerities” to avoid the
downgrading of Puerto Rico’s debt.
The Puerto Rican government complied. They laid oﬀ 30,000
workers, charged 67% more for water, raised electricity rates to 29
cents per kilowatt hour, raised property and small business taxes,
hiked the gasoline tax twice in one year, cut public pensions and
health benefits, raised the retirement age, closed 200 schools, and
hiked the sales tax to 11.5%.
After all this austerity, the three rating services still downgraded the island’s debt to “Junk Bond” status. In other words,
Wall Street lied to Puerto Rico, then hiked the premium payments.
And now they want to collect.
The debt service on $73 billion will be rough $7 billion annually. With a population of 3.6 million, this means that every man,
woman, and child in Puerto Rico will be paying $2,000 per year,
just to cover the interest on Puerto Rico’s public debt. Since per
capita income is only $16,400, this $2,000 represents 12 percent of
everyone’s personal income.
With a shrinking tax base, Puerto Ricans are unable to meet
this crushing debt burden. Any further “austerities” will force
more people to abandon the island -- and the tax base will shrink
even further. As Governor Garcia Padilla stated in a nationally
televised speech, “Puerto Rico is a downward spiral.”
PUERTO RICO VERSUS THE ENTIRE U.S. CAPITALIST
SYSTEM
The stakes are very high. If Puerto Rico defaults, it would be
the largest in the history of the $3.7 trillion market for debt sold
by US state and local governments. All over the country, pension
funds will be unable to meet their payment obligations.
On the other hand, if Puerto Rico is allowed to file for Chapter
9 bankruptcy protection, then every state in the US will demand
the same privilege. The US financial system cannot withstand fifty states, all potentially filing for bankruptcy at the same time.
For this reason, the Puerto Rico debt crisis is a national financial crisis, with no clear resolution in sight. President Obama is
trying to ignore it -- hiding behind Congress, the courts, and the
bankruptcy laws -- but sooner or later, he will have to address it.
The entire system of municipal bond financing, and the fiscal
integrity of all fifty states are threatened by the crisis in Puerto
Rico. Even a simple debt re-structuring will not resolve this mess.
So long as Puerto Rico has no real industry, economy, or entrepreneurial class, the systemic problems will deepen.
SOLUTIONS
The Gordian knot of predatory capitalism must be cut in
Puerto Rico.
The Jones Act must be repealed as soon as possible. This will
establish a shipping industry throughout the island, and end the
price inflation of US products.
The Jones Act carrier companies -- Crowley, Sea Star, Horizon, Trailway -- should all be replaced by Puerto Rican shipping
companies.
All import fees levied on foreign-flagged vessels should be
paid into the Puerto Rican Treasury, not the US Merchant Marine.
Puerto Rico must be permitted to negotiate its international
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trade agreements. This will enable it to develop capital resources,
an entrepreneurial class, and a diverse economy.
A large number of maritime jobs in Jacksonville, Fla. -roughly 30,000 to 50,000 jobs -- must be rightfully re-located to
Puerto Rico.
Any ten and twenty-year tax abatement deals with US corporations should require the re-investment of a stipulated percentage of profits, into Puerto Rican infrastructure and industrial
development.
FAIRNESS AND COMMON SENSE
After 118 years, it is time for America to relinquish the oldest colony in the world. The present arrangement -- the so-called
“Free Associated State” -- benefits only a few bankers, bond traders, hedge funds, corporate executives, real estate hustlers, and
John Paulson. Morally and economically, it is time to move on.
It is an international scandal for the US to turn Puerto Rico
into a land of beggars and billionaires -- bossed by absent landlords, fought over by lawyers, and clerked by politicians.
The sooner it recognizes the fundamental evil of maintaining
a hidden colony in the Caribbean, the sooner the US will repair its
credibility in the global community.
Nelson Denis is an attorney, writer, film director, and former
representative to the New York State Assembly. He is the author
of “War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in
America’s Colony.” He can be contacted at nelsondenis248@aol.
com.
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Ambac Financial Gets Pressed to Make a Move
By ANTONY CURRIE
T
he Ambac Financial Group is getting the right pressure but
from the wrong place.
Ambac, a United States bond insurer that spent three years
in bankruptcy as a result of the financial crisis, is under threat of
a proxy fight from the hedge fund Canyon Capital Advisors. Canyon wants Ambac to hasten settlement proceedings on $4 billion of
claims originating from unstable mortgage debt bundles and other
instruments. The trouble is that the hedge fund has a position on
both sides of the trade.
Canyon is run by Joshua S. Friedman, an alumnus of Drexel
Burnham Lambert and Goldman Sachs, who owns about a 4.5
percent stake in Ambac, which insures about $1.1 billion in Puerto
Rico public debt. It also has “built a significant economic interest
in” the claims under dispute, according to a report this week by
Reuters, citing unnamed sources.
The logic of Ambac buying up as many claims as possible
makes sense. It will reduce interest costs and the financial guaran-
tor ought to be able to pay less than the face value it would require
if it waited for them to mature. Even Ambac seems to accept that
it’s a good idea. It bought $635 million worth last year.
As the company argues, though, snapping up too many of
them too quickly could hinder Ambac’s ability to meet other liabilities. These include debt issued by the city of Chicago and Puerto
Rico, both of which are under significant duress.
That ought to be of concern to Ambac shareholders. The outstanding $4 billion of claims dwarf Ambac’s $700 million market
value. Canyon also hasn’t disclosed how big a stake it has in the
troubled assets. A couple of other investors share similar views
to Canyon, Reuters reported last month, though they have not yet
even revealed their names — and not all are shareholders.
In an attempt to achieve its aims, Canyon is lording over Ambac the idea of trying to replace at least half of its board. While the
hedge fund may have a case, last decade’s mortgage bond boom
and bust is riddled with conflicts of interest at issuers, rating agencies, investment banks and investors alike. Even just a whiﬀ of
another one should be enough to put investors on edge.
Dr. Ricardo Angulo
Publisher
Manuel Sierra
Aaron Christiana
General Manager
Editor
Lisette Martínez
Advertising Agency Director
Maria Miranda
Local News Editor
Ray Ruiz
Legal Notice Director
Allan Gil
Internal Auditor
Sharon Ramírez
Legal Notices Graphics Manager
Ismael Reyes
Sports Editor/Assistant Editor
María Rivera
Graphic Artist Manager
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Spanish Actor Paco León Visits PR for Spanish Film Fest
One-Week Event Showcases the Best Films Made in Spain
By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO
[email protected]
Special to The STAR
P
uerto Ricans have been obsessed
with Spanish film festivals for decades, in part for our obvious connection with our native language, but more
than anything for that picante sense of humor that all Hispanics enjoy, long for, and,
more importantly, need!
With this in mind, Wiesner Distribution presents this week their first edition of Spanish Film Week at Caribbean
Cinemas’ Miramar location and Popular
Center Fine Arts Cinema Theaters in Hato
Rey. The festival premieres this Wednesday and ends on March 16.
Weisner Distribution were the masterminds who brought the super hit film
“Elsa and Fred” to Puerto Rico, which by
the way was shown for months to packed
theaters.
This festival’s icing on the cake is
the visit of media and crowds darlings
Paco León and Daniel Guzmán, scheduled to make cameo appearances at specific
showings during the week.
Francisco León Barrios, known as
Paco León, is a Spanish actor, comedian,
producer and director. Born in Seville, his
first television experiences were roles in
the comedy “Mariquilla Ríe Perlas” and
“”Castillos en el Aire” on Canal Sur. But his
real springboard to fame was the Antena
3 comedy sketch show “Homo Zapping”
(2003), in which he imitated with uncanny
precision television host and former Miss
Spain, Raquel Revuelta, which immediately stood him out among the cast.
He then returned to Telecinco with
the role of Luisma in “Aída” (2005), another giant home run, about which he recently told Spanish television’s Bertín
Osborne, “As soon as I read the script [of
“Aída], I knew it was meant for me. … I
can totally play this clumsy airhead barrio
boy.”
Alexandra Jiménez and Paco León in a
scene from “Embarazadas.”
Nowadays, Paco León has his own
production company where he directs and
produces films for a new generation of actors, including his equally talented and
hilarious mother Carmín Barrios (“Carmina y Revienta,” “Carmina y Amen”) and
sister María León, who won an Oscar in
2011.
For this week’s Spanish Film Week,
Paco León presents his latest film, “Embarazadas,” filmed in breathtaking San
Sebastián. It is a romantic comedy with
León and actress Alexandra Jiménez that
tells the story of Fran and Alina, a couple
in their 40s evaluating the dilemma of leaving a carefree life to care for a newborn
of their own … after 12 years of living together.
As part of the festival, producers are
also presenting Spanish actor Daniel Guzmán, from “Velvet,” a television series that
has locals glued to Netflix, and “Aquí no
hay quien viva.”
Guzmán has won two Goya Awards,
one for Best New Director, and a second
for Best Spanish Fictional Short Film.
Other films in the festival are: “A
Cambio de Nada,” “La Novia, Techo y Comida,” “The Olive Tree,” “Truman,” “La
Corina Partida” and “MA-MA.”
Shakespeare Commemorated with Staging of ‘Romeo & Juliet’
By MAX GONZALEZ
Special to The STAR
“R
omeo & Juliet” was staged
recently by Coda 21 at the
Luis A. Ferré Performing
Arts Center in Santurce on the occasion
of the 400th anniversary of William
Shakespeare’s death. It was a revival of
the production by the same company,
having had its premier a few years ago.
This time, however, it was presented in full splendor.
Coda 21, directed by Denise Eliza,
is a guarantee of a first-class, spectacular show involving all levels of dancing, acting, costumes and scenery integrated into a flawless experience and
expressing a contemporary modern
modality.
This production was certainly no
exception to that rule.
Juvenile Juliet, is once again the al-
ter ego of Denise Eliza, as a candied Juliet. Gina Patterson’s choreography is a
demonstration of dexterity going from
one scene to another, as in the romantic balcony scene. The choir is a choice
that fulfills all the required elements.
Romeo (Erik Kirk Hennings) was the
first dancer from Richmond ballet, impeccably interpreted from head to feet.
Ikar Murillo, who hails from Spain, as
the monk is one more remarkable dancer. Adriana Aybar in a secondary role
(La Locura, or Folly) radiated a powerful personality every time she appeared
on the stage, moving the dancers under her spell in a convincing endeavor.
Christina Soler as the narrator left something to be desired; her lines did not
get through -- her English diction was
rather blurred. The moments with dramatic impact such as the street brawl
and the dancing were reminiscent of
“West Side Story,” which of course was
based on the Shakespearean tragedy.
Watching a Coda 21 production
is to penetrate a new unheard of experience in theatrical dancing. The serious
concept develops a world of intangible
artistry that surpasses anything that
you have encountered in our local scene. That is probably the reason why
Coda 21 emerges as an exclusivity to
enjoy for the sake of the arts.
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HEALTH
Learning a New Sport May Be Good for the Brain
Gretchen Reynolds, Phys Ed columnist, learning to snowboard.
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
L
earning in midlife to juggle, swim, ride a bicycle or, in my case, snowboard could change and
strengthen the brain in ways that practicing
other familiar pursuits such as crossword puzzles or
marathon training will not, according to an accumulating body of research about the unique impacts of
motor learning on the brain.
When most of us consider learning and intelligence, we think of activities such as adding numbers,
remembering names, writing poetry, learning a new
language.
Such complex thinking generally is classified as
“higher-order” cognition and results in activity within certain portions of the brain and promotes plasticity, or physical changes, in those areas. There is
strong evidence that learning a second language as
an adult, for instance, results in increased white matter in the parts of the brain known to be involved in
language processing.
Regular exercise likewise changes the brain, as
I frequently have written, with studies in animals
showing that running and other types of physical activities increase the number of new brain cells created
in parts of the brain that are integral to memory and
thinking.
But the impacts of learning on one of the most
primal portions of the brain have been surprisingly
underappreciated, both scientifically and outside the
lab. Most of us pay little attention to our motor cortex,
which controls how well we can move.
“We have a tendency to admire motor skills,” said
Dr. John Krakauer, a professor of neurology and director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning
and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. We like watching athletes in action, he said.
But most of us make little eﬀort to hone our motor
skills in adulthood, and very few of us try to expand
them by, for instance, learning a new sport.
We could be short-changing our brains.
Past neurological studies in people have shown
that learning a new physical skill in adulthood, such
as juggling, leads to increases in the volume of gray
matter in parts of the brain related to movement control.
Even more compelling, a 2014 study with mice
found that when the mice were introduced to a complicated type of running wheel, in which the rungs
were irregularly spaced so that the animals had to
learn a new, stutter-step type of running, their brains changed significantly. Learning to use these new
wheels led to increased myelination of neurons in the
animals’ motor cortexes. Myelination is the process
by which parts of a brain cell are insulated, so that the
messages between neurons can proceed more quickly
and smoothly.
Scientists once believed that myelination in the
brain occurs almost exclusively during infancy and
childhood and then slows or halts altogether.
But the animals running on the oddball wheels
showed notable increases in the myelination of the
neurons in their motor cortex even though they were
adults.
At the same time, other animals that simply ran on
normal wheels for the same period of time showed no
increase in myelination afterward.
In other words, learning the new skill had changed the inner workings of the adult animals’ motor
cortexes; practicing a well-mastered one had not.
“We don’t know” whether comparable changes occur within the brains of grown people who take up a
new sport or physical skill, Dr. Krakauer said. But it
seems likely, he said. “Motor skills are as cognitively
challenging” in their way as traditional brainteasers
such as crossword puzzles or brain-training games, he
said. So adding a new sport to your repertory should
have salutary eﬀects on your brain, and also, unlike
computer-based games, provide all the physical benefits of exercise.
These considerations cheered me a few weeks
ago when I took to the slopes of my local mountain
for a weekend-long crash course in snowboarding.
(Crashing, regrettably, is inevitable while learning to
shred.) I had wondered if I might be too advanced in
years and hardened in the habits of skiing to learn
to ride. But the experience was in fact exhilarating
and glorious. Learning a new sport or skill when you
are old enough to be a parent to your instructor is
psychologically uplifting, as well as beneficial for the
body and brain. It reminds you that your body can
still respond, that it can still yearn for movement and
speed.
By the end of the second day, I attempted my first
moguls on a snowboard and completed precisely one
turn before auguring hindside into the slope and slipping and picking my way down the rest of the run.
But one mogul turn was 100 percent more than I had
managed before. I now aim to return to the mountain
and double that number to two turns, which is how
we learn and progress and, with luck, change our
minds — both literally and about our limits.
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Decline of Pollinators Poses Threat to World Food Supply, Report
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
T
he birds and the bees need help. Also, the butterflies,
moths, wasps, beetles and bats. Without an international eﬀort, a new report warns, increasing numbers of species that promote the growth of hundreds of
billions of dollars’ worth of food each year face extinction.
The first global assessment of the threats to creatures that pollinate the world’s plants was released by a
group aﬃliated with the United Nations recently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The summary was posted online
last week.
Pollinators, including some 20,000 species of wild bees,
contribute to the growth of fruit, vegetables and many
nuts, as well as flowering plants. Plants that depend on
pollination make up 35 percent of global crop production
volume with a value of as much as $577 billion a year. The
agricultural system, for which pollinators play a key role,
creates millions of jobs worldwide.
Many pollinator species are threatened with extinction, including some 16 percent of vertebrates like birds
and bats, according to the document. Hummingbirds and
some 2,000 avian species that feed on nectar spread pollen
as they move from flower to flower. Extinction risk for insects is not as well defined, the report notes, but it warned
of “high levels of threat” for some bees and butterflies,
with at least 9 percent of bee and butterfly species at risk.
The causes of the pressure on these creatures intertwine: aggressive agricultural practices that grow crops
on every available acre eliminate patches of wildflowers
and cover crops that provide food for pollinators. Farming
also exposes the creatures to pesticides, and bees are under attack from parasites and pathogens, as well.
Climate change has an eﬀect, as well, especially in the
case of bumblebees in North America and Europe, said Sir
Robert Watson, vice chairman of the group and director
of strategic development at the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research at the University of East Anglia.
Beekeepers using a smoker to calm colonies before
transferring them to another crop near Columbia
Falls, Me. Plants that depend on pollination make
up 35 percent of global crop production volume
with a value of as much as $577 billion a year.
A warming world changes the territories of plants and
pollinators, and changes the plants’ time of flowering, as
well, leading to a troubling question, posed by Dr. Watson: “Will the pollinators be there when the flowers need
them?”
The group issuing the report, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, is made up of 124 countries, including
the United States, and was formed through the United
Nations in 2012. It resembles in some ways the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with a focus
on providing analysis and policy proposals to promote
biodiversity.
The group did not conduct new research, but synthesized current studies and analysis to reach its conclusions.
The assessment, developed with the help of 80 experts,
does not take a conclusive position on two issues that environmental activists have focused on intensely.
The report states that the contribution of controversial
chemicals known as neonicotinoids “is currently unresolved.” Recent research suggests that even when the pesticides are present at levels that do not have lethal eﬀects
on individual insects, concentrations in the hive may have
long-term eﬀects on colonies of wild and managed bees.
The passionate opposition to these pesticides from
many environmental activists, however, “has almost hijacked the whole question of what’s causing the declines,”
said Simon Potts, a co-chairman of the assessment and
deputy director of the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research at Reading University. The report lays out many
contributing factors beyond insecticides to the pressures
on pollinators, and notes that they “can combine in their
eﬀects.”
The report also notes that the eﬀects on pollinators of
genetically modified organisms, including crops that are
resistant to insects or tolerant of insecticides, is not settled. “That’s a very clear knowledge gap,” Dr. Potts said.
“We’re brutally honest with the science.”
A scientist at Bayer, a producer of neonicotinoids, applauded the report. Dr. Christian Maus, global pollinator
safety manager for the company and one of the experts
who contributed to the report, said that it confirmed “the
overwhelming majority of the scientific opinion” on pollinator health — “that this is a complex issue aﬀected by
many factors.”
Laurie Adams, executive director of the Pollinator
Partnership, a group whose oﬃcials contributed expertise to the report, called the report a milestone that would
“make a practical and eﬀective contribution to finding solutions to pollinators challenges.”
The assessment is not structured to support advocacy,
but to give governments, policy makers and organizations
a sense of the current state of science and the options to
address problems, the authors said.
“The messages here are clear,” Dr. Watson said. “If you
want to protect pollinators, this is the suite of options you
should consider — or, could consider.”
Telescope Used On Armstrong’s Moon Landing Finds New Galaxies
A
n Australian telescope used to broadcast live vision of man’s first steps on the moon in 1969 has
found hundreds of new galaxies hidden behind
the Milky Way by using an innovative receiver that measures radio waves.
Scientists at the Parkes telescope, 355 km (220 miles)
west of Sydney, said they had detected 883 galaxies, a
third of which had never been seen before. The findings
were reported in the latest issue of Astronomical Journal
under the title ‘The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey’.
“Hundreds of new galaxies were discovered, using
the same telescope that was used to broadcast the TV pic-
tures from Apollo 11,” said Lister Staveley-Smith, a professor at the University of Western Australia’s International Center for Radio Astronomy Research.
“The electronic technology at the back end is substantially diﬀerent and that is why we can still keep using
these old telescopes,” he said.
The discoveries occurred as the scientists were investigating the region’s close proximity to the Great Attractor, a gravity anomaly in intergalactic space.
The Great Attractor appears to be drawing the Milky
Way towards it with a gravitational force equivalent more
than two million km per hour (1.24 million mph).
Using radio waves has allowed scientists to see be-
yond dust and stars in the Milky Way that had previously
blocked the view of telescopes, the study showed.
Staveley-Smith, the lead author on the Astronomical Journal, said scientists have been trying to get to the
bottom of the mysterious Great Attractor since major deviations from universal expansion were first discovered in
the 1970s and 1980s.
“It’s a missing part of the jigsaw puzzle, which is the
structure of our local universe,” said Michael Burton, a
professor at the University of New South Wales’ Physics
School.
“They have managed to pierce through it and complete
the picture of what our part of the universe looks like.”
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Estudio establece que el 25.3 por ciento de la población pediátrica de la isla tienen problemas visuales
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a primera invesƟgación representaƟva sobre la salud visual de niños y jóvenes en edad escolar que
se realiza en la Isla reveló que el 25.3 por ciento de esta
población pediátrica Ɵenen problemas visuales, que
afectan seriamente su desempaño académico.
El estudio, a cargo de la Escuela de Optometría
de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico y el
Colegio de Optómetras de Puerto Rico (COPR), establece también que uno de cada seis estudiantes del
sistema público, o unos 63,080 niños, están en riesgo
de fracasar académicamente por tener graves problemas de visión.
Según explicó Héctor SanƟago, director de InvesƟgación y catedráƟco de la Escuela de Optometría y
primer vicepresidente del COPR, el 6% de estos estudiantes Ɵene una visión pobre a distancia lo que dificultad la lectura de la pizarra y tareas lejanas.
Además, el 5.8% Ɵenen visión pobre de cerca, lo
que crea dificultades como leer un libro o copiar en su
libreta.
Mientras, el 4.8% Ɵene problemas de la vista mirando de lejos y de cerca. “Todos estos niños están en
riesgo de fracasar el año escolar porque simplemente
su visión es pobre”, sostuvo.
El académico detalló que estos niños pueden
tener síntomas de visión borrosa de lejos o de cerca,
síntomas de dolores de cabeza frontal o cansancio
visual. SanƟago explicó que como consecuencia de
estos problemas visuales los estudiantes pueden no
completen sus lecturas o asignaciones sin moƟvo aparente.
Añadió que aunque la visión de estos niños
puede corregirse con espejuelos, menos de un 5% disponía de ellos.
Mediante la invesƟgación denominada Errores
RefracƟvos y Disfunciones visuales en las Niños de
Puerto Rico (RESC), que promueve la salud visual para
todos, se han examinado a unos 2,500 estudiantes de
22 escuelas de niveles elemental, intermedia y superior
de las siete regiones educaƟvas que componen el Departamento de Educación, que colaboró en el estudio
en alianza con la Fundación Internacional de Leones,
La invesƟgación también demuestra que hay
unos 2,660 niños que están en riesgo de desarrollar
glaucoma por cambios en su reƟna.
Alrededor de 2,000 pudieran
desarrollar miopía alta colocándolos
en riesgo de condiciones catastróficas como desprendimiento de reƟna.
Entre tanto, otros 2,000 niños
Ɵenen hipermetropía alta con mayor
riesgo de ambliopía (ojo vago) y estrabismo (bizquera).
En cuanto a error refracƟvo que
requieran corrección con espejuelos
un 16.4% reflejan miopía significaƟva y un 13.1% hipermetropía significaƟva.
El estudio, además, ha revelado
que existe una tendencia de desarrollar miopía a parƟr de los 12 años.
“Nos preocupa los datos que revela esta invesƟgación toda vez que nos demuestra que cerca de
100,000 estudiantes de un total de 380,000 que están matriculados en el DE pudieran padecer alguna
condición visual y que a su vez su desempeño académico pudiera afectarse”, dijo el presidente de la Universidad Interamericana, Manuel J. Fernós.
Celia de Lourdes Feliciano, presidenta del Colegio,
estableció que “un niño que no ve bien puede fracasar
en la escuela y quedar rezagado, por lo que es un niño
con pocas probabilidades de éxito en la vida”.
Como parte de esta invesƟgación se realizó una
encuesta entre los padres que reveló que aunque el
95.5% piensa que la salud visual es
muy importante el 35.4% contestó
que nunca le habían examinado la
vista a sus hijos.
El 83.30% indicó que posee
plan médico, principalmente la Reforma de Salud, pero muchos padres
desconocen que el plan médico del
estado cubre los exámenes oculares.
Cabe destacar que el 90% de
los optómetras son proveedores
de la Reforma de Salud y que en el
país hay cerca de seis oŌalmólogos
pediátricos aproximadamente y
cerca de 10 oŌalmólogos generales
que aƟenden infantes o población
pediátrica aunque muy pocos de ellos aceptan la Reforma de Salud.
