Ojeda Gómez obtained his bachelor's degree in international relations from the School of Political and Social Sciences (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, of which he was part of its founding generation; he also undertook his graduate studies at Harvard University, where he studied under John Kenneth Galbraith, Henry Kissinger and Hans Morgenthau, among others.
Ojeda Gómez crucially adapted Realism in International Relations to the study of Mexican Foreign Policy.
[3] Ojeda Gómez is the author of La protección de los trabajadores migratorios, México, Edición del Autor, 1957.
Mexico, SEP, Serie Foro 2000, 1986, and México antes y después de la alternancia política.
[6] In April 2013, months prior to his death, Ojeda Gómez published his memoirs: Memorias, México, D.F, Edición de Autor, 2013, spanning his 86 years of fruitful life, from his early childhood to his highly productive old age.