List of Salvadoran Defense Ministers

This is the list of Salvadoran Defense Ministers .

Appointed	Defense Minister	Remarks	in the government of	Term expires
1852	Ignacio Gomez		Francisco Dueñas Díaz	1853
March 1, 1903	Tomás Regalado		Pedro José Escalón	Feb. 28, 1907
March 1, 1911	José María Peralta Lagos	Envoy in Madrid	Manuel Enrique Araujo	Feb 9, 1913
Feb 9, 1913	Alfonso Quinónes Molina		Carlos Meléndez	29 Aug 1914
22 Sep 1914		Pío Romero Bosque
March 1, 1915	Luis Alonso Baraona		Carlos Meléndez	Oct 17, 1915
Oct 17, 1915	Enrique Cordova			July 2, 1917
29 Sep 1919	Pío Romero Bosque		Jorge Meléndez
1923			Alfonso Quinónes Molina	1927
Aug 17, 1931	Maximiliano Hernández Martínez		Arturo Araujo
Sep 7 1935	Andrés Ignacio Menéndez		Maximiliano Hernández Martínez	Aug 27, 1937
1955	Marco Antonio Molina		Óscar Osorio Hernández
July 1962	Marco Aurelio Zacapa		Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Cea
1968	Fidel Torres Hernández	(Born November 18, 1917 in Ilobasco ; † August 21, 2007 in San Salvador ) Son of Fidelina Hernández and Luis Torres, Organización Democrática Nacionalista , football war	Fidel Sánchez Hernández	July 1, 1972
July 1, 1972	Carlos Humberto Romero	Carlos Humberto Romero ascendió al grado de General, renunció al cargo de Ministro de Defensa y de Seguridad Pública para participar activamente en política	Arturo Armando Molina	July 19, 1977
July 19, 1977	Federico Castillo Yanes		Carlos Humberto Romero	Oct 15, 1979
Oct 15, 1979	José Guillermo García		Junta Revolucionaria de Gobiern	May 1982
1983	en: Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova	(* 1937)	Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja	1988
July 1989	Rafael Humberto Larios López		Alfredo Cristiani Burkard	Aug 1990
Aug 1990	René Emilio Ponce			July 1993
1993	Humberto Corado Figueroa			1995
2000	Juan Antonio Martínez Varela	1989: Ministro de la Presidencia, 1990: Minister of the Interior, from June 30, 1993 Commander of the Air Force, El País , letter from I. Ellacurias, published on November 17, 1989, to the Minister Juan Antonio Martínez Varela, Head of the Presidential Office.	Francisco Flores Perez	June 18, 2004
June 18, 2004	Otto Alejandro Romero Orellana		Antonio Saca	2007
2007	Jorge Alberto Molina Contreras	Gabinete de Gobierno de Elías Antonio Saca son of Arturo Armando Molina		2009
May 31, 2009	David Victoriano Munguía Payés		Mauricio Funes	Nov 23, 2011
Nov 23, 2011	José Atilio Benítez Parada	Ambassador to Madrid		Oct 8, 2013
15th July 2013	David Victoriano Munguía Payés

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Romero Bosque (PDF)
2. ↑ Enrique Córdova (PDF)
3. ↑ Pío Romero Bosque (PDF)
4. ↑ Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (PDF)
5. ↑ Andrés Ignacio Menéndez (PDF) diariooficial.gob.sv (PDF)
6. ↑ Marco Aurelio Zacapa ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Fidel Torres elsalvador.com
8. ↑ Federico Castillo Yanes ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
10. ↑ Rafael Humberto Larios López ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Juan Antonio Martínez Varela
12. ^ Otto Alejandro Romero Orellana
13. ↑ José Atilio Benítez Parada (PDF)
14. ↑ Philip Williams, Knut Walter: Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy . P. 138, Table Officers holding Key Positions (assignment of government cabinet to Tanda)