- Ministry of National Defense (Colombia)
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Ministry of National Defence Ministerio de Defensa Nacional Ministry overview Formed June 12, 1965 Preceding Ministry Ministry of War Headquarters Carrera 54 № 26–25 CAN
Bogotá, D.C., ColombiaAnnual budget COP$9,963,790,964,941
(est. 2010)[1]Ministry executives Rodrigo Rivera Salazar, Minister
Jorge Mario Eastman Robledo,
Deputy Minister for Foreign Policy and Affairs
Yaneth Giha Tovar,
Deputy Minister for Strategy and Planning
Fernando Tapias Stahelin,
Deputy Minister GSEDWebsite mindefensa.gov.co The Ministry of National Defence (Spanish: Ministerio de Defensa Nacional), is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the armed forces of Colombia, similar to the defense ministries in other countries. It is composed by the National Army, National Armada and Air Force and the National Police.
List of Ministers of War and Defence
Minister (a) Period Gral. Pedro Briceño Méndez 1821-1825 Gral. Carlos Soublette 1825-1828 Gral. Rafael Urdaneta 1828-1829 Gral. Pedro Alcántara Herrán 1830 Gral. José Miguel Pey 1830-1831 Gral. José Marìa Obando 1831-1832 Gral. José Hilario López 1832-1833 Gral. Antonio Obando 1833-1837 Gral. José Hilario López 1837-1838 Gral. Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera 1838-1840 Gral. José Acevedo 1841-1845 Gral. Joaquin Paris 1845 Gral. Juan María Gómez 1845-1846 Gral. Joaquín Barriga 1846-1849 Gral. Tomás Herrera 1849-1850 Gral. Valerio Barriga 1851-1853 Cnel. Santiago Frasser 1853 Gral. Pedro Alcántara Herrán 1854-1855 Gral. José María Ortega 1856-1861 Gral. Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera 1861-1863 Gral. Rafael Mendoza 1864 Gral. Francisco Barriga 1864-1866 Gral. Rudesindo López 1866-1867 Gral. Sergio Camargo 1868-1870 Gral. Santos Acosta 1871-1872 Gral. Ramón Santodomingo Vila 1873-1875 Gral. Santos Acosta 1875-1876 Gral. Fernando Ponce 1877 Gral. Ezequiel Hurtado 1878-1879 Gral. Eliseo Payan 1880-1882 Gral. Juan Mateus 1882-1884 Gral. José María Campo 1884-1886 Gral. Leopoldo Cuervo 1887-1890 Gral. Olegario Rivera 1890-1892 Gral. Antonio Cuervo 1893-1895 Gral. Pedro Rivera 1896-1898 Gral. Jorge Holguin 1899 Gral. José Santos 1900 Gral. Próspero Pinzón 1900 Gral. José Domingo Ospina 1900-1901 Gral. Ramón González Valencia 1901 Gral. Pedro Nel Ospina 1901 José Vicente Concha Ferreira 1901-1902 Gral. Aristides Fernández 1902-1903 Gral. Alfredo Vásquez Cobo 1903-1904 Gral. Diego Castro 1904-1905 Gral. Diego Euclides de Angulo 1905-1906 Manuel Castro 1906 Gral. Manuel María Sanclemente 1906-1908 Gral. Víctor Calderón 1908-1909 Gral. Nicolás Perdomo 1909 Gral. Alfredo Vásquez Cobo 1909 Gral. Jorge Marcelo Holguín Mallarino 1909 Gral. Diego Euclides de Angulo 1909 Gral. Luis Enrique Bonilla 1909 Gral. Pedro Rivera 1909 José Medina Calderón 1909-1910 Juan Bautista Valencia 1910 Gral. Mariano Ospina Vásquez 1910-1911 Gral. José Manuel Araújo 1911-1914 Gral. Isaías Luján 1914-1915 Guillermo Valencia Castillo 1915 Gral. Pedro Justo Berrío 1915 Antonio José Cadavid 1915-1916 Gral. Salvador Franco 1916-1918 Jorge Roa 1918-1921 Bonifacio Vélez 1921 Aristóbulo Archila 1921-1922 Carlos Vélez Daníes 1922 José Ulises Osorio 1922-1923 Gral. Alfonso Jaramillo 1923-1924 Gral. Carlos Jaramillo Isaza 1924-1925 Francisco Solórzano 1925-1926 Ignacio Rengifo 1926-1929 Alejandro Cabal Pombo 1929 Gral. José Joaquín Villamizar 1929 Gral. Agustín Morales Olaya 1929-1931 Carlos Adolfo Urueta 1931-1932 Carlos Arango Vélez 1932-1934 Cptán. Carlos Uribe Gaviria 1934 Alberto Pumarejo 1934 Marco Aurelio Auli 1934-1935 Benito Hernandez Bustos 1935-1936 Plinio Mendoza Neira 1936-1937 Alberto Pumarejo 1937-1938 José Joaquín Castro Martínez 1938-1939 Gonzalo Restrepo 1939-1942 Alejandro Galvis Galvis 1942-1943 Ramón Santodomingo 1943 Alberto Arango Tavera 1943 Gonzalo Restrepo 1943-1944 Gral. Domingo Espinel 1944-1945 Luis Tamayo 1945-1946 Carlos Sánz de Santamaría 1946-1947 Fabio Lozano y Lozano 1947-1948 Fernando Londoño y Londoño 1948 Teniente General Germán Ocampo Herrera 1948-1949 Eduardo Zuleta Àngel 1949 Gral. Rafael Sánchez Amaya 1949-1950 Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez 1950-1951 José María Bernal 1951-1953 Lucio Pabón Núñez 1953 Gral. Gustavo Berrío 1953-1954 Gral. Gabriel París Gordillo 1954-1957 Gral. Alfonso Saiz 1957-1959 Gral. Rafael Hernández 1959-1962 Gral. Alberto Ruiz Novoa 1962-1965 Gral. Gabriel Rebeiz 1965-1967 Gral. Gerardo Ayerbe Chaux 1967-1970 Gral. Hernando Currea 1970-1974 Gral. Abraham Varón 1974-1978 Gral. Luis Carlos Camacho Leyva 1978-1982 Gral. Fernando Landazábal Reyes 1982-1984 Gral. Gustavo Matamoros D`Costa 1984-1985 Gral. Miguel Vega Uribe 1985-1986 Gral. Rafael Samudio Molina 1986-1988 Gral. Manuel Jaime Guerrero Paz 1988-1989 Gral. Oscar Botero Restrepo 1989-1991 Rafael Pardo Rueda 1991-1994 Fernando Botero Zea 1994-1995 Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero 1995-1997 Guillermo Alberto González Mosquera 1997 Gilberto Echeverri Mejía 1997-1998 Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo 1998-1999 Luis Fernando Ramirez Acuña 1999-2001 Gustavo Bell Lemus 2001-2002 Martha Lucía Ramírez de Rincón 2002-2003 Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarría 2003-2005 Camilo Ospina Bernal 2005-2006 Juan Manuel Santos Calderón 2006-2009 Freddy Padilla de León 2009-2009 Gabriel Silva Luján 2009-2010 Rodrigo Rivera Salazar 2010-present References
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