Légion espagnole
His family was very poor, but despite this, his parents tried to give him a good education. The young Rodríguez however started to perform criminal acts at a very young age. When he was just 17, he was accused of theft and arrested, and after his release a year later in September 1963, he joined the Spanish Legion and was sent to Western Sahara. In 1966, he graduated from the Spanish Legion.