He settled in Barcelona, where he worked as a carpenter and was a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT).
[1] At the national plenary session on 24 August 1916, he was elected General Secretary, replacing Manuel Andreu Colomer, and held the position until his resignation after being arrested in 1917.
[2] Born in 1886, as a young man he lived in Pinos Puente, in the province of Granada, where he joined the CNT.
[1] In 1916 he was elected General Secretary of the CNT, a position from which he resigned in February of the following year after being arrested for alleged resistance to authority.
[1][2] He was assassinated on 30 June 1921, in the streets of Barcelona by the gunmen of the Sindicatos Libres.