Eulogio Amado Cantillo Porras (1911-09-13)13 September 1911 Mantua, Pinar del Río Province, Republic of Cuba
Died
9 September 1978(1978-09-09) (aged 66) Miami, Florida, United States
Allegiance
Republic of Cuba
Service/branch
Cuban Constitutional Army
Battles/wars
Cuban Revolution
Operation Verano
Eulogio Amado Cantillo Porras (13 September 1911 – 9 September 1978) was a major general in the Cuban Army. General Cantillo served as Chief of the Joint Staff during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, but did not participate in the military coup that brought Batista to power. During the Cuban Revolution, he led Cuban soldiers in the fight against Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement. After President Batista fled the country at 3:00 A.M. on January 1, 1959, he was left to serve briefly as the de facto Head of State in the early hours of January 1, 1959 until the official proclamation of the President of the Senate of Cuba, Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, as the Interim President of Cuba later that day. On January 2, 1959, the eldest judge of the Supreme Court, Carlos Manuel Piedra, was appointed as the Interim President by a junta led by him in accordance with the 1940 Cuban Constitution. However, the appointment of Piedra, the last president to be born under Spanish Cuba, was met with opposition from Castro, who believed that Manuel Urrutia should be appointed. After the Cuban Revolution, he was tried by the Revolutionary tribunals and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released early in the mid-1960s, and went into exile in Miami where he died on September 9, 1978.
Eulogio Amado Cantillo Porras (13 September 1911 – 9 September 1978) was a major general in the Cuban Army. General Cantillo served as Chief of the Joint...
of July Movement. The battle was a trap, designed by Cuban General EulogioCantillo to lure Fidel Castro's guerrillas into a place where they could be...
Revolution. Piedra was appointed interim president by a junta led by EulogioCantillo in accordance with the 1940 Cuban Constitution, but he was not legally...
military leader EulogioCantillo took control of the country. With revolutionary forces controlling most of Cuba, Castro ordered Cantillo's arrest, before...
[citation needed] The battle was a trap, designed by Cuban General EulogioCantillo to lure Fidel Castro's guerrillas into a place where they could be...
destroy Castro's small army, so in May 1958, General EulogioCantillo was given the mission. Cantillo's plan was to use nearly all of the Cuban regular army...
Migoya Genovevo Pérez Dámera Ruperto Cabrera Pedro Rodríguez Avila EulogioCantillo Martín Díaz Tamayo José Rodríguez Calderón Alberto del Río Chaviano...
of aiding the militants, while 10,000 soldiers commanded by General EulogioCantillo surrounded the Sierra Maestra, driving north to the rebel encampments...
and had captured the city of Cienfuegos by 2 January. Cuban General EulogioCantillo entered Havana's Presidential Palace, proclaimed the Supreme Court...
Revolution. The battle resulted from a complex plan created by Cuban General Cantillo to directly attack Castro's mountain base in the Sierra Maestra. The battle...
facing an end to his Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro asked General EulogioCantillo for a seven-day ceasefire so that surrender negotiations could be pursued...
Republic of Cuba 26th of July Movement Commanders and leaders General EulogioCantillo General Alberto del Rio Chaviano Fidel Castro Che Guevara Juan Almeida...
Battle of Las Mercedes (29 July–8 August 1958), the army commander EulogioCantillo allowed the rebels to escape back into the Sierra Maestra mountains...
part of the Cuban Army's Operation Verano, as the troops of General EulogioCantillo surrounded the 300 guerrillas of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement...
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