Monday, September 23, 2013

Vida, Pasión y Muerte del PCD


Franco, Franklin J., Vida, Pasión y Muerte del PCD, RD: Editora Nacional, 1972. [Firmado por el autor para el Dr. Mathews]

Obituario.

Franklin Franco Pichardo (nació el 14 de noviembre de 1936 en Santiago de los Caballeros, República Dominicana, murió el 15 de junio de 2013) en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana fue historiador, sociólogo, profesor y político dominicano .A temprana edad tuvo que exiliarse del país, debido a su repudio a la tiranía de Trujillo y la persecución desatada por dicho régimen en su contra. Durante este exilio residió en Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, Estados Unidos y México.


The Dominican Communist Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Dominicano) was a political party in the Dominican Republic. The party was founded in 1944 under the name Dominican Revolutionary Democratic Party. The party worked under the name Dominican Popular Socialist Party 1946-1965. In August 1965 the name was again changed, to Dominican Communist Party. The party worked in illegality during extended periods. It was banned in 1947 was outlawed, and was subjected to brutal repression which resulted in the loss of several prominent figures. The killed party cadres included one of the founders of the party, F. Valdez. In June 1955 the party held a conference, which took the nature of the party congress. The congress adopted the party constitution, party programme and an elected leadership. In June 1959 the party took part in an armed uprising against the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. In June 1960 a party conference was organized, which discussed the situation in the country and identified the challenges the party to strengthen the struggle against government. The conference expressed strong support for the Cuban revolution.

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