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t is uncertain whether individuals or businesses will do better with the introduction of a value-added tax of 16 percent
because that would depend on the level of
consumption, which in Puerto Rico is 95
percent, and whether the goods or services
purchased are exempted.
The information came to light during
the 2015 Tax Forum: IVU v. IVA, organized
by Inter American University School of Law.
The forum was conducted by Teresita Fuentes, CPA and partner at Ernst and Young;
former commonwealth Treasury Secretary
Xenia Vélez; Omar Marrero, a partner at López Sánchez Pirillo & Hymovitz; and Juan
José Torres, who is a CPA and partner at
Guallini, Torres & Associates.
Although the government proposes to
exempt some 800,000 people from paying
income taxes and lower taxes for the rest,
people will spend more because of the value-added tax (IVA by its Spanish acronym),
which contains 17 exemptions.
Giving concrete examples of the reform’s
impact, Vélez said a single individual who
earns $44,500 currently pays about $2,016 in
taxes with $13,100 in deductions and a dependent and about $934 in purchases under
a consumption level of 50 percent for a total
of $2,950.
Under the reform, “their income tax
will go down” but if the consumer has a
consumption level of 50 percent, of which
30 percent is subject to the IVA and 20 percent is not, he or she will end up paying the
government $3,560 a year in taxes, or an
additional $610.
A married couple with a joint income of
$84,000, two dependents, personal exemptions and about $23,000 in deductions currently pays $3,416 in income taxes and with
a consumption level of 50 percent, approximately $1,711 for a total of $5,127. That same
couple may not pay income taxes but with
a consumption level of 50 percent where 30
percent pays the IVA, they will end up paying $6,520 per year, about $1,392 more in
taxes.
However, a married couple with an income of $84,000 but only one spouse working will save $2,846 in taxes compared to
the working couple with the same income.
For businesses, their profits depend on
whether the product is exempt, taxable or
pays a zero tax rate.
For example, a merchant who buys $70
in goods and sells them for $100 but incurs
costs of $65, of which $10 are subject to the
IVA, will receive a net income of $5 after
paying the Treasury Department. The merchant will also have a net income of $5 if the
goods were 50 percent taxable and with 50
percent at the zero rate.
However, if the sale of the $100 in taxable goods was 50 percent taxable and 50 percent exempt, the merchant would receive an
income of $1.80. But if the goods sold were
20 percent taxable and 80 percent exempted
by the nature of the buyer, as would happen
in a sale to the Puerto Rico Electric Power
Authority, then it could incur a loss because
it can not charge IVA, Vélez said.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
In Hearings, Contradictions Emerge Between IVA Selling Points and Legislation’s Language
By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
[email protected]
A
s official public hearings on the proposed tax reform got underway last week,
certain contradictions came to light in
terms of what Gov. Alejandro García Padilla
said in a 10-minute televised message would
be the relief the middle class sector would see
when the value-added tax (IVA by its Spanish
acronym) is implemented, and what is actually drafted in the law.
In fact, the Tax System Transformation
Law doesn’t contain any dispositions that
guarantee a refund for what consumers who
earn less than $35,000 a year pay in the 16 percent IVA as part of the tax relief promised by
García Padilla. What the legislation does state
is that it is up to Treasury Department Secretary Juan Zaragoza’s discretion, and it is his
responsibility to create a regulation specifically for those purposes within 90 days after the
tax reform is passed by lawmakers and signed
into law.
In his televised message, García Padilla said citizens who make less than $20,000 a
year will a receive a 100 percent refund from
what they pay in the 16 percent IVA while those whose salaries run between $35,000 and
$20,000 a year will get a 50 percent reimbursement.
But the confusion began prior to the public hearings, when Zaragoza publicly stated
last week that the reimbursements were not it
the law “because amounts change depending
on the pattern of consumption.”
He added that consumers will likely receive $150 to $600 three times a year, which
is probably not 100 percent of what they will
have paid in the 16 percent IVA, from which
there are not many exemptions.
At public hearings late last week, Senate President Eduardo Bhatia acknowledged
the importance for Puerto Rico of moving
on to a new tax system that doesn’t penalize
the productive capacity of its workers and
entrepreneurs. Economist Juan Lara, who
was deposing for the Treasury Department,
explained that “economists have always
recommended that we have a system that
would tax more on consumption and less
on the [people’s] income, because apart
from the fact that it’s more healthy, the consumption-based system is more difficult to
evade.”
Meanwhile, Bhatia emphasized that before approving the legislation, clear language
must be included and it must be explained in
a complete, clear and concise manner how the
reimbursement mechanism is going to work.
The mechanism affects the regressivity issue
that is proposed in the tax reform.
“There is not going to be a final bill until there are amendments that address the regressivity issue. Regressivity is an issue that
worries all of us,” Bhatia said. “I am in public
service to fight poverty, not to increase it.”
Zaragoza said he agreed with Bhatia’s
assertion and said he will be presenting
amendments to those ends.
“I agree, the legislation should not be
passed without clear guidelines on how much
the compensation will be for the regressivity,”
Zaragoza told Bhatia.
Regarding the amount of time it will
take to process the first refunds to citizens,
Bhatia noted that “if this reform is approved
with the amendments that will be made, there
has to be a transition from one system to the
next.”
“Tax evasion worries me,” Bhatia added.
“That we have a culture of many people who
are aware of a system that isn’t working. That
there are those who pay too much and those
who don’t pay at all. We need a balanced and
fair system. And I want it to be [implemented]
as soon as possible.”
If passed, the tax reform should be fully
implemented by Jan. 1, 2016.
New Progressive Party (NPP) Senate
Minority Leader Larry Seilhamer, while questioning Zaragoza on the issue of dependency
on consumption revenues versus income tax
revenues, quoted a study drafted by the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO)
that stated how in other countries statistics
reflect that in the majority of cases most of the
revenues are not sustained by the monies collected under an IVA.
“Is it correct to say the IVA is directed
at consumption? In Australia, the IVA represents 20 percent of productivity, and income
tax is 60 percent; in Canada, 10 percent represents the consumption through the IVA and
48 percent of income taxes,” Seilhamer said.
“In France, it is 18 percent vis-a-vis 22 percent;
in New Zealand, which is the example given
here, what is going on there is that there are
hardly any exemptions -- just four -- and the
IVA represents 22 percent and 66 percent in
income taxes. And in the United Kingdom, 20
percent IVA and 48 percent income taxes. And
in Puerto Rico we expect [to collect] 55 percent
in the IVA?”
Zaragoza said that when evaluating the
IVA’s behavior in other countries it also must
be taken into consideration the “weight those
countries governments decided to give the
tax.”
“We must distinguish that the IVA is
a tool that is aimed at consumption and it is
each jurisdiction’s decision the weight they
have to give that tool. In all those countries
that you mentioned, the use of the IVA is aimed at taxing consumption, just like us,” Zaragoza said. “The difference between those
countries and Puerto Rico is the weight that
we are giving it within the system.”
Zaragoza added that in Puerto Rico’s
case, “We are trying to rely on [an IVA], almost
the same way we rely on income taxes and excise taxes.”
He added that the countries mentioned
continue to rely more on income taxes than on
the IVA.
He argued that the island’s system
would be more similar to countries in Latin
America that rely mostly on IVA collections.
Nevertheless, Zaragoza seemed to contradict himself when moments later he responded to Seilhamer’s questioning saying that the
state’s income from the IVA would be “a little
more or a little less than 50 percent.”
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico Independence
Party (PIP) Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago
asked Zaragoza why Treasury is so inclined
toward not exempting more services and/or
items from the IVA, while at the same time
protecting various tax incentives laws, which
runs contrary to the recommendations by accounting firm KPMG in the report on which
Treasury based the tax reform.
Santiago said that there is unequal
treatment when the IVA will be included
in the costs of medical services and private
school while companies such as Lufthansa Technik got a 4 percent tax rate as well as other
incentives to create jobs and infrastructure,
thanks to the amendments the government
made to Law 73.
Zaragoza was not able to specify
what the commonwealth has received in
terms of economic benefits and jobs created
by awarding the various tax incentives.
“I have asked and nobody was able to
answer me how much [money] this will give
the country,” Santiago said. “Where is the
science, the math, the certainty?”
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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SJ Mayor Leaving It to Lawmakers How to Vote on Tax Reform
By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
[email protected]
S
an Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz
announced late last week that she is
leaving the decision to vote against
the Tax System Transformation Law, or
Tax Reform, in the hands of Popular Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers.
Although she has openly stated that
she is against the value-added tax (IVA by
its Spanish acronym) and would rather
keep the municipal sales use tax (IVU by
its Spanish acronym), she said that each
lawmaker should assume responsibility
and vote as he or she deems fit.
Cruz has three PDP lawmakers in the
lower chamber, Sonia Pacheco, Luis Raúl
Torres and Edualdo Báez and two in the
upper chamber, Ramón Luis Nieves and
José Nadal Power. The votes of those lawmakers are enough to stop the legislation
from passing.
“On November 5, I started the dialo-
gue process with the lawmakers and each
one will assume responsibility, not for Carmen Yulín … this isn’t about Carmen Yulín,
or the governor or the PDP, this is about
the people,” Cruz said. “You take a position before the people and you tell them,
‘Look, I’m happy private schools and food
will be more expensive, and when you
can’t get all of your mortgage interest,’ and
the people will take their position. I am on
the side of the people.”
She added that the time of doing
things in politics without taking into account the people’s best interest is a thing
of the past.
“I explain to my colleagues what the
effects of the proposed reform will have:
it will be detrimental to the San Juan municipality and detrimental for the people
of San Juan,” the mayor said. “This is not
a political contest. … This is a democratic
process about the people, because at the
end of the day, the people’s cost of living
will be more expensive.”
Cruz insisted on keeping the municipal IVU and that agreements should
be made with the central government to
better supervise the tax and to create a supervising unit at the Treasury Department
while also restructuring the government’s
$70 billion debt.
Cruz questioned the inconsistencies
between Gov. Alejandro García Padilla
and House Speaker Jaime Perelló on the
division of the new tax.
“One day Jaime Perelló says that the
IVA is not going to be used to pay the debt
and the governor says that part of it will
be used to pay the debt,” she said. “Who
pays for the government’s bad decisions?
Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza couldn’t
explain to me how the 16 percent will be
divided.”
The San Juan mayor anticipated that
she will continue meeting with lawmakers
from towns that oppose the IVA “to present the evidence of the effect the IVA will
have if implemented.”
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Monday, February 23, 2015
Head of Physicians Association
Says Governor Should Apologize
for Calling Doctors Tax Cheats
By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
[email protected]
P
uerto Rico Physicians and Surgeons Association President Víctor Ramos demanded late last
week that Gov. Alejandro García Padilla apologize to the medical community for calling its members tax evaders
and for accusing them of “lying on
their income taxes” during a televised
message on the new tax reform.
Ramos added that if the governor
truly thinks that is the case, then he
should send the police to arrest them.
“It’s disrespectful and the governor knows it,” Ramos said in a radio
interview. “He is lying.”
“Investing millions of dollars in
public funds to justify the implementation of the value-added tax, accusing
doctors of being tax evaders is unfair
and we will not accept it. Doctors help
save lives, they don’t evade taxes,”
Ramos said. “We didn’t invent the tax
system. The government invented it.
If there are some legitimate and legal
deductions, well, that is not tax evasion.”
Ramos challenged García Padilla
to prove where the tax evaders are, put
them behind bars, or “failing that, apologize.”
He added that the governor is forcing “class warfare” between professionals such as doctors and engineers
and salaried workers such as police
officers, teachers and nurses.
“What he needs to do is explain
how the tax reform works,” he added.
Ramos was reacting to García
Padilla’s Feb. 10 televised message on
the proposed tax reform in which he
stated that only 12,000 taxpayers, less
than 1 percent, report incomes higher
than $150,000 a year.
“Under the current system, professionals report, on average, a net
income of $16,500, including doctors,
lawyers and engineers,” the governor
said in his message. “In other words,
our system allows that, on average,
some professionals report to Treasury
less than teachers, nurses and police
officers. This in contrast with the cars
and luxurious homes that we see on
our streets.”
Ramos added that increasing the
price patients pay for health services
by having to pay the IVA will result in
loss of jobs and aggravate the emigration of professionals and doctors to the
mainland U.S.
“This will cause a mass exodus
of professionals and the revenues they
have projected will not be met, becau-
se there will be no one to pay it,” he
said. “With 1,000 doctors that leave,
some 4,000 jobs will be lost.”
He also can’t trust the Treasury
Department when it comes to issuing
the so-called value-added tax reimbursements to citizens of scarce economic
resources, when the agency doesn’t
send income tax returns in time under
the the current tax system.
He charged that the governor is
“lying on the issue and now expects
patients who work hard and have
private health insurance plans, to not
have access to Puerto Rico’s health
system because they won’t be able to
pay the deductibles plus a 16 percent
IVA.”
UPR Board to Review Proposal to Base Tuition on Family Income of Student
By EVA LLORENS VELEZ
[email protected]
T
he Governing Board of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is
slated to receive a report this
week from a panel that is reviewing
tuition charges to evaluate proposals,
including one that proposes charging
tuition according to the student’s socioeconomic level.
“For now we have a preliminary
progress report that was presented to
the Finance Committee on February
12,” said UPR Board of Governors
Chairman Jorge Sánchez. “We are slated to receive a final report on February
UPR Board of Governors
Chairman Jorge Sánchez
27 and for Dr. Edgar Resto, who chairs
the review committee, to make an official presentation at the next regular
meeting of the Board of Governors in
March.”
The proposal, which the review
committee has said includes an alternate model of tuition that is based on
the socioeconomic circumstances of
the student’s family, will be discussed.
UPR President Uroyoán Walker Ramos
will evaluate the proposal and submit
his recommendations to the Board.
The university is also awaiting for
a final version of Tax Reform to determine if there will be changes to the formula used to allocate its budget as that
will have an impact on tuition.
“We should also wait for the Legislature to complete assessing tax reform, as knowing what will happen to
the value-added tax and [specifics on
government] budget will be instrumental in determining what will happen to
the University’s budget formula,” Sánchez said.
Sánchez said that once they have a
clear picture of the budget and evaluate the determinations of the committee,
they will have a final decision on tuition.
The board’s proposal is to increase to 66 percent the number of students
from disadvantaged families who enter
the university.
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Hedge Funds in Talks with PR Gov’t Over Structure of $2.9 Billion Bond Sale
By EVA LLORENS VELEZ
[email protected]
A
lmost two weeks after the law that
hiked the tax on crude oil was amended, hedge funds that hold $4.5 billion
of Puerto Rico debt are negotiating with the
commonwealth over the structure of the $2.9
billion tax bond sale, two people with knowledge of the discussions told Bloomberg.
The 30-member group, led by Brigade
Capital Management LLC, Centerbridge Capital Partners LP, Davidson Kempner Capital
Management LP, Fir Tree Partners and Monarch Alternative Capital LP, plans to submit
a proposal to the government, said one of the
people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private.
The Government Development Bank
(GDB), which is spearheading the sale, did
not reply to requests for an interview.
The hike in the crude oil tax is slated to
be used to fund the proposed bond sale. The
law had to be amended twice to ease restrictions imposed on the bond sale that made it
less attractive to investors.
One of the amendments, which was
approved earlier this month, eliminated an
8.5 percent cap on the nominal interest rate
imposed on the bonds after the governor’s
economic team complained it was making
the sale more difficult.
The 30-member group is seeking to
have petroleum-tax revenue
that is backing the debt subject to inflation adjustments, according to Bloomberg.
The inflation adjustment, which allowed for
the oil tax to go up, was eliminated from the
original law.
Hedge funds and distressed-debt buyers have been purchasing
tax-exempt Puerto Rico bonds for their
higher relative yields.
The commonwealth was cut to specu-
lative grade a year ago by each of the three
largest rating companies.
The
bonds
will
carry
the
commonwealth’s general-obligation pledge.
Proceeds will repay obligations the
Highways and Transportation Authority
owes to the GDB, which lends to the com-
monwealth and its localities.
The hedge funds’ proposal asks the
GDB to include a subordinated piece of debt
that would rank junior to the bonds offered
to the funds, one of the people said. That
structure would give the funds priority in repayment over the subordinate debt.
PR Bankruptcy Bill May Face Stiff Opposition at Congressional Hearing
By EVA LLORENS VELEZ
[email protected]
A
U.S. House subcommittee will hold
a hearing Thursday on the bill that
seeks to modify the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code to allow Puerto Rico’s agencies to file
under Chapter 9 of the code, but the legislation will face stiff opposition from investors
and bondholders.
“The point of the hearing is to create
a comprehensive record that will help the
committee’s leadership determine whether
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which would be to hold a vote on the bill,”
said Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi,
who filed the legislation.
Bond investors in the U.S. have long
opposed municipal bankruptcies, preferring to restructure debts outside of court,
where a judge can impose cuts. Only about
half the states let their municipalities file for
bankruptcy. Some require a fiscal review
first. States themselves are barred from filing for bankruptcy.
The hearing is set to be held by the
judiciary committee’s subcommittee on regulatory reform, commercial and antitrust
law, which has jurisdiction over bankruptcy
law.
Pierluisi introduced the bill last week
after a federal judge struck down a local
bankruptcy law that allowed certain public
corporations to restructure their debt.
The district court judge ruled that the
Recovery Act could not be enforced because
federal law pre-empts, or takes precedence
over, local law. The commonwealth Justice
Department is appealing the ruling, contending that right now the island does not have
a bankruptcy mechanism.
When the Recovery Act became law, it
gave the government a tool to force bondholders to negotiate debt repayment. The
law helped the Puerto Rico Electric Power
Authority (PREPA) negotiate a deferment
on its debt as it engages in a restructuring
plan.
Throwing out the law restores bondholders’ ability to force Puerto Rico and its
agencies to raise taxes or electricity rates,
cut staff and negotiate fuel contracts, Daniel Hanson, an analyst at Height Securities
LLC, a Washington-based broker-dealer, told
Bloomberg.
“Puerto Rico is now in a meaningful
position of weakness with respect to its
bondholders,” Hanson said. “It forces the
government’s hand in public-policy questions. They either make decisions that are
bond-friendly or they’re forced to make decisions later on by courts.”
Right now, PREPA and a majority of its
creditors signed an agreement in August that
put off payment of bank loans and required
the utility to file a debt-restructuring plan
by next month. That contract ends March
31 and the agency has asked for a new June
30 deadline, according to two people with
knowledge of the request. The STAR learned,
however, that PREPA is submitting a plan in
March.
Another public corporation that is in
economic difficulty is the Highways and
Transportation Authority, which owns $2.2
billion in credit lines to the Government Development Bank and is putting the bank’s
liquidity in jeopardy. The government plans
to go to the market with a new bond issue to
pay the debt.
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A Mosquito Solution (More Mosquitoes) Raises Heat in Florida Keys
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
I
n this bite-size community near Key West,
like so many other mosquito-plagued
spots up and down the Florida Keys, residents long ago made peace with insecticides
dropped into town by planes or rumbling by
on trucks. Cans of Off are offered at outdoor
parties. Patio screens are greeted with relief.
But Keys residents are far less enamored
of another approach to mosquito control — a
proposal to release the nation’s first genetically modified mosquitoes, hatched in a lab and
pumped with synthetic DNA to try to combat
two painful mosquito-borne viral diseases,
dengue and chikungunya.
If the federal Food and Drug Administration gives the go-ahead for the trial, Key
Haven, with 444 houses built on a tiny peninsula, would become the focal point of the
first American release of several million mosquitoes genetically altered by Oxitec, a British
biotechnology company.
For denizens of a chain of islands notorious for their renegade spirit — Key West
once jokingly broke away from the United States as the Conch Republic — this possibility is
fraught with suspicion and indignation.
“This is the first time they are releasing
genetically modified mosquitoes in the country, and we have not given our consent,” said
Mila de Mier, a Key West resident and real estate agent who helped spearhead a four-year
campaign to block the trial until more research
is conducted. “People can’t be experimented
on without their consent. When the mosquitoes are released, there is no way to recall it.”
The Food and Drug Administration,
which is still reviewing the Oxitec application,
must approve the field release. But the proposal has set off a chain reaction of anxiety and
protest that began in 2011 and has gathered
steam as the agency’s decision approaches.
In 2012, the Key West City Commission
passed a resolution objecting to the release of
several million genetically modified mosquitoes there. But Key Haven is about a mile away
in unincorporated Monroe County.
Opponents continue to push back hard
in gatherings and town hall meetings, peppering scientists with questions. An online
petition by Ms. de Mier to stop the release of
the mosquitoes has drawn more than 149,000
signatures. To keep the campaign going, irate
residents recently sent 1,600 emails to the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, run by
an independently elected commission.
“We feel it’s being jammed down our
throats, and we are not getting answers,” said
Beth Eliot, a Key Haven real estate agent who
said no one she knew in the neighborhood
supported the project. “The company that is
saying that this is all safe is the company that
stands to profit.”
Oxitec has made significant progress
toward securing permission for the trial: Late
last year, it won approval from several federal
agencies to import mosquito eggs and build a
lab for inspection. In the lab, scientists plan to
inject the eggs with synthetic DNA, rear the
mosquitoes and release them in Key Haven,
once the field trial is permitted. The lab is in
the Marathon, Fla., office of the mosquito control district, which is working with Oxitec on
the project.
Oxitec seeks to drastically reduce the
population of the dangerous and hard-to-kill
Aedes aegypti here by freeing male mosquitoes with a specially made gene designed to
kill their offspring after they mate in the wild.
This, in turn, could blunt the spread of dengue
and chikungunya, viral diseases that have no
cure and are spreading quickly around the
world.
For Oxitec, the Key Haven trial would
be just one of several.
More than 70 million Oxitec mosquitoes have been released in field trials in the
Cayman Islands, Malaysia, Brazil and, most
recently, Panama, all of which have struggled
with dengue. Regulatory agencies in those
countries approved the release of the mosquitoes, and last year Oxitec received approval
from Brazil to release its mosquitoes commercially.
Trying to unleash a better weapon to
curb dengue, which hit Key West in 2009 and
2010, and chikungunya is a smart preventive,
said Michael S. Doyle, the executive director
of the mosquito control district, which invited
Oxitec to conduct the trial.
Pesky and potentially dangerous, the
virus-carrying aegypti mosquitoes are difficult to kill and snack on humans almost exclusively. The Keys mosquito agency, regarded
as one of the best in the country, can kill only
50 percent. Aegypti make up 1 percent of the
Keys mosquito population but require 10 percent of the budget, Mr. Doyle said.
The aegypti prefer urban settings. They
love backyards (not marshes), bite during the
day and easily breed in tiny spaces (soda bottle caps, for example). Insecticides, which can
harm other organisms, often miss them. Only
the females bite, which is how the diseases are
transmitted.
Key Haven, Fla. could be the first American site for the release of millions of altered
mosquitoes to fight viral diseases spread by Aedes aegypti.
“Using the mosquitoes against themselves avoids two of the biggest problems — first,
how to get the right chemicals to the elusive
mosquitoes without causing collateral damage to beneficial animals,” Mr. Doyle said.
“And second, how to find and repeatedly remove the thousands upon thousands of breeding spots that people unintentionally create
all around our homes.”
Mr. Doyle added that opponents of the
project made up a “vocal minority” in the
Keys. Over all, he said, surveys have shown
there is support for the project, a point that
critics dispute.
Reports and statements by Oxitec and
its academic and governmental collaborators
say trials have reduced mosquitoes in targeted
areas by an average of 90 percent. Individual
results vary. In two Brazilian villages, reductions were 60 percent to 70 percent, said Danilo Carvalho, a biologist at the University of
São Paulo.
But critics say Keys residents are being
used as guinea pigs even though the area does
not have a dengue problem now. They say
questions persist despite numerous meetings
with mosquito officials and scientists.
What happens if a person is bitten by a
stray female mosquito (Oxitec says a tiny percentage become mixed in the release batch)?
Nothing, Oxitec scientists say. What happens
to the environment once the mosquitoes are
introduced? Nothing, Oxitec scientists say.
Who will be liable if something goes wrong
with the mosquitoes? Oxitec, if caused by its
actions or inaction, a company spokeswoman
said.
“Based on the trials conducted, we’re
confident that our mosquito is safe for humans
and would do no harm to the environment, as
were the regulators who approved its use,”
said Chris Creese, Oxitec’s communications
director.
In other words, the DNA dies with the
mosquito, said Derric Nimmo, Oxitec’s project
development manager. “It is very species specific,” Mr. Nimmo added.
Residents say it is difficult to believe information from the company seeking to profit
from the project, and its collaborators.
Phil Lounibos, a University of Florida
professor of ecology and behavior, said the
risks, in general, were “very, very low.” But,
he added, “we don’t know all the answers,
and Oxitec could do a better job of explaining
it.”
Others agree that the danger is minimal. “If there were mosquito genes coming
into humans, we would know about it now,
because there are millions of mosquitoes biting humans every single day,” said Anthony
James, a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California,
Irvine.
Still, residents say, a trial is an experiment.
“This is not the way to protect our community, with an unproven and unprecedented
experiment in the Florida Keys,” said Meagan
Hull, a Key West resident. “The genie will be
out of the bottle, and you can’t stuff it back
in.”
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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Hillary Clinton, Privately, Seeks the Favor of Elizabeth Warren
By MAGGIE HABERMAN AND JONATHAN MARTIN
H
illary Rodham Clinton held a private meeting with
Senator Elizabeth Warren in December, seeking to
cultivate the increasingly influential senator and to
grapple with issues raised by a restive Democratic left, such
as income inequality.
The two met at the Northwest Washington home of the
Clintons, without aides and at Mrs. Clinton’s invitation.
Mrs. Clinton solicited policy ideas and suggestions
from Ms. Warren, according to a Democrat briefed on the
meeting, who called it “cordial and productive.” Mrs. Clinton, who has been seeking advice from a range of scholars,
advocates and officials, did not ask Ms. Warren to consider
endorsing her likely presidential candidacy.
The conversation occurred at a moment when Ms.
Warren’s clout had become increasingly evident. After the
November election, Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, appointed Ms. Warren, a Massachusetts freshman, to a
leadership role in the Senate; she led a high-profile effort to
strip a spending bill of rules sought by large banks; and a
patchwork of liberal groups began a movement to draft her
into the presidential race.
Ms. Warren has repeatedly said she is not running for
president, and she has taken no steps that would indicate
otherwise. Still, she is intent on pushing a robust populist
agenda, and her confidants have suggested that she would
use her Senate perch during the 2016 campaign to nudge
Mrs. Clinton to embrace causes like curtailing the power of
large financial institutions.
The get-together highlighted an early challenge for
Mrs. Clinton, who as the Democrats’ leading contender for
2016 has all but cleared the field for her party’s primary. She
is intent on developing an economic platform that can speak
to her party’s populist wing and excite working class voters
without alienating allies in the business community.
That Mrs. Clinton reached out to Ms. Warren suggested
that she was aware of how much the debate over economic issues had shifted even during the relatively short time she was
away from domestic politics while serving as secretary of state.
Mrs. Clinton was often criticized by the right as a doctrinaire liberal during her husband’s presidency and, as a
presidential candidate, ultimately ran as more of an economic populist than Mr. Obama did. But she is now seen by
some on the left as insufficiently tough on Wall Street. That
perception, denounced by allies as unfair, has stuck, in part,
because of her husband’s policies and because of the lucrative speaking fees she has collected from financial firms and
private equity groups since she left the State Department in
early 2013.
Some of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters, frustrated by the attention and adulation generated by Ms. Warren, noted Tuesday that the two actually hold similar positions on a range
of economic issues, though Ms. Warren’s rhetoric has been
more fiery. Mrs. Clinton, hoping to delay formally starting
her candidacy for as long as possible, has refrained from
detailed discussions of economic policy. In recent weeks,
though, she has become more vocal, using Twitter to offer
support for the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, for instance.
