Evelio Otero, Jr.

Colonel Evelio Otero, Jr., a.k.a. EJ is a former officer in the United States Air Force who led the establishment of the first ever U.S. Central Command Headquarters in Qatar. He founded the Polish and Colombian Joint Special Operations Commands while he was assigned to United States Special Operations Command. Otero is a member of the United States Republican Party who in 2012 will seek to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 11th Congressional District of Florida.

Otero was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Evelio and Consuelo R. Otero. His father, Evelio Otero, Sr. was born in Cuba. In 1948, Puerto Rican industrialist Angel Ramos hired the Senior Otero to work at Telemundo. Otero Sr. married Consuelo, a Puerto Rican school teacher and in 1952 returned to Cuba with his wife. Otero Sr. emigrated once more from Cuba to Puerto Rico, with his wife and daughter, Altagracia, after the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro. Otero Sr. went to work once more for Telemundo and was the first television anchorman in Puerto Rico and one of the first in Latin America.

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