Investigan los factores de riesgo que inciden en la conducta de los jóvenes
F
uncionarios del gobierno, profesionales y organizaciones sin fines de lucro discuƟeron en mesa redonda en la sede de la organización de Crearte los factores de
riesgo que inciden en la conducta de los jóvenes.
La iniciaƟva forma parte de los esfuerzos que se realizan a través del plan nacional
para la prevención del maltrato a menores, se informó en declaraciones escritas.
“Los actos delicƟvos que involucran menores entre las edades de 18-21 años de
edad han tomado relevancia en estos días. Hemos visto a estos jóvenes a través de
los medios de comunicación y las agencias de ley y orden en arrestos por trasiego de
drogas e involucrados en hechos violentos”, indicó la secretaria de la Familia Idalia
Colón.
Añadió la Ɵtular de Familia que es urgente atender esa población y tener opciones
que aƟendan los problemas de violencia que se suscitan en las comunidades diariamente y que ponen en riesgo la vida de los niños y adolescentes.
La mesa de dialogo contó con el tesƟmonio de un joven quien vivió inmerso en el
ambiente de la pobreza, la privación y las drogas. El joven -cuya idenƟdad fue protegida- ahora es un trabajador social con maestría y planteó la necesidad de conocer las
comunidades y sus entornos desde adentro.
“Vivimos en la pobreza, marginados, olvidados. Viví en lugares donde exisơan puntos de drogas y me tocó muy de cerca la vida alrededor de ese mundo, ya que no
conocíamos otro. Creo que necesitamos más organizaciones que conozcan cómo se
trabaja desde adentro, desde las comunidades. Precisamente ayer aprobé mi grado
de maestría y mi meta es seguir hacia adelante y tener un futuro mejor”, indicó en su
tesƟmonio.
En las mesas de trabajo se plantearon tres sugerencias: integración de los servicios
que ofrecen las diversas agencias; idenƟficar servicios, necesidades y recursos de las
diversas organizaciones públicas y privadas y para evitar una duplicidad, y; desarrollar esfuerzos de prevención en la niñez temprana.
La mesa de dialogo estuvo consƟtuida por el jefe de fiscales José B. Capó; el subsecretario de Educación, Harry Valenơn; el administrador de Vivienda Pública, Gabriel J.
López Arrieta; el presidente de la organización Boys & Girls of Puerto Rico, Eduardo
Carrera Morales; el presidente del Colegio de Trabajadores Sociales de Puerto Rico,
Larry Alicea, y otros parƟcipantes.
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Bajan consistentemente las ventas al detalle en la segunda mitad de 2015
E
l director ejecuƟvo de la Compañía de Comercio y Exportación (CCE), Francisco Chévere, dio
a conocer que las ventas acumuladas para el año
2015 bajaron 1.42% en las cifras agregadas de la
encuesta de ventas al detalle para el año 2015, al
haberse completado la compilación de datos del
mes de diciembre.
Chévere indicó que “los resultados de este informe anual son preocupantes en la medida que
las ventas al detal reflejaron una tendencia consistente a la baja en la segunda mitad del 2015, lo que puede afectar las ganancias de los
establecimientos comerciales, incluyendo las PyMES y los recaudos del gobierno”.
Las ventas acumuladas de enero a diciembre de 2015 de los establecimientos comerciales en Puerto Rico disminuyeron $544.7 millones alcanzando un nivel de $37,845
millones en comparación con $38,389 en el 2014. Esto representó una reducción de
1.42% al comparar con el mismo periodo de doce meses del año anterior.
“La merma en las ventas al detal durante el 2015 corresponde principalmente a la
baja en la población debido a la migración ascendente hacia Estados Unidos. En el 2015
alrededor de 65,000 puertorriqueños emigraron del país mientras que en el 2014 emigraron 55,092 lo que representó un aumento de 18.1%. Además, las bajas significaƟvas
en el precio del petróleo y la consecuente reducción en el precio de la gasolina, han
provocado cambios en los patrones de consumo”, explicó.
Igualmente los precios de la gasolina registraron una merma significaƟva en el 2015
de -24.5%. Sin embargo, agregó, “la contracción de 1.42% en las ventas refleja un comportamiento más conservador y cauteloso del consumidor puertorriqueño”.
Las ventas en las estaciones de gasolina consƟtuyen aproximadamente el 15% del
total de las ventas al detal, “por lo que se puede esperar que los cambios en los precios
de la gasolina y en el total de las ventas al detal vayan en la misma dirección”, aseguró
en comunicado de prensa.
“La contracción proporcional menor en las ventas podría ser indicio de que los consumidores aun no Ɵenen confianza en que la baja en precios de la gasolina se sostendrá
por mucho Ɵempo y prefieren ser precavidos. De igual manera es posible que el ahorro
que representa la baja en el precio de la gasolina sobre el ingreso personal disponible
se esté canalizando hacia los servicios o la liquidación de deuda personal, lo que im-
plicaría cambios en los patrones de consumo que
ameritan ser estudiados con más profundidad”, expresó Chévere.
De acuerdo con el informe, otro factor a considerar sería un posible efecto neutralizador del
aumento en el impuesto sobre la venta (IVU) de
7.5% a 11.5% sobre los ahorros del consumidor
provenientes de la baja en el precio de la gasolina.
No obstante, en términos generales se observa que
la tasa de inflación en Puerto Rico, medida por el
cambio del Índice de Precios al Consumidor publicado por el Departamento del Trabajo
de Puerto Rico se redujo en -0.7% en el 2015 comparado con el año anterior.
Este informe indica que los establecimientos que reflejaron mayor contracción en
comparación con el 2014 fueron las estaciones de gasolina -9.65; Ɵendas de radios,
televisores y computadoras -3.73%; Ɵendas de ropa para damas -3% y los vehículos de
motor nuevos y usados -2.30%.
Mientras, se registró un aumento en las ventas en 11 de los 21 sectores detallistas.
Entre los sectores de mayor aumento en sus ventas fueron las mueblerías 5.16%, madera, materiales de construcción y casas móviles 3.43%, ferreterías 2.98% y otras Ɵendas
de mercancía general 2.79%.
Por otro lado, las regiones que registraron contracción en el 2015 fueron: Bayamón
-4.57, Guayama, -3.40%, Fajardo -2.76%, Ponce -1.93%, Caguas -1.59% y Arecibo
-0.57%. Mientras, las regiones que registraron aumento en sus ventas durante el 2015
fueron Mayagüez, Aguadilla y San Juan estas fueron 1.78%, 1.55% y .28% respecƟvamente.
Según el informe, las pequeñas y medianas empresas representaron el 70.9% del
total de las ventas al detal en Puerto Rico. Las ventas de este sector en 2015 totalizaron
$26,832 millones lo que representó una reducción en sus ventas de 1.89% en comparación con el 2014 cuando las ventas ascendieron a $27,347 millones.
Mientras que al comparar las ventas de diciembre de 2015 con el mismo mes en
2014 se registró una reducción de $36 millones ya que el mes de diciembre registró
ventas de $3,625.5 millones, mientras que en el mismo mes del 2013 registró un valor
de $3,662.2 millones. Esto representa una reducción en ventas de 1% en diciembre
2015 comparado con el mismo mes el año anterior.
La isla celebrará el mayor encuentro de salud pública en su historia
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a quinta Conferencia Puertorriqueña de Salud Pública, que reunirá en la Isla a los principales invesƟgadores y académicos internacionales en el área de la promoción de la
salud, se llevará a cabo del 2 al 4 de mayo en conjunto con el Encuentro Iberoamericano
de Escuelas de Salud Pública.
Así, en mayo, se dará el mayor encuentro de salud pública de la isla en su historia, en el
que el discurso magistral de la conferencia estará a cargo de José “Pepe” Mujica, expresidente de Uruguay.
“Este evento reunirá en Puerto
Rico a los principales profesionales, invesƟgadores y académicos internacionales del campo
de la salud pública, en el área de
la promoción de la salud. Ya hemos confirmado la parƟcipación
de invesƟgadores provenientes
de 19 países”, indicó el doctor
Hiram Arroyo, presidente del
comité organizador del evento
y catedráƟco de la EGSP.
Mujica hablará sobre la “Solidaridad políƟca y ciudadanía
por la salud”, en lo que será su primera comparecencia pública en la Isla
Entre los conferenciantes destaca la parƟcipación de Lucía Topolanski, quien es la esposa de Mujica y actual senadora de Uruguay.
Como parte del evento se discuƟrán temáƟcas tales como las consideraciones de Salud
Pública que impulsaron la ley de regulación del mercado de la mariguana en Uruguay, las
perspecƟvas de los sistemas de salud de América LaƟna, los determinantes sociales de
la salud en la República Dominicana, Haiơ y Puerto Rico y el reto de los viejos en Puerto
Rico.
También se abordarán los desaİos y las realidades de la migración y la salud pública en
Puerto Rico.
“La conferencia se ha converƟdo en el principal encuentro anual para dialogar sobre la
salud pública, y en esta ocasión, se combinará con la solidaridad políƟca. Invitamos a los
profesionales de la salud, a la comunidad académica y al público en general a ser parte de
este momento histórico”, expuso el doctor Ralph Rivera, decano de la Escuela Graduada de
Salud Pública.
Entre los países que estarán representados en el evento se destacan Brasil, Chile Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, España, Estados Unidos, Guatemala, Haiơ, Italia, México,
Panamá, Perú, Portugal, República Dominicana, Trinidad y Tobago, Uruguay y Puerto Rico.
La conferencia coincidirá con la celebración de los 75 años de la enseñanza de la salud
pública en Puerto Rico, ya que en 1941 se iniciaron las primeras ofertas académicas conducentes al grado.
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Red Sísmica destaca importancia del ejercicio de tsunami CaribeWave 2016
P
or octavo año consecuƟvo, la Red Sísmica de Puerto Rico
(RSPR), adscrita al Departamento de Geología del Recinto
Universitario de Mayagüez (UPRM), formará parte, junto a otras
agencias federales, nacionales y regionales, del ejercicio de tsunami denominado CaribeWave 2016.
El evento, conocido anteriormente como CaribeWave/Lantex, se llevará a cabo el 17 de marzo, desde las 10:00 de la mañana.
“El propósito del CaribeWave es mejorar la eficacia del
Sistema de Alerta de Tsunami a lo largo de las costas del Caribe.
Asimismo, este brinda una oportunidad para que las organizaciones de gesƟón de emergencias de toda la región, prueben
sus líneas de comunicaciones operacionales, revisen sus pro-
cedimientos de respuesta y promuevan la preparación ante los
tsunamis”, explicó Víctor Huérfano Moreno, director de la RSPR.
Para este ejercicio, el escenario uƟlizado es un terremoto de
magnitud 8.4 al norte de Venezuela el cual genera un tsunami
que afecta a todo el Caribe, incluyendo las costas de Puerto
Rico e Islas Vírgenes. El movimiento telúrico tendrá origen el 17
de marzo de 2016, a las 10:00 de la mañana.
A través de la página oficial redsismica.uprm.edu/caribewave
los que deseen parƟcipar tendrán la oportunidad de inscribir a
su familia, agencia, escuela, entre otros.
Allí también encontrarán el manual que describe el escenario que se uƟlizará para Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes, así como la
Cronología de la Mensajería de Tsunami para el Escenario
Estudiantes de Arquitectura acusan supuestos actos de hostigamiento por parte de la administración universitaria en la UPR
E
l Consejo de Estudiantes de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de
Puerto Rico (UPR) repudió los “actos de hosƟgamiento que se han estado llevando a cabo contra estudiantes por parte de varios miembros de la administración y algunos docentes de la Escuela de Arquitectura”.
Según informan en declaraciones escritas, “estas acciones surgen a raíz de que
el pasado miércoles 24 de febrero, en asamblea ordinaria, el estudiantado de la
Escuela le solicitara la renuncia al decano, Francisco Rodríguez Suárez, por su parƟcipación en el esquema de las becas presidenciales y varias irregularidades administraƟvas que surgen sobre viajes realizados en el verano de 2012”.
Se indica que desde el jueves pasado estudiantes les noƟficaron que han sido
abordados por algunos docentes y personal para cuesƟonarlos y hasta inƟmidar-
los por su apoyo a la salida del decano Rodríguez.
José Ángel Morales, presidente del cuerpo estudianƟl, denunció que en una reunión de profesores por contrato convocada y presidida por el decano, se acordó
redactar una carta en apoyo a la gesƟón de Rodríguez Suárez.
“Durante esta semana se incitó a un empleado del Decanato de la Escuela, en
horas laborables, para el recogido de firmas en apoyo a la gesƟón del decano,
uƟlizando así recursos de la Universidad de forma indebida”, detalló el dirigente
estudianƟl.
“Es grave que en el primer centro docente del país se esté dando un patrón de
hosƟgamiento por el hecho de objetar la gesƟón de un administrador”, aseguró
el estudiante de Bachillerato en Diseño Ambiental.
Seilhamer cuestiona venta de activos que puede llevar a la
quiebra a la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda
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l portavoz del ParƟdo Nuevo Progresista (PNP) en el Senado, Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez, someƟó la Resolución 1354 para que el Senado invesƟgue la venta a descuento de préstamos hipotecarios de viviendas unifamiliares y mulƟfamiliares de la
Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda (AFV), y el efecto de estas transacciones en la liquidez de la enƟdad.
“Tenemos conocimiento de la venta de acƟvos sólidos de la AFV que podrían afectar
directamente la operación y conƟnuidad de la enƟdad. En enero, la juntas de directores del Banco Gubernamental de Fomento (BGF) y de la AFV autorizaron la venta de
una cartera de préstamos hipotecarios de viviendas unifamiliares y otra de viviendas
mulƟfamiliares a un banco comercial”, informó Seilhamer.
Agregó que el acuerdo se hizo “para pagar aceleradamente las líneas de crédito que
Ɵene la AFV con el BGF y darle liquidez a este úlƟmo. La transacción consisƟó de 503
pagarés hipotecarios unifamiliares y 26 pagarés hipotecarios mulƟfamiliares, con precio de venta a descuento”.
Del mismo modo, el senador señaló que recientemente se efectuó la segunda venta
con descuento de préstamos hipotecarios que consisƟó en 18 préstamos unifamiliares y mulƟfamiliares.
“En esta úlƟma transacción se vendieron préstamos que generan ingresos estables
a la AFV, que son considerados sus mejores acƟvos y representan el mayor porcentaje
de sus ingresos. Por consiguiente, las ventas a descuento provocarán que la AFV inicie
un proceso de pérdidas operacionales millonarias, lo que la llevaría a deteriorar su
liquidez financiera aceleradamente y, como consecuencia, afectar su futura existencia”.
El políƟco sostuvo que debido a que no existe en las resoluciones de la Juntas del
BGF y AFV una explicación sobre los efectos de estas transacciones en la estabilidad
financiera de la enƟdad, es necesario que se haga de forma urgente una invesƟgación.
“Tenemos que conocer el detalle de las consecuencias a corto y a largo plazo de estas transacciones. La falta de solidez financiera de la AFV pone en riesgo importantes
fondos federales que nutren los programas Home y Sección 8”, indicó.
A juicio del legislador, es altamente preocupante que “en su mayoría se trata de préstamos otorgados bajo el programa de subsidio de arrendamiento y de mejoras para
vivienda a las personas de mayor edad con ingresos bajos, conocido como Programa
Ley 173. Este sector de la población es muy vulnerable ante atrasos en sus préstamos
que podrían resultar en un proceso de ejecución hipotecaria”.
Seilhamer Rodríguez advirƟó que “estas acciones con acƟvos importantes podrían
provocar la descapitalización de la AFV, que ha sido una enƟdad esencial para mantener la industria hipotecaria en la isla y proveer facilidades de financiamiento, subsidios
e incenƟvos de vivienda a miles de familias de ingresos bajos y moderados”.
Finalmente, Seilhamer dijo que “los direcƟvos del BGF y la AFV Ɵene que explicar por
qué se recurrió a estas ventas y, sobre todo, presentar un panorama sobre las consecuencias de las mismas para la AFV”.
Monday, March 7, 2016
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Official Registry of Legal Notices
LEGAL NOTICE
Propiedad, Sección Primera de
Bayamón. THEREFORE, the
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- first public sale shall be heId
TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- on the 18 day of March 2016,
TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
at 10:15am and the minimum
ROOSEVELT CAYMAN bid that will be accepted is the
sum of $112,700.00. In the
ASSET COMPANY
event said first public auction
Plaintiff, vs.
does not produce a bidder and
NORMA IRIS
the property is not adjudicated,
CONCEPCION
a second public auction shall
RIVERA A/K/A NORMA be held on the 25 day of March
CONCEPCION RIVERA, 2016, at 10:15am and the minimum bid that will be accepted
Defendant
CIVIL NO. 15-1359 (JAF) RE; is the sum of $75,133.33,2/3
FORECLOSURE OF MORT- parts of the minimum bid for
GAGE IN-REM NOTICE OF the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in
SALE.
the adjudication and sale of the
TO: NORMA IRIS
property, a third auction will be
CONCEPCION
held on the 1 day of April 2016,
RIVERA A/K/A NORMA at 10:15am and the minimum
CONCEPCION RIVERA bid that will be accepted is the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA sum of $56,350.00, 1/2 of the
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED minimum bid for the 1st public
STATES SS COMMONWEALTH sale. Upon confirmation of the
OF PUERTO RICO. Consent sale, an order shall be issued
Judgment in favor of plaintiff canceling all junior liens. For
for the sum of Ninety Seven further particulars, reference is
Thousand Five Hundred Twel- made to the judgment entered
ve Dollars with Fifty Five Cents by the Court in this case, which
($97,512.55) in principal, inter- can be examined in the Office
est which continues to accrue of the Clerk of the United Stauntil full payment of the debt at tes District Court. In San Juan,
the rate of 6.95% per annum, Puerto Rico, this 18 day of Feaccrued late charges; and any bruary, 2016. Aguedo de la Toother advance, charge, fee or rre, Special Master.
disbursement made by plaintiff
on behalf of defendant, in accorLEGAL NOTICE
dance with the mortgage deed,
IN THE UNITED STATES DISplus costs, and 10% in attorney
TRICT COURT FOR THE DISfees; Pursuant to the judgment,
TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
the undersigned Special Master
ROOSEVELT CAYMAN
was ordered to sell at public
ASSET COMPANY II
auction for United States cuPlaintiff, vs.
rrency in cash or certified check
without appraisement or right of
OSVALDO NIEVES
redemption to the highest bidder
ACEVEDO, LOURDES
and at the office of the Clerk of
ESTHER
ROHENA PEREZ
the United States District Court
AND THE CONJUGAL
for the District of Puerto Rico,
Federico Degetau Federal BuilPARTNERSHIP
ding, Chardón Street, Hato Rey, CONSTITUTED THEREIN,
San Juan, Puerto Rico or any
Defendants
other place designated by said CIVIL NO. 15-2507 (PAD) RE;
Clerk, to cover the sums adjud- COLLECTION OF MONIES
ged to be paid to the plaintiff, FORECLOSURE OF MORTthe following property: URBA- GAGE NOTICE OF SALE.
NA: Solar número 15 del bloTO: OSVALDO NIEVES
que N de la Urbanización Bella
ACEVEDO, LOURDES
Vista Gardens, identificada en
el plano de inscripción como ESTHER ROHENA PEREZ
Madison Development radicado
AND THE CONJUGAL
en el Barrio Buena Vista de BaPARTNERSHIP
yamón, que comprende un área UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
de 307.05 metros cuadrados. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
En lindes por el NORTE, en una STATES SS COMMONWEALTH
distancia de 13.33 metros, con OF PUERTO RICO. Consent
el solar número 16 del bloque Judgment in favor of plaintiff
“N”; por el SUR, en una distan- for the sum of One Hundred
cia de 13.35 metros, con la calle Four Thousand Seven Hundred
numero 16; por el ESTE, en una Eighty Nine Dollars with Twelve
distancia de 23.00 metros, con Cents ($104,789.12) in princiel solar numero 14 del bloque pal, interest which continues to
“N”; y por el OESTE, en 23.00 accrue until full payment of the
metros, con un área de parque. debt at the rate of 4.75% per
Enclava edificación. Consta annum, accrued late charges;
inscrita al folio 262 del tomo and any other advance, charge,
1005 de Bayamón Sur, finca fee or disbursement made by
número 45,197. Registro de la plaintiff on behalf of defendant,
in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and 10%
in 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
the highest bidder and at the
office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the
District of Puerto Rico, Federico Degetau Federal Building,
Chardón Street, Hato Rey, San
Juan, Puerto Rico or any other
place designated by said Clerk,
to cover the sums adjudged to
be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización
Sabana Gardens, situado en el
barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, marcado con el numero 16
de la manzana 6 con un área
de 361.93 metros cuadrados,
en lindes por el NORTE, con
Paseo Público en 15.50 metros;
por el SUR, con la calle número
5 en 15.50 metros; por el ESTE,
con el solar numero 17en 23.35
metros; y por el OESTE, con
el solar número 15 en 23.35
metros. Enclava una casa de
cemento para una familia. Inscrito al folio 81 del tomo 241 de
Carolina, finca número 9200
(antes 17,341). Registro de la
Propiedad, Seccion Primera
de Carolina. THEREFORE, the
first public sale shall be held
on the 18 day of March 2016,
at 10:00am and the minimum
bid that will be accepted is the
sum of $109,600.00. 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 25 day of March
2016, at 10:00am and the minimum bid that will be accepted
is the sum of $73,066.66, 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
heId on the 1 day of April 2016,
at 10:00am and the minimum
bid that will be accepted is the
sum of $54,800.00, 1/2 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. In San Juan,
Puerto Rico, this 18 day of February, 2016. Aguedo de la Torre, Special Master.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
Carrasquillo Nieves, con metro (68.626 mts.), con Juan BIENES GANANCIALES
en seis (6) alineaciones
FELICITA, AlDA LUZ,
COMPUESTA POR
última dirección en Carr. Diaz,
que suman cuarenta y cuatro
CARMEN GLORIA,
AMBOS
853, KM 13.3, Bo. Cedros, metros con ochocientas miléANíBAL, RAMÓN,
Demandada
Carolina, PR; Rosendo, simas de otro metro (44.801
CARMEN ROSA y
mts.), con terrenos de Sucesión CIVIL NUM.: DCD2013-2423
Lucila y Haydee t/c/c
Gonzalo Carrasquillo, en cuatro SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
FÉLIX, TODOS CALO
María Haydee, todos
alineaciones que suman cin- - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
CARRASQUILLO;
Rodríguez Carrasquillo, cuenta y un metros con sesenta POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA ESGUSTAVO y SAMARY, miembros de la Sucesión y cinco milésimas (51.065 mts.), TADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
AMBOS CASTRO CALO
con terrenos de Delia Carras- EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESde Anita Carrasquillo
quillo, en once (11) alineacio- TADOS UNIDOS SS ESTADO
y SAMMY CASTRO
Nieves y con última
que suman ciento veintiséis LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERGARCíA; ESTE ÚLTIMO
dirección conocida en nes
metros con doscientos dieci- TO RICO AVISO DE SUBASTA.
REPRESENTADO POR
Carr. 853, Km. 13.8, Bo. nueve milésimas de otro metro Yo, Edgardo E. Vargas, Alguacil
SU MADRE CON PATRIA
Cedros, Carolina, PR; (126.219 mts.), con Sucesión del Tribunal de Primera InstanSala de Bayamón, notifico
POTESTAD MARILYN
Héetor Orta Carrasquillo, Martín Carrasquillo, en seis (6) cia,
alineaciones que suman trein- a los demandados, público en
GARCIA
heredero de Elena
ta y cuatro metros con ciento general y personas con algún
PETICIONARIOS
Carrasquillo Nieves,
ocho milésimas de otro metro interés, que cumpliré con un
EX-PARTE
con
última
dirección
(34.108 mts.), y, por el Oeste, Mandamiento librado por el SeCIVIL NÚM: FJV2015-0904.
conocida en Carr. 853, en catorce metros con ciento cretario del Tribunal de epígraSOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOfe, el 9 de diciembre de 2013, la
MINIO. CITACiÓN POR EDIC- Interior 945, Bo. Barrazas, treinta y dos milésimas de mecual fue notificada y archivada
tro
(14.132
mts.),
con
Camino
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
Carolina, PR; todo el
en autos el 12 de diciembre
Municipal,
en
once
(11)
alineaAMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE
que tenga algún interés, ciones que suman doscientos de 2013. En dicha Sentencia
DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO
o derecho real sobre el sesenta y nueve metros con se condena a la parte demanLIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.
a satisfacer la suma de
inmueble
descrito en la trescientos ocho milésimas de dada
A: Georgina Carrasquillo
otro metro (269.308 mts.), con $701,359.46 más las costas,
Petición de Dominio del
Matos t/c/c Georgina
terrenos de Sucesión José L. gastos, honorarios de abogado;
caso de epígrafe, a las Carrasquillo y en dieciséis (16) y demás créditos accesorios
Trinidad, sucesora de
personas ignoradas, a alineaciones que suman ciento garantizados hipotecariamente.
