 In his youth, he worked in a record store and afterwards as a reporter for the newspaper "El Periodico" in Guatemala, where he covered news and the cultural sections.During his tenure in the newspaper, Hernández Cordón also published the story book "Por El Suelo" (2000), which he later repented.He joined the Guatemalan Rafael Landívar University to study Communication Sciences and Journalism, and after that he studied filmmaking at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico.