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Dominican Republic

Author · Dominican Republic

Fabio Fiallo

Died in 1942

Fabio Fiallo was born in Santo Domingo in 1866, on 3 February. A poet and journalist, he founded several newspapers and was imprisoned as early as 1900 with Arturo Pellerano Alfau, when the government turned on the press. Consul in Havana and in New York in 1905, then in Hamburg in 1910, he was arrested under the American occupation for having defended the sovereignty of his country; he was sentenced to five years of hard labour. He died in Havana on 29 August 1942.

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