Colonel Florencio 'Chito' Flores Aguilar (c. 1931 – 28 March 2020) was a
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
nian army officer.
Flores served as Commander of
Panamanian National Guard
The Panamanian Public Forces ( es, Fuerza Pública de la República de Panamá) are the national security forces of Panama. Panama is the second country in Latin America (the other being Costa Rica) to permanently abolish standing armies, with Pa ...
following the death of General
Omar Torrijos
Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981) was the Commander of the Panamanian National Guard and military leader of Panama from 1968 to his death in 1981. Torrijos was never officially the president of Panama, ...
on 31 July 1981. Colonel Flores assumed command of the Panamanian military, but unlike his predecessor or his successors, he did not exercise his power as a military leader of Panama. He was displaced in March 1982 by Colonel
Rubén Darío Paredes
Rubén Darío Paredes del Río (born 11 August 1933) is a Panamanian army officer who was the military ruler of Panama from 1982 to 1983.
Colonel Paredes came to power after the displacement of Colonel Florencio Flores, due to the instability o ...
.
Panama: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
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References
1930s births
2020 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Panamanian people of Spanish descent
Panamanian military commanders
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