He is the son of Luis Enrique Salinas Campos (dirigent of the MAPU OC) and María Angélica Marambio Díaz.

In 2000, he founded the collective La Nueva Gráfica Chilena with Andrés Castillo, Rodrigo Lagos, César Gabler and Matías Iglesis, whose mission is to produce comics, magazines, exhibitions and also small short films.

Salinas has also created and released several comic books, including Rata Galdames, Morgan Shila, Carlitos Marx, El Reino del Sí, Arturo Prat Is Not Dead and Una Novela Ecuestre.

From 2003 to 2005, he was one of the editors and scriptwriters of the children's program 31 minutos,[3] along with doing the voices of characters like Juanín Juan Harry and Mario Hugo.

[8] He is a self-declared leftist and participated in the TV ads for Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle during the 2009–10 Chilean presidential election.