Hernán Cortés Hernández, the new interim commander of the National Guard

Hernán Cortés has military training and education in Public Administration. He has three master’s degrees: one in Military Administration for National Security and Defense at the National Defense College, another in Management Skills, at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Americas, and one more in Public Administration at the Center for Higher Education Studies. Address.

He has also taken five courses and two seminars ranging from Officer Training at the Heroic Military College; of Command and General Staff at the Higher War School; Protection of Officials and Urban Combat; of Human Rights in support of the Mérida Initiative; of Training in Intervention and Protection Techniques of the French National Gendarmerie and one more on Synthetic Drugs by the Department of Public Security of the Ministry of the Interior of the Italian Republic.

He has also held various positions: as deputy chief of staff of the Third Special Forces Brigade, Ixcotel, Oaxaca; He has also been chief of staff of the second Special Forces Brigade, Tijuana, Baja California; head of the Counterintelligence Subsection; Chief of Staff of the Special Forces Corps, Temamatla, State of Mexico; Administrative and Logistics Deputy Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the National Defense in Mexico City.

Likewise, he has been decorated six times: for perseverance in First Class, for 40 years of uninterrupted service; for Second Class Technical merit, for his work “Artillery Topography Program for personal computers”; for first-class faculty merit in addition to having obtained first place in the Master’s Degree in Military Administration for National Security and Defense.

Sedena pointed out that with this appointment there is certainty for the continuity, strengthening and consolidation of this force created to build peace and guarantee the security of Mexicans.