José Atilio Benítez Parada (born June 21, 1958) is a

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and former Minister of Defense of El Salvador. In 1992 he was

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and

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. In the second half of 2007 he was artillery colonel and commander of

Cuscatlán Battalion The Cuscatlán Battalion () was a military unit of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES) that participated in the Iraq War from 2003 to 2009. The Cuscatlán Battalion served under the Polish-led Multinational Division Central-South (MN–DCS) ...

IX in Building 1 Camp Delta, in

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. In 2009 he was Inspector of the

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. On

Mauricio Funes Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (18 October 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 79th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of t ...

named David Victoriano Munguía Payés as

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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

. From to he was ambassador in

. Since , he has served as ambassador in

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with accreditation in

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and

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1958 births Living people Ambassadors of El Salvador to Germany Ambassadors of El Salvador to Spain Ambassadors of El Salvador to Poland Ambassadors of El Salvador to the Czech republic Ambassadors of El Salvador to Turkey Defence ministers of El Salvador {{ElSalvador-politician-stub