Mexican journalist, editor, politician and diplomat from Veracruz. He founded periodicals including El Nacional and published Consejos para el duelo a espada y a pistola in Mexico in 1878.
Mexican master of arms examined and licensed by the government of New Spain. Active as a fencing teacher from at least 1787, he wrote the first illustrated fencing book printed in Mexico, the 1809 Tratado elemental de la destreza del sable.
