Ministry of National Defense (Colombia)

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Ministry of National Defense
Ministerio de Defensa Nacional
Ministerio de Defensa de Colombia.svg
Ministry overview
Formed24 December 1965 (1965-12-24)
Preceding Ministry
  • Ministry of War
HeadquartersCarrera 54 № 26–25
Bogotá, Colombia
04°38′40.83″N74°05′44.07″W / 4.6446750°N 74.0955750°W / 4.6446750; -74.0955750
Annual budget COP$11,035,519,376,067 (2012) [1]
COP$12,645,417,534,968 (2013) [2]
COP$13,076,723,040,000 (2014) [3]
Ministry executive
Website www.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 military forces of Colombia, similar to the defense ministries in other countries. It is composed of the National Army, Navy, Aerospace Force and the National Police.

Contents

List of ministers

War

Minister (a)Period
Gral. Pedro Briceño Méndez1821–1825
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 Obando1833–1837
Gral. José Hilario López 1837–1838
Gral. Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera 1838–1840
Gral. José Acevedo1841–1845
Gral. Joaquín París Ricaurte 1845
Gral. Juan María Gómez1845–1846
Gral. Joaquín Barriga 1846–1849
Gral. Tomás Herrera 1849–1850
Gral. Valerio Barriga1851–1853
Cnel. Santiago Frasser1853
Gral. Pedro Alcántara Herrán 1854–1855
Gral. José María Ortega1856–1861
Gral. Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera 1861–1863
Gral. Rafael Mendoza1864
Gral. Francisco Barriga1864–1866
Gral. Rudesindo López1866–1867
Gral. Sergio Camargo Pinzón1868–1870
Gral. Santos Acosta 1871–1872
Gral. Ramón Santodomingo Vila1873–1875
Gral. Santos Acosta 1875–1876
Gral. Fernando Ponce1877
Gral. Ezequiel Hurtado 1878–1879
Gral. Eliseo Payan 1880–1882
Gral. Juan Mateus1882–1884
Gral. José María Campo1884–1886
Gral. Leopoldo Cuervo1887–1890
Gral. Olegario Rivera1890–1892
Gral. Antonio Cuervo1893–1895
Gral. Pedro Rivera1896–1898
Gral. Jorge Holguin 1899
Gral. José Santos1900
Gral. Próspero Pinzón Romero1900
Gral. José Domingo Ospina1900–1901
Gral. Ramón González Valencia 1901
Gral. Pedro Nel Ospina 1901
José Vicente Concha Ferreira 1901–1902
Gral. Aristides Fernández Mora1902–1903
Gral. Alfredo Vásquez Cobo 1903–1904
Gral. Diego Castro1904–1905
Gral. Diego Euclides de Angulo 1905–1906
Manuel Castro1906
Gral. Manuel María Sanclemente1906–1908
Gral. Víctor Calderón1908–1909
Gral. Nicolás Perdomo1909
Gral. Alfredo Vásquez Cobo 1909
Gral. Jorge Marcelo Holguín Mallarino 1909
Gral. Diego Euclides de Angulo 1909
Gral. Luis Enrique Bonilla1909
Gral. Pedro Rivera1909
José Medina Calderón1909–1910
Juan Bautista Valencia1910
Gral. Mariano Ospina Vásquez 1910–1911
Gral. José Manuel Araújo1911–1914
Gral. Isaías Luján1914–1915
Guillermo Valencia Castillo 1915
Gral. Pedro Justo Berrío1915
Antonio José Cadavid1915–1916
Gral. Salvador Franco1916–1918
Jorge Roa 1918–1921
Bonifacio Vélez1921
Aristóbulo Archila 1921–1922
Carlos Vélez Daníes1922
José Ulises Osorio1922–1923
Gral. Alfonso Jaramillo1923–1924
Gral. Carlos Jaramillo Isaza1924–1925
Francisco Solórzano1925–1926
Ignacio Rengifo 1926–1929
Alejandro Cabal Pombo1929
Gral. José Joaquín Villamizar1929
Gral. Agustín Morales Olaya 1929–1931
Carlos Adolfo Urueta 1931–1932
Carlos Arango Vélez 1932–1934
Cptán. Carlos Uribe Gaviria1934
Alberto Pumarejo 1934
Marco Aurelio Auli 1934–1935
Benito Hernandez Bustos1935–1936
Plinio Mendoza Neira 1936–1937
Alberto Pumarejo 1937–1938
José Joaquín Castro Martínez1938–1939
Gonzalo Restrepo1939–1942
Alejandro Galvis Galvis 1942–1943
Ramón Santodomingo1943
Alberto Arango Tavera1943
Gonzalo Restrepo1943–1944
Gral. Domingo Espinel1944–1945
Luis Tamayo1945–1946
Carlos Sánz de Santamaría1946–1947
Fabio Lozano y Lozano1947–1948
Fernando Londoño y Londoño 1948
Teniente General Germán Ocampo Herrera1948–1949
Eduardo Zuleta Àngel 1949
Gral. Rafael Sánchez Amaya1949–1950
Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez 1950–1951
José María Bernal1951–1953
Lucio Pabón Núñez 1953
Gral. Gustavo Berrío1953–1954
Gral. Gabriel París Gordillo 1954–1957
Gral. Alfonso Saiz1957–1959
Gral. Rafael Hernández1959–1962
Gral. Alberto Ruiz Novoa 1962–1965
Gral. Gabriel Rebeiz1965–1967

National defence

OrderNameTook Office President
appointed by
1stGabriel Rebeiz Pizarro1 January 1966 Guillermo León Valencia
2ndGerardo Ayerbe Chaux2 September 1968 Carlos Lleras Restrepo
3rdHernando Currea Cubides7 August 1970 Misael Pastrana Borrero
4thAbraham Varón Valencia7 August 1974 Alfonso López Michelsen
5thLuis Carlos Camacho Leyva7 August 1978 Julio César Turbay
6thFernando Landazábal Reyes7 August 1982 Belisario Betancur
7thGustavo Matamoros D'Costa20 January 1984
8thMiguel Vega Uribe9 January 1985
9thRafael Samudio Molina7 August 1986 Virgilio Barco
10thManuel Jaime Guerrero Paz8 November 1988
11thOscar Botero Restrepo7 August 1990 César Gaviria
12th Rafael Pardo Rueda 7 August 1991
13th Fernando Botero Zea 7 August 1994 Ernesto Samper
14th Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero 7 August 1995
15thGuillermo Alberto González Mosquera4 February 1997
16th Gilberto Echeverri Mejía 10 April 1997
17th Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo 7 August 1998 Andrés Pastrana
18th Luis Fernando Ramirez Acuña 30 May 1998
19th Gustavo Bell 11 June 2001
20th Marta Lucía Ramírez 7 August 2002 Álvaro Uribe
21st Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarría 9 November 2003
22nd Camilo Alfonso Ospina Bernal 19 July 2005
23rd Juan Manuel Santos 19 July 2006
Freddy Padilla de León 23 May 2009
24th Gabriel Silva Luján 7 August 2009
25th Rodrigo Rivera Salazar 7 August 2010 Juan Manuel Santos
26th Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno 5 September 2011
27th Luis Carlos Villegas Echeverri 19 May 2015
28th Guillermo Botero 7 August 2018 Iván Duque
29th Carlos Holmes Trujillo [lower-alpha 1] 12 November 2019
30th Diego Molano [5] [6] 1 February 2021
31st Iván Velásquez Gómez 7 August 2022 Gustavo Petro

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References

Footnotes

  1. Died in office, 26 January 2021 [4]

Citations

  1. Colombia, Congress of (14 December 2011). "Ley 1485 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Bogotá (48, 283): 7. ISSN   0122-2112. OCLC   500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Bogotá (48, 640): 6. ISSN   0122-2112. OCLC   500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Bogotá (49, 001): 11. ISSN   0122-2112. OCLC   500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  4. "Colombia's defense minister dies from COVID-19 at age 69". AP NEWS. 26 January 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  5. "Diego Andrés Molano Aponte – Ministro de Defensa Nacional". www.mindefensa.gov.co. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  6. "Quién es Diego Molano, el nuevo ministro de Defensa de Colombia". AS Colombia (in Spanish). 2 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-16.