After more than a century of life, Juan Bosch’s widow, Mrs. Carmen Quidiello, stops her gaze. He takes with him 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 career.
Originally from Santiago de Cuba, Doña Carmen was born on April 29, 1915.
He completed his primary education in Barcelona, Spain, especially at the Colegio de las Teresianas and at the baccalaureate at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza in his hometown.
He later graduated in social sciences and philosophy and letters from the University of Havana and a postgraduate degree in diplomatic law.
He was a partner of the late leader Juan Bosch, the 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 he married in 1943 and had two children. : Patricio and Barbara.
Together with him, he built illusions and shared tasks of devotion and struggle in exile, firstly for the consolidation of Dominican democracy and secondly for the fulfillment of the promises of social redemption of the Dominican people.
She was president of the Juan Bosch Foundation, an institution that has a whole structure for the dissemination of political and social thought, as well as the literary dimension of Juan Bosch.
The Juan Bosch Foundation recalls, among its documents about Quidiello’s life, that “she accompanied him (Bosch), in the exercise of the first state magistracy in 1963, assuming the role of first lady with sobriety and great dignity. As such, he developed a project for the creation of the children’s institute, promoted the historic Pablo Casals concert and sponsored, for the first time in the country, the celebration of the National Symphony concerts in the gardens of the National Palace.
Carmen Quidiello was with him in clear moments for the life and work of the writer and politician, with a 24-year exile, in which the narrator maneuvered with groups of exiles to remove the iron dictator Rafael Leonidas from power in the Republic Dominican Trujillo Molina.
Although her identity is irreversibly linked to this connection with a master of Dominican literature and politics, in Doña Carmen Quidiello there are defining nuances that ensure her own identity, as a woman with a proven experience in tangible contributions.
An established and extensive bibliography summarizes its 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 Decires”, books of poetry; “The Shining Pilgrim or Cloak”, “Someone Waiting by the Bridge”, “Eternal Eve and the Unbearable Adam (Theater)” and “Pajaritas de Papel” (Poetic Prose).
Carmen Quidiello had an important participation in the Havana International Theater Festival and in the company of art critics she founded and directed the Auditorium of the Cultural Society in 1972.
Patriotic concerns, woven throughout his life, have focused his efforts on the contribution of his voice to the protests against the events of political destabilization that have taken place in Venezuela.
In 2009, José Manuel Zelaya issued a proclamation rejecting the coup d’état of José Manuel Zelaya on 28 June 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 admissible approval or justification for snatching the power delegated by the people from their legitimate representatives. We know, history does not tell them that pretexts and subterfuges have always been used to explain such excesses, but coups take place precisely in violation of the Constitution, the laws and the principles of democratic legitimacy, “Juan’s widow wrote on the occasion. Bosch, who entered the arms of the gentleman.