Security & Strategic Review November 2009 (ISSN 1741-4202)

PARAGUAY | Coup plot denied, top brass purged. On 4 November President Fernando Lugo replaced all three service commanders with officers promoted to general rank only last year: General Bartolomé Ramón Pineda, formerly commander of military institutes, took over command of the army from General Juan Óscar Velázquez; General Hugo Gilberto Aranda, formerly chief of his service's general staff, took over from General Darí­o Dávalos as commander of the air force; and Admiral Emérito Orué, formerly commander of the marine corps, replaced Admiral Claudelino Recalde as commander of the navy.

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