 Manuel Buendía Tellezgirón was born in Zitácuaro , Michoacán , Mexico on 24 March 1926 . He was the third child of José Buendía Gálvez ( father ) and Josefina Tellezgirón Tinoco ( mother ) , both from the State of Mexico . Buendía attended a religious elementary school located in front of Teatro Juárez de Zitácuaro , a former theatre in his hometown . At the age of 12 , his parents moved to Morelia , Michoacán and enrolled him at Seminario Menor , where he studied for three years . As a teenager , Buendía contributed to La Nación , a magazine of the National Action Party ( PAN ) . Though he <unk> with the PAN during his early life , Buendía later lost interest in the party . His mother died of natural causes on 21 June 1941 , and Buendía returned to Zitácuaro . After a few years , he was awarded a scholarship at Instituto Patria , a Jesuit high school in Mexico City . Upon graduation he attended the Escuela Libre de Derecho , a private Law school in Mexico City , but dropped out to take care of his family following the death of his father in 1945 . 
