 In 1996 he joined a delegation of the Military Institute of Higher Studies (IMES) where he received instruction in the United States, he returned in 2010, as a Military Attaché attached to the Uruguayan Embassy in that country and as an Advisor to the Inter-American College defense.He received the rank of lieutenant colonel and colonel in 1999 and 2003 respectively and was promoted to general in 2011.In February 2015 he was promoted to the position of commander-in-chief of the army.