Camilo Venegas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Camilo Venegas

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1967

Place of Birth: Cuba

Profession: writer, poet, journalist

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Camilo Venegas Yero (born 16 July 1967, Paradero de Camarones, Cuba) is a Cuban writer and journalist.
Since 2000, he has lived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Camilo Venegas was born in Paradero de Camerones, in central Cuba, and spent his childhood living with his maternal grandparents in the town train station.
He graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Arte de La Habana with a degree in theatrical direction.
In 1987 he founded Teatro Acuestas, a collective that also included Eloy Ganuza, Ricardo Muñoz Caravaca, Mérida Urquía and Vladimir Cruz.
During these years, he also collaborated in various projects of Ediciones Vigía and its founder, Alfredo Vigía. After this, he worked at the magazines El Caimán Barbudo and La Gaceta de Cuba, along with Bladimir Zamora, Norberto Codina, Arturo Arango and Omar Valiño.
At the time he left Cuba, he had been working as the director of the Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas. In the Dominican Republic, Venegas was editor of the periodicals El Caribe and Diario Libre, as well as working in the Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jiménes and at Newlink Communications, an international public relations consultancy.
He is a founding partner of Ediciones El Fogonero, a firm that consults in communication strategies and produces content.