[8] His father, Gustavo Garcia Menocal was a Representative in Congress from the Province of Matanzas, and Lieutenant Colonel in the Cuban War of independence.

[5] In 1959, Menocal resigned from his position in protest of the expropriation of the company's properties,[12] and widespread abuses of civil liberties being perpetrated by the Castro revolutionary regime.

In September 1968, he was promoted to Vice President and General Manager of Compañia Panameña de Fuerza y Luz, the electric, telephone, and gas public utility of the Republic of Panama.

[citation needed] From 1961 through 1968 he raised awareness of the experiences of the Cuban Revolution through public speaking engagements, eventually writing his story in a book, The Lesson the United States Can Learn from Cuba.

[6] He cautioned that it was not the illiterate or poor who were responsible for the downfall of Cuba, but rather a segment of the middle class, academia and a naive group of wealthy individuals too absorbed in their pursuits to take the trouble to understand the underlying Communist game plan and the true intentions of those who sought to lead them.