Miguel Otero Silva: A distinguished man who dedicated his prose to the condemnation of an unequal society (+seeding)

On August 28, 1985, the physical departure of the Venezuelan writer, novelist, comedian and journalist, Miguel Otero Silva, was born, a renowned revolutionary who dedicated his prose to the condemnation of an unequal society and to the defense of the causes of peoples who were fighting capitalism.

Born in the city of Barcelona on October 26, 1908, this Anzoatiguan was part of the historic “Generation of 28" that rose up against the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, which earned him his exile in Curaçao, from where, together with Gustavo Machado, José Tomás Jiménez and Guillermo Prince Lara, he was part of a contingent of 39 men under the command of Rafael Simón Urbina who stormed Fort Amsterdam in Willemstad and arrested the Dutch governor Leonard Albert Fruit Bowl.

After this fact, they boarded the steamboat “Maracaibo” with which they sailed to Venezuelan shores to disembark in the Choir Sail where they began a movement to overthrow the Venezuelan dictator, a movement that failed, so they had to flee to Colombia.

His anti-capitalist ideals led him to join the ranks of the nascent Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), becoming one of the 17 delegates participating in the First National Conference of the Rooster Awning on August 8, 1937.

Miguel Otero Silva died at the age of 76, leaving an immense literary legacy that qualifies him as one of the great Latin American writers of the 20th century.

Mazo News Team