Pilar García (brigadier general)

Pilar D. García (born 1896) was Brigadier General and Chief of the National Police in pre-revolutionary Cuba.[1]

Career

Pilar García was born in San José de las Lajas on 12 October 1896.[2] In 1915 he became a soldier in the Cuban army. He retired in 1944 with the rank of captain. After the 1952 coup of Fulgencio Batista he re-entered active service with the rank of coronel. In 1955 García was appointed head of the Guardia Rural regiment in Matanzas. He repelled the attack on the Goicuria Barracks.[3] After the incident he was accused of torture and execution of Julio Adán García Rodriguez.[2] In March 1958 Garcia was appointed Chief of the National Police and one month later he was promoted to the rank of General. He became known for not taking prisoners.

Personal life

He married Eloisa Baez and had 2 sons, Rolando Garcia Baez, a lieutenant colonel in the Cuban Military Aviation and Irenaldo Garcia Baez, also a lieutenant colonel as well as Chief of Military Intelligence (SIM).[1] Garcia and his sons fought on the side of Fulgencio Batista during the Cuban Revolution.

Garcia along with his sons, their families and other military personnel, including General Francisco Tabernilla with family and Fulgencio Batista with family, left Cuba for the United States on New Year's Eve 1959, since the Cuban people were in support of Castro.

References
  1. Martín, Ramón L. Bonachea & Marta San (1995). The Cuban insurrection, 1952-1959. New Brunswick (N. J.): Transaction Publ. p. 403. ISBN 0878555765.
  2. TodoCuba, Redacción (2018-10-06). "Pilar García, el militar cubano que sirvió a Fulgencio Batista y fue conocido por su nombre de mujer y su alma de asesino". Todo Cuba (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  3. "Colonel Pilar Garcia , who successfully headed army defense at..." Getty Images (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-01-10.
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