Eladio Rodulfo González, who signs his work in prose or verse with both surnames, was born in the hamlet of Marabal, later converted into the parish of the same name in the Mariño Municipality, Suc...ver másEladio Rodulfo González, who signs his work in prose or verse with both surnames, was born in the hamlet of Marabal, later converted into the parish of the same name in the Mariño Municipality, Sucre State, Venezuela, to the marriage of Guzmán Rodulfo and Nicomedes González, who died when he was a young child and whom he never met, not even in portrait. He was raised by his father's second wife, Martina Salazar. He was born on February 18, 1935. He has a degree in Journalism from the Central University of Venezuela, is a social worker, poet and cultural researcher. With his wife, Briceida Moya, he had Gabriela Lucila, Juan Ramón, Gustavo Adolfo and Katiuska Alfonsina, named after the poets Gabriela Mistral, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gustado Adolfo Bécquer and Alfonsina Storni. In the early years of his life he worked as a clerk in his father's warehouse, an oil worker for the Creole Petroleum Corporation in Lagunillas, Zulia State, a town where he began high school at the Colegio Santa Rosa de Lima, which he continued at the Alcázar and Juan Vicente González high schools and the National School of Social Work, both institutions located in Caracas. He was also co-founder of the Minors Division of the extinct Technical Corps of the Judicial Police and of the Nueva Esparta Section of the National College of Journalists, where he was a member of the board of directors in several secretariats and also presided over the Social Security Institute for Journalists. He obtained a degree in Journalism from the extinct School of Journalism of the Central University of Venezuela, which was later transformed into the School of Social Communication, on October 9, 1969. Later he completed a postgraduate degree in Public Administration, majoring in Organization and Methods, and a course in Cultural Research. He also took police courses in Washington, D.C. and Fort Bragg, North Carolina.ver menos