[1][2] Self-taught, he worked as a linotype artist[2] and in 1919 he was one of the delegates of the Graphic Arts Union of Seville to the congress of the CNT at the Madrid Comedy Theatre.

[1][3] In 1920 he was appointed secretary of the Andalusian Regional Committee of the CNT and editor of Solidaridad Obrera,[1][2][3] and during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera he had to go into exile in France.

[1][2][3] In April 1932 he took part in the Extraordinary Plenary Session of the CRTC in Sabadell[2] and on 28 May 1932 he was sentenced to six months in prison for insulting the Civil Guard in an article published in Solidaridad Obrera.

[2][3] During the Spanish Civil War he was a member of the Economic Council of the Generalitat de Catalunya and was the secretary of Horacio Martínez Prieto when he was appointed minister.

[1][2][3] At the end of 1946 he returned clandestinely to Spain to represent the exiles in the National Committee of the CNT,[1][2] but was arrested in Madrid in March 1947 and imprisoned in the Ocaña Penitentiary.