Mawaki, mai sassaucin ra'ayi, dan jarida, marubucin wasan kwaikwayo. An haifeshi a garin Mexico City a 1818, ya mutu a Tacubaya, Mexico City a 1897.
Ya yi ƙuruciyarsa a cikin Molino del Rey, kusa da Castillo de Chapultepec kamar yadda mahaifinsa, José María Prieto Gamboa, ke kula da injin ɗin da burodin. Lokacin da ya mutu a 1831, mahaifiyarsa, Misis Josefa Pradillo y Estañol ta rasa hankalinta, ta bar yaron Guillermo mara taimako.
A cikin wannan halin bakin ciki kuma yana da ƙuruciya, ya yi aiki a matsayin magatakarda a cikin shagon suttura kuma daga baya ya zama abin yabo a kwastan, ƙarƙashin kariyar Andrés Quintana Roo.
Wannan shine yadda ya sami damar shiga Colegio de San Juan de Letrán. Tare da Manuel Tonat Ferer da José María da Juan Lacunza, ya shiga cikin kafuwar Kwalejin Lateran, wanda aka kafa a 1836 kuma Quintana Roo ya ba da umarni, wanda “ya zama daidai - bisa lafazin nasa kalmomin - ƙudurin niyyar Mexico Adabi ".
Shi ne sakataren sirri na Valentín Gómez Farías da Bustamante, a jere.
Ya fara aikinsa na dan jarida a jaridar El Siglo Diez y Nueve, a matsayin mai sukar wasan kwaikwayo, yana buga shafi "San Monday", a karkashin sunan Fidel. Ya kuma hada hannu a kan El Monitor Republicano.
A cikin 1845 ya kafa tare da Ignacio Ramírez jaridar satirical Don Simplicio.
Ya haɗu tun daga ƙuruciyarsa zuwa jam'iyyar masu sassaucin ra'ayi, ya kare ra'ayoyi da aikin jarida da shayari. Ya kasance Ministan Kudi - "ya kula da burodin talakawa" - a majalisar ministocin Janar Mariano Arista daga 14 ga Satumba, 1852 zuwa 5 ga Janairun 1853.
Ya bi Tsarin Ayutla, wanda aka yi shelarsa a ranar 1 ga Maris, 1854 saboda wannan dalilin ya sha wahala gudun hijira a Cadereyta.
Ya dawo ya yi irin wannan aikin a gwamnatin Juan Alvarez daga 6 ga Oktoba 6 zuwa Disamba 6, 1855. Ya kasance mataimaki sau 15 a lokacin 20 a Majalisar Tarayya kuma ya shiga, yana wakiltar Puebla, a Majalisar Wakilai ta 1856- 57.
A karo na uku a shugaban Ma’aikatar Kudi - daga 21 ga Janairu, 1858 zuwa Janairu 2, 1859, ya bi Benito Juárez a cikin jirgin, bayan sanarwar Janar Félix Zuluoga. A Guadalajara ya ceci ran shugaban ne ta hanyar cacar baki tsakaninsa da bindigogin masu tsaron tawayen inda ya kamata ya faɗi shahararriyar maganarsa "jarumi ba ya kisan kai."
Ya kirkiro taken waƙar izgili na sojojin masu sassaucin ra'ayi "Los cangrejos" wanda a lokacinda rundunonin sojojin González Ortega suka shiga garin Mexico a cikin 1861.
Daga baya ya kasance Ministan Hulda da kasashen waje ga Shugaba José María Iglesias.
Lokacin da a 1890 jaridar La República ta kira gasa don ganin wanene fitaccen mawaƙi, binciken da aka yi ya fi son Prieto, tare da tara ƙuri'u fiye da na abokan adawarsa biyu, Salvador Díaz Mirón da Juan de Dios Peza.
Altamirano ne ya ayyana "mawakin Meziko na kwarai, mawaƙin ƙasar", daga "masu lura da al'adun gargajiya", Prieto ya ga yanayin shimfidar biranen birni da nau'ikan faretin fareti kuma ya bayyana su da gwanintar adabi da sabon abu.
A cikin yanayin bikin sa da jarumtaka, ya kasance cikin nutsuwa a cikin siyasa.
Daya daga cikin shahararrun wakokinsa shi ne "La musea callejera", taskar adabin gaske, wacce aka ce ta ceci al'adun gargajiya na Mexico. Ya sanya mafi kyawun waƙoƙin Meziko na ƙarni na goma sha tara a cikin al'adun adabi, tare da taɓa soyayya da ɗan tasiri daga waƙoƙin Mutanen Espanya.
Ayyukansa kamar haka:
- Tunawa da lokacina, littafin tarihi (1828-1853)
- Balaguro na babban tsari da Tafiya zuwa Amurka
- The Ensign (1840) yanki mai ban dariya
- Alonso de Avila (1840) Dan wasa mai ban dariya
- Tsoron Pinganillas (1843)
- Gida da mutunci
- Amaryar taskar
- Zuwa ga mahaifina, Monologue.
A matsayinsa na marubucin rubutu, tunda shi farfesa ne na tattalin arzikin siyasa da tarihin kasa a Kwalejin Soja, ya kuma rubuta:
- Nuni kan asali, sauyin yanayi da matsayin babban kudin shiga na Federationasar Mexico (1850)
- Ilimin Firamare a Tattalin Arzikin Siyasa (1871-1888)
- Takaitaccen gabatarwa game da nazarin tarihin duniya (1888)
