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he United Nations Decolonization Committee approved
on Monday by consensus a
resolution to reaﬃrm the right of
Puerto Rico to free self-determination and independence and stressed
that the approval of a federal fiscal
control bill in Congress underscores
the island’s colonial condition.
The resolution was introduced by the Cuban ambassador,
Humberto Rivera Rosario, with the co-sponsorship
of Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Syria and
Russia, according to reports in the local press.
The sessions heard statements of support from
the Non-Aligned Movement -- through Iran -- and the
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
through a representative of the Dominican Republic.
The measure recognizes that the current political
status, at a time of fiscal crisis, “[i]mpedes the Puerto
Rican people from taking sovereign decisions to decide [their] future,” said the Cuban delegate in presenting the measure.
Earlier, a number of current and former Puerto
Rican oﬃcials spoke before the committee about the
need to decolonize Puerto Rico.
Gov. Alejandro García Padilla appealed to the
committee to take the case of Puerto Rico before the
full General Assembly of the United Nations to make
good on Puerto Rico’s claim to sovereignty.
He called on the United Nations to “begin the
necessary processes for the exercise of the right of
self-determination in compliance with the norms of
legitimization established by this organization and
applicable international law.”
The governor said recent U.S. Supreme Court
rulings questioning the sovereignty of Puerto Rico’s
commonwealth government contradict declarations
made by the United States in the past avowing that
Puerto Rico has full sovereignty.
“It is incompatible to aﬃrm before the community of nations of the world that the people of Puerto
Rico and people of the United States are tied ‘by a
bilateral pact whose terms could be
altered only through mutual consent,’
but in Washington, D.C. to aﬃrm that
the people of Puerto Rico are subject
to the plenary power of the federal
Congress,” García Padilla said.
Other Puerto Rican politicians
testified before the commission, including Puerto Rican Independence
Party Vice President and gubernatorial candidate Maria de Lourdes Santiago.
Santiago called on the chairman
of the committee to explore alternative
forms of dialogue aimed at promoting the decolonization of Puerto Rico through a process of negotiations
in the United States among those who propose the decolonization of the island in conformance with U.S.
Resolution 1514 (XV).
Santiago referred to the position of the U.S. solicitor general in the case of Sánchez Valle, who said the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico lacks the sovereignty
to try people who have already been tried in federal
court.
She said the passage of HR-5278 to create a federal fiscal control board is another manifestation of
U.S. colonial presence in Puerto Rico.
“Given the reality that the government of the
United States recognizes the condition of colonial subordination of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rican Independence Party is convinced that the time for dialogue
and understanding has arrived,” Santiago said.
Also appearing before the committee was Rep.
Luis Vega Ramos in the name of the Elected Oﬃcials
and Sovereigntist Political Leaders who, among other
things, asked the United Nations to hold the United
States to account for the colonial-like subjugation it
employs in dealing with the island under the territorial clause of the U.S. Constitution.
“Colonialism is an ill that this organization is
committed to eradicating in all its manifestations. The
right to self-determination and sovereignty of peoples
is an inalienable one and one that this organization is
obligated to procure and demand from the adminis-
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trative powers,” Vega Ramos said. “The
United States is exercising a role of administrative power and exercising our
sovereignty clearly without our consent.”
Former Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
also testified before the committee, mak-
ing a series of demands of the panel including the demand that the committee
repudiate H.R. 5278 and that the committee also demand that the United States
cease to use its plenary powers over Puerto Rico in a term of five years.
He also demanded that the commit-
tee take action to obtain full self-governance for Puerto Rico.
He demanded that “this committee
take the recent actions and statements of
the three constitutional branches of the
United States as an admission that Puerto
Rico has not reached the level of self-gov-
ernment to which the United States committed itself along with Puerto Rico and
the U.N. in the process of 1950 and 1953,
and that culminated with the approval
of Resolution 248 (VII) of November 27,
1953 of the United Nations General Assembly.”
Aponte: Bernier Leading PDP in ‘Pro-Independence’ Campaign
By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
[email protected]
N
ew Progressive Party (NPP) Rep.
José Aponte on Monday described Popular Democratic Party
(PDP) gubernatorial candidate David
Bernier as the “first pro-independence
gubernatorial candidate under the PDP
banner.”
“Last Friday Bernier showed that
the sovereigntist wing within the PDP
won the ideological debate in that party,”
Aponte said in a written statement. “With
the definition that he is now pushing for
the Commonwealth, a relationship that
widens the powers of the local government, that confirms national identity and
that develops a stronger international
presence, it’s more than obvious that it
seeks an associated republic.”
Aponte said Bernier pushed for the
ideological transformation of the State
Department when he was heading it,
by allegedly trying to change it into an
international body, with the intention of
being able to carry out diplomatic agreements outside the context of Puerto Rico’s
relationship with the United States.
“Bernier turned the State De-
José Aponte
partment into an organism to make
foreign policy,” Aponte said. “He established educational programs -- such
as the Diplomatic School and External
Relations -- to develop foreign policy. In
essence, the now gubernatorial candidate wanted to be Puerto Rico’s Minister of
Foreign Aﬀairs and his dream is to make
international treaties.”
Aponte said that a “no” vote in a
possible status referendum, in which the
people would vote “Statehood: Yes or
No,” boosted by Bernier and a handful
of his “close friends” is equivalent to a
vote for independence.
“All of the indications are there, his
actions as State secretary, his pronouncements as PDP president and his intention to define the Commonwealth, the
colony that we live in, as an international body, with powers reserved only for
independent nations, is Bernier’s purpose and the people of Puerto Rico should
know this,” Aponte added.
The NPP lawmaker said that “a
vote for the PDP is a vote to eliminate the
permanent union with the U.S. and take
away our U.S. citizenship, among other
things.”
On Friday, the PDP governing
board met late in the afternoon at party headquarters in San Juan, where they
discussed the island’s relationship with
the United States.
The PDP board decided to hold a
“Statehood: Yes or No” status referendum next year. The party also agreed to
redefine the relationship between Puerto
Rico and the U.S. to one that is “non-colonial or territorial but sovereign” while
keeping U.S. citizenship.
The NPP, meanwhile, seeks to hold
the referendum on Nov. 8, along with the
general elections.
“The PDP’s priority right now is to
maintain the country’s political stability
and promote economic activity,” Bernier
said on Friday, adding that the PDP is
unites all sectors, independent of their
political aﬃliation.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Ex-NY Governor, Detroit Emergency Manager Said Under Consideration for PR Oversight Board
By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
[email protected]
T
he seven-member Financial
Oversight and Management
Board that will be appointed by
the U.S. president as part of the Puerto
Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), could
include former New York governor
George Pataki, the Bond Buyer reported Monday.
Pataki has a residence on the island,
according to daily municipal finance
news outlet.
The legislation establishes an oversight board as a Puerto Rico government-funded entity. The board will
consist of seven members, and the governor as “ex oﬃcio” member, appointed to three-year terms. The board
members select the chair of the board.
The board will also draft bylaws to
govern its decision-making process.
However, certain actions will require
four of seven members to vote for that
action.
“Two [members] should be selected
from a list of names provided by the
Speaker of the House; two should be selected from a list of names provided by
Senate Majority Leader; one should be
selected from a list of names provided
by House Minority Leader; one should
be selected from a list of names provided by Senate Minority Leader; and
one may be selected by the President
in his sole discretion,” reads the revised legislation. “Board members must
have ‘knowledge expertise in finance,
municipal bond markets, management,
law, or the organization or operation of
business or government.’”
The legislation adds that board
members cannot be current oﬃcials of
Puerto Rico government, candidates
for elected oﬃce on the island, or former elected oﬃcials.
According to the Bond Buyer, other
prospective board members mentioned
include Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s emergency manager during the city’s restructu-
Tax Revenues Continue to Lag Behind Gov’t
By The STAR Staﬀ
Juan Zaragoza
T
reasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza
reported that Puerto Rico’s general
fund net revenues totaled $713.8
million in May, $30.8 million below estimates.
Fiscal year-to-date net revenues totaled $8.26 billion, a year-over-year increase
of $280.2 million, or 3 percent. Fiscal year
2016 net revenues through May remained
3.6 percent below government forecasts,
however.
Zaragoza also noted that sales and use
tax (IVU by its Spanish acronym) totaled
$201.2 million in May, some $82.7 million
above May 2015 collections.
The diﬀerence is attributed mainly to
the increase in the state IVU rate to 10.5
percent from 6 percent and the 4 percent
tax on designated business-to-business
and professional services (known as B2B).
IVU revenues were allocated as follows:
$191.3 million to the general fund; $9.6
ring process. Orr, a partner in the Jones
Day Law Firm, was appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in July 2013.
House Bill 5278, or PROMESA, was
passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and is slated to be discussed by
the Senate this week. If passed in the
upper chamber, it is expected that the
board would begin operations in Puerto Rico in September.
According to the Bond Buyer, if the
Senate makes amendments to the legislation but doesn’t pass it before Thursday, the House won’t be able to vote
on the amended bill until after July 5,
when congressmen return from the
July 4 recess.
Also mentioned by the Bond Buyer
as a possible board member is former
New York Lieutenant Gov. Richard Ravitch, who has “an array of experience
in the municipal market,” The Bond
Buyer said.
“He headed the New York State Urban Development Corp. and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority when
fiscally troubled New York City was
under a control board established in
the 1970s,” the Bond Buyer noted.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.), has vowed to take
up the House bill before July 1, when
Puerto Rico faces a $1.9 billion debt
payment on which Gov. Alejandro
García Padilla has said it will default.
The island is currently struggling
with roughly $70 billion in debt and
$46 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
If Puerto Rico misses the July 1 payment, creditors will likely sue to collect
what they believe they are owed.
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Corporate income taxes registered
year-over-year decreases of $19.9 million.
In contrast, individual income taxes registered an increase of $8.2 million, and
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Interim Governor Chore Falls to Education Chief
By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
[email protected]
E
ducation Department Secretary Rafael Román is serving as interim
governor with Gov. Alejandro García
Padilla and his main cabinet members all
oﬀ the island, La Fortaleza announced in a
written statement Monday.
García Padilla is currently in New York
City, where on Monday he spoke before the
United Nations Decolonization Committee
on the island’s status issue. Designated Secretary of State Víctor Suárez, Justice Secretary César Miranda, La Fortaleza Chief of
Staﬀ Grace Santana and La Fortaleza Public Aﬀairs Secretary Jesús Manuel Ortiz all
travelled with the governor to New York
City.
Román was tasked with the interim
governor assignment given that Treasury
Secretary Juan Zaragoza is also in New York
City attending meetings related to the island’s fiscal situation.
The U.N. Decolonization Committee is
once again considering Puerto Rico’s request
to make decisions in a “sovereign manner.”
Since 1962, the U.N. has issued 34 resolutions in favor of the island’s decolonization.
In a written statement, García Padilla
said that after the U.S. Supreme Court deci-
Rafael Román
sion last week, in which it ruled that Puerto
Rico “does not enjoy sovereignty for purposes of the U.S. Constitution’s double jeopardy
clause in criminal cases,” he would testify
before the U.N. committee to defend the local autonomy of the people of Puerto Rico.
Meanwhile, the Puerto Rico Teachers
Federation on Monday questioned the decision to leave Román as interim governor,
given “his poor management heading the
island’s public education.”
Teachers Federation President Mercedes
Martínez said “Rafael Román’s record should
disqualify him from heading the Education
Department and, more so, the country.”
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She criticized Román for closing
schools and taking actions “aimed at dismantling the public school system.”
“He has closed 143 schools in three
years, reconfigured 436 school campuses, declaring that there are hundreds of
surplus elementary school teachers, obligating the forced transfer of thousands
of children to other schools and creating
overcrowding at the high schools,” Martínez said, according to an Inter News Service report.
She added that Román has eliminated
hundreds of teaching posts in fine arts
and health, at the expense of students.
“He doesn’t honor the eligible teachers transfer registry, he appoints [teachers]
to permanent posts without following the
regulations that establish that this be carried out in a strict order, and he created a
punitive evaluation system in order to fire
educators,” she added.
Román is currently participating in
the XVII International Virtual Edu Encounter at the Puerto Rico Convention
Center in San Juan’s Miramar sector and
was not immediately available to comment on Martínez’s remarks.
The week-long event is bringing together some 350 local and international
experts, including representatives of multilateral organizations, government oﬃcials, educational leaders, academics and
scientists from more than 20 countries.
Campaign Advertising Cleanup
Requirement Proposed
By JOHN McPHAUL
[email protected]
P
opular Democratic Party (PDP) House
of Representatives candidate Luis Gallardo proposed Monday that candidates
for public oﬃce be made responsible for the
removal of campaign advertising once the
election is over.
Gallardo said that after the primaries the
streets were full of posters and bills which can
remain for months or years, visually contaminating and making public space ugly.
The measure proposed by the House
hopeful seeks to prevent the municipal or
commonwealth government from incurring
the cost of removing the campaign advertising
Gallardo proposed that political candidates, the political parties and advertising sales
promoters be charged with the removal of the
propaganda, signs and announcements.
Gallardo, who is also an Aguas Buenas
municipal legislator, has filed legislation on
the subject, which would establish a period of
time for people to remove their advertising or
reimburse the municipality for the cost of the
cleanup.
“It is not fair that the municipality is investing time, personnel and resources to remove old propaganda from candidates,” Gallardo said.
The municipal legislator also cited environmental responsibility as one of the factors
motivating him to introduce the bill.
“We have some duties when it comes to
our communities and social coexistence,” he
said. “It is irresponsible to put up signs in
the streets to promote a product or a candidate and then leave the signs thrown around
when the campaign ends,” he said.
The bill takes into account the constitutional right citizens have to freely express
themselves, the oﬃcial said.
“Without the due precautions, followup and cleanup, the abandoned and dilapidated advertisement represents a quality of
life, social coexistence, esthetic and environmental problem,” the bill states. “Also, it is
the people who most of the time have to pay
for the cleanup of old and expired political
advertising, which in turn subsidizes, in an
indirect way, the private sector and the political campaigns.
Countries such as Mexico have implemented similar laws with the goal of curbing
the uncontrolled promulgation of political
advertising during election cycles.
“Now that the primaries have finished
and with the general elections ahead, I make
a call to the other candidates to clean up the
leftovers of their political advertising that
then is converted into visual contamination
in the towns,” Gallardo said.
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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktails at Salinas Business Charged
By JOHN McPHAUL
[email protected]
T
he U.S. Attorney’s oﬃce announced
Monday the filing of charges against
an individual who threw Molotov
cocktails at a business in Salinas and asked
for “calm” in the face of Puerto Rico’s current political challenges, at the same time
that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
warned that the use of violence in an attempt
to change the government “is always terrorism.”
On Saturday, Noel Cruz Torres, 36, a
resident of Monte Park in San Juan, threw
molotov cocktails at the business in the southern coastal town, injuring a police oﬃcer in a
case that has been assumed by the FBI.
The attack was perpetrated on Pioneer
Hi-Bred, a business on Highway PR-3 in Salinas that carries out bioagricultural and genetic research.
Cruz Torres, armed with homemade
“Molotov”-style bombs, entered that business, causing unestimated damages in diﬀerent parts of the facility.
A Salinas district police sergeant arrived at the scene and was attacked with
Molotov cocktails, one of which injured the
oﬃcer in the left forearm.
The police oﬃcer used a taser to neutralize Cruz Torres and put him under arrest.
U.S. attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez
Vélez said of the case that the subject dressed
in black and carried a canvas bag with independence images.
“In jail he said that he had done it for
Puerto Rico, tired of companies contaminating the land,” she said.
The criminal charge is for the use of explosives to cause damage to property, which
carries a minimum sentence of five years and
a $250,000 fine.
Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez
“We are not going to tolerate acts of violence that put anyone’s life in danger,” said
Rodríguez Vélez, who added that “we have
to have a lot of calm in the face of what we
are going through. We have seen acts in the
past week that concern us, demonstrations
before both federal courts in Hato Rey and
San Juan.”
On the possibility that the charged
individual suﬀers from psychological problems, she said “[i]t is conduct that seems to
show us that he was sick in the mind at that
time.”
Meanwhile, the director of the FBI on
the island, Douglas A. Leﬀ, said the “political
process is important and the FBI is neutral,
but violence can never be a part of the political process.”
“If violence is used, people who legitimately try to change the government are
shamed,” he said. “The use of violence is always terrorism.”
Puerto Rico Sues Petro West
By JOHN McPHAUL
[email protected]
J
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ustice Department Secretary César Miranda reported Monday that he had filed
48 criminal charges against petroleum
service company Petro West and its executive president José González Amador for
illegally appropriating $10 million in public
funds from the Puerto Rico Electric Energy
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According to the allegations, González Amador charged PREPA 0.5 percent for
municipal tax fees on all its bills of sale of
fuel without turning over the money to public coﬀers during the past four fiscal years,
appropriating $10,800,591.63 of public funds.
The scheme consisted of negotiating
a reduction in the tax of the municipalities
of Hormigueros, Mayagüez, Peñuelas and
Arecibo, ultimately obtaining a total exemption of taxes with Hormigueros and Arecibo, while continuing to charge 0.5 percent
for this tax, all the while knowing that it was
not legal.
The criminal intent, according to the
investigation conducted by the prosecutors
of the Division of Public Integrity, Economic
Crimes and Comptroller Aﬀairs under the
Justice Department, was clear through testimonial and documentary evidence that proved that González Amador knew the charge
of 0.5 percent was the maximum that the
municipalities could charge Petro West for
the sale of fuel.
However, after presenting evidence
that González Amador asked for and obtained reductions in these taxes from four municipalities, the Justice chief said the accused
knew beforehand that the charge of 0.5 percent in his bills to PREPA were not legal since
in none of the mentioned municipalities was
the payment of this percentage required.
“This overcharge, knowing that none
of the municipalities would pay 0.5 percent,
had the intention of defrauding the public
coﬀers, an act that aﬀects everyone since the
inflated sums that he charged PREPA negatively impacted the calculation through which
the formula of the category “adjustment for
fuel oil” is calculated,” Miranda said. “This
crime is unacceptable and we cannot have
any tolerance whatsoever for anyone who
robs our tax revenues, especially when we
are going through a fiscal crisis without precedent.”
Miranda noted that PREPA has been
going through a restructuring, is negotiating
its debt and is running the risk of default.
“Now more than ever we have to try
those who have betrayed us and send a message of honesty and uprightness regarding
doing business with the government,” Miranda said.
For these acts, González Amador and
Petro West Inc. each face five charges of
aggravated illegal appropriation of public
funds, for a total of 10 charges.
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Supreme Court Takes Up Dispute Over Immigrant Detention
T
he Supreme Court will decide whether
some immigrants locked up longer than
six months during deportation proceedings should have a chance to be released.
The justices said Monday they will take
up an issue that aﬀects thousands of immigrants detained for months or years without
the benefit of a hearing to determine if their
confinement is justified.
The Obama administration is seeking to
overturn a federal appeals court ruling that
said any immigrant detained more than six
months is entitled to a bond hearing. The government argues that automatic bond hearings
should not extend to immigrants detained
at the border or those who commit certain
crimes or engage in terrorist activity.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco ruled last year that holding immigrants indefinitely violates their due process rights. The three-judge panel also said
the government must prove an immigrant
poses a flight risk or danger to the community
to justify denying bond.
The government says the case is critical
to its ability to control the borders and reduce
the risk of terrorism. Requiring a bond hearing within six months would simply encourage more people to cross the border illegally
and delay legal proceedings, the Justice Department argued in legal briefs.
Allowing the lower court ruling to stay in
place “creates an incentive for people to make
a potentially life-threatening trip to this country, to abuse our legal process to obtain entry
into the United States, and then to disappear
rather than appear at any removal proceedings,” government oﬃcials said.
The class action lawsuit involves about a
thousand immigrants in California who have
been locked up for longer than six months
without a bond hearing. They are represented
by the American Civil Liberties Union, which
says the average class member has been incarcerated 404 days.
The Justice Department says about 38,000
immigrants released on bond between 2010
and 2014 did not return to face removal pro-
ceedings. But ACLU oﬃcials say that number
includes many people released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after their initial arrest, without having gone through a full
court hearing.
The ACLU argues that requiring mandatory bond hearings every six months does
not mean immigrants automatically will be
released.
“It merely requires hearings before immigration judges,” the ACLU said in legal briefs.
“Those judges answer to the attorney general,
who has ultimate authority to reverse any release decisions.”
The case is Jennings v. Rodriguez, 151204.
Senate Likely to Reject Gun Curbs, Despite Orlando Massacre
A
divided Senate hurtled Monday toward
an election-year stalemate over curbing
guns, eight days after Orlando’s mass
shooting horror intensified pressure on lawmakers to act but left them gridlocked anyway
— even over restricting firearms for terrorists.
Each party was oﬀering one plan it said
would keep terrorists from obtaining firearms
and a second bolstering the existing system of
background checks for gun purchases. Democrats said the GOP proposals were unacceptably weak, Republicans faulted the Democrats’
plans as overly restrictive and all four proposals
faced likely defeat in largely party-line votes.
The expected rejection of the proposals
underscored the pressure on each party to give
little ground on the emotional gun issue going
into November’s presidential and congressional
elections. It also highlighted the potency of the
National Rifle Association, which was urging
its huge and fiercely loyal membership to lobby
senators to oppose the Democratic bills.
“Republicans should be embarrassed, but
they’re not,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev. “Republicans need to put the lives
of innocent Americans ahead of the NRA.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Orlando shootings — in
which the FBI says the American-born gunman swore allegiance to a leader of the Islamic
State extremist group — show the best way to
prevent attacks by extremists is to defeat such
groups overseas.
“Look, no one wants terrorists to be able
to buy guns or explosives,” McConnell said. He
suggested that Democrats were using the day’s
votes “as an opportunity to push a partisan
Harry Reid
agenda or craft the next 30-second campaign
ad,” while Republicans wanted “real solutions.”
That Monday’s four roll-call votes were
occurring at all was testament to the powerful political currents buﬀeting lawmakers after
gunman Omar Mateen’s June 12 attack on a gay
nightclub. The 49 victims who died made it the
largest mass shooting in recent U.S. history, topping the string of such incidents that have punctuated recent years.
The FBI said Matteen — a focus of two
terror investigations that were dropped — described himself as an Islamic soldier in a 911 call
during the shootings. That let gun control advocates add national security and the specter of
terrorism to their arguments for firearms curbs.
Gun control groups were also working
Capitol Hill, with relatives of victims of past
mass shootings and others visiting lawmakers
and were watching the day’s debate from the
unusually crowded Senate visitors’ gallery.
Under extraordinary pressure were GOP
senators facing re-election this fall from swing
states.
One, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said Monday she would vote for the Democratic measure
to block gun sales to terrorists, a switch from
when she joined most Republicans in killing a
similar plan last December. She said that vote
— plus her support for a rival GOP measure —
would help move lawmakers toward approving a narrower bipartisan plan, like one being
crafted by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
Monday’s votes were coming after Sen.
Chris Murphy, D-Conn., led a near 15-hour filibuster last week demanding a Senate response
to the Orlando killings. Murphy entered the Senate shortly after the December 2012 massacre of
20 first-graders and six educators in Newtown,
Connecticut, but that slaughter and others in
San Bernardino, California, and Charleston,
South Carolina, have failed to spur Congress
to approve gun curbs. The last were enacted in
2007, when the background check system was
strengthened after that year’s mass shooting at
Virginia Tech.
Because of Mateen’s self-professed loyalty to extremist groups and his 10-month inclusion on a federal terrorism watch list, proposals
aimed at blocking terrorists from getting guns
were in the spotlight. One proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would let the government block many gun sales to known or suspected terrorists.
People buying firearms from federally
licensed gun dealers can currently be denied
for several reasons, chiefly for serious crimes or
mental problems. There is no specific prohibition for those on the terrorist watch list, which
updated government figures showed currently
contains around 1 million people — including
fewer than 5,000 Americans or legal permanent
residents.
No background checks are required for
anyone buying guns privately online or at gun
shows.
The GOP response to Feinstein was an
NRA-backed plan by Sen. John Cornyn, RTexas. It would let the government deny a sale
to a known or suspected terrorist — but only if
prosecutors could convince a judge within three
days that the would-be buyer was involved in
terrorism.
The Feinstein and Cornyn amendments
would require notification of law enforcement
oﬃcials if people, like Mateen, who’d been under a terrorism investigation within the past
five years were seeking to buy firearms.
Republicans said Feinstein’s proposal
gave the government too much unfettered power to deny people’s constitutional right to own
a gun. They also noted that the terrorist watch
list has historically mistakenly included people.
Democrats said the three-day window that
Cornyn’s measure gave prosecutors to prove
their case made his plan ineﬀective.
The Senate rejected similar plans Feinstein
and Cornyn proposed last December, a day after
the San Bernardino attack killed 14 people.
Murphy’s proposal would widely expand the requirement for background checks,
even to many private gun transactions, leaving
few loopholes.
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Human Testing of Experimental Zika Vaccine to Begin
S
cientists expect to test the first experimental Zika
vaccine on humans in the coming weeks, after
the pharmaceutical company Inovio received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to
start a small clinical trial.
Zika, which is a mosquito-borne virus, can cause
severe birth defects, is linked with the muscle paralysis syndrome Guillain-Barré, and is now endemic in
much of Latin America.
Inovio plans to enroll 40 healthy adults in its
trial. Research will focus on safety, dosage and the
body’s immune response to the vaccine, the company
said. Such research is typical of a “phase one” trial, as
scientists call such early work.
Researchers would probably need several trials
to prove the vaccine is safe, eﬀective and provided at
the right dose. Testing on “small and large animals”
has already occurred, the company said. The experiNOTICE TO REGISTERED OWNERS OF
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mental vaccine, called GLS-5700, uses synthetic fragments of virus DNA to provoke an immune response
in the body.
“Always, the first vaccine to go into clinical trial
is important,” said Anna Durbin, an associate professor of international health at Johns Hopkins, and a
member of a National Institutes of Health team working separately to develop a Zika vaccine.
“It means the FDA has reviewed it, and I’m sure is
formulating questions and getting ready for additional
candidates to submit their investigational drug applications,” she said. “It shows progress and momentum,
and we just need to keep momentum going.”
Scientists first started sounding the alarm about
Zika early in 2016, when a link appeared with microcephaly, an uncommon birth defect where children
are born with abnormally small heads and severe developmental impairment.
By April, scientists at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention confirmed Zika was the cause
of the birth defects. By June, the World Health Organization reported more than 1,500 cases of microcephaly
in Brazil, which has by far the largest number, and
that mosquitoes in more than 60 countries carried the
disease.
Most victims do not experience the mild, coldlike symptoms the virus produces, but some may develop the muscle-paralyzing Guillain-Barré syndrome.
The disease is spread primarily through bites of the
Aedes aegypti mosquito, but can also be spread sexually. There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, and the
WHO has warned women in areas where the virus is
endemic to delay pregnancy.
The vaccine being developed by Inovio is what
is known as a “DNA vaccine”. Researchers that the
Guardian spoke with said they did not believe any
DNA vaccines were currently approved for use in humans in the US. The FDA was unable to confirm this
by publication.
DNA vaccines were first developed about two
decades ago, and showed great promise in animal
models, but researchers have struggled to replicate the
long-term immunity provided by other vaccine production methods.
Some of the first trials of DNA vaccines were
conducted in the 1990s, and focused on diseases such
as HIV and the flu, according to the Oxford journal
Clinical Infectious Diseases. In theory, the DNA vaccines would be simpler to produce and generate fewer
side-eﬀects.
Currently, many vaccines are produced through
what is called “live attenuation”, or reproducing a
strain of “wild” vaccine in the laboratory to weaken
it to the point that it is safe to administer. The current
measles vaccine is one example of a live-attenuated
vaccine. As of 2008, only four DNA vaccines were approved by the FDA, all for veterinary use.
Even if Inovio is able to make an eﬀective vaccine, researchers said, the prospect of getting it on the
market soon is unlikely.
“What is not really being said is that once phase
one trials are completed, it is likely that progress towards licensure will slow significantly,” said Dr Peter
Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and head of pediatric tropical medicine at Baylor
College in Houston. That city has been identified as
one of the Gulf coast areas where Zika could spread
rapidly if it becomes endemic in the local mosquito
population.
“The FDA or other regulatory bodies will need
to see trials to ensure that the vaccine does not induce
Guillain-Barré syndrome, as does the Zika virus itself,”
said Hotez. He added that “since the vaccine would
likely be needed for pregnant women or women who
are about to become pregnant, the FDA will want to
see extensive safety data in these populations”.
Predicting how long it will take to develop the
vaccine is also diﬃcult, said Karen Kotloﬀ, a pediatrics professor and head of the division of infectious
disease at the University of Maryland school of medicine. Kotloﬀ also serves on the FDA’s vaccines and related biological products advisory committee.
“The average time to take a vaccine from the
laboratory bench to somebody’s arm is about 10 to 15
years,” said Kotloﬀ, “and there is a wide range on that,
so it can be substantially longer.”
As of March, around 15 pharmaceutical companies were attempting to develop a Zika vaccine, the
Wall Street Journal reported.
In the continental US, 755 cases have been reported, all linked to travel. But mosquitoes in American territories in the Caribbean now carry the disease,
and more than 1,400 cases of Zika have been reported
there, according to the CDC.
Inovio, based in Pennsylvania, has partnered
with the South Korean-based GeneOne Life Sciences
Inc and several Canadian and American researchers,
such as the University of Pennsylvania and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration, to
develop the vaccine.
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10 Years After Housing Bubble,
Damage Lingers for Minorities
W
hen the U.S. housing bubble peaked a decade ago, soon to burst with far-reaching
consequences, the pain was particularly
severe for black and Hispanic Americans.
A disproportionate number of minorities succumbed to subprime mortgages and foreclosures
and lost their homes. Their collective loss of home
equity and shift toward rental housing could widen America’s racial and ethnic divides well into
the future, according to researchers and housing
advocates.
The drop in home ownership has grown so severe that it could impede wealth creation for generations of minority families, said Antoine Thompson, executive director of the National Association
of Real Estate Brokers, the nation’s oldest minority
trade association.
“We lost a lot of wealth,” Thompson said. “We
are reaching epidemic and crisis levels in black
America.”
The decline dovetails with a broader shift toward renting in the aftermath of the housing bust.
An analysis by The Associated Press has found
that rising rental costs and stagnant pay are making it harder to save to buy a home. Longtime homeowners, by contrast, have enjoyed rising home
equity and lighter mortgage bills resulting from
lower mortgage rates.
The problem is most pronounced among minorities who already had lower ownership rates
before the bubble. Actions such as “redlining”
— which for decades denied loans to minorities
— excluded black neighborhoods from government-backed mortgages. This made it harder for
minorities to buy even as the U.S. economy surged
after World War II and overall home ownership
rates climbed.
Many minority homeowners who bought or
refinanced during the bubble eventually became
trapped by predatory mortgages, some requiring
no money down and monthly payments that eventually ballooned.
Just 41.5 percent of black households own their
homes, down from nearly 50 percent in late 2004,
according to the Census Bureau. The share of Hispanic homeowners dropped to 45.3 percent from
roughly 50 percent. Both drops were sharper than
the decline in white home ownership — to 72.1
percent from roughly 75 percent.
The Urban Institute forecast last year that Hispanic home ownership will rise slightly through
2030 but that black homeownership will tumble
Carmen Ramirez, and her husband, Ricardo Ramirez,
embrace in their room at the Bronxwood Home for the
Aged, in the Bronx borough of New York.
to 40 percent by 2030 if U.S. economic growth is
about average and 38 percent if growth is slow.
A series of sudden emergency expenses cost
Carmen and Ricardo Ramirez their one-bedroom
condominium in Washington Heights, a neighborhood near Manhattan’s northern tip.
The couple had bought their home in 2005 for
$299,000 with an adjustable-rate mortgage that was
popular during the bubble and destructive during
the bust once the interest and principal payments
were adjusted higher.
Life seemed manageable until 2010, when the
recession forced them to close their steakhouse
restaurant. Then Ricardo suﬀered a traumatic
brain injury during a fall in 2011, and Carmen suffered a back and leg injury in 2012. Her parents
later died, and the funeral costs caused the couple
to miss mortgage payments, triggering fees for late
payments that led to foreclosure.
“Have you ever heard the saying, when it rains,
it pours?” said Carmen, 61. “Well, it was one after
the other with us.”
Bankruptcy failed to save the condo, which
their board refused to let them sell at a loss.
Now, the couple is out of their home and in an
assisted living facility after receiving relocation
help from the Center for New York City Neighborhoods, which promotes aﬀordable homeownership.
“We got nothing back — except a tax bill,” Carmen said.
Without home equity, it has become disproportionately hard for minorities to borrow to start a
business, send their children to college or finance
a retirement.
In the Boston area, nearly 80 percent of whites
own homes and enjoy a median net worth of
$256,500. By contrast, just one-third of African
Americans own a home, and their median net
worth is a mere $700, according to a report last
year by the Boston Federal Reserve.
In Los Angeles, Mexican Americans have a median net worth of $5,000, and only 45 percent of
them own homes, according to a similar analysis
by the San Francisco Federal Reserve. Contrast that
with the $355,000 median net worth for whites living around Los Angeles, 68 percent of whom own
homes.
Even as homeownership rates were rising during the bubble, there were signs that homeowners
who had refinanced with adjustable-rate mortgages were being pushed out.
Starting in the 1990s, these mortgages, with
balloon payments or other onerous terms, were
pushing black homeowners back into rentals, according to research by a pair of sociologists, the
University of Buﬀalo professor Gregory Sharp
and Cornell University professor Matthew Hall. It
marked a striking reversal from the gains made
after the 1968 Fair Housing Act, which barred discrimination based on race, religion or sex.
Sharp and Hall’s 2014 paper found that blacks
were 50 percent more likely than whites to lose
their homes and become renters. This trend had
begun as minorities either bought or refinanced
with the sub-prime mortgages that lenders had
marketed to them. The two sociologists adjusted
their data for income, debt loads and life events.
They found that race was the leading explanation
for why people lost homes they owned and turned
back to rentals.
“It’s a clear story of persistent and growing
racial stratification in the housing market, a shift
from exclusion to exploitation,” Sharp said. “That’s
not just income. That’s race. That is going into segregated neighborhoods and sort of preying on
people.”
