Federico Hernández de León

He graduated from the Instituto Nacional Central para Varones of Guatemala, with a high school diploma in 1900.

[2] After his release, he went straight to take over the Diario de Centro América semi-official newspaper of Guatemala at the time.

[4] During his more than six years of imprisonment in the Central Penitentiary, Hernández de León suffered many indignities that left him on the brink of death; but his friend, the labor leader Silverio Ortiz advocated for him to the minister plenipotentiary of the United States, showing Hernández de León's bloody clothes.

On December 12, 1930, there was a lot of turmoil in the Guatemalan government after general Lázaro Chacón suffered a stroke that forced him to resign from office.

[6][7][8] In December 1930 the following events occurred in a rapid succession:[6][7][8] When he was the Director of Nuestro Diario he hired a very young Clemente Marroquín Rojas[Note 3] as a columnist.