He was the Universidad Nacional de Asunción's first Paraguayan dean, and he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during Juan Bautista Egusquiza's government.

The first in his class in the Colegio Nacional, he was given a scholarship by the government to study medicine in the University of Buenos Aires' Medical School.

[1] After he'd returned to Paraguay, where he was the first practitioner of ophthalmology in the country ever,[1] he was made dean of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, a position he held between April 1891 and February 1893, being merely 27 years old when he took the job.

[2] A year after leaving that post, he became part of General Juan Bautista Egusquiza's cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Egusquiza in compensation gave him the post of ambassador plenipotentiary in Washington D.C..[1] He would, in 1910, once again occupy the Ministry for close to three months.