Tony de la Guardia
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Tony de la Guardia was a Colonel
Colonel
Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...

 in the Cuba
Cuba
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n Ministry of Interior. He worked in Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...

's administration, and in 1989 was executed, convicted of cocaine trafficking.

He was the son of Mario de Guardia y Curbelo and Graziella Font. He had an older brother, Mario and a twin brother, Patricio de la Guardia y Font. His daughter, Ileana de la Guardia y Fernandez is trying to liberate her uncle, Patricio, who was sentenced to 30 years of prison in 1989.
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