This situation led him to take refuge in the Embassy of Venezuela in Costa Rica, but when he was denied asylum, fled to Colombia and finally to Peru where he remained several years hiding in the Andean forests . He was a pianist and violinist of the Philharmonic francomacorisana Verdi, founded and directed by his father, and amateur painter. He began his literary career in 1931 with the publication of several of his poems in the national press .