He attended and graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy He was educated at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and held prominent positions in government and the private sector, including the presidency of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO).
Under his editorship, El Vocero evolved into a mainstream newspaper with legitimate news articles, a well-known set of columnists and journalists, including Luis Dávila Colón, Obed Betancourt, Julio Víctor Ramírez, Sr., José Luis Purcell, Tomás De Jesús Mangual, Miguel Rivera Puig, Roberto García López, Luis Colón, Cruz Roqué Vicens, Maggie Bobb, José Arsenio Torres, Roberto Rexach Benítez, Eudaldo Báez Galib and Juan Manuel García Passalacqua, and a wide variety of sections and supplements.
One of his contributions to journalism was his willingness to bankroll freedom of information lawsuits, that have opened government to intense press and public scrutiny.
Other examples include the 1992 lawsuit that forced political candidates to make public their personal finances, and the case declaring unconstitutional Puerto Rico's "criminal defamation" law, that had a limiting effect on the exercise of press freedom right in Puerto Rico.
Journalism in Puerto Rico, and in the mainland United States, has benefitted from these judicial victories.