I came to General and did not like ...
The birth of the Fifth Republic finds me in San Fernando de Apure. I stayed there for only six months in the period since I graduated from IAED until mid-afternoon of that day when Hugo Chavez swore "... on this moribund Constitution ...." That same day, convinced that everything was going to change, without filing office (document in which the military is sent from one unit to another), I introduced my office staff, almost an intelligence office itinerant constaba de computadora con el disco duro más grande en el mercado de computadoras personales lleno de información útil para el trabajo operativo, scanner, impresora, grabadoras, micrófonos, cámara de video, fotos, copias de informes, grabaciones de video y de audio, discos compactos con respaldo de bases de datos, documentos, así como mis objetos personales, en una camioneta y enfilé hacia Caracas. Recuerdo que la lapidaria frase juramento de Chávez que mencionara hace un instante la escuché mientras me desplazaba en el peligroso tramo de carretera que une a Calabozo con San Juan de los Morros.
Atrás dejaba días que no me resultaron tan duros como era la creencia de mis adversarios institucionales, who sent me there to demoralize and to feel the rigors of being as they wanted, not to mention that the only thing that interested me was work. There I work at my ease and improve the support of my boss the conditions under which those operating the National Guard, improved medical service, the bedrooms of the troops, it radically changed the quality of food and conditions in canteens was organized and began to perform better the operative field, were attacked the shape of rampant corruption among the staff related to cattle rustling and extortion charges to fish and fur traders of slime and more importantly, at a higher rate of which had knowledge in the disciplinary unit was purified to it, apply corresponding penalties from arrest to the lower of the institution, and the transfers needed to prevent effective familiarization with the offenders in the area.
really was not so hard work and the area required a huge effort, but was being implemented more effectively than in the rest of the National Guard. He also left behind the memory of General Alcazar Weir, who hit me on one knee with his baton charged me for no reason of conspiracy and making trips to Caracas to meet with "people of Chavez." Well, it was something that did not know, I would have to get used to.
At Caracas, began to happen for my welcome big changes. The new president, applying the same remedy to apply Dr. Caldera, began to make radical changes under the pretext that some officers were preparing a coup to ignore the election results. But most important, was that he started to compensate the damages that the General Ostos Rivas, Pérez Rojas and Rodriguez Mayol had generated in the Force and also the professional integrity of many officers.
For example, Rodriguez Mayol Replacement named head of Regional Command No. 5 Brigadier General Carlos Rafael Alfonzo Martinez (Who chased ferociously) and ordered the return from Washington Brigadier General Germain Araque Rodolfo Varela, who was appointed Commander of the National Guard, Brigadier General Gerardo Briceno Garcia who was in his house was free appointed Inspector General of the Guard. The waters returned to normal and finally began to do justice.
days later, I was appointed Director of Intelligence of the National Guard, where he was on duty between March and July 1999. During this administration, to establish inter-agency coordination contacts, I met the Chief of Operations of the DISIP, Captain Ramon Rodriguez Chacin retired and we had a professional and very sporadic.
During the four months in office saw the rise of a cleansing activity inside the National Guard, in a good way, mostly acting on corruption more however, I noticed that on the troops was fast and effective but not on official . I attribute the fact that throughout the run, dealing with officials rather than respect was rather timid or weak and in the present circumstances continue to be. In many cases, the much criticized "poor" (expression applied to military personnel in order to obtain leniency and even forgiveness) operated over the serious errors and even crimes. Many who escaped down the "poor" received only light punishment and delays. Today, it has been recognized by the delay, go together with their classmates, and they did not even, because they are "revolutionary", a fact which gives them an advantage.
In April 1999, began the evaluation process for promotion to the rank of brigadier general in my class. As always, I went to the evidence that oversees the Permanent Board of Assessment (The only ones that show the truth about the physical fitness test, as the semester are subject to most cases the condition of the ward that the officer has invariably is 100 points and has not shot on target, one meter swim, completed the distance of the test or have 40 kilos overweight.) obtaining among the group of about thirty-five officers of the five perfect scores. On the other hand, my service marks placed me in the first place, thanks to the promotional behavior (Relating to earlier grades, issued in years in which the use of 100 points was restricted truly the best officers). The result was the easiest climb of my career, from the point of view of the stress of this process, this time, because with the new institutional circumstances gossip and stories were used with the same profusion as in the past.
