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The Presidency of the Republic confirmed this morning the appointment of the Army Major General, Javier Eduardo Iturriaga Del Campo, as the new Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (EMCO), one of the key positions of National Defense.
Iturriaga was head of the National Defense in the Metropolitan Region during the social outbreak after October 18, a position in which he stood out for lowering the bellicose tone of the statements that La Moneda made in the context of social revolt.
In fact, the day after President Piñera dispatched the phrase “we are at war against a powerful enemy”, General Iturriaga was consulted about it and replied that “I am a happy man, the truth is that I am not at war with nobody “, a phrase that did not go down well in La Moneda.
During his tenure as head of National Defense, Iturriaga tried to calm down in a context of social crisis, even appealing to the media to “spread tranquility to the population, go to work, carry out normal activities.”
After the end of the state of emergency, the officer resumed his work as Commander of Education and Doctrine of the Army in La Reina, which he continues to do today.
His work during the outbreak was well evaluated in the Government. “He fulfilled what is expected of a military man. He did it with sobriety, with command, with closeness to his men and with the conviction that his mission was to return the country to normality. That was absolutely accomplished,” he said at the time. to Third the then Minister of Defense, Alberto Espina.
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General Iturriaga was born on October 26, 1965, he is married and has four children. He entered the Military School in 1980, and graduated with the rank of Ensign in the Infantry Weapon on January 1, 1984.
During his military career, he has served as a Staff Officer, Infantry Weapon, Military Academy Professor, in addition to having the specialties of Command and Paratrooper. In January 2019, he was promoted to the rank of Major General serving, to date, as the Commander of Education and Doctrine of the Army.
Iturriaga will succeed the Vice Admiral of the Navy Rodrigo Álvarez in command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a permanent advisory structure of the Ministry of National Defense on matters related to the preparation and joint employment of the Armed Forces, whose functions include advising in strategic management in constitutional states of exception and in particular, in cases of external war or international crisis that affects the foreign security of the Republic.
Meanwhile, as Deputy Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Brigadier General Jean Pierre Desgroux will take over, and Rear Admiral Yerko Marcic Conley was appointed as Commander of the Northern Joint Command.
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