He always militated on the conservative side next to Brigadier General Fruto Chamorro, he is a prototype character in Nicaraguan political history as he exemplifies the typical Creole leader with all his qualities and defects.

[2] His participation in politics were always prominent from a very young age, such as when Colonel Cleto Ordóñez launched the first social revolution in Nicaragua, Vega, who was only 19, saw how the Oligarchs were persecuted and snatched and rolled on the ground.

[2] At dawn on 4 August 1851, General José Trinidad Muñoz carried out a military coup against Laureano Pineda and organized a Provisional Government based in León naming Justo Abaunza Interim Supreme Director.

The Assembly reunited in Managua, replied to the uprising of Muñoz, naming Senator José Francisco del Montenegro, Supreme Director in the absence of Pineda, who organized his government in Granada.

To give an idea of what Vega's caudillismo was, it is said that once his followers came to propose the candidacy for Supreme Director of the State, laughing he told them: He concluded by asking: And mockingly they said with one voice: "Caudillo!"