José Atilio Benítez Parada (born June 21, 1958) is
Salvadoran General,
ambassador
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...
and former
Minister of Defense of El Salvador.
* In 1992 he was
Military attaché
A military attaché is a military expert who is attached to a diplomatic mission, often an embassy. This type of attaché post is normally filled by a high-ranking military officer, who retains a commission while serving with an embassy. Opport ...
in
Madrid,
Bonn,
Paris and
London.
* In the second half of 2007 he was artillery colonel and commander of Cuscatlan IX in Building 1 Camp Delta, in
Wasit, Iraq.
* In 2009 he was Inspector of the
Armed Forces of El Salvador.
*On
Mauricio Funes
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (born 18 October 1959) is a Salvadoran politician and former journalist who served as President of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 Salvadoran presidential election, 2009 presidential election as ...
named
David Victoriano Munguía Payés as
Minister of National Defense and José Atilio Benitez Parada as deputy defense minister.
* From to 2013 José Atilio Benítez Parada was Minister of Defense of El Salvador in the cabinet of
Mauricio Funes
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (born 18 October 1959) is a Salvadoran politician and former journalist who served as President of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 Salvadoran presidential election, 2009 presidential election as ...
.
* From to he was ambassador in
Madrid.
*Since he is accredited as ambassador in
Berlin with coaccredición in
Warsaw,
Prague and
Ankara.
[http://www.laprensagrafica.com/2016/06/04/el-caso-que-dio-origen-a-la-investigacion-contra-el-general-benite]
http://www.elfaro.net/es/201606/el_salvador/18694/Fiscal%C3%ADa-acusa-a-exministro-de-Defensa-Atilio-Ben%C3%ADtez-por-tr%C3%A1fico-de-armas.ht
http://102nueve.com/noticia/nacional/armas-que-habria-traficado-atilio-benitez-llegaron-a-manos-de-funcionarios
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References
1958 births
Living people
Ambassadors of El Salvador to Germany
Ambassadors of El Salvador to Spain
Defence ministers of El Salvador
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