About the Author
When politics is tainted by illicit money, the only ones harmed are the upright citizens.
Julio Valdez
Short biography
Julio César Valdez is a Dominican-American writer, born in Montecristi, Dominican Republic, in 1960. He began his studies at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo and later moved to the then Soviet Union to study at the Kiev Institute of Engineers (KISI), where he acquired knowledge of the Russian language and its culture.
At the end of 1982, he moved to the United States, where he has resided ever since. In 1995, he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at The City College of New York, part of the City University of New York system. During his time at this institution, he received the award for best student in the Communication Faculty in 1994.
Julio is a polyglot, capable of communicating in several languages besides Spanish and English. This will be his second published book, consolidating his career as an author.
Historical timeline
- 1960
He was born in San Fernando de Montecristi (Montecristi), Dominican Republic.
- 1973
He moved to San Cristobal to begin his high school studies.
- 1975
He moved to the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, to continue his secondary studies at the La Trinitaria Academy, where he would have Julio Samuel Sierra (Jimmy Sierra) and Leonel Fernández, who would later become the constitutional president of the Caribbean country two decades later, as his teachers.
- 1978
He began his university studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, while studying French at the Alliance Française.
- 1980
He traveled to study in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), specifically to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, where he learned the Russian language as well as Ukrainian and Soviet culture.
- 1983 -1995
He settled in New York City, where he learned English and completed a 5-year bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, specializing in film directing and production at The City College of New York.
- 1996
He joined the presidential campaign team of his former professor Leonel Fernández, who was elected president of the Dominican Republic in the summer of 1996.
- Hoy
Currently, Julio resides in New York City, where he works independently as a public relations specialist with various independent media outlets.