Outstanding. As a leader of the Dominican left
The remains of Marcos Rodríguez Sánchez, a revolutionary anti-Trujillo fighter and prominent figure of the MR1J4 and the Dominican Communist Party (PCD), who died on Saturday at his residence in the District, will be buried today at 3:00 pm in the Máximo Gómez National Cemetery. National for serious losses.
The body has been exposed since yesterday at 4:30 in the afternoon at the Blandino funeral home on Abraham Lincoln Avenue, where friends and relatives come to accompany the family and from where the funeral procession will depart today at three.
Marcos Rodríguez was the brother of Hipólito Rodríguez Sánchez, also a revolutionary and anti-Trujillo fighter. He was an expert water engineer.
Since 1971 he held various positions in the public administration, for which he was decorated by the Dominican Government with the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella in the rank of knight and the Central Laboratory for Quality Control of the Water from the National Institute of Drinking Waters (Inapa).
The information on the death of Rodríguez was released by the leftist leader Narciso Isa Conde, who said that “in addition to political activism, he was united by a long-standing friendship.”
He wrote and published in November 2020 the book “Notes for the history of drinking water supply and sewerage in the Dominican Republic”, which consists of 503 pages and 10 chapters in which it shows the most relevant facts in the history of the drinking water sector. and sanitation from the time of the island’s discovery to 2010, after 15 years of research.
People from various fields attended the wake to offer their condolences.
