National Guard is over Finally, it has been destroyed by Hugo Chavez. Although you continue to receive the National Guard presence on the streets and on the national scene, which is seeing is only the shell Institution vacuum from the National Armed Forces, more useful for the country since the early twentieth century. Indeed, the December 17, 1935, the death of the General Juan Vicente Gómez, he succeeds his Minister of War and Navy, Major General Eleazar López Contreras, who embarked on the establishment of the rule of law, freedoms public. The new government, no police have well-structured and disciplined, was outlined as a priority objective to achieve the organization of a national police trained and equipped to maintain order throughout the country, and to collaborate with judges in the preparation of criminal repression. Although there is evidence of the existence of a National Guard at various times for the nineteenth century, the genesis of current corresponds to 1936 when he began to prepare the National Security Service, to make his debut institutions through Executive Order No. 19320 of August 4, 1937, according to two ministries: War and Navy, in organization, armament, military training and discipline and Home Affairs in terms of its direction and employment.
The Law of National Security Service of July 25, 1938, places the National Guard within the structure of the Venezuelan army with the character same service. Decree Law No. 349 of 22 June 1946 granted the nature of Force by the name of Armed Forces of Cooperation. The Constitution of Ministers of 30 December 1950 the split with the double unit still maintained since its inception and has the only branch of the Armed Forces of Cooperation of the Ministry of Defence together with the Armed Forces. The Decree Law No. 288 of June 27, and 439 of November 21, 1958, give full and irrefutably the nature of Force member of the National Armed Forces, with the Army, Navy, and Aviation. For its part, the National Constitution of 23 January 1961, defining more clearly the legal framework of the National Guard into the national armed forces accordingly following the guidelines of the decrees mentioned above and confirming the conception of a comprehensive institution and raising the constitutional status as speech. Organic Law of Central Administration in the ordinal 16 of Item No. 27 provides the tasks that the National Guard he has held since its creation (Ward border, Forestry, control of liquor, hunting and fishing, special services for transportation, security and prison services of national interest), formalizing the obligation of cooperation of the Ministry of Defence with other executive offices, incontrovertible law giving the functioning of the institution.
Another major milestone in the history of the institution is marked by the creation of the Social Security Law of the Armed Forces of July 1, 1977, to settle in an equal and equally, without discrimination or differential ratings between staff National Armed Forces, the "social security system staff of officers, NCO Professional Career, reinstatement and National Guards" and finally, through the Law of Partial Amendment to the Organic Law of National Armed Forces September 26, 1983, the Venezuelan State, setting the reorganization of Defence sector, states that "The National Armed Forces are composed of the Land Forces (Army), Naval Forces (Navy), Air Force (Aviation) and the Armed Forces of Cooperation (National Guard)", making it a component of the National Armed Forces.
The evolution of the National Guard, as well as new and more complex responsibilities, he also brought the social evils within it, so some sectors, with clear cases of corruption of some of its members, began threatening to generalize institutional existence of the Force. In the other components, mainly in the Army, frequently observed institutional contempt, leading to component labeling him as corrupt, going as far as that among the immediate steps to implement immediately after the coup attempts in 1992, was the elimination of the National Guard component which was not "invited" to join it, with very few exceptions of some senior and junior.
The hate Hugo Chavez and some officers, particularly the Army, climbed much higher levels as this is the only component that was not raised a single unit or part of the coup and who played an important role because the few units that could be taken by the rebels, responded and took them as prisoners and ended up guaranteeing their safety. It is possible that antagonism of Chavez, is the cause for which they have used in the missions ignoble Venezuelans reject both.
However, the main form of destruction of the institution comes from his heart under the tutelage of the Presidency: An example, basic principle for the discipline in the armed forces has been violated, trampled and ruinmente used to demoralize, corrupt and degrade to its members. So we need their commanding general, cowards have given the institution a robbery and they have become office for his gangster connections with drug traffickers, smugglers and white collar criminals. The most instructive example is the drug dealer Walid Makled Garcia, who in their statements from a Colombian jail, officers mentioned, the vast majority are National Guard, Acosta Carles, Fernandez Reverol, Motta Domínguez and most importantly Moreover, it is that the list of those not mentioned to the press, but if other branches, is quite long, because it includes several CR2 Regional Commanders, Members of Staff and Detachment Commanders and Drug Directorate and Directorate of National Shelter.
Demoralization spreads among its members who slowly but inexorably seeking its low of the Institution. During the promotion process, and not charged to the General Body of those who profit from illegal activities like drug trafficking, stolen vehicles, arms trafficking, kidnapping and extortion of merchants, importers and carriers, but also " counter-revolutionaries ", the mere mention, gets rid of the promotion lists at once, while the 'angels of the revolution" accelerate its work "extra-institutional" to get the resources to defray the celebration of their promotion and recognition of their "merits" ill cattle.
The prestige of the National Guard has become so great that officials even survive over the years, has instructed his family to the death, are buried in civilian clothes and do not accept in their burial crowns of the National Guard or honors during the burial ceremony.
Finally, a simple detail. If you go to the website
http://www.guardia.mil.ve , you will find a page dilapidated, outdated, broken or disconnected with links, old content, not a sign of activity within it, and so on. For example, today November 07, still has in press, the congratulations of Hugo Chávez for their 73 anniversary of more than 3 months. In relevant facts, the simple burning of 53 kilos of narcotics in one of the sixty-something that has the force detachments. In news of interest, highlights the rescue of a kidnapped citizen, a fact which was publicized by the Director of CICPC without mentioning at all the National Guard, meanwhile, the press mentioned the killing of a hostage while negotiating payment of extortion and to keep the appointment for the delivery of money, met CICPC Group National Guard Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping, who were unable to explain why they were there and not criminals. More illustrative still, "news of institutional interest, "the reminder that all units must do general maintenance of their facilities on Friday and Saturday of organic weapons, as well as notification of the termination of the trust agreement with a bank that is not mentioned, to pass to January from the Bank of Venezuela or the former - non-commissioned officers should continue canceling the contribution of non-commissioned officers to the club until further notice.
I said, the old National Guard, is just how the fund was destroyed by the "pretty revolution."