The one-on-one meeting also represented a step
toward relationship building for two women who do not
know each other well. And for Mrs. Clinton, it was a signal
that she would prefer Ms. Warren’s counsel delivered in person, as a friendly insider, rather than on national television
or in opinion articles. It may also indicate that Mrs. Clinton,
who was criticized for running an extremely guarded campaign in 2008, has learned from her mistakes and will reach
out more regularly.
Aides to Mrs. Clinton did not respond to requests for
comment about the meeting, and aides to Ms. Warren could
not be reached.
The meeting in December fell two months after a more
awkward encounter: Mrs. Clinton and Ms. Warren crossed
paths at a Massachusetts rally for Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee for governor there last year. At that event,
Mrs. Clinton repeatedly described Ms. Warren as a champion against special interests and big banks; Ms. Warren, in
turn, barely acknowledged Mrs. Clinton, who was the featured guest.
Both Mrs. Clinton and her husband appeared eager to
keep a close eye on Ms. Warren; Bill Clinton has appeared
sensitive to her oblique criticism of his deregulation of financial institutions. Beyond policy differences, the Clintons are
anxious to demonstrate that they, like Ms. Warren, appreciate the economic difficulties many Americans are facing.
The December meeting recalled another private session between Mrs. Clinton and a Democratic upstart: In 2005,
shortly after he was sworn in to the Senate, Barack Obama
paid a visit to Mrs. Clinton in her Senate office. In that instance, though, it was Mr. Obama who was seeking counsel.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
An American Sniper, His Killer, and Deep Scars Bared for a Jury
By MANNY FERNANDEZ and KATHRYN JONES
T
hey went to high school in the same Dallas suburb.
They served in the same war. They both came back
home mentally bruised and struggling to find their
footing.
But after more than a week of testimony about why
and how Eddie Ray Routh shot Chris Kyle to death in 2013
at a shooting range near this small town, the differing paths
taken by two war veterans lie at the heart of the trial. One of
them, Mr. Routh, 27, is on trial for murder. Mr. Kyle, killed
at the age of 38, became a national hero, his war experience
celebrated in the movie “American Sniper.”
Mr. Kyle’s widow, Taya Kyle, testified that after her
husband’s four tours of duty in Iraq, he drank heavily and had
insomnia and night sweats. Mr. Routh’s girlfriend, Jennifer
Weed, told the jury that Mr. Routh had promised her that he
would quit drinking and smoking marijuana, as his behavior
grew more erratic. Ms. Weed recalled watching Mr. Routh sit
on his living room couch and stare at a wall, echoing a scene
from “American Sniper” when Mr. Kyle is shown sitting in
his living room staring at a blank television screen.
Mr. Kyle and Mr. Routh attended high school in Midlothian, Tex., 14 years apart. Both veterans had been arrested
for drunken driving upon their return home. And both were
on medications that day at the shooting range. Mr. Kyle’s
body showed signs of an antidepressant called venlafaxine,
which has been used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder,
a medical examiner testified. In Mr. Routh’s home, investigators discovered pill bottles, including one for risperidone, an
antipsychotic drug typically used to treat schizophrenia.
Yet Mr. Kyle, a father of two who became the military’s
deadliest sniper and then walked away from his career in
the Navy SEALs to spend more time with his family, seemed
to have an easier time adjusting. He helped create a nonprofit foundation to help veterans with PTSD and worked on
his book, donating the proceeds to the families of two fallen
SEAL members. Mr. Routh, a former Marine who had proposed to Ms. Weed and had no children, mowed lawns and
moved into his parents’ house, and he had trouble getting
the help his friends and relatives believed he needed.
His mother, Jodi Routh, testified that her son was unhappy with his treatment at the Dallas V.A. Medical Center,
which released him a few days before the shooting.
“I objected and said he’s not ready,” she testified.
Mr. Routh shot Mr. Kyle six times, five of them in the
back, and he shot Mr. Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield seven times, killing both men while they had earplugs in their ears
and after Mr. Kyle had shot all the rounds from his gun at
the shooting-range targets.
Despite the detailed and often emotional testimony of
two dozen police officers, relatives and others, no clear picture has emerged in the trial that answers why Mr. Routh did
it, and whether the shooting was related in any way to the
mental health problems he developed after serving in Iraq.
Mr. Routh has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
His lawyers must persuade the jury that he did not know
his conduct was wrong because of a severe mental disease
or defect. If they succeed, he will avoid prison and could be
committed to a state hospital. If convicted of the murders,
he will be automatically sentenced to life in prison without
parole.
As prosecutors tell it, Mr. Routh was a disturbed but
sane young man who told a sheriff’s deputy that he had shot
Mr. Kyle and Mr. Littlefield because they would not talk to
him on the drive to the shooting range. They have played
down his mental illness and have suggested that he saw very
little combat in Iraq, summarizing his experience in the Marines as being in the “safe zone” and working as a weaponsmaintenance specialist known as an armorer. A prosecutor
described it as a “behind-the-scenes position.”
Mr. Routh’s uncle, James Watson, testified that Mr.
Routh knew right from wrong, a critical moment for the prosecution.
Mr. Routh’s lawyers and his relatives have said that
he was a changed person when he returned home after four
years of duty and that he had become suicidal and paranoid. On Thursday, a mental health expert who examined
Mr. Routh for the defense for six hours last year testified that
Mr. Routh suffered from psychosis, schizophrenia and delusions, but that he did not believe Mr. Routh had PTSD.
The expert, Dr. Mitchell Dunn, a forensic psychiatrist
at Terrell State Hospital, testified that Mr. Routh believed
that some people were half-pig and half-man, and that coworkers at a cabinet shop where Mr. Routh had worked were
cannibals who wanted to eat him. At the time of the shooting, Mr. Routh believed Mr. Kyle and Mr. Littlefield were
going to kill him, and he did not know that his actions were
wrong, but acted in self-defense, Dr. Dunn testified.
“If you are going to be killed, then you have the right to
defend yourself,” Dr. Dunn said. “I’m not saying it’s logical,
but it was logical in his mind.”
A prosecutor argued that Mr. Routh’s actions immediately after the killings — reloading the pistol that he had
used to kill Mr. Littlefield and taking it with him, fleeing the
scene, not calling the police, and stopping to buy two bean
burritos at Taco Bell — indicated that he knew what he was
doing, and knew what he was doing was wrong.
The prosecutor with the Texas attorney general’s office,
Jane Starnes, asked Dr. Dunn if he was aware that in order
to claim self-defense under Texas law, a person must have
a “reasonable belief” that he or she is in imminent danger.
“Someone having an unreasonable belief — that’s mental illness,” Ms. Starnes said. “He can’t claim self-defense.”
Ms. Starnes also asked Dr. Dunn if he knew that Mr.
Routh had told people that while he was part of a disaster
relief deployment in Haiti for the Marines, he had cleaned
up dead babies’ bodies and put them in a mass grave.
“To my knowledge, that was not true,” Dr. Dunn said,
adding that one of the reasons he believed Mr. Routh did not
have PTSD was that “you’ve got to have the ‘T,’ ” referring
to trauma.
New Details Revealed in Shooting by Police in Washington State
N
ew details emerged late last week about the fatal police shooting of a man in Pasco, Wash., that
was captured on video and has resulted in local
and federal investigations.
A spokesman from the Tri-Cities Special Investigations Unit, which is examining the case, said the man
who was killed, Antonio Zambrano-Montes, had not
been seen for two weeks by his family. Relatives have
said that Mr. Zambrano-Montes, 35, was struggling emotionally, partly because of a split from his wife and children.
Mr. Zambrano-Montes had been throwing rocks at
cars in a busy intersection on Feb. 10. Officers first tried
to subdue him with voice commands and a Taser, according to police reports.
A video taken by a bystander showed that Mr.
Zambrano-Montes ran from three officers, who chased
him, shooting him from a distance as he turned to them
and raised his arms.
The police have said he did not have a gun or a
knife. He pleaded guilty last June to assaulting a police
officer in January 2014.
On Thursday, the spokesman for the investigation
unit, Sgt. Ken Lattin, released a statement saying that
the officers had not been wearing cameras and that none
were certified Spanish speakers, though it is possible
that they tried to calm him using some Spanish.
Mr. Zambrano-Montes was from Mexico and did
not speak English, his family has said.
The shooting took place on a crowded street, but
only a handful of witnesses have come forward, Sergeant
Lattin said. Investigators are also looking for additional
video of the incident.
Pasco is a city of 68,000 that is 56 percent Hispanic. The shooting of Mr. Zambrano-Montes prompted
protests, and some residents said it emphasized a divide
between the growing Latino population and the city’s
largely white power structure, including the Police Department, which is 20 percent Hispanic. Some have compared the anger in Pasco to that over the death of Michael
Brown, an unarmed black man, in Ferguson, Mo.
Sergeant Lattin said the Washington State Crime
Lab had received evidence in the shooting and had given
it “top priority.”
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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Obama’s Economic Report Focuses on Income Inequality
By JOHN HARWOOD
P
resident Obama late last week stepped
up his efforts to define which economic problems need urgent attention —
and what kind of attention would work — if
not under his administration, then the next.
The 2015 Economic Report of the President released Thursday focuses squarely
on the challenges of rising income inequality and stagnant wages for average families.
The need for “middle-class economics,” not
any near-term push to shrink government
debt and deficits, dominates its 414 pages.
The report offers prescriptions that Mr.
Obama has made familiar, even as Republicans block some, like spending programs
financed by tax increases on the affluent,
while Democrats object to others, like new
international trade deals.
But with an eye toward shaping debate through the 2016 presidential campaign
and beyond, it offers an expanded rationale
for those steps in light of what White House
advisers call three distinct phases of recent
economic history.
The first, from 1948 to 1973, they call
“The Age of Shared Growth.” Innovations
that emerged from the great mobilization
required by World War II made worker pro-
ductivity soar.
Income inequality shrank, in part, as
Mr. Obama argued in one recent interview,
because labor unions were stronger and corporations felt greater commitment to community. It was also an era when the American economy faced almost no international
competition.
A surge of working women expanded
the labor force. All of those changes made
incomes grow fast enough to double in 25
years.
The second, from 1973 to 1995, they
label “The Age of Expanded Participation.”
While productivity growth slowed, profits
flowed increasingly to the highest earners.
But an even-faster flow of women into the
work force lifted family incomes enough to
obscure those developments.
The third, from 1995 to 2013, they call
“The Age of Productivity Recovery.” Thanks
to Silicon Valley, technological change accelerated output per worker once again. But
the benefits were offset by continued income
inequality, driven partly by rising rewards
for the best-educated workers and falling
rewards for the least-educated.
At the same time, the increase in women entering the work force stalled while
“labor force participation” by men conti-
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Tourists To Winter Spectacle
T
he winter’s deep freeze has transformed Niagara Falls into an icy
spectacle, encasing the trees around
it into crystal shells and drawing tourists
who are braving below-zero temperatures.
The Niagara River keeps flowing below the ice cover, so the falls aren’t completely frozen over. But the massive ice buildup near the brink has become a tourist
magnet for the second straight year after
several relatively mild winters.
Visitors have been flocking to Niagara Falls State
Park, next to the American
Falls, one of three waterfalls
that make up the natural attraction. Days of subzero temperatures have created a thick
coating of ice and snow on
every surface near the falls,
including railings, trees and
boulders.
Things weren’t expected
to thaw out soon: Temperatures
dipped to 7 below zero in Niagara Falls on Friday morning.
nued its long-term decline. The reduction
in workers — which holds down family
incomes and the economy’s potential at the
same time — threatens to grow worse as
more baby boomers retire, stop paying income taxes and draw Social Security and
Medicare benefits.
“This is the big-picture challenge
we’re trying to overcome as an economy,”
said Jason Furman, who is chairman of Mr.
Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.
The White House argues that recent
improvements in growth (to 2.8 percent
from 2.1 percent over the last two years), hiring (average monthly job gains of 260,000
jobs in 2014, up from 199,000 the year before)
and budget deficits (reduced to 2.8 percent of
the gross domestic product in 2014, from 9.8
percent in 2009) make a focus on “middleclass economics” possible.
To sustain productivity growth, the
report prescribes increased government
spending on education and infrastructure,
as well as the approval of broad new trade
agreements with Pacific Rim nations and
Europe. To curb inequality, it calls for cutting taxes on families with modest incomes
and raising them on high earners. To safeguard the supply of “prime-age” workers,
it reiterates Mr. Obama’s insistence on new
immigration policies.
Republicans embrace, in concept if
not detail, the report’s call for “business tax
reform” that cuts the top rate on corporate
income to 28 percent from 35 percent. They
oppose most of its other recommendations,
arguing that higher taxes on the affluent
would hamper growth and that spending
programs would be wasteful.
On the other end of the political spectrum, Democrats and their labor union allies
threaten to block the report’s call for broad
new trade deals. Fueling their ire is the belief that past deals, like the North American
Free Trade Agreement, have driven wages
down and jobs overseas.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
The Beginner’s Guide to Chartering a Yacht With a Crew
By PAUL SULLIVAN
A
DAM ROSENFELD, a lifelong Miami resident, needed a vacation, but
he was struggling to persuade his
wife to go anywhere with their toddler in
tow. Gone were the days when the couple
could jet around Asia, jamming as many
things into a vacation as they wanted.
“To her, what fun would it have been
being on vacation with a 1-year-old?” he
said.
So he decided to pony up for a vacation that would cost a lot more than he normally spent but would guarantee that all
three of them could get away and relax: He
chartered a 126-foot Norship yacht for four
days in the Bahamas.
“It was the only thing I could have
gotten her to go along with,” Mr. Rosenfeld said. “This was my way of actually
getting her to go through with it. It was something to really look forward to and was
very exciting.”
The yacht, called Impulsive, usually
charters for around $100,000 a week plus
expenses like food, fuel and gratuities for
the crew. That can add another 20 to 30
percent or more to the bill, depending on
destination. Mr. Rosenfeld would not specify the price, but he said because it was
just four days in the yacht’s off-season, he
paid less than half of that.
(To put the cost in perspective: The
yacht is listed for sale at just under $3 million, down from nearly $4 million at the
start of last year.)
“It’s a bigger number because it’s one
number,” he said. “It wasn’t that much
more expensive than being in Asia for two
weeks, with everything from the roundtrip travel to the hotel and food. Then
again, I’m not going to Asia every week.”
He was hooked on the experience.
But he admitted he had gotten lucky: A
friend had chartered the same boat so he
knew what to expect, from the fittings to,
more important, the crew.
Given that this is a prime time for
chartering in the Caribbean before many
of the big boats are moved elsewhere for
the summer, how does someone who has
never chartered a yacht before go about
doing it? The short answer is, slowly.
The job of a charter broker — which
is how most large yachts get leased — is
to know the yachts, their crews and the
owner’s agents.
“It’s different seeing a yacht on the
Internet and feeling a yacht when you step
on board,” said Katie Macpherson, luxury
yacht charter specialist at Worth Avenue
Yachts in Palm Beach, Fla. “Getting an idea
of the spacing, the carpet, the materials,
the TV in relation to the sofa — there are a
lot of aspects of the yacht you can’t see in
photos on the Internet.”
Ms. Macpherson said she likes to start
first-timers off with a comparatively small
yacht: Her preference is a 112-foot Westport,
which has four staterooms. She said it costs
$49,500 for a week, plus expenses.
“I don’t like to overwhelm people
with massive yachts right out of the box,”
she said. “For somebody who hasn’t chartered before, you want something that is
comfortable that they’ll have a great time
on and has a great crew and just knock it
out of the park.”
Yet like the weather on the water, rules of thumb change quickly. In this case,
they depend on whether the passengers
are couples out for a relaxing week of eating and sightseeing or a family with children who want to enjoy all kinds of water
sports.
If it’s a trip with children, D.J. Parker,
president of Neptune Yachts and president
of the American Yacht Charter Association, a membership organization, recommends larger boats and a more protected
first voyage.
“Whenever there are children in the
trip and the boat is under 150 feet, I’d propose the British Virgin Islands,” she said.
“It’s an archipelago. The wind is broken
up. It’s crystal clear. And there is nothing
that is typically going to bite you in the
water.”
Just as important as where you’re
going is the crew that is taking you there. Some are great with children and get
right in there with the water toys. Others
are better for couples who want to do a lot
of cruising and sightseeing. Then there are
the formal crews that can prepare restaurant-quality meals on the high seas.
If it is a yacht under 60 feet, Trish
Cronan, president of Ocean Getaways in
Fort Myers, Fla., said she likes to find “bulletproof crews” — that is, seamen who
can handle any group, from the cheerful to
the demanding.
“I like to know that no matter how
those clients show up, that crew is going to
maintain equanimity and graciousness,”
she said.
People also need to be realistic about
how far they can cruise in a given number
of days. “If someone calls me off the cuff
and says ‘I want to cruise from Croatia to
Greece,’ I’ll say that’s pretty ambitious,”
Ms. Parker said. “That sounds like two
trips.”
But of course, as anyone who has been
on even a small runabout knows, boats
break all the time. And what if something
big breaks when it’s your week? After all,
if you get a bad room at the Ritz-Carlton,
you just can ask to be moved. It may not
always be that easy to pull up another 150foot yacht in the same harbor.
“The contract has stipulations for all
the eventualities,” Sharon Bahmer, a charter broker and the president of the Charter
Yacht Brokers Association, said. “If there is
a breakdown, there is a stipulation. If it’s
force majeure or weather-related, there is a
clause for that. Everything will be laid out.
If the yacht is broken down, you try to find
a replacement vessel so the client can continue on his charter.”
Part of this, though, is having a
broker who is experienced.
Ms. Bahmer said her association had
created a code of ethics for its brokers. Its
members must commit to going to the various charter boat shows around the world
to meet the crews and see the yachts firsthand.
They also need to have proper escrow
accounts to receive and hold payments before they are dispersed to the yacht owners.
For owners, there are advantages beyond the weekly fees to putting their yachts out to charter.
“The upside for me is it covers some
of my expenses and it keeps the crew
busy,” said Hank Freid, chief executive of
The Impulsive Group, which owns the yacht Mr. Rosenfeld chartered. “If the crew
is just sitting there and maintaining the
boat, they get lax. They work much more
efficiently if they’re busy. And they’re making money.”
Still, for people who have both owned and chartered yachts, there is at tradeoff. John Allen, a retired computer executive who lives in Sausalito, Calif., has owned
sailboats and power boats of various sizes
and now charters large yachts for vacations.
He said one downside of not owning a big boat was the loss of spontaneity.
“You can’t say to your buddy, ‘What are
you doing next weekend? You want to fly
down to Miami and go fishing?’” he said.
But what is gained is flexibility. Mr.
Allen said he was chartering a yacht next
month to go around Turks and Caicos; a
month after that, he has another one chartered in Croatia.
“If it’s my own boat, that’s a lot of
moving your boat around,” he said. “You
have to be organized and planned about
that.”
For Mr. Rosenfeld, that first trip, over
a year ago now, made a big impression. “I
liked the idea of being in one place where you could kind of bounce around,” he
said. “I don’t want to say it was a once-in-alifetime experience. I will do it again. I felt
very comfortable and relaxed and free.”
And that is no small feat when vacationing with a toddler.
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On Terror, Gentle Hand or Iron Fist
President Obama addressed foreign leaders gathered at the State Department on Thursday as part of a three-day conference on countering violent extremism.
Obama Calls for Expansion
of Human Rights to
Combat Extremism
A
s he sought to rally the world behind
a renewed attack on terrorism, President Obama argued late last week
that force of arms was not enough and
called on all nations to “put an end to the
cycle of hate” by expanding human rights,
religious tolerance and peaceful dialogue.
But the challenge of his approach was
staring him right in the face. His audience
of invited guests, putative allies in a fresh
international counterterrorism campaign,
included representatives from some of the
world’s least democratic and most repressive countries.
The three-day White House conference on violent extremism that Mr. Obama
wrapped up on Thursday provided a case
study in the fundamental tension that has
bedeviled the American struggle with terrorism since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
While Mr. Obama has concluded that radicalism is fueled by political and economic
grievance, he has found himself tethered to
some of the very international actors most
responsible for such grievances, dependent
on them for intelligence and cooperation to
prevent future attacks.
“There is a very profound conceptual
disagreement about whether the best way
to counter violent extremism is through
human rights and civil society or through
an iron fist,” said Marc Lynch, director
of the Institute for Middle East Studies at
George Washington University. The Obama administration wants “to project the
human rights side, but you look at the
people they’re working with and fighting
alongside, and there’s a lot more to it than
that.”
Elisa Massimino, president of the advocacy group Human Rights First, attended
Thursday’s meeting and was struck by the
juxtaposition of rhetoric and reality: “We’re
sitting in that room with representatives of
governments that are part of the problem,”
she said. “If the president believes what
he’s saying, then the actions that these governments are taking are undermining our
supposedly shared agenda.”
“That has to stop,” she added, “or we
can have summits every month,” but “we’re
not going to win.”
A case in point was Egypt, whose foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, was
among those given featured speaking roles
on Thursday. Although Egypt’s military
has reasserted its primacy and is cracking
down on dissent, it has also been one of
America’s staunchest collaborators in hunting down terrorists in a dangerous region.
Just this week, in retaliation for the killings
of Egyptian Christians, Egypt launched an
airstrike against Islamic State forces in Libya, briefly, at least, taking on an offshoot of
the group that the United States has been
bombing in Iraq and Syria.
Critics say the terrorism fight has
simply enabled autocratic regimes to go
after their political foes without worrying
about American disapproval. Egypt’s leaders, for instance, have moved to stifle the
Muslim Brotherhood, the opposition group
they deem too radical. “It is futile to distinguish between bad terrorists, which must
be defeated, and good terrorists, which can
be accommodated,” Mr. Shoukry said.
Marwan Muasher, the former foreign
minister of Jordan who is now a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said he worried that the
Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL,
was becoming a rallying point for the disaffected.
“People who are not happy with the
establishment sometimes find in ISIS a
counterforce for reasons that might be associated with ideology or might not,” he told
a meeting separate from the White House
event. “There is a huge credibility gap” between Arab governments and their people,
he added. “Nothing governments are saying is taken or believed by the public in
general, and so that needs to change.”
The White House acknowledged the
disconnect between advocating human
rights and teaming up with human rights
violators. But aides said it was one Mr. Obama had learned to live with, given the importance of maintaining an international
coalition to fight the Islamic State and other
terror threats.
“It’s a perennial challenge of the U.S.
government that some of our partners are
much more aggressive than others in how
they define their domestic terrorist challenge,” said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to Mr. Obama.
That dynamic is “most obvious in Egypt,
where essentially there’s been a very broad
brush in terms of who represents a terrorist
threat.”
He said the Obama administration
would continue to press allies to balance
the fight against terrorists with tolerance
of political opponents. Susan E. Rice, the
president’s national security adviser, raised concerns about human rights during
a separate meeting with Mr. Shoukry, the
Egyptian minister, at which they talked
about the attack on Christians, the White
House said.
Egypt was not the only country represented at the conference with a spotty record
on human rights or democracy. Other nations who sent ministers and officials included Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Uganda and the United Arab Emirates. The
prosecutor general of Kazakhstan, ruled by
the former Communist who was in charge
when it broke away from the Soviet Union,
gave a short speech. Nearby was Aleksandr
V. Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service, the successor to the K.G.B., which
has been a partner with the United States on
fighting terrorism even as it cracks down on
critics of the Kremlin at home.
In promoting democracy and freedom as part of the solution to terrorism,
Mr. Obama returned to a theme he has
advanced episodically in the past. Burned
by the failures of the Arab Spring revolutions, he seemed resigned lately to working
with the authoritarian governments in the
Middle East. But his speech on Thursday
harked back to ideas that his predecessor,
President George W. Bush, made the centerpiece of his second inaugural address in
2005.
“When people spew hatred toward
others because of their faith or because
they’re immigrants, it feeds into terrorist
narratives,” Mr. Obama said. “It feeds a cycle of fear and resentment and a sense of
injustice upon which extremists prey. And
we can’t allow cycles of suspicion to tear
the fabrics of our countries.”
Yet, as he embraced a message similar to his predecessor’s, Mr. Obama offered
less emphasis on force than Mr. Bush was
known for. Mr. Obama deplored recent terrorist acts but did not present terrorism as
an existential threat as Mr. Bush did, nor
did he use some of the phrases Mr. Bush
used for Islamic radicalism.
Republican critics said the conference
missed the point, dismissing it as a feel-good exercise when the president should be
stepping up his military campaign against
the Islamic State.
“As vicious as the Islamic State has
been toward Jews and Christians — killing
them, cutting off their heads, burning them
alive — they are just as vicious to most
Muslims in Iraq and Syria who are struggling under their yoke right now,” Senator
Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, said
on CNN. “The reason they are doing it is
because they have more arms and weapons
and more soldiers, and no one is standing
up to them. That’s what this president
needs to do.”
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Brutal ISIS Videos Show
Potency of Shock Value
How has ISIS, a 21st-century terrorist organization with a retrograde religious philosophy, spread from
Iraq to Syria, Libya and beyond?
By ANNE BARNARD
T
he killings have been both deliberately lurid and
strangely intimate. Designed for broadcast, they have
helped the Islamic State militant group build a brand
of violence that shocks with its extreme brutality, yet feels
as close to viewers as the family images on their smartphones.
Broadcast specifically to frighten and manipulate, the
Islamic State’s flamboyant violence consumes the world’s
attention while more familiar threats, like the Syrian
government’s barrel bombs, kill far more people but rarely
provoke widespread outrage.
A few human rights advocates and antigovernment
activists in Syria are trying to reciprocate, creating shocking
if nonviolent images and videos — even herding children
in orange jumpsuits into a cage — to call attention to the
wider scope of violence. So far, though, their voices have
hardly been heard.
The Islamic State’s campaign of high-profile killings
is not war at a remove, with the mechanized distance of
drone strikes or carpet bombing. It is one-on-one slaughter
with Hollywood production values, seeking to maximize
emotional impact and propaganda value.
Cameras zoom in as captors lay hands on their captives — Western reporters, a Jordanian pilot, Egyptian
Christian laborers. In the group’s latest video, black-clad
men lead the Egyptians almost gently, one by one, down
a sunset-tinged beach, then saw off their heads until the
waves turn red.
For many in the Middle East who obsessively share
the latest images, the Islamic State’s exhibitionist brutality
is the apotheosis of several years of carnage gone viral. The
group’s bloody imagery, flooding social media already widely used to chronicle conflict, makes violence seem ubiquitous, even mesmerizing, and spurs a sensory overload
that can both provoke feelings and numb them.
“It’s like action movies,” said Ahmad, 39, an employee of the Damascus Opera House in the Syrian capital,
who asked to be identified by only his first name for his
safety. Islamic State violence is stylized, as if in a Quentin
Tarantino film, he said, in a macabre bid “to win the prestige of horror.”
The killings have been answered quickly with airstrikes — from the United States, Jordan and, on Monday,
from Egypt, which said it struck in Libya, where the Egyptian Copts were killed.
While the Islamic State’s provocations draw pronounced reactions, however, the less-choreographed slaughter
that has killed, for instance, more than 200,000 Syrians,
fades to the background. Those bearing the brunt of the
Syrian war’s spillover across the region, and humanitarian
workers trying to assist, frequently express anguish that
government barrel bombings, the displacement of more
than a third of the population and the gutting of the health
care system do not bring similar attention — let alone dramatic action.
Of course, that is partly a matter of realpolitik. While
Western governments decry Syria’s president, Bashar alAssad, for his indiscriminate attacks on civilians, they do
not view him as a threat on the order of the Islamic State,
which is encouraging followers to launch lone-wolf attacks
in the West.
And it is partly because shock videos work. Even in
Saudi Arabia, where beheadings are the state’s method of
capital punishment, they are not broadcast. When images
of a recent execution leaked, they created a scandal.