accordingly came July and with it promotion, transfer and rotation of officers. The new commanding general was Maj. Gen. Gerardo Briceno Garcia and the Inspector General Maj. Gen. Francisco Belisario Landis. Immediately after my promotion I was appointed Head of Regional Command No. 5, having the honor to receive such by the newly promoted Major General Carlos Alfonzo Martinez Rafael. I immediately will lead to the hard work trying to overcome institutional as almost insurmountable, the neat General Alfonzo effective management. As mentioned above, the Regional Command No. 5 is one of the most active and problematic in Venezuela: Its jurisdiction, which covers approximately nine thousand eight hundred and eighty square kilometers comprising the states of Vargas, Miranda and the Federal District, is the seat of all branches of government and has the typical problems of any large American city, such as overcrowding, unemployment, poor public services, pollution and insecurity and personal assets. The unit then had eleven units detachment level (A detachment of the Guard is equivalent to a battalion of the army) and three in 1600 forty-three Enlisted National Guard, to serve approximately five million inhabitants. It was only eight prisons under its responsibility, running all institutional services, had control of the airport with the highest volume of travelers in the country, as well as the port through which entered the greater diversity of goods (in volume is only surpassed by Puerto Cabello) and used by as many importers.
Without going into details, the work that lay ahead was daunting, especially if taking into account the enormous responsibility that had been placed in my hands. The unit would have to change the image of corruption generated in the port area and the airport, prisons and highways, would reduce and possibly eliminate smuggling, would effectively combat the crime or otherwise, feel that he was not contributing to the change that the country needed, ie the conditions favor for my lifelong struggle to succeed, it would end in the most resounding failure. Perhaps the singer Juan Luis Guerra again write a song inspired by the National Guard, just like old times (in a time that this singer was traveling by land was detained by a National Guardsman who tried to blackmail him, so he wrote the song "civil Join me", which one verse said "... civil join me, the detachment, or solve from here, buy my silence and forget about me ...").
was there started tripping. Some subordinate officers began to move their influence to avoid being changed from where fed "the pot", which was merely the product of the collection of money in the port and airport to take to higher required it. In exercising the General Command Alfonzo, the pot was no address and was distributed among some of the colonels members of staff of the Regional Command, these officers should not only be unmasked but exemplary punishment and General Alfonzo had no time or opportunity to do so.
As for me lay a longer period of time, I decided to expose the operation of "the pot" and recipients, without neglecting other duties were many and exhausting.
Inexplicably, the support of the High Command of the institution began to decline. The staff rotation plan was not approved by the Personnel Division and instead began a decline in the number of officers, were transferred some of which had not been requested change and its replacement will not be sending anyone. The staff reduction came Official almost 50%. Disciplinary councils (administrative process for serious misconduct which applies to soldiers who commit serious offenses) resulted incurred before prompted the disciplinary low two hundred forty-five National Guard and will be applied so far only one hundred ninety-two .
Similarly, the Inspector General Francisco Belisario Landis, without any explanation or apparent reason, began a systematic harassment work, counting with the complicity of officials located in the port of La Guaira, who plotted to bring some media communication, information about my alleged business links with port users and importers regular freight and customs law violators that allegedly supported the transfers ordered by me were part of a personal vendetta of such persons. In the case of two officers, requested the transfer for me, if it occurred, but most important positions out of my discipline.
To make matters worse, just four months after the beginning of the management of the tragedy of La Guaira, which resulted in chaos in the state of Vargas and the presence of military units from other forces, security agencies and bodies civilians, which further complicated the situation especially in the port: Increased thefts, smuggling and became common the presence of military commissions and police "taking care" of procedures written in the functional area of \u200b\u200bthe National Guard or interfering with proceedings brought by members assigned to Regional Command No. 5. This is compounded by the complacency of open government procurators and judges of the district in favor of offenders, especially if they had links with government.
With the passage of time, I realized that in addition to the neuralgic area was only port of La Guaira and Maiquetia airport, but the operative question was not what interested the institutional High Command, was important not to embarrass his friends or friends of friends. In my relentless pursuit of support to overcome the obstacles that were bigger every day, I managed to catch the attention of Don Luis Miquilena and Manuel Quijada, who tried to help to solve the problems in the judiciary, however, that some judges were dismissed , continued a ruling in favor of offenders and others advanced in cases they had.
