Five months after the plane crash on June 3, 2025, where the family of Major General (Av) José Tremont was traveling, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Fanb) finally recognized the discovery of remains of the officer’s assistantThird Sergeant Major Rafael José Guedez González.
However, the way the delivery was handled has unleashed deep indignation and skepticism among relatives, who They questioned the veracity and the military treatment receivedaccording to a report by journalist Sebastiana Barráez published by the media Argentinean Infobae.
Rafael José Guedez González, a young man from Lara described as part of the circle of trust of the commander of Aerospace Defense (CODAI), MG José Tremontand who was even his escort, was the only one of the plane’s occupants whose name was not officially mentioned in the initial tragedy. The attendant contacted his parents before the flightinforming them of a mission to Margarita Island.
The delivery of the young man’s body was described as “cold and formal” and completely unusual: a sealed urn, guarded by a large number of soldiers and with content limited to “some viscera”, supposedly identified through a DNA test.
A family member recounted the outrage to Infobae for an act they considered extremely “rude”. “They even charged for DNA tests, because the FANB was incapable of doing so. Have you seen such rudeness? “Among the family we had to make a collection to pay for the DNA.”
Distrust deepens with direct questions about the supposed evidence: “Is it credible that the viscera lasted five months at sea? How can we give truth to that?” The relative summed up his pain and helplessness: “Giving the mother some pieces of intestines from five months ago; that is a mockery.”
Military harassment and surveillance
According to the review of Infobae, The family’s indignation was not limited to the result of the identification. The FANB deployed an operation extreme surveillance during the wake and burial process, hindering family mourning.
“They arrived with what they delivered, a sealed urn, with a caravan of officials in Codai vehicles and soldiers from the National Guard; “It was an army of people guarding both the wake room and the burial.”they reported.
In a moment of maximum tension, Rafael’s sister, who “exploded with indignation” for not being sure that the body in the coffin was her brother, received a rude response from a CODAI officer: “Here on my cell phone I have photos of the corpse all destroyed and if you want I can show them to you”photos that he never exhibited.
Despite the military honors paid to him in the cemetery, the family still hopes that, in the midst of the “opacity that covers many cases in today’s Venezuela,” the young sergeant is alive and that at some point “I came home with that beautiful smile, full of vitality.”
General Tremont informed the parents that he was in the same situation, regretting the death of Rafael, whom he “considered like a son,” but unable to offer an answer about his own missing wife and daughter.
