Abelardo Vicioso

In 1964 Abelardo married Altagracia Solano, daughter of a wealthy landowner Santiago de los Caballeros, with whom procreated two children: Cynthia and Carlos. Vicioso was born with a hereditary disease named ankylosing spondyloarthritis (a rheumatic disease with pain and joint stiffening). During his last years of Life he began to writeg his first (and only) autobiographical novel with the title of "Memorias del Teniente Veneno" (Memoirs of Lieutenant Poison). However, and almost before concluding it, Vicioso died at the age of 74 due to cardiorespiratory problems on January 13, 2004, in his home in Santo Domingo. It was his son Carlos who published it in 2008 via Ministry of Culture and Editora Nacional during the National and International Santo Domingo Book Fair of that year. .

In 1997, he was appointed life president of the Casa del Poeta (Poet's House).

During his stay in Cuba, Vicioso co-founded the People's Socialist Party. Years later (1982), this political organization joined the Dominican Liberation Party(PLD), and Abelardo immediately integrated into its Central Committee. He was also personal assistant to Professor Juan Bosch, the President of the Party. In 1992 he left PLD and founded the Alliance for Democracy, of which Abelardo was vice-president. Afterwrads, the Alliance for Democracy supported PLD and during the first presidential term of Leonel Fernández Reina (1996-2000) Vicioso was his Special Assistant.

In 1965, during April Revolution held to reconstitute the government of Juan Bosch, his poem "Canto a Santo Domingo Vertical" became a hymn of combatants. The whole family supported the conflict by conforming the comando named Los Lobos located in Arzobispo Meriño street almost corner Mercedes street, where even kids and women healed and prepared food for the rebels and also placed mirrors in the rooftop of the building to dazzle attacking opponent plane pilots in order to avoid their lethal falling bombs.

In 1963 he returned to his native land, the Dominican Republic, after Trujillo had been executed (1961), when Juan Bosch -first democratic President elected democratically after dictatorship-, came to power (although overthrown seven months later by conservative forces). Just a few months before, his tormented brother Vinicio unfortunately committed suicide.

After concluding the Civil War and US Intervention, Vicioso became professor of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) -Autonomous since 1961 and where he graduated of law in 1953-, being elected first as Director of Literature Department of the Faculty of Humanities, later as Vice-Dean of said Faculty, and finally Dean for two consecutive periods.

His talent for literature came through his early years as a child and his first poems were published in 1948, at the age of 18, in the newspaper "El Caribe". Vicioso studied law in the University of Sant Domingo and graduated in 1953.

Abelardo Vicioso (April 27, 1930 – January 13, 2004 ) was a Dominican intellectual, politician, lawyer, and poet.

Abelardo Sergio Vicioso González was born in 1930 in Santo Domingo. His parents were Sergio Vicioso and Leonor González, and he was the oldest one of five sons.