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Orlando Gunman Told Police That US
Should ‘Stop Bombing’ Syria and Iraq
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
O
mar Mateen, the gunman in this month’s massacre in an
Orlando nightclub, told a crisis negotiator less than an
hour after the attack began that the United States needed to “stop bombing Syria and Iraq” and he threatened more
attacks in the coming days, according to a partial F.B.I. account
released Monday morning.
He warned — falsely, it turned out — that there were bombs in a car outside Pulse nightclub and explosives inside it, and
that “you people are gonna get it, and I’m gonna ignite it if they
try to do anything stupid.” In a series of calls between 2:35 a.m.
and 3:24 a.m. on June 12, during a standoﬀ with the police, Mr.
Mateen also spoke in Arabic and claimed responsibility “in the
name of God the merciful,” and linked his attack to the terrorist
attacks last year in and around Paris.
At a news conference in Orlando, Ronald Hopper, an assistant agent in charge of the bureau’s Tampa Division, said the
gunman made 911 calls during the shooting in a “chilling, calm
and deliberate manner.”
Negotiators spoke to him for a total of 28 minutes over
three calls, the F.B.I. said.
The F.B.I.’s account of the emergency calls included no mention by Mr. Mateen of any hatred of gays or a desire to attack a
gay nightclub in particular; the bureau has been investigating
the attack as a possible anti-gay hate crime, but the material released on Monday oﬀers nothing to back up that theory.
John Mina, Orlando’s police chief, addressed a question
about whether any of the victims were hit by police bullets in
the initial shootout with oﬃcers shortly after 2 a.m. The police
have said that most of the 49 people killed and 53 wounded
were shot in the first minutes of the rampage before Mr. Mateen
holed up in a bathroom with hostages.
“That’s part of the investigation, but here’s what I will tell
you: Those killings are on the suspect,” Chief Mina said.
It was the first time that the chief had answered the question in a way that left open the possibility that oﬃcers could
have killed club patrons by accident.
In an interview, the SWAT commander, Mark Canty, said
he doubted any fatalities resulted from police bullets.
“I know my guys did the best they could,” he said. “They
are trained to kind of identify the targets.”
The medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Stephany, said the autopsies did not make any determination as to who killed whom.
A nearly three-hour standoﬀ followed the shootout, which
ended when law enforcement agencies stormed the building,
killed the gunman and freed the hostages.
The F.B.I. released a timeline Monday that showed a halfhour passed from when Mr. Mateen warned of explosives to
when the police stormed the building.
Mr. Canty said he arrived at about 2:45. “There was a lot of
oﬃcers, a lot of chaos, the lights are out in the club, water on the
floor,” he said.
According to the timeline, the first negotiation with the
gunman began at 2:48 a.m. and lasted nine minutes. The second
After the release of partial transcript of negotiation between a 911 dispatcher and Omar Mateen, the F.B.I. said
the Orlando gunman identified himself as an Islamic
soldier, but doesn’t represent Islam.
call, at 3:03 a.m., lasted 16 minutes; the third, at 3:24 a.m., three
minutes. Mr. Canty said the police used the lull to assess the
situation and save hostages.
At 4:21 a.m., according to the timeline, police oﬃcers pulled an air-conditioning unit out of a dressing room wall to save
eight people.
Eight minues later, some victims relayed that Mr. Mateen
was threatening to strap bombs to the hostages. About 32 minutes later, the SWAT team and the sheriﬀ’s oﬃce bomb squad
tried to break in. The chief said it took oﬃcers time to assemble
the explosives to do so.
At 5:14 a.m., oﬃcers breached the outer wall as shots were
fired. Mr. Mateen stuck his head out of the breach and started
firing, according to Mayor Buddy Dyer. Suddenly, Mr. Mateen
fell backward in a hallway between the two bathrooms, he said.
At 5:15 a.m.: Mr. Mateen was reported down.
“You saw the gunfire back and forth,” Mr. Dyer said.
“You‘re hearing ‘shooters’ down’ or something like that.”
Chief Mina and other oﬃcials vigorously defended the
handling of the siege from criticism that they waited too long to
go in, noting that throughout the lull, oﬃcers put themselves at
great risk by going into the club to rescue people.
“I think there was this misconception that we didn’t do anything for three hours, and that’s absolutely not true,” he said.
The mayor added that protocol called for the oﬃcers to retreat 1,000 feet because of the possible presence of explosives,
but none did.
The chief said that no shots were fired from the time Mr.
Mateen retreated to a bathroom until the police began their
assault. People who were trapped in that bathroom have said
that the killer did shoot a few people after oﬃcers began using
explosives and an armored vehicle to breach the outer wall of
the building.
The F.B.I. made public only partial transcripts of Mr.
Mateen’s calls on Monday, and none of the audio recordings.
Though oﬃcials and shooting survivors have said publicly that
in the calls, the gunman pledged his allegiance to the Islamic
State, also known as ISIS, and its leader, the F.B.I. redacted those
statements from the transcript, along with parts of the conversation in which Mr. Mateen voiced support for other extremist
ideologies.
But that decision opens up department oﬃcials to charges
that they are playing down elements of radical Islamist beliefs
in the attack — a politically charged issue that Donald J. Trump
and other Republicans have seized upon.
“Selectively editing this transcript is preposterous,” House
Speaker Paul D. Ryan said in a statement. “We know the shooter was a radical Islamist extremist inspired by ISIS. We also
know he intentionally targeted the L.G.B.T. community. The administration should release the full, unredacted transcript so
the public is clear-eyed about who did this, and why.”
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, a Republican who has frequently
criticized the Obama administration, said on Fox News that the
limited release “doesn’t make any sense to me.”
“This is another example of not focusing on the evil here,”
Mr. Scott added.
Agent Hopper said: “Part of the redacting is meant to not
give credence to individuals who’ve done terrorist acts in the
past. We’re not going to propagate their rhetoric, their violent
rhetoric, and we see no value in putting those individuals’ names back out there.”
Justice Department oﬃcials said that they feared survivors
could be harmed if they had to hear Mr. Mateen’s rants anew.
Agent Hopper said the F.B.I. would not release recordings
of 911 calls from terrified people inside the club, including
some who had been seriously wounded. “To expose that now
would be excruciatingly painful to exploit them in that way,”
he said.
The partial transcript adds another layer of detail to the
horrific events of that morning, as F.B.I. counterterrorism investigators and the local authorities in Orlando continue to try to
piece together the gunman’s motivations and examine any help
he may have received.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch will visit Orlando on Tuesday to meet with the investigators.
The F.B.I. has interviewed Mr. Mateen’s wife, Noor Zahi
Salman, at length to determine whether she will face charges in
the case. She has acknowledged that she suspected her husband
might be planning an attack and was with him when he went
to buy ammunition and visited the Pulse nightclub beforehand,
but she has insisted to investigators that she tried to talk him
out of doing anything, oﬃcials said.
Investigators continue to believe that Mr. Mateen was a
“lone wolf” attacker who was apparently inspired by the ideologies of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups but was not
directly in contact with any of them.
“We currently have no evidence that he was connected to
an Islamic terrorist group, but radicalized domestically,” Agent
Hopper said at the news conference.
He appealed for patience with an investigation so complex
that agents still have not finished processing the crime scene.
They have collected more than 600 pieces of evidence, conducted more than 500 interviews, and received thousands of tips
about Mr. Mateen, he said. The medical examiner said Monday
that it had released Mr. Mateen’s body, but oﬀered not other
details.
“This investigation is one week and one day old,” Agent
Hopper said, “and it may last months and even years.”
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Donald Trump Says US Should
‘Seriously’ Consider Profiling Muslims
D
onald Trump said Sunday morning that we should “start thinking
about” profiling in order to prevent
events like the mass shooting in Orlando.
In an interview with John Dickerson on
CBS’s “Face The Nation,” the GOP presidential candidate said the profiling of Muslims
in American is something that should be
considered “seriously.”
“Well, I think profiling is something
that we’re going to have to start thinking
about as a country,” he said, adding that
countries like Israel had used the tactic successfully.
“You know, I hate the concept of profiling,” he said. “But we have to start using
common sense and we have to use, you
know, we have to use our heads.”
Trump first suggested profiling and
monitoring Muslims back in December
around the time he suggested a temporary
ban on Muslims entering the country.
The shooting at Pulse, an Orlando
nightclub, in which 49 people were killed, was carried out by Omar Mateen, an
Afghan-American, who police say purchased the weapons he used legally.
Trump to Get ‘Rude Awakening’ in Democrats’ Ad Onslaught
D
onald Trump’s unconventional
campaign is about to feel the heat
of political organization.
Hillary Clinton and her Democratic
allies have invested at least $41 million
in commercials in crucial states such as
Ohio, Florida and Nevada over the next
six weeks, a series of summer broadsides
against her Republican opponent. Those
messages will be echoed by hundreds of
Clinton workers in those same states and
amplified by President Barack Obama
and other top Democrats.
Trump has made few preparations
for contending with that sort of welloiled political machine. His campaign
has no advertising plans and is just now
hiring employees in important states. Republican leaders are far from agreement
on how best to talk to voters about the
polarizing billionaire, or if they will at
all. And Trump is running out of time:
Early voting starts in Iowa in just 3 1/2
months.
“It’s political malpractice,” said
Mitch Stewart, Obama’s 2012 battleground states director and a Clinton
backer. “He’s in for a rude awakening.
This isn’t a national vote contest where you can be on cable news every day
and dominate coverage. This is literally
going state by state and coming up with
a plan in each.”
Clinton’s large June and July ad buy
comes as a reward for her near-constant
fundraising. In May, she raised $27 million in primary election money that must
be used before she accepts her party’s nomination at the convention in late July.
Trump is playing catch up. He did
not begin raising money in earnest until
May 25, having largely financed his primary bid through personal loans to his
campaign.
Clinton’s latest spots, highlighting
her past advocacy for children, are an
attempt to reintroduce the returning
presidential candidate — she lost the
2008 Democratic primary to Obama —
to general election voters. Her campaign
is spending about $23 million on ads by
the convention, according to advertising
tracker Kantar Media’s CMAG.
But those voters are also hearing
from Priorities USA, a super political
action committee financed by millions
of dollars from Clinton’s staunchest supporters. The goal of that $18.7 million
batch of ads: cast Trump as a con-man
and bully unprepared to be commander
in chief.
“When I saw Donald Trump mock
someone with a disability, it showed me
his soul. It showed me his heart,” says
the father of a young girl with spina bifida, whose story is featured in one of the
ads.
It’s a strategy Democrats successfully used four years ago against Obama’s
GOP opponent, Mitt Romney. Over that
summer, Priorities USA relied on an intensely negative advertising campaign to
define Romney as unconcerned with the
worries of average Americans.
Now, facing an opponent with far
higher negative ratings and a weaker
political organization, Democrats see an
opportunity not only to retain the White
House but make a strong play for winning control of the Senate and adding
scores of Democrats to the House.
In the past week, Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth
Warren, D-Mass., have lined up behind
Clinton. Her primary rival, Vermont Sen.
Bernie Sanders, is expected to support
her eventually.
Trump has struggled to win over
much of his party’s establishment and
lacks that kind of a bench behind his message. Many top Republicans, including
Romney and past Presidents George W.
Bush and George H.W. Bush, do not plan
to attend the party convention in July.
Others refuse to answer questions about
their nominee, largely leaving Trump to
defend himself.
“Donald Trump has people hiding
under rocks hoping he doesn’t know
where they are,” said New York Rep. Steve Israel, former chairman of the House
Democrats’ campaign arm.
For example, in critically important
Ohio, where the state GOP backed Gov.
John Kasich’s failed presidential campaign, party oﬃcials have been unwilling
to throw much support behind Trump.
Kasich, who had signed a pledge to
back the Republican nominee, recently
told MSNBC he “just can’t do it” unless
Trump makes some significant changes.
Marc Short, a Republican strategist
who advised Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s
2016 presidential campaign and previously led political operations for the
billionaire Koch brothers’ network of
conservative donors, said Trump would
be in a far stronger position if he weren’t
still getting organized.
“He has been underestimated
throughout the process, so I’m hesitant to
be too judgmental,” Short said. “But it is
always better when everyone is singing
from the same song sheet.”
Trump, who has belittled the need
for endorsements, has signaled a willingness to go it alone if he believes the Republican leadership is undermining him.
“Republicans, either stick together or
let me just do it by myself,” he told a rally
this past week in Atlanta.
Undeniably, Clinton’s long-cultivated donor network and commitment to
fundraising gave her a running start on
general election staﬃng. She began sending employees to Ohio and other states
months ago. Trump, who plans to rely on
Republican National Committee support,
has few, if any staﬀ singularly devoted to
his campaign in any of the most competitive states.
Clinton’s aides argue their early investment will pay oﬀ in the final weeks
of the campaign.
Data analyzed by Obama’s campaign
in 2008 showed the enthusiasm of his supporters in the last six weeks was higher
in areas where the campaign’s local operations got an early start, according to
former staﬀers.
Greg Beswick, executive director
of the Ohio Democratic Party, said of
Trump’s people: “They’re not putting together the kind of campaign you need to
win in Ohio, never mind in a number of
swing states.”
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
15 Mainland
Yearbook Project Collects Stories of Children Killed in Shootings
By NOAH REMNICK
S
omewhere out of sight in Shenee Johnson’s
home on Long Island — tucked away in
a closet or hidden beneath a bed, perhaps
— is a copy of her son Kedrick Morrow’s high
school yearbook.
Ms. Johnson does not know exactly where
the book ended up and she does not care to find
out, but inside it, she has been told, Kedrick is
smiling amid a gallery of portraits — hundreds
of students bracing themselves for a future her
son would never see. Weeks before he was to
graduate from Elmont High School in 2010, Kedrick was shot to death outside a party in the Shenee Johnson, with a photo of her son,
Springfield Gardens neighborhood of Queens. Kedrick Morrow, who was killed in 2010 a
month shy of his high school graduation.
He was 17, bound for St. John’s University.
Since then, graduation season, with its cavalcade of mortarboard-toting students, has ser- as a petition for universal firearm background
ved as a searing reminder of Kedrick’s killing, checks that the group plans to deliver to Conbut this year Ms. Johnson is hoping it might also gress in the fall. More than 2,300 people have
bring some measure of redress. She and other signed it in the past month.
“Gun violence is so political that people soparents of children killed by gun violence recently joined together through the organization metimes forget it’s also personal,” Ms. Johnson,
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence to create a 42, said. “They forget about the loved ones we
yearbook that is meant to draw attention to the lost and the lives we have to piece back together.
But Kedrick was a real live person.”
toll of gun violence on young people.
The yearbook features only 11 stories, out
The yearbook, a digital version of which
is available at signtheiryearbook.com, is filled of the 31,104 children under the age of 18 who
with the stories and photographs of young vic- were killed in firearm-related episodes between
tims of gun violence and serves a dual purpose 1999 and 2014 in the United States, according to
S
easonal agricultural workers were just
finishing a meal after a long day of planting sweet potato seeds when Julie Pittman pulled up to their camp.
Pittman, a paralegal with the Farmworker
Unit of Legal Aid of North Carolina, worked to
get their attention.
The health care law that passed in 2010 requires you to have health insurance, she said,
speaking in Spanish. If you don’t get it, she
said, you could be fined.
“Cuánto cuesta?” asked a worker, wanting
to know the cost.
In the United States legally through the
H-2A visa program, these farmworkers, like
most American citizens and legal residents,
must be insured. But reaching them is an
uphill battle.
The majority come from Mexico to work
in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. The
deadline for getting insurance starts when
they enter the country. They have 60 days to
learn about coinsurance and copayments, and
decide whether to purchase a high- or lowdeductible plan.
Alexis Guild, a migrant health policy
analyst at Farmworker Justice, an advocacy
group in Washington, D.C., said a yearslong
partnership among various nonprofits and
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
1,111 of them in New York State. With the passage of the SAFE Act, signed by Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomo, a Democrat, in 2013, New York has some
of the toughest gun control laws in the country,
including an expanded ban on assault weapons
and high-capacity magazines, broader background checks, and stiﬀer penalties for people
who use guns in the commission of crimes.
Still, without comprehensive federal legislation, gun safety advocates say, firearms are
regularly transported into New York from states with looser oversight. In the week after the
massacre in Orlando, Fla., in which 49 people
were killed at a nightclub, congressional Democrats have redoubled their eﬀorts to enact
more stringent gun control laws, but several
mass shootings have occurred without legislative response.
“We’d like to see at the federal level what
we have here in New York,” said Leah Gunn
Barrett, the executive director of New Yorkers
Against Gun Violence. “The circumstances behind almost every story in the yearbook are
easy access to firearms. We hope that profiles of
these young people and all their lost potential
will move Congress to actually do something.”
Without the captions, it would be easy to
mistake the photographs in the yearbook as evidence of lives on the cusp of adulthood. The pages include profiles of Alphonza C. Bryant III, a
17-year-old honor student from the Bronx, who
was killed months shy of his graduation in 2013
by gang members in search of someone else;
Nicholas Naumkin, a 12-year-old from Saratoga Springs known for giving his allowance to
charity, accidentally killed by a friend playing
with a friend’s father’s gun in 2010; and Michael
Graham, a 13-year-old from Brewster, who used
his father’s gun to take his own life in 2013.
For some parents involved, this is hardly their first advocacy eﬀort. Over a decade
has passed since Taisha Pearson’s 10-year-old
daughter, Naiesha, was killed by a stray bullet
at a neighborhood barbecue in the Bronx, and
she has participated in marches, rallies and petitions. Progress has come in fits and starts, and
the work of recounting her most painful memories for public consumption can be grueling.
“We’ve seen some changes, but there are
still so many loopholes; it’s an uphill battle,” Ms.
Pearson, 37, said. “Sometimes I feel like we’re
going nowhere, but what else am I supposed to
do?”
Advocacy has served as a form of therapy for Natasha Christopher, 42. Her son Akeal
was shot in the head while walking to a friend’s
house in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in June 2012. An
aspiring train engineer, he died on his 15th birthday. Ms. Christopher is now a full-time volunteer for gun-control organizations, telling her
story as many as a dozen times each week.
Seasonal Farmworkers Face Uphill Battle for Health Insurance
health centers in North Carolina has been
working to enroll the workers.
In the camp near Dunn, Pittman told
the workers that the cost of health insurance
depends on the type purchased, income and
family size. Some people don’t have monthly
payments, others could pay $40 per month.
Consider, she added, that this year’s fine is
$695 or 2 percent of wages, whichever is greater.
“Would I need to pay the fine?” said Antonio Flores, 29, who like other farmworkers
based in North Carolina, makes $10.72 per
hour.
It’s a diﬃcult question because some workers qualify for an exemption or are oﬀered
insurance through their employer.
Mackenzie Mann, a health educator with
North Carolina Farmworkers Project, said the
only way to be sure is to fill out a form.
The group has signed up about 150 workers since February.
In a camp in Angier, Apolinar Castillo, of
Zacatecas, Mexico, said he didn’t think twice
about paying $10.55 per month for health in-
surance. “I feel confident that, if there is an
emergency, I can dial 911 and use my (insurance) card,” said Castillo, 44.
Workers under the H-2A visa program
are a small minority of the nation’s more than
2.4 million farmworkers, many of whom are
in the country illegally and don’t have access
to health insurance.
Their jobs are among the most dangerous, according to the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration. Farmworkers
face exposure to pesticides, and risk heat exhaustion and heatstroke.
Outside of emergencies, farmworkers can
use community health centers, which receive
federal funding to care for the poor and uninsured.
Dr. Eugene H. Maynard, of the Benson
Area Medical Center, said many procedures
can be done at his oﬃce, where fees are based
on a sliding scale. But some require specialists, whose steep prices are out of the reach
to most workers.
Often, Maynard said, he places workers
on waiting lists for charity care, but these lists
are so long that workers return to Mexico before seeing a specialist.
“Insurance makes that process a lot easier,” Maynard said.
Some are skeptical that access to health insurance would translate into better health care.
Thomas Arcury, director of the Center for
Worker Health at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, said farmworkers work long hours,
don’t have access to transportation or accumulate paid sick days, which is why many ignore
their illnesses.
“There are a lot of roadblocks,” Arcury
said.
Large farm operators are required to oﬀer
health insurance to their workers. They have
raised the issue of cost, arguing that they already provide workers’ compensation, which
covers work-related injuries.
U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers, a Republican
from North Carolina, has twice introduced a
bill to exclude farmworkers under the H-2A
visa program from the employer mandate. In
a statement, she said the cost would put many
farmers out of business.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The San Juan Daily Star
Liberty Business, Microsoft Team Up to Provide Cloud
Solutions for Island Small and Midsize Businesses
By The STAR Staﬀ
L
iberty Business, Liberty Puerto Rico’s business division, announced Monday that it has
formed an alliance with Microsoft to provide productivity tools and cloud solutions for small
and midsize enterprises on the island.
“This is an important step in Liberty’s evolution as a business customer services provider,”
said Antonio Llona, vice president of Liberty Business. “Microsoft is a company with a widely recognized brand that is used in one way or another by
all business owners in Puerto Rico and this alliance is the union of two very strong brands in the
industry. Both of them dedicate themselves to help
businesses migrate their services to the cloud.”
The alliance kicked oﬀ with the launch of
Microsoft Oﬃce 365 for small businesses, which
allows small and midsize business owners to work
from anywhere using any electronic device and
stay in touch with their customers from anywhere
at any time.
“We created this alliance considering that
Liberty is a strong brand when it comes to Internet services and Microsoft is one of the strongest
brands regarding productivity software,” Microsoft Business Developer José Padró said in a written statement. “It’s a perfect way to integrate and
cross value between both brands and their customer bases.”
In fact, Liberty Business will oﬀer an Oﬃce 365 webcast on Friday at 12 p.m. The webcast
will oﬀer information on how Oﬃce 365 provides
the right tools for improved e-mail management,
increased productivity with Oﬃce’s applications
installed in all of the business’ devices and better
communication quality between employees.
The Oﬃce 365 productivity tool will give several advantages to small and midsize business
owners. They will always have an updated version
of Oﬃce’s desktop applications and they will not
have to buy a new version. Oﬃce also enables users
to store content in the cloud as backup and have
access to it from any electronic device. In addition,
Oﬃce also oﬀers one terabyte (1TB) of storage in the
cloud with OneDrive for the business. Each user
can install Oﬃce in up to five computers. Customers will also have business e-mail accounts with
50 GB inboxes, plus spam and malware protection
that is always updated. This Microsoft service has
a 99.9 percent guaranteed availability.
“Oﬃce 365 is a product that fits our traits and
gives customers flexibility so they can be more
agile. Our distinction is that we provide our customers local support so the migration experience
becomes transparent for them,” Llona said. “Liberty Business sends an information technology
expert who is trained to evaluate customers’ productivity needs, plan and implement the necessary
steps to ensure that those customers can operate in
their new technology platforms without any problems.”
Cuban Coffee Returning to US but Only for Nespresso Brewers
N
estle SA’s (NESN.S) Nespresso says it will
become the first company to sell Cuban
coﬀee in the United States in more than 50
years, as relations between the Cold War adversaries smooth.
The U.S. State Department in April added coffee and other products to its list of eligible imports
produced by independent Cuban entrepreneurs.
That regulatory change cleared the way for Nespresso to begin U.S. sales this autumn of Cafecito
de Cuba, an espresso roast for its home brewers,
the company said on Monday.
Nespresso purchased the coﬀee in Europe via
Cuban state export companies. It will process and
package the beans, grown by small-holder farmers, in Europe.
Nespresso USA secured necessary licensing
from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to ship
single-use brewer pods containing the Cuban cof-
fee from Europe to the United States.
Initially available in limited quantities, Cafecito
de Cuba aims to deliver on Nespresso’s mission
to deliver “exclusive, unique coﬀee experiences,”
said Guillaume Le Cunﬀ, Nespresso USA president.
Nespresso also is partnering with TechnoServe,
a Washington-based nonprofit, to support independent coﬀee farmers on the Caribbean island.
“We want consumers in the U.S. to experience
this incredible coﬀee and to enjoy it now and for
years to come,” said Le Cunﬀ, who aims to forge
long-term relationships with Cuban producers.
Cuba harvests about 100,000 60-kg bags of arabica coﬀee annually, according to the International
Coﬀee Organization. While that is about five times
the annual production of Jamaica, it is just a fraction of this year’s expected 13.5 million-bag harvest from Colombia, the world’s biggest grower of
high-quality washed arabica coﬀee.
Nespresso’s flagship espresso maker dominates the market in Europe, where such drinks are
preferred, but trails Green Mountain Coﬀee Roasters’ GMCR.O Keurig system in the United States.
Nespresso competes with many global brands
for sought-after beans. Rivals include Starbucks
Corp (SBUX.O), which told Reuters it has “no
plans to import coﬀee from Cuba at this time.”
The United States imposed trade restrictions
on Cuba in 1960, after the government of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro seized private land,
nationalized scores of private companies and imposed heavy taxes on U.S. imports. President John
F. Kennedy issued a permanent embargo in 1962.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro stunned the world in December
2014 by abruptly announcing that the countries
would move to restore diplomatic relations.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Renting Rooms to Travelers Can Be a Source of Income Later in Life
By Amy Zipkin
V
alerie Valdez, now 60, was separated from her
husband, Ted, and living in a converted garage
apartment in Santa Cruz, Calif., when he died of
a heart attack in 2014. She faced a sudden loss of income
and wondered how she was going to support herself.
She owned a home in Noe Valley, an upscale San
Francisco neighborhood, occupied by a tenant renting
month to month. She gave the tenant notice and moved
back into the house, which she had cleaned and repainted. She invited the friend of a friend as a paying guest
for $60 a night, placed a listing on Airbnb, and received
two additional bookings right away.
“This is going to work,” she remembers telling herself. “I’m going to be OK.”
Valdez now lists the four-bedroom home (she occupies one bedroom) on Airbnb, as well as Vacation Home
Rentals, HomeAway, and VRBO. The three bedrooms
each list for $105 to $155 a night on Airbnb. On other
sites she lists the entire house. Last year, she said, she
hosted about 400 guests from 100 cities.
Owning a cozy bed-and-breakfast in an idyllic location has long been a common dream of many 9-to-5 employees. But it’s hard work. Many baby boomers, though,
are finding another way to become de facto innkeepers.
total:0“It’s an ingenuous way of making money oﬀ
this asset that you otherwise can’t monetize,” said Richard W. Johnson, director of retirement planning at the
Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
Airbnb, in a 2015 study, identified people over 60 as
the fastest-growing cohort of its hosts, increasing by 102
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Valerie Valdez (center) with guests who rented her home
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percent that year, compared to its overall growth rate in
the United States of 85 percent. Worldwide, the company estimates that about 260,000 of its roughly 2 million
listings are oﬀered by hosts 60 and older. Of those, 64
percent are women. (The company doesn’t track marital
status.)
Other home rental companies also have older hosts,
they say, but don’t break down statistics by age or gender. There is even a co-op specifically aimed at older
people. Some 1,500 individuals pay a $75 annual fee to
belong to the Evergreen B&B Club, which advertises
bed-and-breakfast homestays for people over 50. Members are expected to be hosts as well as paying guests,
contributing $20 a night to cover the cost of breakfast
and incidentals.
While some may have concerns about lost privacy or
living with strangers, those who have taken the plunge
say their experiences are largely worthwhile.
Divorced in 2012, Jacque Schultz, 66, heard about
Airbnb at a party and looked at the furnished but unused downstairs of her duplex, which has a separate entrance, as a potential profit center.
“It was more house than I needed,” she said of the
property, which is in Nashville. She added a luggage
rack.
Her guests have included European tourists, performers who come to the area for a gig, and recent college graduates on job searches. During winter months,
she visits family in Florida.
Schultz says that the unit, which rents for $110 a
night, is booked about 15 to 20 days a month.
Airbnb says the average senior host receives about
$6,000 a year for about 60 days of work. The company
charges hosts a 3 percent booking fee, as does Vacation
Home Rentals. Fees at other companies vary.
Having strangers nearby doesn’t faze her.
“I’ve not had a single negative experience,” she said.
She turned away one persistent guest who wanted to circumvent the registration process. She relies on Airbnb’s
screening to weed out undesirable guests.
“A potential host or guest is disqualified if he or she
appears on state or national sex oﬀender registries, ter-
rorism designations or if they have been convicted of a
violent crime, serious sexual oﬀense and prostitution or
felony-related drug oﬀenses,” Nick Shapiro, an Airbnb
spokesman, wrote in an e-mail.
Opening your home to guests can mean almost always being on, as Elle La Forge, 65, found out when she
began renting out the ground floor of her town house
in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, a short
walk to the ferry to Manhattan.
She invested $5,000, painted and installed a new
floor, and added appliances, glasses, dishes, and a microwave. For a private space that sleeps up to three, she
charges $80 a night for one person and $10 a night for
each additional person.
“It does tie you down,” La Forge said. “I have my
phone with me all the time.”
One guest, she recalled, phoned after departure for
a lesson in paying tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike. But
her solicitousness, and the general enjoyment she takes
in helping point her guests to tourist attractions and other options, pays oﬀ. She is almost fully booked through
September, she said.
Airbnb said women over 60 are consistently the
highest-rated in the company’s star system.
Edward LeMay, 73, a retired accounting professor,
is another popular host. He has augmented his pension
and retirement income by renting out rooms in his rowhouse in the South End of Boston. The extra income has
provided him with the means to take piano and voice
lessons, and travel to Israel and Turkey with the Boston
Gay Men’s Chorus.
In comments online, guests praise his warm welcome and engaging conversation.
Still, his hospitality has limits. For two couples looking to stay together during the crowded Boston Marathon event, he agreed to give up his own room. But then
he received a belated four-page complaint letter from
one of them about some minor repairs that were going
on at the time.
He did not need to reimburse the guests, but it still
left a sour taste that they hadn’t recognized that he had
gone out of his way to help them.
“Even if someone is very nice, they aren’t necessarily going to be a good guest,” he said. Others prefer the
reciprocity of Evergreen B&B Club. Nancy Kennedy, 78,
a weaver from Eureka, Calif., drives to shows to display
her handmade rugs and stays with club members en
route.
“It’s a way to cut costs and make new friends,” she
said. She discussed “politics and life” with one host. At
another destination, the host told her where to find the
key and left food in the refrigerator.
Valdez has told friends and relatives about her experiences and encouraged them to join Airbnb as well. She
has entertained German, French, and Chinese tourists
simultaneously.
“It makes me feel like I am traveling around the
world,” she said.
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Stocks
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Wall St. Rises as Fears of a ‘Brexit’ Ease
U
.S. stocks rose sharply on Monday as investors grew
more hopeful that Britain would remain in the European Union.
Asian stocks traded higher and indexes in Europe
soared as the latest opinion polls and betting markets suggest it’s more likely Britain will stay in the E.U. than leave it.
Britons vote on the matter on Thursday.
The British pound rose sharply, and investors dumped
ultra-safe assets like U.S. government bonds, gold and utility stocks, sending those prices lower. Machinery and consumer companies jumped, and energy companies rose with
the price of oil.
Jim McDonald, chief investment strategist at Northern
Trust, said Britain’s status in the E.U. won’t aﬀect U.S. businesses much, although it would hurt European banks. But he
said investors were worried what will happen to the union
if Britain does leave. “It’s not the direct eﬀects that people
are worried about, it’s the indirect ones,” he said.
The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index rose 12.03 points, or 0.6 percent, to 2,083.25. The Nasdaq composite gained 36.88 points, or 0.8 percent, to 4,837.21. The Dow Jones
industrial average climbed 129.71 points, or 0.7 percent, to
17,804.87.
U.S. stocks were on pace for much larger gains earlier
in the day. At one time the Dow was up 271 points.
Machinery companies climbed. Aerospace company
Boeing added $2.93, or 2.3 percent, to $132.75 and Honeywell
advanced $1.14, or 1 percent, to $117.06. General Electric rose
23 cents to $30.83.
Consumer stocks rose as investors bet people will
spend more on shopping and travel. Amazon gained $7.62,
or 1.1 percent, to $714.01 while travel booking site Priceline
added $32.72, or 2.5 percent, to $1,341.96 and Nike rose 65
cents, or 1.2 percent, to $54.36.
Benchmark U.S. crude oil rose $1.39, or 2.9 percent, to
$49.37 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, gained $1.48, or 3 percent, to $50.65 a barrel in
London. After a six-day losing streak, oil prices are up about
7 percent over the past two days.
Among energy stocks, Chevron rose $1.04, or 1 percent, to $102.61. Marathon Oil jumped $1.32, or 10 percent, to
$14.48 after it agreed to pay $888 million for PayRock Energy.
Bond prices dropped as investors moved money out of
ultra-safe assets. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note
rose to 1.67 percent from 1.61 percent late Friday. That’s an
encouraging sign for banks since bond yields are used to set
interest rates on many kinds of loans including mortgages,
and banks will be able to make more money from lending
as rates increase.
Bank of America rose 14 cents, or 1 percent, to $13.54
and Wells Fargo, the nation’s biggest mortgage lender, rose
33 cents to $46.93.
JD.com stock jumped after the second-largest e-commerce site in China said it was buying Walmart’s Yihaodian
marketplace as part of a broad partnership with the company. JD.com jumped 93 cents, or 4.6 percent, to $21.06.
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Venezuela Casts a Long Shadow on Elections in Spain
Albert Rivera, the leader of Spain’s centerright Ciudadanos party, arriving in Venezuela in May at the invitation of opponents
of President Nicolás Maduro.
By RAPHAEL MINDER
E
urope is facing a migration crisis, the
threat of Islamic terrorism and the
prospect that Britain will exit the European Union. But the big foreign policy
issue before Spain’s national elections next
Sunday? Venezuela, of course.
Candidates have visited Caracas, the
capital of Venezuela, to grandstand. Spain’s
governing conservative party has met in
Madrid with opponents of Venezuela’s leftist government. There have been charges of
a virtual Venezuelan infiltration of Spain’s
politics.
The shadow cast by Venezuela has been
so long that its president, Nicolás Maduro,
recently invited Spain’s politicians to hold
their election debate in Caracas “so that I can
also participate, and perhaps I will win the
elections in Spain.”
