Attorney General of El Salvador
According to its organic law, the Attorney General of the Republic of El Salvador is a permanent and independent institution that is part of the Public Ministry, and possesses legal personality and administrative autonomy.[1]
The Attorney General's mission is "to promote and assist with gender equity the defense of the family, the people and interests of minors, the disabled and the elderly, grant legal assistance, preventive psychosocial care and mediation and conciliation services, judicially and extrajudicially represent people, especially those with few economic resources in defense of individual freedom, labor rights, family and real and personal rights." The Attorney General is elected by the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador for a period of three years (with the possibility of being re-election).[2]
List of attorneys general
| Doctor Patrocinio Guzmán Trigueros | Attorney General of the Republic (Feb 1940-Jul 1940) |
| Doctor José Lázaro Arévalo Vasconcelos | Attorney General of the Republic (Oct 1940-May 1944) |
| Doctor Francisco Guillermo Pérez | Attorney General of the Republic (May 1944-Oct 1944) |
| Doctor Manuel Humberto Rivera | Attorney General of the Republic (Oct 1944-May 1945) |
| Doctor Alberto Gómez Zarate | Attorney General of the Republic (May 1945-Dec 1948) |
| Doctor Julio Eduardo Jiménez Castillo | Attorney General of the Republic (Dec 1948-Oct1950) |
| Doctor Francisco Guillermo Pérez | Attorney General of the Republic (Oct 1950-Jan 1951) |
| Doctor Juan Gregorio Guardado | Attorney General of the Republic (Jan 1951-Aug 1951) |
| Doctor Salvador Araujo | Attorney General of the Poor (interim / Aug 1951-Sept 1951) |
| Doctor Francisco Guillermo Pérez | Attorney General of the Poor (ad honoren / Sept 1951-May 1952) |
| Doctor Rogelio Bustamante | Attorney General of the Poor (Apr 1952-Jan 1954 / license for four months) |
| Doctor Salvador Alemán Echeverría | Attorney General of the Poor (Interim / Feb 1954-May 1954) |
| Doctor Rogelio Bustamante | Attorney General of the Poor (Jun 1954-Oct 1960) |
| Doctor Pedro Benjamín Mancía | Attorney General of the Poor (Oct 1960-Feb 1961) |
| Doctor Carlos Alberto Zaldivar | Attorney General of the Poor (Feb 1961-Jan 1962) |
| Doctor Julio Rank Altamirano | Attorney General of the Poor (Jan 1962-Jul 1963) |
| Doctor Pedro Benjamín Mancía | Attorney General of the Poor (Jul 1963-Jan 1966) |
| Doctor Juan Doño Altamirano | Attorney General of the Poor (Jan 1966-Dec 1966) |
| Doctor Oscar Augusto Cañas Molina | Attorney General of the Poor (1966-1967) |
| Dr. Yolanda Myers de Vásquez | Attorney General of the Poor (1967-1972) |
| Doctor Oscar Rodríguez Díaz | Attorney General of the Poor (1972-1979) |
| Doctor Guillermo Rodolfo Walsh | Attorney General of the Poor (1977-1979) |
| Doctor Alfredo del Tránsito Monge | Attorney General of the Poor (1979) |
| Doctor Mario Zamora Rivas | Attorney General of the Poor (1980) |
| Doctor Manuel Francisco Cardona Herrera | Attorney General of the Poor (1980-1981) |
| Doctor Carlos Mauricio Molina Fonseca | Attorney General of the Poor (Jan 1981-May 1982) |
| Doctor Dina Castro de Callejas | Attorney General of the Poor (1982-1984) |
| Doctor Rafael Flores y Flores | Attorney General of the Republic (1984-1987) |
| Doctor Francisco Cardona Herrera | Attorney General of the Republic (1987-1989) |
| Dr. Rhina Escalante de Rey Prendes | Attorney General of the Republic (1989-1990) |
| Doctor José Vicente Machado Salgado | Attorney General of the Republic (1990-1993) |
| Doctor Lázaro Tadeo Bernal | Attorney General of the Republic (1993) |
| Doctor Simón Isidro Rivera Argueta | Attorney General of the Republic (1993-1996) |
| Doctor Miguel Ángel Cardoza Ayala | Attorney General of the Republic (1996-2003) |
| Lic. Marcos Gregorio Sánchez Trejo | Attorney General of the Republic (2003-2009) |
See also
- Procuraduría General de la República de El Salvador (Attorney General of the Republic of El Salvador)
- Justice ministry
- Politics of El Salvador
References
- ""Reformed Organic Law Of The General Prosecutor Of The Republic." (El Salvador)". www.global-regulation.com. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- "THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR" (PDF).
- "Procuraduría General de la República, República de El Salvador en la América Central". 2010-12-21. Archived from the original on 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
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