But it is also because the shelling of cities in Syria
has become almost numbingly normal. It is as if the value
of trauma and shock has undergone a hyperinflation that
neuters all but the most exaggerated visual representations
of violence.
That, in turn, has pushed human rights advocates and
activists to search for eye-grabbing images of their own.
Baraa Abdulrahman, an antigovernment activist in
the Damascus suburb of Douma, desperate to direct the
world’s attention to government airstrikes that were killing
scores of people, set up a scene that echoed the Islamic State video in which the caged Jordanian pilot, in an orange
jumpsuit, was burned alive.
He ordered an iron cage from a blacksmith and placed it against a backdrop of collapsed buildings, and then
filled it with a gaggle of neighborhood children dressed in
orange clothing. As the camera rolled, he waved a burning
torch, asking why the world responded to the killing of the
pilot but not to the deaths of children in Douma. Some of
the children in the cage, he admitted, were frightened and
cried.
“I’m very sorry to get to this point, to use the kids,”
said Mr. Abdulrahman, who uses a nom de guerre for security reasons. “But this is the fact. Our kids are getting killed
every day, every moment, getting under the wreckage.”
Yet images of mangled children no longer get traction, he said. “These sights, people now are used to them.”
Antigovernment activists are not alone in trying to
compete with the war’s most lurid imagery. The Syrian government has made much of a video of an insurgent ripping the organs from a slain soldier and taking a bite. Humanitarian organizations are in the same position.
A group training volunteer civil defense workers has
circulated a video of what it calls “the miracle baby,” an
infant named Mohammad who is seen being pulled from
the rubble of an airstrike. Opposition groups have passed
around videos from the captured cellphones of pro-government fighters and soldiers who have apparently filmed
their own cruelty, like one of a militiaman stabbing an old
man in the head.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees
widely circulated images of triplets born in a snowstorm in
a refugee camp, only to lose their mother to complications
from childbirth.
“There is personal tragedy of mammoth proportions
happening every day by the thousands in individual lives
that never get picked up by a media camera,” said Ninette
Kelley, the director of the refugee agency in Lebanon, where more than one million Syrians have fled.
“Refugees whose lives have been irrevocably damaged, people who die from cancers that but for the crisis
would have been treated in Syria, these wounds are very
real but not always as visible.”
A few have even been tempted to fictionalize. Last
year, for instance, a viral video of a Syrian boy saving a
girl from sniper fire turned out to have been staged by a
Norwegian film crew.
But while some groups want to publicize suffering in
order to stop it, analysts said perpetrators like the Islamic
State seek to magnify the suffering by inflicting it twice —
first on the victim and then on the viewer.
“One of the things about traumatic imagery is that
it can numb us and render us passive and helpless,” said
Gavin Rees, the Europe director for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. “That is part of the gain for those
who are producing these videos: They want to inspire fear
and helplessness.”
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Iraqi Assault to Retake Mosul From Islamic State Is Planned for Spring
T
he assault to retake Mosul, Iraq, from
the Islamic State will require 20,000
to 25,000 Iraqi and Kurdish troops
and is expected to begin in April or May,
an official from the United States Central
Command told reporters late last week.
The briefing, which was held
on the final day of the White House
counterterrorism conference, was intended
to rebut criticism that the Islamic State
had the upper hand and that Iraqi efforts
to evict the militants from Mosul were
lagging.
It is unusual for American officials
to discuss the details and timing of a
military operation before it occurs. But the
official said his intent was to describe the
Iraqis’ “level of commitment” in regaining
control of Mosul, which he said was held
by as many as 2,000 fighters from the
Islamic State.
“There are a lot of pieces that have to
come together, and we want to make sure
the conditions are right,” the official said.
“But this is their plan. They are bought
into it. They are moving forward.”
Still, the official, who could not be
identified under the command’s protocol
for briefing reporters, cautioned that the
timetable for mounting the offensive to
retake Mosul could change if more time
was needed to prepare the Iraqi forces for
the attack.
He emphasized that the Obama
administration had yet to decide if
American advisers would be needed to
call in airstrikes or to mentor Iraqi forces
during the battle for Mosul.
The official, providing new details
about the Iraqi effort, said that the main
Iraqi attack force would consist of five
brigades, each of which would number
about 2,000 troops.
The Iraqis will keep three smaller
brigades in reserve. Three brigades of
Kurdish pesh merga fighters will also
join the fight to contain the Islamic State
militants from the north and maneuver to
cut off approaches to the city from the west.
Once Mosul is retaken, it is to
be controlled by former Iraqi police
officers from Mosul and tribal fighters,
according to the plan. A brigade of Iraqi
counterterrorism forces, trained by United
States Special Operations forces, will also
be involved.
Masrour Barzani, the chief of
intelligence for the Kurdish region of
Iraq, recently said that a greater effort was
needed to prepare the battle and to secure
the backing of Sunnis and tribal fighters in
and around Mosul.
But the United States official insisted
at the briefing that the Iraqi government
was following a carefully prepared plan.
The five brigades that are to form the main
assault force in Mosul, for example, are to
be drawn from Iraq’s more experienced
units on duty in Baghdad and elsewhere
in Iraq.
Those brigades will undergo a round
of training by United States Marines and
Army Special Forces, and their equipment
will be updated before they move toward
Mosul. The United States and its partners
are continuing airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
“Militarily, ISIL is in decline,” said
the official, using another name for the
Islamic State. “Our effects are outpacing
its ability to regenerate.”
The official acknowledged that
Iranian personnel were in Iraq.
“We don’t deny that there is Iranian
influence and there is Iranian activity and
a force presence inside of Iraq,” he said. “It
is largely advisers.”
Two-Thirds of Russians See Threat
From Other Countries, Poll Suggests
M
ore than two-thirds of Russians
believe other countries pose a
military threat to their nation’s
security and more Russians now believe in
the likelihood of war than at any time this
century, a research group said late last week.
The Russian Public Opinion Research
Centre said 68% of respondents to an
opinion poll believed other countries pose
a threat to Russia’s security. The centre also
said an index measuring
how much people believe
in the possibility of the
threat of war stood at its
highest level since 1999.
Russian state-owned
and
Kremlin-friendly
media have portrayed
fighting in neighbouring
east Ukraine as a conflict
spurred by the West
and have often drawn
attention to the presence of
foreign fighters. President
Vladimir Putin, who
has taken a broadly anti-
Western stance during the crisis, has said
the conflict is being fought by proxies of
NATO to “contain” Russia.
Senior Western officials this week
accused Russia of redrawing the map of
Europe by force and posing a threat to
Baltic states. The centre said it had based
its findings on interviews with 1,600
people throughout Russia on February
14-15.
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Europe’s Tolerant Traditions
Put to Test After Paris Terror
Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Rotterdam
Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb as the vice president arrives
to speaks at a roundtable, part of the White House
Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, Tuesday,
Feb. 17, 2015, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex in Washington.
A
s Rotterdam’s mayor and a former government minister, Ahmed Aboutaleb is a voice of
mainstream liberal Dutch values. As a Muslim immigrant from Morocco, he is also a prominent
member of a community that many Europeans increasingly see as being in conflict with those values.
So when Aboutaleb spoke up after last month’s
Paris terror attacks — telling Muslims who can’t
stand humorists to “Get lost!” — it was a shout heard
‘round the world.
The Netherlands has deep traditions of tolerance, which long extended even to the intolerant. Accepting people who don’t share your values was seen
as a badge of a true democratic society. But many of
the Dutch are questioning whether it makes sense to
embrace all viewpoints and all ways of life.
The fact that a prominent Dutch Muslim repudiated that view in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo
attacks made waves as a powerful expression of this
shift in the Netherlands and throughout Europe,
from a live-and-let-live society to one in which new
arrivals are pushed to embrace Western customs and
values.
Aboutaleb was among a group of European mayors visiting Washington last week to take part in
a White House-sponsored conference on countering
radicalization. He has won an international audience by going to the heart of a key question Europe is
grappling with: whether to continue embracing multicultural traditions long espoused by Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, or turn sharply toward
the French way, insisting that newcomers assimilate.
In the Netherlands, changes in attitude began
with the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh —
who was shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight
by a Muslim fanatic angered by a film that criticized
Islam. The slaying prompted many in famously liberal Holland to declare that the age of tolerating intolerance must come to an end.
Many Dutch today see striking similarities between the slain cartoonists of weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo and Van Gogh. Both thrived on hard edged
provocation, breaking taboos and challenging sacred
cows in a way that could make even supporters uncomfortable. The Charlie Hebdo cartoonists depicted
the Prophet Muhammad in lewd poses; Van Gogh’s
movie “Submission” featured scenes of near-naked
women with Quranic texts on their flesh. And both
were ultimately mourned as champions of free expression whose lives were cut short by extremist forces.
The terror in France has made the Dutch again
look at their policies of integration, causing leaders
to promise fast-tracking a package of measures aimed at curbing Muslim youth radicalization. Among
the moves are plans to strip people who go to fight
overseas of their Dutch nationality, and do more to
prevent them leaving in the first place; block jihadi
propaganda from the Internet; and provide more support for families, schools and other organizations
that deal with vulnerable youngsters.
Leen Jongejan, a 68-year-old pensioner in The
Hague, has seen Dutch tolerance ebb in recent years
and supports the shift.
Immigrants “used to come here and be pampered,” he said. “If you look at attacks happening overseas, I don’t think it is strange that attitudes are changing. If it could help to prevent an attack here, it’s a
good thing.”
The Van Gogh murder triggered a temporary
spike in hate crimes against Muslims, but the more
enduring legacy was to drive the liberal nation more
toward the anti-Islam policies pushed by the populist
Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, which has entrenched its presence as one of the nation’s most powerful
political forces.
Wilders — who has lived under round-the-clock
police protection since Van Gogh’s murder — has advocated closing Dutch doors to migrants from the Islamic world for a decade.
“They bring along a culture and an ideology of
hate that is not compatible with our values, compatible with freedom. So we should stop first immigration from Islamic countries,” he told The Associated
Press shortly after the Paris attacks. “We should tell
people who don’t abide by our laws, our rule of law,
our constitution that they should leave.”
Wilders’ fortunes have been boosted as tensions over immigration and terrorism rise. His party currently has 12 lawmakers in the 150-seat lower
house of Dutch parliament, but polls show that if
elections were held now the party could win up to
29 seats.
He became a political kingmaker in 2010 by gi-
ving his support to Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling coalition, only to bring down the government in
2012 by withdrawing his support over a package of
austerity measures. Many see him as the real force
behind Dutch political change — dictating the terms
of the immigration debate to mainstream politicians,
in the same way anti-immigrant UKIP party has
taken center stage in Britain.
There are others, though, who are supportive of
aspects of the government’s proposals that they say
would move the nation toward a new form of Dutch
tolerance — one that engages immigrants in an effort
to integrate them, rather than leaves them to their
own devices.
Fatima Elatik, a Muslim former alderman in eastern Amsterdam, says laws alone are not enough to
counter extremist propaganda. She sees the need for
a grass-roots effort among Dutch of all walks of life to
bring troubled Muslim youths into the mainstream
fold.
“Don’t look away but engage,” she said. “Go to
schools, talk to kids. Even if they have ideas that you
think, ‘my God, I can’t bear to hear them,’ they’re
kids. Engage with them, talk with them, give them a
good example. But don’t look away.”
In a clear signal of the shift Elatik advocates,
the government withdrew funding last year for a
think tank promoting multiculturalism — forcing
its closure — and started financing a new organization whose goal is to “increase knowledge about
integration and contribute to an inclusive and stable
society.”
Hans Boutellier, the new group’s spokesman,
says tolerance is no longer a one-way street for immigrants. New arrivals need to first accept the rule
of democratic law, then participate in society instead
of closing themselves off in their own communities.
Only then, he says, does true tolerance kick in.
“Then the word is not so much integration ... it’s
freedom,” he said. “It’s the liberal idea that everyone
can choose his own identity or religion or can follow
his own cultural ideals.”
Ian Buruma, a Dutch professor of human rights
and journalism at Bard College, wrote an acclaimed
book on Van Gogh’s murder and Dutch tolerance. He
says that bringing moderate Muslims into the fabric
of mainstream Dutch life is the key to countering extremism — a message also pushed by Rotterdam mayor Aboutaleb.
“To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and
their killers we must gain the trust of the majority
of Muslims,” Buruma told The AP. “This can only
happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just
in theory, and have access to decent education and
jobs.”
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New York Times Editorials
When Americans Lynched Mexicans
By WILLIAM D. CARRIGAN and CLIVE WEBB
T
HE recent release of a landmark report on the history of
lynching in the United States is a welcome contribution
to the struggle over American collective memory. Few
groups have suffered more systematic mistreatment, abuse
and murder than African-Americans, the focus of the report.
One dimension of mob violence that is often overlooked,
however, is that lynchers targeted many other racial and ethnic
minorities in the United States, including Native Americans,
Italians, Chinese and, especially, Mexicans.
Americans are largely unaware that Mexicans were frequently the targets of lynch mobs, from the mid-19th century
until well into the 20th century, second only to African-Americans in the scale and scope of the crimes. One case, largely
overlooked or ignored by American journalists but not by the
Mexican government, was that of seven Mexican shepherds
hanged by white vigilantes near Corpus Christi, Tex., in late
November 1873. The mob was probably trying to intimidate
the shepherds’ employer into selling his land. None of the killers were arrested.
From 1848 to 1928, mobs murdered thousands of Mexicans, though surviving records allowed us to clearly document
only about 547 cases. These lynchings occurred not only in the
southwestern states of Arizona, California, New Mexico and
Texas, but also in states far from the border, like Nebraska and
Wyoming.
Some of these cases did appear in press accounts, when
reporters depicted them as violent public spectacles, as they
did with many lynchings of African-Americans in the South.
For example, on July 5, 1851, a mob of 2,000 in Downieville,
Calif., watched the extralegal hanging of a Mexican woman
named Juana Loaiza, who had been accused of having murdered a white man named Frank Cannon.
Such episodes were not isolated to the turbulent gold
rush period. More than a half-century later, on Nov. 3, 1910,
a mob snatched a 20-year-old Mexican laborer, Antonio Rodríguez, from a jail in Rock Springs, Tex. The authorities had
arrested him on charges that he had killed a rancher’s wife.
Mob leaders bound him to a mesquite tree, doused him with
kerosene and burned him alive. The El Paso Herald reported
that thousands turned out to witness the event; we found no
evidence that anyone was ever arrested.
While there were similarities between the lynchings of
blacks and Mexicans, there were also clear differences. One
was that local authorities and deputized citizens played particularly conspicuous roles in mob violence against Mexicans.
On Jan. 28, 1918, a band of Texas Rangers and ranchers
arrived in the village of Porvenir in Presidio County, Tex.
Mexican outlaws had recently attacked a nearby ranch, and
the posse presumed that the locals were acting as spies and
informants for Mexican raiders on the other side of the border.
The group rounded up nearly two dozen men, searched their
houses, and marched 15 of them to a rock bluff near the village
and executed them. The Porvenir massacre, as it has become
known, was the climactic event in what Mexican-Americans
remember as the Hora de Sangre (Hour of Blood). It led, the
following year, to an investigation by the Texas Legislature and
reform of the Rangers.
Between 1915 and 1918, vigilantes, local law officers
Egypt’s Crisis Across the Border With Libya
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
E
gyptian armed forces on Feb. 16 carried out a predawn
airstrike in Libya in response to the beheading of as many
as 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by the Islamic State, the
extremist group also known as ISIS or ISIL. The Egyptians
attacked camps, training facilities and weapons depots belonging to the group near the Libyan town of Derna, a militant
stronghold.
Egypt is understandably concerned about the extremist
threat. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians live and work
across the border in Libya, vulnerable to the country’s unraveling and the widening violence. The Egyptian government,
which has a right to protect its citizens under the United Nations Charter, also worries about a link between militants in
the Sinai Peninsula and those in Libya.
But the airstrikes marked a significant expansion of
Egypt’s direct military involvement in Libya, and there is little
evidence that the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
has thought through its response or coordinated it with other
nations, including the United States. Although Egypt is a major American ally and the recipient of billions of dollars in aid
and weapons over the last three decades, a Pentagon spokesman said there was no advance warning of the Libya airstrikes
and “we’re not taking a position on it.”
Egypt called this week for the United Nations Security
Council to mandate an international coalition to intervene in
Libya and impose a naval blockade, and urged that an arms
embargo on the country, which is already awash in weapons,
be lifted. The ideas have generated little support.
The likely effect of Egypt’s proposals would be to further inflame the war among non-ISIS factions and undercut a
fragile United Nations peace effort that offers some hope for
forging a common Libyan front against the Islamic State.
Two dominant groups are at war over Libya’s vast territory and resources, including its oil deposits. One is the internationally recognized Libyan government, which is based
in the eastern city of Bayda and allied with militias under the
control of Gen. Khalifa Hifter, a former Qaddafi-era commander. The other is a coalition of Islamists, extremists and regional militias called Libya Dawn, which has established a government in Tripoli after capturing that city last year.
For some time, Arab states have taken sides in this civil
war, turning it into a proxy fight and fostering the very chaos in
and Texas Rangers executed, without due process, unknown
thousands of Mexicans for their alleged role in a revolutionary uprising known as the Plan de San Diego. White fears of
Mexican revolutionary violence exploded in July and August
1915, after Mexican raiders committed a series of assaults
on the economic infrastructure of the Lower Rio Grande Valley in resistance to white dominance. The raids unleashed a
bloody wave of retaliatory action amid a climate of intense
paranoia.
While there are certainly instances in the history of the
American South where law officers colluded in mob action, the
level of engagement by local and state authorities in the reaction to the Plan de San Diego was remarkable. The lynchings
persisted into the 1920s, eventually declining largely because
of pressure from the Mexican government.
Historians have often ascribed to the South a distinctiveness that has set it apart from the rest of the United States.
In so doing, they have created the impression of a peculiarly
benighted region plagued by unparalleled levels of racial
violence. The story of mob violence against Mexicans in the
Southwest compels us to rethink the history of lynching.
Southern blacks were the group most often targeted, but
comparing the histories of the South and the West strengthens
our understanding of mob violence in both. In today’s charged
debate over immigration policy and the growth of the Latino
population, the history of anti-Mexican violence reminds us of
the costs and consequences of hate.
which the Islamic State thrives. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have covertly backed General Hifter’s campaign to drive
out the Islamists and their allies, while Qatar and Turkey reportedly have been backing Libya Dawn. It is part of a pattern in
which these countries and others have been exploiting militant
groups across the region in bids to expand their own power and
influence. On Thursday, the Gulf Cooperation Council voiced
support for Qatar after Qatar criticized the Egyptian airstrikes
and Egypt accused Qatar of supporting terrorism.
Egypt, the most populous Arab nation, cannot afford to
get bogged down in a war in Libya; there are staggering challenges at home, including reviving a battered economy and
combating a domestic insurgency. The United States could
well be dragged into this fight if Egypt makes wrong choices
and worsens an already explosive situation.
Rather than fueling divisions, Mr. Sisi and other regional leaders should be working together to reinforce the United
Nations negotiation initiative, which aims to create a government of national unity that can tackle the Islamic State and
other problems. In a statement on Tuesday, the United States,
Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy reaffirmed support
for this effort and said they would hold accountable “those
who seek to impede this process.” A negotiated solution is a
long shot, but it could be the last chance to stabilize Libya and
prevent the Islamic State from expanding its presence in the
country.
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New York Times Editorials
My Own Life
By OLIVER SACKS
A
MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good
health, even robust health. At 81, I still
swim a mile a day. But my luck has run
out — a few weeks ago I learned that I have
multiple metastases in the liver. Nine years
ago it was discovered that I had a rare tumor
of the eye, an ocular melanoma. Although the
radiation and lasering to remove the tumor ultimately left me blind in that eye, only in very
rare cases do such tumors metastasize. I am
among the unlucky 2 percent.
I feel grateful that I have been granted
nine years of good health and productivity
since the original diagnosis, but now I am face
to face with dying. The cancer occupies a third
of my liver, and though its advance may be
slowed, this particular sort of cancer cannot
be halted.
It is up to me now to choose how to live
out the months that remain to me. I have to
live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can. In this I am encouraged by the
words of one of my favorite philosophers,
David Hume, who, upon learning that he was
mortally ill at age 65, wrote a short autobiography in a single day in April of 1776. He titled it “My Own Life.”
“I now reckon upon a speedy disso-
lution,” he wrote. “I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more
strange, have, notwithstanding the great decline of my person, never suffered a moment’s
abatement of my spirits. I possess the same
ardour as ever in study, and the same gaiety
in company.”
I have been lucky enough to live past 80,
and the 15 years allotted to me beyond Hume’s
three score and five have been equally rich in
work and love. In that time, I have published
five books and completed an autobiography
(rather longer than Hume’s few pages) to be
published this spring; I have several other books nearly finished.
Hume continued, “I am ... a man of
mild dispositions, of command of temper,
of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of
enmity, and of great moderation in all my
passions.”
Here I depart from Hume. While I have
enjoyed loving relationships and friendships
and have no real enmities, I cannot say (nor
would anyone who knows me say) that I am
a man of mild dispositions. On the contrary, I
am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation
in all my passions.
And yet, one line from Hume’s essay
strikes me as especially true: “It is difficult,”
he wrote, “to be more detached from life than
I am at present.”
Over the last few days, I have been able
to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort
of landscape, and with a deepening sense of
the connection of all its parts. This does not
mean I am finished with life.
On the contrary, I feel intensely alive,
and I want and hope in the time that remains
to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to
those I love, to write more, to travel if I have
the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.
This will involve audacity, clarity and
plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world. But there will be time,
too, for some fun (and even some silliness, as
well).
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.
I must focus on myself, my work and my
friends. I shall no longer look at “NewsHour”
every night. I shall no longer pay any attention to politics or arguments about global warming.
This is not indifference but detachment
— I still care deeply about the Middle East,
about global warming, about growing inequality, but these are no longer my business; they
The Nationalist Solution
By David Brooks
T
he struggle against Islamic extremism
has been crippled by a failure of historical awareness and cultural understanding. From the very beginning, we have
treated the problem of terrorism through the
prism of our own assumptions and our own
values. We have solipsistically assumed that
people turn to extremism because they can’t
get what we want, and fail to realize that they
don’t want what we want, but want something they think is higher.
The latest example of this is the speech
President Obama gave at this week’s Summit
on Countering Violent Extremism. It was a
bad speech, but its badness is no reflection on
President Obama, for it was the same sort of
bad speech that all American presidents have
been giving for the past generation.
Religious extremism exists on three levels. It grows out of economic and political
dysfunction. It is fueled by perverted spiritual
ardor. It is organized by theological conviction.
American presidents focus almost exclusively
on the economic and political level because
that’s what polite people in Western capitals
are comfortable talking about.
At the summit meeting, President Obama gave the conventional materialistic explanation for what turns people into terrorists.
Terrorism spreads, he argued, where people
lack economic opportunity and good schools.
The way to fight terror, he concluded, is with
better job-training programs, more shared
wealth, more open political regimes, and a general message of tolerance and pluralism.
In short, the president took his secular
domestic agenda and projected it as a way to
prevent young men from joining ISIS and chopping off heads.
But people don’t join ISIS, or the Islamic
State, because they want better jobs with more
benefits. ISIS is one of a long line of anti-En-
lightenment movements, led by people who
have contempt for the sort of materialistic,
bourgeois goals that dominate our politics.
These people don’t care if their earthly standard of living improves by a few percent a
year. They’re disgusted by the pleasures we
value, the pluralism we prize and the emphasis on happiness in this world, which we take
as public life’s ultimate end.
They’re not doing it because they are
sexually repressed. They are doing it because
they think it will ennoble their souls and purify creation.
On Thursday, Mona El-Naggar of The
Times profiled a young Egyptian man, named
Islam Yaken, who grew up in a private school
but ended up fighting for the Islamic State
and kneeling proudly by a beheaded corpse
in Syria.
He was marginalized by society. He
seems to have rejected the whole calculus of
what we call self-interest for the sake of an
belong to the future. I rejoice when I meet gifted young people — even the one who biopsied and diagnosed my metastases. I feel the
future is in good hands.
I have been increasingly conscious, for
the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my
contemporaries. My generation is on the way
out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There
will be no one like us when we are gone, but
then there is no one like anyone else, ever.
When people die, they cannot be replaced.
They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it
is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of
every human being to be a unique individual,
to find his own path, to live his own life, to die
his own death.
electrifying apocalyptic worldview and what
he imagines to be some illimitable heroic destiny.
People who live according to the pure
code of honor are not governed by the profit
motive; they are governed by the thymotic
urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the
sort of glory that can be won only by showing
strength in confrontation with death.
Extremism is a spiritual phenomenon,
a desire for loftiness of spirit gone perverse.
You can’t counter a heroic impulse with a
mundane and bourgeois response. You can
counter it only with a more compelling heroic
vision. There will always be alienated young
men fueled by spiritual ardor. Terrorism will
be defeated only when they find a different
fulfillment, even more bold and self-transcending.
In other times, nationalism has offered
that compelling vision. We sometimes think of
nationalism as a destructive force, and it can
be. But nationalism tied to universal democracy has always been uplifting and ennobling. It
has organized heroic lives in America, France,
Britain and beyond.
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The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, February 23, 2015
Casals Festival to Open Thursday at CBA
3-Part Weekend Will Showcase Pianos, PRSO, Quartet
By PEGGY ANN BLISS
[email protected]
T
he 2015 Casals Festival opens
this week with a piano recital
Thursday by British virtuoso
pianist Steven Hough, followed by a
full weekend including a piano concerto with orchestra and a historic
chamber music concert.
For the opening concert, Hough
will play his well known interpretations of music by French composer
Claude Debussy and Polish-born,
French-educated Frédéric Chopin
p in
an intimate atmosphere.
In a novel development, the
opening salvo of the 10-concert series will take place at the new Pablo
Casals Symphony Hall in the Luis A.
Ferré Performing Arts Center complex in Santurce.
The prestigious festival will
then travel to the University of
Puerto Rico Theater where the historic event was held during the first
several years after it was
founded in 1956 by legendary Catalonian cellist Pablo
Casals.
Saturday’s concert features charismatic Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero, with the Puerto Rico
Symphony Orchestra under
the baton of Norwegian
guest conductor
Eivind Gullberg
Jensen.
Montero,
known for her
unique improvisations, made her
debut last season
with the Boston
Symphony,
the
Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra
and the Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra. She also gave a recital at
Queen Elizabeth Hall,, and several
Q
recital tours through South America,
Canada and Europe.
Gullberg Jensen, principal conductor of the NDR Radiophilarmonie, is described by Gramophone
Magazine as a conductor of “discipline and integrity.” The orchestra
will perform works by Danish composer Nielsen, Norwegian composer
Edvard Grieg and Russian composer
Piotr I. Tchaikovsky.
The festival returns to the Symphony Hall on Sunday at 3 p.m. for
a concert by the acclaimed Figueroa
Quartet dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the original Quintet, made
up of five of their fathers and uncles.
The quartet includes Guillermo, violin, viola and conductor; Narciso, violin; Rafael, cello and Ivonne, piano.
The
h festival, which
h h concludes at
the University of Puerto Rico March
14 with cellist Yo Yo Ma playing Edward Elgar’s “Cello Concerto in E
Minor,” will begin its second week
March 4 with a free concert at the
Conservatory of Puerto Rico by the
MAD Chamber Trio.
For more information, call (787)
918-1106, access Facebook or email
[email protected].
Trelles Brings Magic to 19th-Century Scientistʻs Sketches
Aguadilla’s Agustín Stahl was PR’s Most Famous Botanist
By PEGGY ANN BLISS
[email protected]
A
one-man exhibit by Rafael
Trelles transforms the paintings
of a famous scientist into an artistic experience.
