José Cuesta Monereo

José Cuesta Monereo (5 December 1895 – 7 October 1981) was a senior Spanish army officer, regarded as the planner of the Spanish coup of July 1936 in Seville at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, and thereafter other areas, initially under the command of general Gonzalo Queipo de Llano. The plans resulted in the abuse, torture and murder of thousands of local people.