It may seem a little odd, given the host of
problems facing Spain. But the reason is simple. After six months of political deadlock
and inconclusive elections in December, the
only sign of change before Spain’s election
redo is the growing strength of Podemos, the
far-left party whose leaders once served as
advisers to the former government of Hugo
Chávez in Venezuela.
The stronger Podemos looks, the more
its opponents try to link the party to Venezuela, where the economy is collapsing and
Mr. Maduro’s increasingly authoritarian government has declared a state of emergency.
The message is meant to be scary and clear:
Venezuela is a mess, and it can happen here.
“One of the four parties that is competing in the campaign in Spain was hosted
and formed in Venezuela, so if they want to
bring that model here, they have to explain
why,” Albert Rivera, the leader ofCiudadanos, an emerging center-right party, told a
group of foreign correspondents this month,
shortly after returning from Venezuela. “It is
Podemos which brought Venezuela to Spain,
not us.”
The leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, fired back in a televised debate that his opponents were ignoring the issues that could
really aﬀect Spain, starting with a possible
British exit from the European Union.
Podemos had its first electoral success in
May 2014, when it won 8 percent of the votes
in European Parliament elections. In its early
days, Podemos looked to Syriza, the Greek
party that came to power in early 2015, as
an example of how a new and far-left party
could overhaul the political establishment.
Podemos may be poised to do just that.
After recently forming an alliance with a
radical party, United Left, it could now leapfrog over the Socialists into second place,
behind the conservative Popular Party of the
caretaker prime minister, Mariano Rajoy,
according to recent opinion polls. Such an
outcome would overturn the two-party political order that has prevailed since Spain’s
return to democracy in the late 1970s.
Given the troubles in Greece, which is
negotiating yet another international bailout, opponents of Podemos have made much
of the connection to Syriza. But it is the link
to the former Chávez government that has
been a special focus.
A handful of Podemos leaders — including Mr. Iglesias, Juan Carlos Monedero and
Iñigo Errejón — once used their academic
credentials as political scientists to work as
advisers to the government of Mr. Chávez,
who died in 2013. They also did advisory
work in Bolivia and Ecuador, while studying
how far-left politics could reshape Latin
American nations.
Opponents of Podemos have attacked
the party over its finances and possible links
to foreign governments, particularly Venezuela. Such accusations have been rejected
by Podemos, which has instead built part of
its campaign on denouncing the corruption
of established parties financed by construction kickbacks.
Before Podemos entered the Spanish political scene, Mr. Iglesias and Mr. Errejón sat
on the board of a Spanish research institute
financed by the Venezuelan government.
In April 2015, Mr. Monedero resigned
from the leadership of Podemos amid ideological diﬀerences, but also after he had to
pay 200,000 euros (about $227,000 under the
current exchange rate) in back taxes and fines
for receiving €425,000 as payment for consulting with the Chávez government in 2010 to
develop plans for a new regional currency.
Mr. Monedero and other Podemos leaders were never charged with wrongdoing.
However, during the recent televised debate,
Mr. Rivera, the leader of Ciudadanos, repeated previous allegations that Podemos had
relied on Venezuela’s money.
“It is immoral that a foreign regime finances a party,” Mr. Rivera said. A visibly
angry Mr. Iglesias responded that it was a
“very serious” oﬀense to accuse his party
of illegal financing, particularly since it was
an issue that had been already cleared by
Spain’s Supreme Court.
Mr. Rivera has recently issued the strongest statements over Venezuela during the
Spanish election campaign, taking over
from Mr. Rajoy, who last month convened
his security council to review the safety of
the 200,000 Spaniards living under the state
of emergency in Venezuela.
With the help of Spain’s conservative establishment, the Venezuelan opposition has
also made its presence felt in Spain, led by
Lilian Tintori, the wife of Leopoldo López, a
Venezuelan politician who was jailed in February 2014.
This month, Ms. Tintori, a former television presenter, gave public speeches in Salamanca and Madrid, hosted by the Popular
Party as well as a conservative newspaper,
La Razón.
“Two years and three months ago, we
came to Spain and other countries and nobody paid attention to us,” she said before
an audience that included three ministers
from Mr. Rajoy’s government, as well as Mr.
Rivera.
Even as Podemos has distanced itself
from Venezuela, it has not joined other parties in condemning Mr. Maduro’s policies.
This month, the European Parliament approved a resolution demanding the release of
Mr. López and other political prisoners in
Venezuela.
The lawmakers of Podemos abstained,
while those of its ally, the United Left party,
voted against the resolution, arguing that it
was designed to further destabilize Venezuela.
Podemos is making “economic proposals clearly similar to those of Venezuela,”
Francisco de la Torre Díaz, an economic adviser to Ciudadanos, said.
Among those proposals, he said, is “the
idea that it would be worth getting out of the
euro.” He also mentioned that Podemos advocates a “massive increase in public spending,” as well as a plan to nationalize some
strategic corporations.
Mr. Iglesias has denied having any plan
to drop the euro, dismissing warnings by
Mr. Rivera and others as fallacious scaremongering.
Podemos has gradually watered down
its demands for an economic overhaul. Its
latest party program seeks an increase in
public spending of €60 billion, less than its
previous proposal of €96 billion.
Despite this, some conservative associations have recently been formed to help prevent Podemos from turning Spain into the
next Venezuela.
“We want to denounce the situation in
Venezuela and warn about what could happen in Spain,” said Andrés Redondo, the
president of an association called Let Us
Save Democracy, which was formed in Madrid last year.
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Venezuelans Ransack Stores as Hunger Grips the Nation
By NICHOLAS CASEY
W
ith delivery trucks under constant attack, the
nation’s food is now transported under armed
guard. Soldiers stand watch over bakeries. The
police fire rubber bullets at desperate mobs storming grocery stores, pharmacies and butcher shops. A 4-year-old
girl was shot to death as street gangs fought over food.
Venezuela is convulsing from hunger.
Hundreds of people here in the city of Cumaná, home
to one of the region’s independence heroes, marched on
a supermarket in recent days, screaming for food. They
forced open a large metal gate and poured inside. They
snatched water, flour, cornmeal, salt, sugar, potatoes, anything they could find, leaving behind only broken freezers and overturned shelves.
And they showed that even in a country with the
largest oil reserves in the world, it is possible for people
to riot because there is not enough food.
In the last two weeks alone, more than 50 food riots,
protests and mass looting have erupted around the country. Scores of businesses have been stripped bare or destroyed. At least five people have been killed.
This is precisely the Venezuela its leaders vowed to
prevent.
In one of the nation’s worst moments, riots spread
from Caracas, the capital, in 1989, leaving hundreds dead
at the hands of security forces. Known as the “Caracazo,”
or the “Caracas clash,” they were set oﬀ by low oil prices,
cuts in subsidies and a population that was suddenly impoverished.
The event seared the memory of a future president,
Hugo Chávez, who said the country’s inability to provide for its people, and the state’s repression of the uprising, were the reasons Venezuela needed asocialist revolution.
Now his successors find themselves in a similar bind
— or maybe even worse.
The nation is anxiously searching for ways to feed
itself.
The economic collapse of recent years has left it unable to produce enough food on its own or import what it
needs from abroad. Cities have been militarized under
an emergency decree from President Nicolás Maduro,
the man Mr. Chávez picked to carry on with his revolution before he died three years ago.
“If there is no food, there will be more riots,” said
Raibelis Henriquez, 19, who waited all day for bread in
Cumaná, where at least 22 businesses were attacked in a
single day last week.
But while the riots and clashes punctuate the country with alarm, it is the hunger that remains the constant
source of unease.
A staggering 87 percent of Venezuelans say they do
not have money to buy enough food, the most recent assessment of living standards by Simón Bolívar University found.
About 72 percent of monthly wages are being spent
just to buy food, according to the Center for Documen-
Hundreds of people waited in line to buy food at a grocery store in Catia, a slum in western Caracas, on June
11. Some arrived as early as 3 a.m. and waited more than
eight hours before being told there was no more food
available.
tation and Social Analysis, a research group associated
with the Venezuelan Teachers Federation.
In April, it found that a family would need the equivalent of 16 minimum-wage salaries to properly feed itself.
Ask people in this city when they last ate a meal, and
many will respond that it was not today.
Among them are Leidy Cordova, 37, and her five children — Abran, Deliannys, Eliannys, Milianny and Javier
Luis — ages 1 to 11. On Thursday evening, the entire family had not eaten since lunchtime the day before, when
Ms. Cordova made a soup by boiling chicken skin and fat
that she had found for a cheap price at the butcher.
“My kids tell me they’re hungry,” Ms. Cordova said
as her family looked on. “And all I can say to them is to
grin and bear it.”
Other families have to choose who eats. Lucila
Fonseca, 69, has lymphatic cancer, and her 45-year-old
daughter, Vanessa Furtado, has a brain tumor. Despite
also being ill, Ms. Furtado gives up the little food she has
on many days so her mother does not skip meals.
“I used to be very fat, but no longer,” the daughter
said. “We are dying as we live.”
Her mother added, “We are now living on Maduro’s
diet: no food, no nothing.”
Economists say years of economic mismanagement
— worsened by low prices for oil, the nation’s main source of revenue — have shattered the food supply.
Sugar fields in the country’s agricultural center lie
fallow for lack of fertilizers. Unused machinery rots in
shuttered state-owned factories. Staples like corn and
rice, once exported, now must be imported and arrive in
amounts that do not meet the need.
In response, Mr. Maduro has tightened his grip over
the food supply. Using emergency decrees he signed
this year, the president put most food distribution in the
hands of a group of citizen brigades loyal to leftists, a
measure critics say is reminiscent of food rationing in
Cuba.
“They’re saying, in other words, you get food if
you’re my friend, if you’re my sympathizer,” said Roberto Briceño-León, the director of the Venezuelan Violence
Observatory, a human rights group.
It was all a new reality for Gabriel Márquez, 24, who
grew up in the boom years when Venezuela was rich and
empty shelves were unimaginable. He stood in front of
the destroyed supermarket where the mob had arrived at
Cumaná, an endless expanse of smashed bottles, boxes
and scattered shelves. A few people, including a policeman, were searching the wreckage for leftovers to take.
“During Carnival, we used to throw eggs at each
other just to have some fun,” he said. “Now an egg is
like gold.”
Down the coastal road in a small fishing town called
Boca de Uchire, hundreds gathered on a bridge this month to protest because the food deliveries were not arriving. Residents demanded to meet the mayor, but when
he did not come they sacked a Chinese bodega.
Residents hacked open the door with pickaxes and
pillaged the shop, venting their anger at a global power
that has lent billions of dollars to prop up Venezuela in
recent years.
“The Chinese won’t sell to us,” said a taxi driver who
watched the crowd haul away all that was inside. “So we
burn their stores instead.”
Mr. Maduro, who is fighting a push for a referendum
to recall him this year over the country’s declines, said it
was the political opposition that was behind the attacks
on the stores.
At a protest in downtown Caracas on June 9, a student
held a sign that said, “Studying while hungry does not
get results” in Spanish.
“They paid a group of criminals, brought them in
trucks,” he said on Saturday on television, promising
compensation to those who lost property.
At the same time, the government also blames an
“economic war” for the shortages. It accuses wealthy
business owners of hoarding food and charging exorbitant prices, creating artificial shortages to profit from the
country’s misery.
It has left shop owners feeling under siege, particularly those who do not have Spanish names.
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“Look how we are working today,” said Maria Basmagi, whose family immigrated from Syria a generation
ago, pointing to the metal grate pulled over the window
of her shoe store.
Her shop was on the commercial boulevard in Barcelona, another coastal town racked by unrest last week.
At 11 a.m. the day before, someone screamed that there
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was an attack on a government-run kitchen nearby. Every
shop on Ms. Basmagi’s street closed down in fear.
Other shops stay open, like the bakery in Cumaná
where a line of 100 people snaked around a corner. Each
person was allowed to buy about a pound of bread.
Robert Astudillo, a 23-year-old father of two, was not
sure there would be any left once his turn came. He said
he still had corn flour to make arepas, a Venezuelan staple, for his children. They had not eaten meat in months.
“We make the arepas small,” he said.
In the refrigerator of Araselis Rodriguez and Nestor
Daniel Reina, the parents of four small children, there was
not even corn flour — just a few limes and some bottles
of water.
Leidy Cordova, 37, with four of her five children at
their home in Cumaná, Venezuela, last week. Their
broken refrigerator held the only food in the house: a
bag of corn flour and a bottle of vinegar.
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The family had eaten bread for breakfast and soup
for lunch made from fish that Mr. Reina had managed to
catch. The family had nothing for dinner.
It has not always been clear what provokes the riots.
Is it hunger alone? Or is it some larger anger that has built
up in a country that has crumbled?
Inés Rodríguez was not sure. She remembered calling
out to the crowd of people who had come to sack her restaurant on Tuesday night, oﬀering them all the chicken
and rice the restaurant had if they would only leave the
furniture and cash register behind. They balked at the
oﬀer and simply pushed her aside, Ms. Rodríguez said.
“It is the meeting of hunger and crime now,” she
said.
As she spoke, three trucks with armed patrols drove
by, each emblazoned with photos of Mr. Chávez and Mr.
Maduro.
The trucks were carrying food.
“Finally they come here,” Ms. Rodríguez said. “And
look what it took to get them. It took this riot to get us
something to eat.”
Mexico: Six Killed in Clashes During Teachers’ Protest
Police and protesters clash as teachers rally against education reform and colleagues’
arrests.
V
iolent clashes between police and members of a radical teachers’ union, who had blockaded roads in
southern Mexico, have left at least six people dead
and more than 100 injured, oﬃcials said.
The teachers from the National Coordinator of Education Workers, or CNTE, are opposed to the mandatory
testing of teachers as part of Mexico’s sweeping education
reform and are also protesting against the arrest of union
leaders on money-laundering and other charges.
In Sunday’s clashes in the southern state of Oaxaca,
protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails, and burned vehicles, while journalists saw riot police firing on demonstrators. Clashes took place in several municipalities
in Oaxaca, but the most violent were in Nochixtlan, north
of the state capital also called Oaxaca.
Oﬃcials said six people were killed in Nochixtlan
while 53 civilians, 41 federal police agents and 14 state police agents were injured.
Oaxaca state Governor Gabino Cue said all the dead
were civilians, with two having ties to the CNTE union. A
state oﬃcial had previously said a state police oﬃcer was
killed but it turned out that the person was a civilian.
‘Gun attacks’
Earlier on Sunday, Mexico’s federal government released a statement saying 21 federal police had been wounded, three of them by gunfire, and that its agents who participated in the operation were not carrying guns.
“The attacks with guns came from people outside the
blockades who fired on the population and federal police,”
it said.
But footage filmed by The Associated Press agency
shows at least one police oﬃcer firing a gun several times,
though it was unclear if he was a federal or state agent.
Late on Sunday night, Federal Police chief Enrique Galindo acknowledged that he had sent in some oﬃcers with
guns after agents came under fire.
“The police obligation is to protect the population,” he
said.
Clashes were continuing on Sunday night outside
Oaxaca city and in the municipalities of San Pablo Huitzo
and Santiaguito, where protesters had burned federal police installations.
Over the past week, unionised teachers have blockaded streets, a shopping mall and even train tracks in the
western state of Michoacan. They have also forced some
bus lines to cancel trips to Oaxaca, which is a popular
tourist destination, and blocked a highway. And in Oaxaca
city, protesting teachers have set up an encampment in the
city’s main square.
Federal prosecutors accuse union leaders of setting up
an illegal financial network to fund protests and line their
own pockets. They allege that the scheme operated in 20132015, when the union eﬀectively controlled the payroll of
Oaxaca’s teachers.
Following the arrest of some if its top leaders, the
union called for a revolt against Mexico’s government.
Ten years ago, the teachers started a six-month takeover
of Oaxaca that did not end until police stormed the barricades.
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UN Says 65 Million People Displaced in 2015, a New Record
I
magine the entire population of Britain
uprooted: The U.N. refugee agency says
just over that number — 65 million people
— were displaced worldwide by the end of
last year, easily setting a new postwar record,
as it warned that European and other rich
nations can expect the tide to continue if root
causes aren’t addressed.
In a year when more than a million people
arrived on European shores, UNHCR said
continued conflicts and persecution in places
like Syria and Afghanistan fueled a nearly 10percent increase in the total number of refugees and internally displaced people in 2015.
“I hope that the message carried by those
forcibly displaced reaches the leaderships: We
need action, political action, to stop conflicts,”
said Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. “The message that they
have carried is: ‘If you don’t solve problems,
problems will come to you.’”
The figures are contained in the Genevabased agency’s latest Global Trends Report
issued Monday, timed for World Refugee Day.
They show that for the first time since World
War II, the 60 million mark was crossed, even
topping the equivalent of the total U.K. population of about 64.6 million.
“If these 65.3 million persons were a nation, they would make up the 21st largest in
the world,” the report said.
With stark detail, UNHCR said that on
average, 24 people had been displaced every
minute of every day last year — or 34,000
people a day — up from 6 every minute in
2005. Global displacement has roughly doubled since 1997, and risen by 50 percent since
2011 alone — when the Syria war began.
About 11.5 million people from Syria had
fled their homes: 6.6 million within the warravaged country and 4.9 million abroad. More
than half of all refugees came from three
countries: Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia,
and more than half of all displaced people
were children, UNCHR said.
Turkey was the top host country for the
second year running, taking in 2.5 million
people — nearly all from neighboring Syria.
Afghan neighbor Pakistan had 1.6 million,
while Lebanon, next to Syria, hosted 1.1 million. UNHCR said the total figures of forcibly
displaced people amounted to about one in
every 113 people on the planet.
Grandi said policymakers and advocacy
groups admittedly face daunting challenges
in helping the largest subset of displaced
people: Some 40.8 million internally displaced in countries in conflict. Another 21.3 million were refugees and some 3.2 million more
were seeking asylum.
More than a million people
fled to Europe last year, causing
a political crisis in the EU — with
Greece and Italy facing the initial brunt, Germany welcoming
in hundreds of thousands, and
some eastern European countries erecting strict barriers to
block the flow.
Concerns about immigration have aﬀected the debate in
Britain about whether to remain
in the European bloc ahead of
Thursday’s Brexit referendum.
So far this year, the flow of
refugees into Europe has eased In this Monday, May 30 file photo, an afghan boy shethrough the Turkey-to-Greece pherd walk their sheep near a temporary housing in
route that was the dominant Kabul, Afghanistan.
thoroughfare last year. A recent
EU-Turkey deal allows Greece to
return Syrian asylum-seekers to Turkey wi- by some European countries — as well as lethout evaluation of their protection claims on gislative ones that limit access to richer, more
peaceful EU states.
the basis it is a “safe third country.”
Such European policies were “spreading
Human Rights Watch on Monday urged
a
negative
example around the world,” he
the EU to evaluate Syrian refugees’ protection
said.
claims on the merits.
“There is no plan B for Europe in the long
Grandi called on countries to work to
run,”
Grandi said. “Europe will continue to
fight the xenophobia that has accompanied
receive
people seeking asylum. Their numthe rise in refugee populations, and decried
bers
may
vary ... but it is inevitable.”
both physical barriers — like fences erected
In the Shadow of a Murder, Britain to Vote on EU Membership
B
ritons will shape the future of the United Kingdom and Europe on Thursday
when they decide whether to stay in the
European Union following a campaign that has
shown the potency of anti-establishment feeling
in the West.
The vote comes a week after the murder of a
lawmaker in the street left many voters wondering whether the campaign rhetoric on both sides
- warnings of economic disaster versus uncontrolled immigration - had gone too far in a country
considered a paragon of stability.
Whatever the outcome, the referendum
could force the EU to rethink how it governs 500
million citizens and - along with the rise of Donald Trump in the United States - have far-reaching implications for the future configuration of
the West.
Allies such as U.S. President Barack Obama
and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have implored Britain to stay in the bloc, which they say
has given Europe decades of prosperity after centuries of bloodshed.
Investors, chief executives and central
bankers are bracing for what could be one of the
most volatile events for financial markets since,
at least, the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who promised the referendum in 2013 under pressure from
euroskeptic lawmakers in his own party, has
mixed rhetoric about his island nation’s history
with dire warnings about the costs and dangers
of a Brexit.
“This referendum has now become a watershed moment for our country,” Cameron said
when campaigning resumed after a two-and-ahalf-day suspension called as a sign of respect for
lawmaker Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed last
week.
“There is no turning back if we leave,” he
added, warning this would be “an abject and
self-imposed humiliation” that would leave “a
permanently poorer country in every sense”.
The murder of Cox, a 41-year-old mother of
two young children who was an ardent supporter of EU membership, shocked the country and
abruptly changed the tone of the caustic campaigning that has polarized the country.
Both sides have accused their opponents of
misleading the public, and critics say the debate
had descended into a negative row over the economic dangers of leaving versus the diﬃculties
of limiting immigration if Britain stays.
Witnesses to the Cox attack said the accused, 52-year-old Thomas Mair, was heard saying
“Britain first, keep Britain independent, Britain
always comes first”. Such comments added to
speculation the murder was politically motivated, making it a potentially defining moment in
the referendum.
Campaigners said events and leafleting
would go ahead as planned this week, but the
rhetoric would be scaled back.
“People are thinking carefully about the
conduct of this campaign, perhaps taking a
more respectful tone towards opponents,” said
a “Stronger In” campaign source. Leave oﬃcials
would not discuss the details of their campaign
plans.
Voting begins at 0600 GMT on June 23 and
closes at 2100. Results are due around 0000-0500
GMT the next day.
Opinion polls have painted a contradictory
and volatile picture of British public opinion
with Remain ahead for much of the campaign
but Leave taking a late lead before the Cox murder.
A vote to leave could unleash turmoil on fo-
reign exchange, equity and bond markets, lead to
a political crisis in Britain and fragment the postCold War European order.
The EU would have to weather the exit of
its No.2 economy representing $2.9 trillion of
its gross domestic product, the only European
financial capital to rival New York and one of
its only two nuclear powers, while Britain’s economy could stall.
A vote to remain would trigger a rise in sterling and relief in Western capitals but would still
leave Britain - and Cameron’s ruling Conservative Party - deeply divided.
WHAT KIND OF BRITAIN
The murder of Cox in the street of her own
electoral district in northern England has shocked Britain, which has strict gun controls, and
sparked soul-searching about a referendum
which both sides admit is about much more than
membership of the club it joined in 1973.
“The referendum was always about more
than Europe; it was always about what kind of
Britain we are and what we aspire to be,” former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is promembership, said in an article for the Guardian
newspaper.
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EU Countries Warn Britain on ‘Brexit’: You’ll Pay if You Leave Us
By STEVEN ERLANGER
T
he rest of the European Union nations are looking at the
possibility of a British departure from the bloc with disbelief, trepidation and anguish. But they are also preparing
to retaliate.
If Britons do vote in a referendum on Thursday to leave
the European Union, they can expect a tough and unforgiving
response, with capitals across the Continent intent on deterring
other countries from following the British example, European
oﬃcials and analysts said.
In other words, Britain will be made to suﬀer for its choice.
With other issues pressing, including Greek debt, the migrant crisis and terrorism, the largest and most powerful European nations will want clarity, and are not likely to tolerate a
long period of post-referendum confusion.
If Britons vote in the referendum on Thursday to leave the
European Union, they can expect a tough and unforgiving
response.
“In is in — out is out,” the powerful German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, told Spiegel magazine. “I hope and
believe that the British will ultimately decide against Brexit. The
withdrawal of Britain would be a heavy loss for Europe.”
The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, spoke
apocalyptically about a British exit, or “Brexit,” to the German
tabloid Bild. He said all members of the European Union would
suﬀer, as would the postwar structure of Europe that had kept
the peace.
“Why is it so dangerous?” Mr. Tusk asked. “No one can foresee what the long-term consequences would be. As a historian,
I fear that Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction of not
only the E.U., but also of Western political civilization.”
Britain would face at least seven years of limbo during painful negotiations about a new relationship with the bloc, Mr.
Tusk said.
Preparing for a British vote to withdraw, France andGermany are debating the immediate announcement of a joint initiative on European security, perhaps an operational command
headquarters, to show, at least symbolically, that the European
Union remains solid and will continue to progress without Britain.
But Germany has rejected some ideas from the European
Commission, the permanent bureaucracy in Brussels, to respond
by moving quickly toward more European political or fiscal integration, understanding that with Spanish elections this month
and French and German elections next year, “more Europe” is
not what voters want.
And no government wants treaty change, which would
prompt more referendums at a time when populist, anti-Brussels sentiments are running strong across the Continent.
Suggestions by British politicians favoring a departure that
the rest of the European Union will give Britain more favorable terms in a new trading arrangement will be rejected out of
hand by European leaders, who do not want to make further
concessions to a country that has rejected them, oﬃcials said.
This would ensure that the British example discouraged others
tempted to seek a special deal for themselves.
To that end, the main European Union nations are envisioning a two-stage negotiating process for a British exit, once the
British government invokes Article 50 of the treaty governing
membership in the bloc. Article 50 provides two years to haggle
over the terms of a divorce from the bloc — something that has
never happened.
The European Union is expected to want to talk about a future trade agreement only after Britain and the other 27 nations
in the bloc have made a decision about how to unwind British
membership. That process would require resolving complex legal and financial issues and addressing all kinds of topics that
would aﬀect ordinary people — what happens to pensions and
health coverage, as well as the immigration status of European
citizens working and living in Britain, and that of British citizens in the bloc.
Oﬃcials want to negotiate future trade and financial services arrangements with Britain as a nonmember; they do not
want to allow Britain to use the status of European citizens in
Britain and their rights as a bargaining chip in the trade negotiations, which could take several years to conclude, beyond the
two-year time limit for exit talks.
Even then, Brussels would oﬀer Britain one of the three
existing models of varying closeness and mutual obligation —
the bloc’s arrangements with Norway, Canada and the World
Trade Organization — rather than oﬀer to negotiate something
new, said Charles Grant, the director of the Center for European
Reform, a London research institution.
France and Belgium, and probably Germany, are almost
certain to reject any British proposal to remain within the European single market — even, or especially, for financial services
— without at least an agreement that Britain continue to allow
European citizens to live and work in Britain, analysts and oﬃcials said. In any case, such a trade-oﬀ, the so-called Norway
model, is strongly opposed by British advocates of withdrawing
from the bloc, in the name of controlling immigration.
“There is no appetite to be nice on the day after,” said Camille Grand, the director of the Foundation for Strategic Research
in France. “Whatever the British say or feel, there will be a price
to pay, if only to prevent further attempts to exit the E.U.”
The French message, Mr. Grand said, is like Mr. Schäuble’s:
“If you leave, you leave. And we won’t grant you the benefits
of the single market. You won’t move to an à la carte membership.”
The Germans and the Dutch, Mr. Grand said, “might be
tempted to be more flexible, but in Paris, it’s a divorce, and we
must be tough with the British to prevent the Czechs or whome-
ver from trying to make their own deals.”
But it may be the political aspect of a British exit that worries Europeans the most, coupled with the expected financial
shock, said Guntram Wolﬀ, the director of Bruegel, an independent research institution in Brussels.
“Populists throughout Europe will celebrate this as a ‘feast
of democracy,’ where finally the citizens get their say over the
elites,” Mr. Wolﬀ said. “Populists all over Europe will gain in
strength. And markets could react by saying, ‘The first brick is
out of the wall, and now let’s bet on another brick.’”
The next brick, Mr. Wolﬀ said, could be economically
troubled Italy, and that “could set in motion a domino eﬀect,”
with the euro dropping sharply in value along with the pound.
So the European Central Bank would have to be prepared to
prop up the banks and the euro against market pressure, just as
the Bank of England would have to prop up the pound.
No one in Germany thinks it would be good if the British
left, said Daniela Schwarzer, the director of the Europe program
at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin. “If the European Union
is not able to prove that membership is worth having, and that
in the end emotion wins over rational debates, this not only tells
you something about public sentiment in Britain, but will have a
contagion eﬀect in other nations,” she said.
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New York Times Editorials
Jo Cox and Britain’s Place in Europe
By Roger Cohen
I
n politics, as in life, there is the question of the company you
keep.
Reasonable people, some friends of mine, make reasonable
arguments for Britain to leave the European Union. They say it
lacks transparency. They say a union containing an inner club of
nations with a common currency, but outliers without it, constitutes a set-up that defrauds voters because it is intellectually
dishonest. The euro nations require a political union that is ever
closer for the euro to be sustainable. Other nations, like Britain,
do not want that.
They argue that the E.U. is undemocratic, run by unaccountable bureaucrats, and that Britain can somehow reinvent itself,
overcome geography, and defy several authoritative predictions
of economic disaster — most recently from the International
Monetary Fund — by linking with fast-growing parts of the
emergent world after it turns its back on a stagnant Europe.
I am prepared to lend half an ear to such notions, even if
they are paltry quibbles when set against the wonder of a borderless Europe at peace, access to a market of half-a-billion people,
decades of growing prosperity since Britain joined the European
Economic Community in 1973, and the British capacity to count
in the world as a leader within a united Europe rather than become an insular minnow adrift in the English Channel.
The European Union has been through a tough decade. It
has been beset by the structural flaws of the euro and a weak
response to the financial meltdown of 2008. It has faced the ongoing diﬃculties of absorbing former Communist bloc nations
and the challenge of mass immigration. It needs reinvigoration
— of a kind Britain could lead.
But none of this is what the British referendum has been
about. It has been about jingoistic bigotry of the “take-Britainback” variety; anti-European rants dished up by the Daily Mail
(often on the basis of claims so flimsy they would make Donald
Trump blush); the vileness of the U.K. Independence Party whose latest poster screams “Breaking Point” next to a crowd of
dark-skinned refugees; the outrageous diatribes of the former
London mayor, Boris Johnson, who has compared the union’s
designs to Hitler’s; the dim anger of a Little England troubled
by globalization and choosing to focus that ire on Brussels (of
all places) and on the desperate survivors of the Syrian civil war
(of all people).
In other words, it has been about poison. That poison led
— not directly but still — to the murder last week of Jo Cox, a
representative of the opposition Labour Party, and a mother of
two, by a man shouting “Britain First!”
Cox, a rising political star, had campaigned for Britain to
remain in the European Union. She had declared in her maiden
speech to Parliament that the Yorkshire towns and villages she
represented had been “deeply enhanced by immigration, be it
of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from
Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir.”
What struck her, she said, was that “we are far more united and
have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.” In her last article for the Yorkshire Post this month she
had written: “Please don’t fall for the spin prior to June 23 that
the only way to deal with concerns about immigration is by vo-
ting to leave.”
The suspect charged with her murder, Thomas Mair, gave
his name as “death to traitors, freedom for Britain” in his first
court appearance. Prosecutors said he had also shouted “Keep
Britain independent” as he attacked Cox. Pamphlets about extreme rightist and white supremacist organizations were found
at his house.
Yes, in politics there is also the question of the company you
keep.
Those who have called for Britain to quit the E.U. have been
prepared to get into bed with the likes of xenophobic fanatics like
Mair. They have countenanced the fabrication of gross slurs about
Europe and foreigners to further a campaign to lead Britain out of
its neighborhood (and the greatest political invention of the second
half of the 20th century) into some fantasyland of bygone glory.
This is not the Britain I know. This is not the Britain that accepted my South African Jewish immigrant parents and allowed
them to prosper. This is not the Britain whose own union — of
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — has been an
exercise in successful mingling. This is not the Britain whose capital, London, is perhaps the world’s greatest city because of the
openness that has made it the home to every tongue.
“Jo, get up,” pleaded Cox’s assistant, Fazila Aswat, as the
politician lay dying. “No, my pain is too much,” Cox replied, her
last words.
Come on, Britain! For Cox, for her two children, for Fazila Aswat, for the proud British history of openness, get up! Get
up, shun the hatemongers, and vote to remain in the European
Union.
The Broken Promise of Closing Guantánamo
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
E
ight years ago, presidential candidates John McCain and
Barack Obama agreed on one issue: It was time to shut
down the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Asked about his position on Guantánamo, Mr. McCain, a
former prisoner of war, said his view had been reinforced by
meeting an operative of Al Qaeda held prisoner in Iraq, who told
him the use of torture by American forces helped to fuel the insurgency.
“What is the moral superiority of the United States of America if we torture prisoners?” Mr. McCain said shortly before the
election. Mr. Obama vowed to shut down the prison during his
first year in oﬃce, calling it a legal and moral abomination.
As Mr. Obama’s administration draws to a close, there is less
and less hope that the president will find a way to fulfill his promise.
The failure to close Guantánamo, where 80 detainees remain,
is a shameful stain on Congress, which has hindered eﬀorts to
release prisoners and barred the Pentagon from moving those
remaining to prisons in the United States. The prison has undermined America’s standing as a champion of human rights and
set a deplorable example for other governments inclined to viola-
te international human rights law. Its familiar orange jumpsuits
have been made part of the terrorists’ propaganda, most recently
by Islamic State fighters in photos and videos that show the execution of hostages.
There is a modest step still available to Mr. Obama to demonstrate to the world that he is willing to acknowledge what
has taken place at Guantánamo. The United Nations special
rapporteur who examines issues of torture
has sought access to the detainees for years,
seeking to document their treatment while in
custody. The government has refused repeated
requests since 2004, with no good reason.
“I want to believe that the use of torture
by the United States is a dark chapter that has
ended,” Juan Méndez, the special rapporteur,
said in an interview. “But I can’t be certain of
that until we see a change in policy and verify
that the United States is meeting all its international obligations.”
The defense team of Ammar al-Baluchi,
one of the detainees at Guantánamo who is being tried in connection with the 9/11 attacks,
filed a motion in May asking the military com-
mission to allow him to meet with Mr. Méndez. Thomas Pickering, a veteran diplomat who has served as ambassador to Russia,
India and the United Nations in Republican and Democratic administrations, has filed a memorandum supporting this request.
Mr. Pickering wrote that recent reports of “heavy-handed and
even brutal force-feedings, indiﬀerent medical care, unacceptably cold stainless steel cells, indefinite solitary confinement” at
Guantánamo may constitute violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against
Torture. The United States is a signatory of both.
