Dies in Spain the poet Marcos Ana, a prisoner of the franco regime – The Universal (Venezuela)

Madrid.- The Spanish poet Marcos Ana, who spent 23 years in jail during the franco dictatorship, died Thursday in Madrid at the age of 96, reported the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), which was active until the end.

Born as Fernando Macarro Castillo in 1920, the poet “has died today (Thursday) at 21: 30 at the Gregorio Marañón hospital where he was admitted, accompanied by his family and friends,” said Mundo Obrero, a publication of the PCE.

“Our comrade Marcos Ana has left us, always said it: worth the fight. To always Frames. îMarcosAnaVive”, wrote the training on his Twitter account.

Known for “Spain’s three voices”, “The loneliness of the wall”, “worth fighting for” or his autobiographical work “but tell me, how is a tree”, was in the jail where Mark Anne began writing poetry, that in his time he was praised by Pablo Neruda and Rafael Alberti.

His death has generated reactions in the social networks, particularly of the left, as Pablo Iglesias, leader of the party antiausteridad we Can, who wrote on Twitter: “leave Us a hero of the people, a humble man, and brave, an exemplary communist activist. You are the pride of your comrades and ours.”

Affiliated to the Communist Party, enlisted in the republican side during the Civil War. When the conflict ended in 1939, at 19 years of age, was arrested in Madrid, where he began his long period in prison, even to be condemned twice to death but then his sentence was commuted.

When you become a poet, assumed the pseudonym of Marcos Ana, using the names of his parents, the first who died during a bombing in the Civil War.

“Very well known for its active role in international solidarity with the prisoners Spanish during the franco regime”, to be released from prison in 1961 he went into exile in Paris, where he directed the Center for Information and Solidarity “with Pablo Picasso as the president of honor”, recalled working World.

once the dictatorship after the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, Marcos Ana was able to return to his country, where he continued writing and defending the freedom of the political prisoners and other causes, that led to, for example, by repudiating the dictatorship chilean Augusto Pinochet.

The “communist poet”, as he defined it, he received decorations from the government of Spain as the Merit at Work (2009), and the Merit of Fine Arts (2011.