Benny Frankie Cerezo

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Benny Frankie Cerezo
Puerto Rico House of Representatives
In office
January 2, 1969 – January 1, 1973
Personal details
Born1943
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
OccupationAttorney, legislator, politician, political analyst

Benny Frankie Cerezo (1943 – April 15, 2013), was a Puerto Rican lawyer, one of the seven founding members of the Puerto Rico

Universidad Complutense de Madrid
(in 2002).

Political career

Cerezo served as a member of the

Angel Viera Martínez appointed him to chair one of the House's two most powerful committees, the Government Affairs Committee. Cerezo came out against the Vietnam War and ended up losing his chairmanship, ending his elective career.[1]

From 1989 to 1991, Cerezo once again collaborated briefly with the pro-statehood

became party president and Cerezo questioned many of Rossello's policies, Cerezo once again withdrew from collaborating with the NPP.

After leaving the NPP sphera, he went on to have a successful law practice and a career as a non-affiliated political analyst.

Political analysis

Cerezo participated in many political analysis programs from 1969 until his death in 2013. His political analysis style was described very well by Nilsa Pierri Castellón: "Benny was bold in the analysis, risky in his judgments, but vertical and almost always accurate".[2] Cerezo was a harsh critic of the actions he understood wrong, or harmful to the people, regardless of their party or affiliation.

Cerezo was also a regular columnist for

The San Juan Star
".

At the time of his death, he was a political analyst for several radio and TV stations in Puerto Rico, and was in charge of an hour-long political analysis talk show on Radio Isla 1320 WSKN, an island-wide radio network.

His life

He was married to United States District Judge Carmen Consuelo Vargas and was the father of one daughter and one son, a partner in a Miami law firm.

Death

Cerezo died April 15, 2013, in Cleveland, Ohio after been affected by a cardiovascular complication.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Muñiz, Alba; Figueroa, Alex; Rodríguez Sánchez, Israel (April 16, 2013). "Muere repentinamente Bennie Frankie Cerezo". El Nuevo Día. Retrieved May 16, 2022 – via pressreader.
  2. ^ Homenage a Benny, by Nilsa Pietri Castellón
  3. ^ see Secretary of Education of Puerto Rico