José Agustín Catalá

José Agustín Catalá Delgado (11 February 1915, Guanare[1] - 18 December 2011[2]) was a Venezuelan journalist and author. He was best known for his work on the 1948-58 dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, during which he spent three years in prison. He had previously been imprisoned for four months in 1934, for publication of a poem, under Juan Vicente Gomez.[3] Under Pérez Jiménez, Catalá's company Editorial Ávila Gráfica printed the clandestine Democratic Action's materials, such as newspapers and manifestos.[4] Catalá was arrested following the publication in 1952 of Venezuela bajo el signo del terror, 1948-1952.

He received Chile's Order of Bernardo O'Higgins in 1996 for his work on Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.[2]

A biography, José Agustín Catalá, una manera de ser hombre: libro homenaje a sus 70 años was published in 1985 by Ramón José Velásquez.

Selected bibliography
  • Documentos para la historia de Acción Democrática 1936-1941, Volume 1 (1981, Ediciones Centauro)
  • (with Oswaldo Barreto) Las mascaras del dictador Perez Jimenez (1984, Ediciones Centauro)
  • Blanca Ibáńez y las miserias del poder (1990, Ediciones Centauro - on Jaime Lusinchi's mistress)
  • (with Octavio Lepage) Política, democracia, partidos (1991, Ediciones Centauro)
  • (with Carlos Andrés Pérez) Otros juicios sobre el proceso al ex presidente Carlos Andrés Pérez: escritos sin pasión y sin odio (1994, Ediciones Centauro)
  • Pérez Jiménez: el dictador que en 40 años olvidó sus crímenes (1997, Ediciones Centauro)
  • Los archivos del terror: 1948-1958, la década trágica : presos, torturados, exiliados, muertos (1998, Gobernación del Estado Mérida)
  • Cipriano Castro y su tiempo histórico (1999, Fondo Editorial Nacional - on Cipriano Castro)
  • (with Casal Hernández Casal H.) El debate constituyente en Venezuela: ideas para una nueva constitución (1999, Fondo Editorial Nacional)
  • (with Domingo Alberto Rangel) Gustavo Machado: un caudillo prestado al comunismo (2001, Ediciones Centauro)
  • (with José Rodríguez Iturbe) Crítica de la locura del poder y otros temas: apuntes sobre una crisis social real y una falsa Revolución Militar Política (2002, Ediciones Centauro)
  • (with Eleazar Díaz Rangel) De Pérez Jiménez a los años de Hugo Chávez (2003, Ediciones Centauro)
  • (with Rafael Arráiz Lucca) Apuntes de memoria del editor José Agustín Catalá, 1915-2007: en el portal de los 93 años (2007, Ediciones Centauro)
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References
  1. (in Spanish) Leonardo Favio Oliveros, Diario Avance, 19 December 2011, Murió José Agustín Catalá, uno de la más importantes editores venezolanos Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. (in Spanish) Globovision, 18 December 2011, Falleció el editor José Agustín Catalá a los 97 años Archived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
  3. (in Spanish) Julio Rafael Silva Sánchez, José Agustín Catalá / Capitán del desolvido Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Ameringer, Charles D. (1979), "Leonardo Ruiz Pineda: Leader of the Venezuelan Resistance, 1949-1952", Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 1979), pp. 209-232
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