Vicente Garcia González

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Vicente García González was a General in the Cuban Ten Years' War (Spanish: Guerra de los Diez Años, also known as the Great War) and later a Cuban President who was assassinated by the Spanish after the war. García was born on January 23, 1833 and was died on May 4, 1886.

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On June 7, he left for Venezuela on the steamship “Guadalquivir”. He settled in Rio Chico, where he founded a cooperative with his family. He continued to support the new revolutionary outburst, that's why the Spanish assassinated him. The put ground glass in a dish quimbombó, that is a typical Cuban dish he liked very much. On March 4, 1888, the Cuban General passed away.

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