Don Julio was Lieutenant Governor of the town of Alerta in the Tahuamanu Province of Madre de Dios, Peru.
Don Julio García was a Brazil nut producer and local leader in Alerta, Peru.
He was born in Iberia, a small city to the north along the Interoceanic Highway in Madre de Dios, Peru.
On February 26, 2008, Don Julio reported the trafficking of 34 logs of illegal mahogany to Peru's Natural Resource Management Agency, INRENA.
The mahogany had been logged along the Peru-Bolivia border and driven to Alerta by Sr. Amancion Jacinto Maque, approximately 27 years old and resident of a neighboring community, and driver Sr. Angel Vivanco Gonzales in a vehicle owned by Sra.