Tonight we note the passing of a Belize City legend, Edward "Papi Poti" Orozco.
He died at his home in Belize City this morning after a long battle with cancer.
He was a boxer, an orator, an ardent PUP supporter, and one of the colourful characters that define Belize City's identity. His friend Yasser Musa remembered the man called Poti:..
Yasser Musa, Friend of Papi Poti
"He was a discipline man. He loved sports, he was a great boxer; he played in 1970s on the great Fort George United Football team. He was a man that had the ability to deliver powerful message in very sharp but precise words. He came up with many of the phrases and slogans of our party over the years and he had that common touch where he would enter a room and people would gravitate toward him because he had this spirit of spontaneous combustion I would always called it because he just knew what to say and how to say it and so we are sad today. When you are in his presence you felt something deeply human about his strength of character, his persistence and his just ordinary approach to things."
Poti was 60 and is survived by his wife and 8 children.
His funeral is set for Monday at Ebeneezer Church.
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