Leonel Leo Research Paper
Leonel Antonio Fernández was born in Santo Domingo on December 26th, 1953, to José Antonio Fernández Collado and Yolanda Reyna Romero.
Dr. Fernández went to public schools in New York City for the primary schooling of what would later on bloom into a brilliant professional career
Upon his return to the country, he entered the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), establishing his domicile in the residential sector of Villa Juana, where he spent the first years of his youth. At the time, Dr. Fernández felt attracted to the more advanced ideas emerging in the political debate of the time, and which would soon lead him to study the works of whom would become his mentor and guide, Professor Juan Bosch, and whom he would accompany, along with a host of other Dominicans that together founded the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in 1973.
During his initial years at the university, he formed part of a vigorous student movement in the 1970's, and concurrently, he became General Secretary to the Student Association of the …show more content…
Dr. Fernández is an aficionado to journalism and, in spite of not having practiced the field professionally, in September 1984, he took a course on Journalism for Minorities, in Columbia University in New York City. He has been a columnist of the newspapers El Siglo and El Nuevo Diario, and has also collaborated with the daily newspaper Listín Diario, all of them from Santo Domingo; he has also acted as Chief of the International Section of the official organ of the Dominican Liberation Party, Vanguardia del
Dr. Fernández went to public schools in New York City for the primary schooling of what would later on bloom into a brilliant professional career
Upon his return to the country, he entered the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), establishing his domicile in the residential sector of Villa Juana, where he spent the first years of his youth. At the time, Dr. Fernández felt attracted to the more advanced ideas emerging in the political debate of the time, and which would soon lead him to study the works of whom would become his mentor and guide, Professor Juan Bosch, and whom he would accompany, along with a host of other Dominicans that together founded the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in 1973.
During his initial years at the university, he formed part of a vigorous student movement in the 1970's, and concurrently, he became General Secretary to the Student Association of the …show more content…
Dr. Fernández is an aficionado to journalism and, in spite of not having practiced the field professionally, in September 1984, he took a course on Journalism for Minorities, in Columbia University in New York City. He has been a columnist of the newspapers El Siglo and El Nuevo Diario, and has also collaborated with the daily newspaper Listín Diario, all of them from Santo Domingo; he has also acted as Chief of the International Section of the official organ of the Dominican Liberation Party, Vanguardia del