“Flora, un encuentro con las acuarelas de Agustín Stahl” (Flora, an
Encounter with the Water Colors of
Agustín Stahl) is on view in the San
Juan Bautista Gallery in San Juan City
Hall.
The exhibit includes 20 drawings
that recreate the watercolors the Aguadilla scientist created to illustrate and
classify Puerto Rican flora in the 19th
century.
“With this series of drawings I
pay tribute to Dr. Agustín Stahl, the
first famous Puerto Rican scientist,”
said Trelles in a press release.
Stahl conducted research and experiments in ethnology, botany and zoology, and also loved historical investigation.
Copies of Stahl’s plant collection
with some 1,330 plants can be found in
various botanical gardens around the
world.
The genus Stahlia is represented
by a single species, known as cóbana
negra, which is listed as threatened. It
is believed to occur only in Puerto Rico
and the eastern Dominican Republic.
Stahl, of German parentage, studied medicine for 10 years in Germany
and Czechoslovakia, and practiced
medicine the rest of his life in Bayamón.
He is credited with starting the custom
of decorating Christmas trees in Puerto
Rico in 1866, continuing to do so every
year until his death in 1917.
“I decided to intervene with
Stahl’s work by introducing symbolic
elements to subvert the scientific intention of his watercolors and link them to
a mythical-magical concept of Nature,”
said the artist.
Trelles has been awarded the first
prize for best exhibition in contemporary media by the Puerto Rico Art Critics Association, the “Emeritus Award”
for his excellent artistic career by the
National Endowment of Puerto Rico,
and the Art Medal by the Puerto Rican
Artists Association of UNESCO.
The exhibit is open Tuesday
through Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon
and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is free.
HEALTH
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Monday, February 23, 2015
The Real Bad Egg Is Sugar
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
A
nutrition advisory panel that
helps shape the country’s official dietary guidelines eased
some of its previous restrictions on fat
and cholesterol late last week and recommended sharp new limits on the
amount of added sugar that Americans
should consume.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory
Committee, which convenes every five
years, followed the lead of other major
health groups like the American Heart
Association that in recent years have
backed away from dietary cholesterol
restrictions and urged people to cut
back on added sugars.
The panel said that Americans
were eating too much salt, sugar and saturated fat, and not enough foods that fit
a “healthy dietary pattern,” like fruits,
vegetables, nuts, whole grains, fish and
moderate levels of alcohol. Members of
the panel said they wanted Americans
to focus less on individual nutrients and
more on overall patterns of eating, such
as a Mediterranean-style diet, which is
associated with lower rates of heart disease and stroke.
The panel singled out added sugars as one of its major concerns. Previous dietary guidelines have included
warnings about eating too much added
sugar, but for the first time the panel recommended that Americans limit it to
no more than 10 percent of daily calories
— roughly 12 teaspoons a day for many
adults — because of its link to obesity
and chronic disease.
Americans consume 22 to 30 teaspoons of added sugar daily, half of
which come from soda, juices and other
sugary drinks. The panel said sugary
drinks should be removed from schools,
and it endorsed a rule proposed by the
Food and Drug Administration that
would require a distinct line for added
sugars on food nutrition labels, a change the food and sugar industries have
aggressively fought.
Many experts, including some
who disagreed with the panel’s cautions
on salt and saturated fat, applauded its
stronger stance on added sugars.
“That was one of the high points
of these guidelines, and something that
was sorely needed,” said Dr. Ronald M.
Krauss, the director of atherosclerosis
research at Children’s Hospital Oakland
Research Institute. “There is a striking
excess of added sugar intake in all age
groups across the population.”
Dr. Krauss, the former chairman
of the American Heart Association’s
dietary guidelines committee, said that
the advisory panel’s emphasis on overall dietary patterns was “a tremendous
move in the right direction.” As part of
that move, the panel dropped a suggestion from the previous guidelines that
Americans restrict their total fat intake
to 35 percent of their daily calories.
Since they were first issued in 1980,
the guidelines have largely encouraged
people to follow a low-fat diet, which
prompted an explosion of processed
foods stripped of fat and loaded with
sugar. Studies show that replacing fat
with refined carbohydrates like bread,
rice and sugar can actually worsen cardiovascular health, so the guidelines
encourage Americans to focus not on
the amount of fat they are eating but on
the type.
The guidelines advise people to
eat unsaturated fat — the kind found in
fish, nuts, and olive and vegetable oils
— in place of saturated fat, which occurs primarily in animal foods.
The panel also dropped a longstan-
ding recommendation that Americans
restrict their intake of dietary cholesterol from foods like eggs and shrimp — a
belated acknowledgment of decades of
research showing that dietary cholesterol has little or no effect on the blood
cholesterol levels of most people.
“For many years, the cholesterol recommendation has been carried
forward, but the data just doesn’t support it,” said Alice H. Lichtenstein, the
vice chairwoman of the advisory panel
and a professor of nutrition science and
policy at Tufts University.
Dr. Krauss said that some people
experience a rise in blood cholesterol
after eating yolks and other cholesterolrich foods. But these “hyper-responders” are such a minority — roughly
a few percent of the population — that
they do not justify broad restrictions on
cholesterol intake.
The advisory panel does not issue
the official guidelines. Its report is sent
to the Department of Health and Human
Services and the Department of Agriculture, which publish Dietary Guidelines for Americans every five years. The
agencies usually adhere very closely to
the panel’s recommendations.
Although consumers rarely pay
direct attention to the guidelines, they
nonetheless influence the diets of tens
of millions of people. The guidelines
shape the menus of the school lunch
program, which feeds more than 30
million children each school day, and
they are incorporated into national
food assistance programs like WIC and
SNAP.
The advisory panel included the vegetarian diet as an example of what it called a healthy eating pattern, noting that
a plant-based diet is also more sustainable, with less of an impact on the environment. But critics questioned whether
the guidelines might overstep the mandate to focus on health and nutrition.
“It appears the advisory committee was more interested in addressing
what’s trendy among foodies than
providing science-based advice for the
average American’s diet,” said Howard
Hill, a veterinarian and president of the
National Pork Producers Council.
The advisory panel was also criticized for its advice against saturated fat,
which has been challenged by several
recent studies. Dr. James DiNicolantonio, a cardiovascular scientist at Saint
Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute,
said that replacing saturated fat with
the polyunsaturated fats in vegetable
oils could worsen blood cholesterol levels and raise cancer and heart disease
risk.
“The recommendations on saturated fat are a farce,” he said.
Adele Hite, a registered dietitian
and spokeswoman for the nonprofit
Healthy Nation Coalition, said that in
the decades since their inception, the
guidelines had played a direct role in
the explosion of obesity and chronic
disease by steering people away from
nutritious whole foods like meat, eggs
and butter.
Since the 1980s, Americans over all
have been eating more grains, produce,
cereals and vegetable oils, while generally lowering their intake of red meat,
whole milk and eggs, Ms. Hite said, and
yet the population is fatter and sicker
than ever.
“Despite the unavoidable conclusion that the guidelines have failed in
some fundamental way,” she said, “the
response from the advisory committee
seems to be that an even more restricted
list of acceptable foods will, this time
around, do the trick.”
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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SCI & TECH
Antarctica: Mystery Continent Holds Key to Mankind’s Future
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and
SETH BORENSTEIN
E
arth’s past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula
of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate
and mysterious of its continents.
Clues to answering humanity’s most
basic questions are locked in this continental
freezer the size of the United States and half
of Canada: Where did we come from? Are we
alone in the universe? What’s the fate of our
warming planet?
The first explorers set foot in Antarctica
194 years ago hunting 19th century riches of
whale and seal oil and fur, turning tides red
with blood. Since then, the fist-shaped continent has proven a treasure chest for scientists
trying to determine everything from the creation of the cosmos to how high seas will rise
with global warming.
“It’s a window out to the universe and in In this Jan. 20, 2015 photo, wooden arrows show the distances to various cities
time,” said Kelly Falkner, polar program chief
near Chile’s Escudero station on King George Island, Antarctica. Thousands
for the U.S. National Science Foundation.
For a dozen days in January, in the of scientists come to Antarctica for research.
middle of the chilly Antarctic summer, The
Associated Press followed scientists from di- started melting irreversibly, what happens understand when continents disassembled,”
fferent fields searching for alien-like creatures, here will determine if cities such as Miami, Spikings said. “So we’re also learning about
hints of pollution trapped in pristine ancient New York, New Orleans, Guangzhou, Mum- the real antiquity of the Earth and how (contiice, leftovers from the Big Bang, biological bai, London and Osaka will have to regularly nents) were configured together a billion years
ago, half a billion years ago, 300 million years
quirks that potentially could lead to better battle flooding from rising seas.
Antarctica
“is
big
and
it’s
changing
and
ago,” he said, adding that the insights will help
medical treatments, and perhaps most of all,
it
aff
ects
the
rest
of
the
planet
and
we
can’t
him understand Antarctica’s key role in the
signs of unstoppable melting. The journey on
aff
ord
to
ignore
what’s
going
on
down
there,”
jigsaw of ancient super continents. With names
a Chilean navy ship along the South Shetland
said
David
Vaughan,
science
director
of
the
like Rodinia, Gondwana and Pangaea, scienislands and vulnerable Antarctic PeninsuBritish
Antarctic
Survey.
tists believe they were significant landmasses
la, which juts off the continent like a broken
Often,
scientists
fi
nd
something
other
in Earth’s history and were periodically joined
pinky finger, logged 833 miles (1,340 kilomethan
what
they
were
looking
for.
Last
year
together through the movement of plates.
ters) and allowing the AP team a firsthand
researchers
calculated
that
ice
on
the
western
Because there is no local industry, any
look at part of this vital continent.
side
of
the
continent
was
melting
faster
than
pollution
captured in the pristine ice and
Antarctica conjures up images of quiet
expected.
Last
month,
scientists
researching
snow
is
from
chemicals that traveled from
mountains and white plateaus, but the colvital
geology
in
that
melting
were
looking
a
afar,
such
as
low
levels of lead found in ice undest, driest and remotest continent is far from
half
mile
under
the
ice
in
pitch
dark
and
found
til
it
was
phased
out of gasoline, or radiation
dormant. About 98 percent of it is covered by
a
surprise:
fi
sh
a
half
foot
(15
centimeters)
long
levels
found
from
above-ground nuclear tests
ice, and that ice is constantly moving. Temand
shrimp-like
creatures
swimming
by
their
thousands
of
miles
away and decades ago by
peratures can range from above zero in the
cameras.
the
U.S.
and
the
Soviet
Union, Vaughan said.
South Shetlands and Antarctic Peninsula to
Geologists
are
entranced
by
Antarctica’s
The
ice
tells
how
levels of carbon dioxithe unbearable frozen lands near the South
secrets.
On
a
recent
scientifi
c
expedition
led
by
de,
the
heat-trapping
gas,
have fluctuated over
Pole. As an active volcano, Deception Island
Chile’s
Antarctic
Institute,
Richard
Spikings,
hundreds
of
thousands
of
years. This is also
is a pot of extreme conditions. There are spots
a
research
geologist
at
the
University
of
Gethe
place
where
a
hole
in
the
ozone layer, from
where the sea boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit
neva,
wielded
a
large
hammer
to
collect
rock
man-made
refrigerants
and
aerosols, perio(100 degrees Celsius), while in others it can be
samples
in
the
South
Shetlands
and
the
Andically
parks
for
a
couple
months
and causes
freezing at below 32 (0 degrees Celsius). And
tarctic
Peninsula.
Curious
members
of
a
pentrouble.
It
happens
when
sunlight
creeps
back
while the sun rarely shines on the long, dark
guin
colony
on
Cape
Legoupil
watched
as
he
to
Antarctica
in
August,
triggering
a
chemical
Antarctic winters, nighttime never seems to
pounded on slabs of black granite and diorite reaction that destroys ozone molecules, caufall on summer days.
While tourists come to Antarctica for its rising out of the southern ocean. By the end of sing a hole that peaks in September and then
beauty and remoteness, scientists are all bu- the two-week trip, his colleagues had jokingly closes with warmer weather in November.
Exploring Antarctica is something Chisiness. What they find could affect the lives begun calling him “Thor.”
lean
Alejo
Contreras, 53, began dreaming
“To
understand
many
aspects
in
the
diof people thousands of miles away; if experts
about
as
a
teen
after reading Robert Falcon
versity
of
animals
and
plants
it’s
important
to
are right, and the West Antarctic ice sheet has
Scott’s journal of his journey to the South Pole.
When Contreras finally got to the South Pole
in 1988, he stopped shaving his beard, which
today hangs down to his chest and often goes
every which way, similar to his explorations.
Antarctica is “like the planet’s freezer,”
said Contreras, who has led 14 expeditions to
the continent. “And none of us would dare litter the ice.”
Because of the pristine nature of the
bottom of the world, when a meteorite lands
here it stays untouched. So researchers find
more meteorites, often from nearby Mars, including one discovered nearly 20 years ago
which had scientists initially thinking, incorrectly, they had found proof that life once
existed on Mars.
This is a place with landscapes out of an
alien movie set. NASA uses the remoteness
of the continent to study what people would
have to go through if they visited Mars. The
dry air also makes it perfect for astronomers
to peer deep into space and into the past.
During a recent trip to Deception Island, Peter Convey, an ecologist for the British Antarctic Survey who has been visiting
Antarctica for 25 years, braved heavy rain,
near freezing temperature and winds of more
than 20 knots to collect samples of the spongy
green and brown mosses that grow in patches
on the ash of the volcanic island’s black rock
mountains. He was looking for clues in their
genetics to determine how long the species
have been evolving on Antarctica, in isolation
from other continents.
“I’ve been lucky and I’ve gone to the
middle of the continent, so I’ve been isolated
from the next human being for 400 to 500 kilometers (250-300 miles),” Convey said. In this
remoteness are odd life forms, raising hope
that life might once have existed in other extreme environments such as Mars or is even
now hidden below the ice of Jupiter’s moon
Europa.
“This is one of the more extreme places
where you could expect to find life. It’s even
here,” said Ross Powell, a Northern Illinois
University scientist who in January was using
a remote-controlled submarine deep under
the ice in another part of Antarctica to figure
out about melting, when the unusual fish and
shrimp-like creatures swam by.
About 4,000 scientists come to Antarctica for research during the summer and 1,000
stay in the more forbidding winter. There
are also about 1,000 non-scientists — chefs,
divers, mechanics, janitors and the priest of
the world’s southernmost Eastern Orthodox
Church on top of a rocky hill at the Russian
Bellinghausen station.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
The San Juan Daily Star
Antarctica: Mystery Continent Holds Key to Mankind’s Future
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and
SETH BORENSTEIN
E
arth’s past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula
of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate
and mysterious of its continents.
Clues to answering humanity’s most
basic questions are locked in this continental
freezer the size of the United States and half
of Canada: Where did we come from? Are we
alone in the universe? What’s the fate of our
warming planet?
The first explorers set foot in Antarctica
194 years ago hunting 19th century riches of
whale and seal oil and fur, turning tides red
with blood. Since then, the fist-shaped continent has proven a treasure chest for scientists
trying to determine everything from the creation of the cosmos to how high seas will rise
with global warming.
“It’s a window out to the universe and in In this Jan. 20, 2015 photo, wooden arrows show the distances to various cities
time,” said Kelly Falkner, polar program chief
near Chile’s Escudero station on King George Island, Antarctica. Thousands
for the U.S. National Science Foundation.
For a dozen days in January, in the of scientists come to Antarctica for research.
middle of the chilly Antarctic summer, The
Associated Press followed scientists from di- started melting irreversibly, what happens understand when continents disassembled,”
fferent fields searching for alien-like creatures, here will determine if cities such as Miami, Spikings said. “So we’re also learning about
hints of pollution trapped in pristine ancient New York, New Orleans, Guangzhou, Mum- the real antiquity of the Earth and how (contiice, leftovers from the Big Bang, biological bai, London and Osaka will have to regularly nents) were configured together a billion years
ago, half a billion years ago, 300 million years
quirks that potentially could lead to better battle flooding from rising seas.
Antarctica
“is
big
and
it’s
changing
and
ago,” he said, adding that the insights will help
medical treatments, and perhaps most of all,
it
aff
ects
the
rest
of
the
planet
and
we
can’t
him understand Antarctica’s key role in the
signs of unstoppable melting. The journey on
aff
ord
to
ignore
what’s
going
on
down
there,”
jigsaw of ancient super continents. With names
a Chilean navy ship along the South Shetland
said
David
Vaughan,
science
director
of
the
like Rodinia, Gondwana and Pangaea, scienislands and vulnerable Antarctic PeninsuBritish
Antarctic
Survey.
tists believe they were significant landmasses
la, which juts off the continent like a broken
Often,
scientists
fi
nd
something
other
in Earth’s history and were periodically joined
pinky finger, logged 833 miles (1,340 kilomethan
what
they
were
looking
for.
Last
year
together through the movement of plates.
ters) and allowing the AP team a firsthand
researchers
calculated
that
ice
on
the
western
Because there is no local industry, any
look at part of this vital continent.
side
of
the
continent
was
melting
faster
than
pollution
captured in the pristine ice and
Antarctica conjures up images of quiet
expected.
Last
month,
scientists
researching
snow
is
from
chemicals that traveled from
mountains and white plateaus, but the colvital
geology
in
that
melting
were
looking
a
afar,
such
as
low
levels of lead found in ice undest, driest and remotest continent is far from
half
mile
under
the
ice
in
pitch
dark
and
found
til
it
was
phased
out of gasoline, or radiation
dormant. About 98 percent of it is covered by
a
surprise:
fi
sh
a
half
foot
(15
centimeters)
long
levels
found
from
above-ground nuclear tests
ice, and that ice is constantly moving. Temand
shrimp-like
creatures
swimming
by
their
thousands
of
miles
away and decades ago by
peratures can range from above zero in the
cameras.
the
U.S.
and
the
Soviet
Union, Vaughan said.
South Shetlands and Antarctic Peninsula to
Geologists
are
entranced
by
Antarctica’s
The
ice
tells
how
levels of carbon dioxithe unbearable frozen lands near the South
secrets.
On
a
recent
scientifi
c
expedition
led
by
de,
the
heat-trapping
gas,
have fluctuated over
Pole. As an active volcano, Deception Island
Chile’s
Antarctic
Institute,
Richard
Spikings,
hundreds
of
thousands
of
years. This is also
is a pot of extreme conditions. There are spots
a
research
geologist
at
the
University
of
Gethe
place
where
a
hole
in
the
ozone layer, from
where the sea boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit
neva,
wielded
a
large
hammer
to
collect
rock
man-made
refrigerants
and
aerosols, perio(100 degrees Celsius), while in others it can be
samples
in
the
South
Shetlands
and
the
Andically
parks
for
a
couple
months
and causes
freezing at below 32 (0 degrees Celsius). And
tarctic
Peninsula.
Curious
members
of
a
pentrouble.
It
happens
when
sunlight
creeps
back
while the sun rarely shines on the long, dark
guin
colony
on
Cape
Legoupil
watched
as
he
to
Antarctica
in
August,
triggering
a
chemical
Antarctic winters, nighttime never seems to
pounded on slabs of black granite and diorite reaction that destroys ozone molecules, caufall on summer days.
While tourists come to Antarctica for its rising out of the southern ocean. By the end of sing a hole that peaks in September and then
beauty and remoteness, scientists are all bu- the two-week trip, his colleagues had jokingly closes with warmer weather in November.
Exploring Antarctica is something Chisiness. What they find could affect the lives begun calling him “Thor.”
lean
Alejo
Contreras, 53, began dreaming
“To
understand
many
aspects
in
the
diof people thousands of miles away; if experts
about
as
a
teen
after reading Robert Falcon
versity
of
animals
and
plants
it’s
important
to
are right, and the West Antarctic ice sheet has
Scott’s journal of his journey to the South Pole.
When Contreras finally got to the South Pole
in 1988, he stopped shaving his beard, which
today hangs down to his chest and often goes
every which way, similar to his explorations.
Antarctica is “like the planet’s freezer,”
said Contreras, who has led 14 expeditions to
the continent. “And none of us would dare litter the ice.”
Because of the pristine nature of the
bottom of the world, when a meteorite lands
here it stays untouched. So researchers find
more meteorites, often from nearby Mars, including one discovered nearly 20 years ago
which had scientists initially thinking, incorrectly, they had found proof that life once
existed on Mars.
This is a place with landscapes out of an
alien movie set. NASA uses the remoteness
of the continent to study what people would
have to go through if they visited Mars. The
dry air also makes it perfect for astronomers
to peer deep into space and into the past.
During a recent trip to Deception Island, Peter Convey, an ecologist for the British Antarctic Survey who has been visiting
Antarctica for 25 years, braved heavy rain,
near freezing temperature and winds of more
than 20 knots to collect samples of the spongy
green and brown mosses that grow in patches
on the ash of the volcanic island’s black rock
mountains. He was looking for clues in their
genetics to determine how long the species
have been evolving on Antarctica, in isolation
from other continents.
“I’ve been lucky and I’ve gone to the
middle of the continent, so I’ve been isolated
from the next human being for 400 to 500 kilometers (250-300 miles),” Convey said. In this
remoteness are odd life forms, raising hope
that life might once have existed in other extreme environments such as Mars or is even
now hidden below the ice of Jupiter’s moon
Europa.
“This is one of the more extreme places
where you could expect to find life. It’s even
here,” said Ross Powell, a Northern Illinois
University scientist who in January was using
a remote-controlled submarine deep under
the ice in another part of Antarctica to figure
out about melting, when the unusual fish and
shrimp-like creatures swam by.
About 4,000 scientists come to Antarctica for research during the summer and 1,000
stay in the more forbidding winter. There
are also about 1,000 non-scientists — chefs,
divers, mechanics, janitors and the priest of
the world’s southernmost Eastern Orthodox
Church on top of a rocky hill at the Russian
Bellinghausen station.
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alega usted Ie adeuda a la Demandante las siguientes cantidades: Principal $39,263.48 de
principal, intereses sobre dicha
suma al 6.5% anual desde el 1
de septiembre de 2014 hasta
su completo pago, mas $34.27
mensual por seguros contra
riesgos, mas el pago mensual
par contribuciones territoriales,
mas $18.92 mensual por concepto de recargos por demora
adeudados desde el dia 1 de
octubre de 2013 hasta su total
pago, y hasta la cantidad estipulada de $6,942.20 para costas,
gastos y honorarios de abogados, mas $96.88 por concepto
de recargos acumulados, asi
como cualquier otra suma que
contenga el contrato de prestamo. La propiedad que garantiza
hipotecariamente el prestamo
es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar
e el Barrio Mucarabones del
municipio de Toa Alta, marcado
con el numero 4 del bloque1-G
de la Urbanizacion La Providencia, con cabida de 257.50
metros cuadrados. En lindes
por el: NORTE: Con el lote numero 3, distancia de 25.00 metros; SUR: Con el lote numero
5, distancia de 25.00 metros;
ESTE: Con la Avenida La Providencia, distancia de 10.30
metros; OESTE: Con la calle
numero 6, distancia de 10.30
metros. Enclava una casa de
concreto para uso residencial.
La propiedad consta inscrita al
Folio 36 del Torno 249 de Toa
Alta. Finza # 12,100. Registro
de la Propiedad de Bayamon,
Seccion III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al Folio
39 del Tomo 249 de Toa Alta.
Finca #12,100. Registro de la
Propiedad de Bayamon. Inscripcion Sexta. Se le advierte
que si no contesta la Demanda, radicando el original de la
contestacion en este Tribunal
y enviando copia de la contestacion a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma
Alonso Garcia, cuya direccion
es en 1 Calle Orquidea Box 72,
Guaynabo PR 00969-5461, Telefono y Fax: (787) 789-1826,
correo electronico: [email protected], dentro
del termino de treinta (30) dias
de la publicacion de este edicto
excluyendose el dia de la publicacion se le anotara la rebeldia
y se le dictara Sentencia en su
contra, concediendo el remedio
solicitado sin mas citarle ni oirle. Se le informa ademas, que
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ANDRES JOSE
MARTINEZ QUIÑONES
y su esposa MARINE
DOLORES SERVINO
ALVES, también conocida
como DOLORES
SERVINO ALVEZ y como
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ALVEZ y la Sociedad
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Gananciales compuesta
por ambos; ANDRES
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(506) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca
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Al: Público en General
A: ANDRES JOSE
MARTINEZ QUIÑONES
y su esposa MARINE
DOLORES SEVINO
ALVES, también conocida
como DOLORES SELVINO
ALVEZ y como DOLORES
SERVIÑO ALVEZ y
la Sociedad Legal de
Bienes Gananciales
compuesta por ambos;
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MARTINEZ SERVINO,
también conocido
como ANDRES JOSE
MARTINEZ SERVIÑO;
WESTERNBANK PUERTO
RICO, por tener Hipoteca
en Garantía de Pagaré a
su favor por la suma de
$900,000.00.
Yo, DIANA I. NAVARRO CRUZ,
Alguacil Auxiliar, Alguacil de
este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y
personas con interés sobre la
propiedad que más adelante se
describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día
10 de marzo de 2015, a las 9:30
de la mañana en mi oficina, sita
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San
Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
venderé en Pública Subasta la
propiedad inmueble que más
adelante se describe y cuya
venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en
dinero en efectivo, giro postal
o cheque certificado a nombre
del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento
incoado, estarán de manifiesto
en la Secretaría durante horas
laborables. Que en caso de no
producir remate ni adjudicación
en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la
susodicha propiedad, el día 17
de marzo de 2015, a las 9:30 de
la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se
celebrará una tercera subasta
el día 25 de marzo de 2015, a
las 9:30 de la mañana en mi
oficina sita en el lugar antes
indicado. La propiedad a
venderse en pública subasta
se describe como sigue: URBANA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Monacillos de
Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto
Rico, con una cabida superficial
de NOVECIENTOS DIECINUEVE PUNTO OCHENTA (919.80)
METROS CUADRADOS, identificada con el número Siete (7)
en el plano de inscripción de
la Urbanización denominada
Mansiones de Caldas. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintiseis
punto once (26.11) metros, con
la calle que da acceso a dicha
Urbanización; por el SUR, en
treinta y dos punto diez (32.10)
metros, con la Urbanización
Horizons; por el ESTE, en tres
alineaciones cuyas distancias
suman treinta y siete punto
cero nueve (37.09) metros, con
el Camino Alejandrino; y por
el OESTE, en veintiocho punto veintiocho (28.28) metros,
con el solar identificado con el
número Cinco (5) de la referida Urbanización. Enclava una
casa de concreto para fines
residenciales. La escritura de
hipoteca se encuentra inscrita
al folio 221 del tomo 292 de
Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Registro de la Propiedad de San
Juan, Sección Quinta, finca número 7,025, inscripción octava
La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Mansiones de Caldas,
Calle San Carlos, Número 7,
San Juan, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para
satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $602,942.88 de
principal, intereses al 6 1/8%
anual, desde día 1ro. de julio de
2011, hasta su completo pago,
más la cantidad de $60,300.00
estipulada para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima
de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de
$603,000.00 y de ser necesaria
una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a
2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la
suma de $402,000.00 y de ser
necesaria una tercera subasta,
la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir,
la suma de $301,500.00. La
propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en
moneda legal y corriente de los
Estados Unidos de América en
el momento de la adjudicación
y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese,
continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante
los acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los
mismos, sin destinarse a su
extinción el precio del remate.
La propiedad hipotecada a ser
vendida en pública subasta se
encuentra afecta al siguiente
gravamen posterior: Hipoteca
en Garantía de Pagaré a favor
de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o
a su orden, por la suma principal de $900,000.00, con intereses al 12% anual, vencedero a
la presentación, según consta
de la Escritura Número 411,
otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de mayo de
2006, ante el Notario Público
Ronald L. Rosenbaum; inscrita al folio 221 del tomo 292 de
Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Re-
gistro de la Propiedad de San
Juan, Sección Quinta, finca
número 7,025, inscripción 9na.
