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By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA
mirnadasanjuanstar@gmail.com
The non-profit Foundation for Puerto Rico
recently introduced the inaugural publication
of “A Visitor’s Economy: From
Knowledge to Action,” a guide to the island’s
economic development based on tourism.
Foundation for Puerto Rico Board President
Jon Borshow and Analysis and Investigation
Director Arnaldo Cruz said it is the first of
many investigative efforts by the foundation in
favor of the economic development of island
tourism.
“At the foundation we are contributing
with knowledge in order to provide continuity
to existing efforts and support the development
of the tourism sector, in this case offering a point
of reference on where we are and where we
should be heading so the sector can grow,” Borshow
said. “Tourism represents for Puerto Rico
the biggest opportunity for economic growth in
the short and medium term. Tourism is an important
part of the local economy and the only
one that is growing.
“If it is considered a top priority … then as
an economic strategy it can sustain accelerated
growth that will change the island’s economic
trajectory.”
The document, available on the foundation’s
webpage, http://foundationforpuertorico.org,
establishes a frame of reference for the
tourism industry. It defines the current status of
the industry, while also explaining the course of
action it must follow to become the economic
development tool that could boost the Puerto
Rican economy, Borschow added.
The tourism industry currently represents
6 percent of the island’s gross national product
(GNP), which is equivalent to a direct income of
$2.4 billion, according to data published by the
World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) in
2014. However, when you add indirect contributions,
the estimates from the WTTC establish that
the tourism industry in Puerto Rico generates
some $7.4 billion, or 10.7 percent of the GNP.
The report, which will be published every
three months, suggests that direct contributions
from tourism investments were responsible for
the creation of 67,000 jobs in 2014.
Borschow said that if a joint plan for economic
development to mobilize this sector is put
into action, those $7.4 billion could be doubled
in about five years.
“And if that were the case, we wouldn’t be
talking about a financial crisis today,” he noted.
“There are important distinctions explained
in the document that are fundamental
to correctly classifying tourism activities and
measuring the contribution that tourism makes
to the economy; data collection has been the biggest
challenge we have faced during the study,”
Cruz said, offering his point of view as the foundation’s
analyst and investigator.
The report establishes the current state of
the industry, based on data from world organizations
such as the WTTC, and from information
provided by local agencies such as the Puerto
Rico Tourism Co. (PRTC) and the Puerto Rico
Planning Board, as well as the 2012 Visitors’
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Polls, a study that was recently made
public and is expected to turn into a
yearly field research study starting
sometime this July.
Economist Gustavo Vélez also believes
the tourism industry has great
potential, and agrees with Borschow
that the sector is in fact growing.
In a separate interview with the
STAR, Vélez said the tourism industry
is one of the economic sectors exhibiting
the most potential even under
the unfavorable current economic
circumstances.
“Even within the contraction
process, the tourism sector is one of
the few industries showing a gradual
recovery,” Vélez said. “While the
rest of the economy remains in recession,
the tourism industry showed a
slight rebound in 2014, when the total
number of visitors increased by 1
percent.”
Vélez noted that the arrival of
tourists staying in hotels declined between
2007 and 2010, affected mainly
by the financial and economic crisis
in the U.S.
Yet, as the U.S. economy began to
recover, the arrival of tourists gradually
began to improve between 2011
and 2013. At that point, the arrival of
tourists staying in hotels increased
from 1,408,000 to 1,596,000, a net increase
of 188,000 tourists.
“Recognizing the potential of
this sector, the government and the
tourism industry must work in a coordinated
manner to strengthen the
competitiveness of this industry, improve
the quality of the product and
expand the number of hotels and
rooms inventory,” Vélez said.
The local economist noted that
strengthening the tourism industry
must be based on the diversification
of the offer, integrating new offerings
such as health tourism, sports
tourism, and cultural tourism. At the
same time, Puerto Rico must explore
other markets such as Latin America,
Asia and Europe to promote the arrival
of new tourists beyond the traditional
segment that visits from the
mainland U.S. east coast.
Vélez said that in order to maximize
tourism potential, it is essential
to improve air access, encourage private
investment in new hotels, develop
a destination brand and improve
the quality of the product, or the tourism
experience.
“From the point of view of the
creation of new economic activities,
tourism has a high multiplier effect
on job creation, income and production,
which is favorable for the purpose
of the recovery of the economy,”
Vélez added. “The government and
the private sector must set as a goal
the creation of 20,000 additional
rooms between 2016 and 2020 in order
to become a relevant player in the
region.”
He also said the Department of
Economic Development and Commerce
recently announced a plan
to promote the development of the
medical tourism industry, seeking to
capitalize on the advantages of offering
health services in the context of
the island’s tourism offerings. The
plan aims to attract visitors from
other countries in the region, particularly
from Central America and the
Caribbean.
“Health institutions located on
the island offer services of equal or
better quality at more affordable prices
than those in the U.S., and at the
same time those visitors can experience
a vacation on the island,” Vélez
noted.
Currently, some groups of hospitals
are working in a coordinated
fashion with hotels in a combined effort
to develop unique offers.
“This type of initiative represents
a step in the right direction,
and exemplifies the innovation that
businesses and industries must carry
out to strengthen their competitive
advantages in an emerging sector,”
Vélez said. “The very vitality of the
health industry provides an advantage
to continue growing; however,
the biggest challenge is to be able to
face a possible scenario of reduced
federal funding.”
Companies in the island health
industry will have to rethink their
business models in order to continue
diversifying their offerings and remain
profitable, he noted. The aging
of the population will be a critical factor
in the development of this industry,
Vélez said.
“Similarly, the academic world
and the private sector should work
in an orderly fashion to ensure a better
alignment of educational offerings
and the needs of the industry,” the
economist said. “Meanwhile the export
of services issue will be another
crucial element for the growth of the
industry in the long term.”

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Bernier Reaffirms Call
for Debt Moratorium
By JOHN MCPHAUL
jpmcphaul@gmail.com
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate
David Bernier urged the executive branch and the Legislature
late last week to move urgently to stabilize government
operations and guarantee essential services to the
public.
“Some weeks ago I wrote Gov. Alejandro García Padilla
recommending intensity in the debt negotiation process,
establishing as a priority the moratorium on payment of the
principal of the debt for five years while we continue to pay
interest,” Bernier said in a statement.
He reaffirmed that “the correct path is a moratorium
through an agreement [with bondholders] on the payment of
the principal, as was achieved with the Puerto Rico Electric
Power Authority,” Bernier said.
“If there is no will among the bondholders for this agreement,
then we have to decree it via the Legislature,” he said.
“The country cannot continue to wait.”
Bernier lamented the lack of will shown by the U.S.
Congress to support Puerto Rico in the search for solutions
to its debt problems.
“The federal government has been late in offering an
institutional remedy … to responsibly address the urgent
problem of our debt,” he said. “We have been denied access
David Bernier
to Chapter 9 of the federal bankruptcy law and they have ignored
proposals such as deposits from the federal Treasury
Department to the Government Development Bank, or the
purchase of the public debt by the Federal Reserve.”
He added that “the lack of federal action to make a decision
that is best for the people of Puerto Rico and guarantees
justice to creditors, many of which are good Puerto Ricans,
has taken the situation to the point where lack of payment of
the debt will be due to insolvency and not due to a rational
and reasonable political decision.”
The candidate said “the payment of the debt is unavoidable,
with serious consequences for the function of the government
and for the essential services for the welfare of our
people.”
On the moratorium, he said that once established, “the
debt negotiations should occur within a maximum period of
five years and should be carried out with the greatest possible
transparency.”
During this time, he said, the Legislature must audit
the negotiations.
“The hour has arrived to carry the demand of our people
in a great crusade of lobbying and defense of the interests of
the Puerto Rican people in the halls of Congress and through
the doors of the White House,” Bernier said. “We will follow
the example of our compatriots in the United States who have
made our cause theirs, mobilizing on every front to call for
just treatment so they provide us with tools so that the people
of Puerto Rico can overcome this crisis and get back on the
road to economic development.”

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Former Senate President Hernández Agosto Dies at 88
By JOHN MCPHAUL
jpmcphaul@gmail.com
The former president of the Puerto
Rico Senate, Miguel Hernández
Agosto, died Friday at the age
of 88 at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San
Juan, current Senate President Eduardo
Bhatia said.
“With much pain and sadness I receive
the news of the death today of don
Miguel Hernández Agosto.
The Senate and the country are in
mourning,” wrote Bhatia on his Twitter
page.
Hernández Agosto had been hospitalized
at the beginning of January
at the Río Piedras Medical Center after
suffering a fainting spell.
In August 2015, the former politician
had been hospitalized and operated
on for a brain clot which formed
after he fell at his home.
Serving as Senate president from
1981 to 1992, the former director of the
Popular Democratic Party left politics in
1996 after 26 years in the Legislature.
His widow, María Casanova, said
Hernández Agosto died at 4:15 in the
morning, after being hospitalized for
dehydration.
“I saw that he did not respond, the
doctor checked him, noticed a noise in
his lungs and said that we had to take
him to the hospital,” she said. “[His
condition] was very bad, very serious,
he lost consciousness. He had no movement.”
Casanova said Hernández Agosto
died “after fighting all his life like a
warrior, like a champion.”
“We had years of entering and
leaving the hospital,” she told Notiuno.
“He was a great person, a great husband.”
His remains will be transferred
to the Los Angeles Memorial funeral
home and possibly will lie in state in
the Capitol.
Miguel Hernández Agosto
Striking Students Picket Treasury, Call for Unified Front Across UPR System
By JOHN MCPHAUL
jpmcphaul@gmail.com
The University of Puerto Rico student
body began the third day of
an intercampus strike Friday under
the slogan “11 campuses, one UPR,”
forming a picket line in front of the island
Treasury Department at 6:30 a.m.
At around 6 a.m., Cybernews reported
that the students were gathered
in front of the main gate at the UPR Río
Piedras campus to march in a caravan
toward the Treasury to begin the demonstration.
The UPR student community is
demanding that the commonwealth
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at the institution.
In various student general assemblies
last week a stoppage of 48 to 72
hours on seven campuses was agreed
to. The campuses that joined Río Piedras
were Humacao, Ponce, Utuado,
Bayamón, Arecibo and Mayagüez.
As student leader Coraly León
told Cybernews, the principal demands
are that Treasury make the
payments due the UPR, that Law 66 be
eliminated and that the government
lock in the 9.6 percent formula that
guarantees the public financing of the
UPR. The students have also demanded
the resignation of UPR President
Uroyoán Walker.
Though León said that Treasury
Secretary Juan Zaragoza has communicated
his willingness to meet with
the students, she added that “we want
a meaningful meeting.”
“We know that they are approaching
us for a meeting of a personal nature,
but we are not interested in such
a meeting,” León said. “We want a formal
meeting with representation from
the government and the UPR board of
governors,” the student leader said.
“We want that the space to be not only
for dialogue, but we also want it to be
a space where they can make decisions
and commit themselves to complying
with these agreements.”
The students have scheduled various
activities in the months of March
and April, especially holding an extraordinary
assembly to determine if
there will be a strike or an indefinite
stoppage if the government does not
accede to their demands.
“We will return from Holy Week
with a new perspective and renewed
force,” said Río Piedras student leader
Flores Hernández, who said she expects
more students from other campuses
to unite with the seven campus
on stoppage.
“Aguadilla did not join in the protest
or the stoppage, but they did make
statements in favor of demonstrations
that can be developed going forward,”
said Iván Vallés of the Mayaguez campus.
The student leaders emphasized
that, up to now, they have not communicated
with President Walker, though
they have been in contact with various
members of the board of governors.

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Treasury Falls Short of February Tax Collection Estimate
By JOHN MCPHAUL
jpmcphaul@gmail.com
The commonwealth Treasury Department
was not able to reach its
estimated revenue for the month of
February, according to the monthly report
of the agency released Friday.
Treasury remains $12.3 million below
its original estimate for the past month.
The drop in revenue puts a hole in
the estimate for the 2015-2016 fiscal year of
$196.1 million.
Looking at the various collection categories,
the “others” category remained
$10.9 million below the estimate and alcoholic
beverage and cigarettes collections
each fell short by $200,000.
In accumulated terms, the total income
of the first eight months of fiscal
year 2015-16 reached $5.3 billion, which is
equivalent to some $169.8 million, or 3.3
percent, below the same period of the previous
year.
The total collected represent $25.3
million less than the revised estimate and
$191.1 million less than the estimate for
the original FY 2015-16 budget.
The categories that have been lagging
during recent months were contributions
from individual income (-$5.2 million),
taxes on corporations (-$7.9 million)
and foreign corporations (-$6.9 million),
and collections for cigarettes ($2.2 million)
and motor vehicles (-$700 million). The category
others also had a dramatic drop of
$17 million compared with the estimate in
the budget for FY 2016.
Sales and use tax (IVU by its Spanish
acronym) collections in February were
$196.2 million, which represents $83.8
more than in February of last year.
Zaragoza said “the increase is due
principally to an increase in the IVU from
6 percent to 10.5 percent, and the 4 percent
increase on services between businesses
and professional services known as B2B.”
“The B2B collected was $9.9 million,”
By The STAR Staff
The ceremony to award the Congressional
Gold Medal to the U.S. Army’s
65th Infantry Regiment -- known as
the Borinqueneers -- will be held April 13
in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol
building.
Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner
Pedro Pierluisi and U.S. House Speaker
Paul Ryan announced the ceremony on
Friday.
Congressional proceedings will
cease during the event, which will be
televised and attended by hundreds of
veterans and their families, members of
Congress, and other military and civilian
dignitaries.
Pierluisi and Congressman Bill Posey
of Florida, who worked together to
draft and secure House passage of the bill
to award the Congressional Gold Medal
to the regiment, will speak at the event.
Other scheduled speakers include Ryan,
Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut,
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi,
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
and Senate Democratic Leader Harry
Reid.
The 65th Infantry Regiment consisted
mainly of soldiers from Puerto Rico,
and is renowned for its bravery and skill,
particularly during the Korean War. The
Congressional Gold Medal is the highest
honor that Congress can bestow on an individual
or group for outstanding achievement.
Only one other Hispanic has
been awarded the Congressional Gold
Medal -- the baseball star and humanitarian
Roberto Clemente, who also hailed
he said. “The IVU collections for this month
were distributed in the following manner:
$186.6 million went to the General Fund,
$9.3 million, or 0.5 percent, to the Municipal
Administration Fund and $270,000
went to the Cinema Fund.”
The increases in IVU and B2B tax collections
raised overall collections to date
for the fiscal year by $10 million above the
original estimate.
Borinqueneers to Receive Congressional
Gold Medal Next Month
from Puerto Rico.
“The ceremony on April 13 will be
extraordinarily significant and emotionally
moving, because Congress -- on behalf
of a grateful nation -- will formally recognize
the surviving soldiers of the 65th Infantry
Regiment and honor the memory of
those members of the unit who have passed
away,” Pierluisi said. “The Borinqueneers
are a source of tremendous pride for
the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico. They personify
the qualities of courage, hard work,
resilience, brotherhood, and patriotism. I
am so glad that, with the help of so many
people inside and outside of Congress, we
were able to get this bill passed.”
Meanwhile, Posey noted that “this
will be a historic occasion and I would like
to express my gratitude to the soldiers of
the 65th Infantry Regiment, known as the
Borinqueneers, for their service and the
great sacrifices they have made for our
nation and the cause of freedom.”
The resident commissioner expressed
gratitude to the Borinqueneers Congressional
Gold Medal Ceremony National
Committee (BCGM CNC), a non-profit
organization that is helping to educate the
American public about the 65th Infantry
Regiment and to plan for the April 13 ceremony
in conjunction with congressional
leaders.
Pierluisi also thanked the many individuals,
both in Puerto Rico and the states,
who have worked tirelessly to ensure
that the legacy of the Borinqueneers is understood,
appreciated and honored.
Information about the BCGM CNC
is available at http://www.bcgmceremony.org.

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US Gov’t Cites PR for Violations at 3 Airports
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
says it is considering
a $917,000 civil penalty
against Puerto Rico for violations
at three of its airports.
The agency said Friday that
the government was not maintaining
aircraft rescue and firefighting
capabilities. Officials said most of
the violations occurred at the Rafael
Hernández Airport in Aguadilla,
which is Puerto Rico’s second largest
international airport. Among
the complaints there was that the
runway had a larger than permitted
hole and that one of its aircraft
rescue and firefighting vehicles
was not functioning properly.
Mercedita Airport in Ponce was
cited for conducting self-inspections
at inappropriate times. Meanwhile,
Antonio Rivera Rodríguez
Airport in Vieques was cited for its
vehicles not having two-way radio
communications with its fire station.
Puerto Rico’s Ports Authority
has 30 days to respond.
Feds Apprehend 11 Undocumented
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) Border Patrol agents
apprehended 11 undocumented
Cuban immigrants after landing
on Mona Island late last week, federal
officials announced in a written statement.
“We issue a concerned warning
on the danger of traversing the Mona
Passage with the hope of avoiding an
unfortunate event during this coming
Easter holiday season,” said Ramiro
Cerrillo, Ramey Sector chief patrol
agent. “Migrants have drowned as
smugglers have forced them to swim
to the shore.”
Park Rangers from the Puerto
Rico Department of Natural and Environmental
Resources (DNER) contacted
the Border Patrol Station, indicating
the landing of a group of undocumented
immigrants, 10 males and a female,
who claimed to be Cuban nationals.
The U.S. Coast Guard transported
the group to the Mayagüez port,
where Border Patrol agents assumed
custody for screening and processing.
On March 7, a group of 12 Cubans,
including a pregnant female, reached
Mona Island. During fiscal year 2016,
the Ramey Border Patrol Sector has
apprehended 143 Cuban migrants.
According to the United Nations
Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC),
while smuggling by sea accounts only
for a small portion of overall migrant
smuggling around the world, the particular
dangers of irregular travel at
sea make it a priority for response due
to the reported fact that more deaths
occur by sea.
The administration of President
Barack Obama has no plans to change
the current immigration policy toward
Cuba or seek legislative changes in relation
to the Cuban Adjustment Act.
CBP continues to promote safe,
legal and orderly migration from Cuba
under existing migration accords and
deter dangerous and illegal migration
from Cuba. CBP maintains a strong
position regarding the enforcement of
our immigration laws along the country’s
borders and coastal areas.
After admissibility processing
at the Border Patrol Station, Cuban
nationals will receive a notice to appear
(NTA) before an immigration
judge for further proceedings under
the Cuban Migration Agreement of
1995 and the Cuban Adjustment Act
of 1966.

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DHS Using Unpopular Raids to Curb Border Crossings
The Obama administration is openly
stepping up efforts to find and deport
immigrants who were part of the 2014
surge of illegal crossings by unaccompanied
children and families.
The politically fraught endeavor is a
follow-through on a nearly 2-year-old warning
that those immigrants who don’t win
permission to stay in the United States
would be sent packing. It comes at a time
when Republican presidential candidates
are pushing for tougher immigration action.
Homeland Security officials have kept
a wary eye on the border since more than
68,000 unaccompanied children and roughly
as many people traveling as families were
caught crossing the border illegally in 2014.
The effort to step up enforcement against families
and young immigrants started in the
midst of a new flood of such immigrants.
Previous efforts to curb illegal crossings
seemed to work initially, as the number of
children and families crossing illegally dropped
about 40 percent between 2014 and
2015. But that number started to rise again
late last summer. At the same time, the immigration
court system faced a backlog of
more than 474,000 cases.
Now the Obama administration is
touting its efforts to find and deport families
as well as those unaccompanied children
who are now adults who have been ordered
home. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh
Johnson has highlighted his department’s
deportation efforts.
One of those unaccompanied childrenturned-adults
targeted by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement is 19-year-old Wildin
David Guillen Acosta. He said he came to
the United States from Honduras by bus,
car and on foot after a gang member threatened
to kill him.
“I wouldn’t go out at night. He’d call me
and say, ‘I’m going to kill you, I’m going to
kill you,’ “ Acosta said in Spanish. “I told
my mother and she told me to come to the
United States.”
Acosta, speaking from an immigration
jail in rural Georgia, said he was afraid to
go home.
“I’m scared. I don’t want to go back.
There’s a lot of violence, a lot of death,”
Acosta said. “They’ll kill you for a telephone.
How is this possible?”
His mother, Dilsia Acosta, said her son
came to the U.S. in June 2014 at the peak of
a wave of immigrant children. His father,
Hector Guillen, came to the United States
illegally in 2005 and his mother followed in
2013. Wildin Acosta was arrested in January
after a judge ruled that he should be deported.
Wildin Acosta, who had been going to
school and working since arriving in North
Carolina, said now he hopes to win asylum.
But the odds are against him because he has
a pending deportation order.
Immigration advocates have rallied
around Wildin Acosta and others and are
pressing the administration to reverse course.
But U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
isn’t backing down.
Since October, more than 800 immigrants
who arrived as unaccompanied children
have been sent home, according to ICE
statistics. Other formerly unaccompanied
child immigrants with pending deportation
orders have been detained in preparation
for deportation.
ICE’s head of enforcement operations,
Tom Homan, told Congress in February
that his agents are aggressively pursuing
unaccompanied former-child immigrants
and families.
“We have sent out thousands of leads on
(unaccompanied children) who have final
orders issued by the immigration courts,
some in absentia, some in person, and we
are out looking for those leads,” Homan
told lawmakers. “I have 129 (fugitive operations)
teams out there every day.”
About 10,000 unaccompanied children
have been ordered out of the country since
July 2014, but roughly 87 percent of those
orders were issued in absentia, according to
Justice Department figures.
In early January, DHS started targeting
families who had lost their bid to stay in
the United States, and ICE announced the
arrests of 121 people — more than half of
whom have been sent home so far.
Johnson said the arrests should come as
no surprise since he announced in late 2014
that new border crossers were an enforcement
priority.
“We do not have, and cannot have, an
open border so we have to have enforcement
at the border,” Johnson told The Associated
Press. “Are enforcement actions against families
pleasant? No, of course not. In a very
personal way, I recognize that.”
Nonetheless, he added, “We have to enforce
the law.”
The arrests have angered immigration
advocates and Democrats who argue it is
dangerous to send families and young immigrants
back to dangerous and impoverished
Central American countries.
And the efforts come at a complicated
time for Democratic presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders,
who are both vying for the Hispanic vote.
Clinton and Sanders have both denounced
the January arrests of families and promised
to be more lenient in enforcing immigration
laws than President Barack Obama.
Kevin Appleby, director of international
migration policy for the Center for Migration
Studies, said the administration is
“caught in a difficult spot.”
“Before they start deporting unaccompanied
children wholesale they have to fix
... the legal system so these children have
a fair opportunity” to fight to stay in the
country, Appleby said.
Johnson said it’s a matter of adhering to
the agency’s priorities.
“We can’t have a policy that if you come
here and you do not qualify for asylum or
other relief, and you’ve been ordered removed
by an immigration court” you can stay
anyway, Johnson said.

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Where Merrick Garland Stands: A
Close Look at His Judicial Record
By ADAM LIPTAK
Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Obama’s
Supreme Court nominee, has achieved a
rare distinction in a polarized era. He has
sat on a prominent appeals court for almost
two decades, participated in thousands of
cases, and yet earned praise from across the
political spectrum.
A look at a substantial sample of his opinions
starts to supply some answers about
how he managed this unlikely feat. His writings
reflect an able and modest judge with
a limited conception of his role working on a
docket largely lacking in cases on controversial
social issues.
His most charged cases, involving national
security and campaign finance, were as
likely to disappoint liberals as to please them.
He has repeatedly voted against detainees at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and he joined the Citizens
United decision that gave rise to “super
PACs.”
In more run-of-the-mill cases, he was apt
to side with workers claiming employment
discrimination and against criminal defendants
who said their rights had been violated.
Throughout, Judge Garland’s opinions
were models of judicial craftsmanship — unflashy,
methodically reasoned, attentive to
precedent and tightly rooted in the language
of the governing statutes and regulations. He
appears to apply Supreme Court precedents
with punctilious fidelity even if there is reason
to think he would have preferred a different
outcome and even where other judges
might have found room to maneuver.
“He’s been a lower-court judge and acted
like one for these past 19 years,” said Neal K.
Katyal, a former acting United States solicitor
general.
But that also means that Judge Garland’s
opinions provide only glimpses of how he
would vote and write if he overcomes Republican
objections to fill the seat left vacant by
the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Judge Garland’s court, the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit, is prestigious but has a limited and
idiosyncratic docket tilting toward administrative
law. The court seldom confronts the volatile
controversies that routinely engage the
justices, like abortion, affirmative action, gay
rights and the death penalty.
The D.C. Circuit does get a steady diet of
cases on efforts to combat terrorism and on
the role of money in politics, and they illustrate
Judge Garland’s moderate, case-by-case
approach.
He has given mixed signals in cases concerning
detainees held at Guantánamo. In
2003, he joined a unanimous three-judge panel
in Al Odah v. United States, which ruled
that men held at the prison could not challenge
their detentions in federal court based on a
1950 Supreme Court precedent. The Supreme
Court later rejected the appeals court’s reasoning.
In 2008, Judge Garland wrote an opinion
for a unanimous three-judge panel concluding
that a military tribunal had wrongly classified
Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur, as an enemy
combatant. In the process, Judge Garland
rejected an intelligence assessment.
“The government suggests that several of
the assertions in the intelligence documents
are reliable because they are made in at least
three different documents,” he wrote. “We are
not persuaded. Lewis Carroll notwithstanding,
the fact that the government has ‘said it
thrice’ does not make an allegation true.”
In 2014, Judge Garland joined a decision
upholding a policy at Guantánamo that
allowed guards to probe the genitals of detainees
seeking to meet with their lawyers.
Supreme Court precedent required great deference
to prison officials’ assessments of security
protocols, the court said.
“The new search procedures promote the
safety of the guards and inmates by more
effectively preventing the hoarding of medication
and the smuggling of dangerous contraband,”
the opinion concluded.
In campaign finance cases, too, Judge Garland
followed Supreme Court precedent in
ways that sometimes frustrated liberals and
sometimes cheered them.
He joined a unanimous opinion in SpeechNow.org
v. Federal Election Commission,
a 2010 ruling from a nine-judge panel that
allowed unlimited contributions to “super
PACs,” nominally independent groups that
support political candidates. The logic of the
Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United
required the move, the appeals court’s opinion
said, transforming the political landscape.
Citizens United concerned only independent
spending by corporations and unions,
not rich people. But it said that there was only
one justification for restricting political spending:
quid pro quo corruption akin to bribery.
It added that independent spending could never
satisfy that standard.
While Judge Garland unhesitatingly extended
Citizens United when he believed its logic
compelled him to do so, he was unwilling to
push further than it required. In July, writing
for a unanimous 11-member panel in Wagner
v. Federal Election Commission, Judge Garland
upheld a ban on campaign contributions
from federal contractors, saying the interest in
preventing corruption that survived Citizens
United warranted the move.
That both cases were unanimous suggests
that the D.C. Circuit works hard to achieve
consensus and confirms findings by political
scientists that ideological voting is less common
on federal appeals courts than on the Supreme
Court.
Judge Garland’s voice is most vivid in his
infrequent dissents. In 2009, for instance, in
Saleh v. Titan Corp., he said the majority had
gone badly astray in barring a suit against
American military contractors by victims of
abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
“The plaintiffs in these cases allege that
they were beaten, electrocuted, raped, subjected
to attacks by dogs and otherwise abused
by private contractors working as interpreters
and interrogators,” he wrote, adding that both
the Bush and Obama administrations, along
with Congress, “have repeatedly and vociferously
condemned the conduct at Abu Ghraib
as contrary to the values and interests of the
United States.”
The majority, Judge Garland wrote, had
to ignore all of that to fashion “the protective
cloak it has cast over the activities of private
contractors.”
Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard,
said Judge Garland’s dissenting opinion
was “particularly admirable.”
“That dissent is a fine example of an opinion
that combines impeccable legal analysis
with a deep sense of humanity,” he said.
Judge Garland served as a law clerk in
1978 and 1979 to Justice William J. Brennan Jr.,
the liberal icon. But there is little in his own
opinions to suggest that he would bring a
similarly strong liberal voice to the Supreme
Court.
Even assuming Judge Garland’s appellate
decisions are a good indication of how he
would vote on the Supreme Court, the key
question is not where he stands in some abstract
sense but where he would fit into the
ideological array on the current court.
President Obama and Judge Merrick B.
Garland in the Rose Garden at the White
House on Wednesday.
Political scientists say the answer is clear.
Judge Garland is well to the left of Justice Anthony
M. Kennedy, the member of the court
at its ideological center and the one who often
holds the controlling vote. A Supreme Court
including Judge Garland would contain a five-member
liberal bloc and put either him or
perhaps Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the most
conservative liberal, in what had been Justice
Kennedy’s pivotal spot.
Not all of the justices’ votes are predictable,
of course, and their alliances can shift. Judge
Garland, a former prosecutor, leans slightly
to the right in criminal cases, for instance. On
the other hand, he appears to be more sensitive
to press freedom than any member of the
current Supreme Court.
In 2005, he dissented from the appeals
court’s decision not to rehear a determination
that several reporters, including one from The
New York Times, could be held in contempt for
refusing to disclose their confidential sources
in an invasion of privacy suit brought against
the government by Wen Ho Lee, an atomic
scientist once suspected of espionage.
The ruling, Judge Garland wrote, would
“routinely succeed in putting reporters who
receive whistle-blower leaks to the choice of
testifying or going to jail.” He said requests
for reporters’ sources should be granted only
if the litigant’s interest in learning the information
outweighed the public interest in protecting
reporters’ access to information.

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US Gov’t Sets Record for Failures
to Find Files When Asked
When it comes to providing government
records the public is asking to see, the
Obama administration is having a hard
time finding them.
In the final figures released during President Barack
Obama’s presidency, the U.S. government set a
record last year for the number of times federal employees
told disappointed citizens, journalists and
others that despite searching they couldn’t find a
single page of files requested under the Freedom of
Information Act. In more than one in six cases, or
129,825 times, government searchers said they came
up empty-handed, according to a new Associated
Press analysis.
The FBI couldn’t find any records in 39 percent of
cases, or 5,168 times. The Environmental Protection
Agency regional office that oversees New York and
New Jersey couldn’t find anything 58 percent of the
time. U.S. Customs and Border Protection couldn’t
find anything in 34 percent of cases.
“It’s incredibly unfortunate when someone waits
months, or perhaps years, to get a response to their
request — only to be told that the agency can’t find
anything,” said Adam Marshall, an attorney with
the Washington-based Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press.
A Justice Department spokeswoman, Beverly
Lumpkin, said the administration answered more
records requests and reduced its backlog of leftover
requests, which should be considered good work on
the part of the government in fulfilling information
requests.
The AP’s annual review covered all requests to
100 federal agencies during fiscal 2015. The administration
released its figures days ahead of Sunshine
Week, when news organizations promote open government
and freedom of information.
It was impossible to know whether more requests
last year involved non-existent files or whether federal
workers were searching less than diligently before
giving up to consider a case closed. The administration
said it completed a record 769,903 requests,
a 19 percent increase over the previous year despite
hiring only 283 new full-time workers on the issue,
or about 7 percent. The number of times the government
said it couldn’t find records increased 35 percent
over the same period.
“It seems like they’re doing the minimal amount
of work they need to do,” said Jason Leopold, an investigative
reporter at Vice News and a leading expert
on the records law. “I just don’t believe them. I
really question the integrity of their search.”
In some high-profile instances, usually after news
organizations filed expensive federal lawsuits, the
Obama administration found tens of thousands of
pages after it previously said it couldn’t find any. The
website Gawker sued the State Department last year
after it said it couldn’t find any emails that Philippe
Reines, an aide to Hillary Clinton and former deputy
assistant secretary of state, had sent to journalists.
After the lawsuit, the agency said it found 90,000
documents about correspondence between Reines
and reporters. In one email, Reines wrote to a reporter,
“I want to avoid FOIA,” although Reines’ lawyer
later said he was joking.
When the government says it can’t find records,
it rarely provides detailed descriptions about how it
searched for them. Under the law, federal employees
are required to make a reasonable search, and a
1991 U.S. circuit court ruling found that a worker’s
explanation about how he conducted a search is “accorded
a presumption of good faith, which cannot be
rebutted by purely speculative claims” that a better
search might have turned up files.
“They do really crappy searches,” said Washington
lawyer Kel McClanahan of National Security
Counselors Inc., which handles transparency and national
security cases. He lost a federal appeals case in
November on behalf of a U.S. citizen, Sharif Mobley,
trying to obtain U.S. records that might show why he
has been imprisoned in Yemen since 2010. The court
President Barack Obama smiles as he listens to Irish
Prime Minister Enda Kenny speak during their
meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in
Washington.
said the FBI wasn’t required to search for files in locations
and ways Mobley’s lawyers wanted.
Under the records law, citizens and foreigners can
compel the U.S. government to turn over copies of
federal records for zero or little cost. Anyone who
seeks information through the law is generally supposed
to get it unless disclosure would hurt national
security, violate personal privacy or expose business
secrets or confidential decision-making in certain areas.
Overall, the Obama administration censored materials
it turned over or fully denied access to them
in a record 596,095 cases, or 77 percent of all requests.
That includes 250,024 times when the government
said it couldn’t find records, a person refused to pay
for copies or the government determined the request
to be unreasonable or improper. The White House
routinely excludes those cases from its own assessment.
Under that calculation, the administration
said it released all or parts of records in 93 percent
of requests.
More than half of federal agencies took longer to
answer requests last year than the previous year.

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As Hillary Clinton Sweeps States, One Group Resists: White Men
By PATRICK HEALY
White men narrowly backed Hillary
Clinton in her 2008 race for president,
but they are resisting her candidacy
this time around in major battleground states,
rattling some Democrats about her generalelection
strategy.
While Mrs. Clinton swept the five major
primaries on Tuesday, she lost white men in
all of them, and by double-digit margins in
Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio, exit polls
showed — a sharp turnabout from 2008, when
she won double-digit victories among white
male voters in all three states.
She also performed poorly on Tuesday
with independents, who have never been
among her core supporters. But white men
were, at least when Mrs. Clinton was running
against a black opponent: She explicitly
appealed to them in 2008, extolling the Second
Amendment, mocking Barack Obama’s
comment that working-class voters “cling to
guns or religion” and even needling him at
one point over his difficulties with “working,
hard-working Americans, white Americans.”
She could not sound more different today,
aggressively campaigning to toughen guncontrol
laws and especially courting black and
Hispanic voters.
Her standing among white men does not
threaten her clinching the Democratic nomination
this year, or preclude her from winning
in November, unless it craters. Mr. Obama lost
Dennis Bertko, a construction manager in
Youngstown, Ohio, said that Hillary Clinton
“could have a broader message.”
the white vote to Mrs. Clinton, after all, but
still won the presidency.
But what is striking is the change in attitudes
about Mrs. Clinton among those voters,
and her struggle to win them over again.
In dozens of interviews in diners, offices and
neighborhoods across the country, many
white male Democrats expressed an array
of misgivings, with some former supporters
turning away from her now.
Many said they did not trust her to overhaul
the economy because of her wealth and
her ties to Wall Street. Some said her use of
private email as secretary of state indicated
she had something to hide. A few said they did
not think a woman should be commander in
chief. But most said they simply did not think
Mrs. Clinton cared about people like them.
“She’s talking to minorities now, not really
to white people, and that’s a mistake,”
said Dennis Bertko, 66, a construction project
manager in Youngstown, Ohio, as he sipped a
draft beer at the Golden Dawn Restaurant in a
downtrodden part of town. “She could have a
broader message. We would have listened.”
“Instead, she’s talking a lot about continuing
Obama’s policies,” he said. “I just don’t
necessarily agree with all of the liberal ideas
of Obama.”
Mr. Bertko said that he rarely crossed party
lines but that he voted for Donald J. Trump,
who is making a strong pitch to disaffected
white men by assailing free-trade agreements
that Mrs. Clinton once supported. “I know a
lot of guys who are open to Trump,” he said.
The fading of white men as a Democratic
bloc is hardly new: The last nominee to carry
them was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and many
blue-collar “Reagan Democrats” now steadily
vote Republican. But Democrats have won
about 35 to 40 percent of white men in nearly
every presidential election since 1988. And
some Democratic leaders say the party needs
white male voters to win the presidency, raise
large sums of money and, like it or not, maintain
credibility as a broad-based national coalition.
To win a general election, Mrs. Clinton
would rely most heavily on strong turnout
from blacks, Hispanics, women and older voters.
Though she won among white men in Arkansas,
Alabama and Tennessee, and tied in
Texas, some Democratic officials and pollsters
say they fear that without a stronger strategy,
Mrs. Clinton could perform as poorly among
white men as Walter Mondale, who drew just
32 percent in 1984, or even George McGovern,
who took 31 percent in 1972.
“Her most serious relationship problem
is with white men, on a policy issue front but
also stylistically, and she is at real risk for running
worse than the average Democrat with
white males,” said Peter Hart, a veteran Democratic
pollster.
Bill Richardson, former governor of New
Mexico and energy secretary under President
Clinton, said Mrs. Clinton needed to focus
more on economic issues and job creation and
to deploy her husband on her behalf. “Priority
needs to be given to stopping the erosion of
the white male voter and Reagan Democrats
to Republicans,” he said.
Mrs. Clinton’s advisers expressed confidence,
saying her economic policies and
national security experience would appeal
strongly to white men in a general election.
They said she regularly won among those over
45 and argued that Senator Bernie Sanders’s
appeal among younger white men reflected
his popularity with young people generally.
Joel Benenson, Mrs. Clinton’s strategist and
pollster, predicted she would win at least 35
percent of white men nationally — the share
Mr. Obama took in 2012 — and even more in
battleground states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.
But he insisted that focusing on white
men overlooked the breadth of her support.
Trump Intermingling Business
With Politics as He Campaigns
Republican presidential front-runner
Donald Trump appeared to be wrapping
up a victory speech at his sprawling
Mar-a-Lago club last week when he
turned to the negative ads flooding the airwaves
against him.
Trump recalled being at a professional
golf tournament held at his Miami golf course
recently. Everything was going smoothly, he
said, until one of the ads started playing on
TV as he schmoozed with tournament sponsors.
“I’m with these wonderful people from
Cadillac and all these top executives, and I’m
saying, ‘Look over there! Look! Don’t watch
it! No, you don’t want to watch it!’ “ Trump
said, re-enacting how he tried to distract
them. “I’m saying, ‘Isn’t the grass beautiful?
Look, look. Don’t watch!’ “
It was a rare light moment in an oftenheated
campaign that offered a glimpse into
the way the billionaire businessman’s campaign
has transformed his day-to-day life. But
it also underscored something deeper: As he
crisscrosses the country delivering speeches
at rallies and calling into cable news shows,
Trump’s business ventures are never far from
his mind and have been playing an increasingly
prominent role in his campaign.
In recent weeks, Trump has held election
night parties at three of his Florida properties:
golf clubs in Jupiter and West Palm
Beach, Florida, and twice at his sprawling
Mar-a-Lago club nearby. Each evening, members
of Trump’s clubs have been invited to observe
the festivities, followed or preceded by
lavish dinners or cocktail parties. Reporters
have also been invited to transmit images of
Trump’s particular brand of opulence to the
world.
From the beginning of his campaign,
Trump has pointed to his business success
as his fundamental qualification for the job
of president. He likes to say his “whole life”
has been about making money, and now he
wants to make money for the United States.
He often references his assets and projects —
from the skating rink in Manhattan’s Central
Park, which he rebuilt, to his many skyscrapers
— as evidence of what distinguishes him
from what he describes as the “all talk, no action
politicians.”
Trump’s financial disclosure form released
in July listed nearly 500 business entities
owned at least partially by Trump, according
to the campaign, as well as income
from a web of sources ranging from royalties
from his books to stocks and speaking fees.
But Trump often sounds like he’s promoting
products he profits from, such as the
WGC-Cadillac Championship. Of particular
pride in recent months has been his transformation
of Washington, D.C.’s Old Post Office
Pavilion into a hotel.
“We’re building a magnificent hotel,”
Trump bragged to the crowd gathered at a
Tampa convention center for a town hall-style
event this week. “I don’t even like to say that
I’m two years ahead of schedule. I am actually
two years ahead. I don’t like to say it.
You know why? You know why? Because it
doesn’t sound believable.”
Trump’s business ventures have also left
him open to attack from his rivals. Lawsuits
filed against Trump’s now-defunct “Trump
University” business course program by
former students accusing him of fraud, for
instance, have been featured in attacks ads
and the issue has been raised on the debate
stage. And Trump, who is synonymous with
his brand, has been fighting back, at one
point having staff set up displays of various
Trump-branded products at a recent event
to try to prove that the products were still in
existence. (The steak on display in fact came
from a local distributor.)

