Narciso Isa Conde

Biography

Isa Conde is son of Aris Isa, born to Lebanese immigrants, and of Mercedes Conde. He was born on 28 November 1942 in San Francisco de Macoris but the job of promoter of commercial houses of his father carried to the family to live also in Puerto Plata and Salcedo, until finishing mudada in Saint Sunday.

In 1963, when Isa Conde was in his fifth year of Medicine, he abandoned the studies and the practices in the hospitals to join the fights by the replacement of the constitutional government of the president Juan Bosch and against the politics of the government of the Triumvirate.

But from a lot before Isa Conde already incursionaba in the politics from the overthrow, in the 1961, of the tyrant Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, with his incorporation to the student movement Fragua and his links with the 14th of June Movement, that did honour to the conspirative intervention of 1979.

It adds to the Popular Socialist Party, in which it participated through the student cell in the Autonomous University of Saint Sunday; in 1964 it rises to the Committee of the National District and afterwards to the Central Committee. The PSP happens to call Split Dominican Communist in 1965, just in full agitation by the fights constitucionalistas of 1965. To the following year, Isa Conde remains designated general secretary of the political organisation.

His total delivery to the revolutionary cause carried it to the secrecy like answer to the repression and to the persecution of the diet of Trujillo. Later it produces his game to the exile, in the government of Joaquin Balaguer.

It was in 1970 when it went out of the country, to evade the persecution of the diet of the 12 years of Joaquin Balaguer (1966–78). It returned in 1973 and it kept in the secrecy until two years afterwards, when the journalist Orlando Martinez fell under fire of soldiers and policemen during the government balaguerista.

In Europe Isa Conde reinforces his ideas and knowledges of the Marxism and strengthens his relations with the socialist block, until, 1973, returns to the country.

Isa Conde kept demanding justice by Martinez and his persistence prevented the prescription of the crime until producing a conviction in the present century. However, in 1975 it had to return to the exile, although this time only by several months.

Final of the 20th century

In 1978 the PCD turned into the first communist party in participating in some general elections in the country and his presidential candidate was Narciso Isa Conde. Four years later, already with Balaguer out of the power, went back to aspire to direct the Executive Power. Then, with 35 years, was the youngest applicant of the contention.

They arrived other times. Already the promotion of the socialist ideals did not receive the deal of synonymous of terrorism and illegality. However, in 1980 the young political leader lived 96 hours of running of the bulls in the Palace of the National Police, the same that other left-wingers, accused to be behind a strike choferil. "They were several days in an oven. It was permanently in a species of bathroom sauna", declared to the press.

Although the times of the persecution, the secrecy, the exile and the repression were moving away, the left did not reach the force neither the growth to conquer political spaces by means of the electoral processes, subject that kept to Isa Conde occupied in proposals and debates on the fortresses and weaknesses of this line of thought.

In the actuality, poses the need of a decantation of the groups of valid left for a back agrupamiento without alliances with the capitalism and his actions neoliberales, after "conforming a new left, to tone with the new processes to the interior of the dominican society, continental and world-wide".

This task, warns in a recent article, "is so difficult like trascendente. And, especially, imperiosa and indispensable".

With Isa Conde in command, was born the party Forces of the Revolution, of the fusion of the PCD, the Movement Liberador 12 January (ML-12), the Strength of Resistance and Popular Release (FRLP) and the Revolutionary Strength 21 of Julio (FR-21).

But he renounces in 2006, by disagreement with the rest of the national direction, to which accuses, between other things, to offer an uneven deal to the women in the internal democracy.

His revolutionary and socialist career has carried it to write books, at the same time by his socialist cause has good relations with the FARC, in addition to being cataloged like the historical leader of the dominican left.

Ideas

"Only I think in devoting all my capacity of work to attain the application of a group of ideas with clear-cut vocation to be able to. It is not the result of a pure personal wish. It is the conviction that this reality has to be modified", profesa.