Al Asiento 227 del Diario 884,
se presentó Escritura Número
107, otorgada en San Juan,
Puerto Rico, el día 23 de mayo
de 2008, ante el Notario Público
Ronald L. Rosenbaum, mediante la cual se aclara la escritura
número 411 del día 31 de mayo
de 2006 en cuanto al párrafo
9 de dicha escritura. Registro
de la Propiedad de San Juan,
Sección Quinta. Los documentos antes relacionados fueron
inscritos en virtud de la Ley Número 216 del 27 de diciembre
de 2010 la cual entro en virgor
el 10 de febrero de 2011. TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido
el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de
los licitadores, bajo mi firma y
sello del Tribunal, en San Juan,
Puerto Rico, a 3 de febrero de
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Ejecución de Embargo que le
ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que
suscribe por la Secretaría del
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL
DE PONCE, 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 22 de abril de 2015 a
las 3:00 de la tarde en su oficina
sita en el local que ocupa en el
edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA
SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte
demandada de epígrafe en el
inmueble de su propiedad que
ubica en Brisas del Caribe, 627
Calle 13, Ponce, P.R 00731 y
que se describe a continuación:
RUSTICA: Parcela marcado
con el nъmero 627, en el plano
de parcelaciуn de la Comunidad Rural Brisas del Caribe del
Barrio Rнo Caсas del tйrmino
municipal de Ponce, Puerto
Rico, con una cabida superficial de 517.71 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE,
con parcela nъmero 638 de la
comunidad; por el SUR, con la
calle nъmero 13 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela
nъmero 626 de la comunidad;
y por el OESTE, con parcela
nъmero 628 de la comunidad.
Segъn inscripciуn 3ra expresa
que contiene una casa dedicada a vivienda. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita
en el Folio 166 del Tomo 944 de
Ponce, Finca número 18,914,
en el Registro de la Propiedad
de Ponce 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 $46,420.00.
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 29 de abril
de 2015 a las 3:00 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
$30,946.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la
•
segunda subasta se celebrará
una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe
el día 6 de mayo de 2015 a las
3:00 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 $23,210.00.
La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el
caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 86, otorgada el día 6 de
marzo de 2004, ante el Notario
Luis Oscar Cintrón Fonalledas
y consta inscrita en el Folio 187
vuelto del Tomo 1090 de Ponce,
finca número 18,914, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce
Sección Segunda, Inscripción
Quinta (5ta). 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
$39,073.93, intereses sobre dicha suma al tipo convenido de
6.50% porciento anual desde el
primero (1ro) de diciembre de
2009 hasta su completo pago,
más $928.99 de intereses devengados hasta el 30 de abril
de 2010, la suma de $67.00 por
concepto de cargos por demora devengados hasta la misma
fecha y la cantidad líquida y
estipulada de $4,220.00 para
costas, gastos, y honorarios de
abogado así como cualesquiera otras sumas que aparezcan
de la faz del contrato y/o que
correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a esa
fecha y hasta la fecha en que
se pague la deuda en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los
documentos correspondientes
al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE PONCE, 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. HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de
Portador o Legal Tenedor, por
la suma principal de $25,000.00
con intereses al 15.00% anual
y vencedero a la presentación
según escritura número 59
otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico
ante el Notario Lourdes Alicea
Soto el 1 de diciembre de 1997.
Inscrita al folio 164 del tomo
944 de Ponce, inscripción Segunda. Dicha hipoteca esta salda y pendiente de cancelación.
Surge de un estudio de título
efectuado 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. HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré
a favor de La Autoridad para el
Financiamiento de la Vivienda
de Puerto Rico, o a su orden,
por la
suma principal de
$15,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero el 6 de marzo de 2012,
según escritura número 87,
otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto
Rico ante el Notario Luis Oscar
Cintrón Fonalledas el 6 de
marzo de 2004. Inscrita al folio
188 del tomo 1090 de Ponce,
inscripción Sexta (6ta). Y para
conocimiento de licitadores del
público en general se publicará
este Edicto de acuerdo con la
ley por espacio de dos semanas
en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la
venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el
Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este
Edicto será publicado mediante
edictos dos veces en un diario
de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto
Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido
el presente Edicto de subasta
bajo mi firma y sello de este
Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico,
hoy día 15 de enero de 2015.
Adelle E. Morales Rodríguez
#254, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.
DLJ MORTGAGE
email: [email protected]
The San Juan Daily Star
CAPITAL, INC.
Demandante v.
ELDA ALVAREZ RAMOS
Demandada
CIVIL NÚM. I1CI2010-00494
SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA
Y COBRO DE DINERO ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia de Puerto
Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, a los
demandados de epígrafe y al
público en general hace saber
que los autos y documentos
del caso de epígrafe estarán de
manifiesto en la Secretaría del
Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública
subasta al mejor postor, en
moneda de curso legal de los
Estados Unidos de América,
en mi oficina en este Tribunal
el derecho que tenga la parte
demandada en el inmueble
que se relaciona más adelante
para pagar la SENTENCIA de
$27,644.40 de balance principal, los intereses adeudados
sobre dicho principal computados al 9.25% anual, desde
el día primero de noviembre de
2009 hasta su total y completo
pago; más el 5% computado
sobre cada mensualidad de
$233.23 de cargos por demora a razón de $11.66 mensuales hasta su total pago, más
la suma de $2,835.00 como
cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada
en la escritura de hipoteca; y
cualesquiera otras sumas que
por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día
de la subasta. La propiedad a
venderse en pública subasta se
describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento W-Dieciséis
A (W-16-A) en el primer piso del
Condominio Río Cristal, grupo
Siete localizado en el Proyecto
Río Cristal, Mayaguez, Puerto
Rico, VBC Ciento Ochenta y
Siete (VBC-187). Está construido de hormigón armado y bloques de hormigón, teniendo un
área superficial de Novecientos
Ochenta y Dos Pies Cuadrados
y Nueve Centésimas de pies
cuadrados, equivalentes a noventa y un metros trescientos
veintitrés milésimas de metros
cuadrados. En lindes por el
NORTE, en cuarenta pies dos
pulgadas, equivalentes a doce
metros doscientos cuarenta y
tres milímetros con pared exterior; por el SUR, en cuarenta
pies dos pulgadas, equivalentes a doce metros doscientos
cuarenta y tres milímetros, con
pared exterior; por el ESTE,
en veintisiete pies seis pulgadas, equivalentes a ocho metros trescientos ochenta y dos
milímetros con Apartamento
Siete-W-Quince (7-W-15); y
por el OESTE, en veintisiete
pies seis pulgadas, equivalentes a ocho metros trescientos
ochenta y dos milímetros con
apartamento Siete W-Diecisiete-A (7W-17-A). Inscrita al folio
ciento cinco (105) del tomo mil
cuarenta y cinco (1045) de Ma-
yagüez, finca número treinta y
un mil seiscientos tres (31,603).
La propiedad antes descrita se
encuentra afecta al gravamen
posterior al que se pretende
ejecutar, el cual se describe de
la siguiente manera: Hipoteca:
A favor de la Autoridad para el
Financiamiento de la Vivienda
de Puerto Rico, por la suma de
$15,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el 30 de junio de 2006,
constituida mediante escritura
número 215, otorgada el día 30
de junio de 2006, ante el notario
J. Francisco Sepúlveda Rivera,
inscrita al folio 107 del tomo
1045 de Mayagüez. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el
día 17 de marzo de 2015, a las
3:30 de la tarde, servirá de tipo
mínimo para la misma la suma
de $28,350.00 sin admitirse
oferta inferior. En el caso de
que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la
primera subasta, se celebrará
una segunda subasta el día 24
de marzo de 2015, a las 11:00
de la mañana, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta
será el de dos terceras partes
del precio mínimo establecido
para la primera subasta, o a
sea, la suma de $18,900.00.
Si tampoco hubiera remate ni
adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera
subasta el día 31 de marzo de
2015, a las 11:00 de la mañana,
y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del
precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma
de $14,175.00. Si se declarase
desierta la tercera subasta, se
dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse
el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última
subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la
cantidad adeudada conforme a
la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual
o menor que el monto del tipo
de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad
adeudada si ésta fuera mayor.
Se avisa a cualquier licitador
que la propiedad queda sujeta
al gravamen del Estado Libre
Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el
pago de dichas contribuciones
es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo
licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos
y gravámenes anteriores y los
preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes
en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad
de los mismos, sin destinarse
su extinción al precio rematante. Y para conocimiento de
licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en
un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en
los sitios públicos de acuerdo
a las disposiciones de la Regla
51.7 de las de Procedimiento
Civil, expedido el presente en
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico a 15 de
Monday, February 23, 2015
octubre de 2014. Glorian Vaz- CIVIL NUM.: DCD2014-2993
quez Velez, #077, Alguacil Del (502) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCION DE HIPOTribunal.
TECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICLEGAL NOTICE
TO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS S.S.
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
SALA DE CAROLINA.
DE PUERTO RICO
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante v.
WILFRED DIAZ ROSADO,
T/C/C WILFREDO DIAZ
ROSADO
Demandado
CIVIL NUM.: FCD2014-1313
(404) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA ViA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS S.
S. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO.
A: WILFRED DIAZ
ROSADO, T/C/C
WILFREDO DIAZ
ROSADO
Por la presente se Ie emplaza
y notifica que debe contestar
la demanda incoada contra
usted, dentro del termino de
treinta (30) dias a partir de la
publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de dicha
contestación ante el Tribunal
y sala que se menciona en el
epigrafe del mismo, con copia
a la parte aqui demandante. Se
Ie apercibe que de no contestar
la demanda dentro del termino
aqui estipulado, se Ie anotara la
rebeldia y se dictara sentencia
en su contra sin mas citarle ni
oírle. Los abogados de la parte
demandante son:
Lcdo. Reggie Diaz Hernandez
Colegiado Num.: 17,428
RUA Num.: 16,393
PAVIA BERMUDEZ DIAZ &
SANCHEZ, LLP
Attorneys at Law
Edificio a Ochoa, Suite 200,
500 Calle De La Tanca
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
[email protected]
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma
y el sello de este Tribunal hoy,
28 de enero de 2015. Miriam
Rosa Maldonado, Secretaria
Regional. Por: Denisse Torres
Ruiz, Secretaria Auxiliar.
A: ANA LEBRON RIVERA
Por la presente se Ie emplaza
y notifica que debe contestar
la demanda incoada contra
usted, dentro del termino de
treinta (30) dias a partir de la
publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de dicha
contestación ante el Tribunal
y sala que se menciona en el
epigrafe del mismo, con copia
a la parte aqui demandante. Se
Ie apercibe que de no contestar
la demanda dentro del termino
aqui estipulado, se Ie anotara la
rebeldia y se dictara sentencia
en su contra sin mas citarle ni
oírle. Los abogados de la parte
demandante son:
Lcdo. Reggie Diaz Hernandez
Colegiado Num.: 17,428
RUA Num.: 16,393
PAVIA BERMUDEZ DIAZ &
SANCHEZ, LLP
Attorneys at Law
Edificio a Ochoa, Suite 200,
500 Calle De La Tanca
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
[email protected]
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma
y el sello de este Tribunal hoy,
2 de febrero de 2015. Ruth N.
Aponte Cotto, Secretaria Regional II.
Demandante v.
OMAR KAIRUZ VELEZ;
ANA ENID LEBR6N
RIVERA, T/C/C ANA
LEBRON RIVERA Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante v.
RAMON LUIS
BETANCOURT
MONTALVO, T/C/C
RAMON BETANCOURT
MONTALVO; JEISA
CEBALLOS RODRIGUEZ
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2014-2207
(503) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA ViA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS
LEGAL NOTICE
DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE S.S. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAPRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DO DE PUERTO RICO
A: RAMON LUIS
DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante v.
ANDRE LUIGGUI
AGOSTINI BRIGANTI,
T/C/C ANDRE AGOSTINI
BRIGANTI
Demandado
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2014-3084
(502) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO - EJECUCION DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS S. S.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PUERTO RICO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUA: ANDRE LUIGGUI
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
AGOSTINI BRIGANTI,
SALA DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO, INC.
la demanda dentro del termino
aqui estipulado, se Ie anotara la
rebeldia y se dictara sentencia
en su contra sin mas citarle ni
oírle. Los abogados de la parte
demandante son:
Lcdo. Reggie Diaz Hernandez
Colegiado Num.: 17,428
RUA Num.: 16,393
PAVIA BERMUDEZ DIAZ &
SANCHEZ, LLP
Attorneys at Law
Edificio a Ochoa, Suite 200,
500 Calle De La Tanca
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
[email protected]
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal
hoy, 2 de febrero de 2015. Ruth
N. Aponte Cotto, Secretaria
Regional II.
T/C/C ANDRE AGOSTINI
BRIGANTI
Por la presente se Ie emplaza
y notifica que debe contestar
la demanda incoada contra usted, dentro del termino de treinta (30) dias a partir de la publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de dicha
contestación ante el Tribunal
y sala que se menciona en el
epigrafe del mismo, con copia
a la parte aqui demandante. Se
Ie apercibe que de no contestar
BETANCOURT
MONTALVO, T/C/C
RAMON BETANCOURT
MONTALVO; JEISA
CEBALLOS RODRIGUEZ
35
Legal Notice
3 de febrero de 2015. Ruth N. PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
Aponte Cotto, Secretaria ReA: EFRAIN TORRES
gional. Por: Ixia B. Cordova
RIVERA, por si y en
Chinea, Secretaria Auxiliar Del
representacion de la
Tribunal I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE TOA ALTA.
Sociedad Legal de
Gananciales Compuesta
Por Ambos ALT DE VEGA
BAJA 39 CALLE AA VEGA
BAJA, P.R. 00693.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de
los treinta (30) dias siguientes
a la publicacion de este EdicDEMANDANTE VS.
radicando el original de su
MYRNA J GARCIA LOPEZ, to,
contestacion ante el Tribunal
FULANA(O) DE TAL Y correspondiente y notificando
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL con copia al abogado de la
parte demandante, Lcdo. OsDE GANANCIALES
valdo Rodriguez Fernandez del
COMPUESTA POR
bufete de abogados, Rodriguez
AMBOS.
Fernandez Law Offices, P.S.C.,
DEMANDADO
cuya direccion es: P.O. Box
CIVIL NUM. CD14-1683 SALA
71418 JUNCOS, Puerto Rico
TOA ALTA SOBRE: COBRO DE
00936-8518, telefono (787) 993DINERO ORDINARIO EMPLA3731. Se le apercibe que de no
ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
hacerlo, se le anotara la rebelA: MYRNA J GARCIA dia y se dictara sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado
LOPEZ, por si y en
en la demanda, sin mas citarle
representacion de la
ni oirle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI
Sociedad Legal de
FIRMA Y el sello del Tribunal,
Gananciales Compuesta en Vega Baja Puerto Rico, hoy
Por Ambos Urb. Los
dia febrero 5 de 2015. Maria del
C. Cancel Rios, Secretaria del
Montes 402 Calle
Martinete Dorado, P.R. Tribunal Confidencial II. Karen
G. Castro Melendez, Secretaria
00646-9434.
Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
POR LA PRESENTE se Ie
emplaza y requiere para que
LEGAL NOTICE
conteste la demanda dentro de
los treinta (30) dias siguientes ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
ala publicacion de este Edic- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUto, radicando el original de su NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
contestacion ante el Tribunal CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROcorrespondiente y notificando LINA SALA SUPERIOR.
con copia al abogado de la
DORAL BANK
parte demandante, Lcdo. OsParte Demandante Vs.
valdo Rodriguez Fernandez del
SUCESION DE ARNALDO
bufete de abogados, Rodriguez
ROSA SANTANA
Fernandez Law Offices, P.S.C.,
compuesta por los
cuya direccion es: P.O. Box
71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico
unicos y universales
00936-8518, telefono (787) herederos, YILDA YAZMIN
993-3731. Se le apercibe que
ROSA RODRIGUEZ,
de no hacerlo, se le anotara la
ARMIN RAKEL ROSA
rebeldia y se dictara sentencia
RODRIGUEZ Y AMLEHT
concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin mas MARIE ROSA MURIENTE
citarle ni oirle. EXTENDIDO
y MERCEDES MARTINEZ
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del
MOREL, por si y en su
Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto
Rico, hoy dia 27 de enero de cuota viudal usufructuaria
Parte Demandada
2015.
CIVIL NUM: FCD2014-1311
SALON: 402 SOBRE: Cobro de
LEGAL NOTICE
Dinero y Ejecucion de Hipoteca
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE (Por la Via Ordinaria) EMPLAPUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESPRIMERA INSTANCIA SALADE TADO UNIDOS DE AMERICA
VEGA BAJA.
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS
OPERATING PARTNERS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS EL ESCO: LLC., como agente de TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC. PUERTO RICO.
OPERATING PARTNERS
CO, LLC., como agente de
MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC,
Por la presente se Ie emplaza
y notifica que debe contestar
la demanda incoada contra
usted, dentro del termino de
treinta (30) dias a partir de la
publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de dicha
contestación ante el Tribunal
y sala que se menciona en el
epigrafe del mismo, con copia
a la parte aqui demandante. Se
Ie apercibe que de no contestar
la demanda dentro del termino
aqui estipulado, se Ie anotara la
rebeldia y se dictara sentencia
en su contra sin mas citarle ni
oírle. Los abogados de la parte
demandante son:
Lcdo. Reggie Diaz Hernandez
DEMANDANTE VS.
Colegiado Num.: 17,428
EFRAIN TORRES RIVERA,
RUA Num.: 16,393
PAVIA BERMUDEZ DIAZ &
FULANA(O) DE TAL Y
SANCHEZ, LLP
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
Attorneys at Law
Edificio a Ochoa, Suite 200,
DE GANANCIALES
500 Calle De La Tanca
COMPUESTA POR
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
AMBOS
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
DEMANDADO
[email protected]
CIVIL NUM: CD14-911 SALA
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma VEGA BAJA SOBRE: COBRO
y el sello de este Tribunal hoy, DE DINERO ORDINARIO EM-
A: AMLEHT MARIE
ROSA MURIENTE, como
heredera de Ia SUCESION
DE ARNALDO ROSA
SANTANA
SE NOTIFICA a ustedes que
la parte demandante, DORAL
BANK, ha radicado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal una demanda solicitando la ejecución
de hipoteca por la via ordinaria.
Se les emplaza y requiere para
que notifiquen al Lic. Igor J. Dominguez San Martin, abogado
de la parte demandante, V.I.G.
Tower, 1225 Avenida Ponce De
Leon, Suite 1105, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, 00907-3945, telefono (787) 250-0220, con copia
de la contestación a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30)
DIAS siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, el cual se
publicara una vez por semana
a tenor con la orden dictada
por este Honorable Tribunal. Se
les apercibe que si dejaran de
hacerlo podrá dictarse contra
ustedes sentencia en rebeldia
concediendose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello
de este Tribunal en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy dia 3 de
febrero de 2015. Miriam Rosa
Maldonado, Secretaria Regional. Lourdes Diaz Medina, Sec.
Aux. Trib. I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR.
SANTANDER FINANCIAL
SERVICES, INC.,
Demandante, v.
RODOLFO FRESSE
MARTINEZ, la Sucesion
de ANA GLORIA
CURVELO MELENDEZ
tambien conocida como
ANA GLORIA CURBELO
MELENDEZ, compuesta
por JUAN CURBELO
tambien conocido
como JUAN CURVELO,
LUISA CURBELO
tambien conocida
como LUISA CURVELO,
ALFREDO CURBELO
tambien conocido como
ALFREDO CURVELO,
HILDA CURBELO
tambien conocida como
HILDA CURVELO y
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE,
RICHARD ROE Y JANE
ROE como posibles
herederos desconocidos
y RODOLFO FRESSE
MARTINEZ;
Demandados
Civil Numero: LAC2014-0052
Sobre:
Incumplimiento
de
Contrato; Cobro de Dinero y
Ejecucion de Prenda e Hipoteca EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO ESTADO UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS EE.UU. SS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO.
A: JUAN CURVELO,
LUISA CURBELO
tambien conocida
como LUISA CURVELO,
ALFREDO CURBELO
tambien conocido como
ALFREDO CURVELO,
Legal Notice
36
PILAR, FULANA DE TAL
HILDA CURBELO
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
tambien conocida
como HILDA CURVELO DE GANANCIALES POR
AMBOS COMPUESTA.
como miembros de la
Sucesion de ANA GLORIA Quedan emplazados y notificade que en este Tribunal se
CURVELO MELENDEZ dos
ha radicado una Demandan de
tambien conocida como Cobro de Dinero en su contra.
ANA GLORIA CURBELO Se les notifica para que compaMELENDEZ; y JOHN DOE, rezcan ante el Tribunal dentro
JANE DOE, RICHARD del termino de treinta (30) dias
a partir de la publicacion de
ROE Y JANE ROE como este edicto y exponer lo que a
posibles herederos
sus derechos convengan, en el
desconocidos de ANA presente caso. Se les apercibe
y notifica que si no contestan
GLORIA CURVELO
la demanda radicada en sus
MELENDEZ tambien
contra, radicando el original de
conocida como ANA
la misma y enviando copia de
GLORIA CURBELO
sus contestacion a la parte demandante, Lic. Pedro HernanMELENDEZ
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación
de una primera demanda enmendada sobre cobro de dinero y ejecucion de prenda e hipoteca contra ustedes. La parte
demandante ha solicitado que
se dicte sentencia en su contra.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO
se le emplaza y requiere para
que conteste la demanda enmendada radicando el original
de su contestación ante este
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Ponce, y notifique copia de dicha contestación a
los abogados del demandante:
NAVAS & RODRIGUEZ, P.S.C.,
Lcdo. Ivan Sanchez Limardo,
RUA Num. 16228, VIG Tower,
Suite 1005, 1225 Ave. Ponce
de Leon, San Juan, PR 00907;
Tel. (787) 724-2097; Fax (787)
724-2161. De no recibir su(s)
contestación(es) a la demanda
dentro del termino de treinta
(30) dias siguientes a la fecha
de publicación de este edicto,
se le(s) anotara la rebeldia, y
se dictara sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado en
la primera demanda enmendada, sin mas citarle(s) ni oírle(s).
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el
sello del Tribunal en Utuado,
Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de febrero
de 2015. Diane Alvarez Villanueva, Secretaria Regional.
Luz Y. Montes Pacheco, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN
JUAN SALA SUPERIOR (905).
ORIENTAL BANK
Parte Demandante Vs.
EDWIN PEREZ DEL
PILAR, FULANA DE TAL
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES POR
AMBOS COMPUESTA
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM: KRE2014-0022
SOBRE: REPOSESION Y COBRO DE DINERO EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.
UU. SS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
A: EDWIN PEREZ DEL
dez Freire, DELGADO & FERNANDEZ, LLP; P.O. Box 11750
Fernandez Juncos Station San
Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750;
telefono (787) 274-1414, fax
(787) 764-8241 dentro del termino de treinta (30) dias de la
publicacion de este edicto, se
les anotara la rebeldia en su
contra y se dictara sentencia
en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, si n mas
citarseles, ni oirseles. Expedido
bajo mi firma y sello de;l Tribunal, a 3 de febrero de 2015.
Griselda Rodriguez Collado,
Secretaria Regional. Marily Lopez Martinez, Secretaria Servicios a Sala.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON
Sala Superior.
SHIP LENDIND L.P. solicitando
el Cobro de Dinero y Ejecucion
de Hipoteca por la via ordinaria.
Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a GARRIGA &
MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P.,
P.O. Box 16593, San Juan,
Puerto Rico 00908-6593, telefono (787) 275-0655, telefax
(800) 481-7130, copia de su
contestacion a la demanda
dentro de los treinta (30) dias
siguientes a la publicacion de
este edicto. El original de la
contestacion a la demanda
debera radicarse dentro de ese
termino en la Secretaria del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Bayamon.
Si dejaren de contestar podra
anotarse la rebeldia y dictarse
contra ustedes sentencia en
rebeldia concediendose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin mas citarles ni oirIes.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y
el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con
la Orden del Tribunal, hoy dia 5
de febrero de 2015. Maria Del
C. Cancel Rios, Secretaria del
Tribunal Confidencial II. Karen
G. Castro Melendez, Secretaria
Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
CARMEN MARIA
MARQUEZ PEREZ
Demandante v.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO; JUAN DEL
PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL
PUEBLO Y cualesquier
VACATION OWNERSHIP
persona desconocida
LENDING, L.P.
con posible interes
Demandante Vs.
en
la obligacion cuya
ISMAEL AGUILO
cancelacion
por decreto
RODRIGUEZ Y MARIA
Judicial se solicita.
LOURDES RODRIGUEZ
Demandados
IRIZARRY Y LA
CIVIL NUM. FCD2015-0033
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE (406) SOBRE: CANCELACION
BIENES GANANCIALES, DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICCOMPUESTA POR
TO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMBOS
AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE
Demandados
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS,
CIVIL NUM. CD14-951 SOBRE:
SS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCOBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
CION DE HIPOTECA POR LA
A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO
VIA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAY JUANA DEL PUEBLO
MIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
COMO POSIBLES
EI Presidente de los Estados
TENEDORES Y
Unidos ss. EI Estado Libre AsoCUALESQUIER
PERSONA
ciado de Puerto Rico.
A: ISMAEL AGUILO
RODRIGUEZ, MARIA
LOURDES RODRIGUEZ
IRIZARRY Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES,
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS.
Siendo ustedes las partes demandadas arriba mencionadas,
Se les notifica a ustedes que se
ha radicado en esta Secretaria
una Demanda por la parte demandante VACAnON OWNER-
The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, February 23, 2015
DESCONOCIDA CON
POSIBLE INTERES EN
LA OBLIGACION CUYA
CANCELACION POR
DECRETO JUDICIAL SE
SOLICITA.
Por la presente se Ie notifica que
ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epigrafe. En
este caso la parte demandante
ha radicado una Demanda para
que se decrete judicialmente el
saldo de un (1) pagare hipotecario a favor de Banco Popular
de Puerto Rico, por la suma
de $128,000.00. Dicho pagare
fue suscrito el dia 7 de marzo
de 1997, ante el notario Isabel
M. Fullana, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la
Escritura numero 9, sobre la
siguiente propiedad: URBAN:
Horizontal Property: Apartment
number four hundred six. Residential apartment marked four
hundred six on the fourth floor
of Marbella del Caribe Condominium West Tower at Kilometer zero point of State Road
number once hundred eighty
seven, Isla Verde, Carolina,
Puerto Rico, with approximate
area of nine hundred twenty
three point forty one square feet
equivalent to eighty five point
seventy eight square meters,
bounding on the NORTH, with
the exterior elements of the
building ad with the empty space over the recreational area;
on the EAST, with apartment
number four hundred seven; on
the WEST, with apartment number four hundred five; and on
the SOUTH, with common corridor. The apartment consists of
living-dining room, kitchen one
bathroom, two bedroom, one
closet and balcony on its north
side. The apartment has a main
door connecting with the common corridor on the floor from
where access may be gained
to the exterior of the building
and to the public street by the
elevators and stairway. This
apartment is equipped with a
stainless steel sink, range with
oven kitchen cabinets, water
heater and central air conditioning. A este apartamento se e
asigna el area de estacionamiento numero cuatrocientos
doce. Le corresponde a este
apartamento un porciento en
los elementos comunes del
condominio de 0.400%. Finca
27,312, inscrita al folio 51 del
tomo 544 de Carolina, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
Seccion I de Carolina. La parte
demandante alega que dicho
pagare ha sido saldado segun
mas detalladamente consta en
la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaria
de este Tribunal. Por tratarse
de una obligacion hipotecaria
y pudiendo usted tener interes
en este caso o quedar afectado
por el remedio solicitado, se le
emplaza por este edicto que se
publicara una vez en un peri6dico de circulacion diaria general
de Puerto Rico y se le requiere
para que radique en este Tribunal su contestacion y notifique
con copia de ella al abogado
de la parte demandante el C
& A LEGAL ADVISORS, Lcda.