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Monday, March 21, 2016
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New Store Openings On Tap as Mall of San Juan Marks 1st Year
By The STAR Staff
The Mall of San Juan has opened 80 stores since its
inauguration last year, and it expects to inaugurate
another 10 in addition to adding daily events for
all types of customers to enjoy.
General Manager José Ayala said “[i]t has been an
incredible year” for the mall in Río Piedras, which currently
employs some 2,500 people.
“This year and next we will continue building up
milestones as we improve our already strong store lineup,”
he said.
What makes the Mall of San Juan different from
the other malls is that more than half of the stores, and
some of the restaurants, are new to Puerto Rico. They
include Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Free People, Anthropologie,
Tommy Bahama, Tory Burch, Lululemon
Athetica and Williams-Sonoma, just to name a few.
Ayala said some of the new stores slated to open
shortly include the Swiss chain clothing store H&M,
Luis Antonio, The Fix, Tiffany, Letrán Jewelry and
Krispy Kreme.
Fashion designer Luis Antonio will open his store
by the end of the month in front of the jewelry store Bulgari,
Letrán Jewelry will arrive by the end of April and
the The Fix -- a cellphone shop -- will open its doors in
April, right next to the Swatch shop, Ayala added.
To celebrate the mall’s first anniversary, a major
fashion event called “The Mall of San Juan Fashion
Week” will be held March 31-April 3.
Starwood Says Rival’s Counteroffer Tops Bid from Marriott
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide says a $13.2
billion takeover offer led by a Chinese insurer is
superior to the one that was all but sealed by Marriott
International — a deal that would have created the
world’s largest hotel company.
Starwood revealed late last week that the consortium
led by the Anbang Insurance Group had presented
the board an all-cash bid worth $78 a share, in contrast
to Marriott’s cash-and-stock proposal, worth about $68
a share based on Thursday’s closing price. Starwood,
which operates hotel brands such as the W and Sheraton,
said the new offer could require the company to terminate
its agreement with Marriott.
But Marriott is not ready to walk away quite yet.
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is “reviewing the Anbang consortium’s proposal and is
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“Marriott continues to believe that a combination
of Marriott and Starwood is the best course for both
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Marriott said in the statement.
The offer from Anbang, along with J. C. Flowers &
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Until this week, the deal between Starwood and
Marriott was nearly complete. The companies agreed in
November to combine after a competitive process also
said to involve Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Shareholders
were disappointed when the deal was announced, sending
Starwood’s stock lower — the opposite of what typically
happens to a seller’s stock. Since then, Marriott’s offer
was weakened by a decline in the acquirer’s shares.
Cash represented an unusually small proportion of
Marriott’s original offer. Marriott will need to increase
the cash component as well as the overall value of the
offer to prevail over Anbang, said Anthony Sabino, a
professor of business law at St. John’s University.
“If Starwood’s shareholders agree with their board,
then they will be bought out completely,” Mr. Sabino said.
“They won’t care about what is inarguably Marriott’s
stellar record of hotel operations, because they will just
be pocketing the cash and moving on to other things.”
Anbang’s desire for Starwood appears to coincide
with its interest in acquiring Strategic Hotels from the
Blackstone Group for $6.5 billion. Strategic Hotels owns
high-end hotels throughout the United States, such as
the Four Seasons in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the JW Marriott
Essex House hotel in Manhattan. Two years ago,
Anbang agreed to acquire the Waldorf Astoria for $1.95
billion.
Under either proposal, Starwood shareholders
would also receive about $5.67 a share from the previously
announced spinoff of its time-share business,
Vistana Signature Experiences, which will merge with
the Interval Leisure Group. Including the spinoff, the
Anbang offer represented value of $83.67 for each Starwood
share, compared with $73.67 a share from the
Marriott bid.
Terminating the agreement with Marriott would
require Starwood to pay a $400 million breakup fee to
Marriott. Marriott can revise its own offer with Starwood
until 11:59 p.m. on March 28. That day was supposed
to be Marriott’s special meeting of stockholders,
which the company said it may reschedule.

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On Trade, Angry Voters Have a Point
By Eduardo Porter
Were the experts wrong about the benefits of trade
for the American economy?
The nation’s working class had another opportunity
to demonstrate its political clout last Tuesday, as primary
voters went to the polls in Illinois and Ohio, Rust Belt states
that have suffered intensely from the loss of good manufacturing
jobs. The previous week, the insurrection handed
Michigan’s Democratic primary to Bernie Sanders while
continuing to buoy the insurgent Republican candidacy of
Donald Trump.
Voters’ anger and frustration, driven in part by relentless
globalization and technological change, may not propel
either candidate to the presidency. But it is already having a
big impact on America’s future, shaking a once-solid consensus
that freer trade is, necessarily, a good thing.
“The economic populism of the presidential campaign
has forced the recognition that expanded trade is a doubleedged
sword,” wrote Jared Bernstein, former economic adviser
to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
What seems most striking is that the angry working
class — dismissed so often as myopic, unable to understand
the economic trade-offs presented by trade — appears to
have understood what the experts are only belatedly finding
to be true: The benefits from trade to the American economy
may not always justify its costs.
In a recent study, three economists — David Autor at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, David Dorn at the
University of Zurich and Gordon Hanson at the University
of California, San Diego — raised a profound challenge to
all of us brought up to believe that economies quickly recover
from trade shocks. In theory, a developed industrial
country like the United States adjusts to import competition
by moving workers into more advanced industries that can
successfully compete in global markets.
They examined the experience of American workers after
China erupted onto world markets some two decades ago.
The presumed adjustment, they concluded, never happened.
Or at least hasn’t happened yet. Wages remain low and
unemployment high in the most affected local job markets.
Nationally, there is no sign of offsetting job gains elsewhere
in the economy. What’s more, they found that sagging wages
in local labor markets exposed to Chinese competition reduced
earnings by $213 per adult per year.
In another study they wrote with Daron Acemoglu and
Brendan Price from M.I.T., they estimated that rising Chinese
imports from 1999 to 2011 cost up to 2.4 million American
jobs.
“These results should cause us to rethink the short- and
medium-run gains from trade,” they argued. “Having failed
to anticipate how significant the dislocations from trade
might be, it is incumbent on the literature to more convincingly
estimate the gains from trade, such that the case for free
trade is not based on the sway of theory alone, but on a foundation
of evidence that illuminates who gains, who loses, by
how much, and under what conditions.”
Global trade offers undeniable benefits. It helped pull
hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty in a matter of
a few decades, an unparalleled feat. It ensured Apple could
benefit from China’s ample supply of cheap labor. Consumers
around the world gained better-priced, better-made
goods.
Still, though trade may be good for the country over all
— after netting out winners and losers — the case for globalization
based on the fact that it helps expand the economic
pie by 3 percent becomes much weaker when it also changes
the distribution of the slices by 50 percent, Mr. Autor argued.
And that is especially true when the American political system
has shown no interest in compensating those on the losing
side.
The impact of China’s great leap into the market economy
— which drew hundreds of millions of impoverished
peasants into the manufacturing sector, mostly making goods
for export to the United States and other wealthy nations
— is waning. China’s wages are rising fast. Its exports and
economy are slowing.
Trade with other parts of the world has not been as disruptive.
For all the criticism of Nafta, most economists assess
its impact on American workers as modest. Trade flows with
Mexico were smaller and more balanced than those with
China. American manufacturing employment remained
fairly stable in the years after Nafta came into force in 1994,
plummeting only after China entered the World Trade Organization
in 2001 and gained consistent access to markets in
the United States.
The Chinese export onslaught, however, left a scar on
the American working class that has not healed. That disproportionate
impact suggests Washington officialdom might
do well to reassess its approach to future trade liberalization.
Most important, it points to reconsidering how policy
makers deal with trade’s distributional consequences.
It doesn’t mean walling off the United States from the
rest of the world, but it does mean learning from the experience
of other advanced nations that had a much healthier
response to China’s rise.
Germany, for example, not only received a surge of Chinese
imports, but also experienced an onslaught of imports
from Eastern European countries after the collapse of the Soviet
bloc. But it managed to maintain a more balanced trade
because German manufacturers increased their exports to
all these countries too, offsetting the job losses from import
competition.
Mr. Autor suggests that Americans’ low savings rate
was a big part of the story, coupled with foreigners’ appetite
for accumulating dollar assets, which helped keep American
interest rates low and the dollar strong, in that way fueling a
persistent trade deficit.
But other factors were at work. Robert Gordon of Northwestern
University suggested to me that Germany’s highly
skilled workers were harder to replace with cheaper Chinese
labor, limiting though not totally eliminating outsourcing.
Germany’s stronger labor unions also put up more of a
fight.
Washington played its part, too. In their new book “Concrete
Economics” (Harvard Business Review Press), Stephen
S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong of the University of California,
Berkeley suggest that ultimately, it was the fault of
American policy choices.
The United States might have leaned against China’s
export-led strategy, they argue, perhaps by insisting more
forcefully that Beijing let its currency rise as its trade surplus
swelled. It might have tried to foster the cutting-edge industries
of the future, as government had done so many times
before, encouraging the shift from textiles to jumbo jets and
from toys to semiconductors.
What Washington did, instead, was hitch the nation’s future
to housing and finance. But Wall Street, instead of spreading
prosperity, delivered the worst recession the world had
seen since the 1930s. Even at best, they write, the transformation
of banking and finance has “produced nothing (or
exceedingly little) of value.”
So where should policy makers go from here?
There are no easy answers. Tearing up existing trade
agreements and retreating behind high tariff barriers — as
Mr. Trump, and perhaps Mr. Sanders, would have it — would
be immensely unproductive. It would throw a wrench into
the works of a wobbly world economy. And reneging on international
treaties would vastly complicate the international
coordination needed to combat climate change.
But in any future trade liberalization — including the
Obama administration’s pending Trans-Pacific Partnership
deal, if it is to go forward at all — policy makers must be
much more careful about managing the costs. Mr. Autor
suggests any further deals to increase trade should be gradual,
to give much more time for exposed companies and
their workers to retool and shift into other jobs and sectors.
Perhaps most important, the new evidence from trade
suggests American policy makers cannot continue to impose
all the pain on the nation’s blue-collar workers if they are not
going to provide a stronger safety net.
That might have been justified if the distributional costs
of trade were indeed small and short-lived. But now that we
know they are big and persistent, it looks unconscionable.

18 Monday, March 21, 2016
Stocks
The San Juan Daily Star
Health Care Shares Help Lead the Market Higher
The U.S. market’s recovery from a dismal start to the year
extended to fifth week after yet another strong gain.
The Standard and Poor’s 500-stock index closed up for
the year for the first time Friday. The Dow Jones industrial
average turned positive Thursday. Both had been down more
than 10 percent for the year a little more than a month ago.
On Friday, heath care stocks and banks, which have been
particularly hard hit this year, rose the most.
The S.&P. 500 rose 8 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,049. The
Dow rose 120 points, or 0.7 percent, to 17,602.
The Nasdaq composite rose 20 points, or 1 percent, to
4,795.
PIPELINE FLOWING The Columbia Pipeline Group
climbed after TransCanada agreed to buy the company for $10
billion, or $25.50 per share, in an attempt to expand further into
the U.S. Columbia Pipeline stock advanced 5.9 percent.
HEALTH CARE RECOVERY Health care stocks regained
some ground after a rough week. Hospital operator Tenet
Healthcare rose 6 percent, and prescription drug distributor
McKesson gained 4 percent. Drug companies also ticked
upward after days of losses, including Biogen, which rose 1.3
percent. Health care is the worst-performing S.&P. 500 sector
this year.
ACROBATIC Adobe Systems , the software developer behind
Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat, reported better-thanexpected
results for the fiscal first quarter and raised its annual
forecasts. The stock jumped 3.8 percent.
NEW RESERVATION Starwood Hotels climbed 4.9 percent
after the hotel chain said it accepted a new buyout offer
from a group led by Anbang Insurance Group of China. The
bid is worth more than $14 billion. Competitor Marriott, which
agreed to buy Starwood last year, said it is considering its options
and noted it has the right to make another offer.
BANK SHARES JPMorgan Chase said it would buy back
another $1.88 billion in stock, while Bank of America announced
an $800 million stock repurchase. JPMorgan stock rose 2.6 percent,
and Bank of America shares picked up 2.5 percent.
EUROPEAN MARKETS The DAX in Germany rose 0.6
percent and France’s CAC 40 added 0.4 percent. In Britain, the
FTSE 100 fell 0.2 percent.
FED FALLOUT The Fed’s suggestion on Wednesday that
interest rates may not rise as many in the markets had anticipated
has helped shore up risk appetite in markets despite concerns
over the global economy.
ANALYST TAKE “Investors have also shown greater enthusiasm
for equities and other riskier assets in recent days
due, in part, to central bank easing,” said Fawad Razaqzada, a
technical analyst at Forex.com. “The Fed has turned less hawkish,
too, and now only envisages two rate rises in 2016 as opposed
to four back in December. The prospects of lower rates
for longer and continued recovery in the oil price, means stocks
could climb further higher in the short-term.”
ASIA’S DAY In Japan, the Nikkei 225 fell 1.3 percent, while
the Kospi in South Korea added 0.2 percent. In Hong Kong, the
Hang Seng index rose 0.8 percent. The Shanghai Composite index
in mainland China rose 1.7 percent, while S&P/ASX 200 in
Australia gained 0.3 percent. Stocks in Taiwan, Singapore and
Indonesia were higher.
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Monday, March 21, 2016
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Study Finds Public Pension Promises Exceed Ability to Pay
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
When Detroit went bankrupt in 2013,
investors were shocked to learn that
the city had promised pensions worth
billions more than anyone knew — creating a financial
pileup that ultimately meant big, unexpected
losses for Detroit’s bondholders.
Now, researchers at Citigroup say the
groundwork has been laid for similar conflicts
across the developed world: Governments have
promised much more than they can most likely
pay to current and future retirees, without revealing
the disparity to investors who bought
government bonds and whose investments
could be at risk.
Protesters rally in front of the U.S. Courthouse
in Detroit, October 28, 2013.
Twenty countries of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development have
promised their retirees a total $78 trillion, much
of it unfunded, according to the Citigroup report.
That is close to twice the $44 trillion total
national debt of those 20 countries, and the pension
obligations are “not on government balance
sheets,” Citigroup said.
“Total global government debt may be three
times as large as peoplecurrently think it is,” the
researchers warned, after gathering as much information
as they could about various government
pension plans and adjusting the amounts
where necessary, to permit fair comparisons
with bond debt.
Getting each country’s unstated pension
obligations down on paper, along with the sovereign
debt, showed that some countries have
almost certainly promised more than they can
deliver.
“If you owed student loans of $44,000, and
the bank called you up and said, ‘actually you
owe $134,000,’ you’d fall off your chair,” said
Charles E. F. Millard, head of pension relations
at Citigroup. “That’s what this is.”
He said he did not expect all the overextended
governments to experience sudden head-on
collisions between bondholders and pensioners
the way Detroit did. Instead, he said many of
those countries — as well as many American
states, cities, school districts and other jurisdictions
— would keep struggling along, cutting
more and more services, raising taxes and wondering
where all the money was going.
“It’s not going to be, for most cities and states,
some enormous collision or explosion,” he
said. “It’s going to be 10 fewer cops, or three
fewer teachers and ‘Let’s fix the bridge three
years from now.’ “
One of the report’s recommendations was
that governments start disclosing the amounts
promised to retirees, “so that everyone can see
them.”
Government officials are in many cases loath
to do that because they believe it will harm
their credit ratings, driving up borrowing costs.
And the unions that represent public workers
believe calls for full disclosure mask a broad
anti-labor campaign to cut benefits.
The disclosure issue has grown increasingly
contentious in Washington. Republican members
of Congress are planning to introduce a bill
in the next few days that would require states
and local governments to measure their pension
obligations using the method now universally
used to price municipal bonds. States and cities
currently report their pension obligations as calculated
by actuaries, and actuarial numbers can
greatly distort economic reality.
It was actuarial numbers in Detroit, for instance,
that obscured the value of that city’s pension
promises before the bankruptcy.
States have long argued that as constitutional
sovereigns, they cannot be forced to meet
any federal pension disclosure requirements.
Republican lawmakers are generally sympathetic
to states’ rights issues, but they are also
worried about being asked to bail out troubled
pension systems in places like Illinois and Puerto
Rico.
Since the tax-exempt treatment of municipal
bonds is, in fact, a federal subsidy, they have
written the bill to require full, market-based
pension disclosure only in connection with taxexempt
borrowing. If states and cities remain
unwilling to reveal their pension obligations,
they could still borrow — but they could not
market their bonds as tax-exempt.
Senate Republicans introduced a similar
disclosure measure late last year as part of a
package to help Puerto Rico through a huge
debt crisis. The island appears not to have nearly
enough money to pay both its bond debt and its
retirees’ pensions, but up-to-date information
about its pension system does not exist in the
public domain.
For years there have been frequent reports
of pension systems rife with pay-to-play deals,
improper payouts, overly risky investment strategies
and other problems. But the Citigroup
researchers looked beyond such scandals and
depicted the worldwide accumulation of giant,
invisible pension obligations as a matter of simple
demographics.
Most developed countries had baby booms
after World War II, and their populations are
now aging and enjoying significant gains in
health and longevity. When the boomers first
joined the work force, they provided a big supply
of labor to support what was then a much
smaller population of retirees drawing pensions.
Those favorable demographics made it
seem that government pension systems could
operate forever with minimal funding — or in
many cases, no funding at all.
Now that is changing as populations age
in many places, and the Citigroup report said
the numbers no longer work. More and more
retirees are receiving benefit payments every
month, straining retirement systems even when
the individual amounts paid are modest. And
now there are relatively fewer younger workers
generating the revenue that is supposed to support
those systems.
The report said these demographic strains
would worsen in the next few decades, noting
that China now has seven workers to support
every retiree, but will have only two by 2050;
Japan is on track to have just one per retiree by
then.
Citigroup said governments were aware
of these trends, but had generally been slow
to adapt their retirement systems. It expressed
particular concern about pay-as-you-go systems,
which are common in Europe.
In a few deeply troubled American jurisdictions,
pension systems that were supposed
to be funded have exhausted all their assets
and effectively become pay-as-you-go plans,
in which payments come from current tax revenues
rather than dedicated, invested funds.
Puerto Rico now looms as the biggest case —
but while Puerto Rico’s financial troubles are
widely seen as an aberration, the Citigroup research
suggested they were not.
“Future population and life expectancy
trends will exert considerable pressure on public
and private sector pension systems,” the report
said. “Unless addressed quickly, we believe
this could overwhelm public and private sector
balance sheets, and act as a major drag on economic
growth.”
The report discussed possible solutions, such
as “collective defined contribution plans,” in
which workers’ nest eggs are pooled and professionally
invested, but retirees are not promised
a predetermined benefit, and taxpayers are not
required to replace money lost on Wall Street.

20 Monday, March 21, 2016 The San Juan Daily Star
Culture Gap Impedes US Business
Efforts for Trade With Cuba
By VICTORIA BURNETT
They have gone to Cuba with plans to
build houses. To assemble tractors. To
buy apps from young programmers.
Even to import charcoal made from the sicklebush
that grows in vast stretches across the
island.
But 15 months after American prospectors
began swarming Havana, filling hotels
and hiring consultants, only a handful have
inked deals to do business with the once-forbidden
island.
As President Obama visits Cuba this
week, the lack of trade with the former foe
threatens to sap momentum from the process
of building relations. It is also a reminder that
beyond tourism — which satisfies Cuba’s need
for foreign currency and the desire of Americans
to visit the island — the countries have
very different visions of economic engagement.
“The litmus test of normalization is trade
and investment,” said Robert Muse, a Washington
lawyer who specializes in Cuba-related
law. “That’s how the Obama legacy will be
judged.”
Eager to show results, the Obama administration
in late January made the biggest
breach yet in the embargo by permitting
Americans to trade with state-owned companies,
which control much of Cuba’s commerce
and are run, mostly, by the military.
The new regulations mean that exporters
can apply for a license to sell goods to state
entities in sectors that include education,
food processing and infrastructure, making
them “the most significant” change since Mr.
Obama announced a thaw with Cuba in December
2014, said Stephen Propst, a partner at
the Hogan Lovells law firm in Washington.
The move was a concession to reality: Efforts
at opening commerce had, until then, targeted
everyday Cubans. But with the island’s
trade apparatus controlled by the state, trying
to sell American cement to Cuban homeowners
or stoves to privately owned restaurants is
impractical and of little interest to the Cuban
government.
The Obama administration has “accepted
the fact that they have to do business
with Cuban state enterprise,” Mr. Propst saed.
The administration loosened restrictions on
trade and travel even further and announced
new commercial deals with Cuba before Mr.
Obama’s arrival on Sunday.
The European Union, meanwhile, signed
an agreement with Cuba on March 11 to establish
normal relations. If ratified by its member
states, it will open the way for full cooperation
and commercial ties between Cuba and
Europe.
Cuba has made it clear that it will not
alter the way it does business to suit American
needs. A stinging editorial published last
Wednesday in Granma, the official Communist
Party organ, said that Mr. Obama could
do even more to ease trade and that, for Cuba,
“getting along does not mean having to give
up our beliefs.”
Cuban officials are “overwhelmed” by the
number of American delegations, said Philip
Peters, a partner at D17 Strategies, a consultancy
in Washington, who travels frequently
to Cuba. And, he said, they are “not going to
rewrite the rule book” for American entrepreneurs.
That rule book is restrictive. Foreigners are
barred from buying most property in Cuba, so
Americans can only covet the beautiful, crumbling
mansions of downtown Havana.
The Cuban government usually insists on
holding a majority stake in any joint venture
outside the new development zone at the port
of Mariel, near Havana, where foreign companies
can wholly own ventures and receive a
10-year tax holiday. State-owned companies
often ask for up to a year to pay for goods, not
the customary 90 days.
Still, some American businesses have
prospered. Airbnb began operating in Cuba
in April; Sprint now has a roaming agreement
with the Cuban state telecommunications
company, Etecsa.
Cleber, an Alabama company, received a
license in February from the Treasury Department
— and has an agreement with the Cuban
government — to assemble simple tractors in
Cuba to sell to private farmers and cooperatives.
Florida Produce, a grocer in Tampa, Fla.,
has a license from the Treasury to open a distribution
warehouse in Cuba and is in talks
with the Cuban authorities.
But threading the needle between Cuba’s
rigid rules and the restrictions that the United
States continues to impose is tricky.
John S. Kavulich, the president of the
U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, said
he had counted about 500 visits to Cuba by
American businesspeople since December
2014 and more than 140 visits by United States
representatives and officials. But, he said, he
could count the number of business deals they
had reached on his fingers.
Each government has urged the other to
do more. Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuba’s minister
of foreign trade and investment, told a trade
conferencein Washington on Feb. 16 that the
countries “need to show that things are happening,”
and referred repeatedly to the embargo.
Penny Pritzker, the commerce secretary,
said the next day that her department had
granted American companies billions of dollars’
worth of authorizations to do business in
Cuba.
In interviews, American entrepreneurs,
business lawyers and consultants described
a culture gap that often seems the size of the
Florida Straits, with Americans expecting
swift decisions and baffled by the time and
meetings required to get answers from Cuban
officials.
Kevin Ellis, the chief executive of Cayuga
Milk Ingredients, a dairy company in Auburn,
N.Y., met with officials at Alimport, a state import
company, in Havana in April about selling
milk powder. The officials were polite,
said Mr. Ellis, who was part of a whirlwind
delegation led by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of
New York. But they seemed more interested
in talking about the embargo than about milk,
he said.
On his return, Mr. Ellis twice emailed
Alimport, in Spanish, about sending samples,
but did not get a response.
“I took that as a ‘No,’ ” he said.
Some worry about the lack of freedoms
in Cuba. Carlos Medina, the chairman of the
Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of
New Jersey, who visited Cuba as part of a business
delegation in April, said he was dismayed
by the “slow movement toward change” and
would not recommend investing there.
Internet access, for example, has improved
only marginally over the past year, and political
oppression continues, said Mr. Medina, an
engineer who does aerial mapping. Business
cannot thrive in “this controlled environment,”
he said.
Some Americans have only a vague grasp
of the United States regulations or of the kind
of business they are pursuing, lawyers and
consultants said. Even when advised that their
proposal will not be successful, some still insist
on visiting Havana.
Mr. Peters said those who do succeed in
making deals “are prepared to have extended
dialogue in Cuba and go and return.”
“It’s not done by a quick visit and followup
by email,” he said.
The seafront outside the American Embassy
in Havana. Cuba has made it clear
that it will not alter the way it does business
to suit American needs.
Saul Berenthal, a co-founder of Cleber,
the tractor company, who was born in Cuba
and spent part of his childhood there, said he
had studied Cuban and American regulations
in detail and then identified a gap in the Cuban
market: small tractors that do not require
sophisticated parts.
“I spend a lot of time understanding the
social context in Cuba,” Mr. Berenthal said.
Meanwhile, applications for licenses from
United States officials take months to process,
as officials grapple with business proposals
for which there is no precedent.
Ambar Diaz, a Miami lawyer who handled
Cleber’s application, said it had taken
seven months to get the license for the tractor
project. She has been waiting four months
for a license for a Hollywood filmmaker who
wants to film in Cuba, and has another license
pending to import charcoal from a group of
Cuban entrepreneurs.
“My job is to test the limits of the regulations,”
she said.
The most important change that United
States regulators could make — and that many
expected would be made before Mr. Obama’s
trip — is to lift a ban on using dollars in transactions
with Cuba, lawyers and consultants
said. The ban means that legitimate trade with
Cuba has to be financed through complicated,
three-way operations or simply does not happen
because no bank wants to handle it.
Lifting that restriction would “take many
of the excuses away from Cuba” for holding
up business deals, Mr. Kavulich said.
Mr. Muse predicted that the Obama administration
would continue to relax restrictions
during its remaining months, regardless
of how Cuba responds.
The notion of the process as quid quo pro
is false, he said, adding, “You cannot deal in
conditionalities with the Cubans.”

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Monday, March 21, 2016
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Cuba Rebukes Obama’s Call for Change But Will Nix Dollar Tax
Cuba’s government offered a rebuke
late last week of President Barack
Obama’s plans to use his visit to
promote change on the island, even as it
took a long-sought step to lift a penalty on
converting U.S. dollars. The White House
stood firmly behind Obama’s plans to deliver
a pro-democracy message directly to
Cubans.
Three days before Obama’s history-making
trip began on Sunday, Foreign Minister
Bruno Rodriguez said Cuba would remove
the 10 percent penalty if the U.S. follows
through on letting Cuba access the global
banking system. Aside from that single step,
he offered no indication that Cuba would
make further economic changes sought by
the U.S., and he dismissed Obama’s sweeping
steps to ease the U.S. embargo on Cuba
as essentially meaningless.
“Various U.S. officials have declared in
recent hours that the objective of Obama’s
measures is empowering the Cuban people.
The Cuban people empowered themselves
decades ago,” Rodriguez said, referring to
the 1959 revolution that put the current Cuban
government in power.
He added that “something must be going
wrong in U.S. democracy” and urged
Obama to focus instead on empowering his
own people.
But Susan Rice, Obama’s national security
adviser, made clear that Obama had
no plans to curtail his call for more freedoms
for Cubans during his three-day trip
to Havana, the first by a sitting president
in nearly 90 years. Hours after Rodriguez
addressed reporters in Havana, Rice said
Obama would meet with dissidents in Cuba
and “speak candidly” with President Raul
Castro about areas of disagreement — “particularly
human rights.”
“We believe the Cuban people, like people
everywhere, are best served by genuine
democracy,” Rice said.
The tough talk from the Cuban government
reflected the dual pressures on
Castro’s government as he hosts the leader
of the country’s longtime Cold War foe.
Though Cuba’s government is hungry for
more U.S. investment, it is also wary of increased
U.S. influence and frustrated that
Obama has been unable to get Congress to
lift longstanding U.S. sanctions.
Nationalist, anti-embargo rhetoric is a
feature of Cuban government statements.
Yet Rodriguez’s speech was striking for its
strong language and acid tone.
White House officials have downplayed
concerns that such antagonistic comments
poison the climate for Obama’s visit or indicate
Cuba is unready to truly normalize relations.
Anti-American quips aside, greater
U.S. engagement with Cuba is already helping
Cuban citizens pursue more opportunity
and better lives, Obama has said.
Unable to get Congress to lift the embargo,
Obama has been systematically rolling
back U.S. restrictions on Americans
traveling and doing business in Cuba using
People surf the Internet at a public Wi-
Fi hotspot in downtown Havana, Cuba,
Wednesday.
his regulatory powers. Still, Cuba’s government
insists it is waiting for the embargo to
be repealed before significantly opening up
its economy. Rodriguez gave a lengthy list
of complaints including the ban on Cuban
government accounts in U.S. banks and a
prohibition on direct U.S. investment in
Cuba.
Still, Rodriguez laid out a scenario under
which the 10 percent penalty on dollars
exchanged at banks and money-changers in
Cuba would soon be lifted, making it easier
and cheaper for Americans to spend time
in Cuba.
Last week the U.S. lifted a ban on Cuban
access to the global banking system, a
longstanding Cuban demand. Rodriguez
told reporters that Cuba would attempt a
series of international transactions in the
subsequent days. If they work, Cuba will
eliminate the 10 percent penalty.
The Obama administration’s latest attempt
to ease restrictions on Cuba despite
the embargo came earlier Thursday when
the U.S. removed Cuba from its list of countries
deemed to have insufficient security
in their ports, eliminating a major impediment
to the free flow of ships in the Florida
Straits.
The shift clears the way for U.S. cruise
ships, cargo vessels and even ferries to
travel back and forth with much less hassle.
No longer will all ships have to wait to be
boarded by the U.S. Coast Guard for inspections,
though the Coast Guard still can conduct
random inspections.
Removing Cuba’s designation under
rules designed to fight terrorism also addresses
a sore spot in the painful history
between Cuba and the U.S., which dominated
the island before relations were cut
off amid the Cold War. After all, it was only
last year that the U.S. removed Cuba from
the State Department’s list of state sponsors
of terrorism.
While in Havana, Obama plans to give a
major speech that the White House has said
will focus on the future of U.S.-Cuba ties
and how Cubans can pursue a better life.
Announcing that Obama’s speech would be
carried live on Cuban television, Rodriguez
said Cubans would be able to draw their
own conclusions from the president.
US to Declassify Military, Intelligence Records on Argentina ‘Dirty War’
President Barack Obama will move to
declassify U.S. military and intelligence
records related to Argentina’s “Dirty
War,” the White House said late last week,
aiming to bring closure to questions of U.S.
involvement in a notorious chapter in Argentina’s
history.
Obama’s visit to Buenos Aires this week
coincides with the 40th anniversary of the
1976 military coup that started Argentina’s
1976-83 dictatorship. Little is known about
the U.S. role leading up to that period, in
which thousands of people were forcibly disappeared
and babies systematically stolen
from political prisoners.
Susan Rice, Obama’s national security
adviser, said Obama would use his trip to announce
a “comprehensive effort” to declassify
more documents, at Argentina’s request. She
said Obama would also visit Remembrance
Park in Buenos Aires to honor victims of the
dictatorship.
“This anniversary and beyond, we’re determined
to do our part as Argentina continues
to heal and move forward as one nation,”
Rice said in a speech ahead of Obama’s trip.
The announcement was sure to have a
big impact in Argentina, where even today
what happened during the dictatorship is often
a part of the national discourse.
“This is transcendental. We believe it’s
a huge gesture,” Marcos Pena, the Cabinet
chief of Argentine President Mauricio Macri,
told local channel Todo Noticias. Pena added
that it would be welcomed by human rights
groups who have questioned Obama’s presence
on the anniversary.
The U.S. has previously released 4,000
State Department documents related to that
period, but those documents tell only part of
the story. Notes from a 1976 meeting between
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Argentina’s
foreign minister, for example,
seemed to show Kissinger urging his new
counterpart to clamp down on dissidents
they referred to as “terrorists.”
“If there are things that have to be done,
you should do them quickly,” Kissinger said,
according to a transcript the U.S. declassified
more than a decade ago.
In Argentina, human rights advocates
have repeatedly called for the U.S. to divulge
the rest of the information it has in hopes of
exposing any wrongdoing.
As part of the new declassification effort,
the U.S. will search for additional records
related to rights abuses committed by the
junta, said a senior Obama administration official,
who wasn’t authorized to discuss the
program by name and requested anonymity.
That search will for the first time include records
from U.S. intelligence agencies, along
with the Pentagon, U.S. law enforcement
agencies and records housed in presidential
libraries, the official said.
Claudio Avruj, Argentina’s secretary
of human rights, said opening the archives
could shed light on Argentine soldiers
trained at the School of the Americas and
the so-called Plan Condor, a coordinated effort
between South American dictatorships
to stamp out dissent through assassinations,
torture and repression.
“This is also going to help in the search
for grandchildren taken during the dictatorship,”
said Avruj via Twitter.

Kerry Declares ISIS Committing
Genocide Against Christians, Others
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Secretary of State John Kerry declared late last week that
the Islamic State is committing genocide against Christians
and other minorities in the Middle East, after facing
heavy pressure from lawmakers and rights groups to make the
rare designation.
“In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide
against groups in territory under its control, including Yazidis,
Christians and Shia Muslims,” Kerry said Thursday at the
State Department, referring to the terror group by an adapted
acronym of its Arabic name.
He accused ISIS of “crimes against humanity” and “ethnic
cleansing.”
The announcement was a surprise, at least in terms of
the timing. A day earlier, a State Department spokesman said
they would miss a congressionally mandated March 17 deadline
to make a decision. Yet as the department took heat from
lawmakers for the expected delay, the department confirmed
Thursday morning that Kerry had reached the decision that
Christians, Yazidis and Shiite groups are victims of genocide.
It comes after the House this week passed a nonbinding
resolution by a 393-0 vote condemning ISIS atrocities as genocide.
Kerry’s finding will not obligate the United States to take
additional action against ISIS militants and does not prejudge
any prosecution against its members, said U.S. officials.
Kerry, though, urged others to join in holding the group
“accountable”; he called for an “independent investigation” as
well as a court or tribunal to take action to that end.
Saying the terror network is “genocidal” in what it says,
believes and does, Kerry recited a litany of documented atrocities
including the execution of Christians in Iraq “solely because
of their faith” and of Yazidis.
Lawmakers and others who have advocated for the finding
had sharply criticized the department’s disclosure Wednesday
that the deadline would be missed. The officials said Kerry
concluded his review just hours after that announcement and
that the criticism had not affected his decision.
“Secretary Kerry is finally making the right call,” House
Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said
in a statement after the announcement Thursday. He added
that “President Obama should step up and lay out the broad,
overarching plan that’s needed to actually defeat and destroy
ISIS. This administration’s long pattern of paralysis and ineffectiveness
in combating these radical Islamist terrorists is unacceptable.”
The determination marks only the second time a U.S. administration
has declared that a genocide was being committed
during an ongoing conflict.
The first was in 2004, when then-Secretary of State Colin
Powell determined that atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region
constituted genocide. Powell reached that determination amid
much lobbying from human rights groups, but only after State
Department lawyers advised him that it would not -- contrary
to legal advice offered to previous administrations -- obligate
the United States to act to stop it.
In that case, the lawyers decided that the 1948 U.N. Convention
against genocide did not require countries to prevent
genocide from taking place outside their territory. Powell instead
called for the U.N. Security Council to appoint a commission
to investigate and take appropriate legal action if it agreed
with the genocide determination.
The officials said Kerry’s determination followed a similar
finding by department lawyers.
Although the United States is involved in military strikes
against ISIS and has helped prevent some incidents of ethnic
cleansing, notably of Yazidis, some advocates argue that a
genocide determination would require additional U.S. action.
In making his decision, Kerry weighed whether the militants’
targeting of Christians and other minorities meets the
definition of genocide, according to the U.N. Convention: “acts
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to reporters at the State
Department in Washington, Thursday.
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnic, racial or religious group.”
His determination, however, does not carry the legal implication
of a verdict of guilt or conviction on genocide charges,
the officials said. Such decisions will be left to international or
other tribunals.
In a bid to push the review process, several groups released
reports last week documenting what they said is clear
evidence that the legal standard has been met.
The Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians,
which had applauded Monday’s House resolution, said they
hoped the delay would ensure that Kerry makes the determination.
“There is only one legal term for this, and that is genocide,”
said Knights of Columbus chief Carl Anderson.
The groups’ 280-page report identified by name more than
1,100 Christians who they said had been killed by ISIS. It detailed
numerous instances of people kidnapped, raped, sold
into slavery and driven from their homes, along with the destruction
of churches.
Egypt Finds New Clues That Queen Nefertiti May Lie Buried Behind Tut’s Tomb
Egypt has unearthed further evidence that a secret
chamber, believed by some to be the lost burial site
of Queen Nefertiti, may lie behind King Tutankhamun’s
tomb, Egypt’s antiquities minister said late last
week.
There is huge international interest in Nefertiti, who
died in the 14th century B.C. and is thought to be Tutankhamun’s
stepmother, and confirmation of her final
resting place would be the most remarkable Egyptian archaeological
find this century.
An analysis of radar scans done on the site last November
has revealed the presence of two empty spaces
behind two walls in King Tut’s chamber, Damaty told a
news conference.
“(The scans point to) different things behind the walls,
different material that could be metal, could be organic,”
he said.
Damaty said in November there was a 90 percent
chance that “something” was behind the walls of King
Tut’s chamber following an initial radar scan that had
been sent to Japan for analysis.
A more advanced scan will be conducted at the end
of this month with an international research team to confirm
whether the empty spaces are in fact chambers. Only
then, Damaty said, can he discuss the possibility of how
and when a team could enter the rooms.
“We can say more than 90 percent that the chambers
are there. But I never start the next step until I’m 100 percent.”
The find could be a boon for Egypt’s ailing tourism
industry, which has suffered endless setbacks since an
uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 but
remains a vital source of foreign currency.
British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves, who is leading
the investigation, believes that Tutankhamun’s mausoleum
was originally occupied by Nefertiti and that she lies
undisturbed behind what he believes is a partition wall.
The discovery of Nefertiti, whose chiselled cheekbones
and regal beauty were immortalised in a 3,300-year
old bust now on display in a Berlin museum, would shed
fresh light on what remains a mysterious period of Egyptian
history.
“It can be the discovery of the century. It’s very important
for Egyptian history and the history of the world,”
said Damaty.

