Abstract

It was the first months of 1959. By then, I was unaware of the relationships that General Juan Tomás Díaz had had, at least in one of the frustrated attempts to shake off the bloody tyranny that was drowning the Dominican people. Thus, he was in contact with Rafael Ellis Sánchez (Pupito) or with groups of military officers, such as the one who left the martyr hero Pedro Livio Cedeño, a survivor of the desire for freedom that they nurtured, committed to any effort for the liquidation of the despot, a survivor of the yearning for freedom that fed a group of idealistic officers, only to take them to the grave or to the bottom of the sea, to a group of idealistic officers. But the truth is that, in his innate state of serious face and good-humored speech, he was discovering his inclinations to freedom.