José Agustín Catalá, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Venezuelan journalist and author
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About José Agustín Catalá
- José Agustín Catalá Delgado (11 February 1915, Guanare - 18 December 2011) was a Venezuelan journalist and author.
- He was best known for his work on the 1948-58 dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, during which he spent three years in prison.
- He had previously been imprisoned for four months in 1934, for publication of a poem, under Juan Vicente Gomez.
- Under Pérez Jiménez, Catalá's company Editorial Ávila Gráfica printed the clandestine Democratic Action's materials, such as newspapers and manifestos.
- Catalá was arrested following the publication in 1952 of Venezuela bajo el signo del terror, 1948-1952. He received Chile's Order of Bernardo O'Higgins in 1996 for his work on Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.A biography, José Agustín Catalá, una manera de ser hombre: libro homenaje a sus 70 años was published in 1985 by Ramón José Velásquez.
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