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Orlando Jorge Mera

Orlando Jorge Mera
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources
In office
16 August 2020 – 6 June 2022
Preceded byÁngel Estévez
Succeeded byRaquel Peña de Antuña (acting)[1]
Director-General of INDOTEL
In office
16 August 2000 – 16 August 2004
Preceded byFrancisco Frías Lara
Succeeded byJosé Alfredo Rizek
Personal details
Born22 November 1966
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Died6 June 2022(2022-06-06) (aged 55)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Manner of deathAssassination by gunshot
NationalityDominican
Political partyModern Revolutionary Party (2014–2022)
Other political
affiliations
Dominican Revolutionary Party (prior 2014)
Spouse
(m. 1991)
Children2, including Orlando
Parents
Occupationpolitician, television personality
Professionlawyer

Orlando Jorge Mera (22 November 1966 – 6 June 2022) was a Dominican Republic politician, television host and producer, environmental manager, and lawyer, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources from 2020 until his assassination in 2022. He previously served as Director-General of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications. He was a member of the Modern Revolutionary Party.

  1. ^ "Vice assumes Environment provisionally". latin-american.news. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022. Through decree 321-22, of this Thursday, June 16, 2022, President Luis Abinader ordered that the Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Peña, be provisionally in charge of the Ministry of the Environment. The decree establishes that such functions will be exercised in addition to her constitutional powers in an honorary manner, and until the head of said ministry is appointed.

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