The rebellion of the sergeants. 1959.

The torture procedures to which the expeditionaries of June 14 and 20 were subjected by Ramfis Trujillo, chief of the Air Force and his group, moved Dominican society, and at the same time, the behavior exhibited by those men known as the "Immortal Race", before their torturers and during their execution, stimulated the democratic feelings of the generality of Dominicans.

This reality was still expressed within the Armed Forces, despite the dictatorship's rigorous controls over the military and the atmosphere of terror within its ranks.

For example, a few days after the tyrant's son personally accompanied by high-ranking officers carried out the last executions of the June 14 expeditionaries at the San Isidro Air Base, a group of sergeants there initiated a conspiracy to overthrow the tyranny.

The conspiratorial project involved mainly military aviation technicians and mechanics, not a few of whom had received training abroad. Several of them had studied aviation mechanics at the U.S. air base in Panama.

The main leaders of this rebellion project were Sgt: Rafael Vargas Roman, Ulises Jaquez Bencosme, Dalmiro Amaro Moquete and Victor Manuel Espinosa. Those involved in that action numbered several dozen, almost all of the same rank.

At the beginning of August 1959, when the sergeants had already discussed and completed a plan of action against the tyranny to initiate their libertarian movement, and had concluded the sabotage of several planes and tanks that were disabled, the libertarian purpose was unveiled and its main leaders imprisoned. A total of 22 members of the Air Force, almost all of them sergeants, were imprisoned, tortured and shot.