The Brigadier General of the Army, Venancio Aguado de Diegowill occupy the Autonomous Secretariat of the cabinet of the Vice Presidency for the Economic and Social Recovery of the Valencian Community, as announced by the Generalitat this Wednesday in an official statement.
Aguado de Diego, who went into reserve in March 2020, will join the department headed by Army Lieutenant General, Francisco José Gan Pampolsin charge of coordinating the actions of the Consell for the reconstruction of the areas of the province of Valencia affected by the flood of October 29.
Gan Pampols, with plenty of experience in peace missions, has started his work at the head of the department that will seek the repair of the affected areas by reinforcing his team with a new soldier in the reserve who will exercise a key role in the coordination of all the teams that will form the new vice presidency.
Venancio Aguado was born in 1961 and belongs to the XL Promotion of the General Military Academybeing promoted to the position of infantry lieutenant in July 1985. He graduated from the Mountain Troops Command and served in different units of this specialty in Jaca, San Sebastián and Pamplona.
Having passed the General Staff course and in the position of commander, he serves 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 Vizcaya and the Chief of Staff of the Intelligence Center of the Armed Forces. In 2016 he was appointed Brigadier General, assuming command of the Operational Brigade ‘Canarias’.
He has been deployed on NATO missions in Kosovoas 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.
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