“Guantánamo is currently used by our enemies as a symbol of lawlessness that grossly undermines U.S. national security,” Mr. Pickering
wrote. “If the public reports about current abusive conditions are false, then I believe that the
United States has much to gain by allowing” Mr.
Méndez access.
Mr. Obama’s pledge to close the prison was
doomed by Republican opposition. But it is not
too late for him to allow independent human
rights monitors to create a fuller historical record
of the conduct of the American government after
9/11.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The San Juan Daily Star
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Another Viewpoint
Public Education, Support for Breeders a Better Solution for PR Dogs
By JENNIFER CLARK
T
he images are enough to break anyone’s heart –
stray dogs roaming the street without basic needs;
shelters overflowing with unwanted animals. There
is no question that something needs to be done. The dogs
– and the people of Puerto Rico – deserve better.
But punishing those who responsibly own and breed
animals is not the answer. Yet that’s exactly what a proposal pending before the Puerto Rico Legislature would do.
PC 2950 and PS 1631 would place a five-year ban on
the breeding of dogs and mandate the sterilization of all
dogs in Puerto Rico. Those who don’t comply would risk
fines, imprisonment, and having their dogs seized by law
enforcement.
Supporters say this is the solution because no one
will be able to breed dogs until the street dog problem is
under control. But consider the following:
• A breeding ban will not address the real issue of
unowned street dogs. Puerto Rico’s dog issues are related
primarily to street/feral and unowned dogs, not owned,
purpose-bred purebred dogs. However, this law does not
address this real problem, but will harm responsible breeders. Punishing breeders and dog owners will do nothing
to fix this issue.
• Puerto Rico already has extensive licensing,
cruelty, and abandonment laws. How will more laws fix
the issue – especially as the proposal itself admits current
laws aren’t being followed? And how will seizing the dogs
of those who do not comply help the shelter population
issue? The focus should be on strong enforcement of these
laws, and basic laws such as not allowing owned dogs to
run free, rather than on new laws.
• Mandatory sterilization is expensive, diﬃcult to
enforce, and is a health risk. Mandatory sterilization laws
in other American cities have been shown to increase animal control costs over 50%. Some owners stop taking their
dog to the veterinarian to hide the fact that the dog isn’t
sterilized. This then risks the health of dogs and the public if the dogs are not given proper check-ups and vaccinations. Also, mandatory sterilization of young dogs can
result in many health problems and even a shorter life.
A law that can harm the health of dogs should never be
supported.
• Responsible breeders are not problem – they are
the solution. Dogs are left at shelters or abandoned for
many reasons, including training issues, excessive barking, or lack of money. Responsible breeders produce
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healthy, well-bred dogs and ensure they are placed with a
home that is the right fit. They also will ensure the dog is
always in a safe and loving home.
So what’s the answer? A better approach is to a focus
on a low-cost or free sterilization programs to ensure there are no unwanted litters. Specific programs to address
populations of street dogs should also be developed. AKC
will also be joining with health experts and Puerto Rico
Kennel Clubs to teach about responsible dog ownership
and making sure people choose the right dog for their family.
Together, we are committed to ensuring a better life
for dogs in Puerto Rico.
The American Kennel Club is the nation’s largest notfor-profit purebred dog registry. AKC and our member
clubs comprise the largest rescue network in the United
States, and AKC is also the only non-profit registry with a
kennel inspections program. Learn more at akc.org.
Jennifer Clark is manager of canine legislation at the American Kennel Club.
PO BOX 6537 Caguas PR 00726
Funny!
One of the legislators on the red side of the aisle is complaining to the Electoral Board that his right to privacy was
violated during the recent primaries. The Senator had to stand
in line with his ballots unfolded waiting to hand feed the documents one-by-one into the scrutiny machine.
Apparently the Senator had felt the urge to vote for the
opposing party but didn’t dare to do so for fear of being spotted by his own party members.
Tomás León, San Juan
God, Moses, Jesus &
Emperor Constantine
The Gospels tell a fellow approached Jesus and asked Him
what he had to do to be saved. Jesus made it very clear all you
need to do is follow the Ten Commandments:
1. Thou shalt have no other god before me.
2. Thou shalt not worship graven images.
3. Thou shalt not mispronounce the name of God.
4. Keep the Sabbath holy.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother.
6. Thou shalt not murder.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness.
10. Thou shalt not covet goods, slaves or wives belonging
to others.
Notice none says THOU SHALT NOT FORNICATE. The
Catholic Church made that up and kept it on the books 400
years. Priests still tell teens you burn in hellfire if you mess
around, they bear false witness.
No Commandment abridges anything sexual, save adultery, a transgression of deceit rather. Jesus didn’t mention sex
in his many teachings, he stuck to what matters.
The Bible doesn’t read kindly about gaiety, nor eating
pork, harems are okay. You may kill your disobedient oﬀspring, stone a two-timing better half to death, you must wed
your widowed sister-in-law. Yet all those saints and statues in
Catholic churches outrage the First Commandment. Did you
know Moslems are the real Christians? At least till Mohammed came along, the Roman cattolici (universals) a heretic sect,
legitimized by dint of Emperor Constantine.
Again, insofar as the word of Jesus is the game changer,
the Commandments are injunctive, the rest of the Good Book
persuasive.
Or e-mail us at:
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Dr. Ricardo Angulo
Publisher
Manuel Sierra
Aaron Christiana
General Manager
Editor
Lisette Martínez
Advertising Agency Director
Local News Editor
Ray Ruiz
Legal Notice Director
Allan Gil
Internal Auditor
Sharon Ramírez
Legal Notices Graphics Manager
Agustín Manzano, Santurce
Maria Miranda
Ismael Reyes
Sports Editor/Assistant Editor
María Rivera
Graphic Artist Manager
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The San Juan Daily Star
Tips for Keeping Aging Pets
Healthy
By Michele C. Hollow of Pet News
J
ust two decades ago, large dogs like Labrador
Retrievers lived to age 9. Today, these dogs can
live to 15 or 16. Our cats and dogs are living longer thanks to many changes in veterinary medicine,
and because of the care we give them.
“We’ve taken our pets from the backyard to
the bedroom, and from the kennel to the couch,”
says Dr. Robin Downing, DVM, and owner of The
Downing Center for Animal Pain Management in
Windsor, CO. “Our pets are aging, and with that we
know, as the Buddhist saying goes, pain is inevitable. [But] suﬀering is optional. Our senior pets don’t
have to hurt.”
Dr. Robin shares 5 tips on how to make our senior pets more comfortable:
1. Lay a foundation.
Pets like their routines. Start with regular veterinary care, a good diet, exercise, and together time.
As your cat or dog ages, maintain their regular activities.
2. Practice preventive care.
Senior cats and dogs should see their veterinarians twice a year. “The most dangerous words in
the English language are Let’s just watch it,” says Dr.
Robin. “We see our cats and dogs slowing down and
attribute that to old age. Maybe their coats aren’t as
shiny as they once were. Maybe you found a small
lump. Maybe something else seems oﬀ. Slowing
down may be a slowing metabolism due to an underactive thyroid. Early detection is critical. By scheduling semi-annual veterinary visits, we can catch
illness at its initial stage, making the success rate far
higher than if we let a disease progress.”
3. Prevent obesity.
“Obesity is the number-one preventable disease of dogs and cats in the U.S.,” says Dr. Robin. “It
trumps kidney disease and cancer for preventable
diseases, and it is completely preventable and reversible. Leaner pets live longer than obese pets.
Obesity causes wear and tear on the body. Twenty
percent of all senior cats and dogs have osteoarthritis, and the percentage is much higher among the
overweight and obese. Just like with humans, if you
are fat, you have a higher increased risk of developing cancer of all types. Diabetes can also be caused
by obesity.”
“Your pets should be eating foods that are ageappropriate. Kittens get food that is marked for kittens. It has a higher fat content, which they need for
their growing bodies. Then, there is an adult stage,
and a senior stage.”
4. Watch for medical breakthroughs.
“It used to be that we had to amputate the limb
for certain bone tumors,” says Dr. Robin. “Now, we
know—in many cases—how certain bone tumors
grow by using stereotactic radio surgery. Dogs and
cats are keeping their legs. A really cool development right now is work on the horizon for a vaccine that may be able to be used against bone cancer.
Comparative oncologists are looking into this to be
used on human cancer. It’s a huge breakthrough.”
5. Make your home comfortable.
As pets age, we can make our home environments comfortable for them. Dr. Robin suggests
using pet ramps for dogs getting in and out of cars.
“There are also carpet-covered steps that you can
place by your bed, so your cats and dogs can have
easy access to your bed,” she adds.
Other items Dr. Robin suggests include:
* Food and water bowls that can be raised so
your pets don’t have to put any stress on their backs.
The bowls should be somewhere between elbow and
shoulder height.
* No-skid carpets or foam floor mats—the ones
that look like puzzle pieces—are easy to assemble
and can be removed from the floor when guests
come over.
* For homes with cats, make sure your cats have
easy access to a window seat. Place an ottoman or
step so he won’t have to jump too high.
* For pets with bad backs or hind legs there are
wheelchairs, assistive slings, and harnesses.
* For hard-of-hearing pets, you can ring the doorbell when you enter your home. Since their hearing isn’t as sharp as it used to be, they will hear
a doorbell or you can use a loud lifeguard whistle.
“Pets like their routines and they want to greet you
when you come home,” says Dr. Robin. “By using a
whistle or ringing the doorbell, they can. You can
also stomp on the floor, if they can’t hear. They can
respond to the vibrations.”
* If your pet has poor vision or is blind, please don’t rearrange the furniture. “Keep their food
and water dishes in the same place,” says Dr. Robin.
“Same goes for the litter pan. We want to set seniors
up for success.”
“Our pets need us a lot when they are very
young and again they need us a lot when they are
very old,” says Dr. Robin. “Now that they are older,
it is time for us to step up to give our pets the best
life they deserve.”
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Busy Benicio del Toro Is Proud of Name
Island Superstar Has Many Plans
By PEGGY ANN BLISS
Special to The STAR
[email protected]
A
ctor Benicio del Toro said he’s proud to be Puerto Rican and Latino, and urged a group of recent university graduates not to forget their
roots and to take full advantage of being bilingual and
understanding two cultures.
“Failure and success are two sides of the same
coin. Without failure, there’s no success. If you forget where you come from, you lose the essence of
who you are,” del Toro told an audience of hundreds
who attended the graduation ceremony at the University of Puerto Rico on its campus in Mayagüez
(RUM).
Del Toro, 49, told the graduates how he finally got
a role that allowed him to speak Spanish.
He had had leading roles in several films -- in
“Basquiat” as former Puerto Rican basketball player
Raymond Dalmau, in “The Usual Suspects” and in
“Snatch” -- but “Traﬃc,” which won him an Oscar, was
his first Spanish-speaking role.
“I quickly realized that being bilingual and
knowing two cultures is in no way a disadvantage,” the
actor said, noting that it has opened the door to many
professional opportunities.
However, he said that when he began his career,
he refused when his reps told him to change his name
if he wanted to compete with well-known Hollywood
actors.
“Changing my name would be forgetting who I
am,” the actor in movies like “Sicario” and “Escobar”
told a packed Rafael Mangual Coliseum, scene of the
graduation.
Del Toro has finished shooting the next “Star
Wars” sequel, which he filmed in Pinewood Studios in
England and on location in Croatia under strict security. He still has two important projects to finish this year.
One is “Soldado” (Soldier), which follows the footsteps
of Alejandro Gillick, his character in the acclaimed film
“Sicario.” Del Toro will be directed by Italian filmmaker
Stefano Sollima, known for several films on organized
crime, and who has earned international recognition
for his Italian miniseries “Gomorra.”
Del Toro will also star in “The Corporation,” in an
agreement between Paramount and Appian Way, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company. The film tells
Nogueras Shares Plenas to Help Museum
Concert Evokes Traditions at PRAM Benefit
By PEGGY ANN BLISS
Special to The STAR
[email protected]
S
inger/composer José Nogueras will present a benefit concert Vale la Plena … ¡siempre! at the Puerto Rico Art Museum (PRAM) on Wednesday.
The event, to be held at 7 p.m. in the Raúl Juliá Theater, will
present his new plena record to raise funds for the Santurce
museum.
Nogueras is donating the concert to raise funds for exhibits and education, Executive Director Lourdes Ramos said.
He will have an orchestra of 13 musicians, among them three
pleneros and three singers directed by Angelo Torres, in a varied repertoire from Nogueras’ long career.
“We know this will be an evening of good music that exalts
our Puerto Rican culture, and an opportunity to support the
museum’s artistic, educational and social mission.”
Nogueras called his plenas “an intense rhythmic experience, with the flavor of the people, social and romantic content,
without overlooking the humorous element, which is so typical of our people.”
“[The record] goes to unexpected places and contains influences of pop, Caribbean music and other rhythms,” he
said.
The record includes six compositions by Nogueras, one by
Peter Velásquez and two by Ceferino Cabán with Nogueras,
which represent an important tenet of Puerto Rican culture in
the singer’s words: “Through each of the songs, we reaﬃrm
our roots, what our land is like and the things that make our
feelings spring to life, establishing our Caribbean origin, especially our Boricuan heritage. The album is a delicious musical journey, with the plena as a vehicle.”
The museum, accredited by the American Museum Alliance, and aﬃliated with the Smithsonian Institution, is a private
non-profit institution which opened in 2000. Its mission is to
provide knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of the visual
arts, and it considers itself the island’s most important multidisciplinary center.
the real-life story of José Miguel Battle, considered “The
Cuban Godfather,” because of his ties to fraud in Havana casinos before the Cuban Revolution. Battle led another large illegal gambling operation in Miami.
Meanwhile, del Toro continues talks with director
Martin Scorsese about a proposed television series on
conquistador Hernán Cortés.
NOTICIAS ESPANOL
21 de Junio de 2016
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Provistas por Internews Ser vice
Proponen cobro a candidatos por remoción de propaganda
E
l candidato a representante del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Luis Gallardo, propuso
el lunes un proyecto para que los candidatos se responsabilicen de la remoción de propaganda una vez pase la elección.
Según el político, luego de las primarias las calles quedan repletas de promoción y los pasquines pueden quedarse meses o años contaminando visualmente y afeando el espacio público.
La medida propuesta por el aspirante a la Cámara busca evitar que sea el municipio o gobierno estatal el que incurra en el gasto de remoción de propaganda.
Gallardo propuso que se cobre a los candidatos políticos, partidos y promotores de ventas
la remoción de su propaganda, rótulos y anuncios.
Ya Gallardo, quien también es legislador municipal para el municipio de Aguas Buenas, ha
sometido legislación sobre el tema, la cual establecería un periodo para que dichas personas
remuevan sus anuncios a pena de reembolsar al municipio el costo de limpieza.
“No es justo que el municipio esté invirtiendo tiempo, personal y recursos para remover
propaganda vieja de los candidatos,” indicó Gallardo.
El legislador municipal también citó la responsabilidad con el ambiente como uno de los
factores que le motivó a la presentación del proyecto.
“Tenemos unos deberes con nuestras comunidades y convivencia social. Es una irresponsabilidad rotular las calles para promover cualquier producto o candidatura y luego dejar los
rótulos tirados cuando culmina la campaña”,
opinó.
El proyecto toma en cuenta el derecho
constitucional que tienen los ciudadanos
para expresarse libremente.
“Sin las debidas precauciones, seguimiento y limpieza, la propaganda abandonada y
dilapidada representa un problema de calidad de vida, convivencia social, estética y
ambiental. Además, es el pueblo quien la
mayoría de las veces tiene que costear la
limpieza de propaganda vieja y expirada, en
turno subsidiando de manera indirecta la empresa privada y las campañas políticas”, establece
la medida.
Países como México han implementado leyes similares con el fin de controlar la promulgación sin control de propaganda política durante los ciclos electorales.
“Ahora que terminaron las primarias, y después de las elecciones, hago un llamado a los
demás candidatos a limpiar los restos de sus propagandas que luego se convierten en contaminación visual en los pueblos”, pidió el candidato.
Reabren refugio de vida silvestre en Embalse Lucchetticon tras inversión de 716 mil dólares
E
l Refugio de Vida Silvestre del Embalse Lucchetti, en
Yauco, reabrió sus puertas al público luego de que se
hicieron mejoras a las instalaciones de pesca recreativa
mediante una inversión de 716 mil dólares de fondos
federales del Servicio de Pesca y Vida Silvestre, informó
la secretaria del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y
Ambientales (DRNA), Carmen Guerrero Pérez.
Las obras se hicieron para beneficio de los visitantes a esa
instalación recreativa y para facilitar la labor científica que
realiza el personal.
Los trabajos conllevaron la construcción de un área de ba-
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ños públicos con duchas para el área de acampar, una nueva oficina de
dos niveles y baños que mimetizan con los alrededores naturales por los
elementos rústicos incorporados en su exterior, así como la repavimentación y rediseño del estacionamiento.
“Este renovado espacio de trabajo y recreación permitirá de forma más
efectiva a nuestros científicos la continuidad en la toma de datos para
los trabajos de investigación, siembra de alevines, la electropesca y el
monitoreo de la calidad del agua en el embalse. Estas tareas permiten,
a su vez, monitorear la condición de pesca que se realiza en el embalse
Lucchetti”, manifestó Guerreo Pérez.
Durante la inauguración se develó un letrero en el área de pesca recreativa que lleva el nombre Leticia González, como un homenaje a esa pescadora que fue una defensora de los recursos naturales y promotora de la pesca recreativa.
González fue fundadora de la Asociación al Rescate de Nuestros Embalses (Arene), organización sin de lucro dedicada a realizar actividades de limpieza en los embalses de toda la
isla y también ayudó durante cinco años en campamentos de verano con jóvenes del embalse Guayo, en Lares, del embalse Garzas, en Adjuntas, y Lucchetti, en Yauco, y colaboró
con publicaciones sobre temas de agua dulce y aguas interiores.
El Refugio de Vida Silvestre Embalse Lucchetti cuenta además, con rampas de acceso al embalse, bohíos con merenderos, áreas de acampar, veredas, centro de información, oficina
y baños.
Este espacio es uno de los más visitados entre los pescadores de agua dulce. Allí se celebran
anualmente un promedio de 24 torneos de pesca, principalmente de lobinas, chopas, barbudos y tilapias.
El área recreativa del embalse abre de 6:30 de la mañana a 6:30 de la tarde, de martes a
domingo.
Los lunes feriados, se abre al público el área recreativa y se cierra el martes para realizar los
trabajos de mantenimiento.
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21 de Junio de 2016
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NOTICIASenESPANOL
Proponen cobro a candidatos por remoción de propaganda
E
l candidato a representante del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Luis Gallardo,
propuso el lunes un proyecto para que los candidatos se responsabilicen de la
remoción de propaganda una vez pase la elección.
Según el político, luego de las primarias las calles quedan repletas de promoción y
los pasquines pueden quedarse meses o años contaminando visualmente y afeando el
espacio público.
La medida propuesta por el aspirante a la Cámara busca evitar que sea el municipio
o gobierno estatal el que incurra en el gasto de remoción de propaganda.
Gallardo propuso que se cobre a los candidatos políticos,
partidos y promotores de ventas la remoción de su propaganda,
rótulos y anuncios.
Ya Gallardo, quien también es legislador municipal para el municipio de Aguas Buenas, ha sometido legislación sobre el tema,
la cual establecería un periodo para que dichas personas remuevan sus anuncios a pena de reembolsar al municipio el costo de
limpieza.
“No es justo que el municipio esté invirtiendo tiempo, personal y recursos para remover propaganda vieja de los candidatos,”
indicó Gallardo.
El legislador municipal también citó la responsabilidad con el ambiente como uno
de los factores que le motivó a la presentación del proyecto.
“Tenemos unos deberes con nuestras comunidades y convivencia social. Es una irresponsabilidad rotular las calles para promover cualquier producto o candidatura y
luego dejar los rótulos tirados cuando culmina la campaña”, opinó.
El proyecto toma en cuenta el derecho constitucional que tienen los ciudadanos
para expresarse libremente.
“Sin las debidas precauciones, seguimiento y limpieza, la propaganda abandonada y dilapidada representa un problema de calidad
de vida, convivencia social, estética y ambiental. Además, es el pueblo
quien la mayoría de las veces tiene que costear la limpieza de propaganda vieja y expirada, en turno subsidiando de manera indirecta la
empresa privada y las campañas políticas”, establece la medida.
Países como México han implementado leyes similares con el fin
de controlar la promulgación sin control de propaganda política durante los ciclos electorales.
“Ahora que terminaron las primarias, y después de las elecciones,
hago un llamado a los demás candidatos a limpiar los restos de sus
propagandas que luego se convierten en contaminación visual en los
pueblos”, pidió el candidato.
Reabren refugio de vida silvestre en Embalse Lucchetticon tras inversión de 716 mil dólares
El Refugio de Vida Silvestre del Embalse Lucchetti, en Yauco, reabrió sus puertas al
público luego de que se hicieron mejoras a las instalaciones de pesca recreativa mediante una inversión de 716 mil dólares de fondos federales del Servicio de Pesca y Vida
Silvestre, informó la secretaria del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), Carmen Guerrero Pérez.
Las obras se hicieron para beneficio de los visitantes a esa instalación recreativa y
para facilitar la labor científica que realiza el personal.
Los trabajos conllevaron la construcción de un área de baños públicos con duchas
para el área de acampar, una nueva oficina de dos niveles y baños que mimetizan con
los alrededores naturales por los elementos rústicos incorporados en su exterior, así
como la repavimentación y rediseño del estacionamiento.
“Este renovado espacio de trabajo y recreación permitirá de forma más efectiva a
nuestros científicos la continuidad en la toma de datos para los trabajos de investigación, siembra de alevines, la electropesca y el monitoreo de la calidad del agua en
el embalse. Estas tareas permiten, a su vez, monitorear la condición de pesca que se
realiza en el embalse Lucchetti”, manifestó Guerreo Pérez.
Durante la inauguración se develó un letrero en el área de pesca recreativa que lleva
el nombre Leticia González, como un homenaje a esa pescadora que fue una defensora de los recursos naturales y promotora de la pesca recreativa.
González fue fundadora de la Asociación al Rescate de Nuestros Embalses (Arene),
organización sin de lucro dedicada a realizar actividades de limpieza en los embalses
de toda la isla y también ayudó durante cinco años en campamentos de verano con
jóvenes del embalse Guayo, en Lares, del embalse Garzas, en Adjuntas, y Lucchetti, en
Yauco, y colaboró con publicaciones sobre temas de agua dulce y aguas interiores.
El Refugio de Vida Silvestre Embalse Lucchetti cuenta además, con rampas de acceso al embalse, bohíos con merenderos, áreas de acampar, veredas, centro de información, oficina y baños.
Este espacio es uno de los más visitados entre los pescadores de agua dulce. Allí se
celebran anualmente un promedio de 24 torneos de pesca, principalmente de lobinas, chopas, barbudos y tilapias.
El área recreativa del embalse
abre de 6:30 de la mañana a
6:30 de la tarde, de martes a
domingo.
Los lunes feriados, se abre al
público el área recreativa y se
cierra el martes para realizar los
trabajos de mantenimiento.
San Juan se convierte en la capital de la Educación con Encuentro Internacional Educa
E
l municipio de San Juan se convirtió en la capital de la Educación, al reunir en el XVII Encuentro
Internacional Virtual Educa a unos 350 representantes de organizaciones multilaterales, funcionarios gubernamentales, parlamentarios, líderes educativos, académicos y científicos de cerca de
20 países.
Se espera la presencia de más de siete mil personas, incluyendo maestros, directores escolares
y estudiantes. En este Encuentro, que se celebra hasta el viernes en el Centro de Convenciones en
Miramar, se discutirán los retos y desafíos de los gobiernos en el ámbito educativo, tecnológico, de
innovación y competitividad.
José María Antón, secretario general de Virtual Educa, iniciativa impulsada por la Organización
de los Estados Americanos (OEA) en 2001, señaló que “Virtual Educa Puerto Rico representa un mod-
elo de inclusión hemisférica en el que el Caribe, Centroamérica y América del Norte se encontrarán
para reforzar las alternativas más innovadoras de una Educación que es la opción estratégica de la
sociedad global del Siglo 21”.
En el Encuentro organizado en coordinación con los Departamentos de Estado y Educación y
la Junta Reglamentadora de Telecomunicaciones, además participarán activamente otras agencias
gubernamentales, las más importantes instituciones universitarias locales, instituciones internacionales y empresas multinacionales relacionadas a la educación e innovación, como Google, Microsoft, Softex e Intel.
Mayor información sobre el XVII Encuentro Internacional Virtual Educa puede obtenerse en la
dirección electrónica http://www.virtualeduca.org/encuentros/puertorico .
HEALTH
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The San Juan Daily Star
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
No Such Thing as a Healthy Smoker
By JANE E. BRODY
S
mokers who think they are escaping the lung-damaging eﬀects of
inhaled tobacco smoke may have
to think again, according to the findings
of two major new studies, one of which
the author originally titled “Myth of the
Healthy Smoker.”
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or C.O.P.D., may be among the best
known dangers of smoking, and current
and former smokers can be checked for
that with a test called spirometry that
measures how much air they can inhale
and how much and how quickly they can
exhale. Unfortunately, this simple test
is often skipped during routine medical
checkups of people with a history of smoking. But more important, even when spirometry is done, the new studies prove
that the test often fails to detect serious
lung abnormalities that cause chronic
cough and sputum production and compromise a person’s breathing, energy level, risk of serious infections and quality
of life.
“Current or former smokers without
airflow obstruction may assume that they
are disease-free,” but that’s not necessarily the case, one of the research teams
pointed out. These researchers projected
that there are 35 million current or former smokers older than 55 in the United
States with unrecognized smoking-caused lung disease or impairments. Many,
if not most, of these people could get
worse with time, even if they have quit
smoking. They are also unlikely to be
referred for pulmonary rehabilitation, a
treatment that can head oﬀ encroaching
disability.
Perhaps most important, those currently smoking may be inclined to think
they’ve dodged the bullet and so can continue to smoke with impunity. Doctors,
who are often reluctant to urge patients
with symptoms to quit smoking, may be
even less likely to recommend smoking
cessation to those with normal spirometry results.
Referring to C.O.P.D., one of the researchers, Dr. Elizabeth A. Regan, said,
“Smoking is really taking a terrible toll on
our society.” Dr. Regan, a clinical researcher at National Jewish Health in Denver,
is the lead author of one of the new studies, published last year in JAMA Internal
Medicine. “We live happily in the world
thinking that only a small percentage of
people who smoke get this devastating
disease,” she said. “However, the lungs
of millions of people in the United States
are negatively impacted by smoking, and
our methods for identifying their lung
disease are relatively insensitive.”
Even when the results of spirometry are normal, Dr. Regan added, “a lot
of smokers have respiratory symptoms.
They get sick often, are more likely to be
hospitalized with bronchitis or pneumonia, and have evidence on CT scans of
thickened airway walls or emphysema
that impair breathing.”
Dr. Prescott G. Woodruﬀ, lead author of the other study, published May
12 in The New England Journal of Medicine, said in an interview, “Smokers
have much more lung disease than we
previously thought. The 15 to 20 percent
who get C.O.P.D. is a gross underestimate.” Too often, Dr. Regan’s team pointed
out, symptoms like shortness of breath
and limits on exercise are “dismissed as
normal aging.”
The multicenter study headed by Dr.
Woodruﬀ, a pulmonologist at the University of California, San Francisco, found
that smokers with normal findings on
spirometry nonetheless are likely to have
chronic respiratory symptoms like cough,
phlegm, wheezing, shortness of breath
and chest tightness; lower than normal
exercise tolerance; and evidence on a CT
scan of chronically inflamed airways in
the lungs. They also use more antibiotics to control respiratory infections and
drugs called glucocorticoids to alleviate
breathing diﬃculty. They pay more visits to doctors and emergency rooms and
have more hospital admissions because
of a flare-up of respiratory symptoms.
In other words, they are far more prone than nonsmokers to experiencing terrifying episodes of troubled breathing.
Of course, while lung disease is
most prevalent, it is hardly the only adverse health eﬀect of smoking, a source
of noxious substances that can damage
almost every organ system in the body.
The list of smoking-related diseases has
grown exponentially since smoking was
labeled a probable cause of lung cancer
52 years ago in the first Surgeon General’s
report on smoking and health. The decades since have added many other deadly
cancers, heart disease, stroke, high blood
pressure, blood clots, peripheral artery
disease, Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, cataracts and macular degeneration, as well as C.O.P.D.
The new findings by the two investigative teams prompted Dr. Leonardo M.
Fabbri of the University of Modena and
Reggio Emilia in Italy to write an editorial
accompanying the New England Journal study titled “Smoking, Not C.O.P.D.,
as the Disease.” He explained that the
results of the two studies “suggest that
smoking itself should be considered the
disease and should be approached in all
its complexity.”
The challenge ahead, Dr. Fabbri wrote, is to identify patients with smokingrelated lung damage who do not yet have
obstructive disease and devise ways to
treat them to reduce their symptoms and
prevent flare-ups.
A clinical trial to begin later this year,
sponsored by the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute, will examine whether treatments like use of a bronchodilator will help to alleviate symptoms in
those without obstructive disease. Unfortunately, “the cost of bronchodilator medication has gone through the roof,” Dr.
Woodruﬀ said. Decades ago, people with
breathing problems like asthma used ae-
rosol bronchodilators that included chemicals called fluorocarbons. But these
were banned for environmental reasons
in the mid-1970s, and the replacements
that drug manufacturers came up with
are still not available in generic form,
keeping prices high.
Dr. Woodruﬀ said that rehabilitative
exercise, one of the best treatments for
C.O.P.D., should also help people with
lung damage short of obstruction because it improves the ability of muscles to
use available oxygen more eﬃciently.
To improve exercise tolerance, patients are encouraged to walk as fast as
they can for as long as they can, rest,
then walk some more. Most patients
find this easiest to do on a treadmill,
where speed and incline can be precisely regulated and the results measured.
But if such equipment is unavailable or
too costly to access, walking indoors or
outdoors can be helpful if geared to a
specific distance and speed that are gradually increased.
Most critical, of course, is for smokers
with or without symptoms of lung disease to quit smoking, which can reduce the severity of respiratory symptoms
and slow the decline in lung function,
Dr. Regan’s team wrote. However, the
team added, quitting smoking “does not
eliminate the risk of progressive lung
disease,” which means that the lungs of
former smokers may need to be examined periodically.
The San Juan Daily Star
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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SCI & TECH
Scientists Battle to Save World’s Coral Reefs
Bob Richmond, director of the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Marine Laboratory, said the problems are very clear:
“overfishing of reef herbivores and top
predators, land-based sources of pollution
and sedimentation, and the continued and
growing impacts of climate change.”
While reefs are major contributors to
many coastal tourist economies, saving the
world’s coral isn’t just about having pretty
places for vacationers to explore. Reefs are
integral to the overall ecosystem and are
an essential component of everyday human existence.
Reefs not only provide habitat for
most ocean fish consumed by humans, but
they also shelter land from storm surges
and rising sea levels. Coral has even been
found to have medicinal properties.
In one project to help save reefs, researchers at the University of Hawaii’s Institute of Marine Biology have been taking
samples from corals that have shown tolerance for harsher conditions in Oahu’s Kaneohe Bay and breeding them with other
strong strains in slightly warmer than normal conditions to create a super coral.
The idea is to make the corals more
resilient by training them to adapt to tougher conditions before transplanting them
into the ocean.
Another program run by the state of
Hawaii has created seed banks and a fast-
A
fter
the
most
powerful El Nino
on record heated
the world’s oceans to neverbefore-seen levels, huge
swaths of once vibrant coral reefs that were teeming
with life are now stark white ghost towns disintegrating into the sea.
And the world’s top
marine scientists are still
struggling in the face of
global warming and decades of devastating reef destruction to find the political
and financial wherewithal to tackle the
loss of these globally important ecosystems.
“What we have to do is to really
translate the urgency,” said Ruth Gates,
president of the International Society for
Reef Studies and director of the Hawaii
Institute of Marine Biology.
Gates, who helped organize a conference this week for more than 2,000 international reef scientists, policymakers
and others, said the scientific community
needs to make it clear how “intimately
reef health is intertwined with human
health.”
The International Coral Reef Symposium convenes Monday to try to create a
more unified conservation plan for coral
reefs. She said researchers have to find a
way to implement large scale solutions
with the help of governments.
Consecutive years of coral bleaching
have led to some of the most widespread
mortality of reefs on record, leaving scientists in a race to save them. While bleached coral often recovers, multiple years
weakens the organisms and increases the
risk of death.
Researchers have achieved some
success with projects such as creating coral nurseries and growing forms of “super
coral” that can withstand harsher conditions. But much of that science is being
done on a very small scale with limited
funding.
growing coral nursery for expediting coral restoration projects.
Most of Hawaii’s species of coral are
unlike other corals around the world in
that they grow very slowly, which makes
reef rebuilding in the state diﬃcult. So
oﬃcials came up with a plan to grow large
chunks of coral in a fraction of the time it
would normally take.
Coral reefs have almost always been
studied up close, by scientists in the water
looking at small portions of reefs.
But NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is taking a wider view, from about
23,000 feet above. NASA and other scientists recently launched a three-year campaign to gather new data on coral reefs
worldwide. They are using specially designed imaging instruments attached to
aircraft.
“The idea is to get a new perspective
on coral reefs from above, to study them
at a larger scale than we have been able
to before, and then relate reef condition to
the environment,” said Bermuda Institute
of Ocean Sciences’ Eric Hochberg, principal investigator for the project.
If the scientific community and the
world’s governments can’t come together
to address coral’s decline, one of earth’s
most critical habitats could soon be gone,
leaving humans to deal with the unforeseen consequences.