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24 Monday, March 21, 2016
The San Juan Daily Star
New York Times Editorials
The Risk of Playing Politics With the Supreme Court
By GREGORY B. CRAIG
I
WAS not there, but I can imagine President
Obama in the Oval Office posing this question
about Judge Merrick B. Garland: “Given
this man’s lengthy history on the bench and his
impeccable reputation, what can be said against
him serving on the Supreme Court?”
The answer from his advisers might have
been: “Nothing, sir. But the Republicans don’t
want to give up their decades-long control of this
court, and they would rather ignore the Constitution
and freeze the government than allow
that to happen.”
When President Obama picked Judge Garland
to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat, he was
choosing an extraordinarily well-qualified jurist.
Judge Garland has served on the bench
for 19 years, the last three as chief judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit. No Supreme Court justices,
even the greats, matched his record of federal judicial
service at the time of their confirmation.
His excellence as a jurist is surpassed only by the
respect and affection people in both parties feel
toward him.
By sending the Senate a nominee of this quality
and stature, President Obama has increased
the political price Republicans will pay if they
ignore their constitutional duty to provide advice
and consent. That was the president’s objective
from the start: Find a nominee beyond
reproach who would, under normal circumstances,
be confirmed without controversy. Force the
Republicans to either back down or defend the
indefensible.
Political calculations are woven into every Supreme
Court nomination, despite protestations
to the contrary. The baseline is always that the
nominee must be qualified and have a judicial
philosophy in harmony with the president’s. But
in narrowing the small field of candidates who
meet those criteria, presidents consider many
factors, including and especially a political one:
Can this nominee win confirmation?
While presidents often prefer to assert that
their choices have nothing to do with politics,
this year the Republicans have bluntly placed
politics front and center by refusing even to consider
Judge Garland until after the election. That
unprecedented move has required the president
to navigate a difficult political environment in
deciding on a nominee.
He has done that by starting with a known
quantity: There are no secrets or surprises about
Judge Garland, and his qualifications are clear. A
federal prosecutor who oversaw the Oklahoma
City bombing case, he was approved overwhelmingly
and with bipartisan support by the Senate
for the Circuit Court. Judge Garland has
been on many people’s short list for the Supreme
Court, including this president’s, for years.
There is also nothing controversial in Judge
Garland’s background. Judge Garland’s judicial
philosophy, like the president’s, falls squarely in
the mainstream. Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah
and other Republicans had previously praised
him effusively. Could the fact that, at 63, he is
older than other possible nominees make him
more palatable to Republicans? Perhaps. Should
Republican senators be worried about voter backlash
if they refuse to give him so much as a hearing?
Yes.
Yet Senate Republicans have said they won’t
go forward with his nomination, or any nomination
from this president, despite Judge Garland’s
qualifications. This affront to the Constitution is
an insult to the other two branches of government
as well as to Judge Garland personally. The
Senate has never told an elected president many
months before the end of his term that it will
not let him exercise one of his most important
powers.
It is particularly notable that many Senate
Republicans are even refusing to hold courtesy
meetings with Judge Garland. In 2005, President
George W. Bush’s nomination of Harriet E. Miers
foundered when senators who met her privately
concluded that she was not up to the job. When
Sonia Sotomayor was nominated four years later,
she prepared exhaustively and was able to speak
privately with almost 90 senators. Perhaps partly
as a result, her confirmation hearings were relatively
uneventful.
Judge Garland has already begun scheduling
these courtesy meetings, and the White House
has set up a nonprofit organization to raise money
and develop advertising to push for Judge
Garland’s confirmation. The Senate confirmed
Justice Sotomayor in less than three months. By
that standard, Judge Garland should be confirmed
and sworn in by Memorial Day.
For the first time in decades, the balance of
the court is in a position to shift. That happens
from time to time in our democracy. Judge Garland
should be confirmed quickly and easily. At
a minimum, this exquisitely qualified and widely
admired jurist deserves a fair hearing and
a vote. If the Senate Republicans refuse to grant
him that, they should not just worry about their
seats, they should hang their heads.
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Delta, in Alliance With Danny Meyer, Aims to Elevate Airline Food
By STEPHANIE STROM
It is no secret that airlines are waging an increasingly
pitched battle for the biggest-spending
passengers who fly in premium classes: The
carriers have deployed amenities like fluffy feather
duvets and spa treatments.
Now, Delta Air Lines is trying to gain an edge
with its food — a decidedly tall order.
The company has struck an alliance with
Union Square Hospitality Group, the food service
empire behind Shake Shack and restaurants like
Union Square Cafe, Blue Smoke and Gramercy
Tavern.
The goal is to serve food in its Delta One cabin
on international flights from Kennedy International
Airport that is as just as good as the food
set on the table in Union Square’s restaurants.
“We want passengers to say, ‘This is great
food’ — not, ‘This is great food for an airline,’ ”
said John Harenda, vice president for operations
at Union Square Events, the group’s catering service.
Delta shares the sentiment. “We really want
to change the conversation around what airline
food is,” said Allison Ausband, senior vice president
for in-flight service at Delta.
It will not be easy. Galley space on most airplanes
has shrunk. Plates and containers are
small. Altitude dulls the taste buds, so recipes
must be adjusted.
“There certainly were hurdles — but none that
made me throw up my arms and say, ‘Why am I
doing this?’ ” said Carmen Quagliata, the Union
Square Cafe chef who did the menu for Delta
One.
For one thing, Mr. Quagliata had already seen
the success of a menu devised by a colleague,
Mark Maynard-Parisi of Blue Smoke, which
started Union Square’s partnership with Delta in
2013 by offering its fare on just a few flights. Blue
Smoke’s barbecued meats also happened to be
foods that would work best on a plane, said Danny
Meyer, Union Square’s founder and chief. .
Many airlines have a relationship with a celebrity
chef. Alain Ducasse, for instance, endorses
several food and wine options offered in the elite
cabins at Air France. United Airlines’ partnership
with Charlie Trotter continues even after his
death in 2013, with alumni of his restaurant helping
with the airline’s menu.
In most cases, however, the food served under
a chef’s name on board does not approach the
standards of the food served in the chef’s restaurant.
“If someone had told me a few years ago that
we’d be serving our food on an airline, I would
have said over my dead body,” Mr. Meyer said.
Daniel Dilworth, director of culinary development
for Union Square’s catering business, had
much the same reaction. But after talking with officials
at Delta and LSG Sky Chefs, the food service
provider for Delta and other airlines, Mr. Dilworth
concluded that making tasty airline meals
would not be all that different from making the
food sold at Citi Field, where Blue Smoke has a
stand.
Mostly, it was a matter of understanding what
would not work.
“Meat can be served medium-rare on a plane
in flight, but if there’s turbulence, the hostess
can’t get up and take it out of the oven at the
right time,” Mr. Dilworth said. “So it’s probably
best just not to try to serve meat done to mediumrare.”
Delta wanted Mr. Quagliata to offer a pasta
dish from Union Square Cafe on the menu that
debuts March 1, but he was dubious, having eaten
one too many reheated pasta dishes on flights.
In the end, it was a piece of Delta’s china that
inspired him — what if he made a baked pasta
dish instead? “It now comes out all bubbly and
smelling fantastic,” he said. “What started out as
a hurdle turned out to be a great innovation — I
might even try it in the restaurant.”
Terri Joseph and Margo Cortinas-Lodin, flight
attendants who demonstrated how the system
works onboard, said learning how to serve the
meals prepared by Union Square was not too big
a challenge. “Both of us come from an era when
all meals on planes were served like this,” said
Ms. Joseph, a 28-year veteran.
She and Ms. Cortinas-Lodin, a flight attendant
for 36 years, first heat up Union Square Cafe’s signature
nut mix and then serve salads and appetizers.
When it comes to plating the main courses,
they pull off the wrap and, following the steps
they learned from training videos featuring Mr.
Quagliata, empty small paper cups containing
sauces and garnishes onto the plate.
There have been lessons learned along the
way.
Delta likes to pour soups from a silver pitcher
directly into a passenger’s bowl, but a chunky
vegetable soup served that way ended up as
much on their aprons and the floor as in the bowl.
“We learned the hard way that soups need to be
purées or clear broths,” Mr. Dilworth said.
Garnishes intended to top a meal are a challenge,
too, because they are loaded in the bottom
of a paper cup, then smothered with whatever
will rest beneath them on the plate. So the fried
sunchokes that typically crown a carpaccio are
now roasted rather than fried.
The flight attendants said passengers had responded
well to the Blue Smoke menu, as well as
meals from Marta, another Union Square restaurant,
which have been featured for the last year.
“About the only drawback I’ve seen so far is that
everyone wants to try everything on the menu,”
Ms. Cortinas-Lodin said, “and that we can’t do.”

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SCI & TECH
Fossil Hints T. Rex Got Smart Before It Got Big
An artist’s conception of Timurlengia euotica, a smaller and earlier cousin
of Tyrannosaurus rex.
By KENNETH CHANG
At the end of the dinosaur age,
Tyrannosaurus rex was a behemoth
killer animal, up to 40
feet long and weighing several tons —
the top carnivore in the food chain.
The very first tyrannosaurs, which
arose about 100 million years earlier,
were small, about the size of a person.
The evolutionary jump of tyrannosaurs
from people- and horse-size to
behemoths has remained a mystery.
A recent fossil finding in Uzbekistan
is providing paleontologists with a
missing link in the lineage: They have
discovered a tyrannosaur with many
of the giant’s characteristics — but not
its stature or heft.
“It has long been thought that
tyrannosaurs were such successful
predators, in part, because of their
large brains and ears well-attuned to
low-frequency sound,” said Stephen
L. Brusatte, a paleontologist at the
University of Edinburgh in Scotland
and lead author of a paper published
Monday in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, describing
the new dinosaur. “The new Uzbek
tyrannosaur has basically the same
brain as T. rex — same shape, proportions,
etc. — just smaller.”
The finding, he said, is a new indication
that tyrannosaurs got smart
before they got big.
“It is one of the closest cousins of
T. rex and tells us that tyrannosaurs
evolved sophisticated brains and senses
before they became colossal apex
predators,” Dr. Brusatte said.
When the first tyrannosaurs evolved,
about 170 million years ago, they
lived in the shadows of larger meateaters
like Allosaurus. For tens of millions
of years, tyrannosaurs remained
small.
And because few rocks of the age
100 million years to 80 million years
old are now lying exposed or at the
surface anywhere in the world, few
clues exist to explain how the early
tyrannosaurs evolved into large animals
like T. rex.
“The fossil record just stops,” Dr.
Brusatte said. “We don’t know what
goes on in that time.”
Before the gap, all tyrannosaurs
were small. After the gap, none were.
Tyrannosaurus rex and its relatives
weighed one ton or more.
A CT scan of the Timurlengia fossil
showed details about the brain and
inner ear.
Uzbekistan is one of the few places
with geological formations that fall in
that 20-million-year gap. Beginning
in 1997, Hans-Dieter Sues, chairman
of the paleobiology department at
the Smithsonian’s National Museum
of Natural History, and Alexander
O. Averianov, a senior scientist at the
Russian Academy of Sciences, organized
fossil-collecting expeditions to
the Kyzylkum Desert in northern Uzbekistan.
The paleontologists uncovered
some scattered bones of what appeared
to be tyrannosaurs, but the key
finding came in 2004 when they found
the part of the skull surrounding the
brain.
“The braincase proved to be the
Rosetta stone for the whole thing,” Dr.
Sues said.
Dr. Brusatte, an expert on tyrannosaurs,
was visiting Dr. Averianov
a couple of years ago to study some
other fossils. “He pulled open a box
and pulled out this object about the
size of a grapefruit,” Dr. Brusatte recalled.
“And he handed it to me and
said, ‘You know, what do you make of
this?’ ”
Dr. Brusatte joined an international
team of researchers, including Dr.
Sues and Dr. Averianov, in the analysis
of the new tyrannosaur. Named Timurlengia
euotica, the dinosaur lived
about 90 million years ago, right in the
middle of the fossil gap. (Timurlengia
was named after a Central Asian warlord,
Timur; euotica roughly means
“well eared.”)
Based on a few scattered bones, the
scientists estimated that Timurlengia
was about the size of a horse, like
earlier tyrannosaurs, weighing about
600 pounds, with long legs and bladelike
teeth. Lithe and fast, it probably
chased down plant eaters like early
duck-billed dinosaurs also found in
the region.
But a CT scan of the braincase
showed that the shape of the brain
was similar to that of the later tyrannosaurs,
and that the inner ear structure
was tuned to low frequencies.
“We were very surprised it already
had this sensory organization associated
with T. rex and related animals,”
Dr. Sues said.
Timurlengia does not explain why
tyrannosaurs got big, but Dr. Sues
said he suspected that an unusually
warm climate, one of the warmest in
Earth’s history, had played an important
role. Allosaurus and its relatives
did not adapt and died out, and then
tyrannosaurs grew in size to replace
them.
So far, Timurlengia is just one clue.
It is possible, for instance, that larger
tyrannosaurs had already evolved elsewhere.
“Like at a murder scene,” Dr.
Brusatte said, “one clue is better than
none.”
A tyrannosaur from China named
Xiongguanlong, imprecisely dated to
100 million to 120 million years ago, is
another important clue.
“At a glance, Xiangguanlong looks
to my eye like an advanced tyrannosaur,”
said Thomas Carr, a paleontologist
at Carthage College in Kenosha,
Wis., who has examined the braincase
fossil.
“This is what this work is all about,
completing that evolutionary narrative,”
Dr. Carr said. “At the end of the
day, there’s much more to discover.
It’s still a great leap from Timurlengia
to T. rex.”

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HEALTH
1% Chance of Microcephaly in Zika Outbreak, Scientists Estimate
Study suggests relatively low risk of birth
defect but big numbers as virus spreads.
by Beth Mole
Based on data from a past Zika outbreak, researchers estimate
that there’s a one-in-100 chance that women infected
during the first trimester will give birth to a baby
with microcephaly—a birth defect that leaves infants with
small and malformed brains and skulls.
There’s still not a definitive link between microcephaly and
the mosquito-borne virus, which is currently blazing through
Central and South America. But the data coming in has only
strengthened the connection. For instance, a recent study
found that Zika virus can kill off developing brain cells.
With the new estimate on the rate of microcephaly in Zika
infections from an outbreak in French Polynesia starting in
2013, researchers are relieved that it appears the birth defect
is relatively rare.
“It means you have a 99 percent chance of having a normal
baby,” Dr. Laura Rodrigues, a professor of infectious disease
epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,
told The New York Times.
By contrast, birth defects from other in utero viral infections
can have far steeper risks. Pregnant women infected
with the rubella virus, for example, have at least a 38 percent
chance of having a baby with congenital rubella syndrome,
which can lead to heart disease, developmental delays, and
hearing loss.
To come up with an estimate for Zika, researchers sifted
through medical records from the outbreak of Zika in French
Polynesia between 2013 and 2015, which sickened 66 percent
of the 270,000 residents. The researchers also established the
baseline of microcephaly in the population, which was two cases
in 10,000 births. During the outbreak, there were eight total
cases, the researchers reported recently in The Lancet.
While the rate is relatively low, health experts are not sure
if it would be the same in different populations. Even if it is,
the virus is still spreading to millions throughout the dozens
of countries.
“If you apply a one percent risk to a large number of women,
it’s still a large public health problem,” said Simon Cauchemez,
the study’s lead author and the director of mathematical
modeling for the infectious diseases unit at the Pasteur
Institute in Paris.
Women Who Brought Zika Fears Home With Them
By LAURA BEIL
In December, Ami Levy and her husband, Jason, left frigid
Washington, D.C., for a two-week vacation in Argentina.
Once there, they headed north to the Brazilian
border for a couple of days, lured by Igauzu Falls.
She recalls the excitement when their phones’ GPS indicated
they finally were in Brazil, and the awe-inspiring
walls of water, some more than 24 stories tall.
And, she remembers, everywhere there were mosquitoes,
leaving bites on her thigh.
Back home the first week of January, Ms. Levy learned
she was four weeks pregnant.
Her first pregnancy had ended in miscarriage in September,
so it was with some hesitation that she left for another
trip, this time to Puerto Rico for a rendezvous with her
aunt and sister.
As soon as she arrived, local news broadcasts began
warning pregnant women about the dangers of infection
with the Zika virus, carried by mosquitoes and suspected
of causing devastating birth defects in infants born to infected
women.
She booked the first available flight home.
“I was on the beach for a few hours and didn’t put on
any bug spray,” said Ms. Levy, a 35-year-old psychotherapist.
“I had two bites when I got home Sunday.”
“I think I would have been more panicky if I hadn’t told
myself I needed to keep it together for my baby.”
The Zika virus is not yet known to be circulating in the
continental United States. But already, fear of the infection
has come home for many pregnant women and their families
who journeyed abroad before the risks were known.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently
reported that nine pregnant women were known to have
become infected while traveling. Yet many more are coping
with the possibility of exposure, reaching out to their doctors
for blood tests and ultrasounds, obsessing on news coverage
and trying to manage their worry.
The C.D.C. recommends that pregnant women receive
blood tests two to 12 weeks after travel to an affected area
to detect whether they may have been infected with the
Zika virus.
Those who may have been exposed are urged to consider
having extra ultrasounds to look for birth defects in the
developing fetus.
Nothing is guaranteed; the antibody test has its limits.
Ultrasounds often do not detect fetal microcephaly, the disease
causing misshapen heads and brain damage that has
been linked to infection with the virus.
According to the C.D.C., the scans are most accurate at
the end of the second trimester or early in the third.
“The risk is small, but the effects are tragic,” said Craig
Forest, 37, an associate professor of bioengineering at Georgia
Tech in Atlanta.
He and his wife, Roxanne, 32, spent Christmas vacation
in Costa Rica just as she was entering her second trimester
of pregnancy.
They chose that destination because of all the countries
in the region, it seemed to offer the safest environment for
a pregnant woman.
After 10 days of rain forest hikes and lazy sunsets on the
beach, Ms. Forest was covered with insect bites.
Back home in January, the couple began hearing news
reports about the Zika virus. Costa Rica was not mentioned.
“I’m looking at the list and thinking, ‘That’s all of Costa
Rica’s neighbors; we dodged a bullet on that one,’ ” Mr.
Forest said.
On Feb. 1, Costa Rica was added to the list of countries
in which Zika is circulating. The virus had been in the
country since at least December.
Ms. Forest’s doctor did not order a blood test for the infection,
because she had not had any symptoms. Her most
recent ultrasound appeared normal, and the couple say
they will ask for another at the cutoff time for an abortion.
They have lain in bed at night discussing the possibility,
something that would have been unthinkable a couple of
months ago.
They know the risks are remote — first that she might
have been bitten by an infected mosquito, and second that
the infection might lead to a birth defect.
“As analytically minded people, we’re trying to calculate
the odds,” said Ms. Forest, who is also an engineer.
But when they try to figure the likelihood of a birth defect
related to the Zika virus, all they can come up with is
“not zero.”
There is nothing to do but wait. “I actually tried to stop
reading the news,” Ms. Forest said.
Even when a pregnant woman is found to have been
infected, tests of blood or amniotic fluid cannot definitively
tell if the fetus was affected, said Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, an expert
in infectious diseases at Columbia University’s Mailman
School of Public Health, who is working to develop a
more reliable alternative.
Microcephaly seems to be a relatively rare complication.
But it’s also possible that the virus may cause “more subtle
damage that we can’t yet appreciate,” Dr. Lipkin said.
Sydney Silverstein, 35, an Emory University doctoral
candidate, has been living in Iquitos, Peru, since July. She is
eight and a half months pregnant.
There is no widespread epidemic of Zika virus in Peru,
but the virus is present in Lima. Moreover, she spent time
on the Brazilian border in late fall, early in her pregnancy.
She has had extra ultrasound scans from her doctor, and
her fetus looks unaffected.

21 de Marzo de 2016
ESPANOL
NOTICIAS enESPA
Divulgan perfil demográfico de los distritos electorales
El Instuto de Estadíscas de Puerto Rico anunció la publicación del Perfil Demográfico
de los Distritos Electorales: 2010-2014.
La información que provee el perfil se enfoca en la población por regiones
geográficas de interés, tales como los distritos electorales en Puerto Rico, y uliza
los esmados más reciente disponibles con información recopilada en el quinquenio
2010-2014.
La fuente de información del Perfil es la Encuesta sobre La Comunidad de Puerto
Rico la cual lleva a cabo el “US Census Bureau”.
“El perfil provee una fotograa amplia de cada distrito electoral con información
esencial para conocer las parcularidades de la población que reside en cada uno
de ellos”, expresó el director ejecuvo del instuto, Mario Marazzi Sanago.
Añadió que, “incluso, la información provista en el perfil ofrece un punto de
Provistas por Internews Service
parda a personas interesadas en estudios de los distritos electorales que bien
pueden esmular a estudios profundos de los distritos”.
Los perfiles se dividen por caracteríscas demográficas, sociales, económicas y
de la vivienda.
Específicamente, para los habitantes y viviendas de cada distrito senatorial y
representavo, se presentan datos sobre sexo, edad, raza, parentesco, estado civil,
fecundidad, matrícula escolar, educación obtenida, clasificación de veterano y discapacidades.
Igualmente, sobre lugar de nacimiento, idioma hablado en el hogar, ascendencia,
condición de empleo, ocupación laboral, industria, clase de trabajador, ingresos,
beneficios, seguro de salud, pobreza, ocupación de la vivienda, año de construcción,
entre otros.
Fortalece Familia esfuerzos de prevención dirigidos a los adultos mayores
Cerca de 80 habitantes del residencial Jardines La Nueva Puerta
de San Juan I y II se beneficiaron de talleres educavos sobre
diversos temas de interés como parte de una iniciava del Departamento
de la Familia que busca acercar los servicios a los adultos
mayores.
“Queremos a través de estas acvidades concienciar en las comunidades
sobre la responsabilidad que debemos tener con los
adultos mayores y sobre la importancia de orientarlos para prevenir
que sean vícmas de la explotación financiera”, explicó la secretaria
del Departamento de la Familia, Idalia Colón Rondón.
La funcionaria destacó el objevo de “propiciar una transformación
posiva que contribuya a ir cambiando la visión que existe
sobre la vejez, promoviendo hacia ellos y ellas una atención sensible,
humana y apropiada que contribuya a garanzar su seguridad
y bienestar”.
El propósito, dijo Colón Rondón, es “que estén bien orientados,
atendidos y que se sientan felices”.
Aparte del taller de prevención sobre la explotación financiera,
los adultos mayores residentes de este complejo público parciparon
de clínicas de salud, charlas sobre prevención de incendios
y nutrición saludable, además de la presentación de un monólogo
por parte del Programa Prospera que dirige la Administración para
el Sustento de Menores (Asume), entre otras acvidades.
El evento, denominado Familia en tu Comunidad “acercando
los servicios a los adultos mayores”, cerró con la entrega de una
caja de alimentos a cada una de las familias elegibles al Programa
de Asistencia Nutricional (PAN).
También se contó con la colaboración de la Administración de
Vivienda Pública, el Cuerpo de Bomberos de Puerto Rico, y con
otras endades públicas y privadas.
Presidente de Comisión de Agricultura de la Cámara aduce
que Rosselló Nevares no conoce mucho de agricultura
El representante César Hernández, presidente de la Comisión de
Agricultura de la Cámara de Representantes, cricó las propuestas
agrícolas del precandidato del Pardo Nuevo Progresista (PNP)
Ricardo Rosselló Nevares.
Hernández indicó que el ingreso bruto agrícola y los empleos en
el sector agrícola no se han reducido, contrario a lo que, según el
representante, afirmó Rosselló Nevares.
El representante dijo que el ingreso bruto agrícola aumento de
$739 millones a $919 millones. Y en términos de empleo aumentó
7,500 nuevos empleos.
El representante del Pardo Popular Democráco agregó que “a
través del plan de seguridad alimentaria se ha recuperado 26,000
cuerdas de terreno agrícola que estaban abandonadas y que se ha
sembrado 7,500 cuerdas de café.
La secretaria del Departamento de la Familia, Idalia Colón
Rondón, destacó la importancia del programa comunitario.
Sobre la propuesta de Rosselló Nevares de integrar a los municipios
al desarrollo de la agricultura, Hernández Alfonzo señaló que es
es “otra muestra más del desconocimiento del precandidato PNP”.
Aseguró que ya existen alrededor de la isla proyectos de integración
con los municipios, como lo son los proyectos de ambiente
controlado en Hormigueros, la restauración del valle agrícola
de Yabucoa y la connuidad al proyecto de piñas establecido en
Mana, entre otros.
Señaló que se ha aprobado un proyecto de práccas agrícolas
que simplifica los procesos de obtención de permisos para los agricultores.
Para el representante de Hallo, los precandidatos del PNP a la
gobernación Pedro Pierliuisi y Rosselló Nevares no conocen “la realidad
del agricultor puertorriqueño”.

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NOTICIAS en
ESPANOL
30 21 de Marzo de 2016
Continúa aumentando el zika en Puerto Rico
Por Obed Betancourt
El virus de zika connúa propagándose a través de la Isla, y ya aumentó a 259
contagios confirmados.
A mediados del mes corriente habían 202 casos de zika, 21 embarazadas contagiadas,
una de las cuales dio a luz hace dos semanas sin microcefalia, que es el
riesgo que temen el DS y el Centro para el Control y Prevención de la Enfermedades
(CDC). Ha habido desde el inicio de su detección en Puerto Rico 6 hospitalizaciones
y un viejo caso de Guillame Barré que ya fue superado.
Los números actuales fueron tomados directamente del CDC, ya que el Departamento
de Salud (DS) dejó de informarlos los jueves en su página oficial de la
red. Los datos sobre Puerto Rico los revela el DS ahora en conferencias de prensa
los viernes.
Ante los reclamos de líderes estudianles de la Universidad
de Puerto Rico (UPR), y las manifestaciones
realizadas frente a la agencia, el secretario del Departamento
de Hacienda, Juan Zaragoza Gómez, pidió que los
estudiantes que compartan el sacrificio por la crisis fiscal
que enfrenta la isla.
“Enendo el reclamo que hacen los representantes estudianles
de la UPR, que es mi Alma Mater como la de miles
de empleados públicos y privados que, como yo, pudimos
converrnos en profesionales a pesar de que nuestras familias
no contaban con los recursos para una educación
universitaria”, dijo Zaragoza Gómez desde Washington,
donde se encontraba en gesones para atender la crisis.
Apuntó que la UPR es importante, pero su realidad no
puede estar ajena a la crisis que vive el país. “Desafortunadamente,
la situación de liquidez en este momento es
The San Juan Daily Star
La secretaria de Salud Ana Ríus dijo hace dos semanas que todo está “bajo
control”, aunque la visita que hizo a Puerto Rico hace principios del mes el director
del CDC, Tom Frieden, la dio porque está “altamente preocupado por la crisis de
zika en Puerto Rico”.
De hecho, Frieden le recomendó a las mujeres embarazadas que no viajen a
Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico es el territorio norteamericano con más casos de zika. Las Islas
Vírgenes ene 10 casos, Samoa Americana ene 14.
Entre los estados, Florida es el principal con 59 casos, Nueva York ene 42, y
Texas 34. Pero ninguno de todos estos casos fue adquirido localmente en sus estados,
sino que se contagiaron en viajes de sus residentes.
En el caso de Puerto Rico, solo 3 de los 259 casos fueron contagios en viajes.
Las estadíscas del CDC son del miércoles 16.
Secretario de Hacienda pide a estudiantes “compartir el sacrificio” por la crisis fiscal
sumamente críca y a todos nos corresponde comparr
el sacrificio. Están en juego los servicios básicos de salud,
los salarios de policías, maestros, enfermeras y todos los
servidores públicos del país”, señaló.
Explicó que a pesar de esta precaria situación, “a la fecha
de hoy hemos desembolsado 519 millones de los 869
millones de dólares asignados a la UPR en el presente año
fiscal. El Departamento de Hacienda en ningún momento
ha interrumpido los pagos semanales a la UPR”, aseguró.
Añadió que Hacienda seguirá desembolsando semanalmente
la candad aproximada de 18.5 millones de dólares
“hasta que la situación nos permita una cuana mayor”.
Por úlmo, exhortó a los líderes estudianles a la solidaridad
y los invitó a que “se unan con sus ideas y creavidad
a buscar las soluciones para superar unidos la crisis
fiscal que nos afecta a todos”.
Recesos administrativos en Familia y Departamento del Trabajo por Semana Santa
Los departamentos de la Familia y Trabajo anunciaron recesos administra-
vos durante la Semana Santa.
La secretaria de Familia, Idalia Colón Rondón, anunció el receso administravo
de las oficinas de la agencia a parr de este lunes y hasta el 25 de
marzo. Sin embargo, dijo que los servicios de la línea para referir situaciones
de maltrato a menores y la línea de orientación y apoyo familiar de la Administración
de Familias y Niños (ADFAN) connuarán operando como de costumbre,
al igual que las dis unidades de invesgaciones especializadas.
De igual forma, el depósito de los beneficios del PAN y del Programa TANF
de la Administración de Desarrollo Socioeconómico de la Familia (ADSEF), así
como los recaudos y desembolsos de las pensiones alimentarias que realiza
la Administración para el Sustento de Menores (ASUME) seguirán recibiéndose.
La secretaria exhortó a los padres, madres o cuidadores a velar por la seguridad
de sus hijos e hijas durante la semana mayor, cuando muchos visitan
las playas, parques y otros lugares de esparcimiento.
Asimismo, pidió que “no los dejen solos o al cuidado de una persona que
no sea de su confianza, a mantener contacto visual con los menores en todo
momento cuando se encuentren disfrutando en cuerpos de agua y a no conducir
bajo los efectos del alcohol”.
Mientras, el secretario del Trabajo, Vance Thomas, anunció que durante la
Semana Santa las oficinas centrales y regionales de la agencia permanecerán
cerradas, retornando labores el 28 de marzo.
El secretario dijo que este cierre generará un ahorro para el Departamento
del Trabajo.
“El cierre de labores durante los días 21, 23 y 24 de marzo, generará para
nuestra agencia un ahorro sustancial por concepto de licencia de vacaciones,
además de un ahorro en pagos por concepto de energía eléctrica, agua y seguridad,
entre otros. Esmamos que en estos tres días podremos generar un
ahorro aproximado de 576,000”, mencionó.
Al mismo empo, Thomas informó que para salvaguardar los derechos de
las partes la agencia, extenderá cualquier término prescripvo para someter
escritos de apelaciones, reclamaciones, solicitud de beneficios o cualquier
otro documento o gesón que aplique.
“Con movo de este cierre instucional, los términos que vencieren durante
dicho periodo se extenderán hasta el 28 de marzo”, añadió Thomas.

