Viriato Fiallo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Viriato Fiallo

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1895

Place of Birth: Azua, Azua Province, Dominican Republic

Date of Death: 04-Oct-1983

Profession: physician, politician

Nationality: Dominican Republic

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Viriato Alberto Fiallo Rodríguez was a Dominican doctor and politician of the twentieth century.
He was born on 28 October 1895, died on 4 October 1983, son of Alberto Fiallo Cabral and Ramona Rodríguez Germes (daughter of Fidel Rodríguez Urdaneta, a member of the Junta that ruled in 1876).
In 1920 he married his cousin Prudencia Fiallo Lluberes (daughter of his uncle, the poet Fabio Fiallo Cabral), with whom he had two children: Fabio Alberto & Rafael Arístides Fiallo Fiallo.
He was cousin of the fashion designer Óscar de la Renta Fiallo. Viriato Fiallo emerged as a great leader in the fall of tyranny when he played the anti-Trujillo feelings and was exalted by their struggles and pristine behavior.
"Before he was known superficially.
He was a doctor in the mills of the Vicini family and was chairing the Dominican-German Committee. Fiallo was jailed several times for being an outspoken opponent of the regime of Trujillo, following the death of dictator he founded the National Civic Union (UCN), as a nonpartisan movement whose main objective movement was the oust of the Trujillo family and their associates, converting later the UCN movement into a political party with a view to the presidential elections of 1962.
He participates as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, in a campaign without precedent in the country in which the masses of the country turned to political activism.