An haifeshi a garin Mexico City a 1818. A mutuwar mahaifinsa, mai kula da matatar mai da gidan burodin Molino del Rey, ba shi da gida, don haka ya fara aiki a matsayin magatakarda a wani shagon sayar da tufafi yana ɗan shekara 13.
A karkashin kulawar Andrés Quintana Roo, ya sami wuri a Kwastam din Mexico kuma ya fara karatunsa a Colegio de San Juan de Letrán. Yana wallafa wasu waƙoƙi a cikin Kalanda Galván kuma yana farawa a matsayin editan Jaridar Jarida yayin da Anastasio Bustamante ke shugaban ƙasa. Yana wallafa wani sashi na sukar wasan kwaikwayo: Litinin na Fidel (sunansa na karya, a jaridar El Siglo XIX). Yana haɗin gwiwa tare da El Monitor Republicano kuma ya kafa tare da Ignacio Ramírez littafin satirical Don Simplicio.
Shi mataimaki ne na jam'iyyar masu sassaucin ra'ayi a lokuta 15 ciki har da na Constituent Congress na 1857 inda yake wakiltar jihar Puebla. Yana aiki a matsayin Ministan Kudi tare da Shugabannin Arista, Bustamante da Juárez. Tare da cikakken yakinin sassaucin ra'ayi, yana kare Tsarin Ayutla.
An bayyana sha'awar siyasarsa a cikin littafin tarihin Memories na Times, aikin da ya faro daga 1828 zuwa 1853. Yana aiki a matsayin malamin Tarihin Kasa da Tattalin Arzikin Siyasa a Kwalejin Soja. Babban mutum ne saboda gaskiyarsa da kishin kasa, ya mutu a Tacubaya yana da shekara 79.
