Amado García Guerrero

The reasons for Amado García's actions against Trujillo were: 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.

According to Bernard Diederich, the reason for Trujillo's refusal of García's marriage request was that his fiancé's brother had looked for asylum in a foreign embassy in the capital.

On May 30, 1961, the men regrouped and awaited Trujillo on the side of a highway, where they knew from inside intelligence that the dictator would be passing by on his way to visit his family and he wouldn't have many security surrounding him.

There, on San Cristóbal Highway in Santo Domingo, the men ambushed Trujillo's car and assassinated the dictator.

On June 2, agents of the Servicio de Inteligencia Militar (SIM; the secret police) entered house #59 of Avenue San Martín, (a residence owned by García's relatives) and found Lieutenant Amado García Guerrero in hiding, where he was discovered by a female supporter of Trujillo.