The main tool used for inaction was the utilization of the new Criminal Procedure Code, according to which there was the handling of such legal instrument to justify actions Prosecutors illegal both the Public Ministry and Judges of Control, Enforcement Judges and members of the Court of Appeals, who in collusion with private lawyers, as well as public defenders, court clerks and other employees of the judicial system, made themselves the task to exploit for their own purposes, the discrepancies generated by ignorance of the rule and the apparent lack of command for handling by the generality of that system.
For example, I allow the medium to present some special cases: The months passed and no indictment was presented in cases such as criminal investigation by the retention of 400 kg of cocaine content in canned tuna in the port of La Guaira on April 13, 2000, by Dr. Beatriz Morales and Dr. Reinaldo Barazarte, Fiscal Second Judicial Circuit State Criminal Vargas and Assistant respectively and where were involved two members of troops who in turn gave money to a Captain, a Lieutenant Colonel and a Colonel. Also in the Criminal Investigation two containers holding company belonging to Lady Mary and a container company GRAN CHINA in the port of La Guaira on September 11, 1999, by Dr. Beatriz Morales and Dr . Benito Peinado Herman or the Criminal Investigation retention possibly from $ 521,000 and introduced drug hidden in air conditioners through the Port of La Guaira, by Dr. Beatriz Morales and Dr. Reinaldo Barazarte, Fiscal Second Judicial Circuit State Criminal Vargas and Assistant respectively. In the latter case, the money in dollars was delivered to its alleged owner Lucas Ivan Salazar Albornett Judge Third Judicial Circuit of State Dr. Luz Veronica Vargas Cañas, who came to accept and adjudicate a Constitutional Remedy of or should could not decide in a hearing not attended by Lucas Albornett and where their lawyers had no standing to act.
The situation was maddening. Incredibly, in just months, the justice process had already begun to erode whatever good intentions of the new government or rather, any officer of the new government whose objective was to attack the enemies of society.
was in those days when I began to express to my friends and relatives "I came to General and did not like ..." Mine, appears to be a lonely struggle as he had done all my life, just with the difference that my rank of General was that any action on my part would be viewed as personal matters on my subordinates.
As a corollary of my term, though internally he was convinced that the achievements were more The mistakes, I was transferred again to a penalty charge in accordance with the institutional tradition. This time, in September 2000 I was appointed as Director of the School of the National Guard, from the harbor, away from the airport, no more fighting with the Judiciary or the Public Ministry, no more discomfort General Belisario Landis, "pot" and not in danger. That was more important to some members of the High Command.
Atrás dejaba días que no me resultaron tan duros como era la creencia de mis adversarios institucionales, who sent me there to demoralize and to feel the rigors of being as they wanted, not to mention that the only thing that interested me was work. There I work at my ease and improve the support of my boss the conditions under which those operating the National Guard, improved medical service, the bedrooms of the troops, it radically changed the quality of food and conditions in canteens was organized and began to perform better the operative field, were attacked the shape of rampant corruption among the staff related to cattle rustling and extortion charges to fish and fur traders of slime and more importantly, at a higher rate of which had knowledge in the disciplinary unit was purified to it, apply corresponding penalties from arrest to the lower of the institution, and the transfers needed to prevent effective familiarization with the offenders in the area.
really was not so hard work and the area required a huge effort, but was being implemented more effectively than in the rest of the National Guard. He also left behind the memory of General Alcazar Weir, who hit me on one knee with his baton charged me for no reason of conspiracy and making trips to Caracas to meet with "people of Chavez." Well, it was something that did not know, I would have to get used to.
At Caracas, began to happen for my welcome big changes. The new president, applying the same remedy to apply Dr. Caldera, began to make radical changes under the pretext that some officers were preparing a coup to ignore the election results. But most important, was that he started to compensate the damages that the General Ostos Rivas, Pérez Rojas and Rodriguez Mayol had generated in the Force and also the professional integrity of many officers.
