Roberto "Bobby" Ramírez Kurtz (born October 29, 1959) is a Puerto Rican politician and the former

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Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico Cabo Rojo (, ) is a Cabo Rojo barrio-pueblo, city and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality situated on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico and forms part of the San Germán – Cabo Rojo metropolitan area, San Germán–Cabo Rojo metropoli ...

. He is affiliated with the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) and served as mayor from 2013 to 2021. He assumed office after beating incumbent Perza Rodrígues Quiñones in the 2012 general election. Rodríguez, a member of the New Progressive Party (PNP), became mayor after the death of Santos Padilla Ferrer in 2007. Ramírez Kurtz was succeeded by Jorge "Jorgito: Morales Wiscovitch of the PNP after winning the mayoral race in the

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. In 2017, Kurtz implemented the "Orange Initiative" (''Iniciativa Naranja'' in Spanish), which was met with controversy. The initiative establishes that citizens must buy orange trash bags provided by the trash-collecting private company that operates in Cabo Rojo if they want their trash to be collected. Kurtz stopped "Iniciativa Naranja", after days in court, because the government gave funds to Cabo Rojo's junkyard that would last at least five years.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramirez Kurtz, Bobby Living people Mayors of places in Puerto Rico Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico) politicians People from Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 1959 births