Monday, March 21, 2016
Official Registry of Legal Notices
31
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS-
TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS-
TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
ROOSEVELT CAYMAN
ASSET COMPANY
Plaintiff, vs.
KATTY NICAULIZ
SUAREZ FERNANDEZ,
Defendant.
CIVIL NO. 15-2261 (GAG)
RE:COLLECTION OF MONIES,
FORECLOSURE OF MORTGA-
GE NOTICE OF SALE
TO: KATTY NICAULIZ
SUAREZ FERNANDEZ
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES SS COMMONWEALTH
OF PUERTO RICO. Judgment
in favor of plaintiff for the sum of
One Hundred Three Thousand
Seven Hundred Eight Dollars with
Fifteenth Cents ($103,708.15) in
principal, interest which continues
to accrue until full payment
of the debt at the rate of 6.50%
per annum, accrued late charges;
and any other advance,
charge, fee or disbursement
made by plaintiff on behalf of defendant,
in accordance with the
mortgage deed, plus costs, 10%
of principal balance in attorney
fees; Pursuant to the judgment,
the undersigned Special Master
was ordered to sell at public
auction for United States currency
in cash or certified check
without appraisement or right of
redemption to the highest bidder
and at the office of the Clerk of
the united States District Court
for the District of Puerto Rico,
Federico Degetau Federal Building,
Chardón Street, Hato Rey,
San Juan, Puerto Rico or any
other place designated by said
Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged
to be paid to the plaintiff, the
following property: URBANA:
Solar de forma rectangular que
mide doce metros de frente por
veintiuno metros de fondo marcado
con el número ocho de la
manzana DJ de la Urbanización
Puerto Nuevo, que radica
en el barrio Monacillos de Río
Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un
área superficial de 252.00 metros
cuadrados. En lindes por el
NORTE, SUR, ESTE Y OESTE,
con terrenos de la Everlasting
Development Corp., y dando
frente al Este con la calle denominada
calle número veintitrés
de la urbanización. Consta inscrito
al folio 204 del tomo 142
de Monacillos, finca número
5,143. Registro de la Propiedad,
Sección III de San Juan.
THEREFORE, the first public
sale shall be held on the 1 day of
April 2016, at 10:45am and the
minimum bid that will be accepted
is the sum of $116,000.00. In
the event said first public auction
does not produce a bidder and
the property is not adjudicated,
a second public auction shall be
held on the 8 day of April 2016,
at 10:30am and the minimum bid
that will be accepted is the sum
of $77,333.33, 2/3 parts of the
minimum bid for the 1s t public
sale. If said second auction does
not result in the adjudication and
sale of the property, a third auction
will be held on the 15 day
of April 2016, at 10:03am and
the minimum bid that will be accepted
is the sum of $58,000.00,
1/2 of the minimum bid for the
1st public sale. Upon confirmation
of the sale, an order shall be
issued canceling all junior liens.
For further particulars, reference
is made to the judgment entered
by the Court in this case, which
can be examined in the Office
of the Clerk of the united States
District Court. AND TO THE
KNOWLEDGE OF INTERES-
TED PARTIES and the general
public and specially regarding
the junior lien described hereinafter:
A. Junior Lien Mortgage
in favor of Scotiabank of Puerto
Rico, for $29,000.00 with 6.5%
annual interest, due on February
1st, 2036, constituted by deed
number 4, executed in Guaynabo,
Puerto Rico, on January
13th, 2006, before Notary Public
Alfredo Ortiz Almeida, recorded
at page 89 of volume 824 (agora)
of Monacillos. In San Juan,
Puerto Rico, this 1st day of
March 1st, 2016. Aguedo de la
Torre, Special Master.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.
CITIMORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante vs.
JOSE ENRIQUE ROQUE
GALARZA, JOCELYN
LABOY ECHEVARRIA Y
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR ELLOS
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. HSCI201101328
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VIA ORDINARIA AVISO
DE SUBASTA.
A: AL PÚBLICO EN
GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Humacao, hago saber:
Que en cumplimiento de
Mandamiento de Ejecución de
Sentencia, expedido con fecha
17 de septiembre de 2015,
procederé a vender y venderé
en pública subasta y al mejor
postor la propiedad que se describe
a continuación: URBANA:
SOLAR 5-P DE LA URBANIZA-
CION OLYMPIC PARK, EN LA
CARRETERA 198 K. 20.1 DEL
TERMINO MUNICIPAL DE LAS
PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO; CON
UNA CABIDA DE 409.22 ME-
TROS CUADRADOS. EN LIN-
DES POR EL NORTE, EN DOS
ALINEACIONES QUE SUMAN
15.72 METROS LINEALES CON
LA CALLE 3; POR EL SUR, EN
UNA ALINEACION DE 16.47
METROS LINEALES CON LA
CALLE DE ACCESO; POR EL
ESTE, EN DOS ALINEACIONES
QUE SUMAN 24.25 METROS
LINEALES CON EL SOLAR 4-P
Y CALLE 3 Y POR EL OES-
TE, CON UNA ALINEACION
DE 25.00 METROS LINEALES
CON EL SOLAR 6-P. ENCLAVA
UNA CASA. ESTE SOLAR ESTA
AFECTO A UNA SERVIDUMBRE
DE 1.52 METROS DE ANCHO
QUE DISCURRE A TODO LO
LARGO DE SU COLINDANCIA
NORTE Y ESTE A FAVOR DE
LA PUERTO RICO TELEPHONE
COMPANY. 16105 INSCRITA AL
FOLIO 128 DEL TOMO 296 DE
LAS PIEDRAS, REGISTRO DE
LA PROPIEDAD DE HUMACAO.
Propiedad localizada en: URB.
OLIMPIC VILLE 8 CALLE MU-
NICH, LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771
La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución
se encuentra inscrita al
folio 128 del tomo 296, Finca
Numero 16105 de LAS PIE-
DRAS, Registro de la Propiedad
de Puerto Rico de Humacao. El
producto de la subasta se destinará
a satisfacer al demandante
hasta donde alcance, la suma
de $224,199.90 de principal, intereses
al tipo del 6.500% anual
según ajustado, más la suma
de $22,420.00 por concepto de
honorarios de abogado y costas
autorizadas por el Tribunal, más
las cantidades que se adeudan
mensualmente por concepto de
seguro hipotecario, cargos por
demora, y otros adeudados que
se hagan en virtud de la escritura
de hipoteca. La venta en
pública subasta de la referida
propiedad se verificará libre de
toda carga o gravamen posterior
que afecte la mencionada
finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica
y se hace saber la fecha, hora
y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUN-
DA Y TERCERA subasta, si esto
fuera necesario, a los efectos de
que cualquier persona o personas
con algún interés puedan
comparecer a la celebración
de dicha subasta. LA PRIMERA
SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el
día 12 de abril de 2016, a las
11:15 de la mañana en la oficina
del referido Alguacil, sita en
el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala de
Humacao. El precio mínimo fijado
para la PRIMERA subasta
lo es la suma de $224,200.00.
De ser necesaria la celebración
de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la
misma se llevará a efecto el día
19 de abril de 2016, a las 11:15
de la mañana en la oficina antes
mencionada del Alguacil que
suscribe. El precio mínimo para
la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de
$149,466.67, equivalente a dos
terceras partes del tipo mínimo
estipulado para la PRIMERA
SUBASTA. Si no se produce
remate ni adjudicación en la
primera ni la segunda subasta,
se celebrará una TERCERA
SUBASTA el día 26 de abril de
2016, a las 11:15 de la mañana
en la oficina antes mencionada
del Alguacil que suscribe. El
precio mínimo para la TERCE-
RA SUBASTA será la suma de
$112,100.00, equivalente a la
mitad del precio pactado. Se
le advierte a los licitadores que
la adjudicación se hará al mejor
postor, quien deberá consignar
el importe de su oferta en el
acto mismo de la adjudicación
en moneda de curso legal de
los Estados Unidos de América,
en efectivo, cheque certificado
o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil,
y para conocimiento de
la parte demandada y de toda
aquella persona o personas que
tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad
a la inscripción del
gravamen que se está ejecutando
y para conocimiento de los
licitadores y el público en general,
y para su publicación dos
veces en un periódico de circulación
diaria en toda la isla de
Puerto Rico y se fijará, además,
en tres sitios públicos del Municipio
en que ha de celebrarse
dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía.
Se le advierte, además, a todos
los interesados que todos los
documentos relacionados con
la presente acción de ejecución
de hipoteca, así como de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para
ser examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal durante las horas
laborables. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como suficiente
la titularidad o titulación
de la propiedad antes descrita
objeto de esta subasta. EXPI-
DO EL PRESENTE EDICTO, en
San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día
14 de diciembre de 2015. Maria
del Pilar Rivera Rivera, Alguacil
Del Tribunal Sala De Humacao.
Wilnelia Rivera Delgado, Alguacil
Auxiliar 249.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
BAYAMÓN.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs.
DANE WILLIAM FONT
EMONS, PAULINA
MARIANA SASTRE
PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD
LEGAL DE BIENES
GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2015-0228
(503) SOBRE: COBRO DE DI-
NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO-
TECA LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS EE.UU. SS. EL ESTA-
DO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala
Superior de Bayamón, hago
saber al SR. DANE WILLIAM
FONT EMONS y al PÚBLICO
EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento
del Mandamiento de
Ejecución de Sentencia expedido
el día 9 de septiembre 2015,
por la Secretaría del Tribunal,
procederé a vender y venderé
en pública subasta por el precio
mínimo de $315,000.00 y al
mejor postor la propiedad que
se describe a continuación: Urbanización
Caparra Hills, Solar
Núm. 4 del Bloque H, Guaynabo,
Puerto Rico, y que se describe
de la siguiente manera:
URBANA: Solar número Cuatro
(4) del Bloque “H” del plano de
inscripción de la Urbanización
Caparra Hills en Guaynabo,
con un Área de SETECIENTOS
SEIS PUNTO CIENTO TREINTA
Y CUATRO METROS CUADRA-
DOS (706.134 M.C.). En lindes
por el NORTE, en veintidós metros
(22.00 m.), con la calle A;
por el SUR, en veintidós metros
(22.00m.), con el solar número
dieciséis (16); por el ESTE, en
treinta y dos punto cero noventa
y siete metros (32.097 m.), con
el solar número cinco (5); y por
el OESTE, en treinta y dos punto
cero noventa y siete metros
(32.097 m.), con los solares dos
(2) y tres (3). Inscrito al folio 32
del tome 1223 de Guaynabo, fi n-
ca número 14,161, Registro de
la Propiedad de Guaynabo La
fi nca antes descrita se encuentra
afecta a los siguientes gravámenes:
i. HIPOTECA: En garantía
de un pagaré a favor de Oriental
Bank and Trust, o a su orden,
por la suma de $315,000.00,
intereses al 6.375% anual, vencedero
1 de enero de 2033, según
consta de la escritura #601,
otorgada en San Juan, el día
16 de diciembre de 2002, ante
el notario Lymarie Jiménez López,
inscrita al folio 32 del tome
1223 de Guaynabo, inscripción
10a. La hipoteca objeto de esta
ejecución es la que ha quedado
descrita en el inciso (i). GRAVE-
MEN POSTERIOR ii. HIPOTE-
CA: En garantía de un pagaré
a favor de Westernbank Puerto
Rico, o a su orden, por la suma
de $220,000.00, intereses al 1
sobre el Prime Rate, vencedero
a la presentación, según consta
de la escritura #13, otorgada en
San Juan, el día 18 de enero de
2005, ante el notario José M.
Biaggi Landrón, inscrita al folio
32 del tome 1223 de Guaynabo,
inscripción 12a. iii. EMBARGO:
A favor de Estado Libre Asociado
de Puerto Rico, por la suma
de $30,510.64 de contribuciones
sobre ingreso, según certifi -
cación de fecha 1 de septiembre
de 2011, anotado al folio 32 del
tome 1223 de Guaynabo, Anotación
A, fecha 27 de octubre de
2011. iv. EMBARGO: A favor de
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto
Rico (Ley 12), por la suma de
$62,472.75, según certifi cación
el 1 de septiembre de 2011, anotado
al folio 151, Asiento 603,
tomo 17, fecha 8 de septiembre
de 2011. v. DEMANDA: En el
caso civil #D CD2012-0054, en
el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Bayamón, por
Oriental Bank and Trust y Banco
Popular de Puerto Rico, se reclama
la suma de $277,612.52,
anotado al folio 179 del tome
1451 de Guaynabo, Anotación
B, fecha 26 de marzo de 2012.
Será celebrada la subasta para
con el importe de la misma, la
parte demandante pueda cobrar
su acreencia, a saber, la suma
de $255,821.86 de principal,
intereses al 6.375% desde el
día 1 de julio de 2014; intereses
vencidos; gastos por demora
y $31,500.00 estipulados para
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, más cualquier otro
desembolso que haya efectuado
o efectúe la parte demandante
durante la tramitación de
este caso para otros adelantos
de conformidad con el Contrato
Hipotecario, incluyendo primas
de seguro de hipoteca, prima de
seguro de siniestro y cargos por
demora. La PRIMERA SUBAS-
TA será celebrada el día 11 DE
ABRIL DE 2016 A LAS 11:00 DE
LA MAÑANA, en la ofi cina del
Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala de BA-
YAMON, Puerto Rico. Servirá
de tipo mínimo para la misma
la cantidad de $315,000.00, sin
admitirse oferta inferior. De no
haber remate ni adjudicación,
celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA
el día 25 DE ABRIL DE 2016 A
LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en el
mismo lugar, en la que servirá
como tipo mínimo, dos terceras
(2/3) partes del precio pactado
para la primera subasta, o sea,
$210,000.00. Si no hubiese
remate ni adjudicación en la segunda
subasta, celebraré TER-
CERA SUBASTA el día 2 DE
MAYO DE 2016 A LAS 3:00 DE
LA TARDE,, en el mismo lugar
en la que regirá como tipo mínimo,
la mitad del precio pactado
para la primera subasta, o sea,
$157,500.00. El Alguacil que
suscribe hizo constar que toda
licitación deberá hacerse para
pagar su importe en moneda
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América, de acuerdo con la Ley
y de acuerdo con lo anunciado
en este Aviso de Subasta. Se
entiende que todo licitador que
comparezca a la subasta señalada
en este caso, acepta como
bastante la titulación que da
base a la misma. Luego de efectuarse
la subasta, el Alguacil
pondrá al licitador victorioso, en
la posesión física de la propiedad
subastada mediante el lanzamiento
de los ocupantes, que
se efectuará dentro del término
legal establecido, a partir de la
venta, previa Orden al efecto.
Los autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al procedimiento
incoado, estarán de
manifi esto en la Secretaría del
Tribunal durante horas laborables.
Se entiende que cualquier
carga y/o gravamen anterior
y/o preferente, si la hubiere al
crédito que da base a esta ejecución
continuará subsistente,
entendiéndose además, que el
rematante los acepta y queda
subrogado en la responsabilidad
de los mismos, sin destinarse a
su extinción cualquier parte del
remanente del precio de licitación.
Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO
DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL
PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para
su publicación de acuerdo con
la Ley, expido el presente Edicto
bajo mi fi rma y sello de este
Tribunal. En BAYAMON, Puerto
Rico, hoy 14 de octubre de
2015. EDGARDO E. VARGAS
SANTANA, ALGUACIL TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMON.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN-
TRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON
SALA SUPERIOR.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE VS.
CARLOS ALBERTO
BUXO PEREZ, OKSALLY
FARIA ORAMA T/C/C
OKSALL FARIA ORAMA
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2013-0306
(702) SOBRE: EJECUCION DE
HIPOTECA “IN REM” (Vía Ordinaria)
EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
El Alguacil que suscribe por la
presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA
y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento
de un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia que
le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que
suscribe por la Secretaría del
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-
TANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE
BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR,
en el caso de epígrafe procederá
a vender en pública subasta
al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque
certifi cado en moneda legal
de los Estados Unidos de América
el día 11 de abril de 2016
a las 11:15 de la mañana en su
ofi cina sita en el local que ocupa
en el edifi cio del TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA
SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título
e interés que tenga la parte
demandada de epígrafe en el
inmueble de su propiedad que
ubica en Urb. Valparaíso, A-27
Calle 3, Cataño, P.R 00962 y
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Parcela de terreno
identifi cado como el solar 27 del
bloque “A” de la Urbanización
Villa del Río Este, Sección Valparaíso,
radicada en el Barrio
Palmas del término municipal
de Cataño, con una cabida superfi
cial de 448.469 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE,
en 80 centésimas y un arco de
10.18 metros, con la calle número
3; por el SUR, en 10.84
metros, 12.81 metros y 3.128
metros con los solares 3, 2 y 1;
por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros
con el solar número 26; y por el
OESTE, en 27.342 metros con
el solar número 28. Enclava una
casa de concreto diseñada para
una familia. La propiedad antes
relacionada consta inscrita al
Folio 220 del Tomo 119 de Cataño,
Finca número 5738, en el
Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Cuarta. El tipo
mínimo para la primera subasta
del inmueble antes relacionado,
será el dispuesto en la Escritura
de Hipoteca, es decir la suma
de $181,357.00. Si no hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en la
primera subasta del inmueble
mencionado, se celebrará una
segunda subasta en las ofi cinas
del Alguacil que suscribe el día
18 de abril de 2016 a las 3:15 de
la tarde. En la segunda subasta
que se celebre servirá de tipo
mínimo las dos terceras partes
(2/3) del precio pactado en la
primera subasta, o sea la suma
de $120,904.66. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en
la segunda subasta se celebrará
una tercera subasta en las ofi -
cinas del Alguacil que suscribe
el día 25 de abril de 2016 a las
3:15 de la tarde. Para la tercera
subasta servirá de tipo mínimo
la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado
para el caso de ejecución, o
sea, la suma de $90,678.50. La
hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso
de epígrafe fue constituida mediante
la escritura número 14,
otorgada el día 16 de marzo de
2009, ante el Notario Oscar Javier
Santamaría Torres y consta
inscrita en el Folio 1 del Tomo
180 de Cataño, fi nca número
5738, en el Registro de la Propiedad
de Bayamón, Sección
Cuarta, inscripción Duodécima
(12ma). Dicha subasta se lleva-
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rá 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 $172,901.19,
más intereses sobre dicha suma
al tipo convenido de 5.50% porciento
anual desde el primero
(1ro) de agosto de 2012 hasta su
completo pago, más $5,524.23
de intereses devengados hasta
el día 31 de enero de 2013, la
suma de $193.86 por concepto
de cargos por demora devengados
hasta la misma fecha y la
cantidad líquida y estipulada de
$18,135.70 para costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado. Que
los autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al Procedimiento
incoado estarán de
manifiesto en la SECRETARIA
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL
DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPE-
RIOR durante las horas laborables.
Se entenderá que todo
licitador acepta como bastante
la titulación del inmueble y que
las cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los
hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante
continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio de remate. La propiedad
no está sujeta a gravámenes
anteriores ni preferentes según
las constancias del Registro de
la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio
de título que, sobre la finca
descrita anteriormente, pesan
los gravámenes posteriores a
la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante
este procedimiento que
se relacionan más adelante. A
los acreedores que tengan inscritos
o anotados sus derechos
sobre los bienes hipotecados
con posterioridad a la inscripción
del crédito del ejecutante
o acreedores de cargos o derechos
reales que los hubiesen
pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor
y a los dueños, poseedores,
tenedores de, o interesados en
títulos transmisibles por endoso,
o al portador, garantizados
hipotecariamente con posterioridad
al crédito del actor por
la presente se notifica, que se
celebrarán las subastas en las
fechas, horas y sitios señalados
para que puedan concurrir a la
subasta si les conviniere o se
les invita a satisfacer antes del
remate el importe del crédito, de
sus intereses, otros cargos y las
costas y honorarios de abogado
asegurados quedando subrogados
en los derechos del acreedor
ejecutante. CONDICIONES
RESTRICTIVASa favor de la
Autoridad para el Financiamiento
de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico
(Programa “Protegiendo tu Hogar”),
con valor de $18,132.00
según escritura número 322
otorgada en San Juan, Puerto
Rico, ante el Notario Héctor Luis
Torres Dávila el 12 de agosto
de 2011, presentadas al asiento
350 del diario 274 de Cataño. 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico,
hoy día 29 de febrero de 2016.
Edgardo E. Vargas Santana,
Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN-
TRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN
SALA SUPERIOR.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE VS.
NILDA ELIZABETH
CASTRO COLÓN
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2013-2706
(505) SOBRE: COBRO DE DI-
NERO Y EJECUCION DE HI-
POTECA (Vía Ordinaria) EDIC-
TO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil
que suscribe por la presente
CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace
CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento
de un Mandamiento de
Ejecución de Sentencia que
le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil
que suscribe por la Secretaría
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR
DE BAYAMON, 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 el 11
de abril de 2016 a las 9:30 de
la mañana en su oficina sita en
el local que ocupa en el edificio
del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR
DE BAYAMON, todo derecho,
título e interés que tenga la parte
demandada de epígrafe en el
inmueble de su propiedad que
ubica en: Urb. Santa Rosa, 33-4
Calle 26, Bayamón, PR 00959,
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar radicado en
la Urbanización Santa Rosa,
situado en el Barrio Juan Sánchez
de Bayamón, Puerto Rico,
que se describe en el plano de
inscripción de la Urbanización,
con el Número 4 de la manzana
33, con un área de 315.00 metros
cuadrados, en lindes por el
NORTE, con el Solar número 3,
distancia de 21.00 metros; por
el SUR, con el Solar número 5,
distancia de 21.00 metros; por
el ESTE, con la Calle número
26, distancia de 15.00 metros
y por el OESTE, con el Solar
número 42, en una distancia
de 15.00 metros. Enclava una
casa para fines residenciales.
La propiedad antes relacionada
consta inscrita en el Folio 191
del Tomo 1670 de Bayamón,
fi nca número 10,998, en el Registro
de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Primera. El tipo
mínimo para la primera subasta
del inmueble antes relacionado,
será el dispuesto en la Escritura
de Hipoteca, es decir la suma
de $138,666.13. Si no hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en la
primera subasta del inmueble
mencionado, se celebrará una
segunda subasta en las ofi cinas
del Alguacil que suscribe el día
18 de abril de 2016 a las 9:30 de
la mañana. En la segunda subasta
que se celebre servirá de
tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes
(2/3) del precio pactado en la
primera subasta, o sea la suma
de $92,444.09. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en
la segunda subasta se celebrará
una tercera subasta en las ofi cinas
del Alguacil que suscribe el
día 25 de abril de 2016 a las 9:30
de la mañana. Para la tercera
subasta servirá de tipo mínimo
la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado
para el caso de ejecución, o sea,
la suma de $69,333.06. La hipoteca
a ejecutarse en el caso de
epígrafe fue constituida mediante
la escritura número 491, otorgada
el día 31 de julio de 2008,
ante el Notario Manuel R. Pérez
Caballer y consta inscrita al folio
217 del tomo 1847 de Bayamón,
finca número 10,998, Registro
de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Primera, Inscripción
Décimo Tercera (13ra). Dicha
hipoteca fue modifi cada en
cuanto a su principal que será
de $138,666.13, en cuanto a su
término ya que será vencedera
el 1 de abril de 2042 y en cuanto
al por ciento de interés que será
de 4.50%, según consta de la
escritura de modifi cación número
61, otorgada en San Juan,
Puerto Rico el 28 de marzo de
2012 ante la notario Ana E. Gorbea
Padró, que consta inscrita l
folio 217 del tomo 14 de Bayamón,
finca número 10,998, Inscripción
Décimo Cuarta (14ta).
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 $136,429.14 de
principal, intereses sobre dicha
suma al tipo convenido de cuatro
y medio (4.50%) porciento
anual desde el primero (1ro.) de
mayo de 2013, hasta su completo
pago, más $3,058.85de
intereses devengados hasta el
día 31 de septiembre de 2013,
la suma de $320.00 por concepto
de otros cargos devengados
hasta la misma fecha y la cantidad
líquida y estipulada de
$13,113.80 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 manifi esto
en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA-
MON durante las horas laborables.
Se entenderá que todo
licitador acepta como bastante
la titulación del inmueble y que
las cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los
hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante
continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio de remate. La propiedad
no está sujeta a gravámenes
anteriores y/o preferentes según
surge de las constancias
del Registro de la Propiedad
en un estudio de título efectuado
a la fi nca antes descrita.
Por la presente se notifi ca a los
acreedores que tengan inscritos
o anotados sus derechos sobre
los bienes hipotecados con
posterioridad a la inscripción del
crédito del ejecutante o acreedores
de cargos o derechos reales
que los hubiesen pospuesto a la
hipoteca del actor y a los dueños,
poseedores, tenedores de
o interesados en títulos transmisibles
por endoso o al portador
garantizados hipotecariamente
con posterioridad al crédito del
actor que se celebrarán las subastas
en las fechas, horas y sitios
señalados para que puedan
concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere
o se les invita a satisfacer
antes del remate el importe del
crédito, de sus intereses, otros
cargos y las costas y honorarios
de abogado asegurados quedando
subrogados en los derechos
del acreedor ejecutante. Y
para conocimiento de licitadores
del público en general se publicará
este Edicto de acuerdo
con la ley por espacio de dos
semanas en tres sitios públicos
del municipio en que ha de celebrarse
la venta, tales como la
alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía.
Este Edicto será publicado
mediante edictos dos veces en
un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos
semanas consecutivas. Expido
el presente Edicto de subasta
bajo mi fi rma y sello de este Tribunal
en Bayamón, Puerto Rico,
hoy día 29 de febrero de 2016.
Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana,
Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO.
AUTORIDAD PARA EL
FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA
VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO, representado por
el BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
ANDRE LUIS OJEDA
COLLAZO Y LYDIA
ESTHER MURPHY
RODRIGUEZ
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM: NSCI201500162
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EDIC-
TO DE SUBASTA ESTADO
UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRE-
SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS SS EL PUEBLO DE
PUERTO RICO. YO, Yomaris
Senquiz Cruz, Alguacil, División
de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Centro Judicial
de Fajardo, Puerto Rico: CERTI-
FICO Y HAGO CONSTAR: Que
en cumplimiento con un MAN-
DAMIENTO 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 califi caciones de
Ley, de contado y por moneda
del cuño legal de los Estados
Unidos de América, en efectivo,
cheque certifi cado o giro postal
a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal,
en mí ofi cina sita en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Centro Judicial de Fajardo, el
día 6 de abril de 2016, a las 9:15
de la mañana todo derecho, título
o interés que tenga la parte
demandada en la fi nca que se
describe más adelante. El tipo
mínimo para la primera subasta
lo será la suma de $90,110.00.
De no adjudicarse la propiedad
en esa primera subasta, se
establecerán una segunda y
tercera subasta, en las mismas
ofi cinas de este Alguacil, respectivamente,
el 13 de abril de
2016, a las 9:15 de la mañana
y el 20 de abril de 2016, a las
9:15 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, $60,073.33 y
$45,055.00 respectivamente.
La propiedad objeto de subasta
se describe como sigue:
URBANA: Solar radicado en la
Urbanización Monte Brisas, localizado
en el Barrio Quebrada
de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, que se
describe en el plano de inscripción
como sigue: Solar número
dos (2) de la Manzana T, con un
área de trescientos veinticinco
punto cero cero (325.00) metros
cuadrados. En lindes por
el NORTE, con el solar número
tres (3), distancia de veinticinco
punto cero cero (25.00) metros;
por el SUR, con el solar número
uno (1), distancia de veinticinco
punto cero cero (25.00) metros;
por el ESTE, con el solar número
veinte (20), distancia de trece
punto cero cero (13.00) metros
y por el OESTE, con la Calle P,
distancia de trece punto cero
cero (13.00) metros. Enclava
una (1) casa de concreto reforzado.
Consta inscrita al folio
doscientos treinta y siete (237)
del tomo ciento noventa (190)
de Fajardo, fi nca número seis
mil quinientos setenta (6,570).
Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo.
La dirección residencial
es: Urb. Monte Brisas, T dos (2),
Fajardo, Puerto Rico cero cero
siete tres ocho (00738). 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 ocho mil dólares con cero
centavos ($8,000.00) de principal,
sin intereses y vencedero
el día veintitrés (23) de mayo de
dos mil dieciséis (2,016), según
consta de la escritura número
ciento sesenta y seis (166), otorgada
en San Juan, el día veintitrés
(23) de mayo del año dos
mil ocho (2,008), ante el notario
Carlos E. Umpierre Schuck, e
inscrita al folio uno (1) del tomo
cuatrocientos doce (412) de
Fajardo, finca número seis mil
quinientos setenta (6,570), inscripción
catorce (14) y última.
Condiciones de Subsidio “La
Llave Para Tu Hogar”. Se subordina
la hipoteca por la suma de
ocho mil dólares con cero centavos
($8,000.00) en beneficio
de la hipoteca modificada por la
suma de ochenta y seis mil quinientos
dólares con cero centavos
($86,500.00), según consta
de la escritura número mil cinco
(1,005), otorgada en San Juan,
el día nueve (9) de octubre del
año dos mil doce (2,012), ante
el notario Néstor Machado Cortés
y anotado al margen de la
inscripción catorce (14). 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 $89,689.11 de principal; Intereses
al 3.625% anual desde
el día 1ro de agosto de 2014,
hasta el pago total del principal;
$8,550.00 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 FINAN-
CIAMIENTO 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 Fajardo, Puerto
Rico a 29 de octubre de 2015.
Yomaris Senquiz Cruz, Division
De Subastas Tribunal De Primera
Instancia Centro Judicial De
Fajardo.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
FAJARDO
LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD
Parte Demandante Vs.
ROBERTO CARLOS
JIMENEZ TALAVERA
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM. NSCI2009-00816
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTE-
CA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA
ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El
suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia de
Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, a
los demandados de epígrafe y
al público en general hace saber
que los autos y documentos del
caso de epígrafe estarán de manifi
esto en la Secretaría del Tribunal
durante horas laborables
y que venderá en pública subasta
al mejor postor, en moneda de
curso legal de los Estados Unidos
de América en efectivo, cheque
certifi cado, o giro postal a
nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, en mi ofi -
cina en este Tribunal el derecho
que tenga la parte demandada
en el inmueble que se relaciona
más adelante para pagar la
SENTENCIA por $113,986.96
de balance principal, los intereses
adeudados sobre dicho
principal y computados al 7.95%
anual desde el día primero de
mayo de 2009 hasta su total
pago y completo pago; más el
5% computado sobre cada mensualidad
de $854.43 de cargos
por demora a razón de $42.72
mensuales hasta su total pago,
más la suma de $11,700.00
como cantidad estipulada para
honorarios de abogado, pactada
en la escritura de hipoteca;
y cuales quiera 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: URBAN:
HORIZONTAL PROPERTY:
Apartment number A one hundred
two (A-102), in building “A”,
situated in lot number one (1) of
Villa Marina Condominium, located
at Barrio Sardinera, Fajardo,
Puerto Rico. The apartment is
constructed of reinforced concrete
and concrete blocks, treated
wood and asbestos cement,
with a total fl oor area of nine
hundred ninety one point ninety
three (991.93) square feet,
equivalent to ninety two point
nineteen (92.19) square meters,
more or less. The apartment is
located in the middle of building
“A” on the fi rst fl oor. The main
entrance of the apartment of the
apartment is located on its South
boundary, in the foyer in front of
the living-dining room and immediately
communicated it with
stairwell number two (2) and
stairs, which stairwell and stairs
give access to the second and
third fl oor levels. Stairwell number
two (2) and stairs are a common
element of the Condominium,
which leads to the parking
area, number one (1), which in
turn leads to Lagoon Drive East
Street. The boundaries of the
apartment are: On the North,
in three (3) lineal distances,
two of them have of a total distance
of fi fteen feet six inches,
equivalent to four point seventy
three meters, more or less, with
the North exterior wall, and the
other of twenty three feet three
inches, equivalent to seven point
cero nine meters, more or less,
with two boundaries that are in
a vertical direction, from fl oor to
ceiling, the fi rst one consisting
of four feet three and a half
inches, equivalent to one point
thirty one meters more or less,
with apartment A one hundred
one (A.101) and the second
one consisting of three feet
eight and a half inches, equivalent
to one point thirteen meters,
more or less with apartment
number A two hundred one, on
the South, in two lineal distance
one being o twenty three
feet six inches, equivalent to
six point sixteen meters, more
or less, with the South exterior
wall, and the other consisting
of fi fteen feet six inches, equivalent
to four point seventy
three meters, more or less, with

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the South exterior wall, and the
other consisting of fifteen feet six
inches, equivalent to four point
seventy three meters, more or
less, with stairwell number two
and stairs, on the West, in three
lineal distances, one being to
two feet cero inches, equivalent
to cero point sixty one meters,
more or less, with exterior wall,
other being of thirteen feet eight
inches, equivalent to four point
seventeen meters, more or less,
with two boundaries that are in
a vertical direction from floor to
ceiling, the first one consisting
of four feet three and a half inches,
equivalent to one point
thirty one meters, more or less,
with apartment A one hundred
one (A-101), and the second
one also consisting of three feet
eight and a half inches, equivalent
to one point thirteen meters,
more or less, with apartment H
two hundred one and the other
being of twenty one feet one
inches, equivalent to six point
forty three meters, more or less,
with the West, exterior wall, on
the East, in two lineal distance,
one of twenty eight feet six inches,
equivalent to eight point
sixty nine meters, more or less,
with the East exterior wall, and
the other consisting in eight feet
six inches, equivalent to two point
fifty nine (2.59) more or less,
with two boundaries that are in
a vertical direction, from floor to
ceiling, the first one consisting of
four feet three and a half inches,
equivalent to one point thirty one
meters, more or less, with a
Foundation wall, and the second
one consisting of three feet eight
and a half inches, equivalent to
one point thirteen meters, more
or less with the apartment A
one hundred three (A-103). This
apartment is to be used for residencial
and or hotel purpose
and contains the following facilities:
foyer, living-dining room,
kitchen, laundry, storage space,
two bedrooms with teir respective
closets, two (2) bathrooms, a
terrace and a hallway. A parking
area number one (1) belong to
this apartment. Inscrita al folio
quince (15) del tomo doscientos
ochenta y cuatro (284) de
Fajardo, finca número once mil
ochocientos setenta y cuatro
(11,874), Registro de Fajardo.
La primera subasta se llevará a
cabo el día 7 de abril de 2016 a
las 10:30 de la mañana, y servirá
de tipo mínimo para la misma
la suma de $117,000.00 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 14
de abril de 2016 a las 10:30 de
la mañana y el precio mínimo
para esta segunda subasta será
el de dos terceras partes del
precio mínimo establecido para
la primera subasta, o a sea la
suma de $78,000.00. Si tampoco
hubiera remate ni adjudicación
en la segunda subasta, se
celebrará una tercera subasta
el día 21 de abril de 2016 a las
10:30 de la mañana y el tipo mínimo
para esta tercera subasta
será la mitad del precio establecido
para la primera subasta, o
sea, la suma de $58,500.00. 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, así como para
la publicación en un periódico
de circulación general diaria y
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos
semanas con antelación a la fecha
de la primera subasta y por
lo menos una vez por semana.
Expedido el presente en Fajardo,
Puerto Rico a 12 de noviembre
de 2015.Yomaris Senquiz
Cruz, Alguacil #089, Alguacil Del
Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
BAYAMÓN.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
WILLIAM VEGA ÁLVAREZ
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2014-2784
(702) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI-
NARIA AVISO DE VENTA EN
PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Janet
Ortiz Sierra, Alguacil Supervisor
de la División de Subastas del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Bayamón, a la demandada
y al público en general, les
notifico que, cumpliendo con un
Mandamiento que se ha librado
en el presente caso por el Secretario
del Tribunal, de epígrafe
con fecha 10 de julio de 2015 y
para satisfacer la Sentencia por
la cantidad de $127,694.94 de
principal, dictada en el caso el
6 de mayo de 2015, notificada
y archivada en autos el día 12
de mayo de 2015 y publicada
en el periódico El Nuevo Día, el
20 de mayo de 2015, procederé
a vender en pública subasta, al
mejor postor en pago de contado
y en moneda del curso legal
de los Estados Unidos de América,
todo derecho, título e interés
que hayan tenido tengan o puedan
tener los deudores demandados
en cuanto a las propiedad
localizada en: Municipio de Bayamón,
Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble
se describe a continuación:
Cond. Villas de Hato Tejas,
Apt. 1-201, Bayamón, Puerto
Rico. URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: APARTAMENTO
IDENTIFICADO CON EL NÚ-
MERO 1-201, LOCALIZADO EN
EL SEGUNDO PISO DE EDIFI-
CIO UNO DEL CONDOMINIO
VILLAS DE HATO TEJAS, UBI-
CADO EN EL BARRIO HATO
TEJAS DEL TERMINO MUNICI-
PAL DE BAYAMÓN, CON UNA
CABIDA SUPERFICIAL DE
1,129.00 PIES CUADRADOS.
COLINDA POR EL NORTE, EN
26’5”, CON EL APARTAMENTO
NUMERO 1-202 DEL MISMO
EDIFICIO Y EN 13’9”, CON EL
PASILLO EXTERIOR, POR EL
SUR, EN 32’8”, CON EL APAR-
TAMENTO 2-202 DEL EDIFICIO
DOS DEL CONDOMINIO Y EN
2’6” CON PARED EXTERIOR;
POR EL ESTE, EN VARIAS
ALINEACIONES EN 29’4” CON
PARED EXTERIOR Y POR EL
OESTE, EN VARIAS ALINEA-
CIONES, EN 33’4” CON PARED
EXTERIOR Y PUERTA DE AC-
CESO A BALCÓN. LA PUERTA
PRINCIPAL DE ACCESO SE
ENCUENTRA EN SU LADO
ESTE LA CUAL COLINDA CON
EL PASILLO EXTERIOR DE
SU PISO. CONSTA DE TRES
DORMITORIOS, DOS BAÑOS,
SALA-COMEDOR, COCINA,
BALCÓN Y ESTA EQUIPA-
DO CON CALENTADOR DE
AGUA E INTERRUPTOR DE
TRANSFERENCIA ELÉCTRICA
PARA PLANTA ELÉCTRICA DE
EMERGENCIA. LE CORRES-
PONDE COMO ELEMENTO DE
USO COMUN LIMITADO DEL
APARTAMENTO DOS ESPA-
CIOS DE ESTACIONAMIENTO
UBICADOS EN LA CALLE NÚ-
MERO 5 DEL CONDOMINIO,
IDENTIFICADO CON EL NU-
MERO 1-201. CORRESPONDE
A ESTE APARTAMENTO EN
LOS ELEMENTOS COMUNES
DEL INMUEBLE UNA PARTI-
CIPACION DE 0.52%. CONSTA
INSCRITA AL FOLIO 112 DEL
TOMO 1892, DE BAYAMÓN
SUR, FINCA NÚMERO 78463,
REGISTRO DE LA PROPIE-
DAD, SECCIÓN I DE BAYA-
MÓN. Que con el importe de
dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer
a la parte demandante las
cantidades adeudadas, según la
Sentencia dictada en el caso de
epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón.
El tipo mínimo para la subasta
será la suma de tasación
pactada, la cual es $138,902.00
para la propiedad descrita. Si no
produjere remate o adjudicación
la primera subasta, se procederá
a una segunda subasta y
servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3
partes del valor de la tasación.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
adjudicación en esta segunda
subasta, se procederá a una tercera
subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo
será de la 1/2 del valor de
la tasación. Para el lote descrito,
la primera subasta se llevará a
cabo el día 5 de abril de 2016,
a las 10:45 de la mañana. De
no comparecer postor alguno
se llevará a efecto una segunda
subasta el día 12 de abril de
2016, a las 2:45 de la tarde. De
no comparecer postor alguno se
llevará a cabo una tercera subasta
el día 19 de abril de 2016,
a las 2:45 de la tarde. La subasta
o subastas antes indicadas se
llevarán a efecto en mi ofi cina,
localizada en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala Superior de
Bayamón. Se le advierte a los
licitadores que la adjudicación
se hará al mejor postor, quien
deberá consignar el importe de
su oferta en el mismo acto de la
adjudicación en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos
de Norteamérica y para conocimiento
de la parte demandada y
de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s)
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción del
gravamen que se está ejecutando,
y para conocimiento de los
licitadores y el público en general
y para su publicación en un
periódico de circulación general,
una vez por semana durante
el término de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo de
por lo menos siete (7) días entre
ambas publicaciones, y para su
fi jación en tres (3) lugares públicos
del municipio en que ha de
celebrarse la venta, tales como,
la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía
y se le notifi cará además
a la parte demandada vía
correo certifi cado con acuse de
recibo a la última dirección conocida.
Se les advierte a todos
los interesados que todos los
documentos relacionados con la
presente acción de ejecución de
hipoteca, así como la de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para
ser examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal. Se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titulación y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los hubiere
al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán
subsiguientes entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Y para conocimiento
de los demandados, de
los acreedores posteriores, de
los licitadores, partes interesadas
y público en general, expido
el presente Aviso para su publicación
en los lugares públicos
correspondientes. Librado en
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 2 de
marzo de 2016. Janet Ortiz Sierra,
Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
BAYAMÓN.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
RAFAEL ANTONIO
RIVERA FRECHEL;
Y JUAN ANTONIO
QUIÑONES VÉLEZ
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2014-1074
(701) SOBRE: COBRO DE DI-
NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO-
TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA
AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA
SUBASTA. Yo, Janet Ortiz Sierra,
Alguacil Supervisor de la
División de Subastas del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala
de Bayamón, a la demandada
y al público en general, les notifico
que, cumpliendo con un
Mandamiento que se ha librado
en el presente caso por el Secretario
del Tribunal, de epígrafe
con fecha 22 de julio de 2015 y
para satisfacer la Sentencia por
la cantidad de $98,527.85 de
principal, dictada en el caso el
11 de julio de 2014, notificada
y archivada en autos el día 28
de abril de 2015 y publicada en
el periódico El Nuevo Día, el 6
de mayo de 2015, procederé a
vender en pública subasta, al
mejor postor en pago de contado
y en moneda del curso
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América, todo derecho, título e
interés que hayan tenido tengan
o puedan tener los deudores
demandados en cuanto a las
propiedad localizada en: Municipio
de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico,
el bien inmueble se describe
a continuación: Cond. Lagos
del Norte, Apt. 302, Toa Baja,
Puerto Rico. URBANA: Apartamento
residencial número 302
de forma irregular, constituido
por un nivel, localizado en el
tercer piso del edificio Lagos
del Norte Apartments, que está
localizado en el Barrio Sabana
Seca del término municipal de
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Consta
de un nivel siendo sus linderos
los siguientes: por el NORTE,
con el corredor principal en una
distancia de 9.85 metros; por el
SUR, con el espacio exterior en
una distancia de 9.85 metros,
por el ESTE, con el apartamento
número 301, en una distancia de
7.77 metros; por el OESTE, con
el apartamento número 303, en
una distancia de 7.36 metros.
Consta el mismo de 2 habitaciones
con sus respectivos closets,
sala-comedor, cocina, un baño,
área de almacenar, balcón. El
baño está equipado con bañera,
lavabo y servicio sanitario.
El área total del apartamento
es de 74.86 metros cuadrados.
La puerta de entrada de este
apartamento está situada en su
lindero Norte y por ella se sale
al corredor principal. Este apartamento
tiene una participación
de 0.4590 por ciento en los elementos
comunes generales del
proyecto. Le corresponde como
elemento común limitado el estacionamiento
identificado con
el número 167. Finca número
Monday, March 21, 2016
30496, inscrita al Folio 121 del
Tomo 665, Registro de la Propiedad
de Bayamón, Sección
II. Que con el importe de dicha
venta se habrá de satisfacer a
la parte demandante las cantidades
adeudadas, según la
Sentencia dictada en el caso de
epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón.
El tipo mínimo para la subasta
será la suma de tasación
pactada, la cual es $108,097.00
para la propiedad descrita. Si
no produjere remate o adjudicación
la primera subasta, se
procederá a una segunda subasta
y servirá de tipo mínimo
de 2/3 partes del valor de la
tasación. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en ésta
el tipo mínimo será de la 1/2 del
valor de la tasación. Para el lote
descrito, la primera subasta se
llevará a cabo el día 5 de abril
de 2016, a las 11:00 de la mañana.
De no comparecer postor
alguno se llevará a efecto una
segunda subasta el día 12 de
abril de 2016, a las 3:00 de la
tarde. De no comparecer postor
alguno se llevará a cabo una
tercera subasta el día 19 de abril
de 2016, a las 3:00 de la tarde.
La subasta o subastas antes
indicadas se llevarán a efecto
en mi oficina, localizada en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Bayamón. Se
le advierte a los licitadores que
la adjudicación se hará al mejor
postor, quien deberá consignar
el importe de su oferta en el
mismo acto de la adjudicación
en moneda de curso legal de
los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
y para conocimiento de
la parte demandada y de toda(s)
aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan
interés inscrito con posterioridad
a la inscripción del gravamen
que se está ejecutando, y para
conocimiento de los licitadores
y el público en general y para su
publicación en un periódico de
circulación general, una vez por
semana durante el término de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos
siete (7) días entre ambas
publicaciones, y para su fijación
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
municipio en que ha de celebrarse
la venta, tales como, la
Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía
y se le notificará además a
la parte demandada vía correo
certificado con acuse de recibo
a la última dirección conocida.
Se les advierte a todos los
interesados que todos los documentos
relacionados con la
presente acción de ejecución de
hipoteca, así como la de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para
ser examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal. Se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titulación y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los hubiere
al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán
subsiguientes entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
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sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Y para conocimiento
de los demandados,
de los acreedores posteriores,
de los licitadores, partes interesadas
y público en general, expido
el presente Aviso para su
publicación en los lugares públicos
correspondientes. Librado
en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 2
de marzo de 2016. Janet Ortiz
Sierra, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
BAYAMÓN.
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V.
EVELYN GONZÁLEZ
CUADRADO
DEMANDADO
CIVIL NÚM. DCD2015-1138
(401) SOBRE: COBRO DE DI-
NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO-
TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA
AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA
SUBASTA. Yo, Janet Ortiz Sierra,
Alguacil Supervisor de la División
de Subastas del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala de
Bayamón, a los demandados
y al público en general, les notifi
co que, cumpliendo con un
Mandamiento que se ha librado
en el presente caso por el Secretario
del Tribunal, de epígrafe
con fecha 25 de enero de 2016
y para satisfacer la Sentencia
por la cantidad de $75,106.47
de principal, dictada en el caso,
el 23 de noviembre de 2015,
notifi cada y archivada en autos
el 2 de diciembre de 2015, procederé
a vender en pública subasta,
al mejor postor en pago
de contado y en moneda del
curso legal de los Estados Unidos
de América, todo derecho,
título e interés que hayan tenido
tengan o puedan tener los deudores
demandados en cuanto
a las propiedad localizada en:
Municipio de Bayamón, Puerto
Rico, el bien inmueble se describe
a continuación: 58 Calle
Las Flores, Cataño, Puerto Rico
00962 URBANA: Solar con casa
sitos en la Calle de Las Flores
del Barrio Cataño de Bayamón,
compuesto de once punto cero
cero (11.00) metros de frente
por veinticinco punto cero cero
(25.00) metros de fondo, equivalentes
a DOSCIENTOS SE-
TENTA Y CINCO (275.00) ME-
TROS CUADRADOS, colinda
por el frente, Norte, con la calle
Las Flores, en la cual ocupa el
número sesenta (60), por su
derecha entrando Oeste, Pedro
Sánchez, hoy José María Prieto,
por su izquierda, Este, con
Dolores Suárez, hoy casa de
Alfredo Sarriero y por su fondo
Sur, Leonor Shou, hoy Mariano
Pardo. Enclava una casa. Inscrita
al Folio 52 del Tomo 65 de
Cataño, Finca número 3,029
del Registro de la Propiedad de
Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de
Bayamón Que con el importe de
dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer
a la parte demandante las
cantidades adeudadas, según la
Sentencia dictada en el caso de
epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón.
El tipo mínimo para la subasta
será la suma de tasación
pactada, la cual es $76,000.00
para la propiedad descrita. Si no
produjere remate o adjudicación
la primera subasta, se procederá
a una segunda subasta y
servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3
partes del valor de la tasación.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni
adjudicación en esta segunda
subasta, se procederá a una tercera
subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo
será de la 1/2 del valor de
la tasación. Para el lote descrito,
la primera subasta se llevará a
cabo el 7 de abril de 2016, a las
11:45 de la mañana. De no comparecer
postor alguno se llevará
a efecto una segunda subasta el
14 de abril de 2016, a las 11:45
de la mañana. De no comparecer
postor alguno se llevará a
cabo una tercera subasta el 21
de abril de 2016, a las 11:45 de
la mañana. La subasta o subastas
antes indicadas se llevarán
a efecto en mi ofi cina, localizada
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Bayamón.
Del estudio de titulo surge el
siguiente gravamen posterior,
el cual podría ser cancelado:
ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA:
De fecha 27 de enero de 2011,
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia
de Bayamón, caso civil
D CD2011-0301, por concepto
de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución
de Hipoteca, seguido por Doral
Bank versus Evelyn Gonzalez
Cuadrado, por la suma de
$70,288.92 otras sumas adicionales.
Anotado al folio 106 del
tomo 189 de Cataño, fi nca 3029,
anotación A. Se le advierte a los
licitadores que la adjudicación
se hará al mejor postor, quien
deberá consignar el importe de
su oferta en el mismo acto de la
adjudicación en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos
de Norteamérica y para conocimiento
de la parte demandada y
de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s)
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción del
gravamen que se está ejecutando,
y para conocimiento de los
licitadores y el público en general
y para su publicación en un
periódico de circulación general,
una vez por semana durante
el término de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo de
por lo menos siete (7) días entre
ambas publicaciones, y para su
fi jación en tres (3) lugares públicos
del municipio en que ha de
celebrarse la venta, tales como,
la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía
y se le notifi cará además
a la parte demandada vía
correo certifi cado con acuse de
recibo a la última dirección conocida.
Se les advierte a todos
los interesados que todos los
documentos relacionados con la
presente acción de ejecución de
hipoteca, así como la de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para
ser examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal. Se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como

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34 Monday, March 21, 2016 The San Juan Daily Star
bastante la titulación y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los hubiere
al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán
subsiguientes entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Y para conocimiento
de los demandados, de
los acreedores posteriores, de
los licitadores, partes interesadas
y público en general, expido
el presente Aviso para su publicación
en los lugares públicos
correspondientes. Librado en
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 2 de
marzo de 2016. Janet Ortiz Sierra,
Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
FAJARDO.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante v.
LA SUCESIÓN DE
FERNANDO PEREZ
SERRANO; COMPUESTA
POR FERNANDO PÉREZ
GONZÁLEZ; LUIS OSCAR
PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ;
ERNESTO PÉREZ
GONZÁLEZ; COMO
ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES
HEREDEROS; EN
SU CUOTA VIUDAL
USUFRUCTUARIA Y
EN SU CARÁCTER
PERSONAL ROSALIA
GONZALEZ PEREZ T/C/C
ROSALIA GONZALEZ,
INCAPACITADA MENTAL
REPRESENTADA POR
SU TUTOR LEGAL;
DEPARTAMENTO DE
HACIENDA DEL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO Y CENTRO
DE RECAUDACIONES DE
INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
(CRIM)
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: NICI2011-00271
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
- EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA ESTA-
DOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA-
DOS UNIDOS SS ESTADO LI-
BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo,
Yomaris Senquiz Cruz, Alguacil
del Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Fajardo, 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 1 de octubre de 2015, para
satisfacer la Sentencia dictada
el 25 de junio de 2014, notificada
el 3 de julio de 2014. En
dicha Sentencia se condena a
la parte demandada a satisfacer
la suma de $40,370.33 adeudada
al 1ro de abril de 2011, 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 ubica Las
Croabas, RD 907 Km 6.0, Fajardo,
Puerto Rico, que se describe
a continuación: URBANA:
Solar marcado con el número 2
de la Urbanización Los Robles,
localizada en el barrio Las Cabezas
del término municipal de
Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una
cabida superficial de 898.700
metros cuadrados. En lindes
por el NORTE, con el solar 3;
por el SUR, con el solar 1; por
el ESTE, con Nicolás Robles; y
por el OESTE, con la carretera
de la Urbanización. Inscrito al folio
105 del tomo 255 de Fajardo,
finca número 10,270 Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
Sección de Fajardo. La finca antes
descrita se encuentra afecta
un gravamen posterior al que
se pretende ejecutar, el cual se
describe de la siguiente manera:
Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré
a favor de R-G Premier Bank
of Puerto Rico, o a su orden,
por la suma de $55,900.00 con
intereses a razón de 6.375%
anual, vencedero el 1ro de julio
de 2013, según consta de la escritura
número 283, otorgada en
San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 17
de junio de 2005, ante el notario
José Ernesto Rivera Reyes, inscrita
al folio 124 del tomo 449 de
Fajardo; inscripción 9na y última.
El tipo mínimo para la subasta
será la suma de $53,150.00. 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
$35,433.33. 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 $26,575.00. 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 cantidad
adeudada según la Sentencia,
asciende a la suma de
$40,370.33; la cual se desglosa
en: $33,817.73 por concepto de
principal; $1,146.49 por concepto
de intereses acumulados;
$65.40 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; $25.71 por concepto de
“escrow advances”; $5,315.00
para costas, gastos y honorarios
de abogado; y demás créditos
accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.
La primera subasta
se llevará a cabo el día 7 de abril
de 2016, a la(s) 10:00 de la mañana.
De declararse desierta, se
llevará a efecto una segunda subasta
el día 14 de abril de 2016,
a la(s) 10:00 de la mañana. De
declararse desierta, se llevará
a cabo una tercera subasta el
día 21 de abril de 2016, a la(s)
10:00 de la mañana. La subasta
o subastas antes indicadas se
llevarán a efecto en mi ofi cina,
localizada en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Fajardo.
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.
Puede consignar el importe
en efectivo, cheque certifi cado o
giro postal a nombre del Alguacil
del Tribunal. 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 notifi cara 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 Fajardo, Puerto
Rico, a 28 de octubre de 2015.
Yomaris Senquiz Cruz, Alguacil
Tribunal De Primera Instancia
Sala De Fajardo.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
BAYAMÓN.
Urban Financial of
America, LLC
DEMANDANTE VS.
Ángel Manuel Díaz Díaz
t/c/c Ángel M. Díaz Díaz
t/c/c Ángel Manuel Díaz
t/c/c Ángel Díaz Díaz; y
a los Estados Unidos de
América
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2015-0484
(703) SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero
y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la
Vía Ordinaria EDICTO DE SU-
BASTA.
Al: Público en General
A: ANGEL MANUEL DIAZ
DIAZ T/C/C ANGEL M.
DIAZ DIAZ T/C/C ANGEL
MANUEL DIAZ T/C/C
ANGEL DIAZ DIAZ Y LOS
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA.
Yo, Edgardo E. Vargas Santana,
Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a
s demandados, acreedores y
al público en general con interés
sobre la propiedad que más
adelante se describe, y al público
en general, por la presente
CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO
CONSTAR: Que el día 14 de abril
de 2016, a las 11:15 de la mañana
en mi oficina, sita el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
de Bayamón, Bayamón,
Puerto Rico, procederé a vender
en Pública Subasta, al mejor
postor, la propiedad inmueble
que más adelante se describe
y cuya venta en pública subasta
se ordenó por la vía ordinaria
mediante Sentencia dictada en
el caso de epígrafe, el dia 9 de
septiembre de 2015, notificada
y archivada en autos el 30 de
septiembre de 2015. Los autos
y todos los documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento
incoado, estarán de manifiesto
en la Secretaría durante horas
laborables. Que en caso de no
producir remate ni adjudicación
en la primera subasta a celebrarse,
se celebrará una segunda
subasta para la venta de la
susodicha propiedad, el día 21
de abril de 2016,a las 11:15 de
la mañana; y en caso de no producir
remate ni adjudicación, se
celebrará una tercera subasta
el día 28 de abril de 2016, a las
11:15 de la mañana en mi oficina
sita en el lugar antes indicado.
Que en cumplimiento de un
Mandamiento de Ejecución de
Sentencia que ha sido liberado
por la Secretaría del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe
con fecha de 20 de enero
de 2016, procederé a vender en
pública subasta y al mejor postor,
todo derecho, título e interés
que tenga la parte demandada
de epígrafe en el inmueble de su
propiedad ubicado en Lot L Sr
825 Km 4.5 Int. Achiote Ward,
Naranjito, Puerto Rico, 00719,
y que se describe a continuación:
RUSTICA: Predio de terreno
identificado en el plano con
la letra L radicado en el Barrio
Aibonito de Naranjito, Puerto
Rico, con una cabida superficial
1644.8033 me, en lindes por el
Norte, con acceso de uso público,
al Sur, con Sucesión Ortega;
al Este con lote M; y al Oeste,
con lote K. Finca número 6312,
inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 224
de Naranjito, Registro de la Propiedad
de Puerto Rico, Sección
de Barranquitas. La subasta se
llevará a cabo para satisfacer,
hasta donde alcance, el importe
de las cantidades adeudadas
a la parte demandante conforme
a la sentencia dictada a su
favor, a saber: $125,180.05 por
concepto de balance de principal,
más intereses acumulados
al 31 de enero de 2015, y los
cuales continúan acumulándose
a razón del 5.060% por ciento
anual, hasta su completo pago,
más la cantidad de $24,900.00
equivalente al 10% de la suma
principal original pactada, estipulada
para costas, gastos y
honorarios de abogado; más
recargos acumulados hasta la
fecha en que se pague la deuda;
más cualquiera suma de dinero
por concepto de contribuciones,
primas de seguro hipotecario
y riesgo, así como cualesquiera
otras sumas pactadas en
la escritura de hipoteca, todas
cuyas sumas están líquidas y
exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse
en el caso de epígrafe fue
constituida mediante la Escritura
de Hipoteca Número 61,
otorgada el día del 15 de junio
de 2012, en San Juan, Puerto
Rico, ante el Notario Público
David Gil De Rubio y consta
inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 224
de Naranjito, Puerto Rico, finca
número 6,312, Registro de la
Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección
Barranquitas, Inscripción
8. Que la cantidad mínima de
licitación en la primera subasta
del inmueble antes descrito será
la suma de $249,000.00 según
se establece en la escritura de
hipoteca antes relacionada. En
caso de que el inmueble a ser
subastado no fuera adjudicado
en su primera subasta se ordena
la celebración de una segunda
subasta de dicho inmueble,
en la cual, la cantidad mínima
será una equivalente a 2/3 parte
de aquella, o sea la suma de
$166,000.00; desierta también
la segunda subasta de dicho
inmueble, se ordena la celebración
de una tercera subasta en
la cual, la cantidad mínima será
la mitad del precio pactado para
la primera subasta, es decir la
suma de $124,500.00. La propiedad
se adjudicará al mejor
postor, quien deberá satisfacer
el importe de su oferta en moneda
legal y corriente de los
Estados Unidos de América en
el momento de la adjudicación,
entiéndase efectivo, giro postal
o cheque certificado a nombre
del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, y que las cargas
y gravámenes preferentes, si los
hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante
continuarán subsistentes,
entendiéndose que el rematante
los acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los
mismos, sin destinarse a su
extinción el precio del remate.
La propiedad no está sujeta
a gravámenes anteriores y/o
preferentes según surge de las
constancias del Registro de
la Propiedad en un estudio de
título efectuado a la finca antes
descrita. Por la presente se
notifica a los acreedores que
tengan inscritos o anotados sus
derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados
con posterioridad a la
inscripción del crédito del ejecutante
o acreedores de cargos
o derechos reales que los hubiesen
pospuesto a la hipoteca del
actor y a los dueños, poseedores,
tenedores de o interesados
en títulos transmisibles por endoso
o al portador garantizados
hipotecariamente con posterioridad
al crédito del actor que se
celebrarán las subastas en las
fechas, horas y sitios señalados
para que puedan concurrir a la
subasta si les conviniere o se
les invita a satisfacer antes del
remate el importe del crédito,
de sus intereses, otros cargos
y las costas y honorarios de
abogado asegurados quedando
subrogados en los derechos del
acreedor ejecutante. Una vez
efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad,
el Alguacil procederá a
otorgar la escritura de traspaso
al licitador victorioso en subasta,
quien podrá ser la parte
demandante, cuya oferta podrá
aplicarse a la extinción parcial o
total de la obligación reconocida
por la sentencia dictada en
este caso. Si el producto de la
venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer
la cantidad reclamada,
se procederá a la ejecución de
la sentencia en contra de la parte
demandada por el remanente
de las sumas no satisfechas,
mediante embargo y venta
en ejecución de cualesquiera
otros bienes propiedad de la
parte demandada en cantidad
suficiente para dejar cubierta
y totalmente satisfecha a la
parte demandante cualquier
deficiencia o parte insoluta de
la sentencia dictada a su favor
según dispuesto en la sentencia
dictada en este caso. Se dispone,
conforme con la sentencia
dictada en este caso que,
una vez efectuada la subasta
y vendido el bien inmueble, los
adjudicatarios sean puestos en
posesión del mismo dentro del
término de veinte (20) días por el
Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal
y los actuales poseedores
lanzados del referido inmueble.
De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil
podrá diligenciar el Acta de
Subasta que se expida en horas
laborales, de día, los 5 días de
la semana y podrá romper cualquier
cerradura o candado que
dé acceso al inmueble objeto de
este desalojo. y para la concurrencia
de licitadores y para el
público en general, se publicará
este Edicto de acuerdo con la
ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico
de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico, una vez por semana,
por espacio de dos (2)
semanas consecutivas con un
intervalo de por lo menos siete
(7) días entre ambas publicaciones,
y para su fijación en tres
(3) lugares públicos del municipio
en que ha de celebrarse la
venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el
Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le
notificará además a la parte demandada
vía correo certificado
con acuse de recibo a la última
dirección conocida. EN TESTI-
MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido
el presente Edicto de Subasta
para conocimiento y comparecencia
de los licitadores, bajo
mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 23 de
febrero de 2016. Edgardo E.
Vargas Santana, Alguacil Tribunal
De Primera Instancia Sala
De Bayamón.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
BAYAMON.
Urban Financial of
America, LLC
DEMANDANTE VS.
Sucesión de María
Cristina Robles Morales
t/c/c Maria C. Robles
Morales t/c/c María C.
Robles t/c/c Maria Cristina
Robles t/c/c María Robles
Morales t/clc Cristina
Robles compuesta por:
Otoniel Rodríguez Robles,
Ernesto Rodríguez
Robles, Elizabeth
Rodríguez Robles,
Margarita Rodríguez
Robles; y Fulano de Tal
y Sutano de Tal como
posible herederos de
nombres desconocidos,
Centro de Recaudaciones
Municipales; Oficina de
Herencia y Donaciones
del Departamento de
Hacienda de Puerto Rico;
y a los Estados Unidos de
América
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2014-3362
(506) SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero
y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la
Vía Ordinaria EDICTO DE SU-
BASTA
Al: Público en General
A: SUCESIÓN DE MARIA
CRISTINA ROBLES
MORALES T/C/C MARIA
C. ROBLES MORALES
T/C/C MARIA C. ROBLES
T/C/C MARIA CRISTINA
ROBLES T/C/C MARIA
ROBLES MORALES
T/C/C CRISTINA ROBLES
COMPUESTA POR
OTONIEL RODRIGUEZ
ROBLES, ESNESTO
RODRIGUEZ ROBLES,
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ
ROBLES, MARGARITA
RODRIGUEZ ROBLES,
Y FULANO DE TAL Y
SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS;
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA.
Yo, Edgardo E. Vargas Santana,
Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a
lo demandados, tenedores y al
público en general con interés
sobre la propiedad que más
adelante se describe, y al público
en general, por la presente
CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO Y HAGO
CONSTAR: Que el día 14 de
abril de 2016, a las 11:45 de la
mañana, en mi ofi cina, sita en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón,
Puerto Rico, procederé
a vender en Pública Subasta, al
mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble
que más adelante se
describe y cuya venta en pública
subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria
mediante Sentencia dictada
en el caso de epígrafe, el
día 26 de mayo de 2015, notifi -
cada el 3 de junio de 2015 y archivada
en autos el 30 de junio
de 2015. Los autos y todos los
documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento incoado, estarán
de manifi esto en la Secretaría
durante horas laborables.
Que en caso de no producir remate
ni adjudicación en la primera
subasta a celebrarse, se
celebrará una segunda subasta
para la venta de la susodicha
propiedad, el día 21 de abril de
2016, a las 11:45 de la mañana;
y en caso de no producir remate
ni adjudicación, se le celebrará
una tercera subasta el día 28 de
abril de 2016, a las 11:45 de la
mañana en mi ofi cina sita en el
lugar antes indicado. Que en
cumplimiento de un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia
que ha sido liberado por la Secretaria
del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón,
en el caso de epígrafe
con fecha de 26 de enero de
2016, procederé a vender en pública
subasta y al mejor postor,
todo derecho, título e interés
que tenga la parte demandada
de epígrafe en el inmueble de su
propiedad ubicado en: D-31 3
St. Braulio Dueño Colon Dev.,
Bayamón, P.R 00956, y que se
describe a continuación: URBA-

The San Juan Daily Star
NA: Solar marcado con el numero
treinta y uno (31) de la Manzana
“D” del Plano preparado
por la Autoridad sobre Hogares
de Puerto Rico, hoy Corporación
de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda
de Puerto Rico, para su proyecto
de solares denominado
Braulio Dueño Colón “PRHA”
guión veintidós (PRHA-22), radicado
en el Barrio Pájaros del
término municipal de Bayamón,
Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial
de 252.25 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el Norte,
con el solar número D-29 de la
mencionada Urbanización, distancia
de 4.90 metros y con el
solar número (D-30) de la mencionada
Urbanización, distancia
de 4.82 metros; por el Sur, con
la servidumbre de paso de la
Calle número 3 de dicho Proyecto,
distancia de 12.26 metros;
por el Este, con el solar D-32 de
la susodicha Urbanización, distancia
de 22.97 metros; y por el
Oeste, con el solar número D-28
del mencionado Proyecto Braulio
Dueño Colon PRHA-22, distancia
de 22.86 metros. Finca
número 31,604, inscrita al folio
108 del tomo 673 de Bayamón
Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de
Puerto Rico, Sección 1 de Bayamón.
La subasta se llevará a
cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde
alcance, el importe de las
cantidades adeudadas a la parte
demandante conforme a la sentencia
dictada a su favor, a saber:
$85,386.12 por concepto de
balance de principal, más intereses
acumulados al 31 de diciembre
de 2014 Y los cuales continúan
acumulándose a razón del
5.060% por ciento anual hasta
su completo pago, más la cantidad
de $14,250.00 equivalente
al 10% de la suma principal original
pactada, estipulada para
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado; más recargos acumulados
hasta la fecha en que se
pague la deuda; más cualquiera
suma de dinero por concepto de
contribuciones, primas de seguro
hipotecario y riesgo, así como
cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas
en la escritura de hipoteca,
todas cuyas sumas están líquidas
y exigibles. La hipoteca a
ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe
fue constituida mediante la
Escritura de Hipoteca Número
609, otorgada el día 20 de septiembre
de 2012, en Guaynabo,
Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público
María G, Chevere Mouriño
y consta inscrita al folio 155 del
tomo 1912 de Bayamón Sur, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto
Rico, finca número 31,064, Sección
Primera de Bayamón, Inscripción
3a. Que la cantidad mínima
de licitación en la primera
subasta del inmueble antes descrito
será la suma de
$142,500.00 según se establece
en la escritura de hipoteca antes
relacionada. En caso de que el
inmueble a ser subastado no
fuera adjudicado en su primera
subasta se ordena la celebración
de una segunda subasta de
dicho inmueble, en la cual, la
cantidad mínima será una equivalente
a 2/3 parte de aquella, o
sea la suma de $95,000.00; desierta
también la segunda subasta
de dicho inmueble, se ordena
la celebración de una
tercera subasta en la cual, la
cantidad mínima será la mitad
del precio pactado para la primera
subasta, es decir la suma
de $71,250.00. La propiedad se
adjudicará al mejor postor, quien
deberá satisfacer el importe de
su oferta en moneda legal y corriente
de los Estados Unidos de
América en el momento de la
adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo,
giro postal o cheque certificado
a nombre del Alguacil del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y
que las cargas y gravámenes
preferentes, si los hubiese, al
crédito del ejecutante continuarán
subsistentes, entendiéndose
que el rematante los acepta y
queda subrogado en la responsabilidad
de los mismos, sin
destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. La propiedad no
está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores
y/o preferentes según surge
de las constancias del Registro
de la Propiedad en un estudio
de título efectuado a la finca antes
descrita. Por la presente se
notifica a los acreedores que
tengan inscritos o anotados sus
derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados
con posterioridad a la
inscripción del crédito del ejecutante
o acreedores de cargos o
derechos reales que los hubiesen
pospuesto a la hipoteca del
actor y a los dueños, poseedores,
tenedores de o interesados
en títulos transmisibles por endoso
o al portador garantizados
hipotecariamente con posterioridad
al crédito del actor que se
celebrarán las subastas en las
fechas, horas y sitios señalados
para que puedan concurrir a la
subasta si les conviniere o se les
invita a satisfacer antes del remate
el importe del crédito, de
sus intereses, otros cargos y las
costas y honorarios de abogado
asegurados quedando subrogados
en los derechos del acreedor
ejecutante. Una vez efectuada
la venta de dicha propiedad,
el Alguacil procederá a otorgar
la escritura de traspaso al licitador
victorioso en subasta, quien
podrá ser la parte demandante,
cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la
extinción parcial o total de la
obligación reconocida por la
sentencia dictada en este caso.
Si el producto de la venta fuere
insuficiente para satisfacer la
cantidad reclamada, se procederá
a la ejecución de la sentencia
en contra de la parte demandada
por el remanente de las
sumas no satisfechas, mediante
embargo y venta en ejecución
de cualesquiera otros bienes
propiedad de la parte demandada
en cantidad suficiente para
dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha
a la parte demandante
cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta
de la sentencia dictada a
su favor según dispuesto en la
sentencia dictada en este caso.
Se dispone, conforme con la
sentencia dictada en este caso
que, una vez efectuada la subasta
y vendido el bien inmueble,
los adjudicatarios sean
puestos en posesión del mismo
dentro del término de veinte (20)
días por el Alguacil de este Honorable
Tribunal y los actuales
poseedores lanzados del referido
inmueble. De ser ello necesario,
el Alguacil podrá diligenciar
el Acta de Subasta que se
expida en horas laborales, de
día, los 5 días de la semana y
podrá romper cualquier cerradura
o candado que dé acceso al
inmueble objeto de este desalojo.
Y para la concurrencia de licitadores
y para el público en general,
se publicará este Edicto
de acuerdo con la ley, mediante
edicto, en un periódico de circulación
general en el Estado Libre
Asociado de Puerto Rico, una
vez por semana, por espacio de
dos (2) semanas consecutivas
con un intervalo de por lo menos
siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones,
y para su fi jación en
tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio
en que ha de celebrarse
la venta, tales como la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se
le notificará además a la parte
demandada vía correo certifi cado
con acuse de recibo a la última
dirección conocida. EN TES-
TIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido
el presente Edicto de Subasta
para conocimiento y comparecencia
de los licitadores, bajo mi
firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón,
Puerto Rico, a 23 de febrero
de 2016. Edgardo E. Vargas
Santana, Alguacil Tribunal
de Primera Instancia Sala de
Bayamón.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
CAROLINA.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante v.
SANTIAGO PEREZ RUIZ
D/B/A JUNKER CUBA
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: FCD2015-0303
(403) SOBRE: COBRO DE DI-
NERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPO-
TECA EDICTO DE SUBASTA
AL PUBLICO EN
GENERAL; A LA
PARTE DEMANDADA
Y A LOS TENEDORES
DE GRAVÁMENES
POSTERIORES.
YO, Efrain Marquez Arroyo, Alguacil
del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Carolina, al
público en general, POR LA
PRESENTE HAGO SABER:
CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER
Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia del
Secretario de este Tribunal, venderé
en pública subasta al mejor
postor en moneda legal de los
Estados Unidos, en mi ofi cina,
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Carolina, el día
4 de abril de 2016, a las 9:00 de
la mañana, la siguiente propiedad:
“URBANA: Solar marcado
con el número seiscientos setenta
y tres (673) del Bloque J
del plano de inscripción de la
Urbanización Vistamar, Tercera
Extensión situada en el Barrio
Sabana Abajo de la municipalidad
de Carolina, Puerto Rico,
con una cabida superfi cial de
trescientos doce punto once
(312.11) metros cuadrados y
colinda por el NORTE, en trece
punto cincuenta y siete (13.57)
metros con los solares seiscientos
ochenta y ocho (688) y seiscientos
ochenta y nueve (689);
por el SUR, en trece punto cincuenta
y siete (13.57) metros
con la calle principal de dicha
urbanización; por el ESTE, en
veintitrés (23.00) metros con el
solar seiscientos setenta y cuatro
(674); y por el OESTE, en
veintitrés (23.00) metros con el
solar seiscientos setenta y dos
(672), todas dichas colindancias
con el mismo bloque J de dicha
urbanización. Consta inscrita al
folio 126 del tomo 127 de Carolina,
fi nca número 4,572, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
Sección I de Carolina. Dirección
Física: J-673 Pontezuela Avenue,
Vista Mar Dev., Sabana
Abajo Ward, Carolina, Puerto
Rico. La venta se llevará a cabo
para con su producto satisfacer
a la parte demandante, hasta
donde sea posible, el importe
de la sentencia dictada en el
caso de epígrafe, a saber las
siguientes cantidades: (i) préstamo
comercial: $147,696.27 de
principal, más $3,723.11 de intereses
acumulados hasta el 21
de enero de 2015, más los que
continúen acumulándose hasta
el pago total y completo de la
deuda, más $199.98 de recargos,
más la suma de $16,000.00
por concepto de honorarios de
abogados pactados. (ii) línea de
crédito: $12,835.00 de principal,
más $238.61 de intereses acumulados
hasta el 21 de enero
de 2015, más los que continúen
acumulándose hasta el pago total
y completo de la deuda, más
una suma razonable por concepto
de gastos, costas y honorarios
de abogados. (iii) tarjeta de crédito:
$5,472.58 de principal, más
los intereses y recargos que se
acumulen hasta el pago total y
completo de la deuda, más una
suma razonable por concepto
de gastos, costas y honorarios
de abogados. (iv) préstamo personal:
$2,022.18 de principal,
más $181.25 de intereses acumulados
hasta el 11 de febrero
de 2015, más los que continúen
acumulándose hasta el pago total
y completo de la deuda, más
$13.80 por cargos por mora,
más una suma razonable por
concepto de honorarios de abogados
pactados. El tipo mínimo
para la Primera Subasta será
de $160,000.00. Se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titulación y que las
cargas preferentes, si alguna,
continuarán subsistentes; entiéndase
que el remanente los
acepta y quedan subrogados en
la responsabilidad del mismo sin
destinarse a su extinción el precio
del remate. En caso de que
el inmueble a ser subastado no
fuera adjudicado en la primera
subasta, se celebrará una segunda
subasta el día 11 de abril
de 2016, a la 1:00 de la tarde,
y el tipo mínimo para éstas será
el de las dos terceras partes del
precio mínimo establecido para
la primera subasta. Si tampoco
hubiera remate ni adjudicación
en la segunda subasta, se celebrará
una tercera subasta el día
18 de abril de 2016, a la 1:00 de
la tarde, y el tipo mínimo para
esta subasta será la mitad del
precio mínimo pactado para la
primera subasta. Si se declarase
desierta la tercera subasta,
se dará por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicarse
el acreedor la fi nca dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimara conveniente, por
la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si ésta fuera igual o menor
que el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta y abonándose dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada si
ésta fuere mayor. Las subastas
antes indicadas se llevarán a
cabo en mi ofi cina, sita en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala
de Carolina. Los autos y todos
los documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento incoado
estarán de manifi esto en la Secretaría
del Tribunal durante las
horas laborables. El inmueble
antes relacionado consta afecto
a los siguientes gravámenes
posteriores: Aviso de Demanda:
9 de marzo de 2015, expedido
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Carolina, en el Caso
Civil número F CD2010-0303,
seguido por Oriental Bank, contra
Santiago Pérez Ruiz haciendo
negocios como Junker Cuba,
por la suma de $147,696.27
más otras sumas, anotado el
día 24 de septiembre del 2015,
al folio 43, del tomo 1061 de Carolina
I, fi nca número 4,572, (antes
9,664), Anotación B. Para la
publicación de este edicto en un
periódico de circulación general
una vez por semana, durante
dos semanas consecutivas, y
para la colocación del mismo
en tres sitios públicos visibles
del municipio en que se celebre
la subasta, libro el presente en
Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día
10 de marzo de 2016. Efrain
Marquez Arroyo, Alguacil Tribunal
De Primera Instancia Sala
De Carolina.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN-
TRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO
SALA SUPERIOR.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO,
Demandante, v.
MELISSA
NIEVES BANREY,
Demandada.
Civil Núm: NSCI2014-00377
(302) Sobre: Cobro de Dinero
y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la
Vía Ordinaria AVISO DE VENTA
EN PUBLICA SUBASTA. Yo,
Maritza Santana Ortiz, Alguacil
del Tribunal de Primera Instancia
de Fajardo, Sala Superior, al
público en general, CERTIFICO
Monday, March 21, 2016
Y HAGO SABER: Que en virtud
del mandamiento expedido el
24 de noviembre de 2014, por
el Secretario de este Tribunal,
dirigido al que suscribe, procederé
a vender en pública subasta,
al mejor postor, en pago
de contado y en moneda de los
Estados Unidos de América, por
el precio mínimo de $78,400.00,
el inmueble hipotecado en este
caso, el cual se describe como
sigue: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada
con el número ciento
ochenta y ocho (#188) en el plano
de parcelación de la comunidad
rural Saldaña, del barrio Río
Arriba del término municipal de
Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una
cabida superfi cial de cero cuerdas
con novecientos cincuenta
y cuatro diezmilésimas de
otra, equivalentes a trescientos
setenta y cinco metros cuadrados
(375.00) . En lindes por el
NORTE, con la parcela número
ciento ochenta y siete (#187) de
la comunidad; por el SUR, con la
parcela número ciento ochenta y
nueve (#189) de la comunidad;
por el ESTE, con la calle número
uno (#1) de la comunidad; y
por el OESTE, con la parcela
número ciento noventa y uno
(#191) de la comunidad. Enclava
edifi cación. Consta inscrita
al folio sesenta y uno (61) del
tomo doscientos noventa y cinco
(295) de Fajardo, fi nca número
doce mil cuatrocientos ochenta
y uno (12,481) del Registro de
la Propiedad de Fajardo. Dicha
propiedad consta inscrita a favor
de MELISSA NIEVES BANREY,
quien adquiere por compra mediante
la escritura número 447,
otorgada el 1 de junio de 2006,
ante el Notario Público Luis
Dávila Alemán, la cual fue presentada
el 14 de junio de 2006
al asiento 392 del diario 281 y
consta inscrita en virtud de la
Ley Número 216 del 27 de diciembre
de 2010, fi nca número
12,481, Registro de la Propiedad
de Fajardo. Con el importe
de dicha venta se habrán de
satisfacer a la parte demandante
las siguientes cantidades,
según la Sentencia en Rebeldia
dictada por el Honorable Tribunal
de Primera Instancia de
Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de
Fajardo el día 23 de septiembre
de 2014 y notifi cada el 29 de
septembre de 2014: La parte demanda
adeuda solidariamente a
la parte demandante, la suma
$70,49.40 por concepto del principal
adeudado, más intereses
acumulados, los cuales continúan
en aumento hasta l pago
total y solvento de la obligación,
cargos por demora acumulados
lo cuales continúan en aumento
hasta el pago total y solvento
de la obligación y la suma de
$7,840.00 por concepto de costas
y honorarios de abogado
previamente pactados; los intereses
legales correspondientes
y en vigor a esta fecha, al tipo
fi jado por la Junta Financiera
de la Ofi cina del Comisionado
de Instituciones Financieras, a
computarse desde la fecha de
hoy sobre la cuantía de esta
Sentencia, incluyendo costas y
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honorarios de abogado, hasta
el total pago y solvento del importe
de la misma. La sumas
antes descritas están garantizadas
mediante hipoteca a favor
de la AUTORIDAD PARA EL
FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VI-
VIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, o a
su orden, por la suma principal
de $78,400.00 con intereses al
6.50%, y a vencer elIde julio de
2036, según consta en escritura
pública número 448 otorgada el
1 de junio de 2006, ante el Notario
Público Luis Dávila Alemán,
la cual fue presentada el 14 de
junio de 2006 al asiento 393 del
diario 281 y consta inscrita en
virtud de la Ley Número 216 del
27 de diciembre de 2010, fi nca
número 12,481, Registro de la
Propiedad de Fajardo. La primera
subasta se llevará a efecto
en mi ofi cina, sita en el local que
ocupa el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo,
a las 9:00 de la mañana
día 05 de ABRIL de 2016, por el
tipo mínimo de $78,400.00. Si no
produjera remate ni adjudicación
la primera subasta, queda señalada
la segunda subasta que
dispone la ley para las 9:00 de
la mañana del día 12 de ABRIL
de 2016, por el tipo mínimo de
$52,266.67; si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en la segunda
subasta; se señala la tercera
subasta que dispone la ley
para las 9:00 de la mañana del
día 15 de ABRIL de 2016, por el
tipo mínimo de la mitad del precio
pactado, o sea, $39,200.00.
Las tres subastas señaladas se
celebrarán a las horas y fechas
antes indicadas en mi ofi cina
sita en el local que ocupa el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala
Superior de Fajardo. Se advierte
que los autos de este caso y
demás instancias están disponibles
para ser inspeccionadas en
la secretaría del Tribunal durante
las horas laborables. Se advierte
que los licitadores aceptan
como bastante la titulación de
la fi nca anteriormente descrita y
que se adquiere con las cargas
preferentes al crédito que se
ejecuta. Y PARA CONOCIMIEN-
TO DE LAS PARTES INTERE-
SADAS y del público en general,
se advierte que la adjudicación
se hará al mejor postor y que
el pago de la licitación deberá
hacerse en el acto de la subasta
yen moneda de los Estados Unidos
de América, de acuerdo con
la ley. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO
CUAL, expido el presente que
fi rmo y sello con el sello de est
a, ofi cina en FAJARDO, Puerto
Rico, hoy día 29 de febrero de
2016. Maritza Santana Ortiz,
Alguacil Auxiliar #054, Alguacil
Tribunal de Primera Instancia
Sala de Fajardo.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN-
TRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON
SALA SUPERIOR.
LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD.
Parte Demandante VS
NANCY ELIZABETH
MORAN GONZALEZ
T/C/C NANCY MORAN
GONZALEZ
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM.: DCD2009-2702.
SALON NÚM.: 401. SOBRE:
ACCION CIVIL DE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HI-
POTECA POR LA VIA ORDINA-
RIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA.
A: NANCY ELIZABETH
MORAN GONZALEZ
T/C/C NANCY MORAN
GONZALEZ; Y AL
PUBLICO EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior, Centro Judicial
de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto
Rico, hago saber a la parte
demandada, al PUBLICO EN
GENERAL; y a el siguiente gravamen
posterior: Corporación
para el Financiamiento de la
Vivienda de Puerto Rico: A cuyo
favor aparece un pagaré por la
suma de $21,745.00, sin intereses
y a vencer en 20 años, según
consta de la escritura #584,
otorgada en San Juan, el 11 de
agosto de 2000, ante el Notario
Miguel A. García Rivera, inscrito
al folio 161 del tomo 1063
de Guaynabo, fi nca #37,108,
inscripción 2da. Presentada
al asiento 1434 del diario 572,
el día 5 de agosto de 2015, la
escritura #12, otorgada en San
Juan, el día 30 de julio de 2015,
ante la Notario Zilmarie Delgado
Pieras, mediante la cual comparece
la Autoridad para el Financiamiento
de la Vivienda de
P.R., a dar su consentimiento;
ratifi cación; y subordinar la hipoteca
de $21,745.00 en favor
de la hipoteca de $75,000.00
para que ésta última tenga
rango preferente. Pendiente de
califi cación y despacho. Que en
cumplimiento del Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido
el día 10 de noviembre
de 2014, por la Secretaria del
Tribunal, procederé a vender
y venderé en pública subasta
y al mejor postor la propiedad
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Horizontal Property:
Quintavalle condominium
apartment number 804, Edifi cio
Norte, rectangular shaped 3
bedroom unit with a total construction
area of 865.46 square
feet, equivalent to 80.40 square
meters, distributed in the 798.06
square feet, equivalent to 74.14
square meters of enclosed area
and 67.400 square meters, equivalent
to 6.26 square meters of
porch. The main entrance is
located on the North side. This
apartment is located in Edifi cio
Norte of the Condominium and
occupies part of the eight fl oor
of the building. The maximum
length of this unit is 25; 5” and
the maximum width is 44’4”. Its
boundaries are: by the North, in
a distance of 44’4” equivalent
to 13.52 meters with exterior
common areas; by the South,
in a distance of 44’4” equivalent
to 13.52 meters with the common
wall that separates it from
apartmen number 803 and the

