After opening the way for the appointment of a military man as the main position to lead the reconstruction of the Valencian territory destroyed by DANA on October 29, by electing José Gan Pampols as vice-president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón deepens this path by appointing as number two strongman for this task another soldier, Venancio Aguado de Diego.
Aguado de Diego, a reservist since March 2020, is a brigadier general of the army and will occupy the regional secretariat of the office of the vice president for economic and social recovery of the Generalitat Valenciana. Born in 1961, he belongs to Promotion XL of the General Military Academy, he was promoted to infantry lieutenant in July 1985. He graduated from command of mountain troops and served in different units of this specialty in Jaca, San Sebastian and Pamplona.
After passing the staff course and becoming a commander, he served at the headquarters of the mountain brigade. In 2005, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the operations division of the Army General Staff, then appointed chief of staff of the mountain hunter brigade.
After passing through the General Staff of the Light Forces, he was promoted to colonel in 2012, commanding the 45th Garellano Regiment in Biscay and chief of staff of the Armed Forces Intelligence Center. In 2016, he was appointed brigadier general and took command of the “Canarias” operational brigade.
He was deployed to NATO missions in Kosovo, as Chief of Operations of 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 Herménégille, the Order of Merit of the Lebanese Republic and eight Crosses of Merit Military, Cross of Merit of the Civil Guard and Cross of Police Merit.
