He read Social Anthropology at Universidad Veracruzana, where he joined leftist political groups, which reflects on his literary works.

[2] In 1960 he attended the first Youth Latin America Congress in Cuba and during the Bay of Pigs Invasion he enrolled as a soldier with Carlos Jurado, Nils Castro, and Roque Dalton, being named the official responsible for the Combat Special Unit.

He participated in a series of movements against the governor of Chiapas, Efraín Aranda Osorio, because of his actions of social dissolution.

In the MCP, he was a member of the central committee and the political correspondent commission in Moscow called "La Voz de México" ("The Voice of Mexico").

Between December 1994 and April 1997, he was secretary of government in the state of Chiapas, with governors Eduardo Robledo Rincón and Julio César Ruiz Ferro.