Enrique Curiel
{{short description|Spanish politician}}
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{{infobox person
| honorific_prefix = The Honourable
| name = Enrique Curiel
| birth_date = 15 April 1947
| death_date = 2 March 2011
| nationality = Spanish
| alma_mater = university of Santiago de Compostela and the Complutense University of Madrid
| occupation = Politician
| years_active = 1964-2011
| known_for = Marxist politician and orator
| party = *Communist Party of Spain (1968-88)
| movement = Marxism
| father = Luis Curiel, university professor
| family =
}}
Enrique Curiel (15 April 1947 - 2 March 2011) was a Spanish politician and member of the Communist Party of Spain and the United Left, who was a Member of the Senate of Spain.{{Cite web|date=2020-03-02|title=Enrique Curiel; hombre de estado y convivencia democrática|url=https://blogs.publico.es/otrasmiradas/29772/enrique-curiel-hombre-de-estado-y-convivencia-democratica/|access-date=2020-08-14|website=Otras miradas|language=es}}
Early life and education
Curiel was born in Vigo to Luis Curiel, an intellectual and French Language professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, and Pilar Curiel (née Alonso) on 15 April 1947. He was privately educated before attending the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Complutense University of Madrid.
Political activity
In 1968, he joined the Communist Party of Spain and was a close friend of Santiago Carrillo. He was arrested on several occasions and viciously persecuted by the Political-Social Brigade, the political secret police of the Franco regime.{{Cite news|date=2005-11-18|title=Una España, ¿dos visiones?|language=es|work=BBC Mundo|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/specials/newsid_4443000/4443722.stm|access-date=2020-08-13}}{{Cite web|last=SL|first=TAI GABE DIGITALA|date=2019-03-01|title=Ocho años sin Enrique Curiel, un hombre de paz|url=https://www.naiz.eus/en/iritzia/articulos/ocho-anos-sin-enrique-curiel-un-hombre-de-paz|access-date=2020-08-14|website=naiz: IRITZIA|language=es}}
He left the CPS in 1988 and joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) two years later.{{Cite book|last1=Bull|first1=Martin J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jwm_DAAAQBAJ&q=curiel&pg=PA81|title=West European Communist Parties after the Revolutions of 1989|last2=Heywood|first2=Paul M.|date=2016-07-27|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-23692-3|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NlszAQAAIAAJ&q=enrique+curiel+communist|title=Country Report: Spain|date=1990|publisher=The Unit|language=en}}
In the 1980s, Curiel was a regular contributor to the Spanish daily newspaper El País.{{Cite web|title=Artículos escritos por Enrique Curiel|url=https://elpais.com/autor/enrique-curiel/|access-date=2020-08-14|website=EL PAÍS|date=12 October 1989 |language=es}}
Death and legacy
He died on 2 March 2011 in Madrid.{{Cite web|title=Spain On This Day - April 15 - Spain News in English|url=http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news-spain/history/Spain_On_This_Day_-_April_15.shtml|access-date=2020-08-14|website=www.typicallyspanish.com}}{{Cite web|last=Sevilla|first=Diario de|date=2011-03-03|title=Enrique Curiel|url=https://www.diariodesevilla.es/opinion/articulos/Enrique-Curiel_0_456554848.html|access-date=2020-08-14|website=Diario de Sevilla|language=es-ES}} In his obituary in El País, Rafael Fraguas described Curiel as "Handsome, cordial and affable, more pragmatic than doctrinaire, subtle agitator, endowed with a convincing logic and endowed with an evident charisma, his image was in open contrast with the stereotype of the Stalinist communist - bitter, sectarian and dogmatic - spread by Francoism."{{Cite news|last=FRAGUAS|first=RAFAEL|date=2011-03-02|title=Enrique Curiel, profesor y político, rostro amable del comunismo español|language=es|work=El País|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2011/03/02/actualidad/1299057418_850215.html|access-date=2020-08-14|issn=1134-6582}}
References
External links
- [https://elpais.com/elpais/2011/03/02/actualidad/1299057418_850215.html Enrique Curiel obituary] in El País
- [https://elpais.com/noticias/enrique-curiel/ News and commentary on Enrique Curiel] in El País
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Category:Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Category:University of Santiago de Compostela alumni
Category:Spanish political people
Category:Spanish Communist Party politicians
Category:Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid