List of Guatemalan Defense Ministers

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Appointed / assumed office Surname Remarks in the government of Leave post
1944 Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán Minister of War, Minister of Defense from 1945 Juan Federico Ponce Vaidez 1951
1945 Francisco Javier Arana Colonel Commander in Chief of the Guatemalan Armed Forces . Juan José Arévalo 1949
1949 Carlos Paz Tejada Colonel Commander in Chief of the Guatemalan Armed Forces . (* December 17, 1917 in Guatemala City, † October 30, 2006 in Mexico City) 1949
1954 José Ángel Sánchez Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas 1954
1955 Enrique Close de León Colonel 1957
1957 Juan Francisco Oliva 1957
March 3, 1958 Guillermo Flores Avendaño Colonel José Miguel Ramón Ydigoras Fuentes 1958
1960 Rubén González Siguí 1960
1960 Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia Colonel March 30, 1963
July 1, 1966 Rafael Arriaga Bosque Colonel Julio César Méndez Montenegro March 26, 1968
March 28, 1968 Rolando Chinchilla Aguilar 19 Feb 1969
19 Feb 1969 Doroteo Reyes Santa Cruz general Apr 1, 1970
June 1970 Leonel Vassaux Martínez Jan. 1, 1972
Jan. 1, 1972 Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García general Carlos Arana Osorio 1974
1974 Fausto David Rubio Coronado general Apr 1, 1975
July 1, 1975 Fernando Romeo Lucas García general Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García Jan. 1, 1977
Feb. 1, 1977 Otto Guillermo Spiegeler Noriega general Jan 15, 1980
Jan 15, 1980 Ángel Aníbal Guevara general Fernando Romeo Lucas García Aug 9, 1981
1981 Luís René Mendoza Palomo general 1981
1981 Efraín Ríos Montt general 1982
Sep 1 1982 Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores general Efraín Ríos Montt Aug 15, 1985
Aug 8, 1985 unoccupied Jan. 14, 1986
Jan. 14, 1986 Jaime Hernández Méndez general Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo Jan. 31, 1987
Jan. 31, 1987 Héctor Alejandro Gramajo general May 21, 1990
May 21, 1990 Juán Leonel Bolaños Chavez general 5th Sep 1990
Jan. 14, 1991 Luis Enrique Mendoza García general Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias Dec 13, 1991
Dec 13, 1991 José Domingo García Samayoa general June 7, 1993
June 7, 1993 Jorge Roberto Perussina Rivera general Ramiro de León Carpio June 28, 1993
July 1, 1993 Mario René Enríquez Morales general Oct 9, 1995
Oct 9, 1995 Marco Antonio González Taracena general Jan. 13, 1996
Jan. 14, 1996 Julio Arnoldo Balconi Turcios general Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen 3rd July 1997
3rd July 1997 Héctor Mario Barrios Celada general June 30, 1999
June 30, 1999 Marco Tulio Espinoza general Jan. 14, 2000
Jan. 18, 2000 Juan de Dios Estrada Velásquez Colonel Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera Jan. 9, 2001
Jan. 9, 2001 Eduardo Arévalo Lacs general Dec 10, 2001
Dec 10, 2001 Leonel Méndez Estrada general Aug 26, 2002
Aug 16, 2002 Robin Malconi Moran Muñoz Jan. 14, 2004
Jan. 14, 2004 César Augusto Méndez Pinelo general Óscar Berger Perdomo Jan. 7, 2005
Jan. 7, 2005 Carlos Humberto Aldana Villanueva
Mayor Carlos Humberto Aldana Villanueva
 Nov 2, 2005
Nov 2, 2005 Francisco Bermúdez Amado
Brigadier General Francisco Bermúdez Amado
 Dec 29, 2006
Dec 29, 2006 Ronaldo Cecilio Leiva
Marco Tulio García Franco
 Jan. 14, 2008
Jan. 14, 2008 Marco Tulio García Franco general Álvaro Colom Caballeros Dec 21, 2008
Dec 21, 2008 Abraham Valenzuela Gonzalez general Sep 1 2011
Sep 1 2011 Juan Jose Ruiz Morales general Jan. 14, 2012
Jan. 14, 2012 Ulises Noe Anzueto Girón general Otto Pérez Molina July 16, 2013
July 16, 2013 Manuel Augusto López Ambrosio general July 16, 2015
July 16, 2015 Williams Mansilla Brigadier General Otto Pérez Molina, Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, Jimmy Morales Oct. 1, 2017
Oct. 1, 2017 Luis Miguel Ralda Moreno Brigadier General Jimmy Morales

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carlos Figueroa Ibarra: Ha muerto Carlos Paz Tejada. In: albedrio.org. October 31, 2006, accessed August 12, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Tim Golden: Guatemala's New Chief Ousts Some Top Officers . In: The New York Times . June 8, 1993, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com ).
  3. ↑ Arthur Melville: Guatemala's De Leon. In: latimes.com. Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1993, accessed August 12, 2019 .