This Monday, December 21, was declared a day of official mourning for the death of Carmen Quidiello de Bosch, through Decree 721-20 issued by President Luis Abinader.
This presidential mandate was drafted bearing in mind that Quidiello was not only a poet and playwright, but also participated as manager of numerous cultural, artistic and literary activities in the country.
According to the documents in the document, the widow of former President Juan Bosch, despite being Cuban, has permanently supported the country’s cultural development.
On December 19, Mrs. Carmen Quidiello, widow Bosch, died at the age of 105 at 5 a.m.
Quidiello 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 fathered two. children: Patricio and Bárbara.
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 the historical concert of Pablo Cassals and sponsored, for the first time in the country, the celebration of concerts of the National Symphony in the gardens of the National Palace ”.
At one point she said she was not a “first lady” because “if there is a first lady, does that mean there is a last and who would be the last”? To which he added, “If there is a first lady, it is the woman who washes in the river.”
At the time of his death, Mrs. Carmen Quidiello lived in Paseo de los Locutores street, where she shared the last years of the politician’s life with Bosch.
Currently, Ms. Carmen was Honorary President of the Juan Bosch Foundation, an institution responsible for spreading her late husband’s political and social thinking.
On Saturday, several personalities from the public and political life of the country expressed their condolences after the death of Mrs. Carmen Quidiello. Among those figures are former president Leonel Fernández and deputy Omar Fernández.
Likewise, President Luis Abinader and Vice President Raquel Peña, First Lady Raquel Arbaje, José Ignacio Paliza and other personalities also expressed their condolences.