Rodríguez Galindo, born in Granada in 1939, entered the Civil Guard at the orders of his father. He arrived at the headquarters of the Civil Guard of the Intxaurrondo district of Donostia-San Sebastián in 1980, as number two of his headquarters general.El PSOE wanted to dismiss the PSOE in the 1982 elections, but according to the press officer of the Ministry, Fernando López Agudín, “it was difficult to dismiss” because “it was great support”. After six years, in 1988, he came to the headquarters of the headquarters and held office for many years.

During the 1980s, he received a total of twenty medals. One year after the kidnapping, torture and murder of Lasa and Zabala, the government of Felipe González granted him a cross with a red badge, which guarantees a lifelong pension.

In 1996, the National High Court sentenced José Antonio Lasa and José Ignacio Zabala to kidnapping and murder of fugitives and was sentenced to 71 years in prison by the Supreme Court, which amounted to 75 years. Galindo never admitted that it was related to the killings.

His family members requested pardon, but one month after the Supreme Court decided to remove him from prison in October 2004 for the illness that had left prison and one year later, they granted him the third grade. However, in 2013 he was granted conditional release. In total, he served four years and four months in jail.

He was also charged for being linked to the Green GAL, although in 2002 the judge withdrew the charge because he could not be charged in a particular offence and because the offence of belonging to an armed band had already been prescribed. Finally, the case was filed in 2003. Throughout his career he has been accused of association with drug trafficking and human trafficking networks, but the judges never condemned him for it.

The general has been one of the main symbols of torture in Euskal Herria and arrested some 900 people when he was at the Intxaurrondo headquarters. In the fight against ETA he is still mentioned as a hero in some Civil Guard publications. Galindo died on International Day Against Torture on 13 February at the age of 82.