Amado García Guerrero

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Amado García Guerrero (June 2, 1931 – June 2, 1961) was one of the conspirators against, and killers of, Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina.

He was a 20th century soldier in the Dominican Republic. A member of the Military Aides-de-Camp of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, he was the person who informed the other conspirators that Trujillo would later leave that night for San Cristóbal getting up itself moments to the group that would participate in the execution of Trujillo, getting up itself hours later to the group that will participate in the ambush in the highway. The story of the revolutionaries and their personal motivations for participating in the assassination of Trujillo, serves to writers as Mario Vargas Llosa, as an excellent example of the experiences with atrocities of the general population suffered during the Trujillo's regime.

The reasons for Amado García to wish the death of his boss Trujillo were:

the ban of the dictator himself, to this loyal young man to get married with a girl,by name Luisa, because she happened to be sister of René Gil a “ dangerous communist rebel”, who really just happened to search for refuge in an embassy.[1]
Military police forced to García Guerrero to kill a young person, who soon him would to discover he was this brother of his fiancée.

So, the planned wedding was made impossible to realize.

As is described by Vargas Llosa, García Guerrero was a soldier who, due to a capricious test of his loyalty, executed a man with the bandaged eyes. Soon, they said to him that he was the brother of his ex-fiancée, whose request to marry has been officially denied. Later, Salvador Sahalá tried to console him with the following thing, “Is lie, Amadito, - he wanted to animate it Rescuing. It could be any other. It deceived to you. For destrozarte absolutely, for hacerte to feel it jeopardize more, enslaved. Olvídate of which it said to you. Olvídate of which you did” . According to Bernard Diederich, the reason for the refusal of his request of marriage was that a brother of his fiancée looked for asylum in an embassy of the capital. In fact, Amadito received the order to shoot, or to only watch the execution of a victim seated in the jail of the SIM. He did it hoping that the shot was going it to save of more torture. Later, it said to him to Sadalá Star that had said by the victim and at that moment it promised to assassinate Trujillo (Diederich 74). This same action caused Amado, youngest of the plotted ones, to be united to the plans to end the wreck sátrapa.

They conducted battle that night: Modesto Díaz Quezada,, Luis Manuel Cáceres Michel, Juan Tomás Diaz, Manuel de Ovín Filpo (Spaniard immigrant and agronomist technician), Salvador Estrella Sadhalá (a.k.a. "El Turco"), Huáscar Antonio Tejeda Pimentel, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Antonio de la Maza, Roberto Pastoriza Neret, Pedro Livio Cedeño Herrera and off course Amado García Guerrero. On June 2, agents of the Military intelligence service SIM entered house number 59 of the avenue San Martin, a residence from his relatives, and hiding place of the lieutenant Amado García Guerrero where he was discovered by a female supporter from Trujillo, and after very bravely responding to the attacks of the agents key lowered by the fire of the machine guns, the day of its death turned 30 years of age.

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Wiarda, Howard. Dictatorship and Development: The Methods of Control in Trujillo’s Dominican Republic. Latin American Monographs Ser. 5 Gainsville: U of Florida P, 1970. This is an adaptation of the script of "The Feast of Goat" historical film by Director Luis Llosa. The work was done from numerous interviews, personal searches in publications, governmental archives, documents of the department of North American State declassified, caligraphic transcriptions of personal testimonies of people surrounded in the plot that executed to Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina the 30 of May of the 1961, in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. ERNESTO GUERRERO MENESES

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