He participated in the tertulias of Bogotá, particularly in the Tertulia del Buen Gusto,[REF] that was held in the house of Manuela Sanz de Santamaría de Manrique and in which participated other important leaders as Camilo Torres Tenorio, Custodio García Rovira, and José Fernández Madrid, among others.
Thanks to the good relations he made in the Tertulia del Buen Gusto, Rodríguez developed an interest in journalism.