 As a result, in 1934 he joined the Grupo Decembrista, a neocubist group led by the poet Vicente Huidobro, one of his most fervent admirers, who revealed his enthusiasm for Sotomayor's work in the magazine PRO published in the same year.Curiously, it was the writers of the avant-garde who were the first to recognise Sotomayor's genius.E.