Sotero Carrasquillo
quienes
pueda perjudicar dos metros con doscientos se- Conforme a lo anterior, vendeNieves, inmediato anterior
senta y seis milésimas de otro ré en pública subasta, al mejor
la
inscripción,
a los
dueño, 595 Trinity, Ave.
(102.266 mts.,), con Que- postor en pago de contado y en
anteriores dueños, o sus metro
Apt 5 H, Bronx, NY,
brada Honda. Sobre la antes moneda del curso legal de los
herederos y, en general, a descrita propiedad enclava una Estados Unidos de América,
10455; Gloria Pizarro
toda persona que desee estructura para uso residencial todo derecho, título e interés
Carrasquillo, Israel
en hormigón y bloques. “ Este que hayan tenido tengan o
oponerse.
Clemente Carrasquillo y
puedan tener los deudores dePOR LA PRESENTE: se les Tribunal ordenó que se publique
Mirna, José Luis, Ramón, notifica que los peticionarios de la pretensión por tres (3) veces mandados en cuanto al bien inLuis y Jossie, todos Ayala epígrafe, miembros de la Suce- durante el término de veinte mueble que ubica en: 36 Belén
San Patricio, Guaynabo,
Carrasquillo, sucesores sión de Ramón Calo Birriel e (20) días en un periódico de Altura
circulación general diaria, para Puerto Rico, que se describe a
Ignacia
Carrasquillo
Nieves
han
de Delfina Carrasquillo
continuación: URBAN: Lot maruna Petición para que todas las personas arriba
Nieves, inmediata anterior presentado
ked number 36 Alturas de San
que se declare a favor de ellos, mencionadas y todas aquellas
Patricio Development, Pueblo
dueña, de quienes
el dominio que tienen sobre la desconocidas a quienes pueda
Viejo Ward, Municipality of Guase desconocen sus
siguiente propiedad: “RÚSTICA: perjudicar la inscripción o deynabo, Puerto Rico, area 97.676
seen
oponerse,
puedan
así
haparaderos; sucesores Parcela de terreno radicada en
square meters. Bounded on the
el Barrio Carruzos de Carolina, cerlo dentro del término de veinde Héctor Rodríguez
NORTH, with Belen Street, in
con una cabida superficial de te (20) días a partir de la última
Carrasquillo, heredero de cuarenta y dos mil ciento dieci- publicación del presente edicto. 14.310 meters; on the SOUTH,
Aníta Carrasquillo Nieves, séis metros cuadrados con sie- Por tanto firmo expido la pre- with Summit Hills Development,
meters, 0.92 meters and
inmediata anterior dueña te mil seiscientos ochenta y una sente en Carolina, Puerto Rico, 6.32
a 5 de agosto de 2015. MIRIAM 8.210 meters; on the EAST, with
diezmilésimas
de
otro
metro
y los de Amado Calo
lot number 37 of said Develop(42,116.7681 m.c.), ROSA MALDONADO, SecreCarrasquillo, heredero cuadrado
ment, in 36.836 meters and on
taria
Regional.
Rosa
M.
Viera
equivalentes a diez cuerdas con
the WEST, with lot number 35 of
de Cruz Carrasquillo
siete mil ciento cincuenta y siete Velazquez, SubSecretaria.
the said Development, in 28.880
Nieves, de qUienes se diez milésimas de otra cuerda
meters. Enclava una casa. InsLEGAL
NOTICE
(10.7157
cdas.)
y
en
lindes,
por
desconocen nombres
crito al folio 290 del tomo 663
y paraderos; Orlando el Norte, en diez (10) alineacio- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de Guaynabo, finca número
nes que suman ciento ochenta DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU26,465 Registro de la PropieRodríguez Meléndez
y un metros lineales con dos- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
dad de Puerto Rico, Sección
e Ismael Rodríguez
cientas milésimas de otro metro SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
de Guaynabo. El tipo mínimo
(181 .272 mts.), con terrenos de
Meléndez, heredero
BANCO POPULAR DE para la subasta será la suma de
Sucesión
Martín
Velázquez,
en
de Ismael Rodríguez
$644,800.00. De declararse la
PUERTO RICO, INC.
(1) alineación de diez meCarrasquillo y, a su vez, una
subasta desierta, y de celebrarDemandante v.
tros con doscientos ochenta y
de Anita Carrasquillo, siete milésimas de otro metro WILLIAM DÍAZ IRIZARRY se una segunda subasta, el tipo
mínimo será dos terceras (2/3)
con última dirección
(10 .287 mts.), con Camino MuT/C/C WILLIAM R.
partes del tipo mínimo establenicipal;
por
el
Sur,
en
nueve
(9)
conocida en Carr.
DÍAZ IRIZARRY T/C/C cido para la primera subasta, el
alineaciones que suman ciento
853, Km. 13.4, Interior,
cual asciende a $429,866.66.
WILLIAM ROBERTO
ochenta metros con quinientos
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
Bo. Cedros, Carolina, sesenta y ocho milésimas de
DIAZ IRRIZARY; IRIS
PR; Ismael Velázquez otro metro (180.568 mts.), con MOJICA PÉREZ T/C/C adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo mínimo
terrenos de Gladys CarrasquiRodríguez, miembro
IRIS V. MOJICA PÉREZ de la tercera subasta la mitad
de la Sucesión de Irma llo; por el Este, en tres (3) aliT/C/C IRIS VICTORIA
(1/2) del tipo mínimo pactado
que suman sesenta
Rodríguez Carrasquillo neaciones
MOJICA PÉREZ Y LA para la primera subasta el cual
y ocho metros con seiscientos
y, a su vez, de Anita
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE asciende a $322,400.00. Si se
veintiséis milésimas de otro
DE CAROLINA.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (787) 743-3346
declarase desierta la tercera
subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo
adjudicarse el bien subastado
a opción del demandante. Art.
221 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30
L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo
el día 30 de marzo de 2016, a
la(s) 11:00 de la mañana. De
declararse desierta, se llevará a
efecto una segunda subasta el
día 6 de abril de 2016, a la(s)
3:00 de la tarde. De declararse
desierta, se llevará a cabo una
tercera subasta el día 13 de
abril de 2016, a la(s) 3:00 de
la tarde. La subasta o subastas
antes indicadas se llevarán a
efecto en mi oficina, localizada
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón. Se
le advierte a los postores o licitadores que la adjudicación del
bien inmueble a subastarse se
hará al mejor postor o licitador
victorioso, 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. 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. Con el producto
que se obtenga de la subasta
se le pagará a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia
hasta donde alcance, y se pondrá al adjudicatario o licitador
victorioso en posesión de la
propiedad subastada, libre de
cargas y gravámenes posteriores, dentro del término de veinte
(20) días a partir de celebrada
la subasta. Para cumplir con lo
anterior, el Alguacil queda facultado, de ser necesario, para
romper candados y cerraduras
que impidan el acceso a la propiedad subastada. Todos los
interesados quedan notificados
de 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. 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
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Legal Notice
(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, así
como en la Colecturía más cercana al lugar de residencia de la
parte demandada, cuando ésta
fuera conocida, y se le notificara
además a la parte demandada
vía correo certificado con acuse
de recibo a la última dirección
conocida. 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
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 25
de agosto de 2014. Edgardo
E. Vargas, Alguacil Tribunal De
Primera Instancia Sala De Bayamón.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
RAFAEL IVAN IRIARTE
GRANA y su esposa
MARTA CATALINA FEBO
LOPEZ y la Sociedad
Legal de Bienes
Gananciales compuesta
por ambos
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. JCD2013-0965
(G028) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria) EDICTO DE SUBASTA
Al: Público en General
A: RAFAEL IVAN IRIARTE
GRANA y su esposa
MARTA CATALINA FEBO
LOPEZ y la Sociedad
Legal de Bienes
Gananciales compuesta
por ambos
Yo, ADELLE E. MORALES RODRIGUEZ, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a
los acreedores y personas con
interés sobre la propiedad que
más adelante se describe, y al
público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 31 de marzo
de 2016, a la 1:30 de la tarde
en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto
Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble
que más adelante se describe
y cuya venta en pública subasta
se ordenó por la vía ordinaria.
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
34
día 7 de abril de 2016, a la 1:30
de la tarde; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se
celebrará una tercera subasta
el día 14 de abril de 2016, a la
1:30 de la tarde en mi oficina
sita en el lugar antes indicado.
La propiedad a venderse en
pública subasta se describe
como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela
marcada con el número cuatro
(4) del Barrio Pastillo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto
Rico, con una cabida de cuatro
mil treinta y cinco punto setenta y dos metros cuadrados
(4,035.72 m.c.), equivalentes a
un punto cero veintisiete cuerdas (1.027 cda.). En lindes por
el NORTE, en una distancia
de sesenta y uno punto nueve
siete tres metros (61.973 m.),
con el solar designado como
número tres (3) en el mencionado plano de distribución; por
el SUROESTE, en dieciséis
segmentos que totalizan una
distancia de ciento veinte punto
tres dos siete metros (120.327
m.) (así surge); por el SURESTE, en colindancia con el remanente de futuro uso público,
en dos segmentos que totalizan una distancia de treinta y
seis punto cinco cinco metros
(36.55 m.); y por el NORESTE,
en colindancia con la carretera
principal del proyecto Mansiones del Sur, en tres segmentos
rectos que totalizan trece punto
nueve ocho metros (13.98 m.)
y un segmento en curva con
ángulo central de cuarenta y
seis (46) grados veintidós (22)
minutos y cincuenta y siete (57)
segundos, un radio de cincuenta punto cero cinco nueve, un
arco de cuarenta punto cinco
dos cuatro metros (40.524 m.),
con una tangente de veintiuno
punto cuatro cuatro seis metros (21.446 m.) y una curva
de treinta y nueve punto cuatro
dos siete (39.427) y un rumbo
sur cuarenta y siete (47) grados
cinco (5) minutos dos (2) segundo este. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio
126 vuelto del tomo 1058 de
Ponce, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce II, finca número
24,080, inscripción 4ta. La subasta se llevará a efecto para
satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $327,270.81 de
principal, intereses al 6.125%
anual, desde el día 1ro. de
abril de 2013, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad
de $36,800.00 estipulada para
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, todas cuyas suman
están líquidas y exigibles. Que
la cantidad mínima de licitación
en la primera subasta para el
inmueble será de $368,000.00
y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima
será equivalente a 2/3 partes
de aquella, o sea, la suma
de $245,333.32 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la
cantidad mínima será la mitad
del precio pactado, es decir, la
suma de $184,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor
postor, quien deberá satisfacer
el importe de su oferta en mo-
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Monday, March 7, 2016
neda legal y corriente de los
Estados Unidos de América en
el momento de la adjudicación
y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese,
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. EN
TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL,
expido el presente Edicto para
conocimiento y comparecencia
de los licitadores, bajo mi firma
y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce,
Puerto Rico, a 5 de febrero de
2016. ADELLE E. MORALES
RODRIGUEZ-254 ALGUACIL
TRIBUNAL SALA SUPERIOR
DE PONCE.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN
JUAN.
AUTORIDAD PARA EL
FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA
VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO, representado por
el BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
KELVIN ROBERTO
CUBANO ROBLES
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: KCD2014-1331
SALA: 903 SOBRE: COBRO
DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN
DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA
ORDINARIA EDICTO DE SUBASTA ESTADO UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
SS EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO
RICO. YO, Diana I. Navarro
Cruz, Alguacil, División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Centro Judicial de
San Juan, Puerto Rico: CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONSTAR: Que
en cumplimiento con un MANDAMIENTO DE EJECUCION
DE SENTENCIA que me ha
sido dirigido por el Secretario de
este Tribunal en el caso arriba
mencionado, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor entre
la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto
Rico, y aquellas personas que
reúnan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley, de contado y por
moneda del cuño legal de los
Estados Unidos de América, en
efectivo, cheque certificado o
giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, en mí oficina
sita en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Centro Judicial de
San Juan, el día 30 de marzo de
2016, a las 10:00 de la mañana
todo derecho, título o interés
que tenga la parte demandada
en la finca que se describe más
adelante. El tipo mínimo para la
primera subasta lo será la suma
de $53,350.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa primera
subasta, se establecerán una
segunda y tercera subasta, en
las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, respectivamente, el día 6
de abril de 2016, a las 10:00 de
la mañana y el día 13 de abril de
2016, a las 10:00 de la mañana.
Los tipos mínimos para dichas
segundas y tercera subastas
lo serán respectivamente, las
dos terceras partes y la mitad
del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o
sea, $35,566.66 y $26,675.00
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número mil cuatrocientos
tres (1,403), localizado en el décimo cuarta planta del Edificio
número uno (1) del Condominio
Torres de Andalucía que radica
en la Calle Marginal Oeste de
la Carretera Estatal número
ciento ochenta y uno (181), Expreso Trujillo Alto, kilómetro uno
(1), hectómetro dos (2), Barrio
Sabana Llana, Río Piedras,
Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de ochocientos ocho
punto ochenta y siete (808.87)
pies cuadrados equivalentes
a setenta y cinco punto quince (75.15) metros cuadrados.
Consta de sala, comedor, tres
dormitorios, cocina, lavandería,
baño y “closets”. En lindes por
el NORTH, por donde tiene su
acceso de entrada y salida con
un pasillo que lo comunica con
el resto del edificio, escalera y
patio posterior; por el SUR, con
el patio delantero; por el ESTE,
con parte lateral y por el OESTE, con la pared que lo separa
del Apartamento número mil
cuatrocientos dos (1,402). Le
corresponde una participación
en los elementos comunes
equivalentes a cero punto dos
tres nueve cero por ciento
(0.2390%). Le corresponde un
espacio de estacionamiento
marcado con el número mil cuatrocientos tres (1,403). Inscrita
al folio doscientos noventa y
uno (291) del tomo seiscientos
treinta y ocho (638) de Sabana
Llana. Finca número veinticinco mil setecientos ochenta y
seis (25,786). Registro de la
Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. La dirección física
es: Cond. Torres de Andalucía,
181 Marginal Oeste, Apt 1403,
Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico 00976.
Dichos remates se llevarán a
efecto para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el
importe de la Sentencia que ha
obtenido ascendente a la suma
de $38,340.82 de principal;
intereses al 7% anual desde el
día 1ro de noviembre de 2013,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$5,335.00 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios. Los
autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria incoado
en este caso, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este
Honorable Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que
todo licitador que comparezca
a la subasta señalada en este
caso acepta como bastante la
titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier
carga y/o gravamen anterior
y/o preferente, si lo hubiere, al
crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente,
entendiéndose además, que el
remanente los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos. Sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. Por el presente se
le notifica los titulares de créditos y/o cargas regístrales posteriores, que se celebrarán las
subastas en las fechas, horas y
sitio anteriormente señalados, y
se les invitan a que concurran
a dichas subastas si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer
antes del remate, el importe
del crédito, de sus intereses,
costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedándose
entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante,
siempre y cuando reúnan los
requisitos y cualificaciones de
Ley para que pueda efectuar
tal subrogación. Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos
de este Tribunal y en Tres (3)
lugares públicos del municipio,
donde habrá de celebrarse la
subasta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se
publicará además en la Colecturía del lugar de residencia del
demandado, cuando éste fuere
conocido. Así mismo este aviso
será publicado mediante edicto
dos (2) veces en un periódico
de circulación general diaria
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por el término de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas
publicaciones. En adición se le
notificará este aviso a la parte
demandada mediante correo
certificado con acuse de recibo.
El Alguacil de este Tribunal venderá la propiedad antes descrita en pública subasta, al mejor
postor entre la AUTORIDAD
PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO
DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO y aquellas personas que
reúnan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley, libre de cargas
y gravámenes de clase alguna.
El Alguacil pondrá al comprador
en posesión de la propiedad
mediante el lanzamiento de los
ocupantes de la misma dentro del término legal de veinte
(20) días a contar de la fecha
en que se efectúe la venta en
pública subasta y se encuentra
facultado a a romper cualquier
cerradura de la propiedad para
efectuar lanzamiento de sus
ocupantes. EXPEDIDO el presente en SAN JUAN, Puerto
Rico a 12 de febrero de 2016.
Diana I. Navarro Cruz, Division
De Subastas Tribunal De Primera Instancia Centro Judicial
De San Juan.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN
JUAN.
AUTORIDAD PARA EL
FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA
VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO, representado por
el BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
SONIA VERDEJO
RODRIGUEZ
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: KCD2014-1996
SALA: 908 SOBRE: COBRO
DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN
DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA
ORDINARIA EDICTO DE SUBASTA ESTADO UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
SS EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO
RICO. YO, Diana I. Navarro
Cruz, Alguacil, División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Centro Judicial de
San Juan, Puerto Rico: CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONSTAR:
Que en cumplimiento con un
MANDAMIENTO DE EJECUCION DE SENTENCIA que me
ha sido dirigido por el Secretario de este Tribunal en el caso
arriba mencionado, venderé en
pública subasta al mejor postor
entre la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de
Puerto Rico, y aquellas personas que reúnan los requisitos y
calificaciones de Ley, de contado y por moneda del cuño legal
de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre
del Alguacil del Tribunal, en mí
oficina sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial
de San Juan, el día 30 de marzo
de 2016, a las 9:00 de la mañana todo derecho, título o interés
que tenga la parte demandada
en la finca que se describe más
adelante. El tipo mínimo para la
primera subasta lo será la suma
de $35,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa primera
subasta, se establecerán una
segunda y tercera subasta, en
las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, respectivamente, el día
6 de abril de 2016, a las 9:00 de
la mañana y el día 13 de abril de
2016, a las 9:00 de la mañana.
Los tipos mínimos para dichas
segundas y tercera subastas
lo serán respectivamente, las
dos terceras partes y la mitad
del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o
sea, $23,333.33 y $17,500.00
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: URBANA: Solar
marcado con el número noventa
y tres (93) del plano de inscripción del Proyecto ARF veintisiete (27) denominada Los Pinos
radicado en el Barrio Santurce
del término municipal de San
Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ciento noventa y seis punto sesenta y siete
(196.67) metros cuadrados. En
lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de recursos naturales,
en diecisiete punto ochenta y
dos (17.82) metros y cero punto setenta y dos (0.72) metros;
por el SUR, con el solar número noventa y uno (91), en trece
punto sesenta y dos (13.62)
metros, tres punto cincuenta
y seis (3.56) metros y cuatro
punto cincuenta (4.50) metros;
por el ESTE, con la Calle “E”,
en siete punto ochenta y ocho
(7.88) metros y por el OESTE,
con terrenos de recursos naturales, en once punto noventa y
cuatro (11.94) metros. Consta
inscrita al folio ciento treinta y
uno (131) del tomo novecientos
cuarenta y seis (946) de Santurce Norte, finca número cuarenta
mil seiscientos ochenta y cinco
(40,685). Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección
Primera. La dirección física es:
Hipólito St., noventa y tres (93)
Villa Palmera, San Juan, Puerto
Rico cero cero nueve uno cinco
(00915). Dicha propiedad grava
el siguiente gravamen posterior: HIPOTECA: En garantía
de un pagaré a favor de La Autoridad para el Financiamiento
de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico,
o a su orden, por la suma de
quince mil dólares ($15,000.00)
de principal, sin intereses y
vencedero el día primero (1)
de febrero del dos mil diecisiete (2017), según consta de la
escritura número treinta y seis
(36), otorgada en San Juan, el
día once (11) de febrero del dos
mil nueve (2009), ante el notario Carlos E. Umpierre Schuck,
e inscrita al folio ciento treinta
y uno (131) del tomo mil ciento
setenta y siete (1,177) de Santurce Norte, finca número cuarenta mil seiscientos ochenta y
cinco (40,685), inscripción quinta (5ta.). Condiciones de Subsidio, por ocho (8) años, bajo “La
Llave Para Tu Hogar”. Dichos
remates se llevarán a efecto
para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el
importe de la Sentencia que ha
obtenido ascendente a la suma
de $27,910.98 de principal; intereses al 7.00% anual desde
el día 1ro de marzo de 2012,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$3,000.00 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios. Los
autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria incoado
en este caso, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este
Honorable Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que
todo licitador que comparezca
a la subasta señalada en este
caso acepta como bastante la
titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier
carga y/o gravamen anterior
y/o preferente, si lo hubiere, al
crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente,
entendiéndose además, que el
remanente los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos. Sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. Por el presente se
le notifica los titulares de créditos y/o cargas regístrales posteriores, que se celebrarán las
subastas en las fechas, horas y
sitio anteriormente señalados, y
se les invitan a que concurran
a dichas subastas si les convi-
niere, o se les invita a satisfacer
antes del remate, el importe
del crédito, de sus intereses,
costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedándose
entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante,
siempre y cuando reúnan los
requisitos y cualificaciones de
Ley para que pueda efectuar
tal subrogación. Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos
de este Tribunal y en Tres (3)
lugares públicos del municipio,
donde habrá de celebrarse la
subasta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se
publicará además en la Colecturía del lugar de residencia del
demandado, cuando éste fuere
conocido. Así mismo este aviso
será publicado mediante edicto
dos (2) veces en un periódico
de circulación general diaria
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por el término de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas
publicaciones. En adición se le
notificará este aviso a la parte
demandada mediante correo
certificado con acuse de recibo.
El Alguacil de este Tribunal venderá la propiedad antes descrita en pública subasta, al mejor
postor entre la AUTORIDAD
PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO
DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO y aquellas personas que
reúnan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley, libre de cargas
y gravámenes de clase alguna.
El Alguacil pondrá al comprador
en posesión de la propiedad
mediante el lanzamiento de los
ocupantes de la misma dentro del término legal de veinte
(20) días a contar de la fecha
en que se efectúe la venta en
pública subasta y se encuentra
facultado a a romper cualquier
cerradura de la propiedad para
efectuar lanzamiento de sus
ocupantes. EXPEDIDO el presente en SAN JUAN, Puerto
Rico a 12 de febrero de 2016.
Diana I. Navarro Cruz, Division
De Subastas Tribunal De Primera Instancia Centro Judicial
De San Juan.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN.
AUTORIDAD PARA
EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE
LA VIVIENDA DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
MARIA TERESA
MARTINEZ GONZALEZ
Demandada
CIVIL NÚM: KCD2011-2364
SALA: 602 SOBRE: COBRO
DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EDICTO DE SUBASTA
ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS EL PUEBLO
DE PUERTO RICO. YO, Diana I.
Navarro Cruz, Alguacil, División
de Subastas del Tribunal de
The San Juan Daily Star
Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto Rico:
CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento con
un MANDAMIENTO DE EJECUCION DE SENTENCIA que me
ha sido dirigido por el Secretario de este Tribunal en el caso
arriba mencionado, venderé en
pública subasta al mejor postor
entre la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de
Puerto Rico, y aquellas personas que reúnan los requisitos y
calificaciones de Ley, de contado y por moneda del cuño legal
de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre
del Alguacil del Tribunal, en mí
oficina sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial
de San Juan, el día 30 de marzo
de 2016, a las 9:30 de la mañana todo derecho, título o interés
que tenga la parte demandada
en la finca que se describe más
adelante. El tipo mínimo para la
primera subasta lo será la suma
de $57,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa primera subasta, se establecerán
una segunda y tercera subasta,
en las mismas oficinas de este
Alguacil, respectivamente, el
día 6 de abril de 2016, a las
9:30 de la mañana y el día 13
de abril de 2016, a las 9:30 de
la mañana. Los tipos mínimos
para dichas segundas y tercera
subastas lo serán respectivamente, las dos terceras partes y la mitad del tipo mínimo
que se pactara para la primera
subasta, o sea, $38,000.00 y
$28,500.00 respectivamente.
