Because of the early death of his mother, he spent his earliest years with his grandmother in Barquisimeto.

When he was 17 years old, he started an intense work as a journalist on El Universal newspaper and on different magazines from the time; while he actively participated in the intellectual circles of the city.

As a diplomat, he first worked at the Venezuelan Legation in Paris; after that, he became Consul in Genoa, Copenhagen and Norway from 1923 to 1940.

After having traveled through the Nordic countries, he started working on his second book, La Tuna de Oro, which he finished in 1961.

In this book, the narrative voice is a lot darker, helping the environment of posterity that he sees in his travels through Europe.