 In September 2018, he was punished for public statements in which he criticized the approval of a reform of the pension system of the military.This sanction was the toughest imposed on a general since the end of the dictatorship in 1985.In March 2019, the decision of the court of honor created in the armed forces to analyze the human rights violations of retired military personnel Jorge "Pajarito" Silveira Quesada, José Nino Gavazzo and Luis Alfredo Maurente Mata committed during the dictatorship was made public.