Gilberto Vieira White (5 April 1911, Medellín

Medellín

Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

 - 25 February 2000) was a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n politician. He was a founder of the Colombian Communist Party

Colombian Communist Party

The Colombian Communist Party or PCC is the legal communist party of Colombia. It was founded in 1930, as the Colombian section of the Comintern...

, and served as the General Secretary of the party between 1947 and 1991. He was also a parliamentarian for a period.

Personal life

Gilberto Vieira was born on 5 April 1911 in Medellín, Antioquia, the only son of Joaquín Vieira Gaviria and Mercedes White Uribe