From 1914 on he worked as journalist for the newspapers Juventud Liberal and El Progreso.

He was designated Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia to the United States of Mexico on 11 March 1936 by President Alfonso López Pumarejo.

He arrived in Mexico City on 20 June of the same year to assume his official duties replacing Fabio Lozano Torrijos, and officially presented his letters of credence later that year to the President of Mexico, Lázaro Cárdenas del Río on 18 August.

[2] While serving as diplomat in Mexico, he met Tina Galvis Baroni, a Cuban lady of Italian descent whom he married in March 1938 in Mexico City, but who died later that year on 7 December 1938 after giving birth to their daughter Tina.

Back in Colombia, he married Alicia Ramírez Navas on 18 January 1941 in Curití, and with whom he had four children, Hortensia, Alejandro, Silvia, and Virgilio.