La propiedad objeto de subasta se describe como sigue:
URBAN: APARTMENT NUMBER ONE THOUSAND NINE:
An apartment irregular shaped
with an area of five hundred
forty square feet with thirty
seven hundredths of a square
foot equivalent to fifty square
meters with twenty hundredths
of a square meter, with boundaries on the NORTH, in three feet
nine inches, with the stairway
hall through which it has exit
and entry access and in sixteen
feet seven inches, with the external wall which faces one of
the parking areas and which
itself bounds on the North, with
Street “A” of this Project; on
the SOUTH, in twenty feet four
inches, with the external wall
which faces the interior square
common to buildings one and
two; on the EAST, in twenty two
feet six inches, with a common
dividing wall which separates
it from Apartment number one
thousands ten and in four feet
four inches, with the stairway
hall an on the WESDT, in twenty
six feet ten inches, with a common diving wall which separates
it from Apartment number one
thousand eight. This apartment
consists of two (2) bedrooms,
living dining room, kitchen and
bathroom. Le corresponde un
porcentaje en los elementos
comunes de punto veinticinco
(.25%). Consta inscrita al folio
ochenta y ocho (88) del tomo
mil cuatrocientos setenta y uno
(1,471) de Rio Piedras Norte,
finca número veintinueve mil
veintitrés (29,023). Registro
de la Propiedad de San Juan,
Sección Segunda. La dirección de la propiedad es: Apt.
mil nueve (1009) B, Quintana
Condominio, San Juan, Puerto
Rico, cero cero nueve uno siete
(00917). Que dicha propiedad
se encuentra gravada por el
siguiente gravamen posterior:
HIPOTECA: En garantía de un
pagaré a favor de La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de
la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a
su orden, por la suma de tres
mil ochocientos dieciséis punto
ochenta ($3,816.80) de principal, sin intereses y vencedero
el día dieciocho (18) de marzo de dos mil catorce (2014),
según consta de la escritura
número ciento noventa y siete
(197), otorgada en San Juan,
el día dieciocho (18) de marzo
de dos mil ocho (2008), ante
el notario Pedro R. Cintrón Rivera, e inscrita al folio ochenta
y nueve (89) del tomo mil cuatrocientos setenta y uno (1,471)
de Río Piedras Norte, finca número veintinueve mil veintitrés
(29,023), inscripción décima
(10ma.). Condiciones de Subsidio bajo “La Llave para tu Hogar”, por ocho (8) años. Dichos
remates se llevarán a efecto
para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el
importe de la Sentencia que ha
obtenido ascendente a la suma
de $54,396.13 de principal; intereses al 6.50% anual desde el
día 1ro de noviembre de 2010,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$5,586.00 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios. Los
autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria incoado
en este caso, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este
Honorable Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que
todo licitador que comparezca
a la subasta señalada en este
caso acepta como bastante la
titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier
carga y/o gravamen anterior
y/o preferente, si lo hubiere, al
crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente,
entendiéndose además, que el
remanente los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos. Sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. Por el presente se
le notifica los titulares de créditos y/o cargas regístrales posteriores, que se celebrarán las
subastas en las fechas, horas y
sitio anteriormente señalados, y
se les invitan a que concurran
a dichas subastas si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer
antes del remate, el importe del
crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado
asegurados, quedándose entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante,
siempre y cuando reúnan los
Monday, March 7, 2016
requisitos y cualificaciones de
Ley para que pueda efectuar tal
subrogación. Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos
de este Tribunal y en Tres (3)
lugares públicos del municipio,
donde habrá de celebrarse la
subasta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se
publicará además en la Colecturía del lugar de residencia del
demandado, cuando éste fuere
conocido. Así mismo este aviso
será publicado mediante edicto
dos (2) veces en un periódico
de circulación general diaria
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por el término de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas
publicaciones. En adición se le
notificará este aviso a la parte
demandada mediante correo
certificado con acuse de recibo.
El Alguacil de este Tribunal venderá la propiedad antes descrita en pública subasta, al mejor
postor entre la AUTORIDAD
PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO
DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO y aquellas personas que
reúnan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley, libre de cargas y
gravámenes de clase alguna. El
Alguacil pondrá al comprador
en posesión de la propiedad
mediante el lanzamiento de los
ocupantes de la misma dentro del término legal de veinte
(20) días a contar de la fecha
en que se efectúe la venta en
pública subasta y se encuentra
facultado a a romper cualquier
cerradura
de la propiedad
para efectuar lanzamiento de
sus ocupantes. EXPEDIDO el
presente en SAN JUAN, Puerto
Rico a 12 de febrero de 2016.
Diana I. Navarro, Division De
Subastas Tribunal De Primera
Instancia Centro Judicial De
San Juan.
LEGAL NOTICE
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL
DE SAN JUAN.
AUTORIDAD PARA EL
FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA
VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO, representado por
el BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
PABLO ENRIQUE LUGO
MACHICOTE, SANDRA
ENID FLORES PABON;
En su carácter personal
y la sociedad legal de
bienes gananciales
compuesta por ambos
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: KCD2014-0248
SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EDICTO DE SUBASTA ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. YO,
Diana I. Navarro Cruz, Alguacil,
División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Cen-
tro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto
Rico: CERTIFICO Y HAGO
CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento con un MANDAMIENTO
DE EJECUCION DE SENTENCIA que me ha sido dirigido por
el Secretario de este Tribunal
en el caso arriba mencionado,
venderé en pública subasta al
mejor postor entre la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de
la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, y
aquellas personas que reúnan
los requisitos y calificaciones de
Ley, de contado y por moneda
del cuño legal de los Estados
Unidos de América, en efectivo,
cheque certificado o giro postal
a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, en mí oficina sita en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Centro Judicial de San Juan, el
día 30 de marzo de 2016, a las
10:30 de la mañana todo derecho, título o interés que tenga
la parte demandada en la finca
que se describe más adelante.
El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta lo será la suma de
$37,700.00. De no adjudicarse
la propiedad en esa primera subasta, se establecerán una segunda y tercera subasta, en las
mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, respectivamente, el día 6 de
abril de 2016, a las 10:30 de la
mañana y el día 13 de abril de
2016, a las 10:30 de la mañana.
Los tipos mínimos para dichas
segundas y tercera subastas
lo serán respectivamente, las
dos terceras partes y la mitad
del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o
sea, $25,133.33 y $18,850.00
respectivamente. La propiedad objeto de subasta se describe como sigue: URBAN:
HORIZONTAL
PROPERTY:
Residential Apartment number
1,005 is rectangular in shape
and located in Condominio Madrid Plaza, VBC one two tree
(VBC-123), which is located at
General Pavio Street in Sabana
Llana Ward of the Municipality
of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with
a total superficial area of private use of 1,231.86 square feet
(gross) measuring twenty ninth
(29) feet four (4) inches in length by forty two (42) feet three
(3) inches in width bounded by
the NORTH, by the corridor; by
the SOUTHERN, exterior wall
of the building; by the EAST, by
the Apartment number 1,004;
by the WEST, by Apartment
number 1,006. The principal entrance faces the corridor. This
unit consists of a living-dining
room, four (4) bedrooms with a
closet each, two (2) bathrooms
with a linen closet, a hallway
with a storage room, laundry
and a porch. The bathroom includes shower stall, washbasin
and toilet and the kitchen a stove with oven, a sink, space for
refrigerator and a water heater.
Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes
equivalente a punto cero cero
cinco siete ocho (.00578%).
Consta, inscrita al folio ciento
catorce (114) del tomo quinientos ocho (508) de Sábana Llana, finca número veintiún mil
treinta y uno (21,031). Registro
de la Propiedad de San Juan,
Sección Quinta. La dirección
residencial es: Cond. Madrid
Plaza, Apt. mil cinco (1,005),
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, cero
cero nueve dos cuatro (00924).
Dichos remates se llevarán a
efecto para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el
importe de la Sentencia que ha
obtenido ascendente a la suma
de $27,992.29 de principal;
intereses al 7.00% anual desde el día 1ro de abril de 2013,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$3,770.00 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios. Los
autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria incoado
en este caso, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este
Honorable Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que
todo licitador que comparezca
a la subasta señalada en este
caso acepta como bastante la
titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier
carga y/o gravamen anterior
y/o preferente, si lo hubiere, al
crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente,
entendiéndose además, que el
remanente los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos. Sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. Por el presente se
le notifica los titulares de créditos y/o cargas regístrales posteriores, que se celebrarán las
subastas en las fechas, horas y
sitio anteriormente señalados, y
se les invitan a que concurran
a dichas subastas si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer
antes del remate, el importe
del crédito, de sus intereses,
costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedándose
entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante,
siempre y cuando reúnan los
requisitos y cualificaciones de
Ley para que pueda efectuar tal
subrogación. Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos
de este Tribunal y en Tres (3)
lugares públicos del municipio,
donde habrá de celebrarse la
subasta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se
publicará además en la Colecturía del lugar de residencia del
demandado, cuando éste fuere
conocido. Así mismo este aviso
será publicado mediante edicto
dos (2) veces en un periódico
de circulación general diaria
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por el término de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas
publicaciones. En adición se le
notificará este aviso a la parte
demandada mediante correo
certificado con acuse de recibo.
El Alguacil de este Tribunal venderá la propiedad antes descrita en pública subasta, al mejor
postor entre la AUTORIDAD
PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO
DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO y aquellas personas que
reúnan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley, libre de cargas
y gravámenes de clase alguna.
El Alguacil pondrá al comprador
en posesión de la propiedad
mediante el lanzamiento de los
ocupantes de la misma dentro del término legal de veinte
(20) días a contar de la fecha
en que se efectúe la venta en
pública subasta y se encuentra
facultado a a romper cualquier
cerradura de la propiedad para
efectuar lanzamiento de sus
ocupantes. EXPEDIDO el presente en SAN JUAN, Puerto
Rico a 12 de febrero de 2016.
Diana I. Navarro Cruz, Division
De Subastas Tribunal De Primera Instancia Centro Judicial
De San Juan.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMON.
TRIANGLE
REO PR, CORP.
Demandante v.
JOSE M.
PEREZ CORDOVA
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: DCD2014-3023
(702). SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE
HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
AL PUBLICO EN
GENERAL; A LA
PARTE DEMANDADA
Y A LOS TENEDORES
DE GRAVÁMENES
POSTERIORES
YO, Edgardo E. Vargas Santana, Alguacil del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, al público en general,
POR LA PRESENTE HAGO
SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO
SABER: Cumpliendo con un
Mandamiento de Ejecución de
Sentencia del Secretario de
este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor
en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, en mi oficina, en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Bayamón, el día 13 de
marzo de 2016, a las 11:00 de
la mañana, la siguiente propiedad: “URBANA: Casa de mampostería y Azotea conocida
generalmente con el nombre LA
FAMA, radicada en la calle del
comercio antes, hoy Dr. Veve
esquina a la del Rey antes, hoy
número cincuenta y cuatro (54),
en doce guión medio (12-½)
varas de frente por veinticinco
(25) de fondo, colindancia por
su frente con la calle Dr. Veve,
por la derecha, entrando con
propiedad de la Sucesión Serra, antes de Molina y Compañía, por la izquierda con la calle
Martí y al fondo la casa de Juan
Pérez. Enclava una edificación
de concreto armado de dos (2)
pisos y azotea con habitación
en la azotea. Consta inscrita al
folio 56 del tomo 206 de Bayamón, finca 10096, Registro de la
Propiedad de Bayamón, Segun-
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da Sección. Dirección Física:
54 Calle Dr. Veve esquina Calle
Martí, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
La venta se llevará a cabo para
con su producto satisfacer a la
parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la
sentencia dictada en el caso de
epígrafe, a saber las siguientes cantidades: $133,460.33
de principal, más $2,899.37 de
intereses acumulados hasta el
7 de noviembre de 2014 y estos continúan acumulándose
hasta el pago total y completo
de la deuda, más $665.09 de
recargos, más $26,750.00 por
concepto de gastos, costas y
honorarios de abogados. El
tipo mínimo para la Primera
Subasta será de $275,000.00.
Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la
titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán
subsistentes; entiéndase que el
remanente los acepta y quedan
subrogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a
su extinción el precio del remate. En caso de que el inmueble
a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se
celebrará una segunda subasta
el día 28 de marzo de 2016, a la
3:00 de la tarde, y el tipo mínimo para éstas será el de las dos
terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera
subasta. Si tampoco hubiera
remate ni adjudicación en la
segunda subasta, se celebrará
una tercera subasta el día 4 de
abril de 2016, a la 3:00 de la tarde, y el tipo mínimo para esta
subasta será la mitad del precio
mínimo pactado para la primera
subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará
por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicarse el acreedor la finca dentro de los diez
(10) días siguientes, si así lo
estimara conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
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 fuere mayor. Las subastas antes indicadas se llevarán
a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Bayamón. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en
la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Para la
publicación de este edicto en un
periódico de circulación general
una vez por semana, durante
dos semanas consecutivas, y
para la colocación del mismo
en tres sitios públicos visibles
del municipio en que se celebre
la subasta, libro el presente en
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día
25 de febrero de 2016. Edgardo
E. Vargas Santana, ALGUACIL,
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
JOSE MALAVE MARTINEZ
y su esposa EVELYN
SEGARRA PLUMEY y la
Sociedad Legal de Bienes
Gananciales compuesta
por ambos
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. ISCI201500442
(206) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca
por la Vía Ordinaria) EDICTO
DE SUBASTA
Al: Público en General
A: JOSE MALAVE
MARTINEZ y su esposa
EVELYN SEGARRA
PLUMEY y la Sociedad
Legal de Bienes
Gananciales compuesta
por ambos
Yo, JOSE M. CRESPO NAZARIO, Alguacil de este Tribunal,
a la parte demandada y a los
acreedores y personas con
interés sobre la propiedad que
más adelante se describe, y al
público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 29 de marzo de 2016, a las 11:00 de
la mañana en mi oficina, sita
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico,
venderé en Pública Subasta la
propiedad inmueble que más
adelante se describe y cuya
venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en
dinero en efectivo, giro postal
o cheque certificado a nombre
del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento
incoado, estarán de manifiesto
en la Secretaría 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 5 de abril de 2016, a
las 11:00 de la mañana y en
caso de no producir remate ni
adjudicación, se celebrará
una tercera subasta el día 12
de abril de 2016, a las 11:00
de la mañana en mi oficina sita
en el lugar antes indicado. La
propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como
sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela radicada en los Barrios Naranjales
y Bateyes del Municipio de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con una
cabida superficial de SEIS MIL
DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA Y
OCHO PUNTO SEISCIENTOS
TRECE METROS CUADRADOS (6,298.613). En lindes
por el NORTE, en CIENTO
DIECINUEVE PUNTO ONCE
METROS (119.11) METROS,
con la parcela rotulada B; por
LEGAL NOTICE
el SURESTE,
en CIENTO
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE DIECIOCHO PUNTO CATORPUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE CE (118.14) METROS, con el
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA remanente de la finca principal;
Legal Notice
por el OESTE, en tres alineaciones diferentes en NUEVE PUNTO CINCUENTA Y UNO (9.51)
METROS, en SIETE PUNTO
CERO CERO (7.00) METROS
y en ONCE PUNTO CERO
CERO (11.00) METROS, con
la parcela B a dedicarse a uso
público; y por el SUROESTE,
en NUEVE PUNTO SESENTA
Y DOS (9.62) METROS, en
DIECISIETE PUNTO OCHENTA Y SIETE (17.87) METROS,
en DIECISEIS PUNTO VEINTITRES (16.23) METROS,
en
DIECINUEVE
PUNTO
CINCUENTA Y SIETE (19.57)
METROS y en DIECISIETE
PUNTO CERO CERO (17.00)
METROS, con la parcela B a
dedicarse a uso público. Contiene una casa dedicada a residencia de tres niveles, que
mide 25 pies de frente por 41
pies 6 pulgadas de fondo, con
balcón corrido a todo su frente;
consta de sala, comedor, cocina, laundry, tres dormitorios
con sus closets, dos servicios
sanitarios completos y un pasillo que conduce desde la sala
a los dormitorios, teniendo además un piso de cemento a más
nivel que sirve de marquesina y
un sótano. La propiedad hipotecada se encuentra inscrita al
folio 106 del tomo 1135 de Mayagüez, finca número 34,395,
inscripción tercera. La subasta
se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la
suma de $45,269.83 de principal, intereses al 4.875% anual,
desde el 1ro. de abril de 2014,
hasta su completo pago, más
la cantidad de $7,040.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y
honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas
sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima
de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de
$70,400.00 y de ser necesaria
una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a
2/3 partes de aquella, o sea,
la suma de $46,933.33 y de ser
necesaria una tercera subasta,
la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir,
la suma de $35,200.00. 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
y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese,
continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante
los acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los
mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EN
TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL,
expido el presente Edicto para
conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi
firma y sello del Tribunal, en
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 23
de febrero de 2016. JOSE M.
CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.
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LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD.
Demandante VS.
IBRAIM MANUEL
FRANCESCHINI
MALDONADO
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2014-2437
(506) SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN
DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE
DINERO (VIA ORDINARIA)
EDICTO DE SUBASTA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
A: IBRAIM MANUEL
FRANCESCHINI
MALDONADO
El Alguacil que suscribe, anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de
Ejecución de Sentencia que
me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé
a vender en pública subasta y
al mejor postor, de contado y
en moneda del curso legal de
los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el
(la) Alguacil por concepto de
subastas será en efectivo, giro
postal o cheque certificado a
nombre del (de la) Alguacil del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia.
Todo derecho, título e interés
que tenga la parte demandada
sobre la siguiente propiedad:
Condominio Torres del Parque,
Apto. 810 Sur, Bayamón, P.R.
00929. URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Torres del Parque, Torre Sur. Apartamento #
810 para fines residenciales,
localizado en el Barrio Juan
Sánchez del término municipal
de Bayamón, P.R. con un área
superficial de 793.78 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 73.74
metros cuadrados, en lindes
por el NORTE, en 25 pies 4
pulgadas, con el apartamento
# 809; por el SUR, en 25 pies
4 pulgadas con el exterior del
edificio; por el ESTE, en 31 pies
cuatro pulgadas con el exterior
del edificio; y por el OESTE, en
30 pies y 4 pulgadas con las
escaleras. Consta este apartamento de sala comedor cocina,
tres cuartos y dormitorios con
sus respectivos guardarropas y
un cuarto de baño. La entrada
y salida de este apartamento se
encuentra en su lado OESTE, la
cual conduce a los ascensores
que dan acceso al exterior del
edificio. Le corresponde a este
apartamento 1 espacio de estacionamiento identificado con el
# 932 y 0.25706% de participación en los elementos comunes
del edificio. Consta inscrita al
folio 38 del tomo 1,799 de Bayamón Sur, finca #73,859 del
Registro de la Propiedad de
Puerto Rico, Sección Primera
de Bayamón. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día
7 de abril de 2016, a las 10:15
de la mañana, en mis oficinas
The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, March 7, 2016
sitas en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón. En
relación a la finca a subastarse,
la cantidad mínima de licitación
en la Primera Subasta será la
suma de $104,009.60. Dicha
venta se llevará a efecto, para
con su producto satisfacer a la
parte demandante el importe de
su Sentencia, a saber: Suma
Principal: $101,886.66, más los
intereses correspondientes a
razón de 3.75% anual, desde
el 1ro de febrero de 2014 y los
que se continúen acumulando
hasta su total y completo pago,
más una suma equivalente 5%
de cualquier pago que esté
en mora por más de quince
(15) días desde la fecha de su
vencimiento. Más una suma
estipulada para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado de
$10,300.00, más cualquier otra
suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se
hayan hecho la demandante,
en virtud de las disposiciones
de la escritura de hipoteca y del
Pagaré hipotecario. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación,
se celebrará una SEGUNDA
SUBASTA el día 14 de abril de
2016, a las 2:15 de la tarde, en
el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo
mínimo las dos terceras partes
del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma
de $69,339.73. Si la segunda
subasta no produjere remate,
ni adjudicación, se celebrará
una TERCERA SUBASTA el día
21 de abril de 2016, a las 2:15
de la tarde, en el mismo lugar
y regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio
pactado para la primera, o sea,
la suma de $52,004.80. De
declararse desierta la tercera
subasta, se dará por terminado
el proceso de subastas, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble a
la parte demandante dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente por
la totalidad de las cantidades
adeudadas, si ésta fuera igual o
menor que el monto del tipo de
la tercera subasta o abonándose dicho monto a las cantidades
adeudadas, si éstas fueran mayores. Una vez ejecutada la venta de dicha propiedad, proceda
a poner al licitador victorioso en
posesión física de la propiedad
dentro del plazo de veinte (20)
días contados a partir de la venta en pública subasta. Para más
información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que las
Actas y demás constancias del
expediente de este caso están
disponibles en la Secretaría del
Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por
los interesados. Este EDICTO
DE SUBASTA, se publicará
en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico
de circulación general en la
jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. En
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 28 de
octubre de 2015. Edgardo E.
Vargas Santana, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala
Superior De Bayamón.
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE COMERIO.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE VS.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante vs.
conformidad con lo resuelto en
BBVA vs. Latinoamericano, 144
DPR 689. En dicha demanda
se tramita una acción de cobro
de dinero en contra de los codemandados de epigrafe, por
la suma principal. Se les apercibe a los demandados, que de
no hacerlo así, se les anotará
la rebeldía, y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio
solicitado contra ustedes en la
demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO bajo mi firma y
el sello del Tribunal, en hoy día
24 de febrero de 2016. Vivian
Y. Fresse Gonzalez, Secretaria
Regional.
tación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia
a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Edda Ivette
Rodríguez al PO Box 191017,
San Juan PR 00919-1017; Teléfono 754-1313. Se le advierte
además que se requiere para
que dentro de los treinta (30)
días siguientes a la publicación
de este Edicto, hagan su declaración de intención y su legítimo derecho e interés sobre la
herencia y la aceptación de la
herencia, de así no hacerlo, se
tendrá la herencia por aceptada
según surge del Artículo 959
del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R .A .,
Seco 2787 de Puerto Rico y de
conformidad con lo resuelto en
BBVA vs. Latinoamericano, 144
DPR 689. En dicha demanda se
tramita una acción de Ejecución
de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria donde se le reclama la suma
principal de $64,225.58, al 1 de
enero de 2015, más intereses
devengados a la tasa de 11
1/2%, hasta su total y completo
pago según pactados, la suma
de $259.77 por concepto de
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, según pactados y se
solicita la ejecución de Primera
Hipoteca sobre propiedad Rústica: Parcela Número 6, Predio
de terreno radicado en el Barrio
Collores de Humacao, con una
cabida de 3,982.260m.c., Finca
Número 18,463, inscrita al Folio
50 del Tomo 416 del Registro
de la Propiedad, Sección de
Humacao, en dicho Registro se
presentará aviso de demanda
sobre la reclamación. SE LE
APERCIBE que de no hacerlo
así, se le anotará la rebeldía y
se dictará sentencia en la cual
se concederá el remedio solicitado contra usted en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXTENDIDO bajo mi firma y el
sello del Tribunal en Humacao,
Puerto Rico, a 29 de febrero de
2016. Dominga Gomez Fuster,
Secretaria Regional.
ALEJANDRINA SERRANO
GONZALEZ por sí y
como cónyuge supérstite
del finado Armando
Medina Piñeiro, EFRAIN
MEDINA SERRANO como
heredero y miembro
de la sucesión del
finado Armando Medina
LEGAL NOTICE
Piñeiro, a FULANO
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE TAL, SUTANO DE
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
DEMANDADOS
TAL, MENGANO DE
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACIVIL NUM.: B3CI2015-000922
TAL y PERENCEJO
CAO SALA SUPERIOR.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
DE TAL, denominados
ORIENTAL BANK
Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
así ficticiamente por
Demandante Vs.
POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EMdesconocerse su
PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO
ROSA MAlUA CORDOVA
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMEverdadera identidad,
RIVERA por si y como
RICA EL PRESIDENTE DE
como herederos y
cónyuge superstite
LOS EE. UU. ss. EL ESTADO
miembros desconocidos
del finado SAMUEL
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
CASILLAS REYES,
A: PEDRO LUIS TORRES de la Sucesión del finado
SAMUEL CASILLAS
MERCADO T/C/C PEDRO Armando Medina Piñeiro
Demandados
LUIS TORRES MIRANDA CIVIL NUM. CCD2015-0760 CORDOVA como heredero
POR SÍ Y COMO
(401) COBRO DE DINERO Y y miembro de la sucesión
COMPONENTE DE LA EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA de SAMUEL CASILLAS
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EM- REYES, “FULANO DE
PLAZAMIENTOS POR EDICTAL” Y “SUTANO DE
BIENES GANANCIALES TOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
TAL”, denominados
QUE FORMA CON SU AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
así ficticiamente por
ESPOSA SUGERLY INES DE LOS E.E. U.U. SS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
desconocerse su
ALICEA CRUZ T/C/C
verdadera identidad,
SUGERLY ALICEA CRUZ PUERTO RICO.
A: FULANO DE TAL,
como herederos
Barrio Quebradillas
SUTANO DE TAL,
desconocidos y posibles
PR 152, KM .66 Int.
MENGANO DE TAL
miembros de la sucesión
Barranquitas, PR 00794.
Y PERENCEJO DE
Por la presente se le notifica que
del finado SAMUEL
se ha radicado en este Tribunal
TAL denominados
CASILLAS REYES
una demanda de ejecución de
así ficticiamente por
Demandado (s)
hipoteca bajo el número de epíCIVIL NÚM. H1CI201500856
desconocerse
su
grafe. Se alega en dicho proce(208) Sobre: EJECUCION DE
verdadera identidad,
dimiento que la parte demandaHIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORcomo posibles
da incurrió en el incumplimiento
DINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO
del Contrato de Hipoteca y la
herederos y miembros POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNILEGAL NOTICE
parte demandante declaró venDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRE- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
desconocidos de la
cido el préstamo reclamado en
SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
Sucesión del finado
la demanda. Representa a la
UNIDOS SS EL ESTADO LI- PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
parte demandante, el abogado co-demandado Armando BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
SUPERIOR DE SAN LORENcuyo nombre, dirección y teléfoMedina Piñeiro.
RICO.
ZO.
no se consigna de inmediato:
POR LA PRESENTE se les emA: ROSA MARIA
COOPERATIVA DE
JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS
plaza y requiere para que conCORDOVA RIVERA
FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. testen la demanda enmendada
AHORRO Y CREDITO
PO BOX 9300
por si y como cónyuge
dentro de los treinta (30) días siORIENTAL
SANTURCE, PR 00908
guientes a la publicación de este
superstite del finado
Demandante Vs.
TEL: 787- 751-5290
Edicto, radicando el original de
FAX: 787-751-6155
SAMUEL CASILLAS
CARMEN I. TORRES
E-Mail [email protected] su contestación ante el Tribunal
REYES,
SAMUEL
MARQUEZ
Se le apercibe que si no compa- correspondiente y notificando
Demandados
CASILLAS CORDOVA
reciere usted a contestar dicha con copia a la Lcda. Edda Ivette
CIVIL NUM.: E2CI2015-0516
como heredero y
demanda dentro del término de Rodríguez, abogado de la parte
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
30 días a partir de la publicación demandante PO Box 191017, miembro de la sucesión
Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
de este edicto, radicando el ori- San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919de SAMUEL CASILLAS EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICginal de la contestación ante el 1017, Teléfono 754-1313. Se le
TO.
REYES, BARRIO
Tribunal correspondiente, con advierte además que se requieCOLLORES CARR. 926
A: CARMEN I. TORRES
copia a la parte demandante, re para que dentro de los treinta
se le anotaría la rebeldía y se le (30) días siguientes a la publiKM 3.0 HUMACAO, PR
MARQUEZ.
dictará sentencia concediendo cación de este Edicto, hagan su 00791, HC-12 BOX 12777
P.O. BOX 1379
el remedio solicitado sin más declaración de intención y su
HUMACAO, PR 00791. JUNCOS, P.R., 00777-1379.
citarle ni oírle. En Comerío, legítimo derecho e interés sobre
PEDRO LUIS TORRES
MERCADO T/C/C
PEDRO LUIS TORRES
MIRANDA, SU ESPOSA
SUGERLY INES ALICEA
CRUZ T/C/C SUGERLY
ALICEA CRUZ Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA
POR AMBOS
Puerto Rico a 11 de febrero de
2016. Carmen Torres Torres,
Secretaria. Maribel Aviles Rodriguez, Secretaria Auxiliar del
Tribunal I.
la herencia y la aceptación de la
herencia, de así no hacerlo, se
tendrá la herencia por aceptada
según surge del Artículo 959
del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A.,
Seco 2787 de Puerto Rico y de
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los
treinta (30) días siguientes a
la publicación de este Edicto,
radique el original de su contes-
Se le notifica a usted que ha
sido radicada ante este Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala
Superior de San Lorenzo una
Demanda de Cobro de Dinero;
Ejecución de Hipoteca. Usted
deberá contestar la demanda
dentro del término de treinta
(30) días desde la última publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a la Lcdo. Manuel U.
Rivera Giménez, a su dirección
postal Urb. Delgado O-10, Ave.
Villares, Caguas, P.R., 00725;
Teléfono (787) 743-1474/2062,
abogado de la demandante. Se
le apercibe que de no hacerlo
así, la parte demandante podrá
obtener sentencia en su contra
de acuerdo con lo solicitado en
la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo
firma y sello de este Tribunal en
San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, hoy
10 de febrero de 2016. Irma I.
Arroyo Gonzalez, Secretaria
del Tribunal Superior. Mignorys
Cuadrado Lopez, Secretaria
Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALADE GUAYANILLA.
OPERATING PARTNERS
CO. LLC., como agente de:
MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC.
DEMANDANTE VS.
ROMUALDO GALARZA
SANTIAGO, Fulano(a) de
Tal y la Sociedad Legal de
Gananciales Compuesta
por Ambos
DEMANDADO
CIVIL NÚM. J3CI201500239
SALA: GUAYANILLA SOBRE:
COBRO DE DINERO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: ROMUALDO GALARZA
SANTIAGO, por si y
en representación de
la Sociedad Legal de
Gananciales Compuesta
Por Ambos 199 CALLE
LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA
GUAYANILLA PR
00656-1746
POR LA PRESENTE se Ie
emplaza y requiere para que
conteste la demanda dentro de
los treinta (30) dias siguientes
a la publicación de este Edicto. radicando el original de su
contestación ante el Tribunal
correspondiente y notificando
con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Osvaldo
Rodriguez Fernandez del bufete de abogados, Rodriguez
Fernandez Law Offices, P.S.C.,
cuya dirección es: P.O. Box
71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico
00936-8518, telefono (787)
993-3731. Se le apercibe que
de no hacerlo, se le anotara la
rebeldia y se dictara sentencia
concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin mas
citarle oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal,
en Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, hoy
dia 24 de febrero de 2016. En
Guayanilla, Puerto Rico el 24
de febrero de 2016. Odemaris
Colon Cosme, Secretaria del
Tribunal Confidencial I.
LEGAL NOTICE
The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, March 7, 2016
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE B. Cordova Chinea, Secretaria Sanchez, Secretaria Regional. SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA.
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
Lydia Ferrer Montañez, SecreCITIFINANCIAL
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
taria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
SERVICES
OF PUERTO
SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.
LEGAL NOTICE
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante v.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
SUPERIOR DE RÍO GRANDE.
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
BANCO POPULAR DE SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.
LA SUCESIÓN DE
LETICIA VILLANUEVA
PUERTO RICO
OLIVERAS COMPUESTA
Demandante v.
POR MIGUEL CABÁN
LA SUCESIÓN DE
VILLANUEVA;
ISMAEL SERRANO
ÁNGEL JOSUE
ROSA
COMPUESTA POR
CABÁN VILLANUEVA
REPRESENTADO POR SU FRANCISCA JIMÉNEZ
REPRESENTANTE LEGAL GONZÁLEZ; DARLENE
SERRANO JIMÉNEZ Y
ÁNGEL CABÁN
POR
FULANO, SUTANO
Y FULANO DE TAL
Y MENGANO DE TAL
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM: DCD2015-1972
(503) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM: N3CI2015-00268
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y
EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS EL
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO.
CITIFINANCIAL
SERVICES OF PUERTO
RICO, INC. D/B/A
CITIFINANCIAL PLUS
Demandante vs.
LA SUCESION DE MIRIAM
LOPEZ CARRASQUILLO
COMPUESTA POR JOHN
DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS;
DEPARTAMENTO DE
HACIENDA Y CRIM,
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. HSCI201500892
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS.
EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO.
A: FULANO, SUTANO
A: FULANO DE TAL, como
Y MENGANO DE TAL,
miembro desconocido
de la Sucesión de Leticia como miembros, cuyos
nombres se desconocen,
Villanueva Oliveras
JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE
Extensión Santa Juanita de la Sucesión de Ismael A
Queden emplazados y notificaSerrano Rosa.
G 5 Calle 3 Bayamón,
dos que en este Tribunal se ha
DE: BANCO POPULAR radicado Demanda sobre Cobro
PR 00956
DE PUERTO RICO
de Dinero y Ejecución de HipoDE: BANCO POPULAR
Se le emplaza y requiere que teca, en la que se alega que
DE PUERTO RICO
Se le emplaza y requiere que
conteste la demanda dentro de
los treinta (30) días siguientes
a la publicación de este edicto, radicando el original de su
contestación ante el Tribunal
y notificando al Lcdo. Rubén
Aponte Mellado, cuya dirección
es PO Box 195553, San Juan,
PR, 00919-5553, teléfono (787)
449-6000, y número de facsímile (787) 474-3892, con copia de
la contestación a la demanda.
Este caso trata sobre Cobro de
Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías
en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte
demandada a pagar la suma
principal de $94,487.27, más intereses a razón de cuatro punto
cinco por ciento anual (4.50%),
desde el 1 de febrero de 2015,
que se acumulan diariamente
hasta su total y completo pago,
más la suma de $74.46 por
cargos por mora, más la suma
de $12,167.70 por concepto
de costas, gastos y honorarios
de abogado hipotecariamente
asegurados. Se le apercibe que
si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará
contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio
solicitado en la demanda, sin
más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. Rubén Aponte Mellado,
Número del Tribunal Supremo 18,269
PO Box 195553,
San Juan, PR, 00919-5553,
Teléfono: (787) 449-6000,
Facsímile: (787) 474-3892,
Correo Electrónico: [email protected]
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y
Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 18 de
febrero de 2016. Ruth Aponte
Cotto, Secretaria Regional. Ixia
conteste la demanda dentro de
los treinta (30) días siguientes
a la publicación de este edicto, radicando el original de su
contestación ante el Tribunal
y notificando al Lcdo. Rubén
Aponte Mellado, cuya dirección
es PO Box 195553, San Juan,
PR, 00919-5553, teléfono (787)
449-6000, y número de facsímile (787) 474-3892, con copia de
la contestación a la demanda.
Este caso trata sobre Cobro
de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a
la parte demandada a pagar la
suma principal de $170,062.73
más intereses a razón de cuatro
por ciento anual (4.00%), desde el 1 de noviembre de 2014,
que se acumulan diariamente
hasta su total y completo pago,
más la suma de $243.04 por
cargos por mora, más la suma
de $323.20 en conexión con la
cuenta de plica, más la suma
de $17,500.00 por concepto
de costas, gastos y honorarios
de abogado hipotecariamente
asegurados. Se le apercibe que
si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará
contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda,
sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. Rubén Aponte Mellado,
Número del Tribunal Supremo 18,269
PO Box 195553,
San Juan, PR, 00919-5553,
Teléfono: (787) 449-6000,
Facsímile: (787) 474-3892,
Correo Electrónico: [email protected]
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y
Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 22 de
febrero de 2016. Maria J. Lopez
usted(es) le adeuda(n) a la demandante lo siguiente: La suma
de $51,492.07 de principal mas
los intereses sobre dichas sumas devengados desde el día
4 de noviembre de 2013, más
aquellos a devengarse hasta
el pago total de la deuda a razón 6.89900% anual, mas las
primas de seguro hipotecario y
riesgo, recargos por demora y
cualesquiera otras cantidades
pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca desde la fecha antes
mencionada y hasta la fecha del
total pago de las mismas, mas la
suma estipulada de $5,700.00
por concepto de costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado incurridos por concepto de un préstamo hipotecario, se advierte que
si no contesta(n) la demanda,
radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal enviando copia de la contestación
a Carmen Aponte-Reyes, 1499
W. Palmetto Park Road, Suite
300, Boca Raton, FL 33486, telefono 877-338-4101, dentro del
termino de treinta (30) dias de la
publicación de este Edicto, se le
anotara la rebeldia y se dictara
Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin
mas citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA, y el sello de
este Tribunal, en Humacao,
Puerto Rico, hoy dia 25 de febrero de 2016. Dominga Gomez
Fuster, Secretaria Regional.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
RICO, INC. D/B/A
CITIFINANCIAL PLUS
Demandante vs.
DENISSE TORRES
RIVERA
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. GCD2015-0392
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS.
EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO.
A: DENISSE TORRES
RIVERA
Quede emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha
radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de
Hipoteca, en la que se alega
que usted(es) le adeuda(n) a
la demandante lo siguiente: La
suma de $5,217.85 de principal
más los intereses sobre dichas
sumas devengados desde el
día 30 de octubre de 2014, más
aquellos a devengarse hasta el
pago total de la deuda a razón
7.0464% anual, más las primas
de seguro hipotecario y riesgo,
recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca
desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del total
pago de las mismas, más la
suma estipulada de $3,914.00
por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado
incurridos por concepto de un
préstamo hipotecario, se advierte que si no contesta(n) la
demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este
Tribunal enviando copia de
la contestación a Frances L.
Asencio Guido, 1499 W. Palmetto Park Road, Suite 300,
Boca Raton, FL 33486, telefono
877-338-4101, dentro del termino de treinta (30) dias de la
publicación de este Edicto, se le
anotara la rebeldia y se dictara
Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin
mas citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA, y el sello de
este Tribunal, en Guayama,
Puerto Rico, hoy dia 24 de febrero de 2016. Marisol Rosado
Rodriguez, Secretaria Regional.
Virgen de Jesus Lopez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
COOPERATIVA DE
AHORRO Y CREDITO DE
CAGUAS
Demandante Vs.
JOSE ANTONIO ALICEA
DE JESUS; LA SUCESION
DE CARMEN DELIA
MULERO MULERO
COMPUESTA POR
JOHN DOE Y JANE ROE
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: ECD2014-1472
(0702) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO; EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA AVISO DE PÚBLICA
SUBASTA ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. SS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
P.R. YO, Jose M. Rivera Ortiz,
Alguacil del Tribunal Superior,
Sala de Caguas, al público en
general: CERTIFICO Y HAGO
SABER: Que en cumplimiento
de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha
sido dirigido por la Secretaría
del Honorable Tribunal Superior
de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, en el caso arriba indicado
venderé en pública subasta al
mejor postor de contado y en
moneda legal de los Estados
Unidos de América, el día 6 de
abril de 2016, a las 10:45 de
la mañana en mi oficina, sita
en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Puerto Rico, el siguiente
inmueble: RUSTICA: Parcela
marcada con el número 333 en
el plano de parcelación de la
comunidad rural Borinquén del
Barrio Borinquén, del término
municipal de Caguas, con una
cabida superficial de 511.32
m.c., en lindes por el Norte, con
terrenos del señor Juan Solá;
por el Sur, con la parcela 411
de la comunidad; por el Este,
con terrenos del señor Erasto
Cortés; y por el Oeste, con la
calle número 4 de la comunidad. Inscrito al folio 156 del
tomo 1,282 de Caguas, finca
número 45,278, Registro de la
Propiedad de Caguas, Sección
Primera. Dicha propiedad está
afecta a una (1) hipoteca a favor
de la parte demandante, la cual
se desglosa a continuación: a.
Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa
de Ahorro y Crédito de Caguas,
o a su orden, por la cantidad de
$40,000.00, con intereses al
8% anual, vencedero el primero
(1ro.) de agosto de 2012, según
la escritura número 67, otorgada en Caguas, el 30 de julio
de 1997 ante el notario público
Rafael Ángel Díaz Díaz, la cual
se encuentra inscrita al folio
157 del 1282 de Caguas, finca número 45,278, inscripción
3ra., Registro de la Propiedad
de Caguas, Sección Primera.
Se ha ordenado la venta en pública subasta de la finca antes
mencionada para satisfacer el
monto adeudado de la hipoteca y se llevará a efecto por un
precio mínimo de $40,000.00 y
su producto servirá a la demandante como abono al importe
de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a $8,561.70 de
principal de la primera hipoteca,
más los intereses devengados
a razón del 8% anual hasta
ser completado el pago, más
la suma de $4,000.00 para
costas, gastos y honorarios
de abogado establecidos en la
sentencia. Los autos y todos
los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado
estarán de manifiesto en la
Secretaría del Tribunal durante
las horas laborables. Todo licitador deberá asumir la parte
proporcional de la carga que
afecta la propiedad así subastada. Si se declarare desierta
la subasta señalada, la misma
será nuevamente celebrada el
13 de abril de 2016, a las 3:30
de la tarde en el mismo lugar
antes señalado por la suma de
$26,400.00, equivalente a 2/3
partes del tipo mínimo original
pactado para la hipoteca. A
su vez, de declararse desierta
dicha segunda subasta, la misma será celebrada por tercera
y última vez el 20 de abril de
2016, a las 2:45 de la tarde en
el mismo lugar antes señalado
por la suma de $20,000.00,
equivalente a la ½ parte del tipo
mínimo original pactado para
la hipoteca. No obstante, si se
declarare desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el
proceso y se podrá adjudicar el
inmueble a la parte demandante, conforme lo dispuesto en el
Artículo 221 de la Ley Hipotecaria y el Registro de la Propiedad
de 1979. 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 hubiesen
pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños poseedores
tenedores o de interesados en
títulos transmisibles por endoso
o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad
al crédito del actor y con los
cuales no hubiese tenido efecto
la notificación personal del escrito inicial y del Mandamiento
del requerimiento de pago,
para que puedan concurrir a
la subasta si les conviniere o
satisficiera antes del remate el
importe del crédito de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de
abogados asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos
del acreedor ejecutante. Y para
su publicación de acuerdo con
la Ley en un periódico de los de
mayor circulación, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada
y del público en general, y para
conocimiento del Departamento
de Hacienda y/o al Centro de
Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) que pueda tener
algún crédito por concepto de
contribuciones territoriales o
de cualquier otra índole, y para
su publicación además, en los
sitios públicos de costumbre,
expido el presente Edicto de
Subasta bajo mi firma y sello
del Tribunal Superior de Puerto
Rico, Sala de Caguas, hoy 3 de
febrero de 2016. Jose M. Rivera Ortiz, Alguacil Tribunal De
Primera Instancia
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
37
Legal Notice
Demandante v.
JAVIER ENRIQUE RIVERA
ALDARONDO, su esposa,
LARITZA LUNA PEDROZA
Y LA SOCIEDAD
LEGAL DE BIENES
GANANCIALES POR
AMBOS COMPUESTA
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM: GCD2015-0404
(302) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
LARITZA LUNA PEDROZA
Y LA SOCIEDAD
LEGAL DE BIENES
GANANCIALES POR
AMBOS COMPUESTA
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM: GCD2015-0404
(302) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS SS EL ESTADO LIBRE
ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JAVIER RIVERA
ALDARONDO POR SÍ
Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN
DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
A: LARITZA LUNA
DE GANANCIALES
PEDRAZA POR SÍ
COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE
Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN Y POR LARITZA LUNA
DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL PEDRAZA 10030 Cobalt
DE GANANCIALES
Bay Road Orlando,
COMPUESTA POR ÉSTA
Florida 32827
Y POR JAVIER RIVERA
DE: BANCO POPULAR
ALDARONDO 10030
DE PUERTO RICO
Cobalt Bay Road Orlando, Se le emplaza y requiere que
Florida 32827
conteste la demanda dentro de
DE: BANCO POPULAR los treinta (30) días siguientes
a la publicación de este edicDE PUERTO RICO
Se le emplaza y requiere que
conteste la demanda dentro de
los treinta (30) días siguientes
a la publicación de este edicto, radicando el original de su
contestación ante el Tribunal
y notificando al Lcdo. Rubén
Aponte Mellado, cuya dirección
es PO Box 195553, San Juan,
PR, 00919-5553, teléfono (787)
449-6000, y número de facsímile (787) 474-3892, con copia de
la contestación a la demanda.
Este caso trata sobre Cobro
de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a
la parte demandada a pagar la
suma principal de $221,023.70,
más intereses a razón de cuatro punto cinco por ciento anual
(4.50%), desde el 1 de diciembre de 2014, que se acumulan
diariamente hasta su total y
completo pago, más la suma de
$217.76 por cargos por mora,
más la suma de $23,824.20
por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado
hipotecariamente asegurados.
Se le apercibe que si dejare de
hacerlo, se dictará contra usted
sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado
en la demanda, sin más citarle
ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal,
hoy día 22 de febrero de 2016.
Marisol Rodriguez, Secretaria
Regional I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA.
to, radicando el original de su
contestación ante el Tribunal
y notificando al Lcdo. Rubén
Aponte Mellado, cuya dirección es PO Box 195553, San
Juan, PR, 00919-5553, teléfono (787) 449-6000, y número
de facsímile (787) 474-3892,
con copia de la contestación
a la demanda. Este caso trata
sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la
parte demandante solicita que
se condene a la parte demandada a pagar la suma principal
de $221,023.70, más intereses
a razón de cuatro punto cinco
por ciento anual (4.50%), desde el 1 de diciembre de 2014,
que se acumulan diariamente
hasta su total y completo pago,
más la suma de $217.76 por
cargos por mora, más la suma
de $23,824.20 por concepto
de costas, gastos y honorarios
de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe
que si dejare de hacerlo, se
dictará contra usted sentencia
en rebeldía, concediéndose el
remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y
Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 22 de
febrero de 2016. Marisol Rodriguez, Secretaria Regional I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
MIRIAM GONZÁLEZ
ANDINO
Demandante v.
Demandada
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2015-2446
(402) SOBRE COBRO DE DINERO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
JAVIER ENRIQUE RIVERA
ALDARONDO, su esposa,
Legal Notice
EDICTO Estados Unidos de
América Presidente de los Estados Unidos S. S. Estado Libre
Asociado de Puerto Rico
A: MIRIAM GONZÁLEZ
ANDINO.
38
SUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y
C COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA
SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL
TORRES ORTEGA
Por la presente se le emplaza
y notifica que debe contestar
la demanda dentro del término
de treinta (30) días a partir de la
publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal y sala
que se menciona en el epígrafe
de este edicto con copia a la
parte aquí demandante. Se le
apercibe que de no contestar
la demanda dentro del término
aquí estipulado, se le anotará
la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle.
Por la presente el Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, conforme al
caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya
Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana
de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR
689 (2005), le ordena que en
el término de treinta (30) días,
haga declaración aceptando
o repudiando la herencia de
la Sucesión de MANUEL TORRES ORTEGA. Se le apercibe
que de no expresar su intención
de aceptar o repudiar la herenLEGAL NOTICE
cia dentro del término que se le
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE fijó, la herencia se tendrá por
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE aceptada. Los abogados de la
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA parte demandante son: GarcíaSUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.
Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C.,
BANCO POPULAR DE 1606 Ave. Ponce de León, Edif.
Julio Bogoricín, Suite 900, San
PUERTO RICO
Juan, Puerto Rico, 00909, Tel.
DEMANDANTE V.
977-1932, Fax (787) 722SUCESION DE MANUEL (787)
1932. Expido este edicto bajo
TORRES ORTEGA
mi firma y sello de este Tribunal,
COMPUESTA POR
hoy 18 de febrero de 2016. Ruth
N. Aponte Cotto, Secretaria ReELBA IRIS ORTEGA
gional II.
GONZALEZ POR SI
Por la presente se le emplaza
y notifica que debe contestar
la demanda dentro del término
de treinta (30) días a partir de la
publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal y sala
que se menciona en el epígrafe
de este edicto con copia a la
parte aquí demandante. Se le
apercibe que de no contestar
la demanda dentro del término
aquí estipulado, se le anotará
la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los
abogados de la parte demandante son: García-Chamorro
Law Group, P.S.C., 1606 Ave.
Ponce de León, Edif. Julio Bogoricin, Ste. 900, San Juan, PR
00909, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax
(787) 722-1932. Expido este
edicto bajo mi firma y sello de
este Tribunal, hoy 22 de febrero
de 2016. Ruth N. Aponte Cotto,
Secretaria General
Y EN CUOTA VIUDAL
USUFRUCTUARIA;
FULANO DE TAL,
FULANA DE TAL,
SUTANO DE TAL,
SUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y
C COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE
LA SUCESION DE
MANUEL TORRES
ORTEGA HONORABLE
SECRETARIO DE
HACIENDA DEL
ESTADO LIBRE
ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO; HONORABLE
SECRETARIO DEL
DEPARTAMENTO DE
JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
FAJARDO.
COOPERATIVA DE
AHORRO Y CREDITO
CUPEY ALTO
Demandante Vs.
LINDO MONTE S.E.;
JOHN DOE
Y RICHARD ROE
Demandados
CASO NUM: N1CI201600087
SOBRE: CANCELACION PAGARE EXTRAVIADO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO
A: Lindo Monte S.E.
DEMANDADOS
Acreedor en el Registro
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2015-3122 A: John Doe y Richard Roe
(703) SOBRE: COBRO DE
Tenedores desconocidos
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR- o sea la parte demandada
DINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO
de epígrafe arriba
POR EDICTO Estados Unidos
mencionada.
de América Presidente de los POR LA PRESENTE se le emEstados Unidos S. S. Estado Li- plaza para que presente al tribre Asociado de Puerto Rico.
bunal su alegación responsiva
A: FULANO DE TAL,
a la demanda dentro de los
treinta (30) días siguientes a
FULANA DE TAL,
la publicación de este Edicto,
SUTANO DE TAL,
The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, March 7, 2016
y notifique copia de la misma a la abogado de la parte
demandante: Ledo, Marcos
Raúl Cortés Reyes, Núm. TS
-18745, PO Box 195337, San
Juan, Puerto Rico, TELS. (787)
519-3641, [email protected]. Apercibiéndole
que de usted dejar de presentar su alegación responsiva
dentro del término indicado, el
tribunal podrá dictar sentencia
en rebeldía en su contra, sin
más citarle ni oírle, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la
demanda, o cualquier otro, si
el tribunal, en el ejercicio de
su sana discreción, lo entiende
procedente. Este caso trata de
la cancelación de un gravamen
hipotecario por la suma principal de $30,000.00, en garantía
de un pagaré a favor de EDUVIGES MACHUCA y MARÍA
CLEOFE REYES, o a su orden,
con intereses al 8% anual y
vencimiento el 6 de agosto del
1998, constituida mediante escritura número 1204, otorgada
en Bayamón, el 7 de agosto
del 1993, ante Mario A. Rivera
Toll, e inscrita al folio 272 del
tomo 1247 Bayamón Sur, finca
número 55251, inscripción 3a.
EXTIENDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el
Sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de febrero de 2016. Wanda I. Segui
Reyes, Secretaria Regional.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAROLINA.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs.
OSCAR AMAURY
JIMENEZ RODRIGUEZ
Demandado
CIVIL NUM.: FCD 2014-1152
(403) SOBRE:COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA AVISO DE PÚBLICA
SUBASTA, El que suscribe,
Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de
Carolina, hago saber al SR.
OSCAR AMAURY JIMENEZ
RODRIGUEZ y al PÚBLICO EN
GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el
día 28 de julio de 2015, por la
Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $239,000.00 y al mejor
postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: Condominio Monte Centro, Apartamento
B –401, Edificio A, Carretera
859, Barrio Trujillo Bajo, Carolina, Puerto Rico. APARTAMENTO B-CUATROCIENTOS UNO
(B-401) URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: APARTAMENTO TIPO PENTHOUSE: Apartamento residencial número
B-cuatrocientos uno (B-401) de
forma irregular constituido por 2
niveles, localizado en la cuarta
planta del Edificio A del Condominio Monte Centro, situado
en la Carretera Estatal número
859 del Barrio Trujillo Bajo en el
Municipio de Carolina, Puerto
Rico. EI edificio A esta localizado en el área Este del complejo
y consta de 104 apartamentos
constituidos por los módulos o
escaleras distribuidas e identificadas desde la A hasta la L.
El área total del apartamento
es de 1,775.10 pies cuadrados,
equivalentes a 164.91 metros
cuadrados. El primer nivel consta de 1,359.12 pies cuadrados
equivalentes a 126.27 metros
cuadrados. El segundo nivel
consta de 415.98 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 38.64 metros cuadrados. Los linderos de.
este apartamento en el primer
nivel son los siguientes: por;
el Norte: Con el apartamento
C-402 en una distancia de 51
pies 11 pulgadas lineales; por el
Sur: Con el apartamento B-402
y elementos comunes generales; por el Este: Con elemento
común general en una distancia
de 32 pies 4 pulgadas lineales;
por el Oeste; Con elemento
común general en una distancia de 25 pies con 1 pulgada
lineal y elemento común general (vestíbulo) en una distancia
de 7 pies 6 pulgadas lineales.
Los linderos de este apartamento en el segundo nivel son
los siguientes: por el Norte con
el apartamento C-402; por el
Sur: Con el apartamento B-402
y elemento común general; por
el Este: Con elemento común
general en una distancia de 32
pies 4 pulgadas lineales; por el
Oeste: Con elemento común
general. La puerta de entrada
del apartamento está situada en
el lindero Sur. Consta el primer
nivel de 3 habitaciones con sus
respectivos guardarropas, salacomedor, cocina, lavandería,
2 baños, pasillo y balcón. Los
baños del primer nivel están
equipados con bañera, lavamanos y servicio sanitario. Consta
el segundo nivel de un salón
familiar, terraza abierta, guardarropa, área de “kichnnette” y
baño equipado con bañera, lavamanos y servicio sanitario. A
este apartamento le corresponde el uso exclusivo de la azotea que constituye el techo del
cuarto piso del edificio, sujeto a
las disposiciones de ley y sujeto a las limitaciones contenidas
en la Escritura de Constitución
del Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal. Este apartamento tiene
una participación de 0.0102 por
ciento en los elementos comunes generales del proyecto. Le
corresponde como elemento
común voluntario los estacionamientos numerados B-401.
Finca número 59207, inscrita al
folio 14 del tomo 1453 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad
de Carolina, Sección II. La finca antes descrita se encuentra
afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: i. HIPOTECA: A favor
de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, o a su orden,
por la suma de $239,000.00, intereses al 6 7/8% anual, vencedero 1 de septiembre de 2037,
según consta de la escritura
#154, otorgada en San Juan, el
día 10 de agosto de 2007, ante
el notario José García Noya,
inscrita al folio 41 del tome 1453
de Carolina inscripción 2da. Modificada la hipoteca en cuanto al
principal que será $234,950.69,
los intereses será al 3.850% por
36 meses y aI6.875 por 444 meses, vencedero el 1 de marzo
de 2052, según escritura #37,
otorgada en San Juan, el día 27
de febrero de 2012, ante el notario Luis Yamil Rodríguez San
Miguel, inscrita La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que
ha quedado descrita en el inciso
(i). Será celebrada la subasta
para con el importe de la misma, la parte demandante pueda
cobrar su acreencia, a saber, la
suma de $225,662.01 de principal, intereses al 3.85% desde el
día 1 de marzo de 2014; intereses vencidos; gastos por demora y $22,767.86 estipulados
para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier
otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de
este caso para otros adelantos
de conformidad con el Contrato
Hipotecario, incluyendo primas
de seguro de hipoteca, prima
de seguro de siniestro y cargos
por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6
DE ABRIL DE 2016 A LAS 11:30
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina
del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala de
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma
la cantidad de $239,000.00, sin
admitirse oferta inferior. De no
haber remate ni adjudicación,
celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA
el día 13 DE ABRIL DE 2016 A
LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en
el mismo lugar, en la que servirá
como tipo mínimo, dos terceras
(2/3) partes del precio pactado
para la primera subasta, o sea,
$159,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE
ABRIL DE 2016, A LAS 11:30
DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo
lugar en la que regirá como tipo
mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta,
o sea, $119,500.00. El Alguacil
que suscribe hizo constar que
toda licitación deberá hacerse
para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos
de América, de acuerdo con la
Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta.
Se entiende que todo licitador
que comparezca a la subasta
señalada en este caso, acepta
como bastante la titulación que
da base a la misma. Luego de
efectuarse la subasta, el Alguacil pondrá al licitador victorioso,
en la posesión física de la propiedad subastada mediante el
lanzamiento de los ocupantes,
que se efectuará dentro del término legal establecido, a partir
de la venta, previa Orden al
efecto. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al
procedimiento incoado, estarán
de manifiesto en la Secretaría
del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen ante-
rior y/o preferente, si la hubiere
al crédito que da base a esta
ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que
el rematante los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad
de los mismos, sin destinarse a
su extinción cualquier parte del
remanente del precio de licitación. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO
DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL
PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para
su publicación de acuerdo con
la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este
Tribunal. En CAROLINA, Puerto
Rico, hoy 17 de SEPTIEMBRE
de 2015. Efrain Marquez Arroyo
Alguacil Auxiliar #963, Alguacil
Tribunal De Primera Instancia
Sala De Carolina.
LEGAL NOTICE
usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de
la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial
o Resolución, de la cual puede
establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del
término de 30 días contados a
partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a
usted esta notificación que se
considerará hecha en la fecha
de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha
sido archivada en los autos de
este caso, con fecha de 29 de
febrero de 2016. En San Juan,
Puerto Rico, el 29 de febrero de
2016. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria. Vanessa Rosario
Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISEstado Libre Asociado de Puer- TRICT COURT FOR THE DISto Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de PriROOSEVELT CAYMAN
mera Instancia, Sala Superior
ASSET COMPANY
de San Juan.
Plaintiff, vs.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V.
SUCESION DE LYDIA
ESTHER SANCHEZ
FERNANDEZ T/C/C LYDIA
E. SANCHEZ FERNANDEZ
T/C/C LYDIA SANCHEZ
FERNANDEZ T/C/C LIDIA
SANCHEZ FERNANDEZ
COMPUESTA POR
LYDIA E. GUZMAN
SANCHEZ, ANTONIO
GUZMAN SANCHEZ
Y MARTA GUZMAN
SANCHEZ Y FULANO
DE TAL, FULANA DE
TAL, SUTANO DE TAL,
SUTANA DE TAL, A,B Y
C COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS,
HONORABLE
SECRETARIO DE
HACIENDA DEL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandado(a)
Civil Num: KCD2012-0418
Sala: 908 Sobre: COBRO DE
DINERO NOTIFICACION DE
SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MARTA GUZMAN
SANCHEZ Y FULANO
DE TAL, FULANA DE
TAL, SUTANO DE TAL,
SUTANA DE TAL
(Nombre de las partes a las que se
le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que
el 27 de agosto de 2014, este
Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,
Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido
debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá
usted enterarse detalladamente
de los términos de la misma.
Esta notificación se publicará
una sola vez en un periódico de
circulación general en la Isla de
Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10
días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representado
KATTY NICAULIZ
SUAREZ FERNANDEZ,
Defendant.
CIVIL NO. 15-2261 (GAG)
RE:COLLECTION OF MONIES,
FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE NOTICE OF SALE
TO: KATTY NICAULIZ
SUAREZ FERNANDEZ
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES SS COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO
RICO. Judgment in favor of
plaintiff for the sum of One
Hundred Three Thousand Seven Hundred Eight Dollars with
Fifteenth Cents ($103,708.15)
in principal, interest which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the rate of
6.50% per annum, accrued late
charges; and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursement
made by plaintiff on behalf of defendant, in accordance with the
mortgage deed, plus costs, 10%
of principal balance in 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 the highest bidder
and at the office of the Clerk of
the united States District Court
for the District of Puerto Rico,
Federico Degetau Federal Building, Chardón Street, Hato Rey,
San Juan, Puerto Rico or any
other place designated by said
Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff,
the following property: URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular
que mide doce metros de frente
por veintiuno metros de fondo
marcado con el número ocho de
la manzana DJ de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo, que radica
en el barrio Monacillos de Río
Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un
área superficial de 252.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el
NORTE, SUR, ESTE Y OESTE,
con terrenos de la Everlasting
Development Corp., y dando
frente al Este con la calle denominada calle número veintitrés
de la urbanización. Consta inscrito al folio 204 del tomo 142 de
Monacillos, finca número 5,143.
Registro de la Propiedad, Sección III de San Juan. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall
be held on the 1 day of April
2016, at 10:45am and the minimum bid that will be accepted is
the sum of $116,000.00. 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 8 day of April 2016,
at 10:30am and the minimum
bid that will be accepted is the
sum of $77,333.33, 2/3 parts
of the minimum bid for the 1s
t 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 15 day of April 2016,
at 10:03am and the minimum
bid that will be accepted is the
sum of $58,000.00, 1/2 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. AND TO THE
KNOWLEDGE OF INTERESTED PARTIES and the general
public and specially regarding
the junior lien described hereinafter: A. Junior Lien Mortgage
in favor of Scotiabank of Puerto Rico, for $29,000.00 with
6.5% annual interest, due on
February 1st, 2036, constituted
by deed number 4, executed
in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on
January 13th, 2006, before Notary Public Alfredo Ortiz Almeida, recorded at page 89 of volume 824 (agora) of Monacillos. In
San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 1st
day of March 1st, 2016. Aguedo
de la Torre, Special Master.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR.
E.M.I. EQUITY
MORTGAGE, INC.
DEMANDANTE VS.
JUAN MANUEL ALGARIN
MORALES
DEMANDADO
CIVIL NUM.: NSCI2014-0916
(303) 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 SALA SUPERIOR
DE FAJARDO, en el caso de
epígrafe procederá a vender
The San Juan Daily Star
en pública subasta al mejor
postor en efectivo, giro postal o
cheque certificado en moneda
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América a nombre del Alguacil
del Tribunal el día 5 de abril de
2016 a las 9:15 de la mañana
en su oficina sita en el local
que ocupa en el edificio del
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE
FAJARDO, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte
demandada de epígrafe en el
inmueble de su propiedad que
ubica en: Estancia del Atlántico,
D-9 Calle 5, Luquillo, P.R 00773
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar marcado con
el número D-9 del plano de inscripción de la Comunidad Rural
Mata de Plátano, hoy conocido
como Estancias del Atlántico,
radicado en el Barrio Mata de
Plátano del término Municipal
de Luquillo, PR, con una cabida superficial de 513.81 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a
0.1307 diezmilésimas de cuerda. En lindes por el NORTE, con
solar D-10, distancia de 27.29
metros; por el SUR, con los
solares D-7 y d-8, distancia de
31.00 metros; por el ESTE, con
los solares D-3 y D-4, distancia
de 19.00 metros; por el OESTE,
con calle número 5, distancia de
16.65 metros. Este solar está
afectado por una servidumbre
ecléctica (tensor), en colindancia Noroeste, con un ancho
uniforme de 1.50, por 5.00 metros de largo, afectado con área
de 7.50 metros cuadrados. La
propiedad antes relacionada
consta inscrita en el Folio móvil
del Tomo 7 de Luquillo, finca número 11,319, en el Registro de
la Propiedad de Fajardo. El tipo
mínimo para la primera subasta
del inmueble antes relacionado,
será el dispuesto en la Escritura
de Hipoteca, es decir la suma
de $67,320.00. 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
12 de abril de 2016 a las 9:15
de la mañana. 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 $44,880.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se
celebrará una tercera subasta
en las oficinas del Alguacil que
suscribe el día 19 de abril de
2016 a las 9:15 de la mañana.
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
$33,660.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe
fue constituida mediante la escritura número 68, otorgada el
día 29 de febrero de 2008, ante
el Notario Luis Oscar Cintrón
Fonalledas y consta inscrita
al folio 181 del tomo 261 de
Luquillo finca número 11,319,
Registro de la Propiedad de
Fajardo, inscripción Sexta (6ta).
Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo
para con su producto satisfacer
al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el
importe de la Sentencia que ha
obtenido ascendente a la suma
de $61,180.20 de principal, más
los intereses al 7.00% anual
desde el día primero de junio de
2015, hasta su completo pago,
más $1,427.52 de intereses devengados hasta el 31 de agosto
de 2015, la suma de $62.92 por
concepto de otros cargos devengados hasta la misma fecha
y la cantidad líquida y estipulada de $6,732.00 para costas,
gastos, y honorarios de abogado así como cualesquiera otras
sumas que aparezcan de la faz
del contrato y/o que correspondan a intereses y cargos por
demora posterior a esa fecha y
hasta la fecha en que se pague
la deuda en su totalidad. Que
los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de
manifiesto en la SECRETARIA
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR
DE FAJARDO 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 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. Y para
conocimiento de licitadores del
público en general se publicará
este Edicto de acuerdo con la
ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del
municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la
alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado
mediante edictos dos veces en
un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos
Monday, March 7, 2016
semanas consecutivas. Expido
el presente Edicto de subasta
bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico,
hoy día 16 de octubre de 2015.
Maritza Santana Ortíz, Alguacil
Auxiliar #054.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA
SUPERIOR.
E.M.I. EQUITY
MORTGAGE, INC.
DEMANDANTE VS.
GLORIA ESTHER COLON
GONZALEZ Y ALFONZA
GONZALEZ CRUZ
DEMANDADO
CIVIL NUM.: NSCI2012-0741
(307) 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 SALA
SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO, en el
caso de epígrafe procederá a
vender en pública subasta al
mejor postor en efectivo, giro
postal o cheque certificado en
moneda legal de los Estados
Unidos de América a nombre
del Alguacil del Tribunal el día 5
de abril de 2016 a las 9:45 de
la mañana en su oficina sita en
el local que ocupa en el edificio
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR
DE FAJARDO, todo derecho,
título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el
inmueble de su propiedad que
ubica en: Urb. Montemar, A-88
Calle F, Fajardo, P.R 00738 que
se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar radicado en
la Urbanización Montemar de
Fajardo, área de 346.559 metros cuadrados, ubicado en la
calle “F” de la misma urbanización. En lindes por el NORTE,
en 25.936 metros, con el área
reservada para parque; por el
SUR, en 26.128 metros con el
solar número 89; por el ESTE,
en 12.661 metros, con la calle
“E” de la misma Urbanización;
y por el OESTE, en 13.987 metros, con el resto de la finca
donde se segrega. Enclava sobre solar una casa de hormigón.
La propiedad antes relacionada
consta inscrita en el Folio 19 del
Tomo 471 de Fajardo, finca número 13,350, en el Registro de
la Propiedad de Fajardo. El tipo
mínimo para la primera subasta
del inmueble antes relacionado,
será el dispuesto en la Escritura
de Hipoteca, es decir la suma
de $89,514.00. 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
12 de abril de 2016 a las 9:45
de la mañana. 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 $59,676.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se
celebrará una tercera subasta
en las oficinas del Alguacil que
suscribe el día 19 de abril de
2016 a las 9:45 de la mañana.
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
$44,757.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe
fue constituida mediante la escritura número 40, otorgada el
día 24 de junio de 2009, ante
el Notario Sara I. Pagán Rodríguez y consta inscrita al folio
19 del tomo 471 de Fajardo
finca número 13,350, Registro
de la Propiedad de Fajardo,
inscripción Sexta (6ta). Dicha
subasta se llevará a cabo para
con su producto satisfacer al
Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el
importe de la Sentencia que
ha obtenido ascendente a la
suma de $82,636.34 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma
al tipo convenido de cinco y
medio (5.50%) porciento anual
desde el primero (1ro.) de septiembre de 2014, hasta su completo pago, más $3,387.15 de
intereses devengados hasta el
día 30 de abril de 2015, la suma
de $2,874.59 por concepto de
otros cargos devengados hasta
la misma fecha y la cantidad líquida y estipulada de $8,951.40
para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Que los autos
y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento
incoado estarán de manifiesto
en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
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 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. Y para
conocimiento de licitadores del
público en general se publicará
este Edicto de acuerdo con la
ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del
municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la
alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado
mediante edictos dos veces en
un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por espacio de
dos semanas consecutivas.
Expido el presente Edicto de
subasta bajo mi firma y sello de
este Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto
Rico, hoy día 16 de octubre de
2015. Maritza Santana Ortíz, Alguacil Auxiliar #054.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
SALA SUPERIOR.
TAX-FREE PUERTO RICO
TARGET MATURITY
FUND, INC.
Demandante V.
LUIS RAMÓN
RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA,
SHARON MARIE
NUÑEZ IRIZARRY Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA
POR AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM: JCD2009-0009
(603) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA AVISO DE VENTA
EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo,
Marvin Figueroa Zayas, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de
Subastas del Centro Judicial de
Ponce, a los demandados y al
público en general les notifico
que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en
el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con
fecha 1 de diciembre de 2015 y
para satisfacer la Sentencia por
la cantidad de $75,693.44 de
principal, dictada en el caso de
autos el 12 de mayo de 2014,
notificada el 22 de mayo de
2014, procederé a vender en
pública subasta, al mejor postor
en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo
derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados
en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Ponce,
Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble
se describe a continuación:
Urb. Alhambra Court Gardens
B-4, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00731
URBANA: SOLAR NUMERO
CUATRO DEL BLOQUE B,
SEGÚN PLANO DE INSCRIPCION DEL PROYECTO DENOMINADO URBANIZACION ALHAMBRA COURT GARDENS,
RADICADO EN EL BARRIO
MACHUELO ABAJO DEL TERMINO MUNICIPAL DE PONCE, PUERTO RICO. DICHO
SOLAR TIENE UN AREA DE
CIENTO CINCUENTA Y CUATRO METROS CUADRADOS.
COLINDA POR EL NORTE,
EN VEINTIUNO PUNTO DIEZ
Y SEIS METROS LINEALES,
CON EL SOLAR B-CINCO;
POR EL SUR, EN VEINTIUNO PUNTO DOCE METROS
LINEALES, CON EL SOLAR
B-TRES; POR EL ESTE, EN
SIETE PUNTO TREINTA Y UN
METROS LINEALES, CON LA
CALLE NUMERO UNO; Y POR
EL OESTE, EN SIETE PUNTO TREINTA Y UN METROS
LINEALES, CON EL SOLAR
DE JORGE VENDRELL. LA
DESCRITA PROPIEDAD ESTA
INSCRITA AL FOLIO CIENTO
SETENTA Y TRES DEL TOMO
MIL SETECIENTOS DIEZ Y
SEIS DE PONCE I, FINCA NUMERO CINCUENTA Y TRES
MIL CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA Y SEIS, INSCRIPCION
SEGUNDA. 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 de Ponce. El tipo mínimo
para la subasta será la suma
de tasación pactada, la cual es
$84,900.000 para la propiedad
descrita. Si no produjere remate
o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo
mínimo de 2/3 partes del valor
de la tasación para un total de
$56,600.00. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en ésta
el tipo mínimo será de la 1/2
del valor de la tasación para
un total de $42,450.00. Para el
lote descrito, la primera subasta
se llevará a cabo el día 28 de
marzo de 2016, a las 9:30 de
la mañana. De no comparecer
postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el día 4
de abril de 2016, a las 9:30 de
la mañana. De no comparecer
postor alguno se llevará a cabo
una tercera subasta el día 11 de
abril de 2016, a las 9:30 de la
mañana. La subasta o subastas
antes indicadas se llevarán a
efecto en mi oficina, localizada
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce.
