This resume Carmen Diez de Rivera (1942-1999), written by Carmen Domingo (Barcelona, 1970), is one of a list of titles, quite substantial, around this important personality from two points of view: political, from the transition to the European Parliament, and personal, from family origins to friendly relations in the biography. Increase interest in this Comillas 2026 prize-winning volume.
Solidarity was the price
Carmen Domingo
Tusquets Prize. Tusquets, 2026. 384 pages. €22.90
Carmen Díez de Rivera’s appeal is contradictory because she does not belong to the great leaders of political reform and democracy, nor did she enjoy unanimous public recognition until she suffered attacks from analysts and the communication media. It was a basic high school, so one can make a decision based on that the only woman with some visibility in the space of power since Suárez was president of the government.
On the other hand, he was effectively involved in the decision-making of major tasks or stayed in the middle of the first stage, undoubtedly having significant informal influence. It is popularly known as the Muse de la Transicióna somewhat happy expression inspired by his friend Francisco Umbral, who actually hailed it as the Muse of Reform.
In any case, This muse is now outdated and unfair to Díez de Rivera. We are standing before the first woman of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government, who received a paper separate from the legalization of the PCE, who assumed the key to achieving full democratic normality for the country and who expanded Suárez’s contacts in the European chancellery.
Also in his biography, he records his break with the prime minister, when he decided not to show on the first comedies, his affiliation with the PSP, his return to Adolfo Suárez in the European CDS group, his new relationship with Suárez, when he entered a liberal family without contact with her, y next to the socialist group of the European Parliament, where he practiced ecosocialism.
Quite simply, she was the only woman who became visible in areas of power during the transition to democracy
But it was because of these movements that forced her head back, he was accused of communist infiltration and was once a soviet spyor if he whitewashed her by reducing her to an opportunist and traitor in her social class who used her personal appeal to condition Adolfo Suárez and influence Don Juan Carlos.
Sectors and opinion leaders They were offended by the fact that Carmen Mantua was friends with Tierno Galván, Carrillo, Pasionario and her father Llanos.. Carmen Díez de Rivera, desperately seeking power and at the same time showing the ideological independence and personal impropriety of the political forms of the time and even more surprising in women, entered the salons without seeming despercibid, for her attitude and for her attractiveness, strength and weaknesses that are indifferent to nadie dejaba.
On the other hand, without exception, but with respect, this biography deals with Díez de Rivera’s private life, especially the strong shock he experienced ten years ago when he learned about it. I could not follow the rookie with the young Ramón Serrano Pole because he was on his brother’s side. She was the illegitimate hija of the marquise de Llanzol and cuñado de Franco and minister of external Asuntos Ramón Serrano Suñer.
This double mazazo took his life and took her on the run from Madrid, first to Paris, where he worked as a missionary on the Marfil coast and finally began his religious life. in the Carmelite monastery de Ávila. All these bandazos acabaron with na I joined RTVE as Adolfo Suárez’s secretaryrecommended by the Prince of Spain. Hi, I am starting a unique political and vital career.

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