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April 4, 2012
10:36 a.m.
Rexach Benitez will lay in state this afternoon at Arecibo
The accumulation exrepresentante by the Popular Democratic Party and former senator for the New Progressive Party died this morning
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Poco después su familia regresó a Puerto Rico. Rexach Benítez recibió su educación primaria en Juncos y Arecibo y se graduó de escuela superior en Río Piedras, según una biografía que publicó el Senado en Internet. En 1951 obtuvo un bachillerato en Ciencias Sociales en la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) y al año siguiente una maestría en Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Maryland. También cursó dos años de estudios en la Escuela de Derecho de la UPR. En 1973 fue electo representante por acumulación por el Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), del que se desafilió años más tarde para luego ingresar al Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP). En 1984 fue electo senador por acumulación por el PNP y en enero de 1985 fue designado portavoz de la delegación de su partido en el Senado.
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The Senate president, Roberto Rexach Benitez, died this morning because of his lung condition, confirmed his son, Juan Manuel Rexach Urdaz. His body will be on display this afternoon at the funeral home and cemetery Gonzalez Holy Cross Arecibo reported. He said that tomorrow the Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, held at the funeral a guard of honor. It is expected that tomorrow at 2:00 pm and then culminate the funeral will be cremated, he said. "That was his last will, they watch and be cremated. He was a very simple person for that, "said the son. "Thanks to all who have supported us right now," said Rexach Urdaz, in an interview with El Nuevo Dia . Rexach Benitez was born in New York Puerto Rican parents, the December 18, 1929. Shortly after his family returned to Puerto Rico. Rexach Benitez received his primary education in Juncos and Arecibo and graduated from high school in Rio Piedras, according to a biography published by the Senate on the Internet. In 1951 he earned a BA in Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and the following year an MA in Political Science from the University of Maryland. also attended two years of study at the School of Law of the UPR. In 1973 he was elected Representative at Large for the Popular Democratic Party (PDP ), which disaffiliated years later and then enter the New Progressive Party (PNP). In 1984 he was elected senator at large by the PNP and in January 1985 was appointed spokesman of the delegation of his party in the Senate. In 1988 he was re-elected and ratified as a spokesman for Senate Minority progressive. He was reelected in the general elections of 1992 and in 1993 was selected as President of the Senate. In 1996 he was reelected to the Senate, he resigned in 1999. In 1958 Rexach Benitez a professor of political science at UPR. That year he was appointed Assistant Dean of Administration and in 1980 served as assistant to the President, Jaime Benitez. From 1961 to 1967 he held the positions of Director and Regional Dean of the College of Humacao, UPR and the 1967 to 1970 he held the same position in the Arecibo Regional College. From 1981 to 1985 he was consultant to the Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo. Rexach Benitez was a columnist for El Nuevo Dia and the former newspaper El Mundo.
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