Viriato Fiallo




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. In 1920 he married his cousin Prudencia Fiallo Lluberes, 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, 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.