Jorge Arias Gomez
Jorge Arias Gómez (born November 11, 1923 - † June 23, 2002 in San Salvador ) was a Salvadoran author .
Arias Gómez studied law and social sciences at the Universidad de El Salvador (UES).
He was a member of the Partido Comunista de El Salvador from his youth in 1944 in the armed overthrow of the dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez .
During the civil war in El Salvador he represented the FMLN in Europe.
Arias Gómez was editor of the UES Revista Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales and editor of the daily newspapers El Independiente , Venceremos and Nuevo Enfoque .
He worked at the Institute for History, Anthropology and Archeology at the UES. When the FAES occupied the UES on July 19, 1972 , Arias Gómez went into exile; also the dean of the UES Rafael Menjívar Larín , the general secretary of the UES Miguel Sáenz Varela , the public prosecutor Luis Arévalo , as well as intellectuals like Gabriel Gallegos Valdés , Melitón Barba , Ivo Príamo Alvarenga , Mario Flores Macall , the former director of the UES Fabio Castillo Figueroa , José Alfredo Pineda Dubón and the anthropologist David Luna.
In the mid-1970s he went to Prague , where he lived until his return to El Salvador after the Chapultepec peace treaty was signed . He died of lymphatic cancer and is buried in the Cementerio de los Ilustres .
Publications
- Anastasio Aquino : su recuerdo, valoración y Presencia , San Salvador, 1963
- Farabundo Martí : Esbozo biográfico , 1972, reissued in 2004
- Sandino , semilla de revolución , 1995
- La concepción marxista del derecho , 1998
- En memoria de Roque Dalton , 1999
- Farabundo Marti . Life, work and time of the great Salvadoran revolutionary. Berlin (West), New Paths Edition, 1985, ISBN 3-88348-202-1
A student organization of the UES, the “Fuerza Estudiantil Salvadoreña” (FES) has chosen “Jorge Arias Gómez” as a nickname.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Servicio Informativo ecumenico y popular A la memoria de Jorge Arias Gómez ( Memento of the original of June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arias Gomez, Jorge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Salvadoran author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1923 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 2002 |
| Place of death | San Salvador |