Education
When he finished his studies, he moved back to Córdoba for a short time.
When he finished his studies, he moved back to Córdoba for a short time.
Cuesta visited school in his hometown, before he did his studies at the Faculty of Chemistry of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) until 1925. In 1924 he published his first short story in a magazine. In 1928 he travelled to Europe, where he met Octavio G. Barreda, Carlos Luquín, André Breton, Carlos Pellicer, Samuel Ramos and Agustín Lazo.
Cuesta, who worked for several magazines, founded his own magazine in 1932, named Examen.
Following a fit of madness that included an act of self-castration, Cuesta was hospitalized and would later hang himself using the bedsheets from the sanitarium where he was interred. He is buried in the Panteon Civil de Dólores, Mexico City.