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common exterior areas; by the
East, in a distance of 24’1” equivalent
to 7.34 meters with the
common wall that separates it
from apartment number 801 and
interior and exterior common
areas; by the west, in a distance
25’3” equivalent to 7.70 meters,
with the exterior common areas.
This unit contains a kitchen a
living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms,
with closet, two bathrooms
and a covered porch. Se
le asigna a este apartamento
al estacionamiento número 44
como elemento común. Este
apartamento tiene una participación
de 0.61792% en los elementos
comunes del Condominio.
Inscrito al folio 160 del tomo
1063 de Guaynabo, Registro de
la Propiedad de Guaynabo, finca
número 37,108. El producto
de la subasta se destinará a
satisfacer al demandante hasta
donde alcance, la SENTENCIA
dictada a su favor, el día 31 de
enero de 2013, en el presente
caso civil, a saber la suma de
$72,806.73 de principal, más
intereses al 8 1/4% anual desde
el día 1ro. de febrero de 2009,
más la suma de $7,500.00, por
concepto de honorarios de abogado
y costas autorizadas por
el Tribunal, más las cantidades
que se adeudan mensualmente
a partir del día 1ro. de marzo de
2009, por concepto de seguro
hipotecario, cargos por demora,
más cualesquiera otros adelantos
que se hagan en virtud
de la escritura de hipoteca. La
venta de la referida propiedad
se verificará libre de toda carga
o gravamen que afecte la
mencionada finca, excepto el
gravamen aquí antes mencionado,
a cuyo efecto se notifica
y se hace saber la fecha, hora
y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUN-
DA y TERCERA subasta, si esto
fuera necesario, a los efectos de
que cualquier persona o personas
con algún interés puedan
comparecer a la celebración de
dicha subasta. La adjudicación
se hará al mejor postor, quien
deberá consignar el importe de
su oferta en el acto mismo de la
adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda
del curso legal de los Estados
Unidos de América), giro
postal o cheque certificado a
nombre del alguacil del Tribunal.
LA PRIMERA subasta se llevará
a efecto el día 13 DE ABRIL DE
2016 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MA-
ÑANA, en la oficina del referido
Alguacil, localizada en el Centro
Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón,
Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo
fijado para la PRIMERA SU-
BASTA es de $75,000.00. Que
de ser necesaria la celebración
de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la
misma se llevará a efecto el día
20 DE ABRIL DE 2016 A LAS
3:00 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina
antes mencionada del Alguacil
que suscribe. El precio mínimo
para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA
será de $50,000.00, equivalentes
a dos terceras (2/3) partes
del tipo mínimo estipulado para
la PRIMERA subasta. Que de
ser necesaria la celebración
de una TERCERA SUBASTA,
la misma se llevará a efecto el
día 27 DE ABRIL DE 2016 A
LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en la
oficina antes mencionada del
Alguacil que suscribe. El precio
mínimo para la TERCERA
SUBASTA será de $37,500.00,
equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del
tipo mínimo estipulado para la
PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase
desierta la tercera subasta
se dará por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicárse
al acreedor la finca aquí antes
descrita, dentro de los diez (10)
días siguientes, si así lo estimare
conveniente, por la totalidad
de la cantidad adeudada si ésta
fuera igual o menor al monto
del tipo mínimo de la tercera
subasta, y abonándose dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada si
ésta fuere mayor. (Art. 221, Ley
Hipotecaria y del Registro de la
Propiedad, 30 L.P.R.A. §2721).
Para conocimiento de la parte
demandada y de toda aquella
persona o personas que tengan
interés inscrito con posterioridad
a la inscripción del gravamen
que se está ejecutando, y para
conocimiento de todos los licitadores
y el público en general,
el presente Edicto se publicará
por espacio de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas, con un intervalo
de por lo menos siete días
entre ambas publicaciones, en
un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado de
Puerto Rico y se fijará además
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
Municipio en que ha de celebrarse
dicha venta, tales como
la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía.
Se le advierte a todos
los interesados que todos los
documentos relacionados con la
presente acción de ejecución de
hipoteca, así como de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para ser
examinados en la Secretaría de
este Tribunal, durante las horas
laborables. EXPIDO, el presente
EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puerto
Rico, hoy día 15 de enero de
2016. Carlos Alayon Betancourt,
Alguacil Supervisor, División de
Subastas, Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón.
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LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
ARECIBO.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante v.
INSTRUMENTATION
CORPS, INC.; JUAN
ANTONIO OLIVERAS
ORTIZ, su esposa MARIA
ELENA MONTALVO
ESCOBAR por sí y en
representación de la
sociedad legal de bienes
gananciales entre ellos
compuesta
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: CCD2015-0231
(402). SOBRE: COBRO DE DI-
NERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPO-
TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA,
AL PUBLICO EN
GENERAL; A LA
PARTE DEMANDADA
Y A LOS TENEDORES
DE GRAVÁMENES
POSTERIORES
YO, Ismael Serrano Cardona,
Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, al
público en general, POR LA
PRESENTE HAGO SABER:
CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER:
Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia
del Secretario de este Tribunal,
venderé en pública subasta
al mejor postor en moneda legal
de los Estados Unidos, en mi
oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el día
6 de abril de 2016, a las 9:45 de
la mañana, la siguiente propiedad:
PROPIEDAD A: RÚSTICA:
Radicada en el Barrio Florida
Afuera, Sector conocido por
Usubal del término municipal de
Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, compuesta
de novecientos noventa
y cinco punto dos mil quinientos
treinta y dos metros (99S.2S32
mts.) cuadrados, en lindes por
el NORTE, en dos alineaciones
que suman veinticuatro punto
sesenta y siete (24.67) metros,
con faja dedicada a uso público
y más allá el remanente de la
finca principal de la cual se segrega;
por el SUR, en veinticuatro
punto noventa y siete (24.97)
metros, con servidumbre de
paso y más allá el solar cinco (S)
a segregarse; por el ESTE, en
cuarenta y uno punto cincuenta
y seis (41.S6) metros, con el solar
dos (2) a segregarse; y por el
OESTE, en treinta y nueve punto
veintiocho (39.28) metros, con
faja dedicada á uso público y
más allá con camino vecinal.
Consta inscrita al folio 178 del
tomo 129 de Barceloneta, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto
Rico, Sección de Manatí, finca
núm. 9,043. La dirección física
es: Carretera numero 140 km.
6.2 Interior, Barrio Florida Afuera,
Sector Usubal, Barceloneta,
Puerto Rico. El tipo mínimo fijado
para la ejecución del bien inmueble
antes mencionado lo es
la suma de $372,700.00. PRO-
PIEDAD B: El día 6 de abril de
2016, a las 10:00 de la mañana
RÚSTICA: Parcela ubicada en el
Sector Usubal del Barrio Florida
Afuera del Municipio de Barceloneta,
Puerto Rico, tiene una
cabida superficial de mil noventa
punto cero cuatro once
(1090.0411) metros cuadrados,
colinda por el NORTE, con la
Sucesión representada por
Anastacia Concepción, por el
ESTE, con los predios que por
ésta se segrega, por el SUR,
con camino vecinal asfaltado, y
por el OESTE, con Rafael Franqui.
Consta inscrita al folio 11
del tomo 85 de Barceloneta, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto
Rico, Sección de Manatí, finca
núm. 4,320. La dirección física
es: Carretera numero 140 km.
6.2 Interior, Barrio Florida Afuera,
Sector Usubal, Barceloneta,
Puerto Rico. El tipo mínimo fijado
para la ejecución del bien inmueble
antes mencionado lo es
la suma de $31,800.00. PRO-
PIEDAD C: El día 6 de abril de
2016, a las 10:15 de la mañana.
RÚSTICA: Parcela ubicada en el
Sector Usubal del Barrio Florida
Afuera del Municipio de Barceloneta,
Puerto Rico, tiene una
cabida superficial de mil setenta
y tres punto ocho mil ochocientos
veinte (1073,8820) metros
cuadrados, equivalentes a dos
mil setecientos treinta y dos
punto diez (2732.10) cuerdas,
colinda por el NORTE, en cuarenta
punto noventa (40.90) metros,
con solares dos (2) y tres
(3) segregados por el SUR, en
dos alineaciones discontinuas
una de ocho (8.00) 1metros y
otra de treinta y dos punto noventa
y cinco (32.95) metros,
con Basilia Torres y otra de veintitrés
punto veinticinco (23.25)
metros con Raúl Aguirre, y por
el OESTE, en treinta y uno punto
setenta y nueve (31.79) metros,
con solar cinco (5) a segregarse.
Consta inscrita al folio 190 del
tomo 129 de Barceloneta, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto
Rico, Sección de Manatí, finca
núm. 9,046. La dirección física
es: Carretera numero 140 km.
6.2 Interior, Barrio Florida Afuera,
Sector Usubal, Barceloneta,
Puerto Rico. El tipo mínimo fijado
para la ejecución del bien inmueble
antes mencionado lo es
la suma de $71,400.00. PRO-
PIEDAD D: El día 6 de abril de
2016, a las 10:30 de la mañana.
RÚSTICA: Parcela ubicada en el
Sector Usubal del Barrio Florida
Afuera del Municipio de Barceloneta,
Puerto Rico, tiene una
cabida superficial de mil treinta
y cinco punto siete mil ochocientos
setenta (1035.7870) metros
cuadrados, colinda por el
NORTE, en treinta punto cincuenta
(30.50)metros, con el
solar uno (1) y dos (2) segregados,
por el SUR, en treinta y uno
punto; por el ESTE en treinta y
uno punto setenta y nueve
treinta y uno (31.31) metros, con
Basilia Torres (31.79). Consta
inscrita al folio 195 del tomo 129
de Barceloneta, Registro de la
Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección
de Manatí, finca núm.
9,047. La dirección física es:
Carretera numero 140 km. 6.2
Interior, Barrio Florida Afuera,
Sector Usubal, Barceloneta,
Puerto Rico. El tipo mínimo fijado
para la ejecución del bien inmueble
antes mencionado lo es
la suma de $74,100.00. La venta
se llevará a cabo para con su
producto satisfacer a la parte
demandante, hasta donde sea
posible, el importe de la sentencia
dictada en el caso de epígrafe,
ascendente a las siguientes
cantidades: $433,753.23 de
principal, más $40,634.49 de
intereses vencidos y computados
hasta el 16 de enero de
2015, y los que continúan acumulándose
hasta el pago total y
completo de la deuda, más
$3,259.24 de cargos por demora,
más $55,000.00 por concepto
de gastos, costas y honorarios
de abogados. En caso de
que los inmuebles a ser subastados
no fueran adjudicados en
la primera subasta, se celebrará
una segunda subasta el día 13
de abril de 2016, de 9:45 a 10:30
de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo
para éstas serán el de las dos
terceras partes del precio mínimo
establecido para la primera
subasta. Si tampoco hubiera
remate ni adjudicación en la segunda
subasta, se celebrará
una tercera subasta el día 20 de
abril de 2016, de 9:45 a 10:30
de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo
para esta subasta será la mitad
del precio mínimo pactado para
la primera subasta. Si se declarase
desierta la tercera subasta,
se dará por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicarse
el acreedor la finca dentro de los
diez (10) días siguientes, si así lo
estimara conveniente, por la totalidad
de la cantidad adeudada
si ésta fuera igual o menor que
el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta y abonándose dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si ésta fuere mayor. Las subastas
antes indicadas se llevarán a
cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala
de Arecibo. Los autos y todos
los documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento incoado
estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría
del Tribunal durante las
horas laborables. Los inmuebles
4320, 9046 y 9047 constan
afectos por el siguiente gravamen
preferencial: a. Hipoteca
sobre las fincas número 9,046
por $32,760.00 y finca número
9,047 por $40,365.00, a favor de
Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito
de Manatí Inc., por la suma de
$56,250.00, intereses al 8.250%,
vencedero el 1 de noviembre de
2022, constituida mediante la
escritura número 65, otorgada
en Manatí, Puerto Rico, el día 19
de septiembre de 2002, ante el
notario Luis C. Sotomayor González,
ASIENTO 2 DEL DIARIO
257. Esta hipoteca está pagada
y está pendiente a ser presentada
en el Registro de la Propiedad
para su cancelación. El inmueble
9043 consta afecto por
el siguiente gravamen preferencial:
b. Hipoteca en garantía de
un pagaré a favor de Pan American
Financial Corporation, o a
su orden, por la suma principal
de $108,000.00, con intereses al
7.25% anual, vencedero el día 1
de febrero de 2032, constituida
mediante la escritura número
18, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto
Rico, el día 11 de enero de
2002, ante el notario Pedro J.
Díaz García, e inscrita al folio 35
del tomo 269 de Barceloneta,
finca número 9,043, inscripción
5ta. Esta hipoteca está pagada
y está pendiente a ser presentada
en el Registro de la Propiedad
para su cancelación. Todos
los inmuebles antes relacionados
constan afectos a los siguientes
gravámenes posteriores:
a. Embargo a favor del
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto
Rico, contra Instrumentation
Corporation, en la suma de
$706,805.21, en el caso número
ARE-14-1223, Certificado de
Embargo del día 7 de julio de
2014, presentado el día 31 de
julio de 2014, y anotado el dia 4
de agosto de 2014, al folio 182
del tomo 2 de Barceloneta, finca
número 9,046, Ley 12. Se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta
como bastante la titulación y
que las cargas preferentes, si
alguna, continuarán subsistentes;
entiéndase que el rematente
los acepta y quedan subrogados
en la responsabilidad del
mismo sin destinarse a su extinción
el precio del remate.
Para la publicación de este
edicto en un periódico de circulación
general una vez por semana,
durante dos semanas
consecutivas, y para la colocación
del mismo en tres sitios
públicos visibles del municipio
en que se celebre la subasta, libro
el presente en Arecibo,
Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de marzo
del 2016. Ismael Serrano
Cardona, ALGUACIL, TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA,
SALA DE ARECIBO. Gustabo E
Vidal Quiles, Alguacil Regional.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA .
Vacation Ownership
Lending, L.P.
Demandante vs.
HECTOR LUIS MARTÍNEZ
FORNARIS Y AURORA
MARGARITA VARGAS
ARCE y La Sociedad
Legal de Bienes
Gananciales, compuesta
por ambos
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. CD2014-843. SO-
BRE: Cobro de Dinero; Ejecución
de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez
Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal
Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala
de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO
SABER: Que en cumplimiento
de un Mandamiento de Ejecución
de Sentencia que se me
libró con fecha 21 de enero de
2016, por la Secretaria de este
Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe,
venderé en pública subasta
y al mejor postor con dinero
en efectivo, cheque de gerente
o letra bancaria con similar
garantía, todo título, derecho o
interés de la parte demandada
de epígrafe sobre la siguiente
propiedad inmueble perteneciente
a la parte demandada, la
cual se describe a continuación:
VACATION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT
WEEK TWENTY-SIX (26). Vacation
Club Right corresponding to
Unit B dash Eight Hundred Eight
(B-808) of Hacienda del Mar, a
Vacation Club Regime, located
in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality
of Vega Alta. This specifi
c vacation club right is coupled
with a special property right to
the above mentioned B dash
Eight Hundred Eight (B-808)
and includes the right to use
such unit during the twenty-sixth
(26th) week of each year until
December thirty fi rst (31st) of
the year two thousand seventy
(2070), such week commencing
at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the
twenty-sixth (26th) Saturday of
each calendar year and ending
at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the
same day of the following week,
coupled with the membership
in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a
successor club. Notwithstanding
this specifi c vacation club
right allocation of a right to use
a specifi c week in Unit B dash
Eight Hundred Eight (B-808),
the use of said unit during the
described time interval is subject
to the exercise by the owner of
certain priority rights during a
fi xed period of time prior to the
commencement of said interval.
In the absence of such exercise,
other owners of vacation
club rights in the Hacienda del
Mar Vacation Club Regime and
other owners of the timeshare or
Vacation Club Rights in resorts
throughout the world affi liated
to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may
use the unit to which this vacation
right pertains during the
above described interval on a
fi rst come, fi rst serve reservation
basis, and the owner of this
vacation club’s right may use
units of this Vacation Club Regime
and in such other affi liated
resorts, as more fully described
in the Deed of Dedication of
Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation
Club Regime to the Vacation
Club Regime. This Vacation
Club Right has been assigned a
share of one fi fty two hundredth
(1/52) of two point six three one
three two percent (2.63132%)
in the facilities and common
expenses of the Vacation Club
Regime.” Consta inscrita al Folio
ciento cuarenta y seis (146) del
tomo doscientos sesenta y uno
(261) de Vega Alta, Registro de
la Propiedad Bayamón III Finca
Número catorce mil trescientos
noventa y nueve (14,399). La
fi nca 14,399 está gravada con
la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución
se solicita en la subasta
objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca
en garantía de un pagaré a favor
de Vacation Ownership Lending
L.P., o a su orden, por la suma
principal de $15,300.00, con
intereses al 15.00% anual, vencedero
el día 15 de diciembre
de 2007, constituida mediante
la escritura número 1,309,
otorgada en San Juan, Puerto
Rico, el día 1º de diciembre de
2000, ante el notario Francés
R. Ramírez Sánchez, e inscrita
al tomo móvil 67 de Vega Alta,
fi nca número 14,399, inscripción
2da. La venta se llevará a cabo
para con su producto satisfacer
a Vacation Ownership Lending
L.P. el importe de la Sentencia
dictada en el caso de epígrafe,
ascendente a las siguientes
cantidades: $11,239.13 de principal
en concepto de atrasos,
más $1,530.00 por concepto de
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, según pactado. El tipo
mínimo de licitación con relación
a la antes descrita propiedad y la
fecha y hora de cada subasta es
como sigue: Primera Subasta:
Se celebrará el día 21 de abril
de 2016, a las 9:30 de la mañana.
Tipo mínimo: $15,300.00. Si
no produjere remate o adjudicación
la primera subasta, se procederá
a una segunda subasta y
servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes
del tipo mínimo inicial. Segunda
Subasta: Se celebrará el día 28
de abril de 2016, a las 9:30 de
la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en esta
el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo
mínimo inicial. Tercera Subasta:
Se celebrará el día 5 de mayo
de 2016, a las 9:30 de la mañana.
Las subastas de dicha propiedad
se llevarán a efecto en
mi ofi cina situada en el local que
ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro
Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose
que el que obtuviere la
buena pro de dicha propiedad
consignará en el acto del remate
el importe de su oferta en moneda
legal, en adición a los gastos
de la subasta, siendo éste el
mejor postor. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante
el título del inmueble y las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes al crédito del
ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán
subsistiendo, entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Si se declara
desierta la tercera subasta se
dará por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicarse al
demandante la fi nca dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente, por
la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuere igual o menor
que el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta, y abonándose dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuese mayor. Art. 221,
Ley Hipotecaria y del Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
30 L.P.R.A. §2721. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento del
caso de epígrafe están disponibles
en la Secretaría del Tribunal
Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala
Superior de Vega Baja, durante
horas laborables. Para conocimiento
de la parte demandada
y de toda persona que tenga interés
inscrito con posterioridad a
la inscripción del gravamen que
se está ejecutando, si alguna, y
para la concurrencia de licitadores
y para el público en general
el presente edicto se publicará
en un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado
de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces
por espacio de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo de
por lo menos siete (7) días entre
ambas publicaciones. Se fi jará,
además, por espacio de dos (2)
semanas mediante avisos por
escrito visiblemente colocados
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
Municipio donde ha de celebrarse
la subasta, estos lugares
serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la

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Colecturía de dicho Municipio.
Se notificará a la parte demandada
copia del edicto de subasta
mediante correo certificado
con acuse de recibo a la última
dirección conocida. Expido el
presente edicto bajo mi firma
y sello del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 25 de
febrero de 2016. Freddy Omar
Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL
SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
VEGA BAJA .
Vacation Ownership
Lending, L.P.
Demandante vs.
RUTH VALLE BELLO
Demandada
CIVIL NÚM. CD2014-848. SO-
BRE: Cobro de Dinero; Ejecución
de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez
Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal
Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala
de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO
SABER: Que en cumplimiento
de un Mandamiento de Ejecución
de Sentencia que se me libró
con fecha de 21 de enero de
2016, por la Secretaria de este
Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe,
venderé en pública subasta y al
mejor postor con dinero en efectivo,
cheque de gerente o letra
bancaria con similar garantía,
todo título, derecho o interés de
la parte demandada de epígrafe
sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble
perteneciente a la parte
demandada, la cual se describe
a continuación: VACATION
CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK
FORTY-TWO (42). Vacation
Club Right corresponding to Unit
B dash One Hundred Eleven
(B-111) of Hacienda del Mar, a
Vacation Club Regime, located
in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality
of Vega Alta. This specifi
c vacation club right is coupled
with a special property right to
the above mentioned B dash
One Hundred Eleven (B-111)
and includes the right to use
such unit during the forty-second
(42nd) week of each year until
December thirty first (31st) of
the year two thousand seventy
(2070), such week commencing
at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the
forty-second (42nd) Saturday of
each calendar year and ending
at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the
same day of the following week,
coupled with the membership
in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a
successor club. Notwithstanding
this specific vacation club
right allocation of a right to use a
specific week in Unit B dash One
Hundred Eleven (B-111), the use
of said unit during the described
time interval is subject to the
exercise by the owner of certain
priority rights during a fixed period
of time prior to the commencement
of said interval. In the
absence of such exercise, other
owners of vacation club rights in
the Hacienda del Mar Vacation
Club Regime and other owners
of the timeshare or Vacation
Club Rights in resorts throughout
the world affiliated to the
Hyatt Vacation Club, may use
the unit to which this vacation
right pertains during the above
described interval on a first
come, first serve reservation basis,
and the owner of this vacation
club’s right may use units of
this Vacation Club Regime and
in such other affiliated resorts,
as more fully described in the
Deed of Dedication of Hacienda
del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime
to the Vacation Club Regime.
This Vacation Club Right has
been assigned a share of one
fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two
point six three one three two percent
(2.63132%) in the facilities
and common expenses of the
Vacation Club Regime.” Consta
inscrita al Folio ochenta y ocho
(88) del tomo doscientos sesenta
y tres (263) de Vega Alta, Registro
de la Propiedad Bayamón
III Finca Número catorce mil quinientos
setenta y siete (14,577).
La finca 14,577 está gravada
con la siguiente hipoteca cuya
ejecución se solicita en la subasta
objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca
en garantía de un pagaré
a favor de Vacation Ownership
Lending L.P., o a su orden, por
la suma principal de $9,000.00,
con intereses al 15.00% anual,
vencedero el día 15 de noviembre
de 2006, constituida mediante
la escritura número 2,210,
otorgada en San Juan, Puerto
Rico, el día 16 de noviembre de
2001, ante la notaria Francés
R. Ramírez Sánchez, e inscrita
al tomo móvil 69 de Vega Alta,
finca número 14,577, inscripción
2da. La venta se llevará a cabo
para con su producto satisfacer
a Vacation Ownership Lending
L.P. el importe de la Sentencia
dictada en el caso de epígrafe,
ascendente a las siguientes
cantidades: $4,882.54 de principal
en concepto de atrasos,
más $1,500.00 por concepto de
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, según pactado. El tipo
mínimo de licitación con relación
a la antes descrita propiedad y la
fecha y hora de cada subasta es
como sigue: Primera Subasta:
Se celebrará el día 21 de abril
de 2016, a las 10:15 de la mañana.
Tipo mínimo: $9,000.00. Si
no produjere remate o adjudicación
la primera subasta, se procederá
a una segunda subasta y
servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes
del tipo mínimo inicial. Segunda
Subasta: Se celebrará el día 28
de abril de 2016, a las 10:15 de
la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en ésta
el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo
mínimo inicial. Tercera Subasta:
Se celebrará el día 5 de mayo
de 2016, a las 10:15 de la mañana.
Las subastas de dicha propiedad
se llevarán a efecto en
mi oficina situada en el local que
ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro
Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose
que el que obtuviere la
buena pro de dicha propiedad
consignará en el acto del remate
el importe de su oferta en moneda
legal, en adición a los gastos
de la subasta, siendo éste el
mejor postor. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante
el título del inmueble y las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes al crédito del
ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán
subsistiendo, entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Si se declara
desierta la tercera subasta se
dará por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicarse al
demandante la fi nca dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente, por
la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuere igual o menor
que el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta, y abonándose dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuese mayor. Art. 221,
Ley Hipotecaria y del Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
30 L.P.R.A. §2721. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento del
caso de epígrafe están disponibles
en la Secretaría del Tribunal
Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala
Superior de Vega Baja, durante
horas laborables. Para conocimiento
de la parte demandada
y de toda persona que tenga interés
inscrito con posterioridad a
la inscripción del gravamen que
se está ejecutando, si alguna, y
para la concurrencia de licitadores
y para el público en general
el presente edicto se publicará
en un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado
de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces
por espacio de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo de
por lo menos siete (7) días entre
ambas publicaciones. Se fi jará,
además, por espacio de dos (2)
semanas mediante avisos por
escrito visiblemente colocados
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
Municipio donde ha de celebrarse
la subasta, estos lugares
serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la
Colecturía de dicho Municipio.
Se notificará a la parte demandada
copia del edicto de subasta
mediante correo certifi cado
con acuse de recibo a la última
dirección conocida. Expido el
presente edicto bajo mi fi rma
y sello del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 25 de
febrero de 2016. Freddy Omar
Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL
SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TRI-
BUNAL SUPERIOR DE VEGA
BAJA.
Vacation Ownership
Lending, L.P.
Demandante vs.
SAMUEL RODRÍGUEZ
GONZÁLEZ y MADELYN
PAGÁN CRUZ y La
Sociedad Legal de Bienes
Gananciales, compuesta
por ambos
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. CD14-851. SOBRE:
cobro de dinero; ejecución de
hipoteca por la vía ordinaria.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo,
Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo,
Alguacil del Tribunal Superior
de Puerto Rico, Sala de
Vega Baja, al Público HAGO
SABER: Que en cumplimiento
de un Mandamiento de Ejecución
de Sentencia que se me
libró con fecha 21 de enero de
2016, por la Secretaria de este
Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe,
venderé en pública subasta
y al mejor postor con dinero en
efectivo, cheque de gerente o
letra bancaria con similar garantía,
todo título, derecho o interés
de la parte demandada de epígrafe
sobre la siguiente propiedad
inmueble perteneciente a
la parte demandada, la cual se
describe a continuación: “VACA-
TION CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK
FORTY (40). Vacation Club
Right corresponding to Unit B
dash Six Hundred Nine (B-609)
of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation
Club Regime, located in the Sabana
Ward of the Municipality of
Vega Alta. This specific vacation
club right is coupled with a special
property right to the above
mentioned B dash Six Hundred
Nine (B-609) and includes the
right to use such unit during the
fortieth (40th) week of each year
until December thirty first (31st)
of the year two thousand seventy
(2070), such week commencing
at twelve noon (12:00pm)
on the fortieth (40th) Saturday of
each calendar year and ending
at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the
same day of the following week,
coupled with the membership
in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a
successor club. Notwithstanding
this specific vacation club
right allocation of a right to use
a specific week in Unit B dash
Six Hundred Nine (B-609), the
use of said unit during the described
time interval is subject
to the exercise by the owner of
certain priority rights during a
fixed period of time prior to the
commencement of said interval.
In the absence of such exercise,
other owners of vacation
club rights in the Hacienda del
Mar Vacation Club Regime and
other owners of the timeshare or
Vacation Club Rights in resorts
throughout the world affiliated
to the Hyatt Vacation Club,
may use the unit to which this
vacation right pertains during
the above described interval on
a first come, first serve reservation
basis, and the owner of this
vacation club’s right may use
units of this Vacation Club Regime
and in such other affiliated
resorts, as more fully described
in the Deed of Dedication of
Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation
Club Regime to the Vacation
Club Regime. This Vacation
Club Right has been assigned a
share of one fifty two hundredth
(1/52) of two point six three one
three two percent (2.6132%) in
the facilities and common expenses
of the Vacation Club Regime.”
Consta inscrita al Folio
ciento veinte y nueve (129) del
tomo doscientos sesenta y cuatro
(264) de Vega Alta, Registro
de la Propiedad Bayamón III
Finca Número catorce mil novecientos
diecinueve (14,919). La
finca 14,919 está gravada con
la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución
se solicita en la subasta
objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca
en garantía de un pagaré a
favor de Vacation Ownership
Lending L.P., o a su orden, por
la suma principal de $9,900.00,
con intereses al 15.00% anual,
vencedero el día 15 de enero
de 2007, constituida mediante
la escritura número 51, otorgada
en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el
día 11 de enero de 2002, ante
la notaria Francés R. Ramírez
Sánchez, e inscrita al tomo móvil
75 de Vega Alta, finca número
14,919, inscripción 2da. La venta
se llevará a cabo para con su
producto satisfacer a Vacation
Ownership Lending L.P. el importe
de la Sentencia dictada en
el caso de epígrafe, ascendente
a las siguientes cantidades:
$2,376.29 de principal en concepto
de atrasos, más $1,500
por concepto de costas, gastos
y honorarios de abogado, según
pactado. El tipo mínimo de
licitación con relación a la antes
descrita propiedad y la fecha y
hora de cada subasta es como
sigue: Primera Subasta: Se
celebrará el día 21 de abril de
2016, a las 10:30 de la mañana.
Tipo mínimo: $9,900.00. Si no
produjere remate o adjudicación
la primera subasta, se procederá
a una segunda subasta y servirá
de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes
del tipo mínimo inicial. Segunda
Subasta: Se celebrará el día 28
de abril de 2016, a las 10:30 de
la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en esta
el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo
mínimo inicial. Tercera Subasta:
Se celebrará el día 5 de mayo de
2016, a las 10:30 de la mañana.
Las subastas de dicha propiedad
se llevarán a efecto en mi
oficina situada en el local que
ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro
Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose
que el que obtuviere la
buena pro de dicha propiedad
consignará en el acto del remate
el importe de su oferta en moneda
legal, en adición a los gastos
de la subasta, siendo éste el
mejor postor. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante
el título del inmueble y las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes al crédito del
ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán
subsistiendo, entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Si se declara
desierta la tercera subasta se
dará por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicarse al
demandante la finca dentro de
Monday, March 21, 2016
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente, por
la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuere igual o menor
que el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta, y abonándose dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuese mayor. Art. 221,
Ley Hipotecaria y del Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
30 L.P.R.A. §2721. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento del
caso de epígrafe están disponibles
en la Secretaría del Tribunal
Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala
Superior de Vega Baja, durante
horas laborables. Para conocimiento
de la parte demandada y
de toda persona que tenga interés
inscrito con posterioridad a
la inscripción del gravamen que
se está ejecutando, si alguna, y
para la concurrencia de licitadores
y para el público en general
el presente edicto se publicará
en un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado
de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces
por espacio de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo
de por lo menos siete (7) días
entre ambas publicaciones.
Se fijará, además, por espacio
de dos (2) semanas mediante
avisos por escrito visiblemente
colocados en tres (3) lugares
públicos del Municipio donde
ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos
lugares serán la Alcaldía, el
Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho
Municipio. Se notificará a la parte
demandada copia del edicto
de subasta mediante correo
certificado con acuse de recibo
a la última dirección conocida.
Expido el presente edicto bajo
mi firma y sello del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega
Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico,
a 25 de febrero de 2016. Freddy
Omar Rodriguez Collazo, AL-
GUACIL SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
Vacation Ownership
Lending, L.P.
Demandante vs.
Carlos Alberto Díaz
RodrÍguez y Beatriz
Mariela D’narvarte
Mercado y la sociedad
legal de gananciales
compuesta por ambos
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. CD14-846. SOBRE:
Cobro de Dinero; Ejecución de
Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo,
Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo,
Alguacil del Tribunal Superior
de Puerto Rico, Sala de
Vega Baja, al Público HAGO
SABER: Que en cumplimiento
de un Mandamiento de Ejecución
de Sentencia que se me libró
con fecha de 21 de enero de
2016, por la Secretaria de este
Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe,
venderé en pública subasta y al
mejor postor con dinero en efectivo,
cheque de gerente o letra
37
Legal Notice
bancaria con similar garantía,
todo título, derecho o interés de
la parte demandada de epígrafe
sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble
perteneciente a la parte
demandada, la cual se describe
a continuación: “VACATION
CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK
FORTY SIX (46). Vacation Club
Right corresponding to Unit
B dash Four Hundred Seven
(B-407) of Hacienda del Mar, a
Vacation Club Regime, located
in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality
of Vega Alta. This specifi
c vacation club right is coupled
with a special property right to
the above mentioned B dash
Four Hundred Seven (B-407)
and includes the right to use
such unit during the forty-sixth
(46th) week of each year until
December thirty fi rst (31st) of
the year two thousand seventy
(2070), such week commencing
at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the
forty-sixth (46th) Saturday of
each calendar year and ending
at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the
same day of the following week,
coupled with the membership
in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a
successor club. Notwithstanding
this specifi c vacation club
right allocation of a right to use
a specifi c week in Unit B dash
Four Hundred Seven (B-407),
the use of said unit during the
described time interval is subject
to the exercise by the owner of
certain priority rights during a
fi xed period of time prior to the
commencement of said interval.
In the absence of such exercise,
other owners of vacation
club rights in the Hacienda del
Mar Vacation Club Regime and
other owners of the timeshare or
Vacation Club Rights in resorts
throughout the world affi liated
to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may
use the unit to which this vacation
right pertains during the
above described interval on a
fi rst come, fi rst serve reservation
basis, and the owner of this
vacation club’s right may use
units of this Vacation Club Regime
and in such other affi liated
resorts, as more fully described
in the Deed of Dedication of
Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation
Club Regime to the Vacation
Club Regime. This Vacation
Club Right has been assigned a
share of one fi fty two hundredth
(1/52) of two point six three one
three two percent (2.63132%)
in the facilities and common
expenses of the Vacation Club
Regime.” Consta inscrita al Folio
doscientos cuarenta (240) del
tomo doscientos sesenta y seis
(266) de Vega Alta, Registro de
la Propiedad Bayamón III Finca
Número quince mil seiscientos
treinta (15,630). La fi nca 15,630
está gravada con la siguiente
hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita
en la subasta objeto de este
edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de
un pagaré a favor de Vacation
Ownership Lending L.P., o a
su orden, por la suma principal
de $9,900.00, con intereses al
17.00% anual, vencedero el día
1 de junio de 2012, constituida
mediante la escritura número
583, otorgada en San Juan,
Puerto Rico, el día 24 de mayo
de 2002, ante la notaria Francés
R. Ramírez Sánchez, e inscrita
al tomo móvil de Vega Alta, fi nca
número 15,630. La venta se llevará
a cabo para con su producto
satisfacer a Vacation Ownership
Lending L.P. el importe de
la Sentencia dictada en el caso
de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes
cantidades: $2,489.09
de principal en concepto de
atrasos, más $1,500.00 por
concepto de costas, gastos y
honorarios de abogado, según
pactado. El tipo mínimo de licitación
con relación a la antes
descrita propiedad y la fecha y
hora de cada subasta es como
sigue: Primera Subasta: Se
celebrará el día 21 de abril de
2016, a las 9:45 de la mañana.
Tipo mínimo: $9,900.00. Si no
produjere remate o adjudicación
la primera subasta, se procederá
a una segunda subasta y servirá
de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes
del tipo mínimo inicial. Segunda
Subasta: Se celebrará el día 28
de abril de 2016, a las 9:45 de
la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en esta
el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo
mínimo inicial. Tercera Subasta:
Se celebrará el día 5 de mayo
de 2016, a las 9:45 de la mañana.
Las subastas de dicha propiedad
se llevarán a efecto en
mi ofi cina situada en el local que
ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro
Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose
que el que obtuviere la
buena pro de dicha propiedad
consignará en el acto del remate
el importe de su oferta en moneda
legal, en adición a los gastos
de la subasta, siendo éste el
mejor postor. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante
el título del inmueble y las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes al crédito del
ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán
subsistiendo, entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Si se declara
desierta la tercera subasta se
dará por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicarse al
demandante la fi nca dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente, por
la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuere igual o menor
que el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta, y abonándose dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuese mayor. Art. 221,
Ley Hipotecaria y del Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
30 L.P.R.A. §2721. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento del
caso de epígrafe están disponibles
en la Secretaría del Tribunal
Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala
Superior de Vega Baja, durante
horas laborables. Para conocimiento
de la parte demandada
y de toda persona que tenga interés
inscrito con posterioridad a
la inscripción del gravamen que

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se está ejecutando, si alguna, y
para la concurrencia de licitadores
y para el público en general
el presente edicto se publicará
en un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado
de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces
por espacio de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo de
por lo menos siete (7) días entre
ambas publicaciones. Se fijará,
además, por espacio de dos (2)
semanas mediante avisos por
escrito visiblemente colocados
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
Municipio donde ha de celebrarse
la subasta, estos lugares
serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la
Colecturía de dicho Municipio.
Se notificará a la parte demandada
copia del edicto de subasta
mediante correo certificado
con acuse de recibo a la última
dirección conocida. Expido el
presente edicto bajo mi firma
y sello del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 25 de
febrero de 2016. Freddy Omar
Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL
SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
Vacation Ownership
Lending, L.P.
Demandante vs.
RAMÓN ANTONIO
MARTÍNEZ PÉREZ
Y MILAGROS
ENCARNACIÓN
RODRÍGUEZ y La
Sociedad Legal de Bienes
Gananciales, compuesta
por ambos
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. CD14-847. SO-
BRE: cobro de dinero; ejecución
de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo,
Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo,
Alguacil del Tribunal Superior
de Puerto Rico, Sala de
Vega Baja, al Público HAGO
SABER: Que en cumplimiento
de un Mandamiento de Ejecución
de Sentencia que se me libró
con fecha de 21 de enero de
2016, por la Secretaria de este
Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe,
venderé en pública subasta y al
mejor postor con dinero en efectivo,
cheque de gerente o letra
bancaria con similar garantía,
todo título, derecho o interés de
la parte demandada de epígrafe
sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble
perteneciente a la parte
demandada, la cual se describe
a continuación: VACATION
CLUB RIGHT: UNIT WEEK
FORTY EIGHT (48). Vacation
Club Right corresponding to Unit
B dash Three Hundred Twelve
(B-312) of Hacienda del Mar, a
Vacation Club Regime, located
in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality
of Vega Alta. This specifi
c vacation club right is coupled
with a special property right to
the above mentioned B dash
Three Hundred Twelve (B-312)
and includes the right to use
such unit during the forty-eighth
(48th) week of each year until
December thirty first (31st) of
the year two thousand seventy
(2070), such week commencing
at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the
forty-eighth (48th) Saturday of
each calendar year and ending
at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the
same day of the following week,
coupled with the membership
in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a
successor club. Notwithstanding
this specific vacation club
right allocation of a right to use
a specific week in Unit B dash
Three Hundred Twelve (B-312),
the use of said unit during the
described time interval is subject
to the exercise by the owner of
certain priority rights during a
fi xed period of time prior to the
commencement of said interval.
In the absence of such exercise,
other owners of vacation
club rights in the Hacienda del
Mar Vacation Club Regime and
other owners of the timeshare or
Vacation Club Rights in resorts
throughout the world affiliated
to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may
use the unit to which this vacation
right pertains during the
above described interval on a
fi rst come, first serve reservation
basis, and the owner of this
vacation club’s right may use
units of this Vacation Club Regime
and in such other affiliated
resorts, as more fully described
in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda
del Mar, a Vacation Club
Regime to the Vacation Club Regime.
This Vacation Club Right
has been assigned a share of
one fifty two hundredth (1/52)
of two point six three one three
two percent (2.63132%) in the
facilities and common expenses
of the Vacation Club Regime.”
Consta inscrita al Folio doscientos
setenta y ocho (278) del
tomo doscientos sesenta y cuatro
(264) de Vega Alta, Registro
de la Propiedad Bayamón III Finca
Número quince mil sesenta y
ocho (15,068). La finca 15,068
está gravada con la siguiente
hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita
en la subasta objeto de este
edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de
un pagaré a favor de Vacation
Ownership Lending L.P., o a su
orden, por la suma principal de
$12,330.00, con intereses al
15.00% anual, vencedero el día
1 de marzo de 2009, constituida
mediante la escritura número
194, otorgada en San Juan,
Puerto Rico, el día 22 de febrero
de 2002, ante la notaria Francés
R. Ramírez Sánchez, e inscrita
al tomo móvil 78 de Vega Alta,
finca número 15,068, inscripción
2da. La venta se llevará a cabo
para con su producto satisfacer
a Vacation Ownership Lending
L.P. el importe de la Sentencia
dictada en el caso de epígrafe,
ascendente a las siguientes
cantidades: $4,124.37 de principal
en concepto de atrasos,
más $1,500.00 por concepto de
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, según pactado. El tipo
mínimo de licitación con relación
a la antes descrita propiedad y la
fecha y hora de cada subasta es
como sigue: Primera Subasta:
Se celebrará el día 21 de abril
de 2016, a las 10:00 de la mañana.
Tipo mínimo: $12,330.00. Si
no produjere remate o adjudicación
la primera subasta, se procederá
a una segunda subasta y
servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes
del tipo mínimo inicial. Segunda
Subasta: Se celebrará el día 28
de abril de 2016, a las 10:00 de
la mañana. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en esta
el tipo mínimo será la ½ del tipo
mínimo inicial. Tercera Subasta:
Se celebrará el día 5 de mayo
de 2016, a las 10:00 de la mañana.
Las subastas de dicha propiedad
se llevarán a efecto en
mi oficina situada en el local que
ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro
Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose
que el que obtuviere la
buena pro de dicha propiedad
consignará en el acto del remate
el importe de su oferta en moneda
legal, en adición a los gastos
de la subasta, siendo éste el
mejor postor. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como bastante
el título del inmueble y las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes al crédito del
ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán
subsistiendo, entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Si se declara
desierta la tercera subasta se
dará por terminado el procedimiento,
pudiendo adjudicarse al
demandante la fi nca dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente, por
la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuere igual o menor
que el monto del tipo de la tercera
subasta, y abonándose dicho
monto a la cantidad adeudada
si esta fuese mayor. Art. 221,
Ley Hipotecaria y del Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
30 L.P.R.A. §2721. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes
al procedimiento del
caso de epígrafe están disponibles
en la Secretaría del Tribunal
Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala
Superior de Vega Baja, durante
horas laborables. Para conocimiento
de la parte demandada
y de toda persona que tenga interés
inscrito con posterioridad a
la inscripción del gravamen que
se está ejecutando, si alguna, y
para la concurrencia de licitadores
y para el público en general
el presente edicto se publicará
en un diario de circulación general
en el Estado Libre Asociado
de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces
por espacio de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo de
por lo menos siete (7) días entre
ambas publicaciones. Se fi jará,
además, por espacio de dos (2)
semanas mediante avisos por
escrito visiblemente colocados
en tres (3) lugares públicos del
Municipio donde ha de celebrarse
la subasta, estos lugares
serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la
Colecturía de dicho Municipio.
Se notifi cará a la parte demandada
copia del edicto de subasta
mediante correo certifi cado
con acuse de recibo a la última
dirección conocida. Expido el
presente edicto bajo mi fi rma y
sello del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 25 de
febrero de 2016. Freddy Omar
Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL
SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto
Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala Superior
de BAYAMON.
LIVE WELL
FINANCIAL, INC.
Demandante V.
SUCESION DE ANGEL
GARCIA BAEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Civil: DCD2015-1886 Sobre:
COBRO DE DINERO Y EJE-
CUCION DE HIPOTECA POR
LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFI-
CACION DE SENTENCIA POR
EDICTO.
A: * SUCESION DE
ANGEL GARCIA BAEZ
A: EL-9 FRANCISCO
AMADEO ST URB
LEVITTOWN TOA BAJA
PR 00949, COMPUESTA
POR: (1.) EDWIN
GARCIA MEDINA, (2.)
LUZ ELENIA GARCIA
MEDINA, (3.) BETZAIDA
GARCIA, (4.) LUZ ELENIA
GARCIA RIVERA, Y (5.)
FULANO DE TAL, Y
SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS. TODOS
A LA DIRECCION: EL-9
FRANCISCO AMADEO
ST URB LEVITTOWN
TOA BAJA PR 00949.
Y (6.) SONIA GARCIA
MEDINA A: CALLE
SANTA CECILIA 270 SAN
JUAN PR 00912 Y EL-9
FRANCISCO AMADEO ST
URB LEVITTOWN TOA
BAJA PR 00949.
* SUCESION DE
ESPERANZA MEDINA
ARIAS A: EL-9
FRANCISCO AMADEO
ST URB LEVITTOWN
TOA BAJA PR 00949,
COMPUESTA POR: (1.)
EDWIN GARCIA MEDINA,
AVE WINSTON CHRCHILL
301 SAN JUAN PR 00925
YA EL-9 FRANCISCO
AMADEO SR URB
LEVITTOWN TOA BAJA
PR 00949. (2.) SONIA
GARCIA MEDINA A: EL-9
FRANCISCO AMADEO
ST URB LEVITTOWN
TOA BAJA PR 00949 Y
CALLE SANTA CECILIA
270 SAN JUAN PR
00912; Y (3.) LUZ ELENIA
GARCIA MEDINA, (4.)
BETZAIDA GARCIA Y
(5.) FULANO DE TAL Y
SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS. A
LA DIRECCION: EL-9
FRANCISCO AMADEO
STURB LEVITTOWN TOA
BAJA PR 00949.
* CENTRO DE
RECAUDACION DE
INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
PO BOX 195387 SAN
JUAN PR 00919-5387.
* DEPARTAMENTO DE
HACIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO, DIVISION DE
CAUDAL RELICTO, EDIF.
INTENDENTE RAMIREZ
SAN JUAN PUERTO
RICO.
* ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMERICA A TORRE
CHARDON SUITE 1201,
350 AVE CHARDON SAN
JUAN PR 00918.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se
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EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe
le notifi ca a usted que el 07
de marzo de 2016, este Tribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia
Parcial o Resolución en este
caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos
donde podrá usted enterarse
detalladamente de los términos
de la misma. Esta notifi cación 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 notifi -
cación. 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
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de 30 días contados a partir
de la publicación por edicto de
esta notifi cación, dirijo a usted
esta notifi cación que se considerará
hecha en la fecha de la
publicación de este edicto. Copia
de esta notifi cación ha sido
archivada en los autos de este
caso, con fecha de 15 de marzo
de 2016. En BAYAMON, Puerto
Rico, el 15 de marzo de 2016.
Ruth Aponte Cotto, Secretaria.
Ailyn J. Ramos Rivera, Secretaria
Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GE-
NERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA DE
RÍO GRANDE.
ROOSEVELT CAYMAN
ASSET COMPANY
Demandante V.
SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS
OBET CRUZ MONTAÑEZ
COMPUESTA POR
YOMARIE RIVERA
MOLINA, POR SÍ Y EN
LA CUOTA VIUDAL
USUFRUCTUARIA;
CHRISTOPHER CRUZ
GONZÁLEZ; ALONDRA
VICTORIA CRUZ
RODRÍGUEZ; KRISTIAN
OBET CRUZ TORRES
T/C/C CHRISTIAN CRUZ
TORRES Y FULANO
DE TAL, FULANA DE
TAL, SUTANO DE TAL,
SUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y
C COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA
SUCESIÓN; HONORABLE
SECRETARIO DE
HACIENDA
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: N3CI201400002
(002) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI-
NARIA AVISO DE VENTA EN
PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Betty
Navarro Algarin, Alguacil Supervisor
de la División de Subastas
del Centro Judicial de Río
Grande, a los demandados y al
público en general les notifi co
que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento
que se ha librado en el
presente caso por el Secretario
del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha
17 de diciembre de 2015 y
para satisfacer la Sentencia por
la cantidad de $188,296.07 de
principal, dictada en el caso de
autos el 22 de abril de 2015, notifi
cada el 18 de junio de 2015,
procederé a vender en pública
subasta, al mejor postor en
pago de contado y en moneda
del curso legal de los Estados
Unidos de América, todo derecho,
título e interés que hayan
tenido tengan o puedan tener
los deudores demandados en
cuanto a la propiedad localizada
en el Municipio de Río Grande,
Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble
se describe a continuación: Urb.
Pedregales, 35 Calle Onix, Río
Grande, Puerto Rico. URBANA:
Solar número treinta y cinco (35)
del Bloque C de la Urbanización
Pedregales, radicada en barrio
Ciénaga Baja del término municipal
de Río Grande, Puerto Rico,
con una cabida de trescientos
setenta y siete punto ochocientos
cincuenta y ocho (377.858)
metros cuadrados, equivalentes
aproximadamente a cero punto
cero nueve seis dos (0.0962)
cuerdas. Colinda por el NORTE
en una distancia de dieciocho
punto ochenta (18.80) metros
lineales con el solar número diecisiete
(17) del Bloque C, por el
SUR en una distancia de siete
(7.00) metros y un arco de cinco
punto cuarenta y seis (5.46) metros,
con la calle número cinco
(5) por el ESTE en una distancia
de veinticuatro (24.00) metros
con el solar número treinta y
cuatro (34) del Bloque C y por
el OESTE en una distancia de
veinticinco punto cincuenta y
uno (25.51) metros, con el solar
número treinta seis (36) del
bloque C guión treinta y seis
(C-36). Contiene una casa para
fi nes residenciales. Inscrita al folio
móvil del tomo cuatrocientos
cincuenta y siete (457), de Río
Grande, fi nca número veinticinco
mil doscientos ochenta y dos
(25,282), inscripción primera y
única, Registro de la Propiedad
de Carolina, Sección Tercera.
Que con el importe de dicha
venta se habrá de satisfacer a la
parte demandante las cantidades
adeudadas, según la Sentencia
dictada en el caso de epígrafe,
por el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Río Grande.
El tipo mínimo para la subasta
será la suma de tasación pactada,
la cual es $203,200.00 para
la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere
remate o adjudicación la
primera subasta, se procederá a
una segunda subasta y servirá
de tipo mínimo de 2/3 partes del
valor de la tasación para un total
de $135,466.66. Si tampoco
hubiere remate ni adjudicación
en esta segunda subasta, se
procederá a una tercera subasta,
en ésta el tipo mínimo será
de la 1/2 del valor de la tasación
para un total de $101,600.00.
Para el lote descrito, la primera
subasta se llevará a cabo el día
7 de abril de 2016, a las 9:30 de
la mañana. De no comparecer
postor alguno se llevará a efecto
una segunda subasta el día 14
de abril de 2016, a las 9:30 de
la mañana. De no comparecer
postor alguno se llevará a cabo
una tercera subasta el día 21 de
abril de 2016, a las 9:30 de la
mañana. La subasta o subastas
antes indicadas se llevarán
a efecto en mi ofi cina, localizada
en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala Superior de Río
Grande. De Estudio de Título
realizado surgen los siguientes
gravámenes posteriores los
cuales podrán ser cancelados:
ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA:
De fecha 23 de diciembre de
2011, en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Centro Judicial de Río
Grande, Sal Superior, caso civil
N3CI2011-00831, (es objeto de
esta anotación la hipoteca por
$203,000.00), sobre Cobro de
Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca
por la vía ordinaria, seguido
por Doral Bank versus Sucesión
de Carlos Obet Cruz Montañez
compuesta por Yomarie Rivera
Molina; Christopher Cruz González;
Alondra Victoria Cruz Rodríguez;
Kristian Obet Cruz Torres
t/c/c Christian Cruz Torres,
por la suma de $188,296.07,
más interese y otraos cargos,
etc. Anotado al folio 202 del
tomo 490 (ágora) de Río Grande,
fi nca #25,282, anotación A.
ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA:
De fecha 21 de enero de 2013,
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Centro Judicial de Río
Grande, Sal Superior, caso civil
N3CI2013-00032, (es objeto
de esta anotación la hipoteca
por $203,000.00), sobre Cobro
de Dinero y Ejecución de
Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria,
seguido por Doral Bank versus
Sucesión de Carlos Obet Cruz
Montañez compuesta por Yomarie
Rivera Molina; Christopher
Cruz González; Alondra Victoria
Cruz Rodríguez; Kristian
Obet Cruz Torres t/c/c Christian
Cruz Torres, por la suma de
$188,296.07, más interese y
otraos cargos, etc. Anotado al
folio 202 del tomo 490 (ágora)
de Río Grande, fi nca #25,282,
anotación B. Se le advierte a los
licitadores que la adjudicación
se hará al mejor postor, quien
deberá consignar el importe de
su oferta en el mismo acto de la
adjudicación en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos
de Norteamérica y para conocimiento
de la parte demandada y
de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s)
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción del
gravamen que se está ejecutando,
y para conocimiento de los
licitadores y el público en general
y para su publicación en un
periódico de circulación general,
una vez por semana durante
el término de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo de
por lo menos siete (7) días entre
ambas publicaciones, y para su
fi jación en tres (3) lugares públicos
del municipio en que ha de
celebrarse la venta, tales como,
la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía
y se le notifi cará además
a la parte demandada vía
correo certifi cado con acuse de
recibo a la última dirección conocida.
Se les advierte a todos
los interesados que todos los
documentos relacionados con la
presente acción de ejecución de
hipoteca, así como la de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para
ser examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal. Se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titulación y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los hubiere
al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán
subsiguientes entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Y para conocimiento
de los demandados, de
los acreedores posteriores, de
los licitadores, partes interesadas
y público en general, expido
el presente Aviso para su publicación
en los lugares públicos
correspondientes. Librado en
Río Grande, Puerto Rico, a 11
de marzo de 2016. Betty Navarro
Algarin, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
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RICO INVESTORS BOND
FUND I
Demandante V.
WALTER ABNER
BENIQUEZ T/C/C WALTER
ABNER BENIQUEZ
RODRÍGUEZ Y CYNTHIA
REYES MALDONADO Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: CD2011-275 SO-
BRE: COBRO DE DINERO, EJE-
CUCIÓN DE PRENDA E HIPO-
TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA
AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI-
CA SUBASTA. Yo, Alg. Freddy
Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil
Supervisor de la División de
Subastas del Centro Judicial de
Vega Baja, a los demandados y
al público en general les notifico
que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento
que se ha librado en
el presente caso por el Secretario
del Tribunal de epígrafe con
fecha 30 de septiembre de 2015
y para satisfacer la Sentencia
por la cantidad de $25,141.06
de principal, dictada en el caso
de autos el 10 de febrero de
2012, notificada el 17 de febrero
de 2012, procederé a vender en
pública subasta, al mejor postor
en pago de contado y en moneda
del curso legal de los Estados
Unidos de América, todo
derecho, título e interés que
hayan tenido tengan o puedan
tener los deudores demandados
en cuanto a la propiedad
localizada en el Municipio de
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el bien
inmueble se describe a continuación:
Urb. Villa Pinares, M9
Calle Paseo, Vega Baja, Puerto
Rico. URBANA: Solar marcado
con el numero M-9 de la Urbanización
Villa Pinares, situada
en el Barrio Pugnado Afuera
del término municipal de Vega
Baja, con un área superficial de
237.37 metros cuadrados. En
lindes por el NORTE, con la calle
10, en 14.00 metros lineales;
por el SUR, en con remanente
de la Urbanización Villa Pinares
en 12.00 metros lineales; por el
ESTE, en con la entrada M en
16.50 metros lineales; y por el
OESTE, con el solar M-10, en
20.00 metros lineales. Enclava
una casa. Consta inscrita al
folio 231 del tomo 322 de Vega
Baja, finca número 25,752 del
Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección IV. Que con el
importe de dicha venta se habrá
de satisfacer a la parte demandante
las cantidades adeudadas,
según la Sentencia dictada
en el caso de epígrafe, por el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Vega Baja. El tipo mínimo
para la subasta será la suma
de tasación pactada, la cual es
$40,000.00 para la propiedad
descrita. Si no produjere remate
o adjudicación la primera
subasta, se procederá a una segunda
subasta y servirá de tipo
mínimo de 2/3 partes del valor
de la tasación para un total de
$26,666.66. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en ésta
el tipo mínimo será de la 1/2 del
valor de la tasación para un total
de $20,000.00. Para el lote descrito,
la primera subasta se llevará
a cabo el día 7 de abril de
2016, a las 10:30 de la mañana.
De no comparecer postor alguno
se llevará a efecto una segunda
subasta el día 14 de abril
de 2016, a las 10:30 de la mañana.
De no comparecer postor
alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera
subasta el día 21 de abril
de 2016, a las 10:30 de la mañana.
La subasta o subastas antes
indicadas se llevarán a efecto
en mi oficina, localizada en el
Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Vega Baja. De
Estudio de Título realizado surgen
los siguientes gravámenes
posteriores los cuales podrán
ser cancelados: ANOTACIÓN
DE DEMANDA: De fecha 20 de
septiembre de 2007, en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala
de Vega Baja, caso civil CD07-
775, por concepto de Cobro de
Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca,
seguido por Doral Bank versus
Cynthia Reyes Maldonado, por
la suma de $26,851.31. Anotado
al folio 202 del tomo 427 de
Vega Baja, finca #25,752, anotación
A. BITÁCORA: Al asiento
61 del diario 288, el día 17 de
junio de 2014, se presenta acta
notarial #4, (no expresa lugar
otorgamiento), el día 11 de junio
de 2014, ante la Notario Surima
Quiñones Suárez, para que se
inscriba Acta de Ley para Establecer
el Derecho de Protección
del Hogar, en virtud de la Ley
195 del 13 de septiembre de
2011. Pendiente de calificación
y despacho. Se le advierte a los
licitadores que la adjudicación
se hará al mejor postor, quien
deberá consignar el importe de
su oferta en el mismo acto de la
adjudicación en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos
de Norteamérica y para conocimiento
de la parte demandada y
de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s)
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción
del gravamen que se está ejecutando,
y para conocimiento
de los licitadores y el público en
general y para su publicación
en un periódico de circulación
general, una vez por semana
durante el término de dos (2)
semanas consecutivas con un
intervalo de por lo menos siete
(7) días entre ambas publicaciones,
y para su fijación en tres
(3) lugares públicos del municipio
en que ha de celebrarse la
venta, tales como, la Alcaldía,
el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se
le notificará además a la parte
demandada vía correo certificado
con acuse de recibo a la
última dirección conocida. Se
les advierte a todos los interesados
que todos los documentos
relacionados con la presente
acción de ejecución de hipoteca,
así como la de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para ser
examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal. Se entenderá que
todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titulación y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los hubiere
al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán
subsiguientes entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. 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
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 14
de marzo de 2016. Alg. Freddy
Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE
BAYAMÓN
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
DEMANDANTE V.
SUCESIÓN DE LUIS
GONZÁLEZ REYES T/C/C
LUIS A. GONZÁLEZ
REYES COMPUESTA
POR FULANO DE
TAL, FULANA DE TAL,
SUTANO DE TAL,
SUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y
C COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS;
MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ
RODRÍGUEZ; VALLE
DORADO DEVELOPMENT,
INC.; JOSÉ IVÁN
SANTIAGO MALDONADO,
MARÍA SUÁREZ MOLINA
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; HONORABLE
SECRETARIO DEL
DEPARTAMENTO DE
HACIENDA DEL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NÚM.: DCD2013-1946
(701) SOBRE: ACCIÓN “IN
REM” Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO-
TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA
AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA
SUBASTA. Yo, Alg. Freddy Rodriguez
Collazo, Alguacil Supervisor
de la División de Subastas
del Centro Judicial de Bayamón,
a los demandados y al público
en general les notifi co que, cumpliendo
con un Mandamiento
que se ha librado en el presente
caso por el Secretario del Tribunal
de epígrafe con fecha 2 de
febrero de 2014 y para satisfacer
la Sentencia por la cantidad
de $129,739.53 de principal, dictada
en el caso de autos el 10
de abril de 2014, notifi cada el 1
de mayo 2014, procederé a vender
en pública subasta, al mejor
postor en pago de contado y en
moneda del curso legal de los
Estados Unidos de América,
mediante efectivo, giro o cheque
certifi cado a nombre del Alguacil
de este Tribunal todo derecho,
título e interés que hayan tenido
tengan o puedan tener los deudores
demandados en cuanto a
la propiedad localizada en: en el
Municipio de Bayamón, Puerto
Rico, el bien inmueble se describe
a continuación: Urb. Valle
Dorado, I-11 Calle 9, Bayamón,
Puerto Rico. URBANA: Solar
marcado con el número 11 del
bloque I de la Urbanización Valle
Dorado, radicado en el barrio
Espinosa del término municipal
de Dorado, Puerto Rico, con una
cabida superfi cial de 378.00 metros
cuadrados. En lindes por
el Norte, en una distancia, de
14.00 metros con el solar número
14 del bloque I; por el Sur, en
una distancia de 14.00 metros
con la calle número 9 de la Urbanización
Valle Dorado; por el
Este, en una distancia de 27.00
metros con el solar número 10
del bloque I de la Urbanización;
y por el Oeste, en una distancia
de 27.00 metros, con el solar
número 12 del bloque I. Finca
13,508, inscrita al folio 11 del
tomo 262 de Dorado, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
sección IV de Bayamón. Que
con el importe de dicha venta
se habrá de satisfacer a la parte
demandante las cantidades
adeudadas, según la Sentencia
dictada en el caso de epígrafe,
por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Bayamón, cuyas
cantidades son las siguientes:
$129,739.53 de principal, 6.00%
de intereses, los cuales continúan
acumulándose hasta el saldo
total de la deuda; $2,941.90
de gastos por mora, los cuales
continúan acumulándose hasta
el pago total de la deuda,
$420.00 de otros gastos, más
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogados pactados al 10% de
la suma principal del Pagaré. El
tipo mínimo para la subasta será
la suma de tasación pactada, la
cual es $130,529 para la propiedad
descrita. Si no produjere
remate o adjudicación la primera
subasta, se procederá a una segunda
subasta y servirá de tipo
mínimo de 2/3 partes del valor
de la tasación para un total de
$87,019.33. Si tampoco hubiere
remate ni adjudicación en esta
segunda subasta, se procederá
a una tercera subasta, en ésta
el tipo mínimo será de la 1/2 del
valor de la tasación para un total
de $62,264.50. Para el lote descrito,
la primera subasta se llevará
a cabo el día 6 de abril de
2016, a las 10:15 de la mañana.
De no comparecer postor alguno
se llevará a efecto una segunda
subasta el día 13 de abril de
2016, a las 2:15 de la tarde. De
no comparecer postor alguno se
llevará a cabo una tercera subasta
el día 20 de abril de 2016,
a las 2:15 de la tarde. La subasta
o subastas antes indicadas se
llevarán a efecto en mi ofi cina,
localizada en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala Superior
de Bayamón. Se advierte a los
licitadores que la adjudicación
se hará al mejor postor, quien
deberá consignar el importe de
su oferta en el mismo acto de la
adjudicación en moneda de curso
legal de los Estados Unidos
de Norteamérica y para conocimiento
de la parte demandada y
de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s)
que tengan interés inscrito con
posterioridad a la inscripción del
gravamen que se está ejecutando,
y para conocimiento de los
licitadores y el público en general
y para su publicación en un
periódico de circulación general,
una vez por semana durante
el término de dos (2) semanas
consecutivas con un intervalo de
por lo menos siete (7) días entre
ambas publicaciones, y para su
fi jación en tres (3) lugares públicos
del municipio en que ha de
celebrarse la venta, tales como,
la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía
y se le notifi cará además
a la parte demandada vía
correo certifi cado con acuse de
recibo a la última dirección conocida.
Se les advierte a todos
los interesados que todos los
documentos relacionados con la
presente acción de ejecución de
hipoteca, así como la de la subasta,
estarán disponibles para
ser examinados en la Secretaría
del Tribunal. Se entenderá
que todo licitador acepta como
bastante la titulación y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores
y los preferentes, si los hubiere
al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán
subsiguientes entendiéndose
que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. Y para conocimiento
de los demandados, de
los acreedores posteriores, de
los licitadores, partes interesadas
y público en general, expido
el presente Aviso para su publicación
en los lugares públicos
correspondientes. Librado en
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 11 de
september de 2015.Alg. Freddy
Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE AGUADA.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
MANUEL GUTIERREZ
SOTO y su esposa DORIS
ELIZABETH GONZALEZ
ROSA y la Sociedad Legal
de Bienes Gananciales
que ambos componen
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. ABCI201501211
SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca
por la Vía Ordinaria “IN
REM”EDICTO DE SUBASTA
Al: Público en General
A: MANUEL GUTIERREZ
SOTO y su esposa DORIS
ELIZABETH GONZALEZ
ROSA y la Sociedad Legal
Monday, March 21, 2016
de Bienes Gananciales
que ambos componen
Yo, CARLOS RIVERA LOPEZ,
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 6 de abril de 2016 a las 11:00
de la mañana en mi ofi cina, sita
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Aguadilla,
Aguadilla, 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 certifi -
cado a nombre del o la Alguacil
del Tribunal de Primera Instancia.
Los autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al
procedimiento incoado, estarán
de manifi esto en la Secretaría
el Tribunal de Aguada 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 13 de abril de 2016, a las
11:00 de la mañana y en caso
de no producir remate ni adjudicación,
se celebrará una
tercera subasta el día 20 de
abril de 2016, a las 11:00 de la
mañana en mi ofi cina sita en el
lugar antes indicado. La propiedad
a venderse en pública subasta
se describe como sigue:
RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno
localizada en el BARRIO MA-
MEY de Aguada, Puerto Rico,
compuesta de OCHOCIENTOS
TREINTA PUNTO NUEVE MIL
CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA
Y DOS (830.9472) METROS
CUADRADOS. En lindes por el
NORTE, con camino dedicado a
uso público; por el SUR, con el
solar número Cuatro (4); por el
ESTE, con Jenaro López; y por
el OESTE, con camino dedicado
a uso público. La escritura de
hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al
folio 84 del tomo 302 de Aguada,
Registro de la Propiedad de
Aguadilla, fi nca número 12,847,
inscripción quinta. La subasta se
llevará a efecto para satisfacer a
la parte demandante la suma de
$140,258.45 de principal, intereses
al 6.125% anual, desde el
día 1ro. de septiembre de 2014,
hasta su completo pago, más la
cantidad de $17,000.00 estipulada
para costas, gastos y honorarios
de abogado, más recargos
acumulados, todas cuyas sumas
están líquidas y exigibles. Que
la cantidad mínima de licitación
en la primera subasta para el
inmueble será de $170,000.00
y de ser necesaria una segunda
subasta, la cantidad mínima
será equivalente a 2/3 partes
de aquella, o sea, la suma de
$113,333.33 y de ser necesaria
una tercera subasta, la cantidad
mínima será la mitad del precio
pactado, es decir, la suma de
$85,000.00. La propiedad se
adjudicará al mejor postor, quien
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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 todo licitador
acepta como bastante la
titularidad 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 a ser ejecutada
se adquirirá libre de cargas
y gravámenes posteriores. EN
TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL,
expido el presente Edicto para
conocimiento y comparecencia
de los licitadores, bajo mi fi rma
del Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto
Rico, a 16 de marzo de 2016.
Carlos Rivera Lopez, Alguacil
Regional, Alguacil Tribunal Sala
Superior De Aguadilla.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS-
TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS-
TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
LIVE WELL
FINANCIAL, INC.,
Plaintiff, v.
SARA DOMINGUEZ-
SANTIAGO; UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA,
Defendants..
Civil No. 16-1003 (FAB) SUM-
MONS BY PUBLICATION.
TO: SARA DOMINGO
SANTIAGO
Pursuant to the Order for Service
entered on March 9, 2016 (Docket
No. 8), you are SUMMONED
to appear, plead or answer the
Complaint no later than thirty
(30) days after publication of
this Summons, by serving your
original plea or answer in the
United States District Court for
the District of Puerto Rico, and
serving a copy to counsel for
plaintiff, Joel Antonio Figueroa-
Rivera, Esq., at PO Box 367308,
San Juan, PR 00936, telephone
number 787-758-6550. This
Summons shall be published by
edict only once in a newspaper
of general circulation on the Island
of Puerto Rico. Within ten
(10) days following publication
of the Summons, a copy of the
Summons and Complaint will be
sent to defendant Sara Domingo-Santiago
by certified mail/return
receipt requested, addressed
to her last known address.
Should you fail to appear, plead
or answer the Complaint as ordered
by the Court and notified
by this Summons, the Court will
proceed to hear and adjudicate
this case against you based
on the relief demanded in the
Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE
COURT, summons is issued
pursuant to Fed. R. civ. Proc.
4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules
of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico. San
Juan, Puerto Rico, March 10,
2016. Frances Rios De Moran,
Clerk Of The Court. By: Jose L.
Arroyo, Deputy Clerk.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS-
TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS-
TRICT OF PUERTO RICO
Finance of America
Reverse, LLC
Plaintiff v.
The Estate of René
Hernández a/k/a René
Agustin Hernández
Fresneda a/k/a René A.
Hernández a/k/a René A.
Hernández Fresneda a/k/a
René Hernández Fresneda
composed of René
Kennedy Martinez, James
Doe and Janice Doe;
Jane Doe; Departamento
de Hacienda; Centro
de Recuadaciones de
Ingresos Municipales;
United States of America;
Richard Doe
Defendants
CASE NO. 3:15-cv-2408 OR-
DER BY PUBLICATION
To: René Kennedy
Martínez, James Doe and
Janice Doe; Jane Doe as
members of the Estate
of René Hernández a/k/a
René Agustín Hernández
Fresneda a/k/a René A.
Hernández a/k/a René
A. Hernández Fresneda
a/k/a René Hernández
Fresneda
Pursuant to the Order for Service
by Publication issued to
the Estate of René Hernández
a/k/a René Agustín Hernández
Fresneda a/k/a René A. Hernández
a/k/a René A. Hernández
Fresneda a/k/a René Hernández
Fresneda and Article 959 of
the Puerto Rico Civil Code (31
LPRA 2787) it is hereby ordered
that the heirs of the Estate
of René Hernández a/k/a René
Agustín Hernández Fresneda
a/k/a René A. Hernández a/k/a
René A. Hernández Fresneda
a/k/a René Hernández Fresneda
are required to notify to this
Honorable Court if they accept
or repudiate the Estate of René
Hernández a/k/a René Agustin
Hernández Fresneda a/k/a
René A. Hernández a/k/a René
A. Hernández Fresneda a/k/a
René Hernández Fresneda no
later than thirty (30) days after
the publication of this order by
submitting your intentions in the
United District Court for the District
of Puerto Rico, and serving
copy to counsel for plaintiff: GLS
Legal Services, LLC at PO Box
367308, San Juan, PR 00936-
7308, telephone number 787-
758-6550. This Order shall be
published by edict only once in
a newspaper of general circulation
in the Island of Puerto Rico.
Within ten (10) days following
publication of this Order, a copy
of this Order and the Complaint
will be sent to defendant Estate
of René Hernández a/k/a René
Agustín Hernández Fresneda
a/k/a René A. Hernández a/k/a

