During the war he commanded several military units, leading two Republican Army Corps during the Battles of Guadalajara and Brunete.

In the last days of the conflict, he was in command of the General Directorate of Special Defense against Aircraft (DECA) and the Eastern Army Group, which he led during the Withdrawal from Catalonia.

With the arrival of the Second Republic, these promotions were canceled, and Jurado was demoted to the job of captain at his own request.

On 13 August 1936 he was appointed head of a militia column in Oropesait intended for action against the Army of Africa.

[2] On 13 March 1937, before the attack of the Fascist Italians of the CTV toward Guadalajara, Jurado was appointed head of the newly created IV Army Corps.

At the end of April, he was appointed head of Operation Extramadura, an offensive intended to cut off the rebellious territory at the height of Mérida until reaching the Portuguese border, which Largo Caballero approved.

[4] 4 On 27 January 1939, in the midst of the Republican defeat in Catalonia, and with Barcelona already occupied by the rebels, he replaced General Juan Hernández Saravia at the head of the Eastern Region Army Group (GERO).

Once the war was over, he would be exiled from various countries, moving to France in 1939, to Argentina in 1940, and finally to Uruguay, where he arrived in December 1943.