De Estudio de Título realizado
surge el siguiente gravamen
preferente:
SERVIDUMBRE:
Recíproca de alcantarillado pluvial, con un valor de $1.00, según consta de la escritura #12,
otorgada en San Juan, el 2 de
agosto de 1989 ante el Notario
Wilfredo Méndez Matos, inscrito al folio 173 del tomo 1716 de
Ponce, finca #53,476, inscrip-
39
Legal Notice
ción 1ra. De Estudio de Título
realizado surgen los siguientes
gravámenes posteriores los
cuales podrán ser cancelados: HIPOTECA: En garantía
de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la
suma de $28,550.00, intereses
al 6.95% anual y a vencer a la
presentación, según consta de
la escritura #489, otorgada en
Ponce, el 30 de septiembre de
2005, ante el Notario Miguel A.
Arroyo Díaz, inscrito al folio 76
del tomo 2040 de Ponce, finca
#53,476, inscripción 10ma. Se
le advierte a los licitadores que
la adjudicación se hará al mejor
postor, quien deberá consignar
el importe de su oferta en el
mismo acto de la adjudicación
en moneda de curso legal de
los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento
de la parte demandada y de
toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s)
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción
del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento
de los licitadores y el público en
general y para su publicación
en un periódico de circulación
general, una vez por semana
durante el término de dos (2)
semanas consecutivas con un
intervalo de por lo menos siete
(7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres
(3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la
venta, tales como, la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se
le notificará además a la parte
demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les
advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos
relacionados con la presente
acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para ser
examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y
los preferentes, si los hubiere
al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, a
22 de febrero de 2016. Marvin
Figueroa Zayas, Alguacil.
BANCO COOPERATIVO
DE PUERTO RICO,
FULANO DE TAL
Y MENGANO DE TAL
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: KCP2016-0012
(803) SOBRE: CANCELACION
DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADO UBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO
FULANO DE TAL
Y MENGANO DE TAL
El Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan
dictó la siguiente providencia:
“ORDEN: Vista la solicitud sobre publicación de edictos, la
demanda que se acompaña
para cancelar dos pagarés,
uno a favor del Portador y otro
a favor de Banco Cooperativo
de Puerto Rico, que se han
extraviado y las Reglas de
Procedimiento Civil vigentes,
el Tribunal ordena que se citen
por edictos los demandados
desconocidos Fulano de Tal,
Mengano de Tal, en su condición de posibles tenedores de
los pagarés, uno a favor de Portador, por la suma de CIENTO
CUARENTA y OCHO MIL DOLARES ($148,000.00), garantizado con hipoteca constituida
mediante la escritura número la
escritura número 11, otorgada
en San Juan, Puerto Rico el
día 10 de mayo de 1979 ante el
notario público Rafael Benet; y
otro a favor del Banco Cooperativo de Puerto Rico, por la suma
de CINCUENTA MIL DOLARES
($50,000.00), garantizado con
hipoteca constituida mediante
la escritura número 4, otorgada
el 17 de febrero de 1983 ante
el Notario Publico Jorge Luis
Ruiz Rivera. Los edictos se
publicarán en un periódico de
circulación general. Se exime
del envío por correo certificado
del emplazamiento por edicto a
la última dirección conocida de
la parte demandada, Fulana de
Tal y Mengano de Tal, por desconocerse su existencia. DADA
en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2 de
febrero de 2016. Juez Pedro J.
Polanco. Se le notifica que de
no contestar, o alegar en contra
de la demanda radicada en este
caso, previa notificación del demandante, dentro de veinte (20)
días si el demandado reside en
Puerto Rico, o dentro de treinta
(30) días si el demandado reside fuera de Puerto Rico, contados desde la publicación del
edicto, se le anotará rebeldía,
sin más citarle ni oírle, y oída
la evidencia del demandante, el
Tribunal dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado.
La abogado de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Heidy Aleyi
LEGAL NOTICE
Ortiz Rodriguez, con oficinas en
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO la Calle Rafael Lasa #17, Aguas
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Buenas, Puerto Rico 00703.
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Expedido bajo mi firma y el
sello del Tribunal para su puSALA DE SAN JUAN.
blicación, hoy día 8 de febrero
COOPERATIVA DE
de 2016, en San Juan, Puerto
AHORRO Y CREDITO Rico. Griselda Rodriguez CoORIENTAL
llado, Secretaria del Tribunal.
Demandantes vs.
Jenniffer Vega Maldonado, Se-
Legal Notice
cretaria de Servicio a Sala.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.
JAN SALVADOR RIVERA
SANTIAGO; MYRNA Y.
GUERRA GONZÁLEZ Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2015-2652
(503) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS E.E. U.U. EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
JAN SALVADOR RIVERA
SANTIAGO; MYRNA Y.
GUERRA GONZÁLEZ Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS URB.
FUENTEBELLA 1605
CALLE TORINO TOA
ALTA, PUERTO RICO
00953.
Queda usted notificado que en
este Tribunal se ha radicado
Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por
la Vía Ordinaria en la que se
alega usted le adeuda a la Demandante las siguientes cantidades: Principal $236,389.69,
intereses sobre dicha suma al
7.5 % anual desde el 1 de abril
de 2015 hasta su completo
pago, más $1,110.47 mensual
por concepto de recargos adeudados desde el día 1 de mayo
de 2015, hasta su total pago,
más la cantidad estipulada de
$23,750.00 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogados, así
como cualquier otra suma que
contenga el contrato de préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza
hipotecariamente el préstamo
es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar
radicado marcado en la Urbanización Fuentebella, localizada en el Barrio Candelaria del
término municipal de Toa Baja,
Puerto Rico, que se describe
en el plano de inscripción, con
el número, área y colindancias
que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar 1605,
con una cabida de 857.732 metros cuadrados. En lindes por
el: NORTE: En una distancia de
39.268 metros lineales con el
solar número 1604 de la Urbanización; SUR: En una distancia
de 54.917 metros lineales con el
solar número 1606 de la Urbanización; ESTE: En una distancia
de 15.000 metros lineales con la
Calle Torino de la Urbanización;
OESTE: En dos distancias que
40
suman 15.627 metros lineales,
con una calle existente. Enclava
una casa. La propiedad consta
inscrita al Folio 91 del Tomo 714
de Toa Baja, Finca #32,291, Registro de Bayamón, Sección II.
La escritura de hipoteca y la
modificación de hipoteca constan inscritas al Folio 91vto. del
Tomo 714 de Toa Baja, Registro
de Bayamón, Sección II. Inscripción segunda y tercera respectivamente. La Demandante es la
tenedora por endoso, por valor
recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente
acción. 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 Garcia, cuya dirección es Terrazas
de Guaynabo, H-26 Calle Las
Flores, Guaynabo PR 00969,
Telefono y Fax: (787) 789-1826,
correo electrónico: [email protected], 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 mas citarle ni oírle.
Se le informa además, que se
procederá a presentar aviso de
pleito pendiente en el Registro
de la Propiedad correspondiente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y
el sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de
febrero de 2016, en Bayamón,
Puerto Rico. Ruth Aponte Cotto, Secretaria Regional II. Ixia
B. Cordova Chinea, Secretaria
Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, March 7, 2016
la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial
o Resolución, de la cual puede
establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del
término de 30 días contados a
partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a
usted esta notificación que se
considerará hecha en la fecha
de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha
sido archivada en los autos de
este caso, con fecha de 29 de
FEBRERO de 2016. En SAN
JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 29 de
FEBRERO de 2016. Griselda
Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria.
Virgen Y. Del Valle Diaz, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ADJUNTAS.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
ANTONIO FIGUEROA
CRUZ, JENNIFFER
BRIGGS HOLLAND y
La Sociedad Legal de
Gananciales Compuesta
por Ambos Y CARMEN M.
FIGUEROA CRUZ
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: LCCI201500414
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
(REGLA 60) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: JENNIFFER BRIGGS
HOLLAND POR SÍ Y EN
REPRESENTACIÓN DE
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR ÉSTA
Y ANTONIO FIGUEROA
CRUZ
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
Por la presente se le emplaza a
de San Juan.
usted y se le requiere para que
ORIENTAL BANK,
dentro del término de treinta
Demandante V.
(30) días desde la fecha de la
JOHN DOE &
publicación por edicto de este
RICHARD ROE,
emplazamiento, notifiquen a la
Demandado(a)
LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MECivil Num: KCP2015-0239 Sala: DINA, Condominio Las Nerei0901 Sobre: CANCELACION das, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez
DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez
NOTIFICACION DE SENTEN- Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
CIA POR EDICTO.
00680; Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342,
A: JOHN DOE &
Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y
RICHARD ROE
(Nombre de las partes a las que se (845) 345-3985 Abogada de la
le notifican la sentencia por edicto) parte Demandante, cuya direcEL SECRETARIO (A) que sus- ción es la que queda indicada,
cribe le notifica a usted que el copia de su Contestación a la
24 de FEBRERO de 2016, este Demanda, radicando el original
Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, de dicha Contestación en el
Sentencia Parcial o Resolu- Tribunal de Adjuntas. Copia de
ción en este caso, que ha sido la demanda, así como de este
debidamente registrada y ar- emplazamiento, podrán ser obchivada en autos donde podrá tenidas en la Secretaría de este
usted enterarse detalladamente Tribunal, apercibiéndose que
de los términos de la misma. en caso de no hacerlo usted así
Esta notificación se publicará dentro del término indicado, pouna sola vez en un periódico de drá anotarse la rebeldía en su
circulación general en la Isla de contra concediendo el remedio
Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 solicitado en la Demanda sin
días siguientes a su notifica- más citarle ni oírle. Expido bajo
ción. Y, siendo o representado mi firma y el sello del Tribunal,
usted una parte en el procedi- hoy 19 de febrero de 2016.
miento sujeta a los términos de Wanda I. Rivera Pérez, Secre-
taria. Por: Margarita Torres Ma- con terrenos de Don Juan Valldejuli Rodríguez; y por el ESTE,
tos, Sub-Secretaria
en treinta metros (30.00 m), con
el Solar número ciento cuarenta
LEGAL NOTICE
y siete (147) de Don Juan VallESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
dejulli Rodríguez; y por el OESDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUTE, en treinta metros (30.00
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
m), con el Solar número ciento
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN
cuarenta y nueve (149) de Don
JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.
Juan Valldejulli Rodríguez. La
ROOSEVELT CAYMAN propiedad consta inscrita al
ASSET COMPANY II
folio (3) del tomo (264) de Río
Parte Demandante Vs.
Piedras Norte, Registro de San
DAMASO HERNÁNDEZ Juan II, finca número (7904). La
dirección del inmueble es: 212
LÓPEZ, por sí
Los Flamboyanes, Ave. Hyde
Parte Demandada
Park, San Juan, PR 00918.
CIVIL NÚM: KCD2014-1922
Dichos remates se llevarán a
SALÓN: 504 SOBRE: Cobro
efecto para con su producto sade Dinero y Ejecución de Hitisfacer a la parte demandante el
poteca (Por la Vía Ordinaria)
importe de la Sentencia que ha
AVISO DE SUBASTA ESTAobtenido ascendente a la suma
DOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL
de $171,390.19 de principal,
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAintereses acumulados desde el
DOS UNIDOS SS: EL PUEBLO
1 de marzo de 2014 y los inteDE PUERTO RICO. Yo, Diana
reses pactados al 6.00% anual
I. Navarro Cruz, Alguacil del
que se continúen generando a
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
partir de dicha fecha en adeSala de SAN JUAN: CERTIFIlante, recargos acumulados por
CO Y HAGO CONSTAR: Que
la cantidad de $1483.03 desde
en cumplimiento con un MANel 1 de abril de 2014, $300.26
DAMIENTO DE EJECUCIÓN
para reserva y contribuciones y
DE SENTENCIA que me ha
la cantidad de $20,800.00 estisido dirigido por el Secretario
pulada para costas y honorarios
de este Tribunal en el caso
de abogado. Cualquier título,
arriba mencionado, venderé en
derecho o interés que tenga
pública subasta al mejor postor
la parte demandada en este
entre la parte demandante y
caso en la propiedad anterioraquellas personas que reúnan
mente descrita se adjudicará
los requisitos y calificaciones de
al mejor postor entre la parte
Ley, de contado y por moneda
demandante y aquellas persodel cuño legal de los Estados
nas que refinan los requisitos y
Unidos de América, en efectivo,
calificaciones de Ley. Los autos
giro postal o cheque certificado
y todos los documentos corresa nombre del (de la) Alguacil del
pondientes al procedimiento de
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
ejecución de hipoteca por la vía
en mi oficina sita en el Tribunal
ordinaria incoados en este caso,
de Primera Instancia, Sala de
estarán de manifiesto en la SeSAN JUAN, el día 5 de abril de
cretaría de este Honorable Tri2016,a las 10:00 de la mañana
bunal durante horas laborables.
todo derecho, título o interés
Se entiende que todo licitador
que tenga la parte demandada
que comparezca a la subasta
en la finca que se describe más
señalada en este caso acepta
adelante. El tipo mínimo para
como bastante la titulación que
la primera subasta lo será la
da base a la misma. Se entiensuma de $208,000.00. De no
de que cualquier carga y/o graadjudicarse la propiedad en esa
vamen anterior y/o preferente,
Primera Subasta, se celebrarán
si lo hubiere, al crédito que da
una Segunda y Tercera Subasbase a esta ejecución continuata, en las mismas oficinas de
rá subsistente, entendiéndose
este Alguacil, respectivamente,
además, que el remanente los
el día 12 de abril de 2016,a las
acepta y queda subrogado en la
10:00 de la mañana y el día 19
responsabilidad de los mismos,
de abril de 2016,a las 10:00 de
sin destinarse a su extinción el
la mañana. Los tipos mínimos
precio del remate. El monto de
para dichas Segunda y Tercera
cada carga anterior que figura
Subastas lo serán, respectivade la Certificación Registral somente las dos terceras partes
bre la finca objeto de esta ejecuy la mitad del tipo mínimo que
ción, así como los nombres de
se pactara para la Primera
sus titulares y fecha de venciSubasta, o sea, las sumas de
miento se detallan como sigue:
$138,666.67 y $104,000.00,
NINGUNO. El monto de cada
respectivamente. La propiedad
carga posterior que figura de la
objeto de subasta se describe
Certificación Registral sobre la
como sigue: URBANA: Solar
finca objeto de esta ejecución,
marcado con el número ciento
así como los nombres de sus
cuarenta y ocho (148) en el Platitulares y fecha de vencimiento
no de Solares de la Urbanizase detallan como sigue: NINción Hyde Park del término muGUNO. Por la presente se le
nicipal de Río Piedras, Puerto
notifica a los titulares de crédito
Rico, con una cabida superficial
y/o cargas registrales posteriode cuatrocientos cincuenta punres, que se celebrarán las Suto cero cero metros cuadrados
bastas en las fechas, horas y
(450.00 mc), que colinda por el
sitio anteriormente señalados, y
NORTE, en quince punto cero
se les invitan a que concurran
cero metros (15.00 m), con la
a dichas subastas si les conviCalle número cuatro (4); por el
niese, o se les invita a satisfacer
SUR, en quince metros (15.00),
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, siempre y
cuando refinan los requisitos y
calificaciones de Ley y para que
pueda efectuar tal subrogación.
Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal
y en dos lugares públicos del
municipio en el cual se celebrarán las subastas señaladas, así
como para la publicación en un
periódico de circulación general diarias y en el Estado Libre
Asociado de Puerto Rico, por el
término de por lo menos dos semanas con antelación a la fecha
de la primera subasta y una vez
por semana. Se hace constar
que los abogados de la parte
demandante son Igor J. Domínguez Law Offices, 1225 Avenida
Ponce de León, Suite 1105, San
Juan, PR 00907-3921, Teléfono
(787) 250-0220, Fax. (787) 2500295. EXPEDIDO el presente
en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, a
19 de febrero de 2016. Diana
I. Navarro Cruz, ALGUACIL Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala
de SAN JUAN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
AGUADILLA.
COOPERATIVA DE
AHORRO Y CREDITO
DE ISABELA
Demandante Vs.
LA AUTORIDAD PARA EL
FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA
VIVIENDA; JOHN DOE y
RICHARD ROE
Demandados
CASO NÚM: ACP2016-0001
SALÓN NÚM. 604 SOBRE:
CANCELACION PAGARE EXTRAVIADO
EMPLAZAMIENTO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS. EL
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO.
A: John Doe y
Richard Roe
Tenedores desconocidos
o sea la parte demandada
de epígrafe arriba
mencionada.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva
a la demanda dentro de los
treinta (30) días siguientes a
la publicación de este Edicto,
y notifique copia de la misma a la abogado de la parte
demandante: Lcdo. Marcos
Raúl Cortés Reyes, Núm. TS
-18745, PO Box 195337, San
Juan, Puerto Rico, TELS. (787)
519-3641, [email protected]. Apercibiéndole
que de usted dejar de presentar su alegación responsiva
dentro del término indicado, el
tribunal podrá dictar sentencia
en rebeldía en su contra, sin
más citarle ni oírle, concedien-
do el remedio solicitado en la
demanda, o cualquier otro, si
el tribunal, en el ejercicio de
su sana discreción, lo entiende
procedente. Este caso trata de
la cancelación de un gravamen
hipotecario constituido mediante escritura número 151,
otorgada en Isabela, el 29 de
diciembre de 2012, ante Juan
D. Berríos Marrero, mediante
la cual se constituye hipoteca por la suma principal de
$77,000.00, en garantía de un
pagaré a favor de La Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Isabela,
o a su orden, con intereses al
3.625% anual y vencimiento el
1 de enero de 2043. Presentada
al asiento 452 del diario 853 de
Isabela, Finca 26578. EXTIENDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello
del Tribunal, hoy 15 DE ENERO DE 2016. Rosa B. Sanchez
Acevedo, Secretaria Regional.
Por: Madelyn Morales Ramos,
Sub-Secretaria.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMON
COOPERATIVA DE
AHORRO Y CREDITO
ABRAHAM ROSA
Demandante
FIRST EQUITY
MORTGAGE BANKERS;
JOHN DOE Y
RICHARD ROE
Demandados
CASO NÚM: DCP2015-0152
SALÓN NÚM. 506 SOBRE:
CANCELACION PAGARE EXTRAVIADO EMPLAZAMIENTO
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
SS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: John Doe y
Richard Roe
Tenedores desconocidos
o sea la parte demandada
de epígrafe arriba
mencionada.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a
la demanda dentro de los treinta
(30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, y notifique copia de la misma a la abogado de la parte demandante:
Lcdo. Marcos Raúl Cortés Reyes, Núm. TS -18745, PO Box
195337, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
TELS. (787) 519-3641, [email protected].
Apercibiéndole que de usted
dejar de presentar su alegación
responsiva dentro del término
indicado, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su
contra, sin más citarle ni oírle,
concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el
ejercicio de su sana discreción,
lo entiende procedente. Este
caso trata de la cancelación de
un gravamen hipotecario por la
suma principal de $205,500.00,
en garantía de un pagaré a favor de FIRST EQUITY MORTGAGE BANKERS, o a su orden,
con intereses al 5.875% anual y
vencimiento el 1 de agosto de
2012, mediante escritura número 228, otorgada en San Juan,
el 7 de julio de 2005, ante Carlos L. Segarra Matos, e inscrito
al folio 93 del tomo 495 de Toa
Alta, finca número 25081, inscripción 2a. EXTIENDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE TRUJILLO ALTO
DLJ MORTGAGE
CAPITAL. INC.
11 Madison Ave.
NewYork, NY 10010
Parte Demandante Vs.
E.M.I EQUITY MORTGAGE
INC.; JOHN DOE y
RICHARD ROE como
Posibles tenedores
desconocidos
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM. FECI201501851
SOBRE: CANCELACION DE
PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Estados Unidos de América Presidente de los Estados Unidos de
América Estado Libre Asociado
de Puerto Rico
A: JOHN DOE y RICHARD
ROE como posibles
tendedores desconocidos
Por la presente se le notifica
que la parte demandante, DLJ
MORTGAGE CAPITAL. INC.,
ha presentado ante este Tribunal demanda, alegando la
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What Does 2016 Hold for Félix Verdejo?
T
By HÉCTOR FRANCO
his past February Félix Verdejo made his return to
New York City. Verdejo faced oﬀ against unknown
and undefeated Brazilian pugilist William Silva.
Verdejo won a unanimous decision victory where he likely
won all ten rounds of the contest. Silva and his corner celebrated surviving the ten rounds as a victory. Although
Verdejo dominated the contest, to the crowd and those
viewing on television he disappointed.
There is major hype behind Verdejo currently, even
drawing comparisons to Puerto Rican All-Time Great and
Hall-of-Famer, Felix Trinidad. It’s time for everyone to
pump the proverbial brakes. After a disappointing 2015,
where Verdejo’s momentum slowed down due to him requiring surgery to remove bone spurs from his left hand,
Top Rank plans to put the Puerto Rican in the ring five
times in 2016.
Top Rank already has two more dates scheduled for
Verdejo this year. One will be on April 16th in Puerto Rico.
The other will be during the time of the Puerto Rican Day
Parade in New York on June 11th. Clearly Top Rank is looking to make up for lost time with Verdejo. After Saturday
night, it’s clear that at 22 years of age, Verdejo still needs to
be moved along slowly. The ten rounds Verdejo got with
William Silva will prove to be beneficial in the future. Verdejo has rarely gone the full distance and after a slow 2015
getting some rounds in, is a positive.
It’s important to note that even Hall-of-Famers in the
past have had subpar performances before they put on
some of their best performances. Floyd Mayweather had
an uneventful decision victory against Tony Pep in 1998
before his title winning eﬀort against Genaro Hernandez.
Oscar De La Hoya was knocked down against Giorgio
Campanella before his fights with Jesse James Leija and
Genaro Hernandez. There are some fights where you just
win, and try to look good in the next outing. Verdejo may
not ever reach the level of De La Hoya or Mayweather, but
fans shouldn’t write him oﬀ after the Silva bout.
Top Rank has the best matchmakers in the sport of
boxing. Verdejo will be moved accordingly to his progression. The bout-taking place in Puerto Rico in April will
likely be against softer opposition to produce a fan-pleasing knockout for Verdejo. What Top Rank does in June
will prove to be more important. There are options for
Verdejo to step up his competition.
Verdejo may want to test himself against a fighter that
also fought last month in Hank Lundy. Lundy gave some
problems in the first two rounds to Terence Crawford. Lundy would be a test for Verdejo. If Verdejo were to get past
Lundy easily it would show that by the end of the year he
could be ready for the top fighters at the lightweight division. Former world champion Ricky Burns could also
prove to be another test for Verdejo with his experience in
championship bouts.
Recently Top Rank President Bob Arum stated that at
this point in his career Verdejo is a bigger star than Miguel Cotto at the same point in his career. In many ways
this is true because of Verdejo’s personality and the comparisons to Felix Trinidad. Verdejo has also been featured
in Florida, Philadelphia and New York more than Cotto at
this point of their respective careers. What’s important for
2016 concerning Verdejo is not that he is more or as popular as Cotto, but that he is moved along at a pace similar to
Cotto’s. Boxing needs young fighters to step into the forefront of the sport in order to keep it thriving. For Verdejo,
2016 will be about development as a fighter just as much
as growing his popularity.
In Pakistan, Young Female Boxers Punch Through Gender Barriers
I
n a dense and dusty neighborhood in the southern
Pakistani city of Karachi, eight young girls lined up
against a cement wall, touching their hands to their
faces in prayer before boxing practice began.
For the last six months, these athletes-in-the-making
have been training at the Pak Shaheen Boxing Club in
Lyari, a packed Karachi ward known more for its internecine gang warfare than for breaking glass ceilings.
During the week, a dozen girls, aged eight to 17, go
to the club after school to practice their jabs, hooks and
upper cuts for hours in the hope of one day bringing a
medal home to Pakistan.