Saideth Cristobal Martinez,
PO Box 6508, Bayamon, PR
00960-6508 ; Tel. (787) 3670412, dentro de los treinta (30)
dias siguientes a la publicacion
de este Edicto, apercibiendole
que de no hacerlo asi dentro
del termino indicado, el Tribunal podra anotar su rebeldia y
dictar sentencia concediendo
el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin mas citarle ni oirle.
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y
sello de este Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de
enero de 2015. Miriam Rosa
Maldonado, Secretaria Regional. Luz E. Carrion Pimentel,
Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
SCOTIABANK DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
CARLOS ALEJANDRO
SANCHEZ GOMEZ;
CARLOS ALEXIS
SANCHEZ UREÑA;
KARLA ALEXANDRA
SANCHEZ UREÑA Y
ALBERTO CARLOS
SANCHEZ UREÑA
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. FCD2014-1438
(403) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecucion de Hipoteca
por la Via Ordinaria) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO.
A: CARLOS ALEXIS
SANCHEZ UREÑA;
ALBERTO CARLOS
SANCHEZ UREÑA
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se
Ie notifica que se ha radicado
en esta Secretaria por la parte
demandante, Demanda sobre
Cobro de Dinero y Ejecucion de
Hipoteca por la Via Ordinaria en
la que se alega adeuda la suma
principal de $163,013.10, intereses al 4.50% anual, desde el
dia 1ro de abril de 2014, hasta
su completo pago, mas la cantidad de $17,882.50, estipulada
para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, mas recargos
acumulados, todas cuyas sumas estan liquidas y exigibles.
La propiedad hipotecada a ser
vendida en publica Subasta es:
URBANA: Solar marcado con el
numero Veintiuno (21) de Bloque HC del Plano de Inscripcion de la Tercera Extension de
la Urbanizacion Country Club,
situado en el Barrio Sabana
Abajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico,
con una cabida superficial de
CUATROCIENTOS SESENTA Y
CUATRO PUNTO CINCUENTA
Y UN METROS CUADRADOS
(464.51 M.C.). En lindes por el
NORESTE, en veintitres punto
cero cero (23.00) metros, con
el solar numero Veinte del Bloque HC de dicha urbanizacion;
por el SUROESTE, en veintiuno
punto setenta y tres (21.73)
metros, con calle Doscientos
Dieciocho (218) de dicha urbanizacion; por el SURESTE, en
trece punto cincuenta (13.50)
metros, con calle Doscientos
Dieciocho (218) de dicha urbanizacion; por el NOROESTE,
en veinticuatro punto cincuenta
(24.50) metros, con los solares
Uno (1) y Dos (2) del Bloque HC
de dicha urbanizacion; y por el
SUR, en cuatro punto treinta y
tres (4.33) metros, con la calle
numero Doscientos Dieciocho
(218) de dicha urbanizacion.
La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 157 del
tomo 988 de Carolina, Seccion
Primera, finca numero 2,483,
inscripcion decima. Se Ie advierte que de no comparecer
en autos dentro del termino de
los treinta (30) dias siguientes
a partir de la publicacion de
este Edicto, se Ie anotara la
Rebeldia y se dictara Sentencia
concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin mas citarle ni oirle,
debiendo radicar el original de
su contestacion en el Tribunal,
enviando copia al abogado de
la parte demandante: Lcdo.
Baldomero A. Collazo Torres,
Bufete Correa, Collazo & Herrero, PSC, P.O . Box 70212, San
Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8212;
telefono (787) 625-9999; Fax
(787) 625-9801. Se Ie notifica
tambien por la presente que
la parte demandante habra de
presentar para su anotacion al
Registrador de la Propiedad del
Distrito en que esta situada la
propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente
esta accion. Para publicarse
conforme a la Orden dictada
por el Tribunal en un periodico
de circulacion general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido
el presente Edicto que firmo y
sello en Carolina, Puerto Rico,
hoy 5 de febrero de 2015. Miriam Rosa Maldonado, Secretaria Regional. Por: Rosa M. Viera
Velazquez, Sub-Secretaria.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO L1BRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR.
DORAL BANK Direccion
Fisica: Ave FD Roosevelt
1451, San Juan, PR
00920-2717
Parte Demandante Vs.
LA SUCESION DE
FRANCISCO JAVIER
VAZQUEZ MATOS,
compuesta con NOEMI
VAZQUEZ ROSARIO, por
si y en la cuota viudal
usufructuaria, MENGANO,
SUTANO y FULANO
DE TAL como posibles
herederos desconocidos
de LA SUCESION DE
FRANCISCO JAVIER
VAZQUEZ MATOS
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM: DCD2014-2701
SALON: 505 SOBRE: Cobro de
Dinero y Ejecucion de Hipoteca
(Por La Via Ordinaria) EDICTO
DE EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO ESTADO UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
SS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO-
CIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: NOEMI VAZQUEZ
ROSARIO por si y en la
cuota viudal usufructuaria
SE NOTIFICA a ustedes que
la parte demandante, DORAL
BANK, ha radicado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal una demanda solicitando la ejecución
de hipoteca por la via ordinaria.
Se les emplaza y requiere para
que notifiquen al Lic. Igor J. Dominguez San Martin, abogado
de la parte demandante, V.I.G.
Tower, 1225 Avenida Ponce De
Leon, Suite 1105, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, 00907-3945, telefono (787) 250-0220, con copia
de la contestación a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30)
DIAS siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, el cual se
publicara una vez por semana
a tenor con la orden dictada
por este Honorable Tribunal. Se
les apercibe que si dejaran de
hacerlo podrá dictarse contra
ustedes sentencia en rebeldia
concediendose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello
de este Tribunal en BAYAMON,
Puerto Rico, hoy dia 6 de febrero de 2015. Ruth Aponte Cotto,
Secretaria Regional II. Sandra
Baez Hernandez, Secretaria
Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAROLINA.
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs.
RICHARD RIVERA
MARRERO
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM. FCD2014-0416
(403) SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO
ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El
suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de
Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina,
a los demandados de epígrafe
y al público en general hace
saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe
estarán de manifiesto en la
Secretaría del Tribunal durante
horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor
postor, en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América, en mi oficina en este
Tribunal el derecho que tenga
la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más
adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $126,532.80 de
balance principal, los intereses
vencidos sobre dicho principal computados al 6% anual,
desde el primero de julio de
2013 hasta su total pago; más
el 5% computado sobre cada
mensualidad de $863.35 por
concepto de cargos por demora
desde el primero de agosto de
2013 a razón de $43.17 mensuales hasta su total pago, más
la suma de $14,400.00 como
cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada
en la escritura de hipoteca; y
cualesquiera otras sumas que
por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día
de la subasta. La propiedad a
venderse en pública subasta se
describe como sigue: URBANA:
Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Fontana, situada en
el Barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, marcado con el número
seiscientos cincuenta y cinco
(655) de la manzana Dos KR
(2 KR) con un área de TRESCIENTOS PUNTO CUARENTA
Y OCHO (300.48) METROS
CUADRADOS. En lindes, por
el NORTE, con los solares números seiscientos treinta y siete (637) y seiscientos treinta y
seis (636) distancia de catorce
punto catorce (14.14) metros;
por el SUR, con la calle número sesenta y ocho (68) distancia de catorce punto catorce
(14.14) metros; por el ESTE,
con el solar número seiscientos
cincuenta y seis (656) distancia
de veintiuno punto veinticinco
(21.25) metros; por el OESTE,
con el solar número seiscientos
cincuenta y cuatro (654) distancia de veintiuno punto veinticinco (21.25) metros. Enclava
una casa de concreto para una
familia. Inscrita al folio ciento ochenta y nueve (189) del
tomo novecientos setenta y tres
(973) de Carolina, finca número nueve mil doscientos treinta
y dos (9,232), Registro de la
Propiedad de Carolina, Sección
Primera. La propiedad antes
descrita se encuentra afecta a
un gravamen posterior al que
se pretende ejecutar, el cual
se describe de la siguiente manera: Hipoteca: A favor de Citibank N.A., o a su Orden, por la
suma de $48,400.00, intereses
al 3.250% anual, vencedero a
la Presentación, según consta de la escritura número 47,
otorgada en San Juan, el 14 de
febrero de 2006, ante el notario
Arsenio Comas Rondón, inscrita al folio 189 del tomo 937 de
Carolina; inscripción 5ta. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo
el día 18 de marzo de 2015, a
las 11:00 de la mañana, servirá
de tipo mínimo para la misma la
suma de $144,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso
de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la
primera subasta, se celebrará
una segunda subasta el día 25
de marzo de 2015, a las 11:15
de la mañana, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta
será el de dos terceras partes
del precio mínimo establecido
para la primera subasta, o a
sea, la suma de $96,000 00.
Si tampoco hubiera remate ni
adjudicación en la segunda
subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 1 de abril
de 2015, a las 1:30 de la tarde,
y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del
precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma
de $72,000.00. Si se declarase
desierta la tercera subasta, se
dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse
The San Juan Daily Star
el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última
subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la
cantidad adeudada conforme a
la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual
o menor que el monto del tipo
de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad
adeudada si ésta fuera mayor.
Se avisa a cualquier licitador
que la propiedad queda sujeta
al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la
propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el
pago de dichas contribuciones
es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo
licitador acepte como suficiente
la titulación y que los cargos y
gravámenes anteriores y los
preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes
en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de
los mismos, sin destinarse su
extinción al precio rematante.
Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general
y para su publicación en un
periódico de circulación general
diaria en Puerto Rico y en los
sitios públicos de acuerdo a las
disposiciones de la Regla 51.7
de las de Procedimiento Civil,
expedido el presente en Carolina, Puerto Rico a 9 de febrero de 2015. Samuel Gonzalez
Isaac, Alguacil Del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
DE CAGUAS.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante v.
TANIA MARIE CINTRÓN
PÉREZ, T/C/C TANIA M.
CINTRÓN PÉREZ, T/C/C
TANIA CINTRÓN PÉREZ
Demandada
CIVIL NUM.: ECD2012-1061
(612) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO AVISO DE
SUBASTA. Yo, Mylene Melendez Cotto, Alguacil del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala de
Caguas, notifico a los demandados, público en general y
personas con algún interés,
que cumpliré con un Mandamiento librado por el Secretario
del Tribunal de epígrafe, el 5 de
noviembre de 2014, para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada el 14
de abril de 2014, notificada el
20 de agosto de 2014. En dicha Sentencia se condena a la
parte demandada a satisfacer
la suma de $209,145.13 más
las costas, gastos, honorarios
de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados
hipotecariamente. Conforme a
lo anterior, venderé en pública
subasta, al mejor postor en
pago de contado y en moneda
del curso legal de los Estados
Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que hayan
tenido tengan o puedan tener
los deudores demandados en
cuanto al bien inmueble que se
describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial
identificado con el número 202
del Edificio 19, localizado en la
segunda planta del Edificio 19
del Condominio Armonía, sito
en el Barrio Cañabón del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, el cual tiene una cabida
superficial de área de construcción de 1,491.86 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 138.60 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el
NORTE, con un espacio abierto,
en una distancia de 40 pies 10
pulgadas equivalentes a 12.45
metros y con el área de acceso
y escalera del Edificio, en una
distancia de 3 pies 8 pulgadas
equivalentes a 1.12 metros; por
el SUR, con un espacio abierto,
en una distancia de 44 pies 6
pulgadas equivalentes a 13.56
metros; por el ESTE, con el
Apartamento número 19-201,
en una distancia de 26 pies 8
pulgadas equivalentes a 8.13
metros y con el área de acceso
y escalera del Edificio, en una
distancia de 6 pies 4 pulgadas
equivalentes a 1.93 metros y
por el OESTE, con el Apartamento número 18-201, en una
distancia de 36 pies 2 pulgadas
equivalentes a 11.02 metros.
La puerta principal de entrada
y salida de este apartamento
se encuentra localizada en la
colindancia Norte y da acceso
a elementos comunes a saber:
pasillos, escalera y a su vez a
través de las Calles interiores
tiene acceso a la vía publica
Gran Boulevard de Los Prados.
Este apartamento consta de
un nivel, donde se ubican los
elementos de vestíbulo, sala,
comedor, sala familiar, cocina,
tres cuartos dormitorios, varios
roperos (closets), dos cuartos
de servicios sanitarios, área
con facilidades para destinar
la lavandería y una terraza al
fondo. Tiene y le corresponde
como elemento común limitado destinado de forma y manera exclusiva, permanente
e inseparable, dos espacios
para estacionamientos que se
identifican con los números
337 y 324. Este apartamento
tiene una participación& en los
elementos comunes generales
del Condominio de 0.3662%.
Inscrito al folio 112 del tomo
1,728 de Caguas, finca número
#59,735 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección
Primera de Caguas. La hipoteca que se pretende ejecutar
ubica en: Apto. 29-202, Armonia Cond. Los Prados, Caguas,
Puerto Rico. El tipo mínimo
para la subasta será la suma de
$189,402.25. De declararse la
subasta desierta, y de celebrarse una segunda subasta, el tipo
mínimo será dos terceras (2/3)
partes del tipo mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, el
Monday, February 23, 2015
cual asciende a $126,268.16.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo mínimo
de la tercera subasta la mitad
(1/2) del tipo mínimo pactado
para la primera subasta el cual
asciende a $94,701.12. Si se
declarase desierta la tercera
subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo
adjudicarse el bien subastado
a opción del demandante. Art.
221 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30
L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. La primera
subasta se llevará a cabo el
día 17 DE MARZO DE 2015, A
LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA.
De declararse desierta, se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el día 24 DE MARZO DE
2015, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De declararse desierta,
se llevará a cabo una tercera
subasta el día 7 DE ABRIL DE
2015, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. La subasta o subastas
antes indicadas se llevarán a
efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Caguas. Se
le advierte a los postores o licitadores que la adjudicación del
bien inmueble a subastarse se
hará al mejor postor o licitador
victorioso, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta
en el mismo acto de la adjudicación, en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos de
Norteamérica. Se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titulación y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los hubiere
al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. La cantidad
adeudada según la Sentencia,
asciende a $209,145.13, la cual
se desglosa en $186,644.32
por concepto de principal;
$2,970.72 por concepto de intereses acumulados, $362.24
por concepto de cargos por
demora los cuales al igual que
los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total
de la deuda reclamada en este
pleito; $227.63 por concepto
de “escrow advances”; y la
suma $18,940.22 para costas,
gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. Con el producto que
se obtenga de la subasta se le
pagará a la parte demandante
el importe de la Sentencia hasta donde alcance, y se pondrá
al adjudicatario o licitador victorioso en posesión de la propiedad subastada, libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores,
dentro del término de veinte
(20) días a partir de celebrada
la subasta. Para cumplir con lo
anterior, el Alguacil queda facultado, de ser necesario, para
romper candados y cerraduras
que impidan el acceso a la propiedad subastada. Todos los
interesados quedan notificados
de que todos los documentos
relacionados con la presente
acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para ser
examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de
toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s)
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción
del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento
de los licitadores y el público en
general, y para su publicación
en un periódico de circulación
general, una vez por semana
durante el término de dos (2)
semanas consecutivas con
un intervalo de por lo menos
siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la
Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, así como en la Colecturía
más cercana al lugar de residencia de la parte demandada,
cuando ésta fuera conocida,
y se le notificara además a la
parte demandada vía correo
certificado con acuse de recibo
a la última dirección conocida.
Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores
posteriores, de los licitadores,
partes interesadas y público
en general, expido el presente
Aviso para su publicación en
los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Caguas,
Puerto Rico, a 18 de noviembre
de 2014. Mylene Melendez Cotto, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala De Caguas.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante v.
NORMA I. ROBLES
NIEVES, T/C/C NORMA
IRIS ROBLES NIEVES,
NORMA ROBLES
NIEVES, JUAN OQUENDO
LOPEZ, T/C/C JUAN
O. OQUENDO LOPEZ,
T/C/C JUAN OSVALDO
OQUENDO LOPEZ Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS.
Demandada
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2013-2964
(702) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
SS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO AVISO
DE SUBASTA. Yo, Alg. Freddy
Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón,
notifico a los demandados,
público en general y personas
con algún interés, que cumpli-
ré con un Mandamiento librado
por el Secretario del Tribunal
de epígrafe, el 11 de agosto de
2014, para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada el 30 de abril de
2014, notificada el 8 de mayo
de 2014. En dicha Sentencia
se condena a la parte demandada a satisfacer la suma de
$179,855.41, la cual se desglosa en $157,794.09 por concepto de principal; $5,497.23 por
concepto de intereses acumulados, $314.09 por concepto de
cargos por demora los cuales
al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el
saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito; y la suma
$16,250.00 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. Conforme a lo anterior, venderé en
pública subasta, al mejor postor
en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo
derecho, título e interés que
hayan tenido tengan o puedan
tener los deudores demandados en cuanto al bien inmueble
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: APARTAMENTO
NUMERO 262: Apartamento
residencial de forma irregular
localizada en la tercera y cuarta
planta del Edificio interior Suroeste del Condominio Plaza
Esmeralda situado en el Barrio
Frailes del término municipal de
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. El área
aproximada del apartamento
es de 1,472.76 pies cuadrados
equivalentes a 136.82 metros
cuadrados. Son sus linderos,
en la primera planta: por el
NORTE, en un máximo de 37
pies 11 pulgadas, con área común exterior; por el SUR, en un
máximo de 37 pies 11 pulgadas, con el Apartamento número 261 y con área común exterior; por el ESTE, en un máximo
de 21 pies 3 pulgadas, con área
común exterior y por el OESTE, en un máximo de 23 pies
3 pulgadas, con área común
exterior. En la segunda planta
el apartamento colinda, por
el NORTE, en un máximo de
37 pies 11 pulgadas, con área
común exterior; por el SUR, en
un máximo de 37 pies 11 pulgadas, con el Apartamento número 2061 y con área común exterior; por el ESTE, en un máximo
de 21 pies 3 pulgadas, con área
común exterior y por el OESTE, en un máximo de 21 pies 3
pulgadas, con área común exterior. La puerta de entrada de
este apartamento está situada
en su lindero Sur. Consta de
sala, comedor, cocina, balcón,
tres dormitorios y dos baños
y medio. Este apartamento
goza del uso exclusivo de una
terraza con un área de 145.10
pies cuadrados equivalentes a
13.48 metros cuadrados, como
elemento común limitado del
Condominio. Le corresponde
un espacio de estacionamiento identificado con el mismo
número del apartamento. Este
apartamento tiene una parti-
cipación de 0.7389%, en los
elementos comunes del Condominio. Inscrito al folio 101 del
tomo 1,331 de Guaynabo, finca
número #39,719 Registro de
la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La
finca antes relacionada se encontrará afecta a un gravamen
posterior al que se pretende
ejecutar, el cual se describe de
la siguiente manera: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré
a favor de POPULAR MORTGAGE INC., o a su orden, por
la suma de $20,950.00 de principal, intereses al 7.50% anual
y vencedero el día 1 de enero
de 2026, según consta de la
escritura número 482, otorgada en San Juan, el día 22 de
diciembre de 2010, ante el notario Néstor Machado Cortés,
e inscrita al folio 101 del tomo
1,331 de Guaynabo, finca número 39,719, inscripción 6ta.
La hipoteca que se pretende
ejecutar ubica en: Cond. Plaza
Esmeralda, Apt. 262, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. El tipo mínimo
para la subasta será la suma de
$162,500.00. De declararse la
subasta desierta, y de celebrarse una segunda subasta, el tipo
mínimo será dos terceras (2/3)
partes del tipo mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, el
cual asciende a $108,333.33.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo mínimo
de la tercera subasta la mitad
(1/2) del tipo mínimo pactado
para la primera subasta el cual
asciende a $81,250.00. Si se
declarase desierta la tercera
subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo
adjudicarse el bien subastado
a opción del demandante. Art.
221 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30
L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo
el día 19 de marzo de 2015, a
la(s) 10:45 de la mañana. De
declararse desierta, se llevará
a efecto una segunda subasta
el día 26 de marzo de 2015, a
la(s) 2:45 de la tarde. De declararse desierta, se llevará a cabo
una tercera subasta el día 9 de
abril de 2015, a la(s) 2:45 de la
tarde. La cantidad adeudada
según la Sentencia, asciende
a $179,855.41, la cual se desglosa en $157,794.09 por concepto de principal; $5,497.23
por concepto de intereses
acumulados, $314.09 por concepto de cargos por demora los
cuales al igual que los intereses
continúan acumulándose hasta
el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito; y la suma
$16,250.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado;
y demás créditos accesorios
garantizados hipotecariamente.
La subasta o subastas antes
indicadas se llevarán a efecto
en mi oficina, localizada en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Bayamón. Se le advierte a los postores o licitadores
que la adjudicación del bien
inmueble a subastarse se hará
al mejor postor o licitador victorioso, quien deberá consignar
el importe de su oferta en el
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mismo acto de la adjudicación,
en moneda de curso legal de
los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Se entenderá que todo
licitador acepta como bastante
la titulación y que las cargas y
gravámenes anteriores y los
preferentes, si los hubiere al
crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta
y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin
destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Con el producto
que se obtenga de la subasta
se le pagará a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia hasta donde alcance, y se
pondrá al adjudicatario o licitador victorioso en posesión de
la propiedad subastada, libre
de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, dentro del término de
veinte (20) días a partir de celebrada la subasta. Para cumplir con lo anterior, el Alguacil
queda facultado, de ser necesario, para romper candados y
cerraduras que impidan el acceso a la propiedad subastada.
Todos los interesados quedan
notificados de que todos los
documentos relacionados con
la presente acción de ejecución
de hipoteca, así como la de la
subasta, estarán disponibles
para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s)
persona(s) que tengan interés
inscrito con posterioridad a la
inscripción del gravamen que
se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y
el público en general, y para su
publicación en un periódico de
circulación general, una vez por
semana durante el término de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas
publicaciones, y para su fijación
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la
Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, así como en la Colecturía
más cercana al lugar de residencia de la parte demandada,
cuando ésta fuera conocida,
y se le notificara además a la
parte demandada vía correo
certificado con acuse de recibo
a la última dirección conocida.
Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores
posteriores, de los licitadores,
partes interesadas y público
en general, expido el presente
Aviso para su publicación en
los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Bayamón,
Puerto Rico, a 18 de agosto de
2014. Alg. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil Tribunal
De Primera Instancia Sala De
Bayamón.
HANI ANDRAOUS SABA,
por sí y en representación
de la SOCIEDAD DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
compuesta con SAMAR
SABA BISHARA t/c/c
SAMAR BISHARA SABA,
t/c/c SIMAR SARA
BISLARA y ésta por sí
Demandados
CIVIL NUM: FCD2014-0216
SALÓN: 0407 SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR
LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO
DE DINERO AVISO DE SUBASTA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
SS EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO
RICO.Yo, Raul Rivera Ruiz, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de CAROLINA:
CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento
con un MANDAMIENTO DE
EJECUCIÓN 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 parte demandante 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 mi oficina sita en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala de
Carolina, el día 16 de marzo de
2015 a las 10:00 de la mañana
todo derecho, título o interés
que tenga la parte demandada
en la finca que se describe más
adelante. El tipo mínimo para
la primera subasta lo será la
suma de $158,400.00. De no
adjudicarse la propiedad en esa
Primera Subasta, se celebrarán
una Segunda y Tercera Subasta, en las mismas oficinas de
este Alguacil, respectivamente,
el día 24 de marzo de 2015,
a las 11:45 de la mañana y el
día 31 de marzo de 2015, a las
11:15 de la mañana. Los tipos
mínimos para dichas Segunda
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, las sumas
de $105,600.00 y $79,200.00,
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: URBANA: Solar
marcado con el número TREINTA (30) del BLOQUE HJ del plano de Inscripción de la tercera
Extensión de la Urbanización
Country Club, cuarta etapa,
situada en el Barrio Sabana
Abajo de la municipalidad de
Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un
área de TRESCIENTOS VEINTICUATRO PUNTO CINCUENTA Y DOS (324.52) METROS
CUADRADOS. Colinda por el
NORESTE en QUINCE PUNTO CUARENTA Y DOS (15.42)
LEGAL NOTICE
METROS, con los solares seis
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
(6) y treinta y dos (32); por el
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSUROESTE, en DOCE PUNTO
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
OCHENTA (12.80) METROS,
SALA DE CAROLINA.
con la calle doscientos treinta
DORAL RECOVERY II LLC y nueve (239) de dicha UrbaDemandante Vs.
nización; por el SURESTE, en
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VEINTITRÉS PUNTO CERO
CERO (23.00) METROS, con el
solar. Número veintinueve (29);
y por el NOROESTE, en VEINTITRÉS PUNTO CERO CERO
(23.00) METROS, con el solar
treinta y uno (31), todas dichas
colindancias con el mismo bloque HJ de dicha Urbanización.
La propiedad consta Inscrita al
folio 102 del tomo 943, finca
número 3802, Registro de la
Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Carolina. La dirección del inmueble es: HJ-30
Calle #239, Urb. Country Club,
Carolina, PR 00982. 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 $153,237.31 de principal,
intereses acumulados desde el
1 de enero de 2012 y los intereses pactados al 5.00% anual
que se continúen generando a
partir de dicha fecha en adelante, recargos por la cantidad de
$29.47 por mes desde el 1 de
febrero de 2012, $185.03 para
reserva y contribuciones y la
cantidad de $15,840.00 estipulada para costas y honorarios
de abogado. Cualquier título,
derecho o interés que tenga
la parte demandada en este
caso en la propiedad anteriormente descrita se adjudicará
al mejor postor entre la parte
demandante y aquellas personas que refinan los requisitos y
calificaciones de Ley. Los autos
y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de
ejecución de hipoteca por la vía
ordinaria incoados 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. El monto de
cada carga anterior que figura
de la Certificación Registral
sobre la finca objeto de esta
ejecución, así como los nombres de sus titulares y fecha de
vencimiento se detallan como
sigue: Hipoteca en garantía de
un pagaré a favor de Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development of Washintong DC, o a
su orden, por la suma principal
de $2,546.92, sin intereses,
vencedero el día 1 de junio de
2029, constituida mediante la
escritura número 212, otorgada
en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el
día 26 de marzo de 2002, ante
el notario Luis Fernando Castillo Cruz, inscrita al tomo hoja
móvil 917 de Carolina, finca número 3,802, inscripción 14ta. El
monto de cada carga posterior
que figura de la Certificación
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Registral sobre la finca objeto
de esta ejecución, así como los
nombres de sus titulares y fecha de vencimiento se detallan
como sigue: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del
Portador, o a su orden, por la
suma principal de $33,700.00,
con intereses al 6 3/8% anual,
vencedero a la presentación,
constituida mediante la escritura número 51, otorgada en San
Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de
mayo de 2005, ante el notario
Yamil Vega Pacheco, inscrita al
folio 78 del tomo 960 de Carolina, finca número 3,802, inscripción 19na. Por la presente se le
notifica a los titulares de crédito
y/o cargas registrales 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 conviniese, o se les invita a 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, siempre y
cuando refinan los requisitos y
calificaciones de Ley y para que
pueda efectuar tal subrogación.
Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal
y en dos lugares públicos del
municipio en el cual se celebrarán las subastas señaladas,
así como para la publicación
en un periódico de circulación
general diarias y en el Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico,
por el término de por lo menos
dos semanas con antelación a
la fecha de la primera subasta
y una vez por semana. Se hace
constar que los abogados de la
parte demandante son Igor J.
