Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta was born in La Paz, Baja California Sur.

The same year, Ojeda starred in Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's Las apariencias engañan as Sergio, a closeted gay man.

Ojeda played the murderous secret police commander Zolo in the Hollywood film Romancing the Stone (1984).

Co-star Kathleen Turner served as his interpreter during filming as director Robert Zemeckis spoke no Spanish.

[3] On television, Ojeda portrayed Emiliano Zapata in the telenovela Senda de gloria in 1987 and Porfirio Díaz in El vuelo del águila in 1994.