.He was born in the city of Colon in 1949 and in 1956, at the young age of 7, he won his first contest in primary school, of which he says: “I remember it very well, they gave me a book and a set of tempera paints; “I had painted the liberator Simón Bolívar in Chimborazo.” He has been awarded several awards in Mexico, Spain and the United States, and has exhibited his work in different Latin American and European countries.