In 1995, Antonio Isa Condein his role as businessman and representative of the Herrera Industrial Companies Associationhe asked milk producers to promote self -management and not depend on state protectionism. He said it in a gathering organized by the institution, and his participation was published in the economic section of a morning newspaper.
A year later, in 1996, as leader of the CIVIC MOVEMENT CITIZEN PARTICIPATIONhe raised, according to another journalistic review, that, despite the bad omen, in the country the conditions were taking place so that the May 16 elections were the cleanest and transparent that they had organized in Dominican political history.
In 1997, the Government of the Dominican Liberation Partywith Leonel Fernández as president of the Republic, Tony Isa Condeas it was also known, it was already part of the government and a key figure in a process that defined part of the fundamental changes in the management of the party that was released under the command of the nation. Appointed director of State Sugar Council (CEA), then went to lead the Public Companies Reform Commission (CREP).
They did not spend months before giving up the celebrated entity in charge of executing the process of capitalization of the public company. On August 16, 1997, the media published that he revoked their resignationat the request of the President Leonel Fernández (1996-2000).
The president said, according to the publication of the newspaper Today: “He reminded me that people who, like me, have assumed public commitments, have to put their duty and responsibility above what their personal desires are.” He also confessed that the Secretary of the Presidency, Danilo Medinahe had told him that with his decision he solved “a serious problem to the government”, because he did not find the right person to replace him.
The CREP He laid precedents in driving the state of the first government of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). Created through Law number 141-97 and promulgated on June 10, 1997, developed the process of reform and transformation of the Dominican Electricity Corporation (CDE), the Dominican Corporation of State Companies (CORDE), State Sugar Council (CEA) and Corporation for the promotion of the hotel industry (Corphotel), among others.
Political, revolutionary and business role
Brother of Narciso Isa Condeleftist leader and everlasting president of the Dominican Communist Partyhe always loaded with that opposite family without obvious problems. Although he said that, very young, he also shared the leftist ideals – of which he retained the meaning of discipline and a human sensitivity to the problems of society, “journalist Alexis Guerrero, of the daily list, who had made her” Perestroika with a long time. “
In the review about his death, Free newspaper He recalled that he was the founder of the Dominican Student Federation (Fed) and member of the Provisional University Council of the UASD, which expelled professors committed to Trujillo’s tyranny. In addition, he was combatant in the April revolution of 1965 from the Command of Espaillat 55 Street, one of the first to be organized when the war broke out, of which personalities such as Norge Botello and the poet Jacques Viau Renaud were part.
As businessmanHe was General Manager of Delta Comercial, Textile Administrator, senior executive of one of the leading companies in their sector – Dominican Chemical Fertilizers (Ferquido) – and President of the Herrera Industrial Companies Association.
Censored corruption
It remained at the state level for years without being linked to scandals. His sincerity, reproduced by the media and unusual for an official of his level, evidenced the Independence of criteria that accompanied him.
February 24, 2017, as Minister of Energy and Mines (position he held from 2015 to 2020) in the Government of Danilo Medina, said: “What is unquestionable is that the corruption It has permeated all the estates of the State, it is society, there is no place that has not permeated, so that cancer must be Remove it of the social body and the State is an essential part of that social body, “the newspaper published Today.
The goodbye
Tony Isa Conde He died last Monday, August 11 in Miamiat 85, where he was treated for health problems. “Funeral honors will not be carried out, in compliance with their request,” it was reported.
