[1][2] López Bustamante’s adolescence and youth were spent in the shadow of his father, a Venezuelan intellectual, who was in charge of embedding in his children a love for culture, knowledge and freedom.

There he received training and professional ethics, actively participating in the civilizing crusade which was led by his father in the young Venezuelan republic.

[4] His descendants include American political activist Kamala Lopez, artist/activist Jeanmarie Simpson and Venezuelan energy expert Luis Giusti López.

His older brother Eduardo López Bustamante, director of El Fonógrafo, decided to open a simultaneous edition of the newspaper in Caracas.

This event opened a bright stage in the career of the young journalist and wrote the final pages of the story of El Fonógrafo, which had circulated for nearly four decades.

The newspaper El Fonógrafo was the most requested by audiences in Caracas since, among other things, it was a bastion of freedom, a Venezuelan news media not bent towards Juan Vicente Gómez dictatorship like many others.

[14] In his remarks to The New York Times on June 17, 1918, Carlos López Bustamante related that he was arrested by Venezuelan soldiers because of his editorials in support of allies in the global conflict, that days before their offices were raided, Gómez's secret police had pressured them with threats to sell the paper to the government for one hundred thousand U.S. dollars, a proposition which the López Bustamante brothers had flatly rejected.

Many writers who had escaped from the prisons of the dictatorship collaborated on this magazine, including his relatives Rafael Bruzual López and Nestor Luis Pérez Luzardo.

[16][17] Carlos López Bustamante left to posterity the memory of a brave young journalist and fighter, who defended freedom of expression to the hilt.

He managed very quickly to conquer the hearts of the people of Caracas and despite his youth fought, risking everything, against one of the most ferocious dictatorships in Latin American history.