Monday, February 23, 2015 The San Juan Contradictions Emerge Between IVA Selling Points, Reform Bill Language 50¢ Star DAILY P4 Panel Labels Sugar New Archvillain of American Diet P32 Reclaiming Puerto Rico’s Food Paradise P 30-31 787.743.3346 • Fax 787.743.5100 • thesanjuandailystar.com 2 Monday, February 23, 2015 The San Juan Daily Star GOOD MORNING 3 February 23, 2015 The San Juan Daily Star has exclusive New York Times News Service in English in Puerto Rico Myriad Conditions Determine if Individuals, Businesses Do Better or Worse Under IVA By EVA LLORENS VELEZ [email protected] I INDEX Local Mainland Business International Viewpoint Entertainment Kitchen 3 10 16 20 25 28 30 Health Science Legal Notices Sports Games Horoscope Cartoons 32 33 34 41 45 46 47 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. 4 The San Juan Daily Star 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?” The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 5 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.” 6 The San Juan Daily Star 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. The San Juan Daily Star Marine Diver Self-winding movement. Water-resistant to 300m. 18 ct rose gold case. Also available in stainless steel. U LY S S E - N A R D I N . C O M Monday, February 23, 2015 7 8 The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 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 to take the next step in the legislative process, 100% Puerto Rican Company Aguadilla • Caguas • Condado • Isla Verde Open 24 hrs EEnjoy njoy oy the Exp Experience perience ! 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. The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 9 Mainland 10 The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 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.” The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 11 Mainland 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. A. ZEPEDA REALTY COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR ALL INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTIES CONTACT DOJ to Seek Stay of Ruling on Obama Immigration Action ATILIO ZEPEDA T he Justice Department will seek a stay of a federal judge’s decision temporarily blocking President Barack Obama’s action to protect millions of immigrants from deportation. White House spokesman Josh Earnest late last week the paperwork would be filed with the court by the end of today. Earnest said Friday that the decision to seek a stay is separate from the administration’s plan to appeal last Monday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Texas. Earnest says Obama’s advisers believe the president acted within his rights last year when he used his executive authority to spare from deportation as many as 5 million people who are in the U.S. illegally. The judge’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit against Obama’s actions that was filed by a coalition of states, led by Texas. 787-723-6059 787-616-1038 LIC. 2095 [email protected] Mainland 14 The San Juan Daily Star 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.” The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 15 Mainland 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- ‘Frozen’ Niagara Falls Drawing 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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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. 20 Monday, February 23, 2015 The San Juan Daily Star 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.” The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 21 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.” 22 Monday, February 23, 2015 The San Juan Daily Star 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. 24 Monday, February 23, 2015 The San Juan Daily Star 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.” Monday, February 23, 2015 The San Juan Daily Star 25 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. 26 Monday, February 23, 2015 The San Juan Daily Star 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. The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 27 28 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 32 The San Juan Daily Star 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.” The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 33 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. SCI & TECH 34 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. 34 [email protected] Monday, February 23, 2015 Official Registry of Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RlCO TRlBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERlOR DE TOA ALTA. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RlCO PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. TOMMY TORRES DIAZ; MAYRA INES COLON OTERO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS MICHELLE TORRES DIAZ PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NUM. CD2014-0371 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERlCA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RlCO. MICHELLE TORRES DIAZ: URB. LA PROVIDENCIA, IG-4 CALLE 6, TOA ALTA, PUERTO RICO 00953. Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecucion de Hipoteca por la Via Ordinaria en la que se 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 se procedera a presentar aviso de pleito pendiente en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de febrero de 2015, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. Jeannette Velez Colon, Sec. Aux. Trib. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. SCOTIABANK DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs. ANDRES JOSE MARTINEZ QUIÑONES y su esposa MARINE DOLORES SERVINO ALVES, también conocida como DOLORES SERVINO ALVEZ y como DOLORES SERVIÑO ALVEZ y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; ANDRES JOSE MARTINEZ SERVINO, también conocido como ANDRES JOSE MARTINEZ SERVIÑO Demandados CIVIL NUM. KCD2011-2821 (506) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria) EDICTO DE SUBASTA 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; ANDRES JOSE 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 2015. Diana I. Navarro Cruz, Alguacil Auxiliar, Alguacil División De Ejecucion De Sentencias Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala Superior De San Juan. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR. RNPM, LLC DEMANDANTE VS. DORA HILDA MUÑIZ HEREDIA T/C/C HILDA MUÑIZ HEREDIA, Y LA SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR LUIS APONTE RIVERA COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR LUIS APONTE MUÑIZ; HÉCTOR MANUEL APONTE MUÑIZ; LOURDES MARÍA APONTE MUÑIZ; MARÍA DE LOURDES APONTE MUÑIZ; LOURDES J. APONTE MUÑIZ; HÉCTOR JAVIER APONTE MUÑIZ; LOURDES VANESSA APONTE MUÑIZ; LOURDES MILAGROS APONTE MUÑIZ; DORA LOURDES APONTE MUÑIZ Y EL MENOR HÉCTOR GABRIEL APONTE MUÑIZ REPRESENTADO POR SU MADRE DORA HILDA MUÑIZ HEREDIA; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y CENTRO FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (787) 743-3346 DE RECAUDACIÓN DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPAL (CRIM) DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: JCD2010-0746 (G-28) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (Vía Ordinaria) EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de 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 37 Legal Notice 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 Legal Notice 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 38 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 39 Legal Notice 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 Legal Notice 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 40 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 41 Sports 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. The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 43 Sports 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. Sports 44 Monday, February 23, 2015 The San Juan Daily Star 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. The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 45 Games Sudoku How to Play: Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9. Sudoku Rules: Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Crossword Wordsearch Answers on page 46 46 The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 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. Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 45 The San Juan Daily Star Monday, February 23, 2015 Speed Bump Frank & Ernest BC Scary Gary Wizard of Id For Better or for Worse Cartoons 47 comics Herman Ziggy
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