Carlos Alberto Taylhardat
Carlos Alberto Taylhardat, was a Venezuelan naval captain and diplomat. He was the son of Carlos Albert Taylhardat a Venezuelan lawyer. He trained in military school in Italy, until 1942. He was a naval captain in Venezuela for 30 years, and the ambassador of Venezuela to Beirut, Lebanon and Baghdad, Iraq in 1990 to 1994.Taylhardat helped Fidel Castro in 1958 by buying World War II weapons from the United States, to later deliver, via the Venezuelan government, to Castro's revolution in the Sierra Maestra.
