Though he initially aspired to pursue poetry, Silva graduated in Sociology and Political Science from the
Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and has dedicated most of his professional life to journalism. Within his journalistic career, he was the content director of the television program
Caiga quien caiga during
Manel Fuentes' tenure. In September 2000, he published an article in
La Crónica de León titled: "My grandfather was also a disappeared person." In it, he lamented how Spanish society celebrated the so-called
Pinochet case while doing nothing to search for the thousands of men and women who had disappeared due to Francoist repression, murdered by Falangist paramilitaries who hid their bodies to multiply the pain of their families and to declare their belief that those who created Spain's first democratic period during the
Second Spanish Republic should not have existed. Due to his involvement in the recovery of Spain's Historical Memory and the exhumation processes of mass graves, Silva has appeared in several documentaries narrating these processes, such as
Los caminos de la memoria (José Luis Peñafuerte, Spain, 2009), premiered at the
Valladolid International Film Festival as part of the official section,
Lesa Humanidad (Héctor Faver, Spain, 2017) and
Bones of Contention (
Bones of Contention, Andrea Weiss, United States, 2017). == Works ==