Suso Díaz, anti -Franco and historical combatant Galician trade unionist, died on Tuesday at age 80 in A Coruña, after fighting for several years against the cancer he suffered. Father of the Second Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, who was Secretary General of CC OO Galicia between 1992 and 2000 militated in the PCE in hiding and went through prison during the dictatorship. The union in Galicia.
Although he was born in Ferrol (A Coruña), Díaz lived for years in O Porto de Santa Cruz, town of the municipality of Oleiros, on the other side of the Coruña estuary. Withdrawn for a long time, in the municipal of 2023 he closed the candidacy of Unidas Podemos that José Manuel Sande headed in A Coruña and in the autonomous 2024 went to several rallies to support the candidate of adding, Marta Lois.
Son of two Galicians of a village of Guitiriz, in Lugo, whose father was a left -wing road that emigrated to Cuba, Suso Díaz grew while at his house the Pyrenean radio or the BBC of London was heard at night. “We lived on a bass, and it was a danger because the people who went through the street could listen to the radio. At that time I slept, but one night I woke my mother’s shout, which said:” What are you doing, who are going to put us all! “When they stopped me they disliked, of course, but well, it was not for so much,” Diaz said in one.
Astano shipyler worker – currently Navantia Fene – where he started as an apprentice at age 14 and developed an extensive career of union activism, the imprisonment of Suso Díaz occurred in the well -known naval revolts of 1972, when refusing, “for political reasons”, to pay a fine of 150,000 pesetas after having been signed by the General Directorate of Security of the State after protesting against the General Security of the State. Murder of two workers from Bazán. He then had three children and Yolanda Díaz was born just a year earlier. He spent two months. He had already been stopped in 1968.
CC OO stressed that the trade unionist “always reinvindicated the importance of the mobilization lived in Ferrol in those times”, when “Galicia was at the forefront of the labor and anti -Franco struggle.”
Among the condolence samples expressed on Tuesday, the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. “Suso Díaz was a reference for trade unionism and the struggle for workers’ rights. Committed, honest and generous, dedicated his life to building a more just world. My love and respect, dear Yolanda Díaz,” said the chief of the Executive in X.
The current Secretary General of Commissions, Unai Sordo, has also pronounced: “We are going, one of those anti -Franco militants who gave everything for freedoms,” he said in the same social network. The first vice president of the Government, María Jesús Montero, has transferred her condolences to her cabinet partner: “Suso Díaz was a union reference, a tireless fighter, a man of convictions and a good person who dedicated his life to work for a more fair world,” he said.
“I met Suso, a fighter and a good person,” said the former leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias. Also the Coordinator of Movement, Lara Hernández, stressed that Díaz was “a reference in the defense of the working class, firm defender of rights and freedoms and, above all, good person.”
The relationship between the adding leader and her father was very close and despite being installed in Madrid years ago when acquiring government responsibilities, the Minister of Labor frequently traveled to Galicia to see him many weekends. Yolanda Díaz, who spoke naturally about her exits to the well -known Bonilla Churrería of the Herculin city, often referred to her family roots (“what they have taught me in my house”) to refer to a way of doing politics in which you work for the common good, with a firm commitment to defense of democracy against the threat of the extreme right, something that its Diaz always had very present.