Domínguez Law Offices, 1225
Avenida Ponce de León, Suite
1105, San Juan, PR 009073921, Teléfono (787) 250-0220,
Fax. (787) 250-0295. EXPEDIDO el presente en CAROLINA,
Puerto Rico, a 4 de septiembre
de 2014. Raul Rivera Ruiz, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala De Carolina.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
ACM PENFIELD CFL, LLC,
Plaintiff, vs.
EDGARDO PABON
APONTE, HIS WIFE
MARIA RAMOS MOLINA
AND THE CONJUGAL
PARTNERSHIP
CONSTITUTED
THEREIN, WILFREDO
RIVERA VAZQUEZ,
HIS WIFE BRENDA
BENIQUEZ VELEZ
AND THE CONJUGAL
PARTNERSHIP
CONSTITUTED THEREIN,
Defendants.
CIVIL NO. 13-1551 (GAG) RE:
COLLECTION OF MONIES,
FORECLOSURE OF MORTGA-
The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, February 23, 2015
GE NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: EDGARDO PABON
APONTE, HIS WIFE
MARIA RAMOS MOLINA
AND THE CONJUGAL
PARTNERSHIP
CONSTITUTED
THEREIN, WILFREDO
RIVERA VAZQUEZ,
HIS WIFE BRENDA
BENIQUEZ VELEZ
AND THE CONJUGAL
PARTNERSHIP
CONSTITUTED THEREIN,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES SS COMMONWEALTH
OF PUERTO RICO. Judgment
in favor of plaintiff for the sum
of Three Hundred Thirty Seven
Thousand Five Hundred Twelve
Dollars with Ninety Six Cents
($337,512.96) in principal, accrued interest in the amount
of Twenty Seven Thousand
One Hundred Seventy Eight
Dollars with Twenty Six Cents
($27,178.26) as of October 3,
2013 which continue to accrue until full payment at the
rate of $60.94 per diem until
full payment of the debt, late
charges of $1,714.92, deferred balance in the amount of
$21,530.25, escrow deficiency
in the amount of $8,184.18 and
any additional disbursement
made by plaintiff on behalf of
defendants in accordance with
the mortgage deed, plus costs,
and ten (10) percent attorney
fees; Pursuant to the said judgment, the undersigned Special
Master was ordered to sell at
public auction for United States currency in cash or certified
check without appraisement or
right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of
the Clerk of the United States
District Court for the District of
Puerto Rico, Federico Degetau Federal Building, Chardón
Street, Hato Rey, San Juan,
Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Clerk,
to cover the sums adjudged to
be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar compuesto de doscientos
sesenta y tres punto noventa
y tres (263.93) metros cuadrados, sito en el barrio Hato Rey,
Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto
Rico, en lindes por el NORTE,
en una distancia de diez punto
cuarenta y siete (10.47) metros,
con terrenos de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el
SUR, en una distancia de doce
punto dieciocho (12.18) metros con la Avenida Quisquella;
por el ESTE, en una distancia
de veintitrés punto cero dos
(23.02) metros con terrenos de
la finca principal de la cual se
segrega; y por el OESTE, en
una distancia de veintiséis punto veinticuatro (26.24) metros,
con el solar propiedad de José
N. Milian. Enclava un edificio de
dos plantas, dedicada la planta
baja a comercio y la planta alta a
residencia. Inscrita al folio cua-
renta y seis (46) del tomo seiscientos sesenta y seis (666) de
Río Piedras Norte, finca dieciocho mil ochocientos (#18,800),
Registro de la Propiedad de
Puerto Rico, Sección segunda
de San Juan. THEREFORE, the
first public sale shall be held on
the 20TH day of March 2015, at
10:00 AM and the minimum bid
that will be accepted is the sum
of $360,829.71. In the event
said first public auction does
not produce a bidder and the
property is not adjudicated, a
second public auction shall be
held on the 27TH day of March
2015, at 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the 2/3 of the minimum
bid for the 1st public sale. If
said second auction does not
result in the adjudication and
sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the 3RD day
of April 2015, at 10:00 AM and
the minimum bid that will be
accepted is the sum of ½ of the
minimum bid for the 1st public
sale. Upon confirmation of the
sale, an order shall be issued
canceling all junior liens. For
further particulars, reference is
made to the judgment entered
by the Court in this case, which
can be examined in the Office
of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan,
Puerto Rico, this 16th day of
February, 2015. Aguedo de la
Torre, Special Master.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
ERICK REYNALDO
DE JESUS LOPEZ,
SANDRA IVETTE
MOLINA CAMACHO y la
sociedad legal de bienes
gananciales compuesta
por ambos
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: DCD2012-2838
(701) 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, Alg. Freddy Omar
Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil, División de Subastas del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala 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 la 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
mí oficina sita en el Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el día 11 de marzo de
2015, a las 11:45 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 $90,241.73. 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
18 de marzo de 2015 a las 3:15
de la tarde y el 25 de marzo
de 2015 a las 3:15 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, $60,161.15 y $45,120.86
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: URBANA: Parcela
de terreno en la Urbanización
Villa Pinares situado en el Barrio Pugnado Afuera del término
municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto
Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el número, colindancias y área que se relacionan a
continuación. Número del solar:
3 del bloque C. Área del solar:
198.00 metros cuadrados. En
lindes: por el Norte, en una
distancia de 18.00 metros con
el solar #2; por el Sur, en una
distancia de 18.00 metros con
el solar #4; por el Este, en una
distancia de 11.00 metros con
la calle #3 y por el Oeste, en
distancia de 11.00 metros con
el solar #16. Contiene una casa
de cemento para una familia.
Finca: número 26044 inscrita al
folio 81 del tomo 337 de Vega
Baja, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Bayamón IV.
DIRECCION RESIDENCIAL:
C-3 (305) CIPRES ST. VILLA
PINARES DEV. VEGA BAJA,
P.R. 00693. 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
$89,399.27 de principal, intereses al 5.25% anual desde
el 1ero de diciembre de 2011,
$9,024.17 en costas, gastos y
honorarios de abogados y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. Los
autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria incoado
en este caso, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este
Honorable Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que
todo licitador que comparezca
a la subasta señalada en este
caso acepta como bastante la
titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier
carga y/o gravamen anterior
y/o preferente, si lo hubiere, al
crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente,
entendiéndose además, que el
remanente los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos. Sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. Por el presente se
le notifica los titulares de créditos y/o cargas regístrales posteriores, que se celebrarán las
subastas en las fechas, horas y
sitio anteriormente señalados, y
se les invitan a que concurran
a dichas subastas si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer
antes del remate, el importe
del crédito, de sus intereses,
costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedándose
entonces subrogados en los
derechos del acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan
los requisitos y cualificaciones
de Ley para que pueda efectuar
tal subrogación. Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos
de este Tribunal y en Tres (3)
lugares públicos del municipio,
donde habrá de celebrarse la
subasta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se
publicará además en la Colecturía del lugar de residencia del
demandado, cuando éste fuere
conocido. Así mismo este aviso
será publicado mediante edicto
dos (2) veces en un periódico
de circulación general diaria
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por el término de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas
publicaciones. En adición se le
notificará este aviso a la parte
demandada mediante correo
certificado con acuse de recibo. El Alguacil de este Tribunal
venderá la propiedad antes
descrita en pública subasta,
al mejor postor entre la 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 4 de agosto de 2014.
Alg. Freddy Omar Rodriguez
Collazo, Division De Subastas
Tribunal De Primera Instancia
Sala Superior De Bayamon.
gananciales compuesta
por ambos.
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: DCD2012-2083
(502) 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, Alg. Freddy Omar
Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil, División de Subastas del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala 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 la 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 mí oficina
sita en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el
día 11 de marzo de 2015, a las
11:30 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
$140,983.00 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
18 de marzo de 2015 a las 3:30
de la tarde y el 25 de marzo
de 2015 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, $93,988.66 y $70,491.50
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: URBANA: Solar
número P guión trece (#P-13)
de la Segunda Etapa de la Urbanización Camino del Sol localizada en el Barrio Algarrobo
del término municipal de Vega
Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cincuenta punto cero cero
(450.00) metros cuadrados.
En lindes: por el NORTE, en
una distancia de quince punto
cero cero (15.00) metros con
la calle número doscientos
uno (#201); por el SUR, en una
LEGAL NOTICE
distancia de quince punto cero
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE cero (15.00) metros con el solar
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE número P guión siete (#P-7);
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO por el ESTE, en treinta punto
cero cero (30.00) metros con
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE el solar número P guión doce
(#P-12) y por el OESTE, en
PUERTO RICO
una distancia de treinta punto
DEMANDANTE V.
cero cero (30.00) metros con el
CARLOS ERICSON
solar número P guión catorce
CASTRO COLÓN,
(#P-14). Esta afecto dicho solar a servidumbre de paso en
YARITZA RIVERA
GUZMÁN y la sociedad su colindancia Norte en toda
su extensión a favor de Puerto
legal de bienes
Rico Telephone Company con
un ancho de uno punto cincuenta y dos (1.52) metros. En
dicho solar hay construida una
(1) estructura en hormigón para
vivir una familia. Consta inscrita
al folio ochenta y ocho (88) del
tomo trescientos noventa y seis
(396) de Vega Baja, finca número veintiocho mil setecientos
doce (28,712). Registro de la
Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. La dirección residencial es: P guión trece (P-13),
Urb. Camino Del Sol II, Vega
Alta, Puerto Rico, cero cero
seis nueve tres (00693). 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 $118,597.25 de principal;
Intereses al 7.00% anual desde el día 1ro de enero de 2012,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$14,098.30 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 me-
The San Juan Daily Star
nos 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 4 de agosto de 2014.
Alg. Freddy Omar Rodriguez
Collazo, Division De Subastas
Tribunal De Primera Instancia
Sala Superior De Bayamon.
Monday, February 23, 2015
los términos de la misma. Esta
notificación se publicará una
sola vez en un periódico de
circulación general en la Isla
de Puerto Rico, dentro de los
10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representado
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 ultima publicación de este
edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los
autos de este caso, con fecha
de 13 de febrero de 2015. En
Mayagьez, Puerto Rico, el 13
de febrero de 2015. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria. Wanda Rentas Burgos,
Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
II. Marilyn Colon Carrasquillo, to Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
PASTRANA
Secretaria Auxiliar.
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de PriDemandada
mera Instancia, Sala Superior
CIVIL NUM.: KDC2009-1604
de HUMACAO.
LEGAL NOTICE
(803). SALA NUM.: ACCION
BANCO POPULAR DE CIVIL DE COBRO DE DINERO;
Estado Libre Asociado de PuerPUERTO RICO
to Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA.
Demandante V.
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de PriAVISO DE VENTA EN PUBLImera Instancia, Sala Superior
CA SUBASTA.AL PUBLICO
MARCOS BARRAZA
de PONCE.
FIGUERE, SU ESPOSA EN GENERAL. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PREDLJ MORTGAGE
CARMEN PEREZ
SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL
CAPITAL, INC.
NAVARRO Y LA
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
Demandante V.
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE DE P.R. SS
DAVID AQUINO CALIZ
Y CARMEN DELIA
CALIZ SANTIAGO
T/C/C CARMEN DELIA
SANTIAGO CALIA
T/C/C CARMEN DELIA
SANTIAGO T/C/C
CARMEN DELIA CALIZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: JCD2014-1073 Sala: G-28
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y
EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA
POR EDICTO.
A: DAVID AQUINO
CALIZ Y CARMEN
DELIA CALIZ SANTIAGO
LEGAL NOTICE
T/C/C CARMEN DELIA
Estado Libre Asociado de PuerSANTIAGO CALIA
to Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
BANCO POPULAR DE
T/C/C CARMEN DELIA
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de PriPUERTO RICO
SANTIAGO T/C/C
mera Instancia, Sala Superior
Demandante V.
CARMEN DELIA CALlZ,
de MAYAGЬEZ.
JORGE DIAZ PUCHOLS,
PARA SER NOTIFICADOS
BANCO POPULAR DE
MIRIAM ONEILL RIVAS
POR EDICTO POR
PUERTO RICO
Demandado(a)
Demandante V.
Civil: DCD2014-1404 Sala: 701 CONDUCTO DEL: LCDO.
MIRIAM BERENGUER Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y WENDELL W. COLON
EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
SOTILLO, ROBERTO
MUÑOZ, PO Box 7970,
RODRIGUEZ ROSADO Y POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOPonce, PR 00732.
TIFICACION DE SENTENCIA (Nombre de las partes a las que se
LA SOCIEDAD lEGAL DE POR EDICTO.
le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
BIENES GANANCIALES
EL SECRETARIO (A) que susA: JORGE DIAZ
COMPUESTA POR
PUCHOLS Y MIRIAM cribe le notifica a usted que 28
de enero de 2015, este Tribunal
AMBOS; VANESSA
ONEILL RIVAS
OLiVENCIA BERENGUER; (Nombre de las partes a las que se ha dictado Sentencia, Sentenle notifican la sentencia por edicto) cia Parcial o Resolución en este
DENNIS OLIVENCIA
EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus- caso, que ha sido debidamente
BERENGUER Y KAREN cribe le notifica a usted que 6 de registrada y archivada en autos
OLIVENCIA BERENGUER febrero de 2015, este Tribunal donde podrá usted enterarse
Demandado(a)
Civil: ISCI201401198 (207)
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA
POR EDICTO.
A: MIRIAM BERENGUER
SOTIllO, ROBERTO
RODRIGUEZ ROSADO y
la SOCIEDAD lEGALDE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; VANESSA
OLIVENCIA BERENGUER;
DENNIS OLIVENCIA
BERENGUER y KAREN
OLIVENCIA BERENGUER
(Nombre de las partes a las que se
le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que
11 de febrero de 2015, 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
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
de BAYAMON.
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este
caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en un
periódico de circulación general
en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro
de los 10 días siguientes a su
notificación. Y, siendo o representado 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 ultima publicación de este
edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los
autos de este caso, con fecha
de 13 de febrero de 2015. En
BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 13
de febrero de 2015. Ruth Aponte Cotto, Secretaria Regional
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en un
periódico de circulación general
en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro
de los 10 días siguientes a su
notificación. Y, siendo o representado 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 ultima publicación
de este edicto. Copia de esta
notificación ha sido archivada
en los autos de este caso, con
fecha de 11 de febrero de 2015.
En PONCE, Puerto Rico, el 11
de febrero de 2015. Luz Mayra
Caraballo Garcia, Secretaria.
Katherine D. Lopez Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer-
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: HSCI201400618 Sobre:
COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR
LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR
EDICTO.
A: MARCOS BARRRAZA
FIGUERE, CARMEN
PEREZ NAVARRO Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS: URB. VILLA
UNIVERSITARIA, K-9
CALLE 2, HUMACAO,
PR 00791 P/C DE LCDO.
JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS
(Nombre de las partes a las que se
le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 3 de
febrero de 2015, este Tribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este
caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en un
periódico de circulación general
en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro
de los 10 días siguientes a su
notificación. Y, siendo o representado 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 ultima publicación
de este edicto. Copia de esta
notificación ha sido archivada
en los autos de este caso, con
fecha de 13 de febrero de 2015.
En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el
13 de febrero de 2015. Dominga Gomez Fuster, Secretaria.
Evelyn Felix Vazquez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN
JUAN.
COOPERATIVA DE
AHORRO Y CREDITO
SAULO D. RODRIGUEZ
Demandante Vs.
FELIX E. MALDONADO
A: FELIX MALDONADO
PASTRANA
YO, Diana I Navarro Cruz, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a
la parte demandada y al público en general LES NOTIFICO,
que cumpliendo con un MANDAMIENTO PARA VENTA EN
PUBLICA SUBASTA de fecha
9 de febrero de 2015 librado en
el caso de epígrafe por la Secretaría del tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de San Juan,
para que se satisfaga y se cumpla con la Sentencia notificada
el 16 de abril de 2010, final
y firme, dictada en el mismo,
procederé a vender en pública
subasta, el día: 16 de marzo de
2015, a las 11:30 de la mañana.
En mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala de
San Juan, al mejor postor, por
su pago exacto y seguro, en
moneda de los Estados Unidos
de Norteamérica, la propiedad
inmueble que se describe a
continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma
rectangular en el Condominio
Catedral, localizado en el tercer
piso y marcado con el número
tres (3) con un área privativa
de ochocientos cincuenta y
cinco punto cero cero (855.00)
pies cuadrados. En lindes por
el Norte, en veinte pies y seis
pulgadas (20’6”) con pared interior del edificio colindante en
el fondo del apartamento; por
el Sur, con la calle Luna, frente del edificio en veintiún pies
y siete pulgadas (21’7”); por el
Este, con pared exterior del edificio, en cincuenta y ocho pies y
cuatro pulgadas (58’4”) y pasillo
común de la escalera a través
del cual tiene un acceso de
entrada y salida en doce pies
y diez pulgadas (12’10”); y por
el Oeste, con pared exterior del
edificio en setenta y un pies y
dos pulgadas (71’2”). La colinda puerta principal de entrada
hace frente al pasillo común en
este piso estando localizada en
la colindancia Este del apartamento. Consiste de cuatro dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina,
cuarto de baño y balcón. Le
corresponde en los elementos
comunes generales una participación de diecinueve punto tres
por ciento (19.3%). Consta inscrita al folio ciento setenta (170)
del tomo ciento cincuenta y seis
(156) de San Juan, finca número cuatro mil trescientos veintisiete (4,327) del Registro de la
Propiedad, Sección Primera de
San Juan. Mediante la Sentencia final y firme de este caso, se
obliga a la parte demandada a
pagar a la demandante la suma
de $250,000.00, que le adeuda
a la demandante, $1,000.00
por concepto de honorarios de
abogado, el interés legal de la
sentencia, el cual asciende a
$67,770.00, para un total adeudado mínimo de $318,770.00,
las que sigan venciéndose y
acumulándose mientras no se
satisfaga la deuda o las sumas
reclamadas, cualesquiera penalidades adicionales impuestas o acumuladas legalmente. A
lograr tal propósito se destinará
el producto de la mencionada
subasta. La propiedad inmueble antes descrita deberá ser
vendida en pública subasta
con cualesquiera cargas o gravámenes en vigor, que surjan
del Registro de la Propiedad,
anteriores al que en este caso
de ejecuta. Toda persona con
algún interés en esa propiedad
se considerara notificada de dicha subasta por medio de este
AVISO y deberá comparecer a
la celebración de la misma. Se
hace claro y se le advierte a los
licitadores que la adjudicación
de la subasta se hará al mejor
postor, quien, en el mismo acto
deberá consignar el importe
de su oferta (la más alta) en
moneda de curso legal de los
Estados Unidos de América.
Para conocimiento de la parte
demandada, de los licitadores
y partes interesadas en esta
subasta y de toda persona que
tenga un interés debidamente
inscrito, afectado la referida
propiedad inmueble, con posteridad a la inscripción del gravamen que en el caso de epígrafe
se está ejecutando, este AVISO
se publicará dos (2) semanas
visiblemente colocado, en tres
(3) sitios públicos del Municipio de San Juan, tales como la
Alcaldía, el Tribunal, la Colecturía; y mediante edicto también
se publicará dos (2) veces en
un diario de circulación general
de Puerto Rico, durante dos
(2) semanas consecutivas, con
un intervalo de por lo menos
siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se les informa a
los interesados que todos los
documentos relacionados con
esta acción de ejecución de
sentencia y venta en pública
subasta, estarán disponibles,
durante un tiempo razonable,
para ser examinados en la Secretaria del Tribunal en horas
laborales. Una vez efectuada
la venta en pública subasta de
la propiedad inmueble antes
descrita, el Alguacil procederá
a poner al comprador o compradora en posesión física de
la misma dentro del plazo de
veinte (20) días contados a
partir de la venta o subasta, sin
perjuicio de los derechos de terceros que no hayan intervenido
en el procedimiento. De encontrarse ocupada dicha propiedad
inmueble, el Alguacil procederá
al lanzamiento de la parte demandada y (o) de cualquier otra
persona que la estén ocupando,
la cual se hará de conformidad
con el referido MANDAMIENTO
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expedido por la Secretaria del
Tribunal. A base de los antes
expresado, expido este AVISO
para qe sea debidamente publicado y expuesto en los lugares
públicos
correspondientes.
LIBRADO en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de febrero de
2015. Diana I. Navarro Cruz,
ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE
BAYAMУN.
ORIENTAL BANK
AND TRUST, AHORA
ORIENTAL BANK
DEMANDANTE V.
ORTEGA
CARRASQUILLO, INC.
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NUM. DCD2014-3003
SALA (701) SOBRE: IN REM
EJECUCIУN DE HIPOTECA
NOTIFICACIУN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO
A: ORTEGA
CARRASQUILLO, INC.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de
febrero de 2015, este Tribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este
caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en
un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico,
dentro de los 10 días siguientes
a su notificación. Y, siendo o
representando usted una parte
en el procedimiento sujeta a
los términos de la Sentencia,
Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o
apelación dentro del término
de 30 días contados a partir
de la publicación por edicto de
esta notificación, dirijo a usted
esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de
la publicación de este edicto.
Copia de esta notificación ha
sido archivada en los autos de
este caso, con fecha de 13 de
febrero de 2013. En Bayamón,
Puerto Rico, el 13 de febrero de
2015. RUTH APONTE COTTOSEC. REGIONAL II. MARILYN
COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
de AGUADA.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
BENJAMIN GONZALEZ
FELICIANO
Demandado(a)
Civil Num: ABCI201400677 Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR
LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR
EDICTO.
A: BENJAMIN GONZALEZ
FELICIANO
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que
13 de febrero de 2015, este
Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,
Sentencia Parcial o Resolución
en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada
en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los
términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola
vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días
siguientes a su notificación. Y,
siendo o representado 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 ultima
publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido
archivada en los autos de este
caso, con fecha de 17 de febrero de 2015. En Aguada, Puerto
Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2015.
Rosa B. Sanchez Acevedo,
Secretaria Regional. Por: Marangeli Ruiz Lopez, Secretaria
Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
OMAR
SANTIAGO ROSADO
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: DCD12-1665 (503)
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,
Alg. Freddy Omar Rodriguez
Collazo, Alguacil, División de
Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala 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 la
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 mí oficina sita en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el
día 11 de marzo de 2015, a las
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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
$76,692.00. 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
18 de marzo de 2015 a las 3:15
de la tarde y el 25 de marzo
de 2015 a las 3:15 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, $51,128.00 y $ 38,346.00
respectivamente. La propiedad
objeto de subasta se describe
como sigue: RÚSTICA: Solar
marcado con el número doscientos cuarenta y siete (#247)
en el plano de parcelación de
la Comunidad Rural Galateo
del barrio Galateo del término
municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto
Rico con una cabida superficial de cero punto cero uno uno
cinco (0.0115) cuerdas equivalentes a cuatrocientos treinta y
ocho punto veintiséis (438.26)
metros cuadrados. En lindes:
por el NORTE, con las parcelas
números doscientos cuarenta
y nueve (#249) y doscientos
cincuenta y uno (#251) de la
comunidad; por el SUR, con la
calle número diecisiete (#17) de
la comunidad; por el ESTE, con
la parcela número doscientos
veintiséis (#246) de la comunidad y por el OESTE, con la calle número diecisiete (#17) de la
comunidad. Consta inscrita al
folio doscientos veinte (220) del
tomo ciento noventa y cinco
(195) de Toa Alta, finca número
nueve mil seiscientos ochenta y nueve (9,689). Registro
de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Tercera. La dirección
residencial es: Doscientos cuarenta y siete (247), Calle uno
(1), Galateo, Toa Alta, 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
$70,252.52 de principal, intereses a razón del 5% anual desde el día 1ro de enero de 2011,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$7,669.20 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
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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 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 8 de agosto de 2014.
Alg. Freddy Omar Rodriguez
Collazo, Division De Subastas
Tribunal De Primera Instancia
Sala Superior De Bayamon.
The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, February 23, 2015
HECTOR MIGUEL
MARTINEZ SOUSS
Demandado(a)
Civil: HSCI201300844 Sobre:
COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR
LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR
EDICTO.
A: HECTOR MIGUEL
MARTINEZ SOUSS; SU
ULTIMA DIRECCION
CONOCIDA; COND
CARRION COURT 16
CARRION CT APT 104,
SAN JUAN PR 00911; P/C
LIC. WENDELL W. COLON
MUÑOZ.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se
le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que
12 de febrero de 2015, este
Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,
Sentencia Parcial o Resolución
en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada
en autos donde podrá usted
enterarse detalladamente de
los términos de la misma. Esta
notificación se publicará una
sola vez en un periódico de
circulación general en la Isla
de Puerto Rico, dentro de los
10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representado
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 ultima publicación de este
edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los
autos de este caso, con fecha
de 13 de febrero de 2015. En
HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 13
de febrero de 2015. Ivelisse
Fonseca Rodriguez, Secretaria.
Ileanette Rivas Serrano, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
(Nombre de las partes a las que se
le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 4 de
febrero de 2015, este Tribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este
caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notificación
se publicará una sola vez en un
periódico de circulación general
en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro
de los 10 días siguientes a su
notificación. Y, siendo o representado 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 ultima publicación
de este edicto. Copia de esta
notificación ha sido archivada
en los autos de este caso, con
fecha de 13 de febrero de 2015.
En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el
13 de febrero de 2015. Ivelisse
Fonseca Rodriguez, Secretaria
Interina. Luz Milagro Camilo
Nazario, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
DE GUAYNABO.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante v.
SUCESION DE JOSE
OLIVIERI COMULADA,
COMPUESTA POR
MARIA DEL CARMEN
NAVARRO RODRIGUEZ,
T/C/C CARMEN
DEL C. NAVARRO
RODRIGUEZ, POR SI, Y
EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL
USUFRUCTUARIA, JOSE
CARLOS OLIVIERI, EL
HONORABLE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO Y EL CENTRO
de HUMACAO.
DE RECAUDACIONES DE
DLJ MORTGAGE
INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
CAPITAL, INC.
(CRIM)
Demandante V.
Demandados
EDELMIRA ORTIZ
CIVIL NUM.: D2CD2014-0355
SALINAS
(201) SOBRE: COBRO DE DIDemandado(a)
NERO EJECUCION DE HIPOCivil: HSCI201400970 Sobre: TECA POR LA VIA ORDINAEJECUCION DE HIPOTECA RIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NO- EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS
TIFICACION DE SENTENCIA DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE
LEGAL NOTICE
POR EDICTO.
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
Estado Libre Asociado de PuerESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
A: EDELMIRA ORTIZ
to Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
SALINAS; SU ULTIMA PUERTO RICO.
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de PriA: JOSE CARLOS
mera Instancia, Sala Superior DIRECCION CONOCIDA:
OLIVIERI
BO.
TUMBAO
T-39
de HUMACAO.
Por la presente se Ie emplaza
MAUNABO, PR 00707; P/C y notifica que debe contestar
DLJ MORTGAGE
DEL LCDO. WENDELL W. la demanda incoada contra usCAPITAL, INC
Demandante V.
ted, dentro del termino de treinCOLON MUÑOZ
ta (30) dias a partir de la publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de dicha
contestación ante el Tribunal
y sala que se menciona en el
epigrafe del mismo, con copia
a la parte aqui demandante. Se
Ie apercibe que de no contestar
la demanda dentro del termino
aqui estipulado, se Ie anotara la
rebeldia y se dictara sentencia
en su contra sin mas citarle ni
oírle. Los abogados de la parte
demandante son:
Lcdo. Reggie Diaz Hernandez
Colegiado Num.: 17,428
RUA Num.: 16,393
PAVIA BERMUDEZ DIAZ &
SANCHEZ, LLP
Attorneys at Law
Edificio a Ochoa, Suite 200,
500 Calle De La Tanca
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
[email protected]
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal
hoy, 3 de febrero de 2015. Glorimar Rivera Rivera, Secretaria
del Tribunal Confidencial II.