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de cargas o derechos reales
que los hubiesen pospuesto
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importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios
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de América: A cuyo favor aparece un pagaré por la suma de
$6,892.70, intereses (no expresados) y a vencer el 1 de enero
del año 2033, según consta de
la escritura #5, (no expresa lugar de otorgamiento), el 21 de
enero de 2006, ante el Notario
Félix Santiago García, inscrito
en virtud de la Ley para agilizar
el Registro, el 30 de septiembre
de 2013, al tomo móvil 667 de
Trujillo Alto, finca #9,600, inscripción 12ma. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de
Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 15 de mayo de 2016,
por la Secretaria del Tribunal,
procederé a vender y venderé
en pública subasta y al mejor
postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA:
Solar radicado en la Urbanización Fair View, Sección Sexta, localizado en el barrio Las
Cuevas de Trujillo Alto, Puerto
Rico, marcado con el #46 de la
manzana 4-L, con una cabida
superficial de 406.00 metros
cuadrados, en lindes por el
NORTE, con el solar #47, distancia de 29.00 metros; por el
SUR, con el solar #45, distancia
de 29.00 metros; por el ESTE,
con la calle 211-A, distancia de
14.00 metros; y por el OESTE,
con los solares 7 y 8, distancia de 14.00 metros. Enclava
una casa. Inscrita al folio 225
del tomo 189 de Trujillo Alto,
finca número 9,600, Registro
de la Propiedad de San Juan,
Sección Cuarta. El producto
de la subasta se destinará a
satisfacer al demandante hasta
donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día
8 de diciembre de 2014, en el
presente caso civil, a saber la
suma de 172,878.70 de principal, más intereses al 4.00%
anual desde el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2013, más la suma
de $17,858.90, por concepto
de honorarios de abogado y
costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se
adeudan mensualmente a partir del día 1ro. de diciembre de
2013, por concepto de seguro
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de la escritura de hipoteca. La
adjudicación se hará al mejor
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el importe de su oferta en el
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América), giro postal o cheque
certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA
subasta se llevará a efecto el
día 29 DE JUNIO DE 2016 A
LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en
la oficina del referido Alguacil,
localizada en el Centro Judicial
de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que
el precio mínimo fijado para
la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de
$178,589.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma
se llevará a efecto el día 6 DE
JULIO DE 2016 A LAS 11:00
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina
antes mencionada del Alguacil
que suscribe. El precio mínimo
para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA
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para la PRIMERA subasta. Que
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de una TERCERA SUBASTA,
la misma se llevará a efecto el
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SUBASTA será de $89,294.50,
equivalentes a la mitad (1/2)
del tipo mínimo estipulado para
la PRIMERA subasta. Si se
declarase desierta la tercera
subasta, se adjudicará la finca
a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si ésta es igual o menor que
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subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima
conveniente; se abonará dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si esta es mayor, todo ello a
tenor con lo dispone el Articulo
104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8
de diciembre de 2015 conocida
como “Ley del Registro de la
Propiedad Inmueble del Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada
se adquiere libre de toda carga
y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo
102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá
a otorgar la correspondiente
escritura de venta judicial y se
pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones
de Ley. Para conocimiento de
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aquella persona o personas
que tengan interés inscrito con
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Edicto se publicará por espacio
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menos siete días entre ambas
publicaciones, en un diario de
circulación general en el Estado
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y se fijará además en tres (3)
lugares públicos del Municipio
en que ha de celebrarse dicha
venta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Los
acreedores que tengan inscritos
o anotados sus derechos sobre
los bienes hipotecados con
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acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen
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tecariamente con posterioridad
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del acreedor ejecutante. Se les
informa, por último, que: a. Que
los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de
manifiesto en la secretaría del
tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titularidad y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante
continuarán subsistentes. Se
entenderá, que el rematante
los acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los
mismos, sin destinarse a su
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A: JULIO OSORIO, SUC. CIVIL NUMERO: CJV2016ALFREDO ARROYO,
0035. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE
MUNICIPIO DE MANATI, DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. EL ESPUERTO RICO, CARLOS TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO.
RIVERA CASANOVA,
VICTOR DIAZ MELENDEZ, A: José Rafael Rivera
Escobar y/o su Sucesión,
SONIA TIRADO
Elizabeth Rios Vázquez,
ESCUDERO, JUAN
Paula
Escobar Torres y/o
SANTIAGO, FULANO DE
su
Sucesión
(anteriores
TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL.
dueños)
Sucesión
Rivera
\Por la presente, se les notifica si
creyeren que les conviene, para Soto, Municipio de Manati
que comparezcan ante este Tri
, Jesús M. Escobar
bu na l dentro de los veinte (20) Clemente y Felicita Rivera
días a partir de la publicación
Escobar (colindantes)
de este edicto y exponer lo que
a sus derechos convenga, en
el expediente promovido por la
PETICIONARIA para adquirir
su dominio sobre el inmueble
que se describe a continuación:
---RUSTICA: Predio de terreno
situado en el Barrio Coto Norte, Sector cantera, del término
municipal de Manatí, Puerto
Rico, con un área superficial de
Por la presente se les notifica,
si creyeren que les conviene,
para que comparezcan ante
este Tribunal dentro de los
veinte (20 ) días a partir de la
publicación de este edicto y
exponer lo que a sus derechos
convenga, en el expediente
promovido por la peticionaria
para adquirir el dominio sobre
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la propiedad inmueble que se
describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela o predio de terreno ubicado en el Barrio Tierras
Nuevas Poniente, sector “La
Esperanza”, del término municipal de Manatí, Puerto Rico,
con una área superficial de
TRESCIENTOS OCHENTA Y
CUATRO PUNTO OCHO MIL
SETECIENTOS OCHENTA Y
TRES METROS CUADRADOS
(384.8783 mc), equivalentes a
CERO PUNTO CERO NOVECIENTOS SETENTA Y NUEVE
CUERDAS (0.0979 crds.), y en
lindes por el Norte, con terrenos propiedad de la Sucesión
Rivera Soto; por el Sur, con
acceso que empalma camino o
calle municipal asfaltada, por el
Este, con propiedad de Jesús
M. Escobar Clemente y por el
Oeste, con propiedad de Felícita Rivera Escobar. Sobre dicha
parcela enclava una estructura
de concreto armado, bloques
de concreto, techada del mismo
material y para fines residenciales. Codificación Número:
015-000-009-09-002.
Deberán notificar con copia de sus
alegaciones todo el que tenga
algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito anteriormente,
mediante el correspondiente
escrito, los causahabientes
o herederos de las personas
arriba mencionadas a quienes
pueda perjudicar la pretensión
de los PETICIONARIO: y en
general, a toda persona que
desee oponerse; al LCDA. PEDRO TRINIDAD PAGAN, CALLE BETANCES #12, APARTADO 135 MANATÍ , PUERTO
RICO 00674 , TELEFONO &
FAX 787- 854- 2670. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de febrero de 2016. Vivían Y Fresse
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LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN LORENZO
SALA SUPERIOR
Firstbank Puerto Rico
Demandante v.
Alexander Díaz Vega
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM: E2CI20150281
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y
hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia que
le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil
que suscribe por la Secretaría
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN LORENZO SALA SUPERIOR, en
el caso de epígrafe procederá
a vender en pública subasta al
mejor postor quién pagará de
contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos
de América, giro postal o por
cheque de gerente a nombre
del Alguacil del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia el día 10 de
agosto de 2016, a las 10:00 de
la mañana en su oficina sita en
el local que ocupa en el edificio
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN
LORENZO SALA SUPERIOR,
todo derecho, título e interés
que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble
de su propiedad que ubica en
Lot. 114, Azucena Street, Valenciano Comm., Juncos, PR
00777 y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela
marcada con el número 114 en
el plano de parcelación de la
comunidad rural Valenciano del
Barrio Valenciano del término
municipal de Juncos, Puerto
Rico, con una cabida superficial
de 588.09 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE, con
Quebrada Rehoya; por el SUR,
con calle número 9 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela
número 13 y 109 de la comunidad y por el OESTE, con
parcela número ciento quince
de la comunidad. La propiedad
antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 130 del Tomo 204
de Juncos, finca número 7971,
en el Registro de la Propiedad
de Caguas, Sección Segunda.
El tipo mínimo para la primera
subasta del inmueble antes
relacionado, será el dispuesto
en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es
decir la suma de $86,734.00.
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 17 de agosto de
2016, a las 1:30 de la tarde.
En la segunda subasta que se
celebre servirá de tipo mínimo
las dos terceras partes (2/3)
del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de
$57,822.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la
segunda subasta se celebrará
una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el
día 24 de agosto de 2016, a las
1:30 de la tarde. Para la tercera
subasta servirá de tipo mínimo
la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución,
o sea, la suma de $43,367.00.
La hipoteca a ejecutarse en
el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura
número 93, otorgada el día 12
de abril de 2013, ante el Notario Fernando Rabell Echegaray
y consta inscrita en el Folio 153
del Tomo 439 de Juncos, finca
número 7971, en el Registro de
la Propiedad de Caguas, Sec-
ción Segunda, inscripción duodécima. 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 $84,551.95 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.000%
anual desde el día 1 de octubre
de 2014. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el
pago total de la obligación. Se
pagarán también los cargos
por demora equivalentes a
4.000% de la suma de aquellos
pagos con atrasos en exceso
de 15 días calendarios de la
fecha vencimiento, la suma de
$8,673.40 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado, la
suma de $8,673.40para cubrir
los intereses en adición a los
garantizados por ley y la suma
de $8,673.40 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga
en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según
provisto por la Regla 44.3 de
las de Procedimiento Civil. Que
los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de
manifiesto en la SECRETARIA
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN
LORENZO SALA SUPERIOR
durante las horas laborables.
Se entenderá que todo licitador
acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante
continuarán subsistentes. Se
entenderá que el rematante
los acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los
mismos, sin destinarse a su
extinción el precio de remate.
La propiedad no está sujeta
a gravámenes anteriores y/o
preferentes según surge de las
constancias del Registro de la
Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes
descrita. Por la presente se
notifica a los acreedores que
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 inte-
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zado en el Barrio Sabana, Sector Breña del término municipal
de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, que
se describe en el plano de inscripción, con el número, área y
colindancias que se relacionan
a continuación: Número del
solar 53; Área del solar 172.83
metros cuadrados, en lindes
por el NORTE, con el solar
número 52 en una distancia
de 21.000 metros; por el SUR,
con el solar número 54 en una
distancia de 21.000 metros; por
el ESTE, con el solar número
25 en una distancia de 8.230
metros; y por el OESTE, con la
Calle Diamante en una distancia de 8.230 metros. Enclava
casa. Se halla afecta a servidumbre telefonica: Franja de terreno de 1.52 metros de ancho
con 15.000 metros de largo por
su colindancia Oeste. Y servidumbre pluvial de 3.00 metros
de ancho por 15.00 metros de
largo por su colindancia Este.
La propiedad antes relacionada
consta inscrita en el Folio 185
del Tomo 299 de Vega Alta,
finca número 18,438, en el Registro de la Propiedad de BayaLEGAL NOTICE
món, Sección Tercera. El tipo
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
mínimo para la primera subasta
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUdel inmueble antes relacionado,
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
será el dispuesto en la Escritura
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAde Hipoteca, es decir la suma
MÓN SALA SUPERIOR
de $172,600.00. Si no hubieFirstbank Puerto Rico re remate ni adjudicación en la
Demandante v.
primera subasta del inmueble
Rafael Luis Aguilar Jusino mencionado, se celebrará una
segunda subasta en las oficit/c/c Rafael L. Aguilar
Jusino, Mabel Oliveras nas del Alguacil que suscribe el
7 de septiembre de 2016, a
Díaz y la sociedad legal día
las 1:45 de la tarde. En la sede bienes gananciales gunda subasta que se celebre
compuesta por ambos, servirá de tipo mínimo las dos
Demandados.
terceras partes (2/3) del precio
CIVIL NÚM: DCD2015-0921 pactado en la primera subasta,
(506) SOBRE: COBRO DE o sea la suma de $115,066.67.
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR- adjudicación en la segunda
DINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBAS- subasta se celebrará una terTA. El Alguacil que suscribe cera subasta en las oficinas del
por la presente CERTIFICA, Alguacil que suscribe el día 14
ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: de septiembre de 2016, a las
Que en cumplimiento de un 1:45 de la tarde. Para la tercera
Mandamiento de Ejecución de subasta servirá de tipo mínimo
Sentencia que le ha sido diri- la mitad (1/2) del precio pactagido al Alguacil que suscribe do para el caso de ejecución,
por la Secretaría del TRIBU- o sea, la suma de $86,300.00.
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA- caso de epígrafe fue constituida
MÓN SALA SUPERIOR, en el mediante la escritura número
caso de epígrafe procederá a 82, otorgada el día 5 de abril de
vender en pública subasta al 2013, ante el Notario Fernando
mejor postor en efectivo, giro o Rabell Echegaray y consta inscheque certificado en moneda crita en el Folio 185 del Tomo
legal de los Estados Unidos de 299 de Vega Alta, finca númeAmérica a nombre del Alguacil ro 18,438, en el Registro de la
del Tribunal de Primera Ins- Propiedad de Bayamón, Sectancia el día 29 de agosto de ción Tercera, inscripción cuarta.
2016, a las 9:45 de la mañana Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo
en su oficina sita en el local que para con su producto satisfacer
ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU- al Demandante total o parcialNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA mente según sea el caso el
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA- importe de la Sentencia que ha
MÓN SALA SUPERIOR, todo obtenido ascendente a la suma
derecho, título e interés que de $168,068.37 por concepto
tenga la parte demandada de de principal, más intereses al
epígrafe en el inmueble de su tipo pactado de 3.750% anual
propiedad que ubica en Urb. desde el día 1 de septiembre
Cielo Dorado Village, 53 Calle de 2014. Dichos intereses conDiamante, Vega Alta, PR 00692 tinúan acumulándose hasta el
y que se describe a continua- pago total de la obligación. Se
ción: URBANA: Solar radicado pagarán también los cargos
en Cielo Dorado Village, locali- por demora equivalentes a
reses, otros cargos y las costas
y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados
en los derechos del acreedor
ejecutante. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en
general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres
sitios públicos del municipio en
que ha de celebrarse la venta,
tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto
será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de
circulación general en el Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico,
por espacio de dos semanas
consecutivas. La propiedad a
ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre
de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en
los Artículos 113 al 116 de la
Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de
2015, según aplique. Expido el
presente Edicto de subasta bajo
mi firma, en San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de MAYO de
2016. JUAN M. RODRIGUEZ
DELGADO , ALGUACIL.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
4.000% de la suma de aquellos
pagos con atrasos en exceso
de 15 días calendarios de la
fecha vencimiento, la suma de
$17,260.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado,
la suma de $17,260.00 para
cubrir los intereses en adición
a los garantizados por ley y la
suma de $17,260.00 para cubrir
cualquier otro adelanto que se
haga en virtud de la escritura
de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3
de las de Procedimiento Civil.
Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al
Procedimiento incoado estarán
de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA
SUPERIOR durante las horas
laborables. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante la 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 ni preferentes según las constancias del
Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que,
sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes
posteriores a la hipoteca que se
ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más
adelante. 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 por la presente
se notifica, 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. A: AVISO DE DEMANDA:
PRESENTACION:
Presentada el 11 de junio de
2015 al asiento 194 del diario
532, Demanda de fecha 15 de
abril de 2015, ante el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Centro
Judicial de Bayamon, Sala Superior, en el caso civil número
DCD 2015-0921 (506), sobre
cobro de dinero y ejecucion de
hipoteca, seguido por Firstbank
vs. Rafael Luis Aguilar Jusino,
tambien conocido como Rafael
L. Aguilar Jusino y su esposa
Mabel Oliveras Díaz, en la que
se reclama el pago de hipoteca
con un balance de $168,068.37
y otras cantidades, o la venta
en publica subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de inscripción. 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
en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy
día 27 de enero de 2016. CARLOS ALAYÓN BETANCOURT,
ALGUACIL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA
SALA SUPERIOR
Federal National
Mortgage Association
t/c/c Fannie Mae,
Demandante v.
Diana Marrero Hernández
t/c/c Diana Marrero y
Estados Unidos de
América,
Demandados.
CIVIL NÚM: FCD2012-1614
(401) SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe
por la presente CERTIFICA,
ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR:
Que en cumplimiento de un
Mandamiento de Ejecución de
Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe
por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, en el
caso de epígrafe procederá a
vender en pública subasta al
mejor postor quién pagará de
contado y en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia
el día 24 de agosto de 2016,
a las 11:15 de la mañana en
su oficina sita en el local que
ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR, todo
derecho, título e interés que
tenga la parte demandada de
epígrafe en el inmueble de su
propiedad que ubica en Lote
4, KM 2.2, Carr. 199 (846) Int.,
Barrio Las Cuevas, Trujillo Alto,
PR 00976; Lote 4 SR 199 KM
2.2, Camino Solis, Bo. Las
Cuevas, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976
y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar en el
Barrio Las Cuevas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto,
Puerto Rico, que se identifica
con el número 4, en el plano
de inscripción con una cabida
superficial de 396.983 metros
cuadrados, en lindes por el
Norte, en 19.42 metros, con el
solar número 3; por el Sur, en
17.94 metros, con el solar número 5; por el Este, en 19.92
metros, con camino dedicado
a uso público; por el Oeste, en
22.75 metros, con terrenos de
la Sucesión de Don Juan Osorio todos en los rumbos que se
refieren en el plano de inscripción. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el
Folio 41 del Tomo 486 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 25,518,
en el Registro de la Propiedad
de San Juan, Sección Cuarta.
El tipo mínimo para la primera
subasta del inmueble antes
relacionado, será el dispuesto
en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es
decir la suma de $166,000.00.
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 31 de agosto
de 2016, a las 11:15 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 $110,666.67. Si tampoco
hubiere remate ni adjudicación
en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta
en las oficinas del Alguacil
que suscribe el día 7 de septiembre de 2016, a las 11:15
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 $83,000.00.
La hipoteca a ejecutarse en
el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura
número 589, otorgada el día
4 de diciembre de 2008, ante
el Notario Ana V. Piñero Parés
y consta inscrita en el Folio 1
del Tomo 754 (ágora) de Trujillo Alto, finca número 25,518,
en el Registro de la Propiedad
de San Juan, Sección Cuarta,
inscripción quinta. 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 $132,431.61 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.180%
anual desde el día 1 de enero
de 2012. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el
pago total de la obligación. Se
pagarán también la suma de
$16,600.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado,
la suma de $16,600.00 para
cubrir los intereses en adición
a los garantizados por ley y la
suma de $16,600.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que
se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses
según provisto por la regla
44.3 de las de Procedimiento
Civil. Que los autos y todos los
documentos correspondientes
al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA
SALA SUPERIOR durante las
horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta
como bastante la titularidad
del inmueble y que las cargas
y gravámenes anteriores y los
preferentes, si los hubiere, al
crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los
mismos, sin destinarse a su
extinción el precio de remate.
La propiedad no está sujeta a
gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias
del Registro de la Propiedad.
Surge de un estudio de título
que, sobre la finca descrita
anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante
este procedimiento que se
relacionan más adelante. 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 por la presente se
notifica, 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. A: HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré
a favor de Secretary of Housing
& Urban Development o a su
orden por la suma principal de
$249,000.00 con intereses al
3.18 anual y vencedero el 6 de
febrero de 2084, según escritura número 590 otorgada ante
la Notario Ana V. Piñero Pares
el 4 de diciembre de 2008. Inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 754 de
Trujillo Alto, inscripción sexta.
Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general
se publicará este Edicto de
acuerdo con la ley por espacio
de dos semanas en tres sitios
públicos del municipio en que
ha de celebrarse la venta, tales
como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y
la colecturía. Este Edicto será
publicado mediante edictos
dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico,
por espacio de dos semanas
consecutivas. La propiedad a
ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre
de cargas y gravámenes poste-
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Legal Notice
riores sujeto a lo dispuesto en
los Artículos 113 al 116 de la
Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de
2015, según aplique. Expido
el presente Edicto de subasta
bajo mi firma en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 DE MARZO
DE 2016. EFRAIN MARQUEZ
ARROYO, ALGUACIL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO,
Demandante V.
LA SUCESIÓN DE
MARTA ARELIS MÉNDEZ
NAZARIO T/C/C ARELYS
MÉNDEZ COMPUESTA
POR MAYRELIS EVA
QUIÑONEZ MÉNDEZ,
VANELYS EVA VÉLEZ
MÉNDEZ, ESTEBAN
ALFREDO VÉLEZ
MÉNDEZ Y FULANO Y
FULANA DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS;
CENTRO DE
RECAUDACIÓN DE
INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Y DEPARTAMENTO DE
HACIENDA,
Demandados.
CIVIL NÚM: FCD2015-0478
(408) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe
por la presente CERTIFICA,
ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR:
Que en cumplimiento de un
Mandamiento de Ejecución de
Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por
la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA
SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso
de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor
postor quién pagará de contado
y en moneda de curso legal de
los Estados Unidos de América
o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia el día 24 de
Agosto de 2016, a las 11:30 de
la mañana en su oficina sita en
el local que ocupa en el edificio
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA
SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte
demandada de epígrafe en
el inmueble de su propiedad
que ubica en E-1530 Robalo
St. Bahía Vistamar Carolina,
PR 00983 y que se describe a
continuación: URBANA: Solar
número 1530 de la manzana
E radicado en la Urbanización
Vistamar Seccion Séptima, situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con
una cabida de 396.45 metros
cuadrados. En lindes: por el
Norte, con la calle número 14,
en un arco de 17.04 metros (así
consta); por el Sur, con los solares números 1535 y 1534, en
un arco de 16.00 metros; por el
Este, con el solar número 1529
distancia de 24.00 metros; por
el Oeste, con el solar número
1531, distancia de 24.000 metros. En dicho solar enclava una
casa de hormigon reforzado
y bloques diseñada para una
sola familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita
en el Folio 1 del Tomo 362 de
Carolina, finca número 13,763,
en el Registro de la Propiedad
de Carolina, Sección Primera.
El tipo mínimo para la primera
subasta del inmueble antes
relacionado, será el dispuesto
en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es
decir la suma de $129,000.00.
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 31 de Agosto de
2016, a las 11:30 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
$86,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la
segunda subasta se celebrará
una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe
el día 7 de Septiembre de 2016,
a las 11:30 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
$64,500.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe
fue constituida mediante la escritura número 91, otorgada el
día 31 de marzo de 2007, ante
el Notario Jorge García Soto y
consta inscrita en el Folio 8 del
Tomo 1041 de Carolina, finca
número 13,763, en el Registro
de la Propiedad de Carolina,
Sección Primera, inscripción
quinta. 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 $116,938.10 por
concepto de principal, más
intereses al tipo pactado de
6.750% anual desde el día 1 de
mayo de 2014. Dichos intereses
continúan acumulándose hasta
el pago total de la obligación.
Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a
5.000% de la suma de aquellos
pagos con atrasos en exceso
de 15 días calendarios de la
fecha vencimiento, la suma de
$12,900.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado,
la suma de $12,900.00 para
cubrir los intereses en adición
a los garantizados por ley y la
suma de $12,900.00 para cubrir
cualquier otro adelanto que se
haga en virtud de la escritura de
hipoteca, más intereses según
provisto por la regla 44.3 de las
Legal Notice
de Procedimiento Civil. Que los
autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de
manifiesto en la SECRETARIA
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA
SUPERIOR durante las horas
laborables. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble
y que las cargas y gravámenes
anteriores y los preferentes,
si los hubiere, al crédito del
ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el
rematante los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
de remate. La propiedad no
está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las
constancias del Registro de la
Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca
descrita anteriormente, pesan
los gravámenes posteriores a
la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que
se relacionan más adelante. 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 por
la presente se notifica, 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. A: AVISO
DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido
por Firstbank Puerto Rico vs.
Sucesión de Marta Arelis Méndez Nazario compuesta por
Marylis Eva Quiñones Méndez,
Vanelys Eva y Esteban Alfredo
de apellidos Veloz Mendez, Fulano y Fulana de Tal y posibles
herederos desconocidos, Centro de Recaudación y Ingresos
Municipales (CRIM) y Departamento de Hacienda, ante el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Centro Judicial de Carolina,
Sala Superior, en el caso civil
número FCD 2015-0478, sobre
cobro de dinero y ejecución de
hipoteca, en la que se reclama
el pago de hipoteca, con un
balance de $116,938.10 y otras
cantidades, según Demanda
de fecha 16 de abril de 2015.
Anotada al folio 192 del tomo
1060 de Carolina. Anotación A,
el 18 de septiembre de 2015. Y
para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se
publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos
34
semanas en tres sitios públicos
del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la
alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces
en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio
de dos semanas consecutivas.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada
se adquirirá libre de cargas y
gravámenes posteriores sujeto
a lo dispuesto en los Artículos
113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8
de diciembre de 2015, según
aplique. Expido el presente
Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma
en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy
21 de marzo de 2016. Samuel
Gonzalez Isaac, Alguacil.
********
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR
Firstbank Puerto Rico,
Demandante v.
Duvette Jeanne Alvarez
Meléndez t/c/c Duvette J.
Alavrez Meléndez,
Demandada.
CIVIL NÚM: DCD2015-0503
(703) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
El Alguacil que suscribe por la
presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que
en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al
Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA
SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en
pública subasta al mejor postor
en efectivo, giro o cheque certificado en moneda legal de los
Estados Unidos de América a
nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia el día 16
de agosto de 2016, a las 10:00
de la mañana en su oficina sita
en el local que ocupa en el
edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA
SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte
demandada de epígrafe en el
inmueble de su propiedad que
ubica en Urb. Vistas del Bosque, 16 FF Calle Cocoplumoso,
Bayamón, PR 00957 y que se
describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la segunda fase de la urbanización Vistas del Bosque, conocido como
Bosque de las Palmas, situado
en el Barrio Buena Vista del
término municipal de Bayamón
el cual se describe en el plano
de inscripción de la urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a
continuación: Número del solar:
‘FF-16. Area del solar: 375.00
metros cuadrados. En lindes
por el Norte, en 25.00 metros,
The San Juan Daily Star
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
con el solar número FF-15; por
el Sur, en 25.00 metros, con
el solar número FF-17; por el
Este, en 15.00 metros, con la
calle número 2 del bloque de
las Palma; por el Oeste, en 2
alineaciones que suman 15.00
metros, con el solar número
FF-2 y FF-3. Enclava una casa.
La propiedad antes relacionada
consta inscrita en el Folio 9 del
Tomo 1832 de Bayamón, finca
número 75,344, en el Registro
de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del
inmueble antes relacionado,
será el dispuesto en la Escritura
de Hipoteca, es decir la suma
de $216,015.00 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 23 de agosto de 2016, a
las 2:00 de la tarde. En la segunda subasta que se celebre
servirá de tipo mínimo las dos
terceras partes (2/3) del precio
pactado en la primera subasta,
o sea la suma de $144,010.00.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
adjudicación en la segunda
subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del
Alguacil que suscribe el día 30
de agosto de 2016, a las 2:00
de la tarde. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la
mitad (1/2) del precio pactado
para el caso de ejecución, o
sea, la suma de $108,007.50.
La hipoteca a ejecutarse en
el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura
número 68, otorgada el día 1
de mayo de 2010, ante el Notario David E. Vera Umpierre y
consta inscrita en el Folio 9 del
Tomo 1832 de Bayamón, finca
número 75,344, en el Registro
de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Primera, inscripción
cuarta. Dicha subasta se llevará
a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o
parcialmente según sea el caso
el importe de la Sentencia que
ha obtenido ascendente a la
suma de $201,299.95 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.000%
anual desde el día 1 de agosto
de 2014. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el
pago total de la obligación. Se
pagarán también los cargos
por demora equivalentes a
4.000% de la suma de aquellos
pagos con atrasos en exceso
de 15 días calendarios de la
fecha vencimiento, la suma de
$21,601.50 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado, la
suma de $21,601.50 para cubrir
los intereses en adición a los
garantizados por ley y la suma
de $21,601.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga
en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; más intereses provisto
por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos
y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento
incoado estarán de manifiesto
en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE
BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR
durante las horas laborables.
Se entenderá que todo licitador
acepta como bastante la 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
está sujeta a los siguientes
gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias
del Registro de la Propiedad.
A. SENTENCIA anotada contra
Joel Santiago Figueroa a favor
de Asociación de Propietarios
Bosque de las Flores Inc., por
la suma de $481.25 y otras cantidades, según Sentencia de fecha 20 de febrero de 2007, ante
el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Municipal de Bayamón, en
el caso civil número CM-070077. Anotada el 15 de septiembre de 2007, al folio 2 del Libro
de Sentencias número 4. 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 por
la presente se notifica, 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 en Bayamón, Puerto
Rico, hoy día 9 de diciembre de
2015. EDGARDO E. VARGAS
SANTANA, ALGUACIL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO
SALA SUPERIOR.
Roosevelt Cayman
Asset Company,
Demandante v.
Xiomara
Rodríguez Deynes,
Demandada.
CIVIL NÚM: NSCI2014-216
(302). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
El Alguacil que suscribe por la
presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en
cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al
Alguacil que suscribe por la
Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO
SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso
de epígrafe procederá a vender
en pública subasta al mejor
postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal
de los Estados Unidos de
América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del
Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 2 de agosto
de 2016, a las 2:15 de la tarde
en su oficina sita en el local
que ocupa en el edificio del
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL
DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e
interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que
ubica en Barrio Mata de Plátano, Cond. Playa Azul IV, Apt.
A-8, Luquillo, PR 00773; Cond.
Playa Azul IV, Apt. A-8, Luquillo, PR 00773 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA:
PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL:
Apartamento No. A-8: Es un
apartamento residencial de
forma irregular que está localizado en el piso ‘A’ del Edificio
CONDOMINIO PLAYA AZUL IV,
situado en el complejo residencial Playa Azul en el Barrio
Mata de Plátano del Municipio
de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, frente
a la Carretera Estatal No. 193,
que mide 33’5’ de largo, por su
parte mas larga, desde la puerta de entrada hacia el fondo,
por 12’6’ de ancho, por su parte más ancha, que hacen un
área de 396.07 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, equivalentes a 36.81 metros cuadrados.
Sus linderos y
distancias son las siguientes:
por el Norte, en una distancia
de 3’6’, con el corredor común
separado por la puerta de entrada en 9’0’, con espacio exterior separado por pared; por
el Este, en 30’6’ (segun Certificacion Registral 36’5’), con el
apartamento No. A-9, separado por pared de carga; por el
Sur, en 12’6’, con espacio exterior, separado por pared; y
por el Oeste, en 6’2’, con el corredor común separado por
pared y en 27’3’, con el apartamento No. A-7, separado por
pared de carga. Este apartamento consta de terraza, área
común de estar, comer y dor-
mir, ‘walk-in-closet’, baño y
cocina. El baño está equipado
con bañera, lavamanos y servicio sanitario. La cocina tiene
estufa, fregadero y calentador
de agua. La puerta de entrada
de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Norte y por
ella se sale al corredor común
del piso, por el cual se sale al
exterior. A este apartamento le
corresponde en los elementos
comunes generales del Condominio del cual forma parte
una participación de 1.6145 %.
Le corresponde al apartamento el espacio de estacionamiento cubierto marcado con
el No. 8-A, localizado en el
‘ground floor’ del área residencial de dicho Condominio. La
propiedad antes relacionada
consta inscrita en el Folio 190
del Tomo 236 de Luquillo, finca
número 6029, 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 $92,000.00. 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 9 de agosto de
2016, a las 2:15 de la tarde. En
la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las
dos terceras partes (2/3) del
precio pactado en la primera
subasta, o sea la suma de
$61,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la
segunda subasta se celebrará
una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe
el día 16 de agosto de 2016, a
las 2:15 de la tarde. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo
mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio
pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de
$46,000.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe
fue constituida mediante la escritura número 288, otorgada
el día 26 de mayo de 2009,
ante el Notario Fabiola Ansotegui Blanc y consta inscrita en
el Folio 190 del Tomo 236 de
Luquillo, finca número 6029, en
el Registro de la Propiedad de
Fajardo, inscripción séptima.
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 $85,597.40 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.500%
anual desde el día 1 de junio de
2013. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el
pago total de la obligación. Se
pagarán también los cargos
por demora equivalentes a
5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de
la fecha vencimiento, la suma
de $9,200.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado,
la suma de $9,200.00 para cu-
brir los intereses en adición a
los garantizados por ley y la
suma de $9,200.00 para cubrir
cualquier otro adelanto que se
haga en virtud de la escritura
de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3
de las de Procedimiento Civil.
Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al
Procedimiento incoado estarán
de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA
SUPERIOR durante las horas
laborables. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito
del ejecutante continuarán
subsistentes. Se entenderá
que el rematante los acepta y
queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio de remate. La propiedad
no está sujeta a gravámenes
anteriores ni preferentes según
las constancias del Registro de
la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la
finca descrita anteriormente,
pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más
adelante. 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 por la presente se notifica, 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.
A: AVISO DE DEMANDA: En el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el
Caso Civil No. NSCl201400216, sobre cobro de dinero y
ejecución de hipoteca, seguido
por Doral Bank, versus Titular,
se solicita el pago de la deuda
garantizada con hipoteca de la
inscripción 7’, la cual asciende
a la suma principal de
$85,597.40, mas costas, gastos e intereses, todo según demanda de fecha 3 de abril del
2014, anotado el 25 de abril del
2014, al folio 190 del tomo 236
de Luquillo, finca No. 6029,
anotación “A”. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este
Edicto de acuerdo con la ley
por espacio de dos semanas
en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse
la venta, tales como la alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este
Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el
Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por espacio de
dos semanas consecutivas. La
propiedad a ser ejecutada se
adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a
lo dispuesto en los Artículos
113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8
de diciembre de 2015, según
aplique. Expido el presente
Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Fajardo, Puerto Rico,
hoy día 28 de marzo de 2016.
JOSE A. RAVELO, ALGUACIL
PLACA #158, TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA
SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON
BANCO POPULAR
DE PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
SAUL FLORES VAZQUEZ
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: DCD2013-0418
(504) SOBRE: IN REM - 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,Edgardo
E. Vargas Santana, Alguacil, División de Subastas del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Centro
Judicial de Bayamón, 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 el Banco
Popular 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 Bayamón, el
día 13 de julio de 2016, a las
11:15 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
$98,201.00. 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
20 de julio de 2016, a las 3:15
de la tarde, y el día 2 de agosto
The San Juan Daily Star
de 2016, a las 3:30 de la tarde.