“I have been training since I was a child,” said Urooj
Qambrani, 15. “Inshallah, I will become an international
boxer. ... I will make Pakistan’s name famous.”
Pakistani women have been training as boxers in
small numbers and competed in the South Asian Games
last year, said Younis Qambrani, the coach who founded
the club in 1992.
The growth of the sport for both men and women in
Pakistan has been dogged by a lack of equipment and
adequate facilities, but the situation is slowly improving,
he said.
In Pakistan, a conservative Muslim society, women
and girls face additional obstacles - both from Taliban
threats for going to school and also violence from family
members, including so-called “honor killings” in which
male relatives kill girls deemed to have brought shame to
the family name.
In October, the Sindh Boxing Association organised
a camp for female boxers in Karachi, the first time that a
government-supported event for women in the sport was
held in the country, according to media reports.
Some of the girls in Qambrani’s family, who had taken
up practising at home, participated in the camp, and
came to Qambrani afterwards to ask why they couldn’t
train at his club as well.
“A number of girls were keen on training, but due to
social pressures, I had been avoiding the issue,” Qambrani said.
“Last year a girl came to me, asking why girls couldn’t
train. I was moved when she said, ‘No one teaches us
how to defend ourselves,’” he said.
Since then, some of the girls have begun to participate
in tournaments, at home in the ring in white track suits,
head scarves and boxing gloves.
For Anum Qambrani, the coach’s 17-year-old daughter,
Anum, 17, punches padding with her coach Younus getting the chance to train formally in the club was noQambrani while others observe during an exercise thing short of fulfilling her birthright.
session at the first women’s boxing coaching camp
“My two uncles are international boxers, and my fain Karachi, Pakistan.
ther is a coach,” she said. “Boxing is in our blood.”
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WBC Helped MLB Build Bridges With Cuba
By JP MOROSI
T
en years later, Paul Archey remembers the fax from
Havana.
The inaugural World Baseball Classic was a little more
than two months away, and yet Cuba’s involvement was in
doubt. The U.S. Oﬃce of Foreign Assets Control had refused
to grant a license for Cuba to take part, because the WBC’s
application called for Cuba to receive prize money; the Treasury Department said that would violate terms of the U.S.
embargo.
The decision jeopardized the nascent WBC’s viability.
“Without the Cubans, the tournament would’ve been meaningless,” says Gene Orza, who was then chief operating
oﬃcer of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
“At the international level of play, they were preeminent in
the world. It would be like having the World Series, but you
could never use the Yankees.”
However, Cuban sports oﬃcials were determined to participate. In Cuba, the prestige and success of the national baseball team is central to the country’s identity and Communist ideology. Having frequently dominated minor-league
competition in Olympic baseball, the Cubans felt obligated
to compete against the world’s best players.
So, the Cuban government proposed a compromise: Any
prize money that would otherwise go to the Cuban baseball
federation, should instead be donated to Hurricane Katrina
relief eﬀorts.
MLB proposes easier path for Cuban players. What you
need to know about the proposal submitted to the US government. — Jesse Sanchez (@JesseSanchezMLB) March 3, 2016
The oﬀer, in English, was equal parts savvy and sincere.
It was waiting for Archey one morning when he arrived at
MLB’s Manhattan oﬃces.
“If you could only imagine, having this letter in your
hands,” recalls Archey, who led MLB’s international operations at the time. “How could you reject this?”
Of course, MLB didn’t. Nor did the Treasury Department.
The World Baseball Classic opened 10 years ago last week.
Cuba won a silver medal at San Diego’s Petco Park. And
World Baseball Classic Inc. paid for the construction of two
homes in the Gulf Coast region -- although the embargo prohibited a formal announcement of Cuba’s role in the donation.
The Cubans, Archey says, “did everything we asked
them to do. And when I went back to Cuba before the second
(WBC), they told me, ‘You did everything you said you were
going to do. You followed through.’ They were skeptical
when we invited them, but they realized MLB was in it for
the right reasons . . . There was a tremendous amount of trust
gained through their participation in the 2006 WBC.”
Cuba returned to the WBC in 2009 and 2013. Now there’s
another, even more symbolic game ahead: The Tampa Bay
Rays are scheduled to play the Cuban national team March
22 in Havana. President Obama is expected to attend, a further indication of the favorable trend in relations between
the countries.
The historic exhibition will occur in large part because
the White House wants it to be so. But there’s also a line one
can draw from Cuba’s involvement in the WBC -- a joint ven-
Alexei Bell #88 of Team Cuba is greeted by teammates
after scoring a run in the top of the fifth inning during
action against Team Netherlands Pool 1, Game 5 in the
second round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic at the
Tokyo Dome on March 11, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo
by Yuki Taguchi/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
ture between MLB and the MLBPA -- and what’s about to
happen at Estadio Latinoamericano.
“Over a long period of time, beginning with the Baltimore Orioles’ visit (to Cuba in 1999), and continuing through
the WBC, we have built a baseball-focused relationship with
Cuba,” MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told FOX Sports in
a telephone interview Thursday, the 10th anniversary of the
first WBC game. “The shift in policy from the U.S. government and thawing of relations has helped that relationship
grow.
“Baseball is uniquely situated to play a role in the evolving relationship of the U.S. and Cuba, because it’s so inherently part of our culture and theirs. It gives the two countries a common ground that is apolitical.”
Indeed, while the Obama administration’s move to normalize relations with Cuba has been the catalyst for this
month’s exhibition in Havana, baseball oﬃcials acknowledge the contributions of then-President George W. Bush prior
to the 2006 WBC. Roland Betts, chairman of the Chelsea
Piers Sports and Entertainment complex in New York and
close confidante of Bush, has served on the WBC’s board of
directors.
“There were discussions at the White House level,” Orza
recalls. “President Bush was in favor of Cuba’s participation
in the games. His approval was instantaneous. There was
never any need to convince President Bush or [former White
House Chief of Staﬀ] Andy Card. They were decisively important. Without their support, it wouldn’t have happened.
“Roland Betts was crucial in getting the Cubans involved.
Very frankly, the Cubans knew we were making the oﬀer in
friendship, and not for strategic reasons. We had to have the
Cubans for the tournament to be viable. More than that, we
wanted the Cubans to play. They deserved to be there.”
Long before the White House and Treasury Department
signed oﬀ on Cuban involvement in the WBC, Archey and
Orza began their baseball diplomacy in an unlikely place.
Italy.
As plans for the inaugural WBC progressed, talks between American and Cuban baseball oﬃcials moved haltingly due to travel restrictions and an absence of diplomatic
ties. Riccardo Fraccari, then head of Italy’s baseball federation, learned of the communication barrier during an unrelated trip to MLB’s oﬃces in New York and subsequently
phoned Cuba’s top sports minister.
Fraccari was an ideal intermediary: There’s a long history
of cooperation between the Cuban and Italian baseball federations, and Fraccari has a strong relationship with Antonio
Castro -- Fidel’s son and currently a global ambassador for
the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
With the Cuban national team playing at a tournament in
Parma that August, Fraccari helped to make arrangements
for Archey and Orza to meet with Cuban baseball oﬃcials at
a hotel in nearby Bologna. Fraccari, now the WBSC president,
told FOX Sports this week that Antonio Castro was among
the five or six Cuban representatives at the initial session.
“The thing that sticks with me from that meeting was
that it became very evident, if they were going to participate,
we needed to travel to Cuba first,” Archey remembers. “We
needed to formally invite them. We needed to travel to Cuba
out of respect, meet with their baseball and governmental
oﬃcials, and lay out our plan. We needed to do this the right
way.”
And they did. Archey traveled to Cuba twice in the
months leading up to the WBC -- including once with Orza,
evidence of the earnest collaboration between MLB and the
MLBPA on tournament matters. The WBC -- on its most basic
level, a business co-owned by MLB and the MLBPA -- came
about shortly after threats of contraction to 28 teams nearly
brought about a work stoppage. The sport has had two collective bargaining agreements signed since then, with minimal rancor.
“Our eﬀorts in the international area have been a positive, in terms of building a deeper and more mature relationship with the MLBPA,” Manfred said Thursday.
The coming months could bring another crucial development in relations among MLB, the MLBPA, and Cuba: As
reported by the New York Times, MLB has proposed to the
U.S. government that Cuban players be allowed to sign directly with MLB clubs, provided that part of their salaries
are donated to a nonprofit-style organization that “(supports)
youth baseball, education and the improvement of sports facilities in Cuba.” The concept is designed to circumvent the
dangerous human traﬃcking element associated with defections from Cuba.
Manfred declined to predict a timeline for the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision on MLB’s license request, but he
added, “I hope the event in Cuba (this month) puts some focus on the need to get a more open and regular system of exchange for players who want to play in the major leagues.”
If MLB’s application is approved, one item of business
will remain: Because the U.S. embargo remains in place, the
Cuban baseball federation has yet to see its revenue shares
from the ‘09 and ‘13 WBC tournaments.
“I made a promise to the Cubans that someday they will
be compensated like all the other teams for their play -- that
we would give them the money they deserve,” Orza said.
“As far as I’m concerned, MLB and the MLBPA owe the Cubans for their play in the WBC.
“It’s not been set aside. We’re not in violation of any agreement. It is a question of honor. We have to honor the promise that I made to them, that someday, this embargo’s going to
be lifted, and somebody’s going to go down there and hand
them a check. I’m keeping track of this. All I will say is that
we owe the Cubans money. And at some point, hopefully we
will pay it.”
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Barkley: If Blake Griffin Returns and Dominates, Clippers Can Win Title
fin and the Los Angeles Clippers was one of
those moments.
During the Inside the NBA halftime
show on TNT, Barkley began talking about
Griﬃn’s impending return to action for the
Clippers after breaking his hand in late
January. That’s when the Round Mound of
Rebound dropped a blazing, fiery, molten hot
take by proclaiming that the Clippers with a
dominant Blake Griﬃn come back could win
a championship. No, he wasn’t kidding.
This is no slight on the Clippers who
have performed admirably since Griﬃn first
had to go out of the lineup right after Christ-
Charles Barkley has some questionable
opinions about what Blake Griﬃn’s return can do for the Clippers
By CODY WILLIAMS
C
harles Barkley is pretty much on the
throne or somewhere close to next-inline for the throne as the King of Hot
Takes in the sport world, whether he means
to be or not. Though he’s an incredibly entertaining and smart basketball mind, he has a
tendency to go oﬀ the rails at time. Last weekend when he was talking about Blake Grif-
mas with a quad injury, but there’s no chance in hell that they are winning the title this
season. Even if you were 100 percent certain
that Blake Griﬃn was coming back to average 25 points and 13 rebounds per game, the
Clippers still aren’t going to keep pace with
two historic teams in their own conference
in the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs.
Hopefully the TNT studios have cooled
down a bit after this hot take, because it’s
really a miracle that everything didn’t burst
into flames after Barkley uttered these
words.
Walt Frazier Doesn’t Think Stephen Curry Will Sustain Level of Play
By MIKE NORRIS
A
dd Hall of Famer Walt Frazier to the
list of former NBA players who think
Stephen Curry’s game is overrated.
Speaking on ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike
(h/t CSNBayArea.com), Frazier, who averaged 18.9 points, 6.1 assists and 5.9 rebounds
per game in his 13-year career, said there is
one main reason the Golden State Warriors
guard is so successful:
“There’s no comparison because of the
3-ball, man. Former players, I never had an
opportunity for the 3-ball ... if there was no
3-ball shot, would we be talking about the
greatness of Curry today? What has made
him great is his ability, uncanny ability, to
shoot from 30 feet, 35 feet, the accuracy that
he has shown in making that particular
shot”.
Curry, who leads the NBA in scoring with
30.7 points per game, benefits from the threepoint line. He shoots 46.8 percent from down-
town and has already broken his own NBA
single-season three-point record with more
than 20 games left to play this year.
Frazier said Curry’s game would suﬀer if
there were no three-point line:
“Yeah, but it would be a little more diﬃcult because now you have to use penetration.
You can’t handcheck these guys anymore.
But now if you’re looking for twos, you can
be a little more physical than threes, because
threes, guys are just hanging out behind the
arc...”
This is the other thing guys -- my forte
was defense ... any phenomenal player, I had
to guard that guy. So when I’m guarding these guys, I’m trying to take away what they
do best. So today, if I’m guarding Curry, he
might have 25 2s on me, but he’s not gonna
have 13 3s because I’m gonna be forcing him
inside of the arc.
So this is what the former players are saying: How do you let a guy continue to do
what he does, and you know what he’s trying
to do is make the 3-point shot?
However, Curry has proved this year he
can do more than score. His 6.6 assists per
contest are tied for 10th in the league, and his
2.1 steals are tied for fourth. He also adds 5.3
rebounds per game for good measure. But
Clyde doesn’t believe he can sustain this level of play:
“To me, this is where Curry is. He’s having
that phenomenal season, a signature season,
but is he gonna do this for the next five years?
I don’t really think so. So I don’t know if he’ll
ever reach this level again. So this is what he’s
doing now, maybe they won’t be able to stop
him this year, but they’ll have to find a way
to contain this guy like they’ve done Kobe,
like they’re doing LeBron, like they’ve done
all the other superstars in the league.
Co-host Mike Golic said former NBA
players criticizing Curry (including Charles
Barkley and Oscar Robertson) need to “get a
clue”.
No matter what anyone says, there is no
Flacco Hopes Ravens Use Cap Savings
to Solidify the Offensive Line
BY MICHAEL DAVID SMITH
R
avens quarterback Joe Flacco agreed
to a contract extension last week that
gives Flacco a huge guarantee up
front but spreads out the salary cap hit into
future years, which means Baltimore created $6 million in new cap space for 2016.
And Flacco knows how he wants to see that
money spent.
Flacco said on PFT Live that he hopes
the savings go toward shoring up the oﬀen-
sive line. Although he didn’t mention any
players by name, he made it clear that he’s
hoping guard Kelechi Osemele, who’s slated to become a free agent on Wednesday,
stays in the fold.
“The one thing is I would say we need
doubt that Curry is on his way to claiming his
second straight MVP award. The Warriors are
on pace to break the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’
record of 72 regular-season victories and win
the NBA title for the second year in a row.
The former players can talk, but Curry is
doing his best to silence his doubters.
to get our O-line solidified, see who’s going
to be there for sure,” Flacco said. “We’ve got
a couple guys, at least one guy who’s out in
the open there, whether we’re going to get
a contract done with him or not. So once we
get those guys nailed down and see who
they’re going to be, I think that’s the biggest
part of a championship, as far as the oﬀensive side of the ball.”
Osemele will have options, and there’s
a good chance he’ll be oﬀered more money
elsewhere. But the new deal for Flacco gives
Ravens the cap space to compete for Osemele, and that’s what Flacco wants to see.
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Del Potro Receives Indian Wells Wild Card
Argentine to continue comeback at BNP
Paribas Open
J
uan Martin del Potro will continue his
comeback at the BNP Paribas Open in
Indian Wells this week after being award
a wild card into the main draw along with
several fast-rising young Amercians.
The Argentine, who missed most of
2015 due to left wrist surgery, made a successful return to the ATP World Tour in Delray Beach in February, losing in the semifinals to eventual champion Sam Querrey.
“This week I won more than a tournament,” del Potro said after the loss. “I am so
glad to play tennis again.”
The 2013 finalist (l. to Nadal) will take
part in his second tournament of the year.
The former No. 4 in the Emirates ATP Rankings is 16-5 at the ATP World Tour Masters
1000 event.
Joining del Potro in the Indian Wells
as main draw wild cards will be American
youngsters Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe,
Mackenzie McDonald and in-form veteran
Rajeev Ram, who has battled – and fallen -
in the qualifying rounds in four of the past
five years in the desert. He is seeking his
first main-draw win at the event.
Fritz is having a breakout 2016 season, moving into the Top 100 Emirates ATP
Rankings for the first time after making the
final of Memphis and the quarter-finals of
Acapulco. The 18 year old, ranked No. 81,
will make his main draw debut at an ATP
World Tour Masters 1000 event.
Receiving a wild card into the qualifying draw is American Brian Baker. Baker
had been out of action due to injury since
2013 before making his return to competition at the 2016 Australian Open (l. to Bolelli in the first round). It remains his only appearance of the year.
Cristiano Ronaldo Says Real Madrid
Motivated for Champions League
C
ristiano Ronaldo has said Real Madrid are as motivated as ever for the
Champions League despite their
uneven domestic season.
Portugal captain Ronaldo, whose side
have a 2-0 advantage after winning at
Roma in the round-of-16 first leg, said they
had played “a great game” in Italy.
But speaking to reporters at a publicity event in Madrid, he said: “We played a
great game against Roma.
“Now we are playing before our fans
with a good lead, but we can’t get overconfident.
“We’re having a diﬃcult season in La
Liga, and in the Copa del Rey we were eliminated. But as I’ve said many times, we’re
still in the Champions League and we’re
hoping to win it.
“It’s no coincidence that Real Madrid is
the club to have lifted the most European
Cups [10] in the world. We’re excited, nothing is lost and we’re going to keep working hard to achieve things come the end
of the season.”
Ronaldo, who said one of his remaining
aims was to dribble past 11 players before
scoring a “PlayStation” goal, added: “Talent is worth nothing without dedication.
“I am almost always the same and I
want to stay in that shape, earning titles
for the team and individually so that my
fans are happy.”
Ronaldo was embroiled in controversy
two weeks ago when he said Real would
be top of the table if his teammates were
on his level.
He later said he had only meant to refer to his injured teammates’ fitness, and
coach Zinedine Zidane said: “Cristiano
talked with everyone, with me, with the
players.
“Now it is something that is past. Cristiano, we know the importance he has. We
are all with him. That issue is over.
“What is important is what is in front
-- and we will go forward all together.”
Hantuchova Among Indian Wells WCs
By LINDSEY FOLTIN
F
ormer World No.5 Daniela Hantuchova has earned a wildcard into the main
draw of the upcoming BNP Paribas
Open. Other wildcard entrants will include Australian Open quarterfinalist Zhang
Shuai, Heather Watson, and Americans
Shelby Rogers, Samantha Crawford, Lauren
Davis, Alison Riske, and Jamie Loeb.
The Slovak made her big breakthrough
back in 2002 when she upset Martina Hingis
for the title, and came back in 2007 to win
a second time - defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final. Hantuchova also reached
the semifinals of the Australian Open back
in 2008, but with her ranking currently outside the Top 100, the seven-time WTA titlist
could not enter the main draw without a
wildcard.
Joining Hantuchova in the main draw
is Zhang Shuai, the Chinese No.2 who
enjoyed a Cinderella run to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open; a qualifier in
Melbourne, she won her first-ever Grand
Slam main draw match in emphatic fashion when she dismissed then-World No.2
Simona Halep in straight sets. Zhang took
that momentum all the way into the final
eight, where she fell to Johanna Konta; far
from a one week wonder, she took turned
that form and momentum into a title run
last week at an ITF Challenger in Rancho
Santa Fe.
Watson enjoyed a solid start to the year
by reaching the quarterfinals of the Hobart International as defending champion,
and is currently in the quarterfinals of the
Abierto Monterrey Afirme - one of three
Brits to reach WTA quarterfinals this week,
and the largest number since 1978.
Of the five Americans awarded wildcards, Samantha Crawford raced into the
semifinals of the Brisbane International as
a qualifier, while Shelby Rogers recently
reached the finals of the Rio Open - falling
to former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in straight sets. Alison Riske
started 2016 brightly with a run to the finals
of the Shenzhen Open, and Lauren Davis
pushed former No.1 Maria Sharapova to
three sets at the Australian Open. Finally,
former NCAA champion Jamie Loeb has
played solid tennis on the Challenger level,
reaching the quarterfinals of a 100K and
winning a 25K.
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HOROSCOPE
Aries
(Mar 21-April 20)
Entering into a professional relationship will improve
your career prospects. It will help you to work with someone who has a light touch with people. Your style is
direct. This works well when it comes to closing a sale,
but can complicate business negotiations. Be willing to
defer to someone who has lots of experience dealing with
diﬃcult clients.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
Quarrels will erupt at home. Someone who is behaving
like a tyrant must be confronted. It isn’t fair to expect
everyone to put their needs aside for the sake of one person. If this dynamic continues, think about getting your
own place. You hate disrupting your regular routine, but
that’s better than living in fear. You’ll be delighted to discover how well you fare living independently.
Taurus
(April 21-May 21)
Scorpio
Gemini
(May 22-June 21)
Sagittarius
You’re not interested in changing the status quo. The current way of doing things works to your advantage. Don’t
be so quick to reject opportunities for advancement. Getting an advanced degree will help you move up the professional ladder. Your current position is comfortable, but
it doesn’t oﬀer much creative stimulation. Getting a promotion will allow you to travel and enjoy more creature
comforts. Push yourself to try something new.
A passionate relationship makes you feel years younger.
Don’t be shy about expressing your desires to an attentive partner. It isn’t healthy to live in the realm of the brain
all the time. Satisfying your physical urges will give you
a deeper appreciation for creature comforts. You’ll laugh
more and it will be easier to relax. Colleagues and relatives will notice the diﬀerence and ask if you’ve been to a
spa. Give them a mysterious smile in response.
Cancer
(June 22-July 23)
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
You’re private about your ideas. Past rejections have made
you reluctant to discuss what’s on your mind. This has
allowed less talented people to overshadow you. Stop
letting aggressive types steal your thunder. Be assertive
about your brainwaves and don’t hesitate to defend them.
Even the most sarcastic critics will be silenced when faced
with your logic. Don’t be surprised when you’re put in
charge of a creative project.
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
Material factors have never ruled your life. The thought of
saving for retirement is laughable, but don’t be so quick to
dismiss it. Talk to your bank about automatically diverting
a set amount of your salary into a savings account. Soon,
you’ll forget about having this extra income. Your nest egg
will grow and in a few months, you’ll be delighted to discover you have a comfortable economic cushion. There’s no
harm in trying; treat the change like an experiment.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
Your best friend or romantic partner is very dependent on you. Ask for more breathing room. You need
freedom to pursue outside interests and friendships.
If your loved one feels threatened by these pursuits,
it’s time to have a serious talk. There’s no reason you
should abandon the hobbies and people you love to
accommodate someone else. Resist the temptation to
alter your behaviour to ease their irrational fears.
You’re serious about reaching your goals. Instead of building castles in the air, you take practical steps to realising
your dreams. Whether this means earning an advanced degree, saving money or learning a foreign language is immaterial. The important thing is to put one foot in front of the
other and keep going. Cynics will make fun of your eﬀorts,
calling you a silly dreamer. You’ll have the last laugh when
you cross the finish line.
Leo
Aquarius
(July 24-Aug 23)
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
A challenging work assignment brings out the best in you.
You won’t stop until you track down the information you
need to succeed. Going to the library or doing an extensive online search will be engrossing. You’ll stumble across
information that doesn’t seem significant at the time, but
will be useful later. People will be impressed by your
eﬀorts. Bigger and better assignments will be awarded to
you. Take this opportunity to ask for a raise.
Keep your philosophical convictions to yourself. You’ve
always been something of an idealist. Conventional types
are threatened by your open minded ideals. If you want
to discuss the meaning of life, do it with people who share
your sensibilities. If there’s not a club in your area, you can
always contribute to an online chat room. The beauty of the
Internet is being able to connect with people who live miles
away but have similar values.
Virgo Aug 24-Sep 23)
Pisces
Physical aﬀection is very important to you. Although you
have a keen intellect, you’re also very sensual. You hide
this earthly side from the world, preferring to exhibit your
considerable brain power. When it comes to intimate relationships, you must let your defences down. They’ll be
happy to oblige you. Are you single? You will meet someone special at a museum, concert or movie or a relaxed
cultural event.
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
A close relationship with an aggressive friend can be draining. You have strong convictions and don’t appreciate
being bullied. The sooner you put an end to this pushy dynamic, the better. Tell them you have no intention of changing your views and would rather discuss other issues. If
they persist in trying to convert you, cut the conversation
short. You might want to keep them at arm’s length until
they learn to respect your boundaries.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword
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