Amado García Guerrero

Who was Amado García Guerrero?

Amado García Guerrero was one of the conspirators against, and killers of, Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina.

He was a 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. He also was one of the assassins in the ambush on 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's actions against Trujillo were:

⁕Trujillo officially denied García permission to marry the girl he loved, Luisa, because she happened to be sister of René Gil a “ dangerous communist rebel”.

⁕Military police forced García to kill a young prisoner, who he later discovered was the brother of his fiancée.

As is described by Vargas Llosa in La Fiesta del Chivo Amado García Guerrero was a soldier who, due to a capricious test of his loyalty, executed a man with the bandaged eyes. Soon, he was told that the man he just executed was the brother of his ex-fiancée. Later, Salvador Sadhalá tried to console him by saying, “It's a lie, Amadito... It could be any other [man]. He deceived you... Forget about what was said to you. Forget about what you did."