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, $65,467.33 y $49,100.50
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: URBANA: Solar
marcado con el número veinticuatro guión O (#24-O) de la
urbanización Toa Alta Heights,
localizada en los barrios Piña y
Mucarabones de Toa Alta, con
un área de doscientos cuarenta
punto cero cero (240.00) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el
NORTE, con los solares número cuarenta y nueve (#49) y número cincuenta (#50), en diez
punto cero cero (10.00) metros,
por el SUR, con la calle número
dieciocho (#18), en diez punto
cero cero (10.00) metros, por
el ESTE, con el solar número
veinticuatro (#23), en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00)
metros y por el OESTE, con el
solar número veinticinco (#25),
en veinticuatro punto cero cero
(24.00) metros. Afecto a servidumbre de drenaje pluvial de
no punto cincuenta (1.50) metros de ancho a todo lo largo de
las colindancias Norte y Oeste.
Contiene casa. Consta inscrita al folio doscientos sesenta
(260) del tomo ciento treinta y
cinco (135) de Toa Alta; finca
número seis mil seiscientos
diecinueve (6,619). Registro
de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Tercera. La dirección
física es: Q guión veinticuatro
(Q-24), Calle dieciocho (18),
Toa Alta Heights, Toa Alta,
Puerto Rico, cero cero nueve
cinco siete (00957).
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 $87,315.27 de principal;
Intereses al 7.00% anual desde el día 1ro de julio de 2012;
hasta el pago total del principal;
$9,820.10 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 pos-
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
teriores, 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 BANCO POPULAR 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 Bayamón, Puerto
Rico a 2 de febrero de 2016.
Edgardo E. Vargas Santana,
Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE
PONCE
AUTORIDAD PARA EL
FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA
VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO, representado por
el BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
JARELLY
MARTINEZ BLANCO
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: JCD2014-0552
SALA: 304 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,Angel Mercado Quiles, Alguacil, División de Subastas del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Centro Judicial de Ponce, 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 Ponce, el día
14 de julio 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 $44,100.00.
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 21 de
julio de 2016, a las 9:30 de la
mañana y el día 28 de julio 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, $29,400.00 y $22,050.00
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número B guion dos
(B-2), localizado en la primera
planta de la Torre B sometido
al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal denominado Estancias
del Mayoral Apartments que
radica en el Barrio Vacas Sector La Sierrita del término municipal de Villalba, Puerto Rico.
Esta construido de hormigón y
bloques de concreto a ser utilizado para fines residenciales.
Tiene un área de piso de novecientos setenta y tres punto
cuarenta y siete (973.47) pies
cuadrados equivalentes a noventa punto cuarenta y ocho
(90.48) metros cuadrados. Tiene su entrada principal por su
lado Oeste que le comunica
con las escaleras por donde
tiene acceso a la vía pública.
Tiene tres cuartos dormitorios,
sala, comedor, cocina, servicio
sanitario, “laundry” balcón y
un “closet” en cada uno de los
cuartos dormitorios y tiene dos
“closets” adicionales. Colinda
por el NORTE, con área común
y escaleras, en dos distancias
de nueve punto noventa y sie-
te (9.97) metros y uno punto
trece (1.13) metros; por el
SUR, con área común, en una
distancia de once punto diez
(11.10) metros; por el ESTE,
con el Apartamento número B
guion uno (B-1) y escaleras,
en dos distancias de tres punto
cincuenta y seis (3.56) metros
y cinco punto setenta y cuatro
(5.74) metros y por el OESTE,
con el Apartamento número B
guión tres (B-3) y área común,
en tres distancias de ocho punto quince (8.15) metros, cero
punto cuarenta y cinco (0.45)
metros y cero punto cuarenta
y cinco (0.45) metros. A este
apartamento le corresponde un
espacio para estacionar un automóvil marcado con el número
dos guion B (2-B) localizado en
el área de estacionamiento del
Condominio. Le corresponde,
además, a este apartamento en
los elementos comunes generales del inmueble, una participación de dos punto cincuenta por
ciento (2.50%). Inscrita al folio
sesenta y nueve (69) del tomo
ciento cuarenta y seis (146) de
Villalba. Finca número siete mil
ciento treinta y ocho (7,138).
Registro de la Propiedad de
Ponce, Sección Primera. La
dirección física es: Estancias
de Mayoral Apartments, Apto
B dos (2), Sector La Sierra,
Villalba, Puerto Rico cero cero
siete seis seis (00766). Dicha
propiedad está gravada por el
siguiente gravamen posterior:
HIPOTECA: En garantía de
un pagaré a favor del Banco Y
Agencia De Financiamiento De
La Vivienda De Puerto Rico, o a
su orden, por la suma de veinte mil dólares ($20,000.00) de
principal, sin intereses y vencedero el día diecinueve (19) de
diciembre de dos mil veintiuno
(2021), consta de la escritura
número trescientos ochenta y
seis (386), otorgada en San
Juan, el día diecinueve (19)
de diciembre de dos mil uno
(2001), ante la notario Irma J.
Planadeball Moreno, e inscrita
al folio setenta y cinco (75) del
tomo ciento dieciséis (116) de
Villalba, finca número siete mil
ciento treinta y ocho (7,138),
inscripción tercera (3ra). Condiciones de Subsidio. 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 $38,349.98 de principal; Intereses al 6.00% anual desde
el día 1ro de junio de 2010,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$4,410.00 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 bastan-
te 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico
a 4 de enero de 2016. Angel
Mercado Quiles, Alguacil Supervisor.
DEMANDANTE V.
JOSE RAMON
FERNANDEZ GARCIA
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: DCD2013-0749
SALA: 703 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,Edgardo E. Vargas
Santana, Alguacil, División de
Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, 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 el Banco
Popular 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 Bayamón,
el día 13 de julio de 2016, a las
11:00 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
$139,696.17. 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
20 de julio de 2016, a las 3:00
de la tarde, y el día 2 de agosto
de 2016, a las 3:00 de la tarde.
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, $93,130.78 y $69,848.08
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: URBANA: Solar
L guión treinta y cuatro (L-34)
ubicado en la extensión de la
urbanización Lagos de Plata,
en Levittown, municipio de Toa
Baja, con cabida de doscientos
ochenta y uno punto ochenta
y cinco (281.85) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el Norte,
en once punto cincuenta y
dos (11.52) metros, con lotes
L guión veinticuatro (L-24) y L
guión veintitrés (L-23), por el
Sur, en doce punto cuarenta
(12.40) metros, con calle número once (#11), por el Este,
en veintitrés punto cero seis
LEGAL NOTICE
(23.06) metros, con lote L guión
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE treinta y cinco (L-35) y por el
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE Oeste, en veinticuatro punto caPRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO torce (24.14) metros, con lote L
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON
guión treinta y tres (L-33). ConBANCO POPULAR DE tiene una (1) casa. Consta inscrita al folio ochenta y ocho (88)
PUERTO RICO
35
Legal Notice
del tomo seiscientos ochenta y
dos (682) de Toa Baja; finca
número veintiocho mil novecientos diez (28,910). Registro
de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Segunda. La dirección
física es: urb. Lagos de Plata,
L guión treinta y cuatro (L-34),
Calle once (11), Toa Baja,
Puerto Rico, cero cero nueve
cuatro nueve (00949). 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 $137,322.28 de principal; Intereses al 4.25% anual
desde el día 1ro de diciembre
de 2012; hasta el pago total
del principal; $13,969.61 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 reci-
bo. El Alguacil de este Tribunal
venderá la propiedad antes
descrita en pública subasta, al
mejor postor entre la BANCO
POPULAR 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 Bayamón, Puerto
Rico a 29 de enero de 2016.
Edgardo E. Vargas Santana,
Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE AGUADA SALA SUPERIOR.
Banco Popular de
Puerto Rico
Demandante v.
Idelisa Lorenzo García
Demandada
CIVIL NÚM: ABCI201501091
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y
hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia que
le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil
que suscribe por la Secretaría
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADA SALA SUPERIOR, en el
caso de epígrafe procederá a
vender en pública subasta al
mejor postor quién pagará de
contado y en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del
Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia el día 4 de agosto de
2016, a las 10:30 de la mañana
en su oficina sita en el local que
ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE AGUADILLA, todo
derecho, título e interés que
tenga la parte demandada de
epígrafe en el inmueble de su
propiedad que ubica en Villas
De Sotomayor, 4-F Aguada,
PR 00602 y que se describe a
continuación: Urbana:
Solar
marcado con el #4 del Bloque
F en el plano de inscripción de
la URBANIZACIÓN VILLAS
DE SOTOMAYOR, localizado
en el Barrio Piedras Blancas del
término municipal de Aguada,
Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de 406.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte,
en una alineación de 14.00
metros, con el solar #8 del Bloque G; por el Sur, en una alineación de 14.00 metros, con la
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Calle #3; por el Este, en una
alineación de 29.00 metros,
solar #5 del bloque F; y por
el Oeste, en una alineación de
29.00 metros, según el plano,
con el solar F-5. Afecta a este
solar una servidumbre de 5.00
pies de ancho que discurre a
todo lo largo de su colindancia
Sur, a favor de la Puerto Rico
Telephone Company. Enclava
estructura de concreto diseñada para fines residenciales para
una familia. La propiedad antes
relacionada consta inscrita en
el Folio 204 del Tomo 314 de
Aguada, finca número 17284,
en el Registro de la Propiedad
de Aguadilla. El tipo mínimo
para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será
el dispuesto en la Escritura de
Hipoteca, es decir la suma de
$202,500.00.
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 11 de agosto de 2016, a las
10:30 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 $135,000.00.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
adjudicación en la segunda
subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del
Alguacil que suscribe el día 18
de agosto de 2016, a las 10:30
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 $101,250.00.
La hipoteca a ejecutarse en
el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura
número 83, otorgada el día 28
de febrero de 2005, ante el Notario David E. Vera Umpierre y
consta inscrita en el Folio 204
del Tomo 314 de Aguada, finca
número 17284, en el Registro
de la Propiedad de Aguadilla,
inscripción segunda. 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 $172,153.04 por concepto
de principal, más intereses al
tipo pactado de 6.450% anual
desde el día 1 de enero de
2015. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el
pago total de la obligación. Se
pagarán también los cargos
por demora equivalentes a
5.000% de la suma de aquellos
pagos con atrasos en exceso
de 15 días calendarios de la
fecha vencimiento, la suma de
$20,250.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado,
la suma de $20,250.00 para
cubrir los intereses en adición
a los garantizados por ley y la
suma de $20,250.00 para cubrir
cualquier otro adelanto que se
haga en virtud de la escritura de
hipoteca, más intereses según
provisto por la regla 44.3 de las
36
de Procedimiento Civil. Que los
autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de
manifiesto en la SECRETARIA
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADA
SALA SUPERIOR durante las
horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta
como bastante la titularidad
del inmueble y que las cargas
y gravámenes anteriores y los
preferentes, si los hubiere, al
crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá
que el rematante los acepta
y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio de remate. La propiedad
no está sujeta a gravámenes
anteriores ni preferentes según
las constancias del Registro de
la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca
descrita anteriormente, pesan
los gravámenes posteriores a
la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que
se relacionan más adelante. 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 por
la presente se notifica, 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. Al asiento
123 del diario 864, con fecha
20 de agosto de 2015, aparece presentado y pendiente de
inscripción, Aviso de Demanda
del 6 de agosto de 2015, en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Aguada, en
el Caso Civil No. ABCI201501091, sobre cobro de dinero y
ejecución de hipoteca, seguido
por el Banco Popular de Puerto
Rico, versus Titular, se solicita
el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca de la inscripción 2ª., la cual asciende a la
suma principal de $172, 153.04
más costas, gastos e intereses.
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
The San Juan Daily Star
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
de dos semanas consecutivas.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada
se adquirirá libre de cargas y
gravámenes posteriores sujeto
a lo dispuesto en los Artículos
113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8
de diciembre de 2015, según
aplique. Expido el presente
Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma
en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy
día 18 de mayo de 2016. FDO.
CARLOS RIVERA LÓPEZ, ALGUACIL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vx
IVAN CHEVERE
FIGUEROA; SU ESPOSA
IRIS FELICIANO ALBINO
T/C/C IRIS JANET
FELICIANO ALBINO Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM.: CCD2015-0248
SALON NÚM.: 302
SOBRE
ACCION CIVIL DE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA
VIA ORDINARIA IN REM. AVISO DE SUBASTA.
A: IVAN CHEVERE
FIGUEROA; SU ESPOSA
IRIS FELICIANO ALBINO
T/C/C IRIS JANET
FELICIANO ALBINO Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; Y AL PUBLICO
EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior, Centro Judicial
de Arecibo , Arecibo, Puerto
Rico, hago saber a la parte
demandada, al PUBLICO EN
GENERAL; y a todos los nombres de los acreedores que
tengan inscritos o anotados
sus derechos sobre los bienes
hipotecados con posterioridad
a la inscripción del crédito del
ejecutante, o de los acreedores
de cargas o derechos reales
que los hubiesen pospuesto
a la hipoteca ejecutada y las
personas interesadas en, o con
derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables
garantizados hipotecariamente
con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de
la certificación registral, para
que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe
del crédito, de sus intereses,
costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante:
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: A cuyo favor
aparece un pagaré por la suma
de $5,644.06, sin intereses y a
vencer el 1 de noviembre del
año 2037, según consta de la
escritura #684, otorgada en
San Juan, el 8 de noviembre de
2011, ante el Notario Humberto
Soto Mainardi, inscrito al folio
89 del tomo 317 de Morovis,
finca #12,932, inscripción 7ma.
Doral Bank: A cuyo favor aparece una Anotación de Demanda
con fecha 12 de diciembre de
2013, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo,
caso civil #CCD2012-0779, por
concepto de Cobro de Dinero y
Ejecución de Hipoteca, versus
Iván Chévere Figueroa e Iris
Janet Feliciano Albino, donde
se solicita el pago de la deuda
garantizada con la hipoteca de
la inscripción 6ta., reducida a
$98,865.93 o la venta en pública subasta. Anotado al folio 89
del tomo 317 de Morovis, finca
#12,932, anotación A. Que en
cumplimiento del Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 6 de noviembre
de 2016 - {250 Fecha mandamiento}, por la Secretaria del
Tribunal, procederé a vender
y venderé en pública subasta
y al mejor postor la propiedad
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar marcado con el
#99 en el plano de inscripción
de la urbanización Brisas del
Río en el término municipal de
Morovis, Puerto Rico, con un
área superficial de 312.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por
el NORTE, en una distancia
de 13.00 metros con la calle
Cialitos; por el SUR, en una
distancia de 13.00 metros, con
el solar #120; por el ESTE, en
una distancia de 24.00 metros,
con el solar #101; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 24.00
metros, con el solar #97. Este
solar está afectado por una
servidumbre a favor de Puerto Rico Telephone Company
en toda su colindancia con la
calle Cialito con su ancho de
1.52 metros. Inscrita al folio
104 del tomo 292 de Morovis,
Registro de Manatí, finca número 12,932. El producto de
la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta
donde alcance, la SENTENCIA
dictada a su favor, el día 16 de
julio de 2015, en el presente
caso civil, a saber la suma de
$108,295.57 de principal, más
intereses al 4% anual desde el
día 1ro. de mayo de 2014 , más
la suma de $10,415.00 , por
concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por
el Tribunal, más las cantidades
que se adeudan mensualmente
a partir del día 1ro. de junio de
2014 , por concepto de seguro
hipotecario, cargos por demora,
más cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud
de la escritura de hipoteca. La
adjudicación se hará al mejor
postor, quien deberá consignar
el importe de su oferta en el
acto mismo de la adjudicación,
en efectivo (moneda del curso
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América), giro postal o cheque
certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA
subasta se llevará a efecto
el día 5 DE JULIO DE 2016 A
LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en
la oficina del referido Alguacil,
localizada en el Centro Judicial
de Arecibo , Arecibo, Puerto
Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA
es de $104,150.00. Que de ser
necesaria la celebración de una
SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 12
DE JULIO DE 2016 A LAS 11:30
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina
antes mencionada del Alguacil
que suscribe. El precio mínimo
para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA
será de $69,433.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes
del tipo mínimo estipulado para
la PRIMERA subasta. Que de
ser necesaria la celebración de
una TERCERA SUBASTA, la
misma se llevará a efecto el día
19 DE JULIO DE 2016 A LAS
11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la
oficina antes mencionada del
Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA
SUBASTA será de $52,075.00,
equivalentes a la mitad (1/2)
del tipo mínimo estipulado para
la PRIMERA subasta. Si se
declarase desierta la tercera
subasta, se adjudicará la finca
a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si ésta es igual o menor que
el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima
conveniente; se abonará dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si esta es mayor, todo ello a
tenor con lo dispone el Articulo
104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8
de diciembre de 2015 conocida
como “Ley del Registro de la
Propiedad Inmueble del Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada
se adquiere libre de toda carga
y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo
102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá
a otorgar la correspondiente
escritura de venta judicial y se
pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones
de Ley. Para conocimiento de
la parte demandada y de toda
aquella persona o personas
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción
del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento
de todos los licitadores y el
público en general, el presente
Edicto se publicará por espacio
de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo
menos siete días entre ambas
publicaciones, en un diario de
circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto
Rico y se fijará además en
tres (3) lugares públicos del
Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como
la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Los acreedores que
tengan inscritos o anotados
sus derechos sobre los bienes
hipotecados con posterioridad
a la inscripción del crédito del
ejecutante, o los acreedores
de cargas o derechos reales
que los hubiesen pospuesto
a la hipoteca ejecutada y las
personas interesadas en, o con
derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables
garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito
ejecutado pueden concurrir
a la subasta si les convienen
o satisfacer antes del remate
el importe del crédito, de sus
intereses, costas y honorarios
de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en
los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento
incoado estarán de manifiesto
en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables.
b. Que se entenderá que todo
licitador acepta como bastante
la titularidad y que las cargas
y gravámenes anteriores y los
preferentes, si los hubiere, al
crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá,
que el rematante los acepta y
queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. EXPIDO, el
presente EDICTO, en Arecibo,
Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de junio
de 2016. Gustavo E. Vidal Quiles, Alguacil Regional.Wilfredo
Rodriguez Carrion, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE HUMACAO
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante VS.
GABRIELA TORRES
MEDINA, LEXIA MARIE
SOLIS SUÁREZ y
JOHNNY ENRIQUE
COLÓN VIERA
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. HSCI2014-00322
(205) SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN
DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE
DINERO (VIA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS
A: GABRIELA TORRES
MEDINA, LEXIA MARIE
SOLIS SUÁREZ y
JOHNNY ENRIQUE
COLÓN VIERA;
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: Urbanización Verdemar, Solar 585, Calle 20, Humacao, Puerto Rico
00791.URBANA: Solar marcado con el número quinientos
ochenta y cinco (585) radicado
en la Urbanización Verdemar,
situada en el Barrio Punta Santiago del término municipal de
Humacao, Puerto Rico, con
una cabida superficial de trescientos punto quince (300.15)
metros cuadrados. En lindes
por el NORTE, en veintitrés
punto cero cero (23.00) metros
con el solar número quinientos
ochenta y seis (586) de la Urbanización, por el SUR, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00)
con el solar número quinientos
ochenta y cuatro (584) de la
Urbanización, por el ESTE, en
trece punto cero cinco (13.05)
metros con los solares número
quinientos setenta y siete (577)
y quinientos setenta y ocho
(578) de la Urbanización, y por
el OESTE, en trece punto cero
cinco (13.05) metros con la
calle número veinte (20) de dicha urbanización. Enclava una
casa. Consta inscrito al folio al
folio 167 del tomo 556 de Humacao, finca número #11,846
del Registro de Propiedad de
Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. La PRIMERA SUBASTA,
se llevará a cabo el día 6 de
julio de 2016, a las 11:15 de la
mañana, en mis oficinas sitas
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao. En
relación a la finca a subastarse,
la cantidad mínima de licitación
en la Primera Subasta será la
suma de $87,289.00. Dicha
venta se llevará a efecto, para
con su producto satisfacer a la
parte demandante el importe de
su Sentencia, a saber: Suma
Principal: $82,733.98, más los
intereses correspondientes a
razón de 5% anual, desde el
1ro de junio de 2013 y los que
se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago,
más una suma equivalente
4.00% 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
$8,728.90, 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 13 de julio de
2016, a las 11:15 de la mañana, 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 $58,192.67. Si la segunda
subasta no produjere remate, ni
adjudicación, se celebrará una
TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20
de julio de 2016, a las 11:15 de
la mañana, en el mismo lugar
y regirá como tipo mínimo de
la tercera subasta la mitad del
precio pactado para la primera,
o sea, la suma de $43,644.50.
Para más información, a las
personas interesadas se les
notifica que los autos y todos
los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado,
estarán de manifiesto en la
Secretaría del Tribunal, durante
las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta
como bastante la titularidad y
que las cargas y gravámenes
anteriores y los preferentes, si
los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.
Se entenderá, que el rematante
los acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los
mismos, sin destinarse a su
extinción el precio del remate.
Una vez confirmada la Venta
Judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar
la correspondiente Escritura de
Venta Judicial y se pondrá al
comprador en posesión física
del inmueble, de conformidad
con las disposiciones de Ley.
Se informa que la propiedad
objeto de ejecución se adquiere
libre de cargas y gravámenes
posteriores. 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 Humacao,
Puerto Rico, a 17 de junio de
2016. María Del Pilar Rivera
Rivera, Alguacil Regional.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante VS
LUIS RICARDO
ZAMBRANO VERA T/C/C
LUIS ZAMBRANO VERA
Y SU ESPOSA CELINA
ROSARIO COLON Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
CONSTITUIDA POR
ESTOS
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2011-1034
SALON NÚM.: 502 SOBRE
ACCION CIVIL DE:
COBRO
DE DINERO Y EJECUCION
DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA
ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA.
A: LUIS RICARDO
ZAMBRANO VERA T/C/C
LUIS ZAMBRANO VERA
Y SU ESPOSA CELINA
ROSARIO COLON Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
The San Juan Daily Star
CONSTITUIDA POR
ESTOS; Y AL PUBLICO
EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior, Centro Judicial
de Bayamón , Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte
demandada, al PUBLICO EN
GENERAL; y a los siguientes
gravámenes posteriores: Doral Bank: A cuyo favor aparece un Pagaré por la suma de
$25,000.00, intereses al 9.95%
anual y a vencer el 1 de noviembre del año 2019, según consta
de la escritura #766, otorgada
en San Juan, el 21 de octubre
de 2004, ante el Notario Eric
Hernández Batalla, inscrito al
folio 170 del tomo 1858 de Bayamón, finca #38,689, inscripción 7ma. Banco Popular de
Puerto Rico: A cuyo favor aparece una Anotación de Demanda presentada al asiento 1056
del diario 1320, el día 21 de
julio de 2015, se presenta Demanda de fecha 30 de junio de
2015, en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón,
caso civil #DCD2015-1592, a
favor de, por $25,000.00. Pendiente de calificación y despacho. Que en cumplimiento del
Mandamiento de Ejecución de
Sentencia expedido el día 29
de octubre de 2015 , por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé
a vender y venderé en pública
subasta y al mejor postor la
propiedad que se describe a
continuación: URBANA: Solar
marcado con el número 13 del
bloque B de la Urbanización Villas de Caparra localizado en el
Barrio Juan Sánchez de Bayamón, con una cabida de 300.04
metros cuadrados. En lindes
por el Norte, en 13.00 metros
con el solar número 4 del propio bloque; por el Sur, en 13.00
metros con la calle Colectora
Central; por el Este, en 23.08
metros con el solar número 12;
y por el Oeste, en 23.08 metros
con el solar número 14. Inscrita al folio 73 del tomo 864 de
Bayamón, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección
Primera, finca número 38,689.
El producto de la subasta se
destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la
SENTENCIA dictada a su favor,
el día 29 de julio de 2011, en el
presente caso civil, a saber la
suma de $92,099.23 de principal, más intereses al 6.50%
anual desde el día 1ro. de octubre de 2010 , más la suma
de $10,000.00 , por concepto
de honorarios de abogado y
costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se
adeudan mensualmente a partir del día 1ro. de noviembre de
2010 , por concepto de seguro
hipotecario, cargos por demora,
más cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de
la escritura de hipoteca. La
venta de la referida propiedad
se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la
mencionada finca, excepto los
gravámenes aquí antes mencionados, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha,
hora y sitio de la PRIMERA,
SEGUNDA y TERCERA subasta, si esto fuera necesario,
a los efectos de que cualquier
persona o personas con algún
interés puedan comparecer a la
celebración de dicha subasta.
La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el
acto mismo de la adjudicación,
en efectivo (moneda del curso
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América), giro postal o cheque
certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA
subasta se llevará a efecto el
día 3 DE AGOSTO DE 2016 A
LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en
la oficina del referido Alguacil,
localizada en el Centro Judicial
de Bayamón , Bayamón, Puerto
Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA
es de $100,000.00. Que de ser
necesaria la celebración de una
SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma
se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE
AGOSTO DE 2016 A LAS 1:15
DE LA TARDE, en la oficina
antes mencionada del Alguacil
que suscribe. El precio mínimo
para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA
será de $66,666.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes
del tipo mínimo estipulado para
la PRIMERA subasta. Q u e
de ser necesaria la celebración
de una TERCERA SUBASTA,
la misma se llevará a efecto el
día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2016 A
LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE, en la
oficina antes mencionada del
Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA
SUBASTA será de $50,000.00,
equivalentes a la mitad (1/2)
del tipo mínimo estipulado para
la PRIMERA subasta. Si se
declarase desierta la tercera
subasta se dará por terminado
el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicárse al acreedor la finca
aquí antes descrita, dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente, por
la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera igual o menor
al monto del tipo mínimo de la
tercera subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad
adeudada si ésta fuere mayor.
(Art. 221, Ley Hipotecaria y del
Registro de la Propiedad, 30
L.P.R.A. §2721). Para conocimiento de la parte demandada
y de toda aquella persona o
personas que tengan interés
inscrito con posterioridad a la
inscripción del gravamen que
se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general,
el presente Edicto se publicará
por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días
entre ambas publicaciones, en
un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico y se fijará además
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se le advierte a todos
los interesados que todos los
documentos relacionados con
la presente acción de ejecución
de hipoteca, así como de la subasta, estarán disponibles para
ser examinados en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, durante
las horas laborables.EXPIDO,
el presente EDICTO, en Bayamón , Puerto Rico, hoy día 15
DE ENERO DE 2016_. Carlos
Algarin Betancourt, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR DE SAN
JUAN
PEP BOYS - MANNY,
MOE & JACK OF
PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante v .
WELLS FARGO BANK,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
COMO ÚLTIMO TENEDOR
CONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ
EXTRAVIADO, Y FULANO
DE TAL COMO TENEDOR
DESCONOCIDO DE UN
PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO
EXTRAVIADO
DE: PEP BOYS - MANNY,
MOE & JACK OF PUERTO
RICO, INC.
POR LA PRESENTE Se le
emplaza para que presente al
tribuna l su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro del
término de los treinta (30) dias
de haber sido notificado este
emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento,
notificando copia de la misma
al abogado de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener
representación legal. Si usted
deja de presentar su alegación
responsiva dentro del referido
término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su
contra y conceder el remedio
solicitado en la demanda, o
cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en
el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente,
sin más citarle ni oírle. Este
caso trata sobre la Cancelación
de Pagaré Hipotecario Extraviado por la vía judicial.
Lcda. Delma Lynnette Berrios
Mercado
Numero del Tribunal Supremo
18,388
PO Box 195553,
San Juan, PR, 00919-5553,
Telйfono: (787) 449-6000,
Facsнmile: (787) 474-3892,
Correo Electronico:
[email protected]
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA
y Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 31
de mayo de de 2016. Griselda
Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria
Regional. Brenda Baez Acaba,
Secretaria Auxiliar.
CIVIL NUM.: KCP2016-0103
(508) SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN
DE PAGARÉ, HIPOTECARIO
EXTRAVIADO.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA,EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, SS: EL ESTADO
LEGAL NOTICE
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO
RICO.
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
A: Wells Fargo Bank,
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TRINational Association
BUNAL SUPERIOR DE SAN
como último tenedor
JUAN.
conocido de un pagaré
PEP BOYS - MANNY,
hipotecario a favor de
MOE & JACK OF
Wachovia Bank, National
PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante v.
Association, o a su orden,
WeIls Fargo Bank,
hoy Wells Fargo Bank,
National Association,
National Association,
como último tenedor
sucesor por la fusión
conocido del pagaré
de Wachovia Bank,
extraviado, y Fulano
National Association
de tal como tenedor
con Wells Fargo Bank,
desconocido de un
National Association por
Pagaré Hipotecario
la suma de $939,851.50,
Extraviado
con una tasa de interés
anual fluctuante igual al CIVIL NUM.: KCP2016-0103
CANCELACIÓN DE
1.75% sobre la “Alternate SOBRE:
PAGARÉ, HIPOTECARIO EXBase Rate”, cual fue
TRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENautenticado ante la
TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS
Notario Público Andrea UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA,EL
M. Hughes, cuya firma PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, SS: EL ESfue autenticada por el TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
Deputy Prothonotary
PUERTO RICO.
Stanley J. Chmielewski
A: Fulano de Tal,
en el Court of Common demandado desconocido
Pleas of Philadelphia
como último tenedor de
County, Commonwealth un pagaré hipotecario a
of Pennsylvania,
favor de Wachovia Bank,
cuya cancelación se
National Association,
interesa, siendo partes
o a su orden, hoy
indispensables en esta
Wells Fargo Bank,
acción..
National Association,
sucesor por la fusión
de Wachovia Bank,
National Association
con Wells Fargo Bank,
National Association por
la suma de $939,851.50,
con una tasa de interés
anual fluctuante igual al
1.75% sobre la “Alternate
Base Rate”, cual fue
autenticado ante la
Notario Público Andrea
M. Hughes, cuya firma
fue autenticada por el
Deputy Prothonotary
Stanley J. Chmielewski
en el Court of Common
Pleas of Philadelphia
County, Commmonwealth
of Pennsylvania,
cuya cancelación se
interesa, siendo partes
indispensables en esta
acción.
DE: PEP BOYS - MANNY,
MOE & JACK OF PUERTO
RICO, INC.
POR LA PRESENTE Se le
emplaza para que presente al
tribuna l su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro del
término de los treinta (30) dias
de haber sido notificado este
emplazamiento,
excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento,
notificando copia de la misma
al abogado de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener
representación legal. Si usted
deja de presentar su alegación
responsiva dentro del referido
término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su
contra y conceder el remedio
solicitado en la demanda, o
cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en
el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente,
sin más citarle ni oírle. Este
caso trata sobre la Cancelación
de Pagaré Hipotecario Extraviado por la vía judicial.
Lcda. Delma Lynnette Berrios
Mercado
Nъmero del Tribunal Supremo
18,388
PO Box 195553,
San Juan, PR, 00919-5553,
Telйfono: (787) 449-6000,
Facsнmile: (787) 474-3892,
Correo Electronico:
[email protected]
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA
y Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 31
de mayo de de 2016. Griselda
Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria
Regional. Brenda Baez Acaba,
Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE RIO
GRANDE
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante VS
HERIBERTO MUNIZ
CRESPO T/C/C
HERIBERTO ORTIZ
CRESPO Y SU ESPOSA
CARMEN I. ORTIZ
ESTRADA T/C/C CARMEN
IVETTE ORTIZ ESTRADA
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
CONSTITUIDA POR
ESTOS
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM.: N3CI2012-00396
SALON NÚM.: 002 SOBRE
ACCION CIVIL DE:
COBRO
DE DINERO Y EJECUCION
DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA
ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA.
A: HERIBERTO
MUNIZ CRESPO T/C/C
HERIBERTO ORTIZ
CRESPO Y SU ESPOSA
CARMEN I. ORTIZ
ESTRADA T/C/C CARMEN
IVETTE ORTIZ ESTRADA
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
CONSTITUIDA POR
ESTOS ; Y AL PUBLICO
EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior, Centro Judicial
de Río Grande , Río Grande,
Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la
parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en
cumplimiento del Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 9 de junio de 2016,
por la Secretaria del Tribunal,
procederé a vender y venderé
en pública subasta y al mejor
postor la propiedad que ubica
y se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar radicado en
el barrio Ciénaga Baja de Río
Grande, Puerto Rico, identificado con el número 220 del bloque L del plano de inscripción
de la urbanización Alturas de
Río Grande, Sección Séptima.
Tiene una cabida superficial de
230.00 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 10.00
metros, con la calle principal
(Main street); por el SUR, en
10.00 metros, con el solar número 269 del bloque L; por el
ESTE, en 23.00 metros, con el
solar número 221 del bloque L
y por el OESTE, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número 219
del bloque L. En dicho solar
enclava una vivienda de hormigón y bloques para una sola
familia, construida de acuerdo
con los planos y especificaciones aprobados por la Federal
Housing Administration y otras
agencias
gubernamentales.
Inscrita al folio 105 del tomo
347 de Río Grande, Registro
de la Propiedad de Carolina
Sección Tercera , finca número
21,581. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer
al demandante hasta donde alcance, la suma de $14,304.82
rebajada mediante plan de
pagos a la suma principal de
$14,074.68 rebajada nuevamente a la suma de $13,841.65
de principal, más intereses al 7
1/2% anual desde el día 1ro.
