A peasant from Amancio was taking a teacher's course at the Rural Worker's College in Santa Cruz del Sur, when Raúl Ferrer, the author of Romance de la Niña Mala, appeared and at that precise moment the course of his life changed. Silverio Martí Soto remembers the poet and pedagogue acting as Minister of Education. He was looking for students for a school to train national broadcasting workers. It was 1967 and he qualified among the chosen ones.