He was Vice President of Paraguay during colonel Juan Antonio Escurra's government (1902–1904), but fought against his forces during the civil war in 1904.

He would thus be one of the few colorados to be politically relevant during the rival Liberal Party's hegemony of power which ensued after said conflict, even being Minister of Justice, Religion and Public Education during Albino Jara's troubled presidency, which immediately preceded the 1911 civil war.

Regarding his periodistic career, he would write for El Progreso in the 1890s, a pro-Juan Bautista Egusquiza paper,[3] and from 1900 onwards at La Prensa and several magazines, something which he did until his death in 1935.

[14][b] His book "El Alma de la Raza" [The Race's Soul] contains an essay on the martial history of the Paraguayan people titled "Causas del Heroísmo Paraguayo" [Reasons for Paraguayan Heroism], which goes as far as Aleixo Garcia's invasion of the Inca Empire together with a Guaraní army in the 16th century.

In it, he sustained a debate between the late 1900s and early 1910s with the Spanish anarchist Rafael Barrett over the living conditions of the Paraguayan peasantry.

He died in Asunción in 29 October 1935,[2] a few months after the victorious conclusion of the Chaco War versus Bolivia, which finally settled the border disputes that were the key point of his work as a diplomat.

Among his numerous writings are: His works were collected under a compendium titled "Estudios Históricos y literarios” [Historical and literary studies].