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de diciembre de 2010 , más la
suma de $2,916.00, por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el
Tribunal, más las cantidades
que se adeudan mensualmente
desde la fecha antes mencionada, por concepto de seguro
hipotecario, cargos por demora,
más cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la
escritura de hipoteca, todo ello,
según surge de la SENTENCIA
dictada en este caso el 3 de
junio de 2013. La adjudicación
se hará al mejor postor, quien
deberá consignar el importe
de su oferta en el acto mismo
de la adjudicación, en efectivo
(moneda del curso legal de los
Estados Unidos de América),
giro postal o cheque certificado
a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA subasta
se llevará a efecto el día 6 DE
JULIO DE 2016 A LAS 10:15
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina
del referido Alguacil, localizada
en el Centro Judicial de Río
Grande - {243 Pueblo}, Río
Grande, Puerto Rico. Que
el precio mínimo fijado para
la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de
$29,160.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una
SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma
se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE
JULIO DE 2016 A LAS 10:15
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina
antes mencionada del Alguacil
que suscribe. El precio mínimo
para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA
será de $19,440.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes
del tipo mínimo estipulado para
la PRIMERA subasta. Que de
ser necesaria la celebración de
una TERCERA SUBASTA la
misma se llevará a efecto el día
20 DE JULIO DE 2016 A LAS
10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la
oficina antes mencionada del
Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA
SUBASTA será de $14,580.00,
equivalentes a la mitad (1/2)
del tipo mínimo estipulado para
la PRIMERA subasta. Si se
declarase desierta la tercera
subasta, se adjudicará la finca
a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si ésta es igual o menor que
el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima
conveniente; se abonará dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si esta es mayor, todo ello a
tenor con lo dispone el Articulo
104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8
de diciembre de 2015 conocida
como “Ley del Registro de la
Propiedad Inmueble del Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada
se adquiere libre de toda carga
y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo
102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá
a otorgar la correspondiente
escritura de venta judicial y se
pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones
de Ley. Para conocimiento de
la parte demandada y de toda
aquella persona o personas
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción
del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento
de todos los licitadores y el
público en general, el presente
Edicto se publicará por espacio
de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo
menos siete días entre ambas
publicaciones, en un diario de
circulación general en el Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
y se fijará además en tres (3)
lugares públicos del Municipio
en que ha de celebrarse dicha
venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el
Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les
informa, por último, que:
a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al
procedimiento incoado estarán
de manifiesto en la secretaría
del tribunal durante las horas
laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta
como bastante la titularidad y
que las cargas y gravámenes
anteriores y los preferentes,
si los hubiere, al crédito del
ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el
rematante los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Río Grande ,
Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de junio
de 2016. Betty Navarro Algarin,
Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMON
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs.
ALBERTO CARMONA
LOPEZ, SU ESPOSA
MAURA MAGDALENA
CASTRO MUÑOZ Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2015-3034
(701) SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN
DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE
DINERO (VIA ORDINARIA)NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA
EDICTOS.
A: ALBERTO CARMONA
LOPEZ, SU ESPOSA
MAURA MAGDALENA
CASTRO MUÑOZ y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; COND
BAYAMONTE, APTO.
1605, BAYAMON PR
00956-6608
( 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 6
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de junio de 2016, esteTribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este
caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en
un periódico de circulación
general en la Isla de Puerto
Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y,
siendo o representando usted
una parte en el procedimiento
sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión
o apelación dentro del término
de 30 días contados a partir
de la publicación por edicto de
esta notificación, dirijo a usted
esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la
publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido
archivada en los autos de este
caso, con fecha de 14 de junio
de 2016. Ruth Aponte Cotto,
Secretaria Regional. María D.
Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE
TRUJILLO ALTO
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
BETTY IVELISSE ALICEA
SERRANO T/C/C BETTY
ALICEA SERRANO, SU
ESPOSO MIGUEL ANGEL
ROSA DE LOS SANTOS
T/C/C MIGUEL A. ROSA
DE LOS SANTOS Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandado(A)
CIVIL: FECI201500362 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN
DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: BETTY IVELISSE
ALLCEA SERRANO
T/C/C BETTY ALLCEA
SERRANO, SU ESPOSO
MIGUEL ANGEL ROSA
DE LOS SANTOS T/C/C
MIGUEL
A. ROSA DE LOS
SANTOS Y LA SOCIEDAD
LEGAL DE BIENES
GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS. LCDA. REBECCA
RUIZ SANTIAGO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que sele
notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 29
de abril de 2016, este Tribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este
38
caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en un
periódico de circulación general
en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro
de los diez (10) días siguientes
a su notificación. Y, siendo o
representando usted una parte
en el procedimiento sujeta a los
términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución,
de la cual puede establecerse
recurso de revisión o apelación
dentro del término de 30 días
contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha
en la fecha de la publicación de
este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en
los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de junio de 2016. En
Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, el 16
de junio de 2016. Miriam Rosa
Maldonado, Secretaria. Yajaira
Rivera Santiago, Secretaria
Auxiliar.
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 13 de junio de 2016.
En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 13
de junio de 2016. Carmen Ana
Pereira Ortiz, Secretaria. Lili
Rodríguez Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE
MAYAGÜEZ
COOP DE AHORRO Y
CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN
DEMANDANTE V.
SARA L. RODRÍGUEZ
CHERVONI
DEMANDADO(A)
CIVIL: IACI201100575 SOBRE:
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO COBRO DE DINERO REGLA
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TENCIA POR EDICTO.
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- A: SARA L. RODRÍGUEZ
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE
CHERVONI
CAGUAS
(Nombre de las partes alas que se le
notifican la sentencia por edicto)
ROOSEVELT CAYMAN
EL SECRETARIO (A) que susASSET COMPANY
cribe le notifica a usted que el 12
DEMANDANTE V.
de abril de 2016, este Tribunal
SIAPELE MAIKA, DANYA ha dictado Sentencia, SentenDENISSE PEREZ DIAZ Y cia Parcial o Resolución en este
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE caso, que ha sido debidamente
BIENES GANANCIALES registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
COMPUESTA POR
detalladamente de los términos
AMBOS.
de la misma. Esta notificación
DEMANDADO(A)
se publicará una sola vez en un
CIVIL: ECD2013-0878 SOBRE: periódico de circulación general
ACCION IN REM DE EJECU- en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro
CION DE HIPOTECA POR LA de los diez (10) días siguientes
VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICA- a su notificación. Y, siendo o
CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR representando usted una parte
EDICTO.
en el procedimiento sujeta a los
A: SIAPELE MALKA,
términos de la Sentencia, SenDANYA DENISSE PEREZ tencia Parcial o Resolución,
DIAZ YLA SOCIEDAD de la cual puede establecerse
recurso de revisión o apelación
LEGAL DEBIENES
dentro del término de 30 días
GANANCIALES
contados a partir de la publicaCOMPUESTA POR
ción por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificaAMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se ción que se considerará hecha
le notifican la sentencia por edicto). en la fecha de la publicación de
EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus- este edicto. Copia de esta nocribe le notifica a usted que el 23 tificación ha sido archivada en
de mayo de 2016, este Tribunal los autos de este caso, con feha dictado Sentencia, Senten- cha de 14 de junio de 2016. En
cia Parcial o Resolución en este Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 14
caso, que ha sido debidamente de junio de 2016. Lcda. Norma
registrada y archivada en autos G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria.
donde podrá usted enterarse Reina Y. Perez Torres, Secretadetalladamente de los términos ria Auxiliar.
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en un
LEGAL NOTICE
periódico de circulación general
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
de los diez (10) días siguientes
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA
a su notificación. Y, siendo o
SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO
representando usted una parte
COOPERATIVA DE
en el procedimiento sujeta a los
términos de la Sentencia, SenAHORRO Y CREDITO
tencia Parcial o Resolución,
DE CABO ROJO
LEGAL NOTICE
The San Juan Daily Star
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
DEMANDANTE V.
JOHANNA
PADILLA MONTALVO
DEMANDADO(A)
CIVIL NÚM. I4CI201500552
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.
NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SRA. JOHANNA
PADILLA MONTALVO
URB. MONTE GRANDE
CALLE RUBÍ #16 CABO
ROJO, PR 00623
(Nombre de las partes alas que se le
notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9
de junio de 2016, este Tribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este
caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en un
periódico de circulación general
en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro
de los diez (10) días siguientes
a su notificación. Y, siendo o
representando usted una parte
en el procedimiento sujeta a los
términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución,
de la cual puede establecerse
recurso de revisión o apelación
dentro del término de 30 días
contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha
en la fecha de la publicación
de este edicto. Copia de esta
notificación ha sido archivada
en los autos de este caso, con
fecha de 13 de junio de 2016.
En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico,
el 13 de junio de 2016. Suirka
Feliciano González, Secretaria.
María M. Avilés Bonilla, Secretaria Auxiliar.
paradero se desconoce :
Por la presente se les notifica
para que com parezca n , si
creyere que les conviene, antes te Honorable Tribunal den
tro de los treinta (30) días a
partir de la última publicación
d e este edicto. Debe notificar
co n copia de sus a legaciones
a la representación legal d e
la parte demandante, en es te
caso, al Lcdo. Francisco Seise
García, Apartado 827, Manatí,
PR 00674, Te!.: (787) 854-2
119, Fax: (787) 884-3378 , correo electrónicos eiseseise@
yahoo. com con co pia de su
contestación a la demand a
interpuesta contra usted en el
caso de epígrafe. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo así y de
no radicar el original de le su
contestación en la Secretaria d
e este Tribun al, se le anotará
la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio
solicitado, sin más citarle, ni
oírle. En Manatí , Puerto Rico
, hoy 7 de junio de 2016. Soraya Gonzalez Maldonado,
Secretaria Regional. Carmen
J. Rosario Valentin, Secretaria
Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR
JAMES B. NUTTER &
COMPANY,
Demandante, v.
La SUCESIÓN DE
BENITO ELADIO COLÓN
VARGAS t/c/c BENITO E.
COLÓN VARGAS y como
BENITO COLÓN VARGAS,
compuesta por los
herederos desconocidos
denominados como
LEGAL NOTICE
Fulano y Sutana de
ESTADO LiBRE ASOCIADO DE
Tal; ESTADOS UNIDOS
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
DE AMÉRICA; el
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
DEPARTAMENTO DE
SUPERIOR DE MANATI
LUIS FEDERICO NIEVES HACIENDA DEL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO
FIGUEROA T/C/P LUIS
DE PUERTO RICO,
NIEVES FIGUEROA,
DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES
ET ALS
DEMANDANTE VS.
RELICTOS y el CENTRO
LA SUCESION DE
DE RECAUDACIÓN DE
FEDERlCO LUGO NIEVES INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
COMPUESTA POR “A”,
(CRIM),
Demandados.
“B” Y “C”, JOHN DOE y
CIVIL NÚM.: ACD2016-0057
RICHARD ROE
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NUM: CD16-245. SOBRE:
RATIFICACION
DE
COMPRAVENTA. EDICTO DE
EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU.
EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PR
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO.
ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO.
A: SUCESIÓN DE BENITO
A: SUCESION DE
FEDERICO LUGO NIEVES ELADIO COLÓN VARGAS
t/c/c BENITO E. COLÓN
Callejón Rosario #1
Manatí, Puerto Rico 00674 VARGAS y como BENITO
COLÓN VARGAS,
sus sucesores, herederos
compuesta
por los
o causahabientes, cuyo
herederos desconocidos
denominados como
Fulano de Tal
DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA:
451 BARBOSA STREET,
PUEBLO WARD, MOCA,
PUERTO RICO 00676;
DIRECCIÓN POSTAL:
451 CALLE BARBOSA,
PUEBLO WARD, MOCA,
PUERTO RICO 00676
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación
de una demanda en cobro de
dinero y ejecución de hipoteca
en la que se alega que adeudan al demandante, James B.
Nutter & Company, las siguientes sumas: $124,102.06 por
concepto de principal, gastos,
penalidades e intereses al tipo
pactado de 3.19% anual hasta
el 1ro de enero de 2016. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total
de la obligación. Además, la
parte demandada adeuda a JB
NUTTER las costas, gastos y
honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $18,900.00. Además,
la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma
equivalente a $18,900.00 para
cubrir cualquier otro adelanto
que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma
equivalente a $18,900.00 para
cubrir intereses en adición a
los garantizados por ley. El demandante, James B. Nutter &
Company ha solicitado que se
dicte sentencia contra usted y
se le ordena pagar las cantidades anteriormente mencionadas. POR EL PRESENTE
EDICTO se les emplaza y requiere para que contesten la
Demanda radicando el original
de su contestación ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de
Puerto Rico, Sala de Aguadilla
y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación a la abogada
del demandante, Lcda. Maritza
Guzmán Matos, PARTNERS
LEGAL SERVICES, P.S.C. a
PMB 767, Ave Luis Vigoreaux
#1353, Guaynabo, PR 00966;
Tel. (787) 758-3276 / Fax (787)
7630114; Email: mguzman@
partnerslegalservicespr.com,
dentro del término de sesenta
(60) días siguientes a la fecha
de publicación de este edicto;
si dejare de así hacerlo se le
anotará la rebeldía y se dictará
sentencia contra usted concediendo el remedio solicitado
sin más citarle ni oírle. Se le
advierte que dentro de los diez
(10) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, se le está enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo,
una copia del emplazamiento
y de la Demanda presentada
al lugar de su última residencia
conocida. EXPEDIDO bajo mi
firma y el sello del Tribunal en
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día
24 de mayo de 2016. Rosa B.
Sanchez Acevedo, Secretaria
Regional.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN
JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs.
GINA MARÍA RECALDE
CONTRERAS, SU
ESPOSO FÉLIX
GUERRERO CRUZ Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: KCD2016-0819
(902) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
EL ESTADO LBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO.
A: GINA MARÍA
RECALDE CONTRERAS,
SU ESPOSO FÉLIX
GUERRERO CRUZ Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO,
se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la
parte demandante, Demanda
sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca
por la Vía Ordinaria en la que
se alega adeuda la suma de
$137,112.78 de principal, intereses variables desde el día
1ro de octubre de 2015 cuya
tasa de interés a esta fecha es
de 2.00 % anual hasta el día
30 de septiembre de 2016; al
3.00 % anual desde el día 1ro
de octubre de 2016 hasta el día
30 de septiembre de 2017; al
4.00 % anual desde el día 1ro
de octubre de 2017 hasta el día
30 de septiembre de 2018; al
4.125 % anual desde el día 1ro
de octubre de 2018 hasta su
completo pago, más la cantidad
de $15,880.00 estipulada para
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están
líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser ejecutada
es: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial identificado con el número Doscientos Cinco (205),
ubicado en el segundo piso del
edificio del CONDOMINIO LAS
MARíAS COURT, localizado en
el Sector de Río Piedras del
término municipal de San Juan,
Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de OCHENTA y OCHO
PUNTO CINCO MIL VEINTISÉIS (88.5026) METROS
CUADRADOS,
equivalentes
a NOVECIENTOS CINCUENTA y DOS PUNTO SEIS MIL
CINCUENTA (952.6050) PIES
CUADRADOS. Su entrada principal es por la esquina Suroeste
del corredor o pasillo el segundo piso, siendo sus linderos los
siguientes: por el NORTE, en
una extensión de VEINTISÉIS
PIES CON DIEZ PULGADAS
(26’10”), con el apartamento
número Doscientos Seis (206),
en TRES PIES CON DOS PULGADAS (3’2”), con área común
consistente del corredor o pasillo y en DOS PIES CON OCHO
PULGADAS (2’ 8”), con el apartamento número Doscientos
Cuatro (204); por el SUR, en
una extensión de VEINTIDÓS
PIES CON ONCE PULGADAS
(22’ 11”), más, en un área de
SEIS PIES CON SIETE PULGADAS (6’ 7”), con espacio
exterior; por el ESTE, en una
extensión de TREINTA Y CUATRO PIES CON DOS PULGADAS (34’2”), con el apartamento número Doscientos
Cuatro (204) y en TRES PIES
CON DOS PULGADAS (3’ 2”),
con área común consistente
del corredor o pasillo; y por el
OESTE, en una extensión de
TREINTA Y SIETE PIES CON
CUATRO PULGADAS (37’ 4”),
con espacio exterior. Contiene
sala-comedor, un (1) balcón
cubierto, cocina, un (1) closet
de pared para lavandería y calentador de agua, un (1) cuarto
principal con su baño completo
y tres (3) closets de pared, un
(1) baño completo adicional en
el pasillo y un segundo cuarto
con un (1) closet de pared. Le
corresponde un espacio de
estacionamiento doble, aproximadamente el Setenta y Cinco
por ciento (75%) cubierto, con
cabida para dos (2) automóviles, identificado con el número
Doscientos Cinco (205), ubicado en el primer piso terrero del
edificio con una cabida superficial de aproximadamente VEINTISIETE PUNTO SIETE MIL
SETECIENTOS CINCUENTA
Y NUEVE (27.7759) METROS
CUADRADOS,
equivalentes
a DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA
Y OCHO PUNTO OCHO MIL
SEISCIENTOS NOVENTA Y
SEIS (298.8696) PIES CUADRADOS. Este apartamento
con sus anejos, tiene una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de Seis
Punto Cero Cero Cuatro Siete
por ciento (6.0047%). Inscrita
al folio 212 del tomo 1560 de
Rio Piedras Norte, Registro de
la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda, finca número
41,096, inscripción Cuarta. Se
le advierte que de no comparecer en autos dentro del término
de los treinta (30) días siguientes a partir de la publicación de
este Edicto, se le anotará la
Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia
concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle,
debiendo radicar el original de
su contestación en este Tribunal, enviando copia a la abogada de la parte demandante:
Lcda. Xana M. Connelly Pagán,
Bufete Correa, Collazo & Herrero, PSC, P.O. Box 70212,
The San Juan Daily Star
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
mino municipal de Humacao,
Puerto Rico, que se describe
en el plano de inscripción de la
Urbanización con el número Mil
Ochenta y Cinco (1085), con un
área de TRESCIENTOS SIETE
PUNTO OCHENTA Y CINCO
(307.85) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE,
en veintitrés punto cincuenta
(23.50) metros, con el solar
número Mil Ochenta y Cuatro
(1084) de la Urbanización; por
el SUR, en veintitrés punto
cincuenta (23.50) metros, con
el solar número Mil Ochenta y
Seis (1086) de dicha Urbanización; por el ESTE, en trece
punto diez (13.10) metros, con
la Calle número Treinta y Tres
(33) de dicha Urbanización; y
por el OESTE, en trece punto
LEGAL NOTICE
diez (13.10) metros, con José
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
Morales Serrano. Enclava una
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcasa. La escritura de hipoteca
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
se encuentra inscrita al folio
SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA157 del tomo 572 de HumaCAO
cao, finca número 16,157, insSCOTIABANK DE
cripción décima. Se le advierte
PUERTO RICO
que de no comparecer en autos
Demandante Vs.
dentro del término de los treinta
(30) días siguientes a partir de
JOSE GIOVANNI
NEGRON GARAY Y SU la publicación de este Edicto,
le anotará la Rebeldía y se
ESPOSA DAISY GARAY se
dictará Sentencia concediendo
RODRIGUEZ Y LA
el remedio solicitado, sin más
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE citarle ni oírle, debiendo radicar
BIENES GANANCIALES el original de su contestación
en el Tribunal, enviando copia
COMPUESTA POR
al abogado de la parte demanAMBOS
dante: Lcdo. Baldomero A.
Demandados
Collazo Torres, Bufete Correa,
CIVIL NÚM. HSCI201600387
Collazo & Herrero, PSC, P.O.
(206) SOBRE: COBRO DE DIBox 70212, San Juan, PuerNERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOto Rico 00936-8212; teléfono
TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA(787)625-9999; Fax (787)625RIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
9801. Se le notifica también por
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS
la presente que la parte demanDE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENdante habrá de presentar para
TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIsu anotación al Registrador
DOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOde la Propiedad del Distrito en
CIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
que está situada la propiedad
A: JOSE GIOVANNI
objeto de este pleito, un aviso
NEGRON GARAY Y
de estar pendiente esta acción.
Para publicarse conforme a la
SU ESPOSA DAISY
Orden dictada por el Tribunal
GARAY RODRIGUEZ,
en un periódico de circulación
POR SÍ Y COMO COgeneral. EN TESTIMONIO DE
ADMINISTRADORES DE LO CUAL, expido el presente
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE Edicto que firmo y sello en HuBIENES GANANCIALES macao, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de
junio de 2016. Dominga Gómez
COMPUESTA POR
Fuste, secretaria Regional. IleaAMBOS
nette Ríos, Sub-Secretaria.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO
se le notifica que se ha radiLEGAL NOTICE
cado en esta Secretaría por la
ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO
parte demandante, Demanda
sobre Cobro de Dinero y Eje- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcución de Hipoteca por la Vía NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
Ordinaria en la que se alega SALA DE BAYAMÓN
San Juan, PR 00936-8212; Teléfono: 625-9999. Se le notifica
también por la presente que
la parte demandante habrá de
presentar para su anotación al
Registrador de la Propiedad del
Distrito en que está situada la
propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente
esta acción. Para publicarse
conforme a la Orden dictada
por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN
TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL,
expido el presente Edicto que
firmo y sello en SAN JUAN,
Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de junio de
2016. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Iris A. Román
Cruz, Secretaria Serv. a Sala.
adeuda la suma principal de
$81,131.24, intereses al 5.00%
anual, desde el día 1ro de octubre de 2015, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad
de $8,880.00 estipulada para
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas
están líquidas y exigibles. La
propiedad hipotecada a ser
vendida en pública subasta es:
URBANA: Solar radicado en la
URBANIZACiÓN EXTENSiÓN
VERDEMAR, situado en el
Barrio Punta Santiago del tér-
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante v.
LUIS ALBERTO ROSARIO
RIVERA, T/C/C LUIS
ROSARIO RIVERA;
SU ESPOSA MELISSA
SEGARRA ALONSO Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
(504) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMÉRICA. PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO. S. S.
A: LUIS ALBERTO
ROSARIO RIVERA, T/C/C
LUIS ROSARIO RIVERA;
SU ESPOSA MELISSA
SEGARRA ALONSO Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Por la presente se le emplaza
y notifica que debe contestar
la demanda incoada contra
usted, dentro del término de
treinta (30) días a partir de la
publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de dicha
contestación ante el Tribunal y
sala que se menciona en el epígrafe del mismo, 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
en su contra sin más citarle ni
oírle. Los abogados de la parte
demandante son: Lcdo. Reggie
Díaz Hernández RUA NÚM.:
16,393 PAVIA BERMUDEZ
DIAZ & SÁNCHEZ, LLP Attorneys at Law Edificio Ochoa, Suite 200, 500 Calle De La Tanca
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787)
523-2664 rdí[email protected]
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma
y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 6
de junio de 2016. Ruth N. Aponte Cotto, Secretaria Regional.
Sandra Báez Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN LORENZO
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante v.
HARRY
PEDRAZA MENDEZ
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM: E2CI201600254
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS
A: HARRY PEDRAZA
MENDEZ
HC 50 Box 21321, San
Lorenzo, PR 00754
DE: BANCO POPULAR
DE PUERTO RICO
radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal y notificando al Lcda. Ivonne González Medrano, 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 $58,306.60, más
intereses a razón de 4.5%, desde el 1 de noviembre de 2015,
que se acumulan diariamente
hasta su total y completo pago,
más la suma de $57.92 por
cargos por mora, más la suma
de $6,201.40 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. Lcda.
Ivonne González Medrano,
Número del Tribunal Supremo
11,623 PO Box 195553, San
Juan, PR, 00919-5553, Teléfono: (787) 449-6000, Facsímile:
(787) 474-3892, Correo Electrónico:
igonzalez@splawpr.
com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI
FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy
día 2 de junio de 2016. Irma I.
Arroyo González, Secretaria.
Mignorys Cuadrado López, Secretaria Auxiliar.
O DE CHEMIM DE
BISCARRAT 64240
LABASTID CLAIRANCE;
INCLUYE COMO
MIEMBRO DE LA
SUCESIÓN Y COMO
ALBACEA SUSTITUTO
DESIGNADO EN
TESTAMENTO
DE: SCOTIABANK 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 a la Lcda.Delma Lynnette Berríos Mercado, cuya dirección es PO Box
195553, San Juan, PR, 009195553, 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 Hipoteca en
que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte
demandada a pagar la suma
de $525,630.95 de Principal;
$40,180.32 de interés acumulados; $5,628.33 de cargos por
atrasos, y $15,769.92 de penalidad acordada. La suma total
adeudada al 26 de marzo de
2013 asciende a $587,209.52.
Además, los co-demandados
adeuda la suma de $63,000.00
por concepto de costas y gastos de honorarios de abogado
según pactados Se le apercibe
LEGAL NOTICE
que si dejare de hacerlo, se
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO dictará contra usted sentencia
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- en rebeldía, concediéndose
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI
SALA DE SAN JUAN
FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy
SCOTIABANK DE
día 1 de junio de 2016. Griselda
PUERTO RICO
Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria.
Demandante v.
SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA
LEGAL NOTICE
THERESA ARGÜELLO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
T/C/C MARIE THERESE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
ARGÜELLO: INTEGRADA PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
DE SAN JUAN
POR: JOSEPH
SCOTIABANK DE
ARGÜELLO; JACQUES
PUERTO RICO
ARGÜELLO; MARIE
Demandante v.
CLAIRE ARGÜELLO;
SUCESIÓN
DE MARÍA
BERNARD ARGÜELLO;
JOHN PAUL ARGÜELLO; THERESA ARGÜELLO
T/C/C MARIE THERESE
FREDERIC WALLACE
ARGÜELLO:
INTEGRADA
Y CUALQUIER
POR:
JOSEPH
OTRO HEREDERO
ARGÜELLO; JACQUES
DESCONOCIDO DE
ARGÜELLO; MARIE
NOMBRES: JANE DOE Y
CLAIRE
ARGÜELLO;
JOHN DOE.
BERNARD ARGÜELLO;
Demandados
CIVIL NUM: KCD2013-1413 JOHN PAUL ARGÜELLO;
(807) SOBRE: COBRO DE
FREDERIC WALLACE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE
Y CUALQUIER
HIPOTECA POR LA VIA OROTRO
HEREDERO
DINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO
DESCONOCIDO DE
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRE- NOMBRES: JANE DOE Y
SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS
JOHN DOE.
UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE
DE
PUERTO
Se le emplaza y requiere que ASOCIADO
conteste la demanda dentro de RICO. SS
los treinta (30) días siguientes A: JOSEPH ARGÜELLODemandados
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2016-0626 a la publicación de este edicto, RESIDENTE DE CANADÁ
Demandados
CIVIL NUM: KCD2013-1413
(807) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINA-
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CALLE 10, VEGA BAJA
PR 00693; y ESTANCIAS
DE TORTUGUERO, 539
CALLE TULIPAN, VEGA
BAJA PR 00693.
pleito pendiente en el Registro
de la Propiedad correspondiente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y
el sello del Tribunal, hoy 8 de
junio de 2016, en Bayamón,
Puerto Rico. Ruth Aponte CoA: JANE DOE Y/O JONH Queda usted notificado que en tto, Secretaria Regional. María
este Tribunal se ha radicado D. Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar.
DOE MIEMBRO DE
Demanda sobre Cobro de DineNOMBRE DESCONOCIDO ro y Ejecución de Hipoteca por
LEGAL NOTICE
SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA la Vía Ordinaria en la que se ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
THERESA ARGÜELLO alega usted le adeuda a la De- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUT/C/C MARIE THERESE mandante las siguientes canti- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
dades: Principal $117,998.11
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AREARGÜELLO DE:
más intereses sobre dicha
CIBO SALA SUPERIOR
SCOTIABANK DE
suma al 11.25% anual, desde
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO.
el 1 de septiembre de 2015,
PUERTO RICO
Se le emplaza y requiere que hasta su completo pago, más
DEMANDANTE V.
conteste la demanda dentro de $468.80 de recargos adeudalos treinta (30) días siguientes a dos desde el día 1 de octubre TEDDY NIEVES CASTRO,
la publicación de este edicto, de 2015 hasta su total pago,
JESSICA MARTÍNEZ
radicando el original de su con- más la cantidad estipulada de
SANTANA Y LA
testación ante el Tribunal y no- $14,000.00 para costas, gastos
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
tificando a la Lcda.Delma Lyn- y honorarios de abogados, así
BIENES GANANCIALES
nette Berríos Mercado, cuya como cualquier otra suma que
dirección es PO Box 195553, contenga el contrato del préstaCOMPUESTA POR
San Juan, PR, 00919-5553, te- mo. La propiedad que garantiza
AMBOS
léfono (787) 449-6000, y núme- hipotecariamente el préstamo
DEMANDADOS
ro de facsímile (787) 474-3892, es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar CIVIL NÚM. CCD2016-0144
con copia de la contestación radicado en el Barrio Algarrobo (402) SOBRE: ACCIÓN IN
a la demanda. Este caso tra- del término municipal de Vega REM; COBRO DE DINERO Y
ta sobre Cobro de Dinero y Baja, Puerto Rico, marcado con EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
Ejecución de Hipoteca en que el solar número 17 del bloque POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMla parte demandante solici- “M” en plano de inscripción PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ta que se condene a la parte de la Urbanización Estancias ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉdemandada a pagar la suma de Tortuguero, con una cabi- RICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS
de $525,630.95 de Principal; da superficial de novecientos ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO
$40,180.32 de interés acumu- (900.00) metros cuadrados. LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERlados; $5,628.33 de cargos por En lindes por el: NORTE: Con TO RICO. S. S.
atrasos, y $15,769.92 de pena- la calle número diez (10), en
A: TEDDY
lidad acordada. La suma total una distancia de veinticinco
NIEVES CASTRO
adeudada al 26 de marzo de (25) metros; SUR: Con el solar
2013 asciende a $587,209.52. número seis (6), en una distan- Por la presente se le emplaza
Además, los co-demandados cia de veinticinco (25) metros; y notifica que debe contestar la
adeuda la suma de $63,000.00 ESTE: Con el solar número demanda dentro del término de
por concepto de costas y gas- dieciocho (18), en distancia de treinta (30) días a partir de la
tos de honorarios de abogado treinta y seis (36.00) metros; publicación del presente edicto,
según pactados Se le apercibe OESTE: Con el solar número radicando el original de la conque si dejare de hacerlo, se dieciséis (16), en distancia de testación ante el Tribunal y sala
dictará contra usted sentencia treinta y seis (36.00) metros; que se menciona en el epígrafe
en rebeldía, concediéndose el Enclava una casa. La propiedad de este edicto con copia a la
remedio solicitado en la de- consta inscrita al Folio 91 del parte aquí demandante. Se le
manda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI Tomo 309 de Vega Baja, Finca apercibe que de no contestar
FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy #25,189, Registro de la Propie- la demanda dentro del término
día 1 de junio de 2016. Griselda dad de Bayamón, Sección IV. aquí estipulado, se le anotará la
Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. La escritura de hipoteca cons- rebeldía y se dictará sentencia
ta inscrita al Folio 92 del Tomo sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abo309 de Vega Baja. Registro gados de la parte demandante
LEGAL NOTICE
de la Propiedad de Bayamón, son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. SomoESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
Sección IV. Inscripción tercera. za Colombani 1606 Ave. Ponce
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULa Demandante es la tenedora de León, Edif. Julio Bogoricin,
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
por endoso, por valor recibido y Ste.900, San Juan, Puerto
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAde buena fe del referido pagaré Rico, 00909, Tel. (787) 919MÓN
objeto de la presente acción. 0073, Fax (787) 722-1932. ExBANCO POPULAR DE Se le advierte que si no con- pido este edicto bajo mi firma y
PUERTO RICO
testa la Demanda, radicando sello de este Tribunal, hoy 7 de
PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.
el original de la contestación en junio de 2016. Vivian Y. Fresse
este Tribunal y enviando copia González, Secretaria Regional.
ÁNGELA
de la contestación a la aboga- Micheline Reyes Torres, SecreAYUSO MARRERO
da de la Parte Demandante, taria Auxiliar.
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2016-0649 Lcda. Belma Alonso García,
LEGAL NOTICE
(701) SOBRE: COBRO DE DI- cuya dirección es: Terrazas
NERO EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- de Guaynabo, H-26 Calle Las ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA- Flores, Guaynabo Puerto Rico PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR 00969, Teléfono y Fax: (787) PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENEDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS 789-1826, correo electrónico: TRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN
DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDEN- oficinabelmaalonso@gmail. SALA SUPERIOR
TE DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ES- com, dentro del término de
ORIENTAL BANK
TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE treinta (30) días de la publicaDemandante vs.
ción de este edicto, excluyénPUERTO RICO.
JOSE
SANTIAGO RAMOS
dose el día de la publicación,
A LA PARTE
se le anotará la rebeldía y se le GONZALEZ T/C/C JOSE
DEMANDADA: ÁNGELA dictará Sentencia en su contra,
RAMOS T/c/c JOSE
AYUSO MARRERO
concediendo el remedio soliS. RAMOS, MINERVA
citado sin mas citarle ni oírle.
en: ESTANCIAS DE
FELICIANO TELLADO
Se le informa además, que se
TORTUGUERO, M17
T/C/C
MINERVA RAMOS
procederá a presentar aviso de
RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO. SS
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Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: KCD2016-0673
(906) 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.
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concepto de costas, gastos y
honorarios de abogado, según
pactados. SE LES 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 Puerto Rico, a
6 de junio de 2016. Griselda
Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria
Regional. Neribert Diaz Rivera,
Secretaria Auxiliar.
A. JOSE SANTIAGO
LEGAL NOTICE
RAMOS GONZALEZ T/C/C ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
JOSE RAMOS T/C/C JOSE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUS. RAMOS, MINERVA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
FELICIANO TELLADO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR
T/C/C MINERVA RAMOS
E.M.I. EQUITY
y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
MORTGAGE INC. COMO
DE GANANCIALES
AGENTE DE SERVICIO
COMPUESTA POR
DE TRM, LLC
CADA UNO DE SUS
Demandante Vs.
MIEMBROS COMO COJUAN M. CORDERO
ADMINISTRADORES
GONZALEZ T/C/C JUAN
CONDOMINIO
MOISES CORDERO
NORZAGARY 410
GONZALEZ, YASMIN V.
APARTAMENTO 202
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SAN JUAN, PR 0901
YASMIN VIONETTE
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SOCIEDAD LEGAL
POR LA PRESENTE se les
DE GANANCIALES
emplaza y requiere para que
COMPUESTA POR
contesten la demanda dentro
AMBOS; ESTADOS
de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este
UNIDOS DE AMERICA.
