Senator Eliezer Molina Pérez

Eliezer Molina Pérez was born on September 2, 1980, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He lived his formative years in the municipality of San Sebastián, where, thanks to exposure to nature and interaction with it during his development through his family—especially his grandmother Rosa—he enjoyed the pleasures of the countryside in his childhood. After graduating from the Patria Torres Ramírez School, he entered the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico in the metropolitan area, where he graduated in Civil Engineering with the vision of putting into practice what had been instilled in him as progress and economic development through construction. Once practicing the profession, he discovered in practice a reality different from the theory he had learned. He then understood his mission: to defend the nature he enjoyed so much in his childhood, in order to bequeath to our future generations the happiest country in the world, as it once was. The experience that Puerto Ricans lived immediately after Hurricane Maria inspired him to study economic sciences with a view toward developing a socially and environmentally sustainable economy. While the People were recovering from the onslaught of Hurricane Maria, the government crisis of 2019, and the ravages of the earthquakes and the pandemic, in a corner of Puerto Rico (Rincón), public maritime-terrestrial domain assets were being usurped, which inspired him to share his knowledge and empower the People, calling for community self-management to together oversee and amend the administrative errors that have caused the precariousness in our quality of life. It was the combination of these elements that led to the recovery and restoration of Los Almendros Beach in the municipality of Rincón. With this victory of the People, a historical precedent was established that would later be replicated in other areas of the coastal shoreline of the Puerto Rico archipelago, such as La Cueva Las Golondrinas in Aguadilla, Bahía de Jobos in Salinas, Las Picúas in Río Grande, and, more recently, La Parguera in Lajas, among others. Thanks to his educational and oversight efforts, Eliezer won the trust of the People, who demanded his entry into the Senate of Puerto Rico through a write-in nomination on the legislative ballot, becoming the first at-large senator elected through direct democracy in the history of our country.