Background
Valdez was born in Mexico City to Nicolás Quírico Valdez, a Dominican labor activist exiled in Mexico, and Lucía San Pedro, a Mexican woman.
Valdez was born in Mexico City to Nicolás Quírico Valdez, a Dominican labor activist exiled in Mexico, and Lucía San Pedro, a Mexican woman.
She is national deputy since 2010. Her father was considered a communist and was expelled from Mexico and had to seek asylum in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
In 2010, Valdez was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic.