Enrique Curiel
Enrique Curiel was a Spanish politician and member of the Communist Party of Spain and the United Left, who was a Member of the Senate of Spain.
Early life and education
Curiel was born in Vigo to Luis Curiel, an intellectual and French Language professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, and Pilar Curiel on 15 April 1947. He was privately educated before attending the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Complutense University of Madrid.Political activity
In 1968, he joined the Communist Party of Spain and was a close friend of Santiago Carrillo. He was arrested on several occasions and viciously persecuted by the Political-Social Brigade, the political secret police of the Franco regime.He left the CPS in 1988 and joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party two years later.
In the 1980s, Curiel was a regular contributor to the Spanish daily newspaper El País.