page_title: General-in-chief
section_title: Venezuela
hierarchical_section_title: General-in-chief / Venezuela
caption_attribution_description: Español: Oficialidad del EJB y la GNB
context_page_description: General in Chief has been a military rank or title in various armed forces around the world.
context_section_description: Since the age of the independence war in Venezuela, the most senior officer is designated as general-in-chief (general en jefe). From its creation, the rank was represented by three suns (equivalent to three-star rank), but with the creation in 2008 of the rank of major general, four suns (equivalent to four-star rank) are used.
  From the 1940s until 2001 the rank was not used. In 2001 Divisional General Lucas Rincon Romero was promoted to general-in-chief. He was the first-ever active officer to be promoted after six decades.
  Since 2001, 18 officers have been promoted to this rank or equivalent (13 from the Army including 3 posthumously, 1 from the Air Force, also posthumously, 2 from the Navy, 1 other naval recipient having been promoted to Admiral plus 1 posthumously):
caption: General en Jefe insignia
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