Ricardo Cornelio Huerta

Richard Cornell
Eternal General Secretary of Rakeo
Posthumous
Assumed office 19 May 1980
General Secretary of Rakeo
In office 8 November 1960 – 2 September 1974
Personal details
Born	Richard Cornell (1918-04-05)5 April 1918 Olino, Rakeo
Died	2 March 1980(1980-03-02) (aged 61)
Nationality	Rakeoian
Occupation	Military officer
Profession	Rakeoian Military
Military service
Allegiance	Rakeo
Years of service	1940–1980
Rank	Modified Indonesian General Ensigina Eternal General Secretary
Battles/wars	Rakeoian Civil War

Richard Cornell (5 April 1918 – 2 March 1980) was a Rakeoian politician and military officer.

Early life

Richard Cornell was born in Olino in 1914. Having done well on his entry exams, and being born into a rich family, he began attending military academy at age 16. He became a lieutenant in the rapidly assembled Rakeo Expeditionary Support Force, in 1938.

Military career

From the beginning of his military service, Cornell leveraged his unwavering loyalty to his superiors to secure promotions, allowing him to dodge the reputation of treasonous activities associated with the Olino garrison.

Recognizing his political astuteness, high command assigned him to work as an envoy to coordinate with the Romerists in Creeperopolis. But when he was recalled alongside the rest of the army to put down the revolts breaking out around the country, he joined the Officers’ Mutiny.

He was tasked by General Mateo Jozefo to act as a military ambassador to community militias that had risen up throughout the Menora of Olino, where he excelled, bringing up an additional 30,000 soldiers, as well as creating an anti-partisan force that quickly put down Republican infiltration and sabotage efforts.

Career as General Secretary

After de-facto leader Mateo Jozefo was killed in the 1960 Grand Station bombing, Cornell created a new position for himself as General Secretary for the Stratocratic Authority, making himself the sole executive power in the country.

Almost immediately, he embarked on some of the most brutal human rights abuses in Rakeoian history. Significant portions of Petra (home of a founder of Red Eagle) were converted into segregated zones for those deemed unloyal, who were selected as forced government labor for public works. Later, the 1960 Removal Act began active deportations of people who could not prove pan-surian ancestry.

As the economy continued to faltered under strict isolationist policies instituted by his predecessor, Cornell established a number of youth groups to target his political opponents in civil society as well as government. The largest of these groups, “The League for a United and Prosperous Rakeo” commanded over 8000 members. Cornellist militias were designated as a vanguard against perversions of culture, leftism, and capitalist internationalism.

The extreme behavior of the General Secretary made a number of enemies, who, in 1974, secretly deposed him in an autogolpe. Cornel was removed from office and put into house arrest until his reported death from natural causes in 1980.

Soon after his death, Richard Cornell was declared Eternal General Secretary, a spiritual position.