Legal Notice
40 Monday, March 21, 2016 The San Juan Daily Star
René A. Hernández Fresneda
a/k/a René Hernández Fresueda,
by certified mail/return receipt
requested, addressed to its last
known address. Should any heir
fail to plead or answer to the Order
as ordered by the Court, the
Court will proceed with the case,
and deem the Estate of René
Hernández a/k/a René Agustín
Hernández Fresneda a/k/a
René A. Hernández a/k/a René
A. Hernández Fresneda a/k/a
René Hernández Fresneda as
accepted for all of the heirs who
don’t not make their statement
of intention, and responsible for
all the liabilities of said Estate as
established in Article 957 of the
Puerto Rico Civil Code (31 LPRA
2785). In San Juan, Puerto Rico,
this 8 day of March, 2016. Frances
Rios de Morán, Esq. Clerk of
the Court. By: s/Ana E. Duran-
Capella, Deputy Clerk.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS-
TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS-
TRICT OF PUERTO RICO
ROOSEVELT CAYMAN
ASSET COMPANY II
Plaintiff, vs.
YAJAIRA SANTIAGO
SANCHEZ
Defendant.
CIVIL NO. 15-2897 (PAD) RE:
COLLECTION OF MONIES,
FORECLOSURE OF MORT-
GAGE DEFAULT JUDGMENT.
Upon plaintiff’s application for
judgment, and it appearing from
the records of the above-entitled
cause that default was entered
against the defendant for failure
to plead or file an answer to the
complaint, or otherwise appear
in the above cause, plaintiff is
entitled to a judgment by default.
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY
ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND
DECREED that: 1. Defendant
is hereby ordered to pay plaintiff
the following sums due as of October
28th, 2015. $228,353.21 in
principal, accrued interest which
continues to accrue until full payment
of the debt at the rate of
5.5% per annum, accrued late
charges and any other advance,
charge, fee or disbursements
made by plaintiff on behalf of defendant,
in accordance with the
mortgage deed, plus costs, and
$25,180.00 in attorneys fees. 2.
In default of the payment of the
sums hereinbefore specified or
of any part thereof, within fourteen
(14) days from the date
of entry of this judgment, the
following property, described in
the Spanish language, shall be
sold at public auction to the highest
bidder, without an appraisal
or right of redemption for the
payment of plaintiffs’ mortgage
within the limits secured by it:
URBANA: Solar marcado con
el numero 53 de la Urbanización
Vega Dorada, radicada
en el Barrio Sabana, Sector
Breñas, carretera estatal PR
693, kilometro 14 (interior), del
término municipal de Vega Alta,
Puerto Rico. Con una cabida de
471.85 metros cuadrados. Sus
colindancias son las siguientes:
por el Norte, con alineación de
30.79 metros lineales, con el
solar numero 52; por el Sur, con
una alineación de 30.79 metros
lineales, con el solar numero 54;
por el Este, con una alineación
de 15.00 metros lineales, con
la calle E (calle Coco Plumosa).
Afecta a este solar una servidumbre
de 1.52 metros de ancho
que discurre a todo lo largo
de su colindancia Oeste, a favor
de la Junta Reglamentadora de
Telecomunicaciones de Puerto
Rico. En dicho solar enclava
una estructura de concreto diseñada
para fines residenciales
para una familia construida de
acuerdo a los planos y especifi
caciones. Inscrito al folio 169
del tomo 323 de Vega Alta,
fi nca número 19,850. Registro
de la Propiedad, Sección III de
Bayamón. 3. The property described
above is subject to a note
payable to Doral Mortgage LLC,
or to its order, for the principal
amount of Two Hundred Fifty
One Thousand Eight Hundred
Dollars ($251,800.00) with interest
at the rate of 5.50% per annum,
secured by a first mortgage
constituted by deed number 58,
executed in San Juan, Puerto
Rico on April 28th, 2009, before
Notary Public Edgardo del
Valle Galarza, duly recorded in
the Registry of Property at page
169 of volume 232 of Vega Alta.
Plaintiff is at present the owner
and holder of the note and
mortgage deed. 4. The Court
may appoint a Special Master to
conduct the sale, but the Special
Master shall not proceed to carry
out the sale, or do anything
in connection with it, until further
order from this Court and
under the form and conditions
to be directed by the Court. 5.
The sale to be conducted by the
appointed Special Master shall
be subject to the confirmation of
the Court, and the purchaser or
purchasers of the property shall
be entitled to receive its possession.
The minimum bid to be
accepted at the first public sale
in accordance with the mortgage
deed is $251,800.00. 6. Any
funds derived from the sale to be
conducted in accordance with
the terms of this judgment and
such further orders of the Court
shall be applied as follows: a)
To the payment of all proper expenses
attendant upon the sale,
including the expenses, outlays
and compensation of the Special
Master, after the compensation
and expenses shall have
been fixed and approved by the
Court, all expenses shall be deducted
from the sum provided in
the deed of mortgage for costs,
charges and disbursements, expenses
and attorney’s fees. b)
To the payment of all expenses
or advances made by plaintiff. c)
To the payment to plaintiff of the
amounts due as of October 28th,
2015, the defendant still owes to
plaintiff the sums of $228,353.21
in principal, accrued interest
which continues to accrue until
full payment of the debt at
the rate of 5.5% per annum,
accrued late charges and any
other advance, charge, fee or
disbursements made by plaintiff
on behalf of defendant, in accordance
with the mortgage deed,
plus costs, and $25,180.00 in
attorneys fees. d) If after making
all those payments there is a
surplus, it shall be delivered to
the Clerk of the Court, subject to
further orders of the Court. e) If
after making all those payments
there is a defi ciency, plaintiff
may seek further orders of the
Court to collect the defi ciency
from defendants. 7. Plaintiff in
these proceedings may apply
to the Court for such further orders,
as it may deem advisable
to its interests, in accordance
with the terms of this judgment,
including all remedies available
for the enforcement of a money
judgment. IT IS SO ORDERED.
San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 29th
day of February, 2016. S/Pedro
A. Delgado-Hernandez, United
States District Judge.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE COAMO.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
RAÚL NÚÑEZ RIVERA
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM.: B2CI2015-01488
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
(Ejecución de Hipoteca por la
Vía Ordinaria) EMPLAZAMIEN-
TO POR EDICTO LOS ESTA-
DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA-
DOS L!NIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO.
A: RAÚL NÚÑEZ RIVERA
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO,
se le notifica que se ha radicado
en esta Secretaría por la parte
demandante, Demanda sobre
Ejecución de Hipoteca por la
Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega
adeuda la suma de $123,255.68
de principal, intereses al 5.75
% anual, desde el día 1ro. de
junio de 2015, hasta su completo
pago, más la cantidad de
$ 12,770.00 estipulada para
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado más recargos acumulados,
todas cuyas sumas están
líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad
hipotecada a ser ejecutada
es: URBANA: Solar radicado en
la URBANIZACiÓN EL BOS-
QUE en el Barrio Cuyón del
término Municipal de Coamo,
Puerto Rico que se describe eh
el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización,
con el número, área
y colindancias que se relacionan
a continuación: número de Solar
Treinta y Uno (31), con un área
del Solar de OCHOCIENTOS
UNO PUNTO TREINTA Y SEIS
(801.36) METROS CUADRA-
DOS, en lindes por el NORTE,
en TREINTA Y CINCO PUNTO
CUARENTA (35.40) METROS,
con el Lote número Treinta y Dos
(32), por el SUR, en TREINTA y
CINCO PUNTO VEINTE (35.20)
METROS, con el Lote número
Treinta (30), por el ESTE, en
VEINTIDÓS PUNTO SESENTA
(22.70) METROS, con terrenos
de Efrén Bernier y por el OES-
TE, en VEINTIDÓS PUNTO
SETENTA(22.70) METROS,
con la Calle número Dos (2) de
la Urbanización. Enclava una
vivienda de concreto que sirve
de residencia para una familia,
de Tres (3) habitaciones y marquesina
doble. Solar cuenta con
sistema de disposición sanitaria
privada que ubica en su patio
trasero, al Este.. Bordeada parla
colindancia Oeste, con servidumbre
de sistema telefónico
de UNO PUNTO CINQUENTA Y
DOS (1.52) METROS de ancho.
Enclava en parte de su colindancia
Norte-Noroeste servidumbre
a favor de la Autoridad de Energía
Eléctrica que mide TRES (3)
METROS de ancho por NUEVE
PUNTO DIECISIETE (9.17) ME-
TROS de largo. Inscrita al folio
1.27 del tomo 315 De Coamo,
Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas,
fi nca numero 18,970,
inscripción Cuarta. Se le advierte
que de no comparecer en autos
dentro del termino de los treinta
(30) días siguientes a partir de
la publicación de este Edicto,
se le anotara la Rebeldía y se
dictara Sentencia concediendo
el remedio solicitado, sin mas citarle
ni oírle, debiendo radicar el
original de su contestación en el
Tribunal, enviando copia al abogado
de la parte demandante:
Lcda. Xana M. Connelly Pagan,
Bufete Correa, Collazo & Herrero,
PSC, P.O. Box 70212, San
Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8212;
teléfono (787)625-9999. Se le
notifi ca también por la presente
que la parte demandante habrá
de presentar para su anotación
al Registrador de la Propiedad
del Distrito en que esta situada
la propiedad objeto de este pleito,
un aviso de estar pendiente
esta acción. Para publicarse
conforme a la Orden dictada por
el Tribunal en un periódico de
circulación general. EN TESTI-
MONIO DE LO CUAL expido el
presente Edicto que fi rmo y sello
en COAMO, Puerto Rico, hoy 29
de febrero de 2016. Jessica Ramos
Olivieri, Secretaria de Tribunal
Confi dencial II. Leslyanne
M. Morales Muñiz, Secretaria
Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
CITIMORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante vs.
CARLOS HERIBERTO
MEDINA HIRALDO Y
SU ESPOSA BRUNILDA
MACEIRA BARBOSA Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
ELLOS; FIRST BANK DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. KCD2015-1857
(506) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDI-
NARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS. EL
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO.
A: CARLOS HERIBERTO
MEDINA HIRALDO y
BRUNILDA MACEIRA
BARBOSA, y la Sociedad
de Bienes Gananciales
compuesta por ambos
Queden emplazados y notificados
que en este Tribunal se ha
radicado Demanda sobre Cobro
de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca,
en la que se alega que
usted(es) le adeuda(n) a la demandante
lo siguiente: La suma
de $213,045.89 de principal mas
los intereses sobre dichas sumas
devengados desde el dia 1
de julio de 2012, más aquellos a
devengarse hasta el pago total
de la deuda a razón 6.50000%
anual, más las primas de seguro
hipotecario y riesgo, recargos
por demora y cualesquiera
otras cant idades pactadas en
la escritura de hipoteca desde la
fecha antes mencionada y hasta
la fecha del total pago de las
mismas, más la suma estipulada
de $23,600.00 por concepto de
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado incurridos por concepto
de un préstamo hipotecario,
se advierte que si no contesta(n)
la demanda, radicando el original
de la contestación en este
Tribunal enviando copia de la
contestación a Carmen Aponte-
Reyes, 1499 W. Palmetto Park
Road, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL
33486, telefono 877-338-4101,
dentro del termino de treinta (30)
dias de la publicación de este
Edicto, se le anotara la rebeldia
y se dictara Sentencia en su
contra, concediendo el remedio
solicitado, sin mas citarle ni oírle.
EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA,
y el sello de este Tribunal, en
San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy dia 2
de marzo de 2016. Griselda Rodriguez
Collado, Sec Regional.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN-
TRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA
SALA SUPERIOR.
JOSÉ ROMÁN MÉNDEZ, Y
SU ESPOSA LUZ CECILIA
TORRES GUEVARA
Demandantes v.
JAMES D. DAVIS,
SU ESPOSA MARY
ANN GOETZ Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; LA SUCESIÓN
DE ADRIÁN GIRALD
RUIZ COMPUESTA
POR ADRIÁN MANUEL
GIRALD MELÉNDEZ;
ISAYMA MARGARITA
GIRALD MELÉNDEZ,
Y SU VIUDA MARÍA
MARGARITA MELÉNDEZ
RODRÍGUEZ T/C/P
MARGARITA MELÉNDEZ
RODRÍGUEZ; Y JOHN
V. GOETZ, SU ESPOSA
MILAGROS DEL VALLE Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL: AAC2016-0005 (SALÓN
601) SOBRE: SENTENCIA
DECLARATORIA SOBRE DO-
MINIO (INSCRIPCIÓN SOLAR
DE 510.00 METROS CUADRA-
DOS Y DE SU ESTRUCTURA,
BARRIO COTO, HOY MORA,
ISABELA, PUERTO RICO, CO-
LINDANTES ARTURO NIEVES
VARGAS Y GERÓNIMO RO-
MÁN; Y LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL
USO PÚBLICO DE 70.00 ME-
TROS CUADRADOS, BARRIO
COTO, HOY MORA, ISABELA,
PUERTO RICO, COLINDAN-
TES SERGIO CALERO Y JA-
MES DAVIS, FINCA PRINCIPAL,
FOLIO 102, TOMO 79, FINCA
2366, ISABELA, P. R.) EMPLA-
ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO
A: JAMES; D. DAVIS;
Y SU ESPOSA MARY
ANN GOETZ; Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; LA SUCESIÓN
DE ADRIÁN GIRALD
RUIZ COMPUESTA POR
ADRIÁN MANUEL GIRALD
MELÉNDEZ; JOHN V.
GOETZ; Y SU ESPOSA
MILAGROS DEL VALLE;
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; ADRIÁN
MANUEL GIRALD
MELÉNDEZ
Por la presente se le notifi ca que
la parte demandante, ha presentado
ante este tribunal demanda
contra ustedes, solicitando la
concesión del siguiente remedio:
SENTENCIA DECLARA-
TORIA SOBRE DOMINIO, INS-
CRIPCIÓN SOLAR DE 510.00
METROS CUADRADOS Y DE
SU ESTRUCTURA, BARRIO
COTO, HOY MORA, ISABELA,
PUERTO RICO, COLINDAN-
TES ARTURO NIEVES VAR-
GAS Y GERÓNIMO ROMÁN;
Y LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL USO
PÚBLICO DE 70.00 METROS
CUADRADOS, BARRIO COTO,
HOY MORA, ISABELA, PUER-
TO RICO, COLINDANTES SER-
GIO CALERO Y JAMES DAVIS,
FINCA PRINCIPAL, FOLIO 102,
TOMO 79, FINCA 2366, ISABE-
LA, P. R. Representa a la parte
demandante, el abogado cuyo
nombre y dirección se consigna
de inmediato:
LCDO. YAMIL ROMAN SOTO
P.O. BOX 545
ISABELA PR 00662
Teléfono 787-830-2565 y Fax 787-
830-4289
Correo electrónico:
yamilromansoto@gmail.com
Se le apercibe que si no compareciese
usted a contestar dicha
demanda dentro del termino de
30 dias a partir de la publicación
de este edicto radicando
el original de la contestación
ante el tribunal, con copia a la
parte demandante, podría dictarse
sentencia en rebeldia en si
contra concediendo el remedio
solicitado en la demanda, sin
más citarle ni oírle. Expedido
bajo mi fi rma y sello del tribunal
en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy
23 de febrero de 2016. Rosa B.
Sanchez Acevedo, Secretaria
Regional. Sonia Hernandez, Secretaria
Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
SUCESION DE DAVIS
GONZALEZ CASTILLO
compuesta por sus
hijos MARIA GONZALEZ
MUÑIZ, FULANO DE TAL
y ZUTANO DE TAL como
herederos desconocidos
con posible interés;
NELLY MADRIGAL;
DEPARTAMENTO
DE HACIENDA,
por conducto de la
División de Caudales
Relictos; CENTRO DE
RECAUDACION DE
INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
“CRIM”
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. DCD2013-3100
(402) SOBRE: COBRO DE DI-
NERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca
por la Vía Ordinaria) EDICTO DE
SUBASTA.
Al: Público en General
A: A LA PARTE
DEMANDADA
Yo, EDGARDO E. VARGAS
SANTANA, 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 SA-
BER: Que el día 11 de abril de
2016, a las 10:45 de la mañana
en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
de Bayamón, Bayamón,
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 del Tribunal
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 18 de abril de
2016, a las 10:45 de la mañana
y en caso de no producir remate
ni adjudicación, se celebrará
una tercera subasta el día 25
de abril de 2016, a las 10:45
de la mañana en mi oficina sita
en el lugar antes indicado. La
propiedad a venderse en pública
subasta se describe como
sigue: RUSTICA: Solar número
E guión veintidós (E-22), comunidad
rural Villa Plata en el Barrio
Mameyal de Dorado, Puerto
Rico, área de cero punto cero
nueve siete tres cuerdas (0.0973
cda.), equivalentes a trescientos
ochenta y dos punto tres uno
metros cuadrados (382.31 m.c.).
Lindes por el NORTE, con la calle
número seis (6); por el SUR,
con zanja; por el ESTE, con
solar número E guión veintitrés
(E-23); y por el OESTE, con el
solar número E guión veintiuno
(E-21). La propiedad hipotecada
se encuentra inscrita al folio 170
del tomo 225 de Dorado Norte,
Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón
IV, finca número 5,800,
inscripción 4ta. La subasta se
llevará a efecto para satisfacer a
la parte demandante la suma de
$56,966.05 de principal, intereses
al 6% anual, desde el día
1ro. de mayo de 2013, hasta su
completo pago, más la cantidad
de $8,800.00 estipulada para
costas, gastos y honorarios de
abogado, más recargos acumulados,
todas cuyas sumas están
líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad
mínima de licitación en la
primera subasta para el inmueble
será de $88,000.00 y de ser
necesaria una segunda subasta,
la cantidad mínima será equivalente
a 2/3 partes de aquella,
o sea, la suma de $50,533.33 y
de ser necesaria una tercera subasta,
la cantidad mínima será
la mitad del precio pactado, es
decir, la suma de $37,900.00.
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 todo licitador acepta
como bastante la titularidad 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
a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre
de cargas y gravámenes posteriores.
EN TESTIMONIO DE LO
CUAL, expido el presente Edicto
para conocimiento y comparecencia
de los licitadores, bajo
mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en
Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 16 de
marzo de 2016. EDGARDO E.
VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL
TRIBUNAL SALA SUPERIOR DE
BAYAMON.

The San Juan Daily Star Monday, March 21, 2016
41 Sports
Brazil President Rousseff Corruption Scandal
Threatens to Overshadow Rio Olympics
By ANNE BARKER
More than a million protesters
have taken to the streets of Brazil
in recent days, calling for
President Rousseff’s resignation over a
corruption scandal and her cabinet appointment
of a former president as her chief
of staff.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, known as
Lula, faces wide-ranging charges over bribes
and political kickbacks at state-owned
oil company Petrobras.
The corruption investigation has already
ensnared dozens of public figures
from across the political spectrum, as well
as prominent business leaders.
But his appointment to the government
job would give him immunity from prosecution.
Critics have denounced his appointment
as a bold-faced attempt to help
him avoid possible detention.
President Rousseff presided over Lula’s
swearing-in ceremony on Thursday.
“I count on the experience of Minister
Lula, I count on his identity, the identity
that he has with this country, with the
people of this country,” she said.
“I count on this. Inacio Lula da Silva,
chief of staff of the civil house.”
Damning phone conversation between
Lula and president
But seconds after he was sworn in, the
investigating judge issued an injunction,
blocking Lula’s appointment.
President Roussseff had barely given
Lula a post-ceremony hug when the judge
suspended his nomination to the cabinet
chief post “or any other that grants him
immunity”.
Judge Itagiba Catta Preta also released
the recording of a taped phone conversation
in which President Rousseff offered to
send Lula the paper confirming his appointment
— a move that would have secured
his immunity from prosecution.
“Lula let me tell you something,” she
José Altuve, Carlos Correa to
Make Astros’ Trip to México
By JOSÉ DE JESÚS ORTÍZ
A.J. Hinch revealed part of the traveling
party for the Astros’ two-game
set against the Padres in Mexico City.
Three-time All-Star Jose Altuve, 2015
American League Rookie of the Year Carlos
Correa, Luis Valbuena, Marwin Gonzalez,
Preston Tucker and Jake Marisnick are the
biggest names scheduled to travel to Mexico
City this week. Reliever Will Harris is scheduled
to pitch in both games in Mexico City.
Minor-league righthander Chris Devenski
will start the game on March 26, and
righthander Brady Rodgers will start the next
day.
said to the former president in the phone
call.
“Tell me dear,” Lula replied.
“I’m sending you Bessias,” President
Rousseff said, referring to an advisor.
“With a paper for us to have it and use it
only if necessary.
“It’s the investiture documents, ok?”
“Uhuh. OK,” Lula said.
“I’ll be waiting.”
The widening scandal sparked unprecedented
protests across Brazil and in the
capital, Brasilia police fired tear gas when
the protests began to turn violent.
In the financial hub Sao Paolo and in
Rio de Janeiro, hundreds of thousands of
people called for Lula’s arrest and the resignation
of President Roussef, who appointed
him.
“I came here to fight for a better country,
without corruption, with dignity for
the population,” one woman Daiane Sampaio
said.
“Enough of corruption, it’s enough.
Down [out] Dilma and Lula, it’s enough.”
Puerto Rican star Mónica Puig Marchán
will host world number one
Serena Williams in a friendly match
to be held at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico
José Miguel Agrelot on April 11th.
Despite the event being listed as friendly,
Puig, the world number 67th-ranked
player, is looking forward to the encounter.
“When I go to the court, I always try to
compete to the maximum. Whether or not
it is a friendly match, I will go to the court
to compete, but I think the atmosphere
will be quite relaxed. Our respective
agents have spoken, and things are going
to go well. She (Williams) is also excited to
play this game with me,” Puig said.
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that’s the coup. That’s the coup.
We’re not clowns. Brazil is better than all
of this.”
President Rousseff attacked the judge’s
actions in releasing the damning phone
conversation as illegal and anti-democratic.
“Convulsing Brazilian society with lies,
reprehensible practices violates constitutional
rights as well as the rights of citizens
and sets serious precedents. Coups begin
this way,” she said.
“They want to take down the Government
by force,” Wadih Damous, from the
Government coalition, said.
“Disrespect the constitution. Carry out
selective, criminal leaks, like Judge Sergio
Moro does, who will be held responsible for
this.
“We will take legal and juridical measures
against Judge Sergio Moro. He can’t do
that.”
A parliamentary committee is due to
recommend whether President Rousseff
should be impeached.
Mónica Puig to Play Serena
Williams in April Friendly
play an athlete of Williams’ calibre on
Puerto Rican soil and she is determined to
make use of the opportunity
Aside from the match, Williams and
Puig will participate in a clinic targeting
young aspiring players.
The event will be produced by the JB
Group

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This Cuban Defector Changed
Baseball. Nobody Remembers.
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
The poster, the only prominent piece of memorabilia,
hangs in the back of the shed
next to the dusty old suitcase, a row of
unused candles and a pile of VHS tapes, a few
bearing the label “Cuba Baseball.”
Whenever Rene Arocha goes for the lawn
mower, he can see it, his younger self, No. 43 of
the St. Louis Cardinals circa 1993, caught in the
familiar hunched-over, leg-up pose of a pitcher
hurtling something toward the plate.
It is a tucked-away reminder of his fleeting
fame, a fame that he has sought to tuck away
himself after a career that began with a flash of
hope but ultimately fizzled in disappointments
and unfulfilled expectations.
“I am hidden here,” he said with a laugh,
at the nondescript peach bungalow-style house
here where he lives, with a beat-up 1990s sedan
on the lawn, a motorboat in the side yard,
squawking parrots on the back patio and a pregnant
cat making the rounds.
Yet, with one simple but rebellious move, he
changed baseball.
Major League Baseball and Cuba are discussing
ways for Cuban players to sign with teams
without having to defect, taking advantage of a
thaw between the countries that will culminate
in President Obama’s two-day trip there, set to
be done today. A new arrangement would formalize
the decades-long flow of Cuban players
showing up on American shores and major league
rosters — including star players like Yasiel
Puig, Yoenis Cespedes, Aroldis Chapman and
Orlando Hernandez, known as “El Duque.”
Before all of them, and hundreds of others,
there was Rene Arocha.
He never got a big-money contract or played
memorably enough to be a household name,
even among ardent fans. At best, he may be a
curious footnote.
But on July 10, 1991, he committed a simple
but utterly rebellious act that opened the way for
the modern surge of Cuban players: He walked
away from the Cuban national team during a layover
in Miami and sought asylum in the United
States.
Until then, no active player on the national
team, the best of the best in the country, had defected.
“He was the one who started the current
wave of players defecting and deciding to come
to the U.S. and staying here,” said Peter C. Bjarkman,
a longtime scholar of Cuban baseball, whose
book “Cuba’s Baseball Defectors” is scheduled
for publication in May. “He really was the pioneer.”
Now, the kind of defections that Arocha opened
the way to may be on the way out.
After Fidel Castro took power in 1959, he
abolished professional baseball and established
the National Series, a 16-team amateur league
run by a government department.
“This is the triumph of free baseball over slave
baseball,” Castro declared, showing his distaste
for the buying and selling of players in the
United States leagues.
Before Arocha defected, a few players managed
to make it to the United States, but none had
been active players on the high-profile national
team.
One player, Barbaro Garbey, who had been
imprisoned on a game-fixing charge and left
Cuba on the Mariel boatlift, a mass migration in
1980 of more than 120,000 Cuban refugees to the
United States, did make it to the major leagues.
But Garbey was not an active player when he left
Cuba, Bjarkman said, and his departure did not
cause nearly the stir that Arocha’s did.
Arocha, by contrast, was a star pitcher on
Cuba’s national team when he left, a right-hander
with a 92-mile-an-hour fastball. At 25, however,
he was already an overworked one. Cuba tended
not to use relievers, so pitchers often worked entire
games, sometimes several a week.
“I got injured when I was 17 but I still played,”
Arocha recalled. “We used terrible baseballs,
too. None of the equipment was good
then.”
Even as Major League Baseball has applied
to the Treasury Department to institute a new
system to draft Cuban players to teams directly
— a pathway that the league anticipates would
pre-empt the smuggling and the often chaotic
and dangerous journeys of Cuban players to the
United States — players continue to arrive.
Last month, two brothers, Yulieski Gourriel,
31, and Lourdes Gourriel Jr., 22, left the Cuban
national team while in the Dominican Republic,
one of the most high-profile defections in recent
years.
Their father, Lourdes Gourriel Sr., was one of
Cuba’s most celebrated players. Arocha played
with him on the Cuba teams that won the 1986
Amateur World Series and the 1988 Baseball
World Cup against the United States.
“I still remember Lourdes’s home run that
tied the score before we went on to win,” Arocha
said. “I gave up the runs that put the United States
ahead, but then he tied it. Pow!”
There is pride in that voice.
“Of course,” he said. “I am very proud. I am
Cuban, pure Cuban. I am just not a baseball player.
It is no longer part of my life.”
He paused for a moment.
“It is a little like when you were with a woman,
and now you are no longer with her.”
A Strange Freedom
If Jose Canseco, the Oakland Athletics’ All-
Star, had not decided to make a candy bar, Arocha
might not have ended up in the majors.
Cuba now closely guards the travels of its
players, driving many defecting players to risk
harrowing journeys in the hands of unscrupulous
smugglers. But Arocha’s defection was remarkably
simple.
The team was on a layover in Miami after
playing a series of exhibition games against the
United States. The players were staying at the
hotel in the middle of the airport, Arocha said,
and he just walked out.
He did have a plan. In fact, he said, he had
been plotting for a long time to make a break
from the team, considering and then dropping
the idea on at least two earlier occasions when
the team was traveling.
Miami, however, made a lot of sense because
he had relatives there.
When his father and aunt came to visit at the
airport hotel, he told them he was not going back
to Cuba and would stay with them.
“They didn’t know what I was going to do,”
he said. “I told them I was staying. They could
not believe it.”
He slipped out of the hotel and through an
exit door in the crowded terminal, apparently
not closely watched by Cuban officials, who had
not dealt with a defection before.
The next day, according to news accounts at
the time, the Cuban team waited on the plane
for Arocha. And waited, and waited, until after a
few hours it was clear he was not going to show
up.
Back in Cuba, he was denounced as a traitor
in official media.
In Cuba, he had left a wife and young
daughter but doubted they would suffer reprisals.
(His daughter eventually joined him.)
“It was not about them,” he said. “It was
about me.”
He had been playing baseball since he was
13, starting in his hometown, Regla, near Havana.
He had worked his way up through the equivalent
of the minor leagues to the Metropolitanos
and the Industriales, two of the country’s
best teams. In total, he is credited with 100 wins
Arocha on June 8, 1993. He missed the 1996
season after sustaining a serious elbow injury
and never started another game in the
majors. Credit Otto Greule Jr./Getty Images
and a .600 winning percentage, Bjarkman said,
and was talked up as the probable starter for
Cuba’s Olympic baseball team at the 1992 Barcelona
Games.
Over the years, a torn Achilles’ tendon set
him back and his throwing arm went cold and
hot, but he made it to the national team.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in
1989, Cuba entered what is known as the Special
Period, an era of food shortages and want among
the worst the country endured.
Baseball players were not spared.
“Sometimes on the road we slept right in the
stands, outside with the mosquitoes,” he said.
“Just like everybody else, we had to search for
food and figure out how to get by.”
“I didn’t have eggs in the refrigerator, either.”
There were other slights.
The authoritarian ways of the country trickled
down to athletics. Players, Arocha said,
were tightly controlled. Decisions on who would
start which games were never explained and the
players were forced to attend mandatory meetings
to hear political speeches.
“Nothing was ever explained, they just
made decisions and nobody would know why,”
he said.
Off the field, people were punished for
seemingly minor violations. He recalled the
time an uncle was jailed for simply possessing
American dollars.
It was all getting to him, he said.
“I wanted freedom,” he said. “Yes, I was playing
baseball and wondered if I could play in the
big leagues, but mainly I wanted to be free.”
Not even his wife at the time knew his plan,
he said. She went to the Havana airport to meet
him; they eventually split up, and he has since
remarried in the United States.

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“It was hard at first,” he said. “I missed Cuba,
but I knew I could not go back.”
The sudden freedom to speak his mind
bewildered him at first.
At a cafe in Little Havana in Miami, he was
stunned to hear fellow Cubans loudly criticizing
the president.
“Bush this, Bush that,” he recalled, chuckling
at the memory. “I was looking around and thinking,
‘How could they be talking like this about
the president?’ Nobody was hushing their voice.
That’s how you can tell a newly arrived Cuban.
They still talk in whispers.”
The exile community embraced him, though
Arocha was wary of political activism.
“I know nothing about politics,” he told The
New York Times a few weeks after arriving. As
that article noted, Arocha had left shortly before
Havana was to play host to the Pan-American
Games, perhaps adding to Fidel Castro’s ire.
Gus Dominguez, a Cuban-American working
at an advertising firm in Los Angeles, happened
to be visiting a Miami radio station to
help promote Canseco’s candy bar while word
spread of Arocha’s defection.
A sports reporter helped him make the connection.
“I knew Canseco’s agents so I agreed to bring
Rene to Los Angeles to meet them and see what
could happen,” Dominguez said.
A week later, the meeting had still not panned
out. Baseball had no system in place to draft
Cuban players, so everybody was operating with
caution and suspicion.
“Finally Rene tells me, ‘Why don’t you be
my agent? You are the only one helping me,’”
Dominguez said. “He said, ‘I will learn how to
play baseball here and you learn how to be an
agent.’”
It took several months, but the league decided
to hold a special lottery for Arocha. The St.
Louis Cardinals signed him.
“I wanted him to play, to at least give it a
shot,” Dominguez said.
“His talent was above average, but he wasn’t
great,” he added. “What made him above average
is you could tell winning was always on his
mind.”
A Short but Pioneering Stint
Pitching in Cuba was one thing; pitching in
the big leagues was another.
“I thought my years of experience would
help, but I had a lot to learn,” Arocha said. “Slider,
sinker, everything. I mostly used the fastball
in Cuba.”
Arocha went 11-8 his rookie season in 1993.
He remembered standing on the mound in that
first game against the Cincinnati Reds on April
9, 1993.
“I thought, I really did it,” he said. “I have
arrived.”
It turned out to be the pinnacle of his career.
The next season he was in the bullpen.
Arocha did not adjust well, mentally or physically,
and ended up with an elbow injury that at
first was diagnosed as a bone chip but was later
found to be a torn tendon. He required Tommy
John surgery and, in his eyes and the eyes of his
associates, it signaled the end of his career. He
missed the 1996 season.
He was cut by the Cardinals after having played
three seasons and signed with the San Francisco
Giants in 1997 for a season but did not start,
relegated to one of their minor league teams.
In 1998, he played for the New Orleans Zephyrs,
a Houston Astros Triple-A team, then
went on to play in Mexican leagues in 1999 and
discussed a comeback with the Mets in 2000, but
there was not enough interest, and he retired.
He settled here, because the community had
always welcomed him. Thousands of fans of Cuban
descent had watched and cheered him here
when he had pitched against the Marlins in a
game that rookie season.
“Without a doubt Arocha was a pitcher with
a lot of talent, but injuries and bad luck always followed
him,” said Ian Padron, a Cuban filmmaker
who featured Arocha in his 2003 documentary
on Cuban baseball, ‘Fuera de Liga” (“Out of This
League”).
Still, Arocha’s relative success when healthy
answered doubts about whether top Cuban players
could play in the big leagues.
“His rookie season alone was solid enough to
answer the many doubts of the skeptics,” Bjarkman
writes in his new book, “and to demonstrate
that at least the top Cuban League pitchers could
indeed make the grade at the highest levels of
professional baseball.”
Letting Go of the Past, Almost
“I don’t watch baseball, none of the games
or spring training or anything,” Arocha said recently
on his cluttered back patio. “I never liked
watching baseball. I don’t have patience for that. I
liked playing baseball.”
He likened his split with the sport to a “chapter
in my life that has ended.”
“Sometimes they come around and ask me to
play softball,” he added. “I don’t even do that.”
Yet he is still conscious enough of his image
to have posted several videos of his playing days
on YouTube.
Who, after all, wants to be forgotten?
At the suggestion that he might feel differently
if baseball had made him rich or if injuries
had not derailed his career, he shrugged.
“Who knows?”
For a time he did run a youth baseball academy,
coaching children, but the business failed in
hard economic times and he closed it in 2010.
He gets by driving a van for a medical clinic
and spends his free time on his motorboat
or with his three grown children, two of whom
were born and raised in the United States.
He never got the multimillion-dollar contracts
that many Cuban players land now. His signing
bonus with St. Louis was $15,000. (“I thought it
was a fortune,” he said.) The most he made in a
season was $300,000.
“I don’t have control over such things,” he
said of the difference in contracts. “Those players
deserve it. They have the talent. I was in a different
time.”
He still harbors doubts about Cuba and the
talk of changes there. Several of his relatives have
gone on trips to Cuba and encouraged him to
go, but he said he doubted that much had really
changed. His only visit came during a 1994 humanitarian
tour to visit refugees at the American
military base at Guantánamo, which is walled off
from the rest of the country.
“Players are going to keep coming because
there still is no freedom there,” he said.
He noted that Puig and a few other players
who had defected visited Cuba in November but
only as part of a good will trip organized by Major
League Baseball and the players’ union.
“So it was controlled,” he said. “If I go, I want
to go wherever I want, whenever I want. That is
freedom.”
In the fading afternoon light, he is waxing
the side of his 17-foot boat parked in the yard.
When he takes it out on the seas, it occurs to
him he may encounter Cubans on rafts fleeing the
island, a common occurrence in South Florida.
“I hear you can’t bring them on the boat,” he
says. “You could be accused of smuggling. You
throw them water and food and call the Coast
Guard.”
The letters indicating the name of the boat
are fading. “Lady …”
“No,” Arocha interrupts. “No, that’s not the
name. I haven’t named it yet but I have the name
picked out.”
He smiles, pausing for effect.
“Industriales!”
And he laughs loudly at the inside joke, one
for the Cuban fans.
Robert Horry Picks Tim Duncan Over Kobe Bryant
By MARCEL MUTONI
Having played and won NBA championships
with the two greatest players
of their generation, Robert Horry
didn’t have any trouble picking between Kobe
Bryant and Tim Duncan.
The always brutally honest Big Shot Rob
gives the nod to Duncan because of the consistency
he’s shown throughout his Hall of Fame
career.
I asked Horry who he’d rather have on his
team, Kobe or Duncan. His response: “Am I
trying to win a championship or am I trying
to fill seats?”
— Melissa Rohlin (@melissarohlin)
Horry currently works for the Los Angeles
Lakers as a TV talking head—his playing
career in Hollywood came to an end acrimoniously—and
says that San Antonio Spurs
head coach Gregg Popovich is better to play
for than Phil Jackson.
Horry said he’d pick Pop over Phil Jackson:
“He treats everybody the same on the
team, whether you’re a starter or the 12th
man.”
— Melissa Rohlin (@melissarohlin)
Per the Express-News:
Robert Horry, who has played alongside
Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan, was recently asked
which of those superstars he would rather
build a team around. […] He responded with
a question of his own: “Am I trying to win a
championship; or am I trying to fill seats?”
Even though Bryant and Duncan have
each won five titles, Horry would pick Duncan
if the goal is to bring home a Larry O’Brien trophy.
[…] “Not saying that you can’t win them
with Kobe, but Tim is that guy that’s going to
be that rock, that consistency,” Horry said.
That was just one of the popular debate topics
Horry spoke openly and honestly about.
Another was which one of his former coaches
he preferred — Gregg Popovich or Phil Jackson.
[…] “I would rather play for Pop,” said
Horry, who played for Popovich from 2003-
08. “The thing that I’d say best about Pop is he
would curse you out, (but) he treats everybody
the same on the team, whether you’re a starter
or the 12th man. He knows how to leave things
in the gym because he’s a true believer in family.
And that’s what you are when you’re on a
team — you’re family. You’ll get in arguments
at times, but at the end of the day, I’ve still got
nothing but love for you, and I’m going to let it
go. A lot of coaches don’t know how to do that,
and they’ll hold grudges for a long time.”

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Jordan Spieth Continues to Be Favorite to Win 2016 Masters
By JOSH SENS
Jordan Spieth is a favorite to repeat. But
Rickie Fowler has attracted the most
action. And Tiger Woods still has a
puncher’s chance at nabbing his fifth green
jacket, though the odds seem slim that he’ll
even play.
Those and other nuggets make up the
latest Masters news from the gambling
frontline of Las Vegas in advance of the
most wagered-on golf tournament of the
year.
“We look at the stats, historical performance,
recent performance, all of that,”
says Jay Rood, vice president of race and
sports books for MGM Resorts. “But in
golf, as in Nascar and so many other individual
sports, popularity drives the betting
board.”
By that measure, if this were high
school, Spieth would have the hand of the
homecoming queen. This year’s defending
champ has been the Masters favorite since
last summer, when the line on him opened
at 7-to-1. His recent struggles have done
nothing to dampen the gambling public’s
enthusiasm for him. His odds are now
down to 5-to-1.
Next up on the list, at 6-to-1, is 2013
Masters champion Adam Scott, whose recent
back-to-back Tour wins have brought
him back into the conversation. He’s followed
by Rory McIlroy, who needs only the
Masters to complete the career Grand Slam.
If the numbers are right, there’s an 8-to-1
chance that the Northern Irishman will do
just that.
Then again, the numbers are rarely a
reflection of a golfer’s actual chance of winning.
As an example, Rood cites Justin Rose,
now on the blocks at 25-to-1. Never mind
the fact that Rose has competed in 47 majors,
and come away with just one major
title.
“He’s obviously a great player, and
there’s always that sense of potential,”
Rood says. “But his actual odds of winning
are probably more like 60 to 80-to-1.”
Popularity and potential. Both have influenced
the action on Rickie Fowler, who
has drawn more Masters wagers at MGM
than any other player in the Masters field.
Fowler is major-less, but his Augusta odds
(10-to-1) are the same as those for Bubba
Watson, who has won two of the last four
Masters.
Compare those seemingly skewed figures
to the odds for Phil Mickelson: 9-to-1
on a guy who has won three Masters in 23
appearances is a rare instance of the numbers
roughly lining up with what a player
has actually done.
Of course, the so-called “smart money”
often gravitates towards numerical longshots
whose odds appear statistically outof-whack.
Good luck sniffing out those sleepers.
Could it be Angel Cabrera at 100-to-1?
Or Louis Oosthuizen at 40-to-1? Rood says
he’s eyeballing Matt Kuchar (60-to-1).
“Throughout his career, he’s basically
been a license to print money,” Rood says,
“though maybe more for himself than for
people betting on him.”
Then there’s Tiger Woods, who, during
his early 2000s peak, warped the betting
board like no other golfer before or since.
On the mend from back surgery, Woods
is listed at 80-to-1, though the odds of him
being ready to compete seem even worse.
“Tiger has shown that he can be a factor
at Augusta even when he’s nowhere
near his best,” Rood says. “So if there’s
even a chance that he might play...well, put
it this way: we’ve been getting a ton of bets
on him.”
Simeone: Atlético Facing the World’s Best in Barcelona
By CHRIS MYSON
The Atleti boss reveals his excitement
after his side was drawn
against the La Liga leader in the
final eight of the Champions League.
Diego Simeone feels Atletico Madrid
will be up against the best team in the
world when the club takes on Barcelona
in the Champions League quarterfinals.
The two La Liga rivals will meet in
the last eight after Friday’s draw in Nyon
produced a repeat of the 2013-14 tie at
the same stage, which Atletico won 2-1
on aggregate.
Simeone, though, warned Barca has
improved substantially since that encounter,
but still spoke of his excitement
ahead of the two-legged clash.
“We have seen the draw and they are
an important rival, the best in the world,
surely,” he said. “I’m really excited about
it. What better incentive for us than to
play against the best team in the world?
Asked about the repeat of the tie
from two seasons ago, Simeone said:
“They are another team, a different team
and they have more options.
“They manage dead balls better, they
are better on the counter, they have had
the continuity of Neymar for the last two
years, the presence of [Luis] Suarez and a
better bench.”
Messi has 25 goals in 27 games v
Atlético, including 3 hat-tricks.
— Champions League (@ChampionsLeague)
Atletico director Clemente Villaverde
believes the tie is too close to call, with
his team having proven it can compete
with the best.
“Luck has decided that our opponents
be Barcelona and we will take it,”
he said. “You have to fight against Barca.
The tie is 50-50 because we have shown
how strong we are in the Liga. We should
do what we know.
“All opponents are hard and you
have to respect them all immensely. We
just have to do our thing.”
The teams hold the top two spots in
La Liga, with Barca clear at the summit.
Draw facts
• Wolfsburg and Real Madrid have
never previously met. Wolfsburg’s Julian
Draxler was in the Schalke team beaten
by Madrid in the 2013/14 round of 16.
• Bayern have won four of their six
matches against Benfica, drawing the
other two. The clubs have not played
each other since 1995.
• Barcelona have won their last six
fixtures against Atlético in all competitions,
Lionel Messi scoring in five of
them.
• Messi has registered 25 goals in 27
games against Atlético, including three
hat-tricks.
• Barcelona and Atlético came together
in the 2013/14 quarter-finals,
Atletico winning 1-0 at home after a 1-1
away draw.
• This is the third year running
Atlético have faced a Spanish side in the
quarter-finals – they lost 1-0 to Madrid
over two legs 12 months ago.
• Paris and Manchester City played
out a 0-0 draw at the City of Manchester
Stadium in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group
stage, their only past encounter.

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through 9.
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HOROSCOPE
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword
on page 45
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
A serious interest in religion, philosophy or higher education
will prompt you to take a challenging course. Getting
some intellectual stimulation will prompt you to take a trip.
Visiting a spiritual mecca or ancient city will make you feel
connected to the past. Suddenly, contemporary life will feel
less alienating. You’ll gain a better understanding of your
place in the world.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Your finances will improve as a result of a business or loving
partner’s good fortune. A legal settlement, inheritance
or tax refund will allow you both to buy a few more
luxuries. If you’ve been yearning to put a deposit on a
house or car, now is the time to do so. Fortunately, you
won’t have to sacrifice style for quality. You’ll find something
beautiful that is within your budget. If you’re on
your own, don’t worry.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
A career minded friend or loving partner brings stability
to your life. It’s possible they will pay your bills while
you earn an advanced degree, recover from an illness,
or care for a relative. As soon as you get the opportunity,
you will be able to repay your loved one for all their
kindness. In the meantime, you should take this opportunity
to further your education, strengthen your body and
spend quality time with those you love.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Your ambition and hard work are paying off nicely.
Unlike many of your colleagues, you continue to be
given plum assignments that attract favourable publicity.
Treat every job offer as a learning opportunity. The
more skills you acquire, the easier it will be to continue
up the ladder to success. Certain family members will
complain you are spending too much time on your career.
That’s because they are jealous.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Becoming romantically involved with someone who is
significantly older or younger will turn heads. Don’t
worry about other people’s opinions. The important
thing is you are happy. You’ve always enjoyed being
with people who have different life experiences from
your own. If you’re in a long term relationship, encourage
your amour to try something new. You’ll both
benefit from this change.
Virgo Aug 24-Sep 23)
Professional activities involving house sales, building or
domestic goods will be profitable. You have great instincts
about business involving tangible materials. If you long to
be your own boss, this would be a good time to start an enterprise.
Be prepared to scrimp and save in the early stages.
It will take time to build a loyal clientele. Fortunately, you’re
very patient and hard working. These qualities guarantee
your success.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
This is a great time to sign a contract. A business deal will
create a steady flow of income for years to come. You’re tired
of looking for work every time you finish an assignment.
Working for a company that specialises in luxury goods will
be especially rewarding. After buying yourself some treats,
you should pick up a few items for friends who have given
professional help.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Taking a careful, analytic approach to work will pay off
handsomely. Your supervisor will breathe a sigh of relief
after you catch a few embarrassing errors. Because you
are so trustworthy, you’ll be given additional responsibilities.
Take this opportunity to ask for a big raise. You
may not get as much money as you request, but you
will be awarded more than you are currently earning.
People know you are worth your weight in gold.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Going on a glamorous business trip is your reward for being
reliable. You’ll have a wonderful time touring a foreign
country while signing a new client. Make sure to buy beautiful
souvenirs made by local artisans. These unique works
of art will be admired by everyone who visits your home. If
you want to make a really good impression on a prospective
customer, master some foreign phrases and learn about their
country’s history.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Working for a large institution like a hospital, government
agency or university will be profitable. It will also
raise your professional profile. People are impressed by
your leadership ability. You manage to command respect
without making enemies. As a result, you will be given a
promotion that involves working with the public. If you
have your own business and want to expand, apply for
assistance.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
You feel a strong sense of responsibility for your loved
ones. Many people who are close to your heart are struggling,
either financially or emotionally. Instead of scattering
your energy, think of meaningful ways you can help.
This can involve anything from calling a lonely relative
once a week to giving an unemployed friend resources
you don’t need. Don’t make a big deal out of these acts
of kindness.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
You’ll attain a position of authority as recognition
for your hard work. Although you don’t like ordering
people around, you do enjoy creating an enjoyable
atmosphere at work. By taking the time to show
appreciation for every member of the team, most will
give their best. The few bad apples who constantly
complain should be dismissed. You don’t want their
negative attitudes to rub off on everyone else.

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