Maireni Trinta Maldonado, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAROLINA.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante v.
ERNESTO PEREZ
OCASIO; SU ESPOSA
IRIS NORMA GAMBARO
FERRER, T/C/C IRIS
GAMBARO FERRER Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: FCD2014-1359
(401) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO.
A: ERNESTO PEREZ
OCASIO; SU ESPOSA
IRIS NORMA GAMBARO
FERRER, T/C/C IRIS
GAMBARO FERRER Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS.
Por la presente se Ie emplaza
y notifica que debe contestar
la demanda incoada contra
usted, dentro del termino de
treinta (30) dias a partir de la
publicación del presente edicto,
radicando el original de dicha
contestación ante el Tribunal
y sala que se menciona en el
epigrafe del mismo, con copia
a la parte aqui demandante. Se
Ie apercibe que de no contestar
la demanda dentro del termino
aqui estipulado, se Ie anotara la
rebeldia y se dictara sentencia
en su contra sin mas citarle ni
oírle. Los abogados de la parte
demandante son:
Lcdo. Reggie Diaz Hernandez
Colegiado Num.: 17,428
RUA Num.: 16,393
PAVIA BERMUDEZ DIAZ &
SANCHEZ, LLP
Attorneys at Law
Edificio a Ochoa, Suite 200,
500 Calle De La Tanca
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
[email protected]
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma
y el sello de este Tribunal hoy,
4 de febrero de 2014. Miriam
Rosa Maldonado, Secretaria
Regional.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA.
AUTORIDAD PARA EL
FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA
VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO, representado por
el BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
WALDEMAR NEGRON
PEREZ, ET AL.
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: FCD2013-1456
SALA: 401 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, Raul Rivera Ruiz, Alguacil, División de Subastas del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Carolina, 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 mí oficina sita en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala de
Carolina, el día 17 de marzo de
2015, a las 10:45 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 $73,700.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa primera subasta, se establecerán
una segunda y tercera subasta,
en las mismas oficinas de este
Alguacil, respectivamente, el
día 24 de marzo de 2015 a las
11:30 de la mañana y el 31 de
marzo de 2015 a las 11:00 de
la mañana. Los tipos mínimos
para dichas segundas y tercera
subastas lo serán respectivamente, las dos terceras partes
y la mitad del tipo mínimo que
se pactara para la primera
subasta, o sea, $49,133.33 y
$36,850.00 respectivamente.
La propiedad objeto de subasta
se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, situado
en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, marcado con el número
quince (#15) de la manzana
ciento dieciocho (118), con un
área de cuatrocientos veinte
punto cero cero (420.00) metros cuadrados; en lindes por el
Norte, con el canal Carolina, en
catorce punto cero cero (14.00)
metros; por el Sur, con la calle
sesenta y siete (67), en catorce
punto cero cero (14.00) metros;
por el Este, con el solar número
dieciséis (#16), en treinta punto
cero cero (30.00) metros; por
el Oeste, con el solar número
catorce (#14), en treinta punto
cero cero (30.00) metros. Enclava una casa. Consta inscrita
al folio uno (1) del tomo seiscientos setenta y tres (673) de
Carolina, finca número veintiséis mil novecientos ochenta
y tres (26,983). Registro de la
Propiedad de Carolina, Sección
Segunda. La dirección física de
la propiedad es: Urb. Villa Carolina, Calle sesenta y siete (67),
Bloq. ciento ochenta y ocho
(188) quince (15), Carolina,
Puerto Rico, cero cero nueve
ocho cuatro (00984). Que dicho
inmueble se encuentra gravado
por: HIPOTECA: En garantía
de un pagaré a favor de La Autoridad para el Financiamiento
de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico,
o a su orden, por la suma de
quince mil dólares con cero
centavos ($15,000.00) de principal, sin intereses y vencedero
el día treinta (30) de julio del
año dos mil diez (2,010), según
consta de la escritura número
quinientos quince (515), otorgada en San Juan, el día treinta
y uno (31) de julio del año dos
mil dos (2,002), ante el notario
José Rubén Vélez Marrero, e
inscrita al tomo móvil mil trescientos treinta (1,330) de Carolina, finca número veintiséis
mil novecientos ochenta y tres
(26,983), inscripción tercera
(3ra.) y última. Sujeta a Condiciones de Venta o Transferencia por ocho (8) años. Dichos
remates se llevarán a efecto
para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el
importe de la Sentencia que ha
obtenido ascendente a la suma
de $55,580.21 de principal;
Intereses al 6% anual desde
el día 1ro de marzo de 2013,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$6,700.00 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado; y
demás créditos accesorios. Los
autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria incoado
en este caso, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este
Honorable Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que
todo licitador que comparezca
a la subasta señalada en este
caso acepta como bastante la
titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier
carga y/o gravamen anterior
y/o preferente, si lo hubiere, al
crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente,
entendiéndose además, que el
remanente los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos. Sin destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. Por el presente se
le notifica los titulares de créditos y/o cargas regístrales posteriores, que se celebrarán las
subastas en las fechas, horas y
sitio anteriormente señalados, y
se les invitan a que concurran
a dichas subastas si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer
antes del remate, el importe
del crédito, de sus intereses,
costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedándose
entonces subrogados en los
derechos del acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan
los requisitos y cualificaciones
de Ley para que pueda efectuar
tal subrogación. Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos
de este Tribunal y en Tres (3)
lugares públicos del municipio,
donde habrá de celebrarse la
subasta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se
publicará además en la Colecturía del lugar de residencia del
demandado, cuando éste fuere
conocido. Así mismo este aviso
será publicado mediante edicto
dos (2) veces en un periódico
de circulación general diaria
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por el término de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas
publicaciones. En adición se le
notificará este aviso a la parte
demandada mediante correo
certificado con acuse de recibo.
El Alguacil de este Tribunal venderá la propiedad antes descrita en pública subasta, al mejor
postor entre la AUTORIDAD
PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO
DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO y aquellas personas que
reúnan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley, libre de cargas
y gravámenes de clase alguna.
El Alguacil pondrá al comprador
en posesión de la propiedad
mediante el lanzamiento de los
ocupantes de la misma dentro del término legal de veinte
(20) días a contar de la fecha
en que se efectúe la venta en
pública subasta y se encuentra
facultado a a romper cualquier
cerradura de la propiedad para
efectuar lanzamiento de sus
ocupantes. EXPEDIDO el presente en Carolina, Puerto Rico
a 25 de septiembre de 2014.
Raul Rivera Ruiz, Division De
Subastas Tribunal De Primera
Instancia Sala De Carolina.
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
The San Juan Daily Star
Monday, February 23, 2015
For Javier Báez This Spring, Slow
And Steady Could Win Second Base
BY JOHN ARGUELLO
I
f Javier Baez was a boxer, he probably
would not be the type that would dance
around, stick and jab, and try to get a read
on his opponents strategy. He’d probably start
things off with a roundhouse right and try to
make quick work of his foe.
But that can also get him into trouble when
he misses. Baez is no doubt chomping at the bit
to get back at it this spring after a tough winter
that was a follow up to a tough summer. You get
the sense that he is going to come out swinging
and try to hit his way back into the lineup.
In that light, it just may be that the best
strategy is to hold him back and revisit some
of the adjustments the Cubs have asked Baez
to make, get him off on the the right foot and
put him on a pace designed to keep him in the
bigs for the long haul. It could be in his best
long term interests to slow things down early,
work with him on the side, and keep him out
of competitive games early. Keep him focused
on what it will take for him to stay successful in
the big leagues instead of doing what he might
believe he needs to do to make the team.
There may not be much to learn early in the
spring for Baez anyway. We’ll likely see MLB pitchers getting their arms in shape. We’ll see them
throwing lower than usual velocity fastballs, followed by some AA pitchers coming in to pitch
relief, the kind of pitchers Baez has taken deep before. And so the cycle starts again, Javy jumps all
over those pitches, takes enough of them downtown to get everyone, including himself, excited
about the future again.
That may be fun, but that may slip him into
some old bad habits again.
So maybe a refresher course early on
with the mechanical adjustments. Maybe some
more time observing on the bench with some
coaches and veterans. Hopefully, they can
even bring Manny Ramirez back, as he seemed
to have a strong influence on Baez’s approach
at Iowa last year.
Let Baez dance around a little first, hold
him back, help him get a feel for what his opponents are trying to do.
And then you get him back in the ring...
slowly. Start him with good matchups where he can continue to work on his craft,. Give
him the chance to apply the things he has been
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taught. Keep the learning process going from at
bat to at bat.
Stick and jab. Stick and jab.
Don’t throw too much at him at once, keep
things balanced between experience and instruction. Stretch him out like you would a starting
pitcher, little by little, allowing him to handle bigger chunks as he progresses through the spring,
and perhaps adding things as you go along.
And then, by the end of the spring and he
gets more and more ABs, you will want to see a
pattern start to emerge, some consistency from at
bat to at bat as Baez gets into a rhythm. You want
to see him start to get better reads on the pitcher’s
strategy, to the point, perhaps, where Baez is learning to set up pitchers the way so many have set
him up so far in his young career.
And then, just as he is sizing up the pitcher,
when the timing is right, you unleash him.
Let him throw that roundhouse.
No matter what kind of adjustments Baez
makes, he’ll still be what he is -- a power-hitter. A
slugger. So let him swing. Maybe it lands, maybe it doesn’t. When it does, it will be glorious, but
when it doesn’t, the expectation is he’ll have lear-
ned to step back and regroup, You want to see
him set the pitcher up for the next roundhouse
-- or if he is down to two strikes, maybe settle for
the single. Live to fight another day, anything but
continuing to flail away and get himself out.
Realistically, Baez is not going to be able to
slow his swing down, You don’t really want him
to do that anyway, but he can avoid getting fooled
so much when he does swing. If that big swing is
preceded with better mechanics and a better idea
of what’s coming, he can keep himself balanced
and put himself in better hitting position, He can
let it fly and still keep himself under control.
Even if such a plan goes well, we must also
be ready for the possibility Baez doesn’t get himself
exactly where he wants to be, even by the end of
the spring, But that shouldn’t change what should
be a slow and steady pace to get Baez back to the
big leagues for good. With that in mind, keep an
eye on the quality of at-bats more than the actual
numbers this spring. If he has to go back to Iowa
and continue to learn and apply, so be it.
If he figures it out before the Opening Day
bell rings, even better.
Sandy Alomar, Jr. Stays Fit by Cycling…
20 Years After ‘Miracle on 9th St.’
BY SARAH JAQUAY
D
uring the Indians’ glory years in the
mid-1990s, there were some players
who came back every year looking just
as they had the prior season—guys like Kenny
Lofton, Omar Vizquel and Sandy Alomar, Jr.—
the team’s lean catcher who’s still lean 20 years
after the Indians’ miraculous 1995 season.
First a few reflections on that golden summer: The team got to first place and remained
there almost from pillar to post; they won 100
games in a strike-shortened season. Many times
the team came from behind in the late innings to
win with homeruns or grand slams. Northeast
Ohioans thought they were hallucinating. The
town was electrified with an energy whose vortex was at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario.
As the team advanced to face Atlanta’s juggernaut starting pitchers in the World Series, history
buffs cringed at the thought of a repeat sweep as
the Yankees had done. No sweep: The Indians
went down 4 games to 2, but fans born after
1954 finally had something to tell their grandkids about. Thousands of the faithful at the
post-Series rally on Public Square couldn’t be
convinced they’d lost anything because we’d
gained self-respect.
Two decades have passed but some of the
players from that thrilling era remain and still
look as if they could slide into home plate without perspiring. Sandy Alomar, Jr.–now a bench
coach for the Indians–is one of those guys. With
the February issue of Currents annually devoted
to health, fitness and wellness, Currents was honored to have the opportunity to visit with Alomar to ask how he keeps fit and how he gets his
game on for Spring Training.
Three years ago Scott Radinsky, former Indians pitching coach, rode his bike to Alomar’s
house. Radinsky asked Alomar to go for a ride
and Alomar replied, “What, am I going to ride
on your lap?” So they went and bought a bike.
Alomar started riding regularly and enjoying
it—not just for the exercise but for the peace of
mind long-distance cycling provides.
Alomar’s had numerous knee surgeries
and needed a workout routine that wouldn’t add
the force of gravity to his joints; so biking was
ideal. Today he’s an avid cyclist who clocks 100200 miles per week depending on the weather.
He doesn’t pack his S-Works bicycle when the
team travels “because there’s no room on charters.” But he rents when he can in places like San
Francisco and Seattle. When asked about biking
on more vertical landscapes, Alomar explains he
used to avoid hills but now looks forward to the
challenge—even when he’s biking in his native
Puerto Rico, which has “lots of hills and traffic.”
When waxing about 20 years ago, this
veteran catcher wants to set the timeline
straight: “It really started in 1994 … We felt
it at Spring Training — ‘Man, we can compete with anyone.’” But the fates didn’t smile
on baseball that year and there was no post-
season due to a bitter strike.
“We came back [in 1995] with a vengeance,” Alomar remembers. He also talked about
the entertaining clubhouse atmosphere. The
team itself took on a personality that was about
being silly and pranking. “Alvaro Espinoza [the
shortstop who stuck inflated bubblegum on his
teammates’ caps when cameras were zooming
in on the dugout] and Wayne Kirby: You had to
watch those guys,” Alomar recalls with a smile.
Anniversaries are fun but Alomar is focused on this season and says he doesn’t really
have to shift gears for Spring Training. “You
never really disconnect from baseball. You’re
thinking about it every day one way or another.” He’s looking forward to the task at hand
(which he describes as winning the Series)
and knows “Everything starts here [Spring
Training.] This is my sixth year coaching and I
can see the steady progress.”
Here’s hoping for an even a bigger miracle in 2015.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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MLB Adds Pace-of-Play Rules for ‘15
M
ajor League Baseball has implemented significant pace-of-play
rule changes for the 2015 season in
an effort to speed up the game, it was announced.
The rules include mandating that managers stay in the dugout during replay
challenges, that hitters keep at least one foot
in the batter’s box during at-bats, a prompt
return to play after TV commercial breaks
and timed pitching changes.
“These changes represent a step
forward in our efforts to streamline the pace
of play,” MLB commissioner Rob Manfred
said in a statement. “The most fundamental starting point for improving the pace of
the average game involves getting into and
out of breaks seamlessly. In addition, the
batter’s box rule will help speed up a basic
action of the game.”
The league, which announced the
changes with the MLB Players Association, established a pace-of-game committee
in September aimed at making recommendations to speed up games, which grew to
a record average of 3 hours, 2 minutes in
2014, up from 2:33 in 1981.
Players who violate the rules will receive a warning, with “flagrant violators”
subject to a series of fines up to $500, sources familiar with the changes told ESPN.
com’s Jayson Stark. The intention is not to
impose penalties but rather to help change
the habits of current players in an effort to
speed up the game, sources told Stark.
The new rules begin in spring training, but the warnings and fines will not be
imposed until May, as spring training and
the first month of the regular season will be
a phase-in period.
Speed-up rules in the major leagues
required the OK of the players’ union, and
baseball officials had said a pitch clock was
ruled out for this season. However, sources
told Stark that Major League Baseball will
begin to compile data and inform all pitchers how long they take between pitches.
Several new mandates, including
the batter’s box rule, were tried out during the Arizona Fall League in October
and November.
The batter’s box rule remains in place
unless an established exception occurs. Those exceptions include swinging at a pitch,
foul balls, foul tips, if the hitter is brushed
back by a pitch, time granted by the umpire
and wild pitches.
Also, two timers -- on or near the
scoreboard and another on the facade behind home plate near the press box -- will New mandates will require managers such as Mike Scioscia to stay in the
be used in every major league ballpark to dugout during replay challenges, hitters to keep one foot in the box and a
help quicken the pace. For each half-inning prompt return to play after TV breaks.
break, teams will have either 2 minutes, 25
seconds (for local telecasts) or 2 minutes, without jeopardizing the integrity of the Stark.
45 seconds (national telecasts) from the competition.”
Managers, who used to retain their
time the commercial break begins until
The new replay rules intend to re- challenges after the first overturned call,
the first pitch should be thrown to the next duce the time managers spend chatting now will retain their challenges after every
batter, who should be in the batter’s box with umps while awaiting recommenda- call that is overturned. In addition, they will
with no fewer than 20 seconds remaining tions from video coordinators or their own get a new second challenge to use during
on that timer.
during regular-season tiebreaker games,
coaches.
If a pitcher fails to complete the tradiAmong the changes, managers now the All-Star Game and postseason games.
tional eight warm-up pitches before the ti- can review whether a runner left a base
“The Pace of Game Committee wants
mer reaches 30 seconds, he forfeits the right early or properly touched a base. However, to take measured steps as we address this
to do so.
managers must now use a challenge for a industry goal to quicken the pace of our
“The players believe that enforcing review of the collision rule, which was deci- great game,” said Atlanta Braves president
the rules that currently exist regarding bet- ded by umpires in 2014.
John Schuerholz, who was the chairman
ween inning breaks and plate appearances
Managers are encouraged to request of the Pace of Game and Replay Commitis the best way to address the issue of pace a replay -- either verbally or with a hand tee. “It is not an objective of ours to achieof play,” MLBPA executive director Tony signal -- from the dugout instead of wal- ve a dramatic time reduction right away;
Clark said in a statement. “We’re confident king out on the field to challenge a call. This it is more important to develop a culture
that today’s announcements will have a should take place within 20 to 30 seconds of better habits and a structure with more
positive impact on the pace of the game of the original call being made, sources told exact timings for non-game action.”
Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015 Revealed; Muhammad Ali,
Sugar Ray Robinson, and Félix ‘Tito’ Trinidad on the List
BY CHRIS ROBINSON
W
hen former WBA light heavyweight
champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammad informed HustleBoss.com that
he had been elected into the 2015 Nevada
Boxing Hall of Fame, he also informed us
that fellow trainer and former two-division
world champion Roger Mayweather was
also on the list, as well as some other memorable names.
The full list of inductees for the 2015
Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame has been announced:
Nevada-resident boxers: Roger “The
Black Mamba” Mayweather, Eddie Mustafa
Muhammad, Johnny “Mi Vida Loca” Tapia
Non-Nevada resident boxers: Muha-
mmad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Marvelous
Marvin Hagler, Lennox Lewis, Marco Antonio
Barrera, Felix “Tito” Trinidad, Gene Fullmer
Pioneer category: James J. Corbett, Bob
Fitzsimmons, Jack Johnson, Joe Gans, Tex
Rickard
Non-boxer participants: Lee Samuels,
Pat & Dawn Barry, Steve Sneddon, Dr. Donald Romeo, Chuck Hull, Dr. Robert Voy.
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Jack Nicklaus Believes Tiger Woods Will Pass His Major Record
F
ew people have the perspective on Tiger Woods’ career than Jack Nicklaus who has Woods
in his rear-view mirror.
The 18-time major winner appeared on Golf
Channel to talk with Morning Drive hosts Gary Williams and Matt Ginella and speak about the recent
trials and tribulations of Woods’ game and health.
“Tiger is struggling, I don’t think there’s any
question about that,” said Nicklaus. “I think he’s
struggling more between his ears than he is any place
else. He’s struggled with the driver most of his life
really, but he’s always been able to find the golf ball
and get it somewhere back around the green… And
now he’s having trouble with the short game. That is
not a good combination, to drive it poorly and have a
bad short game.”
Nicklaus said sometimes you have to weather
the storm and hope that something sparks to get you
back to the top.
“You go through things, and you have to have
a positive thing happen to you to turn it around,” he
said. “I think Tiger will turn it around. He’s too dedicated, he works too hard at it, he’s got too much
talent. He’ll figure it out. And personally, I think he
needs to figure it out himself. Because a teacher can’t
teach what’s inside your head. You’ve got to be able
to put that positive thought into your head yourself.”
And the man who is arguably the greatest to ever
play the game believes that Woods will not remain
stuck on 14 major wins and eventually will top him
in the record books.
“I still do. Why would I not think that?,” Nicklaus ventured. “He’s got a lot of golf in front of him.
But it’s going to be up to him, he’s still got to do it.
He may, he may not. Obviously chances are harder
for him now than five years ago, but I still think he
has time on his side.”
Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova Could Face
Surprising Clay-Court Challenges This Season
BY DOUGLAS PERRY
W
e’re still in February, but the clay-court season is very
much underway down in South America.That means
we should start thinking about who’s going to dominate
on the dirt this year -- and who could rise up and surprise us.
Among the men, we know what’s going to happen: the
red clay will be all about Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Full stop.
(That said, we’re going to pick Roger Federer to win April’s 250level Istanbul Open, which he’s just added to his schedule.)
The women’s tour, not surprisingly, offers more plotlines,
so that’s where we’ll focus our attention.
Serena Williams, the top-ranked player in the world and a
two-time French Open champion, will be the favorite at every
clay-court tournament she enters. Maria Sharapova is a clear
second-best; she was almost untouchable on clay last year, winning in Stuttgart, Madrid and the French Open.
That Williams and Sharapova are the players to beat at
the important clay-court tournaments still seems odd to some
long-time fans. Time was, anyone who relied on big serves and
gape-worthy winners couldn’t win on speed-stunting clay. Players like Harold Solomon and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario would
rope-a-dope bigger opponents into oblivion. But that was then.
With the racquet-string revolution of the past decade-plus, power
players can now load up on spin and overwhelm smaller, faster
players with the sheer weight of their shots.
Not that this necessarily means you’d be foolish to put
down a bet on anyone other than Williams or Sharapova to win
a significant clay-court tournament this year. For starters, Simona Halep and Eugenie Bouchard are expected to push the Big
Two. But clay is where the crazy is supposed to happen in tennis
(remember Francesca Schiavone in 2010?), so let’s look even
further afield. Here are five players who could surprise us during
the dirt-ball season.
Samantha Stosur
Yes, she’s often seemed unmotivated since her breakthrough
run to the U.S. Open title in 2011. But with her vicious kick serve, her game remains particularly well suited to clay. And she’s
old enough now (30) and far enough down in the rankings (20th)
that the expectations that typically paralyze her have fallen away,
opening the door to the possibility of a magical run.
Sara Errani
The diminutive Italian’s 2015 hasn’t started well. She lost
in the first round in Sydney and the third round in Melbourne.
(And in doubles, her two-year reign with Roberta Vinci as Australian Open champions came to an abrupt end, followed by the
twosome’s first-ever loss in Fed Cup.) But Errani’s trip to South
America seems to have relaxed her (see her tweet below). Right
now, the former French Open singles finalist with the Betty Boop
serve is cruising through the Rio Open, her first tournament on
clay this year.
Garbine Muguruza
The 21-year-old shocked the tennis world last year by
knocking Serena out of the French Open. This was not a fluke.
The big Spaniard beat French Open finalist Simona Halep in Fed
Cup earlier this month and then squashed Agnieszka Radwanska
in Dubai last week. The next generation is arriving, and Muguruza is at the head of the brat pack.
Agnieszka Radwanska
This pick might surprise you. Tennis’ Velvet Fog fell to
aging Venus Williams in Melbourne and has twice lost to Muguruza this young season. Plus, all of the 25-year-old’s big titles -- Miami, Canada, Beijing -- have come on hard courts. But
Radwanska’s trickster style should be perfect for clay, if properly
deployed. And with Martina Navratilova newly in her corner,
she should start using aggression more effectively.
Petra Kvitova
Kvitova has won Wimbledon twice and been a disappointment at the other majors. But if Sharapova can be a clay-court
force, so can the more athletic Kvitova. We tend to forget that
the 6-foot-tall Czech’s first important title came not on grass or
hard court, but on the Madrid Open’s dirt in 2011. It’s the only
clay-court tournament she’s won in her career, and it’s time for
that to change.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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HOROSCOPE
Aries
(Mar 21-April 20)
You know what you want and are determined to get
it. If that means elbowing people out of the way, so
be it. Some people will object to your aggressive behaviour. Others will admire it. Ultimately, you don’t
care about public approval. All you want is to reach
your goals. This can make you ruthless. Beware of
creating enemies.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
You’re determined to get justice for an unfair situation.
Fortunately, you’re both intelligent and diplomatic. A
public official will be impressed by an appeal you send
to their office. Although you won’t get an immediate response, there will be movement on this issue. In
the meantime, you should create a group dedicated to
dealing with this matter.
Taurus
(April 21-May 21)
Scorpio
Gemini
(May 22-June 21)
Sagittarius
Your private life gives you a great deal of pleasure.
Don’t be afraid to retreat from public view. Working on
a creative project in the privacy of your own home will
be rewarding. You may prefer connecting with a loved
one who fuels your self confidence. Spending time with
an accomplished person will prompt you to realise your
own potential. You have many gifts that are being neglected. Now is the time to develop them.
Your passionate beliefs help you find a supportive
crowd. It’s nice to be with people who share your concerns about humankind. By banding together, you can
raise money for a good cause. You might also want to
challenge a law that has been adversely affecting the
community. Contrary to popular belief, you can beat
The System. It requires focus and determination, but
you have both qualities in spades.
Cancer
(June 22-July 23)
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
You work hard and take great pride in your achievements. Many are intimidated by your intensity, so if
you want a spot on a particular team, speak up. You
can’t expect people to read your mind. Are you looking for work? Be willing to accept a temporary job
assignment. You will quickly be offered a permanent
position. That’s because it’s obvious to everyone that
you are a fast learner who is very productive.
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
Don’t wait for someone to call you. Throw a party
and invite all your friends. You’re longing for company. Letting your hair down with a group of fun
people will be a welcome relief from stress. If nobody is available, head for a social club. You will strike
up a conversation with a warm, gregarious charmer
who makes you laugh. A love connection is possible,
but you may prefer to keep things platonic.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
You can make a great deal of progress on the career
front. Whether you want to change industries, launch
your own business or get a promotion is immaterial.
The important thing is to set a goal and stay focused
on it. Looking the part of a polished professional will
be helpful. Invest in a smart interview suit. Forgo fashion forward styles. You’ll fare better sporting a conservative look that projects an air of calm authority.
Creating security for your family is your first priority.
You may want to downsize your lifestyle in the interests
of living more simply. Having a lot of property doesn’t
necessarily make you wealthier. If you’re looking for a
home, you might be able to find one at a bargain price
very soon. This will give you a lot of negotiating power.
Alternatively, you can buy a property that requires a
great deal of repair and do the work yourself.
Leo
Aquarius
(July 24-Aug 23)
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
Taking up a sport will promote good health. You have
a deep appreciation for the finer things in life, especially delicious food. Enjoy all the cheese, chocolate and
bread you want. Playing tennis, football or squash
might appeal to you. You’re extremely competitive.
Playing games will be a great way to stay in shape
without feeling deprived. If you can’t do anything too
physically strenuous, try walking or gentle stretches.
You’re passionate about your ideas. Promoting them
at every opportunity will keep you busy. Be aware that
many people won’t be receptive to what you say. Get
into the habit of gauging the body language of your
audience. If you sense they are turned off, move on.
There’s no point wasting your breath on those who
don’t share your concerns. You will attract some favourable publicity from fellow humanitarians.
Aug 24-Sep 23)
Pisces
Your sensual side demands satisfaction. Getting a massage or spa treatment will cause you to breathe a deep sigh
of pleasure. You’ve always taken an intellectual approach
to life, which can be limiting. When you feel anxious, enjoy some physical pleasure. Spending time with an attentive lover will be especially rewarding. Let your amour
linger over all your sensitive spots. Are you single? You’ll
meet someone special at sporting or cultural event.
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
The pursuit of wealth has never been terribly important. You are interested in establishing some financial
security. Buying your own home or car has become increasingly important. Put yourself on a budget. Create a
savings fund for your heart’s desire. It may take time to
realise your dream, but that’s fine. Resist the temptation
to take out loans. You’re better off paying cash. Interest
payments can be terrible traps.
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