José Atilio Benítez Parada

José Atilio Benítez Parada (born June 21, 1958) is Salvadoran General, ambassador and former Minister of Defense of El Salvador.
 * In 1992 he was Military attaché 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 2009-05-31 Mauricio Funes named David Victoriano Munguía Payés as Minister of National Defense and José Atilio Benitez Parada as deputy defense minister.
 * From 2011-11-23 to 2013 José Atilio Benítez Parada was Minister of Defense of El Salvador in the cabinet of Mauricio Funes.
 * From 2014-05-05 to 2015-04-24 he was ambassador in Madrid.
 * Since 2015-04-24 he is accredited as ambassador in Berlin with coaccredición in Warsaw, Prague and Ankara.