Born in Nicaragua and dissatisfied with the situation in his native country, he immigrated to the United States where he initially earned his living as a laborer at the oil wells in Texas and Louisiana. Soon after, he became a US Citizen. With the savings acquired, in addition to the help from kind hearted Americans with a soft spot for this "spirited underdog", and with what he earned from other casual jobs at the same time, he managed to complete his education.

Before obtaining a license to practice law, he established distributors of medical devices throughout Latin America. At the same time, he was vice president for five years of the Alabama World Trade Association, formed by more than 250 exporting corporations in Alabama.

Later he saw that Alabama is the State with the largest growth of Latin American immigrants. Therefore he bought a house in a modest working-class immigrant neighborhood near the Birmingham airport, and lived there for 14 years. Living and learning from his neighbors, he set up an office at his house where he directed a highly specialized translation service in the legal and technical fields, and published a newspaper with a circulation of 20,000 copies. Within his personal social work objectives, he motivates his neighbors and Hispanic friends to improve their spoken English.