As a child he attended the Zamora School, in the San Juan parish. The idol of that parish was, at that time, a boxer named Armando Best. Pompeyo Márquez and Eloy Torres also studied at that school. Both were boxers, who were going to end up as communist leaders. Later on, Yanes went to the University and studied as a journalist, after seeing a notice from the newspaper. He entered the first school of journalism that existed in Venezuela, at the Free University "Augusteo", founded in October 1941 by Monsignor Rafael Lovera, at the time of the General Isaiah Medina Angarita. Press freedom given by General Medina Angarita allowed the circulation of 3 newspapers that made history: Últimas Noticias, El Nacional and El Morrocoy] Blue. Yanes signed up for the founding squad of Últimas Noticias and stayed there for a few years.[1]