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There he married Maria de los Angeles Gonzalez, said to be the daughter of an Indigenous Chief (Hija de Cacique).
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Calixto Izquierdo
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He went to Valencia, Venezuela where he was a merchant. They had numerous children, both boys and girls. Garcia de Luna fought on the Spanish side in the Battle of Carabobo, against Simón Bolívar and the British Legions, during Venezuelan War of Independence in 1821.
Some have speculated with reason, but without apparent evidence, that Ramon was his middle name which he could have written as was custom of the time as "C. Ramon Garcia de Luna e Izquierdo: and he was the Ramon Garcia who officered Spanish troops at Carabobo.
Another theory is that he was related to Spanish military leader Manuel Garcia de Luna. Much mystery surrounds Calixto Garcia de Luna e Izquierdo.
Given Calixto Garcia de Luna"s apparently newly learned independentist leanings which put him in jail, some have speculated he had become changed by the war. However, for some unknown reason, Lopez decided to make his last landing in Western Cuba, rather than in the more mountainous eastern end of the Island where the Calixto Garcia de Luna had settled.
Membership
Given that both he and Narciso López were neighbors in Valencia, Venezuela and both were originally members of the Spanish Armies who turned against Spanish rule, it is possible that he conspired with Narciso López in Lopez"s failed attempt to throw the Spanish out of Cuba.
