After opening the way to appoint a military man as the main position to lead the reconstruction of the Valencian territory destroyed by the DANA on October 29, electing José Gan Pampols as vice president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón delves further into this path by appointing him as number two of the strong man for this task to another soldier, Venancio Aguado de Diego.
Aguado de Diego, a soldier in the reserve since March 2020, is a brigadier general of the Army and will occupy the regional secretariat of the vice president’s cabinet for the Economic and Social Recovery of the Generalitat Valenciana. Born in 1961, he belongs to the XL Promotion of the General Military Academy, he was promoted to the position of infantry lieutenant in July 1985. He has a diploma in command of mountain troops and served in different units of this specialty in Jaca, San Sebastian and Pamplona.
After completing the General Staff course and becoming a commander, he served at the Mountain Brigade Headquarters. In 2005 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the Operations Division of the Army General Staff, later being named Chief of Staff of the Mountain Hunters Brigade.
After passing through the Light Forces Headquarters, he was promoted to colonel in 2012, commanding the 45th Garellano Regiment in Bizkaia and the Chief of Staff of the Intelligence Center of the Armed Forces. In 2016 he was named Brigadier General and assumed command of the ‘Canarias’ Operational Brigade.
He has been deployed in NATO missions in Kosovo, as Chief of Operations of the AGT Aragón, and in Afghanistan, in the Future Operations Section of the Multinational Brigade of Region W. In 2017. He commanded the Eastern Sector of the United Nations mission in Lebanon.
He is in possession, among other decorations and recognitions, of the Grand Cross of Military Merit, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Hermenegild, the Order of Merit of the Lebanese Republic and eight Crosses of Military Merit, the Cross of Merit of the Civil Guard and the Cross of Police Merit.
Source: www.eldiario.es