For example, Rodriguez Mayol Replacement named head of Regional Command No. 5 Brigadier General Carlos Rafael Alfonzo Martinez (Who chased ferociously) and ordered the return from Washington Brigadier General Germain Araque Rodolfo Varela, who was appointed Commander of the National Guard, Brigadier General Gerardo Briceno Garcia who was in his house was free appointed Inspector General of the Guard. The waters returned to normal and finally began to do justice.
days later, I was appointed Director of Intelligence of the National Guard, where he was on duty between March and July 1999. During this administration, to establish inter-agency coordination contacts, I met the Chief of Operations of the DISIP, Captain Ramon Rodriguez Chacin retired and we had a professional and very sporadic.
During the four months in office saw the rise of a cleansing activity inside the National Guard, in a good way, mostly acting on corruption more however, I noticed that on the troops was fast and effective but not on official . I attribute the fact that throughout the run, dealing with officials rather than respect was rather timid or weak and in the present circumstances continue to be. In many cases, the much criticized "poor" (expression applied to military personnel in order to obtain leniency and even forgiveness) operated over the serious errors and even crimes. Many who escaped down the "poor" received only light punishment and delays. Today, it has been recognized by the delay, go together with their classmates, and they did not even, because they are "revolutionary", a fact which gives them an advantage.
In April 1999, began the evaluation process for promotion to the rank of brigadier general in my class. As always, I went to the evidence that oversees the Permanent Board of Assessment (The only ones that show the truth about the physical fitness test, as the semester are subject to most cases the condition of the ward that the officer has invariably is 100 points and has not shot on target, one meter swim, completed the distance of the test or have 40 kilos overweight.) obtaining among the group of about thirty-five officers of the five perfect scores. On the other hand, my service marks placed me in the first place, thanks to the promotional behavior (Relating to earlier grades, issued in years in which the use of 100 points was restricted truly the best officers). The result was the easiest climb of my career, from the point of view of the stress of this process, this time, because with the new institutional circumstances gossip and stories were used with the same profusion as in the past.
accordingly came July and with it promotion, transfer and rotation of officers. The new commanding general was Maj. Gen. Gerardo Briceno Garcia and the Inspector General Maj. Gen. Francisco Belisario Landis. Immediately after my promotion I was appointed Head of Regional Command No. 5, having the honor to receive such by the newly promoted Major General Carlos Alfonzo Martinez Rafael. I immediately will lead to the hard work trying to overcome institutional as almost insurmountable, the neat General Alfonzo effective management. As mentioned above, the Regional Command No. 5 is one of the most active and problematic in Venezuela: Its jurisdiction, which covers approximately nine thousand eight hundred and eighty square kilometers comprising the states of Vargas, Miranda and the Federal District, is the seat of all branches of government and has the typical problems of any large American city, such as overcrowding, unemployment, poor public services, pollution and insecurity and personal assets. The unit then had eleven units detachment level (A detachment of the Guard is equivalent to a battalion of the army) and three in 1600 forty-three Enlisted National Guard, to serve approximately five million inhabitants. It was only eight prisons under its responsibility, running all institutional services, had control of the airport with the highest volume of travelers in the country, as well as the port through which entered the greater diversity of goods (in volume is only surpassed by Puerto Cabello) and used by as many importers.
Without going into details, the work that lay ahead was daunting, especially if taking into account the enormous responsibility that had been placed in my hands. The unit would have to change the image of corruption generated in the port area and the airport, prisons and highways, would reduce and possibly eliminate smuggling, would effectively combat the crime or otherwise, feel that he was not contributing to the change that the country needed, ie the conditions favor for my lifelong struggle to succeed, it would end in the most resounding failure. Perhaps the singer Juan Luis Guerra again write a song inspired by the National Guard, just like old times (in a time that this singer was traveling by land was detained by a National Guardsman who tried to blackmail him, so he wrote the song "civil Join me", which one verse said "... civil join me, the detachment, or solve from here, buy my silence and forget about me ...").
was there started tripping. Some subordinate officers began to move their influence to avoid being changed from where fed "the pot", which was merely the product of the collection of money in the port and airport to take to higher required it. In exercising the General Command Alfonzo, the pot was no address and was distributed among some of the colonels members of staff of the Regional Command, these officers should not only be unmasked but exemplary punishment and General Alfonzo had no time or opportunity to do so.
As for me lay a longer period of time, I decided to expose the operation of "the pot" and recipients, without neglecting other duties were many and exhausting.
