[2] In 1947, Bareiro Saguier received his school baccalaureate and began studying literature at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción.
[2] In 1962 he received a grant to study at the Universidad Paúl Valéry-Montpellier III, for which purpose he moved to France.
[4] With the publication of Ojo por diente in 1971, he received the Cuban prize "Casa de las Américas".
[5] Because of this prize, the following year on one of his numerous visits to Paraguay he was arrested and locked up for a month and a half in the infamous Department of Investigations, at the center of the repression under the regime of Alfredo Stroessner, accused of promoting "rebellious bustle".
[4] Immediately intellectuals from around the world mobilized to demand Bareiro Seguier's liberation, including individuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel García Márquez, Simone de Beauvoir and Fernando Savater.