After more than a century of life, Juan Bosch’s widow, Mrs. Carmen Quidiello, stops her gaze. He takes back the memories of the years he lived with one of the most distinctive 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 studies in Barcelona, Spain, notably at the Colegio de las Teresianas and the baccalaureate at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza in his hometown.
Later he completed a degree in social sciences and philosophy and literature from the University of Havana and a postgraduate degree in diplomatic law.
She was a companion of the late leader Juan Bosch, founder of two of the political parties forging democracy in the Dominican Republic, the Dominican Revolutionary (PRD) and the Dominican Liberation (PLD), whom she married in 1943 and had two children. . : Patricio and Bárbara.
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 fulfilling 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-social thought, as well as the literary dimension of Juan Bosch.
The Juan Bosch Foundation recalls, among its documents on the life of Quidiello, that “he 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 to establish the Children’s Institute, promoted Pablo Casals’ historical concert and sponsored, for the first time in the country, the celebration of concerts of the National Symphony in the gardens of the National Palace ”.
Carmen Quidiello stood by his side in transcendent moments for the life and work of the writer and politician, with a 24-year exile in which the narrator maneuvered with the exile groups to remove the iron dictator Rafael Leonidas from power in the Dominican Republic Trujillo Molina.
While her identity is irreversibly linked to this nexus with a master of Dominican literature and politics, in Doña Carmen Quidiello there are defining hues that give her her own identity, as a woman with a proven track record in tangible contributions.
A dedicated and comprehensive bibliography synthesizes her presence in the cultural and literary world of the Dominican Republic as a playwright, poet and essayist. His works include “From my shore” “Decires poéticos”, poetry books; “The Pilgrim or the Shimmering Cloak”, “Someone Waits by the Bridge”, “The Eternal Eve and the Unbearable Adam (Theater) and” Pajaritas de Papel “(Poetic Prose).
Carmen Quidiello was instrumental in the Havana International Theater Festival and, in the company of art critics, founded and directed the Cultural Society Auditorium in 1972.
The patriotic concerns, woven throughout his life, have focused his efforts on contributing his voice to claim against events of political destabilization that happened in Venezuela.
In 2009, José Manuel Zelaya issued a proclamation rejecting the coup d’etat that José Manuel Zelaya was the victim of in the Republic of Honduras.
‘We know the pain caused by a coup like the one in Honduras. We know that no one, absolutely no one, has the approval or permissible justification to take the power delegated by the people from their legitimate representatives. We know very well, history does not tell them that pretexts and excuses have always been used to explain such excesses, but the coups d’état are exactly contrary to the constitution, the laws and the principles of democratic legitimacy, ” wrote the widow Juan on the occasion. Bosch, who fell into the arms of the gentleman.