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Rolando Ortiz Velázquez is a Puerto Rican politician and the current mayor of
Cayey Cayey (), officially Cayey de Muesas, is a mountain town and municipality in central Puerto Rico located on the Sierra de Cayey within the Central Mountain range, north of Salinas and Guayama; south of Cidra and Caguas; east of Aibonito and Sal ...
. Ortiz is affiliated with the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) and has served as mayor since 1997. He graduated from the Benjamin Harrison High School in Cayey. Obtained a bachelor's degree in Business Administration at the
University of Puerto Rico at Cayey The University of Puerto Rico in Cayey (UPR-Cayey) is a public university in Cayey, Puerto Rico. It is part of the University of Puerto Rico System. It was initially founded as a regional school in 1967 and became a college in 1969. It was awar ...
. Graduated from
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, BA in criminology, Magna Cum Laude. Earned a
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from the
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law The Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Faculty of Law ( es, links=no, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico) is the school of law of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, a private co-educational corpor ...
. Before being elected mayor, Ortiz served President of the Municipal Legislature of Cayey from 1988 to 1992 and later as member of the
House of Representatives of Puerto Rico The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico ( es, Cámara de Representantes de Puerto Rico) is the lower house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the bicameral state legislature (United States), territorial legislature of Puerto Rico. ...
from 1993 to 1997. He represented District 29. At the 2012 general election, Ortiz received 73.29% of the votes. This was the largest margin of victory for any mayor in that election, which led a newspaper to label him as one of the "most powerful" mayors in the island.


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