Inexplicably, the support of the High Command of the institution began to decline. The staff rotation plan was not approved by the Personnel Division and instead began a decline in the number of officers, were transferred some of which had not been requested change and its replacement will not be sending anyone. The staff reduction came Official almost 50%. Disciplinary councils (administrative process for serious misconduct which applies to soldiers who commit serious offenses) resulted incurred before prompted the disciplinary low two hundred forty-five National Guard and will be applied so far only one hundred ninety-two .
Similarly, the Inspector General Francisco Belisario Landis, without any explanation or apparent reason, began a systematic harassment work, counting with the complicity of officials located in the port of La Guaira, who plotted to bring some media communication, information about my alleged business links with port users and importers regular freight and customs law violators that allegedly supported the transfers ordered by me were part of a personal vendetta of such persons. In the case of two officers, requested the transfer for me, if it occurred, but most important positions out of my discipline.
To make matters worse, just four months after the beginning of the management of the tragedy of La Guaira, which resulted in chaos in the state of Vargas and the presence of military units from other forces, security agencies and bodies civilians, which further complicated the situation especially in the port: Increased thefts, smuggling and became common the presence of military commissions and police "taking care" of procedures written in the functional area of \u200b\u200bthe National Guard or interfering with proceedings brought by members assigned to Regional Command No. 5. This is compounded by the complacency of open government procurators and judges of the district in favor of offenders, especially if they had links with government.
With the passage of time, I realized that in addition to the neuralgic area was only port of La Guaira and Maiquetia airport, but the operative question was not what interested the institutional High Command, was important not to embarrass his friends or friends of friends. In my relentless pursuit of support to overcome the obstacles that were bigger every day, I managed to catch the attention of Don Luis Miquilena and Manuel Quijada, who tried to help to solve the problems in the judiciary, however, that some judges were dismissed , continued a ruling in favor of offenders and others advanced in cases they had.
The main tool used for inaction was the utilization of the new Criminal Procedure Code, according to which there was the handling of such legal instrument to justify actions Prosecutors illegal both the Public Ministry and Judges of Control, Enforcement Judges and members of the Court of Appeals, who in collusion with private lawyers, as well as public defenders, court clerks and other employees of the judicial system, made themselves the task to exploit for their own purposes, the discrepancies generated by ignorance of the rule and the apparent lack of command for handling by the generality of that system.
For example, I allow the medium to present some special cases: The months passed and no indictment was presented in cases such as criminal investigation by the retention of 400 kg of cocaine content in canned tuna in the port of La Guaira on April 13, 2000, by Dr. Beatriz Morales and Dr. Reinaldo Barazarte, Fiscal Second Judicial Circuit State Criminal Vargas and Assistant respectively and where were involved two members of troops who in turn gave money to a Captain, a Lieutenant Colonel and a Colonel. Also in the Criminal Investigation two containers holding company belonging to Lady Mary and a container company GRAN CHINA in the port of La Guaira on September 11, 1999, by Dr. Beatriz Morales and Dr . Benito Peinado Herman or the Criminal Investigation retention possibly from $ 521,000 and introduced drug hidden in air conditioners through the Port of La Guaira, by Dr. Beatriz Morales and Dr. Reinaldo Barazarte, Fiscal Second Judicial Circuit State Criminal Vargas and Assistant respectively. In the latter case, the money in dollars was delivered to its alleged owner Lucas Ivan Salazar Albornett Judge Third Judicial Circuit of State Dr. Luz Veronica Vargas Cañas, who came to accept and adjudicate a Constitutional Remedy of or should could not decide in a hearing not attended by Lucas Albornett and where their lawyers had no standing to act.
The situation was maddening. Incredibly, in just months, the justice process had already begun to erode whatever good intentions of the new government or rather, any officer of the new government whose objective was to attack the enemies of society.
was in those days when I began to express to my friends and relatives "I came to General and did not like ..." Mine, appears to be a lonely struggle as he had done all my life, just with the difference that my rank of General was that any action on my part would be viewed as personal matters on my subordinates.
As a corollary of my term, though internally he was convinced that the achievements were more The mistakes, I was transferred again to a penalty charge in accordance with the institutional tradition. This time, in September 2000 I was appointed as Director of the School of the National Guard, from the harbor, away from the airport, no more fighting with the Judiciary or the Public Ministry, no more discomfort General Belisario Landis, "pot" and not in danger. That was more important to some members of the High Command.
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