After more than a century of life, Joan Bosch’s widow, Dona Carmen Quidiello, stops her gaze. It carries with it the memories of the years lived with one of the most emblematic men in the country and leaves the legacy of a woman with an artistic, intellectual and social trajectory.
A native of Santiago de Cuba, Mrs. Carmen was born on April 29, 1915.
It realized his primary studies in Barcelona, Spain, specifically in the School of the Teresianes and the baccalaureate in the Institute of Secondary Education of his native city.
He later pursued a degree in Social Sciences and in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Havana and a postgraduate degree in Diplomatic Law.
She was a companion of the late leader Joan Bosch, founder of two of the political parties that forged democracy in the Dominican Republic, the Dominican Revolutionary (PRD) and the Dominican Liberation (PLD), with whom she married in 1943. and procreated two children: Patricio and Barbara.
Alongside him, he built illusions, and shared work of surrender and struggle in exile, first for the consolidation of Dominican democracy and second, to fulfill the promises of social redemption of the Dominican people.
She was president of the Joan Bosch Foundation, an institution that has a whole structure for disseminating political and social thought, as well as the literary dimension of Joan Bosch.
The Joan Bosch Foundation recalls, among its documents on the life of Quidiello, that she accompanied him (to Bosch), in the exercise of the First Judiciary of the State in 1963, assuming the role of First Lady with sobriety. As such, he developed a project to create the children’s institute, promoted the historic Pau Casals concert and, for the first time in the country, encouraged the National Symphony to be held in the gardens. of the National Palace “.
Carmen Quidiello was by his side at important times for the life and work of the writer and politician, with a 24-year exile, in which the storyteller maneuvered alongside groups in exile to remove Republic from power. Dominican to the iron dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina.
Although her identity is irreversibly linked to this nexus with a master of Dominican literature and politics, Mrs. Carmen Quidiello has defining colors that give her an identity of her own, as a woman with a proven track record in tangible contributions.
An established and extensive bibliography summarizes his presence in the cultural and literary world of the Dominican Republic, as a playwright, poet and essayist. Among his works are “From my shore” “poetic sayings”, poems; “The Pilgrim or the Torn Capa”, “Someone is waiting by the bridge”, “The Eternal Eve and the Unbearable Adam (Theater) and” Paper Ties “(Poetic Prose).
Carmen Quidiello had a major participation in the Havana International Theater Festival and in the company of art critics founded and directed in 1972 the Cultural Cultural Auditorium.
Patriotic aspirations, woven throughout his life, have focused his efforts on providing his voice in the face of events of political destabilization that have occurred in Venezuela.
In 2009 he issued a proclamation rejecting the coup d’état of which José Manuel Zelaya was a victim on June 28, 2009 in the Republic of Honduras.
“We know the pain of a coup like the one in Honduras. We know that no one, absolutely no one, has the support or justifications to snatch the power delegated by the people to their legitimate representatives. We know, history does not tell them , that pretexts and subterfuges have always been used to explain such excesses, but the blows occur precisely in violation of the Constitution, the laws and the principles of democratic legitimacy ”, wrote on the occasion the widow of Joan Bosch, who left in the arms of the lord.