Edicto, radique el original de
su contestación 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 009191017; Teléfono 754-1313. En
dicha demanda se tramita una
acción de Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria donde
se le reclama la suma principal
de $416,576.46, al 1 de octubre de 2015, más intereses
devengados a la tasa de 6.00%
según pactados, la suma de
$604.68 por concepto de cargos por demora, más la suma
de 42,200.00 por concepto de
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, según pactados. SE
LES APERCIBE que de no hacerlo así se le anotará la la demanda dentro de los treinta (30)
días siguientes a la publicación
de este Edicto, radique el original de su contestación 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 7541313. En dicha demanda se
tramita una acción de Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria donde se le reclama la
suma principal de $416,576.46,
al 1 de octubre de 2015, más
intereses devengados a la tasa
de 6.00% según pactados, la
suma de $604.68 por concepto de cargos por demora, más
la suma de $42,200.00 por
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: CCD2014-0554
(404) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE
HIPOTECA (Vía Ordinaria).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y
hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia que
le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil
que suscribe por la Secretaría
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe
procederá a vender en pública
subasta al mejor postor en
efectivo, cheque certificado en
moneda legal de los Estados
Unidos de América el día 1ro
de agosto de 2016, a las 11:00
de la mañana en su oficina sita
en el local que ocupa en el
edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA
SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte
demandada de epígrafe en el
inmueble de su propiedad que
ubica en: Urb. Villa Forestal,
F-18, Manatí, P.R 00674 y que
se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar en la Urbanización Villa Forestal, Barrio
Coto Sur del término municipal
de Manatí, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número 18 del Bloque
F en el plano de inscripción de
la Urbanización Villa Forestal,
con una cabida superficial de
612.69 metros cuadrados. En
The San Juan Daily Star
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
lindes por el Norte, con camino de acceso propiedad de la
Autoridad de Acueductos y
Alcantarillados en 19.68 metros cuadrados, por el Sur, con
el solar 17 del Bloque F de la
Urbanización Villa Forestal en
25.91 metros lineales, por el
Este, en tres alineaciones con
terrenos propiedad de la Sucesión Ángel Colón, una de 11.60
metros lineales, otra de 13.20
metros lineales y otra de 5.70
metros lineales, por el Oeste,
en dos alineaciones una de
6.11 metros lineales, con terrenos pertenecientes al solar 18
del Bloque F (Bloque E; según
escritura) de la Urbanización
Villa Forestal y otra alineación de 17.41 metros lineales,
con la calle Cambalache de
la Urbanización Villa Forestal,
ambas alineaciones totalizan
22.52 metros lineales, según el
plano de inscripción aprobado
por la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos. Se encuentra afecta a servidumbre
de paso a favor de la Puerto
Rico Telephone Company en
su patio delantero con la Calle
Cambalache. Sobre dicho solar
enclava una estructura construida para fines residenciales,
diseñada para vivienda de una
sola familia, construida conforme a planos y especificaciones
aprobados por las agencias e
instrumentalidades gubernamentales pertinentes; según
escritura. La propiedad antes
relacionada consta inscrita al
Folio del Tomo Móvil 526 de
Manatí, Finca número 17,219,
en el Registro de la Propiedad
de Manatí. El tipo mínimo para
la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el
dispuesto en la Escritura de
Hipoteca, es decir la suma de
$106,544.00. 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 8 de agosto de 2016, a las
11:00 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 $71,029.33.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
adjudicación en la segunda
subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del
Alguacil que suscribe el día 15
de agosto de 2016, a las 11:00
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 $53,272.00.
La hipoteca a ejecutarse en
el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura
número 123, otorgada el día
13 de marzo de 2000, ante el
Notario José R. Fournier Torres
y consta inscrita en el Folio del
Tomo Móvil 526 de Manatí, finca número 17,219 en el Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí,
inscripción segunda (2da). 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
$81,971.60 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al tipo
convenido de siete (7.00%)
porciento anual desde el primero (1ro.) de abril de 2014
hasta su completo pago, más
$8,394.60 de intereses devengados hasta el 31 de agosto de
2015, la suma de $9,517.69
por concepto otros cargos devengados hasta la misma fecha
y la cantidad líquida y estipulada de $10,654.40 para costas,
gastos y honorarios de abogado 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 CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA
SUPERIOR durante las horas
laborables. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble
y que las cargas y gravámenes
anteriores y los preferentes,
si los hubiere, al crédito del
ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el
rematante los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
de remate. La propiedad no
está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las
constancias del Registro de la
Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca
descrita anteriormente, pesan
los gravámenes posteriores a
la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que
se relacionan a continuación.
HIPOTECA en garantía de un
pagaré a favor de Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden por la
suma principal de $6,956.37,
sin intereses y vencedero el 1
de abril de 2030 según escritura número 14 otorgada en
San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el
Notario Yvonne Vergne López
el 12 de marzo de 2007. Presentada al asiento 791 del diario 298 de Manatí. DEMANDA:
de 7 de noviembre de 2009,
de caso seguido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala
de Arecibo, Caso Civil Núm.
CCD2009-0963, sobre Cobro
de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por Doral Bank vs Juan
Moises Cordero Gonzáles y su
esposa Yasmin Vionette Vélez
Rivera, mediante la cual se
solicita el pago de la hipoteca de $106,544.00 que grava
esta finca en su inscripción
2da, reducida a $93,621.02 o
la venta en pública subasta.
Presentada el 10 de febrero de
2010, al Asiento 467 del Diario
309. Por la presente se notifica
a los acreedores conocidos y
desconocidos 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. La propiedad objeto de
ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores
una vez el Honorable Tribunal
expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta
Judicial. Y para conocimiento
de licitadores del público en
general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres
sitios públicos del municipio en
que ha de celebrarse la venta,
tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto
será publicado dos veces en
un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por espacio de
dos semanas consecutivas.
Expido el presente Edicto de
subasta bajo mi firma y sello de
este Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de junio de
2016. Gustavo E. Vidal Quiles.
Alguacil Regional. Por: Luis E.
Román Carrero.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR
E.M.I. EQUITY
MORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante Vs.
CARLOS XAVIER
ORTIZ OLIVERA
Demandado
CIVIL NUM: FCD2015-0272
(408) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE
HIPOTECA (Vía Ordinaria).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y
hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia que
le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil
que suscribe por la Secretaría
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA
SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en
pública subasta al mejor postor
en efectivo, cheque certificado
en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 5
de agosto 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 CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA
SUPERIOR, todo derecho,
título e interés que tenga la
parte demandada de epígrafe
en el inmueble de su propiedad
que ubica en Urb. Jardines de
Country Club, CJ-10 Calle 145,
Carolina, PR 00983 y que se
describe a continuación: URBANA- Solar número 10 del
bloque CJ de la Urbanización
Jardines de Country Club, localizado en el barrio Sabana
Abajo del término municipal
de Carolina, con un área de
206.93 metros cuadrados, en
lindes por el NORTE, en 22.25
metros, con el solar número 9
del mismo bloque; por el SUR,
en 22.25 metros, con el solar
número 11 del mismo bloque;
por el ESTE, en 9.30 metros,
con el solar número 29 del mismo bloque; y por el OESTE, en
9.30 metros, con la Calle número 145. Contiene una casa de
concreto armado y bloques de
una sola planta para fines residenciales (según surge del registro). La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el
Folio 12,870, inscrita en el Folio
18 del Tomo 340 de Carolina,
del Registro de la Propiedad
de Carolina, Sección Primera.
El tipo mínimo para la primera
subasta del inmueble antes
relacionado, será el dispuesto
en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es
decir la suma de $170,735.00.
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 agosto 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 $113,823.33. 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 agosto 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
$85,367.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe
fue constituida mediante la escritura número 178, otorgada el
día 30 de abril de 2010, ante el
Notario David Cardona Dingui y
consta inscrita al Folio 127 del
Tomo 1006 de Carolina, finca
número 12,870, en el Registro
de la Propiedad de Carolina,
Sección Primera, inscripción
Quinta (5ta) y Última. 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 principal
de $159,789.96 de principal,
intereses sobre dicha suma al
tipo convenido de cinco punto
cincuenta (5.50%) porciento
anual desde el primero (1ro.)
de octubre de 2014, hasta su
completo pago, más $4,377.82
de intereses devengados hasta
el día 28 de febrero de 2015,
la suma de $1,446.32 por concepto de otros cargos devengados hasta la misma fecha y la
cantidad líquida y estipulada de
$17,073.50 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 CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA
SUPERIOR durante las horas
laborables. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble
y que las cargas y gravámenes
anteriores y los preferentes, si
los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes
entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad
de los mismos, sin destinarse
a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está
sujeta a 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
desconocidos, no inscritos o
presentados que sus derechos
sobre los bienes hipotecados
con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante
o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen
pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores,
tenedores de o interesados en
títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados
hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se
celebrarán las subastas en las
fechas, horas y sitios señalados
para que puedan concurrir a la
subasta si les conviniere o se
les invita a satisfacer antes del
remate el importe del crédito,
de sus intereses, otros cargos
y las costas y honorarios de
abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos
del acreedor ejecutante. La
propiedad objeto de ejecución
y descrita anteriormente se
adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez
el Honorable Tribunal expida
la correspondiente Orden de
Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de
licitadores del público en gene-
ral se publicará este Edicto de
acuerdo con la ley por espacio
de dos semanas en tres sitios
públicos del municipio en que
ha de celebrarse la venta, tales
como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y
la Colecturía. Este Edicto será
publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos
semanas consecutivas. Expido
el presente Edicto de subasta
bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico,
hoy día 31 de mayo de 2016.
Manuel Villafañe Blanco #830,
Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE RÍO GRANDE
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs.
FEDERAL DEPOSIT
INSURANCE
CORPORATION COMO
SíNDICO DE FIRST
FINANCIAL CARIBBEAN
CORPORATION,
HACIENDO NEGOCIOS
COMO H.F. MORTGAGE
BANKERS, JOHN DOE y
RICHARD ROE,
Demandados
CIVIL NUM: N3CI201600240
SOBRE:CANCELACIÓN
DE
PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS.
EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JOHN DOE y RICHARD
ROE o sea, las personas
ignoradas que puedan
ser tenedores del pagaré
extraviado.
Por la presente se les notifica
que se ha sido presentada en
este Tribunal una Demanda en
su contra en el caso de epígrafe. EL abogado de la parte
demandante es: Lcdo. Raúl Rivera Burgos (RUA 8879), Martínez Odell & Calabria, P.O. Box
195419, San Juan, Puerto Rico
00919-5419, E-mail [email protected] Teléfono (787)
758-3276. Se le advierte que
este edicto se publicará en un
(1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si
no comparece a contestar dicha
Demanda radicado el original
de la misma en el Tribunal del
Caguas, con copia al abogado
de la parte demandante, dentro
del término de treinta (30) días,
contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la
Rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo
lo solicitado sin más citarle ni
oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma
y sello de este Tribunal de Río
Grande, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1
de junio de 2016. María J. López Sánchez, Secretaria.
The San Juan Daily Star
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Peyton Manning Ready to Watch
Football Rather Than Play It
P
eyton Manning is looking forward to
the transition from football player to
football fan.
The recently retired Denver Broncos quarterback was in Knoxville on Monday to play
in his charity golf tournament and announce
the winners of the University of Tennessee’s
Peyton Manning Scholarships. Manning said
he’s looking forward to watching games rather than playing in them this fall.
‘’I’m really excited about having a free fall
(season) for the first time in 22 years,’’ Manning said.
The Tennessee alum said he will attend at
least three of the Volunteers’ games this year.
He already has made plans to go to the Volunteers’ Sept. 10 game with Virginia Tech at
Bristol Motor Speedway as well as the Oct.
8 game at Texas A&M and the Oct. 15 home
game with Alabama.
He also said he has ‘’some Broncos games
on the list’’ and that he plans to participate
in the Indianapolis Colts’ 10-year reunion
of their Super Bowl championship team.
Manning also expects to watch some of his
younger brother’s New York Giants regularseason games.
‘’I’m going to see my little brother play
in some normal games as opposed to always
seeing him play in a Super Bowl where you
can’t breathe until the last play,’’ Manning
said.
After meeting the winners of the scholar-
ships that bear his name and participating in
a golf tournament benefiting East Tennessee
Children’s Hospital, Manning planned to
talk to Tennessee’s football team Monday afternoon.
Manning didn’t express any regrets about
his decision to retire in March, one month after helping the Broncos win the Super Bowl.
‘’People have asked me during OTAs (oﬀseason team activities) did I have withdrawals
or what not,’’ Manning said. ‘’I just have not
felt that way. Of course, the fall they say is a
whole diﬀerent deal and I can’t tell you until
we get there, but I really feel... all I will say is
I did not get shorted in any way. I got a full
plate of football and saw it from lots of diﬀerent angles. I’m very much at peace with it.
I’m actually kind of looking forward to this
fall and having a little free time.’’
Manning said he hasn’t had much time to
relax since retiring. He recently received his
Super Bowl ring and visited the White House
with his former Broncos teammates.
‘’I feel like I’ve been a little busier maybe than I ever have been,’’ Manning said. ‘’I
no longer can say, `Hey, I can’t do that. I have
practice that day.’ People know I’m available
now, so I’m paying up on some 18-year commitments. But I really wanted to protect my
fall to do some things I haven’t been able to
do in 22 years.’’
Puerto Rico’s Galindo Bets on Centrobasket Title for OQT Preparation
P
uerto Rico has the sole objective of
returning to the Olympic Games
and for that they want a national
team without absences, with the best
players available. That’s why for this
year they announced the return of several important players.
Among those returning to the national team is forward Alex Galindo, who
had his last participation with the team
at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
“It’s a big responsibility when you
put on your country’s jersey and this
summer will be no diﬀerent. The country needs positive things and whenever
we play, fans come together to support
us. That leads to extra pressure, but with
pride,” Galindo said.
After completing a good regular
season, where he averaged 17.6 points,
4.5 rebounds and 39% in three-pointers
for the Indios de Mayaguez, Galindo
will make his return to the national
team.
“It’s always an honor to represent
your country and it is even more rewarding to be part of the national team pro-
gram. Personally nothing changes. Last
year I decided not to be with the team to
work in other areas of my game. I’m flattered that they have considered me to be
part of the team again. I always go with
the mindset of helping as much of possible to achieve victories,” said Galindo.
In this 2016, Puerto Rico is expected
to be more powerful, with the returns of
important players like Carlos Arroyo, Peter John Ramos and Ricky Sanchez.
“Important names in Puerto Rico’s
basketball are interested in being part
of the team and that is a step forward
for Puerto Rico. It also demonstrates
that we want to do well and achieve the
goals we have for this summer,” said the
forward.
In this year’s calendar the first commitment for the Puerto Ricans will be
the Centrobasket of Panama, where the
team led by Eddie Casiano will look to
have a good performance to later on
address the FIBA Olympic Qualifying
Tournament in Serbia with high spirits.
“The Centrobasket is equal as or
more important than the Olympic Qua-
lifying Tournament. We have to defeat
Mexico and the Dominican Republic,
who have dominated this region in recent years. We must return to be champions of the region. If we win the region,
then we can think about gaining the ticket to the Olympics. “
In recent years, Puerto Rico has had
a few performances below the expectations. This may add more pressure to the
team.
“It’s a big responsibility when you
put on your country’s jersey and this
summer will be no diﬀerent. The country needs positive things and whenever
we play, fans come together to support
us. That leads to extra pressure, but with
pride. A title will give our people the joy
that at this time they need,” said Galindo.
At Belgrade’s OQT, Puerto Rico will
face Serbia, and Angola, in their preliminary group and could later go-up
against Czech Republic, Latvia and Japan in the second round, which seems
a diﬃcult test for a country that wants
to get the only ticket available for the
Olympic Games.
“At this level every group is diﬃcult.
Quality is at the highest point and we are
going with the mentality of achieving
the qualification. Serbia, on paper, looks
stronger, but there will be no small enemy. The first game is important because
we go against the host. A good performance there would give us strength to
go to the next round. The second round
turns into a no man’s land and anything
can happen,” said Galindo.
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42 Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The San Juan Daily Star
Javier Báez Not a Trade Chip?
T
By DOUG MITTLER
he Chicago Cubs may have an abundance of young talent to use as trade
bait, but there may be little to no chance of the club dealing third baseman Javier
Baez.
“Baez is not as mature a hitter as Kyle
Schwarber at 23 -- he still walks too little,
strikes out too much. But Baez’s power po-
tential from the right side is as intriguing as
Schwarber’s is from the left. And for diﬀerent
reasons, he would be nearly impossible for
the Cubs to trade,” writes Ken Rosenthal of
FoxSports.com.
The Cubs reportedly are looking to add
bullpen help and have been linked to New
York Yankees relievers Aroldis Chapman and
Andrew Miller. Baez would be too high a price for any of those relievers, and Rosenthal
suggests the Cubs would be more inclined to
deal players still at the minor league level.
The 23-year-old Baez is hitting
.267/.305/.445 with six homers.
Phillies Bats Fail Again in 3-1 Loss to the Diamondbacks
I
By MATT BREEN
t took just five minutes on Monday afternoon for a 3-1 Phillies
loss to Arizona to be decided.
Jeremy Hellickson threw 10 pitches that resulted in three quick
hits. The first three batters scored,
and the Phillies were in a hole.
Scoring more than three runs
in a game again proved to be quite an arduous task for baseball’s
lowest-scoring oﬀense. The Phillies have scored three runs in their last 35
innings, and it has been a week since they
have provided their starting pitcher with
more than two runs of support.
The Phillies collected just two extra-base hits in this game, and Tyler Goeddel’s double in the second inning provided the lone
run. Their absent oﬀense wasted a fine rally
by Hellickson, who did not allow another
run after his rough first inning. The righthander pitched seven innings, struck out six
and retired the last 10 batters he faced.
The pitcher’s recovery was too late for
this team. The damage was done. Jean Segu-
ra started the game with a double. Phil Gosselin drove him in with a single. Jake Lamb
followed with a two-run homer. Another
loss was certain.
The Phillies have dropped 10 of their
last 12 games, and Monday wrapped up a
six-game winless homestand. The Phillies
begin a nine-game road trip today in Minnesota, and they can only hope that their
oﬀensive struggles are left behind.
Freddy Galvis went 0 for 4 on Monday
and is batting .091 in June. Odubel Herrera
was hitless in three at-bats before sliding
into first to start the ninth inning with a
bunt single. Andres Blanco reached on an
error, but the rally was quickly extinguished. Tommy Joseph swung at the first pitch
and grounded into a double play. Cameron
Rupp struck out to end the game.
Rosario Named Batavia Downs Player of the Week
R
ochester Red Wings outfielder Eddie Rosario has been
named the Batavia Downs
Gaming and Racetrack Player of the
Week for the period of June 13-19.
For the week, Rosario was 7-for20 (.350) with three runs scored and
a run batted in. In the opener of a
series with first place Columbus
June 14, Rosario scored from second
on Adam Brett Walker’s game-winning hit in the ninth - sliding into
home and just eluding the catcher’s
tag. Rosario also helped the Wings
with his defense, making outstanding catches in center field on June
14 and June 16. For the season, Rosario is batting .333 in 28 games, and
his .888 OPS is second best on the
team.
Rosario is in his seventh professional season, all with the Twins
organization. He was selected by
Minnesota in the fourth round
of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft
out of Rafael Lopez Landron High
School in Guayama, Puerto Rico.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The San Juan Daily Star
After Game 7 Shocker, Warriors
Are Looking for Answers
By TIM BONTEMPS
T
his wasn’t the ending the Golden State
Warriors expected.
As the Cleveland Cavaliers celebrated their 93-89 victory at Oracle Arena in
Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night,
clinching the championship on Golden
State’s home court a year after the Warriors
did the same to them, Golden State’s players
and coaches quickly finished their interview
sessions and filed out of the arena.
After winning an NBA-record 73 games,
the expectation was that Golden State would
lift the Larry O’Brien Trophy for a second
straight season. Instead, the Warriors became
the first team to allow an opponent to recover
from a three-games-to-one deficit in the NBA
Finals, beginning an oﬀseason full of uncertainty in the Bay Area.
“I mean, it sucks,” said Draymond Green,
who was brilliant in Game 7 — 32 points, 15
rebounds and nine assists — but whose suspension for Game 5 was the turning point
in the series. “Obviously, you hate to lose
being we had a 3-1 lead. So you think about
all that stuﬀ. You think about: What if? What
if I would have done this? What if I would
have done that? All that stuﬀ replays in your
head.”
Until the Warriors reconvene this fall,
there will be plenty of what-ifs flowing
through their minds. What if Green hadn’t
been suspended in Game 5, giving Cleveland
the opening it needed to get back into the series? What if Stephen Curry hadn’t slipped
on a wet spot on the court in Houston in
Game 4 of Golden State’s first-round series
against the Rockets, spraining his medial collateral ligament and never again looking like
the player who won a second straight MVP
award this season? What if Harrison Barnes
hadn’t forgotten how to shoot over the final
three games, when he went a combined 5
for 32 from the field? What if Andrew Bogut
hadn’t gotten hurt in Game 5, meaning the
Warriors were left with having to play big
men Festus Ezeli and Anderson Varejao, who
were a combined minus-18 in Game 7?
None of that matters now, though. And
it is the cold, hard reality of that NBA Finals
outcome that will drive the Warriors to try to
find ways to come back stronger next season,
when they attempt to climb to the top of the
NBA mountain once again.
That search begins with Kevin Durant.
When the Warriors managed to come back
from a three-games-to-one deficit to beat the
Oklahoma City Thunder in seven games in
the Western Conference finals, the thought
was Durant was expected to stay with the
Thunder. But as the Warriors seemed to lack
scoring options in the Finals, could he become an option for them again?
Golden State owner Joe Lacob isn’t afraid
of swinging for the fences, and there’s little
doubt the Warriors will be granted a meeting
with Durant this summer. And, the think-
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ing goes, the fact that Golden State didn’t
win should make it more of a possibility for
Durant to go there — as opposed to joining
a two-time defending champion coming oﬀ
the greatest season in NBA history and having no room for improvement.
But assuming Durant does choose to
stay in Oklahoma City, the eﬀort to reinvigorate the roster won’t stop there. Instead, it
will shift to what should be done with Barnes
and Ezeli, a pair of restricted free agents this
summer.
With Curry, Green and Klay Thompson
all in their mid-20s, Golden State’s core isn’t
going anywhere anytime soon. But Bogut
will turn 32 next season and Andre Iguodala
will turn 33. Significant bench pieces like
Marreese Speights and Leandro Barbosa will
be free agents. The Barnes and Ezeli contract situations will hang over the team next
month. Coach Steve Kerr’s top assistant, Luke
Walton, oﬃcially begins his new job as coach
of the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday and
will undoubtedly wind up taking some of
Kerr’s staﬀ with him — giving the Warriors
yet another item on their summer to-do list.
Plenty of teams would be envious of the
Warriors’ situation: back-to-back NBA Finals
trips, an NBA record for regular season wins,
a championship a year ago and a trio of stars
in their primes on aﬀordable contracts. But
that doesn’t mean the Warriors won’t have
plenty to think about this oﬀseason.
After an ending no one here saw coming,
Golden State has a busy summer ahead.
LeBron James Speaks at Home Near Akron
By EMILY BAMFORTH
N
BA Finals MVP LeBron James is
home, after he led the Cleveland
Cavs to their first NBA championship. And he spoke to fans outside his
house Monday afternoon. The LeBron
James Family Foundation had organized
the homecoming and gave out T-shirts saying “We are Family” to fans who lined his
street.
James, 31, who was born in Akron and
played for St. Vincent-St. Mary High School,
helped finish oﬀ the Golden State Warriors
Sunday with 27 points, 11 rebounds, and 11
assists. The win broke the 52-year championship drought in Cleveland.
He stepped oﬀ the plane in Cleveland,
showing oﬀ the trophy to thousands of fans
who packed the I-X Center to welcome their
team. Then he went home, to the house he
shares with his wife and three children.
Fans greeted James with screams and
chants of “MVP!” as James waved from a
van, then spoke into a microphone.
James talked about how the team was
the first in NBA history to come back from
a 3-1 deficit to win the finals.
“ That championship wasn’t just for us
... That championship was for everyone in
Northeast Ohio,” he said.
The crowd, many who had gathered on
the road hours beforehand, roared. LeBron
then joked about how tired he was.
“I’m going to take a really long nap,”
he said, as fans laughed.
LeBron then headed oﬀ to his home
around the corner, and fans ran over to see
him come home to his family. But before
he left, he closed with what he wanted the
crowd to remember.
“I’m just a kid from Akron, Ohio.”
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44 Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The San Juan Daily Star
Argentina’s Lionel Messi the Obstacle in Front of USA’s Copa América Dream Run
By MARTIN ROGERS
M
any things in soccer are easier to say
than to do, and the entire concept of
stopping Lionel Messi from wreaking
havoc with his creative brilliance must surely
top that list.
It sounds quite simple, doesn’t it? Just stop
him.
In truth, such a task is perhaps the most
diﬃcult thing in the sport, which is why Messi, the little maestro from Argentina, is arguably the greatest player of this era and certainly
among the finest of all time.
Finding a way to curtail his dominance is
the next task presented to the United States, one
that must be accomplished at Houston’s NRG
Stadium tonight if the host nation’s charmed
run through to the semifinals of the Copa America is going to continue.
Buoyed by three consecutive impressive
victories, USA head coach Jurgen Klinsmann
is bullish about his team’s chances of handling
Messi, citing their performance against Cris-
tiano Ronaldo and Portugal at the 2014 World
Cup.
“We take it as it comes,” Klinsmann said.
“There is no need to talk and make Argentina
bigger than they are. We played two years ago
(against) Ronaldo and that was a big game, too.
We were winning 2-1 right into the 96th minute. We came so far now and we are hungry for
the next step, even though we understand it is
a big opponent.”
Klinsmann has a point, kind of. Yes, the
USA did well against Portugal in what was
the second game for both teams in the World
Cup’s Group of Death. Ronaldo, Messi’s only
legitimate contender for the tag of world’s best
player, was indeed stymied and frustrated for
most of the evening in Manaus.
However, Ronaldo was also nursing injuries, yet still managed to set up the late equalizer that broke American hearts, restricting
them to a 2-2 draw when victory had looked
assured.
Messi, now fully fit following an early summer back problem, is seeking to win his first
Rakitic Hopes Spain Will
Rest ‘Magical’ Iniesta
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roatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic has
voiced his admiration for Andres
Iniesta and hopes Spain will rest his
Barcelona team-mate for their final Group
D game today.
Spain have already clinched qualification for the round of 16 following wins
over Czech Republic and Turkey and are
expected to make a number of changes to
their starting XI for the upcoming clash
with Croatia.
Iniesta is one of the candidates to be
rested by Vicente del Bosque with an eye
on the knockout stages and Rakitic would
not mind if the 32-year-old were to miss
out.
The attacking midfielder has been one
of the stars of the tournament, scooping
up man of the match awards against both
Czech Republic and Turkey, and Rakitic
has nothing but praise for the Spain ace.
“I don’t think Andres is surprising anyone with his superb performances,” said
Rakitic.
“He has reached such a high level that
we are only surprised if he is not at that
high level.
“To speak about Andres is to talk about
the magic of football, the enjoyment.
“I think he is enjoying himself enough
now, but I hope he has a rest against us.”
Croatia, who threw away a two-goal
lead to draw 2-2 with the Czechs last time
out, sit second in their group with four points from two games.
major international trophy in Argentinean colors. He was in rampant form with a goal and
two assists in a 4-1 victory over Venezuela on
Saturday.
Yet even with the magic of Messi and the
world’s No.1 ranked team in its path, a trip to
the final of the Copa America, a tournament
typically featuring almost exclusively South
American teams but expanded for its 100th anniversary, is within reach.
“We have taken another step,” U.S. defender Matt Besler said. “We are closer to where
we want to be.”
Getting to the title game would be the biggest achievement of Klinsmann’s five-year
reign and be one of the most notable accomplishments in American soccer history. It all looked
highly unlikely two weeks ago, when an opening game defeat to Colombia put both early
elimination and Klinsmann’s firing within the
realms of possibility.
The response has been superb, and built
upon tenacity.
“We are a team with so much character
to grind it out,” Klinsmann added. “They are
more convinced of their ability now and have
more confidence.”
Belief is a must, of course, when it comes to
taming Messi, and often even that isn’t enough.
Argentina is more than a one-man team, but
when its talisman fires, so does the whole unit.
No one could stop Messi during the last
World Cup until Germany found a way to do
so in the final, using its multi-talented, multifaceted lineup to keep him in check.
Whether Klinsmann’s group has the will
and firepower to similarly crowd his shoulder,
block his running lanes and deny him space remains to be seen.
Messi said little after the Venezuela game,
except to note that scoring his 54th international goal to tie Gabriel Batistuta for the all-time
Argentinean lead was not worth celebrating
yet. “I tied it,” Messi said. “I still haven’t broken
it.”
He sounded like a man with unfinished business, in more ways than one.
Cavaliers’ Richard Jefferson Announces
Retirement After Game 7 Win
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By KURT HELIN
alk about going out on top.
After an NBA Finals where the veteran
journeyman ended up playing a key role
for the Cavaliers, allowing them to go small
and match up with the Warriors for stretches,
Richard Jeﬀerson decided this was the time
to retire. Chris Haynes of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer broke the news.
Richard Jeﬀerson told @FOXSportsOH
he’s retiring from the game of basketball. He
goes out on top.
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June
20, 2016
Jeﬀerson played 15 NBA seasons after
Houston drafted him 13th out of Arizona back
in 2001. He averaged 13.3 points per game for
his career, with the high coming in 2008 when
he averaged 22.6 for the Nets.
After the game, he talked about LeBron
James and what he meant to Jeﬀerson’s career.
“I’ll give you a little walk down right
now,” Jeﬀerson said. “I lost the national
championship game to Duke, then I lost two
straight NBA Finals (with the Nets), then my
third year we lost to Detroit after being up 3-2
and they won the championship, then I lost to
Miami and they won the championship, then
to top it oﬀ I went to the Olympics and we
were the worst (American) team of all time.
“My whole career has been so, so close.
Then I had a stretch of six to seven years where you become a little bit of a journeyman. To
be able to get on a team and walk in with a
guy that says he’s going to be able to carry
you and bring me here, I owe everything,
every shot, every play, everything I’ve ever
done to that man.”
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HOROSCOPE
Aries
(Mar 21-April 20)
When you’re trying to deal with a problem, be open to hearing some constructive criticism. It’s possible your desire
to resolve an issue is being perceived as aggressive. Try
being less intense. Ask for feedback and be attentive to the
answers. If you disagree with what is said, remain calm.
Take some time to think through what has been said to see
if it has any validity at all.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
You’ll get a wonderful chance to fill in the gaps of your
knowledge. When faced with a daunting task, ask for help.
Your employer could pay for additional job training. Are
you interested in developing creative skills or emotional intelligence? Enrol in a course with a good reputation. Learning makes your confidence soar. It’s comforting to have an
arsenal of wisdom on which to draw.
Taurus
The sooner you let go of resentment, the happier you will
be. It’s not necessary to forgive someone who shows no
sign of changing. It is important to release their power
over you. By forging a new life centred on the things
you value and enjoy, you’ll move past this unfortunate
relationship. That’s because you will have reached higher ground, while they remain stuck in a prison of their
own making.
(April 21-May 21)
This is a good time to wrap up financial deals. If you
applied for a raise, you could be given one. Splash out on
something nice for yourself. Have you been looking for
a more lucrative job? You could be oﬀered one with lots
of responsibility. Although the workload will be intense,
you’ll enjoy most of your duties. Getting paid to show oﬀ
your expertise will be emotionally rewarding. You always
fare best when doing work that commands respect.
Gemini
(May 22-June 21)
Sagittarius
Asserting yourself is critical to getting what you want.
You’ve always been a flexible person who is willing to
go with the flow. Sometimes this ability to compromise
gets used against you. People have come to expect you
will take the path of least resistance. Consequently, they
have learned to press their agenda until you back down.
Don’t make that mistake when it comes to issues that are
dear to your heart.
Cancer
(June 22-July 23)
Give yourself a break. Yes, you’re a flawed individual,
but you’re trying hard to overcome your shortcomings.
Whenever you have a setback, take a deep breath. Don’t
let yourself get thrown into a shame spiral. Instead,
make a list of five positive steps you’ve taken over the
past year. Congratulate yourself for pursuing your goals.
When you fall short of them, reflect. Ask yourself how
you can avoid similar problems from occurring again.
Leo
(July 24-Aug 23)
Scorpio
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
It’s important to be good to yourself, especially when
others depend on you. Take this opportunity to enjoy
some rest and relaxation. For you, this could mean anything from planning an elaborate trip to browsing for
reading material at the library to taking a challenging
course. Anything involving mind expansion will put
a spring in your step. When others demand help, tell
them to wait.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
The sooner you release impossible standards of perfection; the less stressful life will become. It’s admirable
you want to be the best. A tendency to push yourself
hard has resulted in great achievements. Continually
setting the bar higher and higher is a game of diminishing returns. Allow yourself to be a normal human being. Instead of assuming more responsibility, make time
for quiet reflection.
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Aquarius
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
Instead of thinking in terms of what is best for you, explore how you can help your nearest and dearest. Spending quality time with your favourite person will ease
some of the resentment that has weakened your bond.
It’s important to show you are willing to make personal
sacrifices for the sake of your loved one. Once they see
you backing up words with actions, they’ll let down their
defences.
Working with a team will give you a deeper appreciation for other people’s intelligence. You’ve always been
a visionary. Many times, your thinking is so far ahead of
the curve you feel alienated. You wonder if you’re the
only person who has the courage to try something diﬀerent. As soon as you get involved in a collaboration,
you’ll realise there are many people who are willing to
forge a new frontier.
Virgo Aug 24-Sep 23)
Pisces
Creating a secure foundation is your first priority. Whether this means putting a deposit on a house, taking out
an insurance policy or starting a retirement fund is up to
you. The important thing is to take steps to protect yourself against economic uncertainty. Are you drowning in
bills? Give serious thought to downsizing your lifestyle.
Moving to a less expensive place will allow you to pay
oﬀ bills and sleep easier.
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
Striking a healthier balance between your home and
work life is important. Although your family loves and
needs you, it’s important for you to have a meaningful
career. If that means relocating to a diﬀerent city, moving
into your own place or spending less time at home, so
be it. Anyone who tries to lay a guilt trip on you should
be stopped in their tracks. Make it clear you will not be
emotionally manipulated into giving up a good job.
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