������������������������������������������������������ CURRICULUM VITAE OF THE AUTHOR Names: V�ctor Jos� Fern�ndez Bol�var Grade: Brigadier General (Retired) Force: Venezuelan Army Arm: Engineering Date and Place of Birth: December 23, 1923, San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela. Positions held: Second Lieutenant, Platoon Commander of the Battalion of the Military School of Venezuela. Captain, Third Interim Commander of the Francisco Avenda�o No 1 Battalion. Captain, Chief of the Department of Statistics and Official Real Estate Registry of the of Military Engineering Service of the Ministry of Defense.� Captain, Chief of the Engineering Section of the Infantry School.� Major, Second Director of the School of Military Engineering (in charge of the Direction). Lieutenant Colonel, Director Founder of the School of Military Engineering.� Colonel, Chief of the Department of Command Projects, Army School. Brigadier General, Chief of Command Staff, Army School.��� Military Attach� to the Venezuelan Embassy in Madrid, Spain.� President of the Permanent Commission of Pre-mobilization and Mobilization of the National Armed Forces.� Commissions: Chief of the Military Engineering Mission visiting the Republic of Peru.� Chief of the Study Commission in the Army of the National Defense Law Project.� Member of the Delegation for the inauguration of the Statue of the Liberator, Sim�n Bol�var, in Madrid, Spain. Civilian Studies: Grammar School: Colegio Teresa Hurtado. Instituto San Fernando, San Fernando de Apure. Escuela Ram�n Isidro Montes and Rep�blica del Ecuador, Caracas. High School: Liceo Ferm�n Toro, Caracas. Military Studies: Military School of Venezuela, Caracas. XIV Aptitude Course for promotion to Chief of Engineers in the Engineering Application School of the Spanish Army (Combat and Construction). Military Staff School of Paris, France, 23rd Graduating Class.� Superior School of War in Paris, 76th Graduating Class. Higher Inter-Force Course in Paris, 15th Session.� Professorship: Held a Chair and gave Conferences in the following Armed Forces School: � Military Academy of Venezuela. � Superior Army School. � Navy War School.