The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, promoted three new brigadier generals in the Nicaraguan Army, within the framework of the 43rd anniversary of the constitution of the Armed Forces, the Government reported on Saturday, September 3.
The three soldiers promoted to brigadier generals are Colonels Octavio José Sanabria Monjarretz and Manuel Geovanni Guevara Rocha, as well as Colonel Aviator Pilot Efrén Alejandro Marín Serrano.
President Ortega, accompanied by the commander in chief of the Nicaraguan Army, Army General Julio César Avilés, imposed the rank of brigadier general on the three soldiers during a ceremony held on September 2, according to the information.
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Sanabria Monjarretz is the director of the General Benjamín Zeledón Rodríguez Higher School of Staff, in charge of the Army’s curricular and doctrinal training. He was previously head of the General Command Post “General de Division Carlos Manuel Salgado”.
Guevara Rocha is the director of the Superior Center for Military Studies “Division General José Dolores Estrada Vado”. He previously served as head of the Foreign and Public Relations Directorate and head of the Center for Military History.
Marín Serrano is the head of the Nicaraguan Army Air Force. Before he was chief of staff of the Nicaraguan Air Force.
For his part, General Avilés imposed military ranks on 20 new colonels.
Likewise, 35 lieutenant colonels, 33 majors, 71 captains and 104 first lieutenants, 25 of them women, were promoted to the next higher rank.
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The Nicaraguan armed forces were born on September 2, 1979, replacing the Somoza National Guard, with the name of the Sandinista Popular Army, and as of 1994 they were renamed the Nicaraguan Army.
