Wenceslao, having a strained relationship with Telésforo, would be taken in by the Figuereo plantation and mentored from an early age by the Los Bolos political party.
Illiterate, he learned to read and count helped by a soldier during the campaign against Emperor Faustin Soulouque.
Later, in his desire to stay at the top, he joined the liberal party, fighting alongside Ulises Heureaux against Guillermo, who had spoken out in Azua in 1885.
With Lilís dead, he rejected an offer of money and weapons made to him by Santo Domingo Improvement in exchange for recognizing his large account.
In a combat that occurred in the town of Guerra, he was mortally wounded in 1910, in Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic.