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Julio Lopez Masegosa (Cúllar, Granada, Spain July 7, 1906 - Ixtapan de la Sal, Mexico) was a Spanish military and Assistant to Prime Minister Juan Negrin during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939.

Biography
Julio was born on July 31, 1906 in Cullar, Granada, to José López and Lucia Masegosa. as one of 8 children, he studied Civil Engineering at the ¨École Spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr¨, in Brittany, France. He moved to Barcelona in the early 1930s where he was a member of the UGT (General Union of Workers) and affiliated with the AS. When the coup d'état occurred in July 1936, he joined the popular militias, being their captain in Madrid. In October of that year he went to the Carabineros Corps and the following November he was assigned to the Carabineros Section of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance. In March 1937 he was promoted to Commander of the Carabineros and in September of that year he was listed with the rank of major in the Ministry of Finance and as head of Motor Flotillas (the motorized escort unit). He was in Paris, as part of the Foreign Purchases Commission, dependent on the Undersecretary of Armaments, in charge of acquiring weapons abroad. He participated in the civil war of Costa Rica supporting the government of Teodoro Picado against the coalition of the so-called "Caribbean Legion" led by José Figueres and which finally won victory. At the end of the Civil War in Costa Rica, in April 1948, on the eve of the resignation of the President of the Republic, Mr. Teodoro Picado, Julio left the country on the same plane with doctor and former President Rafael A. Calderón Guardia. In December 1948 he led an attempted invasion of Costa Rica from Nicaragua, supported by the dictator Anastasio Somoza, which failed. He died of diabetes in Ixtapan de la Sal, in the State of Mexico, where he is buried.

Marriage
Julio was married first to Carmen Lucía López Herdocia and later they divorced and he married Cristina Leon de Garay Castro.