Historian, writer and diplomat. He studied primary in his hometown and high school in the Federal Valera male college. In 1912 he moved to Caracas and joined the Military Academy where he met the future President Isaías Medina Angarita. In 1914, he returned to Trujillo where exerted journalism. He moved to Merida in 1918 to follow studied law at the University of the Andes, where in 1920, graduated. He was director of policy and in charge of the Secretariat of State Mérida in 1919. In 1921 he returned to Caracas, entering the Directorate for international policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with Lysander Alvarado, Jacinto Fombona Pachano and José Antonio Ramos Sucre. Simultaneously, was Liceo Andrés Bello, which became director teacher. In 1922 he became Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies and subsequently Venezuela Consul in New Orleans (1923-25). In 1927, he returned to Trujillo to exercise the interim presidency of that State. That same year, was Director of the school of political science. In 1928, was appointed Chairman of the State Carabobo and Secretary of the Central University of Venezuela. He joined the National Academy of history and language in 1932. From 1936 until 1941 was Plenipotentiary Minister in Central America, headquartered in San José, Costa Rica. He also played the address of the file General of the nation (1942-1943), the Interior of Bolívar State (1943-1944) and President of the Congress of the Republic of Venezuela (1945). When the Isaías Medina Angarita Government was overthrown October 18 1945, he was arrested but was released a few days and was devoted to exercise the profession of lawyer. In 1947, he received the national literature prize for his book 'The Regent Heredia or heroic Piedad' and in 1949 was appointed Ambassador of Colombia he formed part of Democratic Republican Union (URD) and supported the presidential candidacy of Jóvito Villalba. In the 1952 election was a key part of URD but after the ignorance of the elections by a military junta went into exile in Costa Rica in 1953 and then Madrid (1953-1958). In those years was maturing their political ideals on nationalism different publications. In April 1958, he returned to Venezuela. Two months later died. His remains were taken to the national pantheon on March 6, 1991. His publications include: hours (1921) grounds (1922) Windows at night (1925) the horse of Ledesma (1951) geographical relationship whose Trujillo sense province and scope of the Congress of Angostura reading Venezuelan sense and presence of history message Peñalver without target (1951) tragedy Patria La Miranda tapestries the city towards world (1957).∼Venezuelan historian, diplomatic and writer. He won the National Prize for Literature in 1948.