Attorney General of El Salvador explained

The Attorney General of El Salvador, officially the Attorney General of the Republic (Spanish; Castilian: Fiscalía General de la República; abbreviated FGR), is a permanent and independent office under the Public Ministry which possesses legal 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

Attorney General		Assumed office	Left office
1	Patrocinio Guzmán Trigueros	February 1940	July 1940	^[3]
2	José Lázaro Arévalo Vasconcelos	October 1940	9 May 1944
3	Francisco Guillermo Pérez	May 1944	21 October 1944
4	Manuel Humberto Rivera	October 1944	May 1945
5	Alberto Gómez Zárate	May 1945	14 December 1948
6	Julio Eduardo Jiménez Castillo	December 1948	October 1950
7	Francisco Guillermo Pérez	October 1950	January 1951
8	Juan Gregorio Guardado	January 1951	August 1951
9	Salvador Araujo (interim)	August 1951	September 1951
10	Francisco Guillermo Pérez (ad honorem)	September 1951	May 1952
11	Rogelio Bustamante	April 1952	January 1954
12	Salvador Alemán Echeverría (interim)	February 1954	May 1954
13	Rogelio Bustamante	June 1954	26 October 1960
14	Doctor Pedro Benjamín Mancía	October 1960	February 1961
15	Carlos Alberto Zaldívar	February 1961	January 1962
16	Julio Rank Altamirano	25 January 1962	July 1963
17	Pedro Benjamín Mancía	July 1963	January 1966
18	Juan Doño Altamirano	January 1966	December 1966
19	Óscar Augusto Cañas Molina	1966	1 June 1967
20	Yolanda Myers de Vásquez	1 June 1967	1 June 1972
21	Óscar Rodríguez Díaz	1 June 1972	1 June 1977
22	Guillermo Rodolfo Walsh	1 June 1977	15 October 1979
23	Alfredo del Tránsito Monge	1979	1979
24	Doctor Mario Zamora Rivas	1980	3 March 1980
25	Manuel Francisco Cardona Herrera	1980	1981
26	Carlos Mauricio Molina Fonseca	January 1981	2 May 1982
27	Dina Castro de Callejas	1982	1984
28	Rafael Flores y Flores	1984	1987
29	Francisco Cardona Herrera	1987	1989
30	Rhina Escalante de Rey Prendes	1989	1990
31	José Vicente Machado Salgado	1990	1993
32	Lázaro Tadeo Bernal	1993	1993
33	Simón Isidro Rivera Argueta	1993	1996
34	Miguel Ángel Cardoza Ayala	1996	2003
35	Belisario Amadeo Artiga Artiga	2003	2006	^[4]
36	Félix Garrid Safie Parada	2006	19 April 2009
37	Ástor Escalante Saravia	20 April 2009	September 2009
38	Romeo Benjamín Barahona Meléndez	September 2009	2012
39	Luis Antonio Martínez González	2012	2015	^[5]
40	Douglas Arquímedes Meléndez Ruiz	6 January 2016	6 January 2019	^[6]
41	Raúl Ernesto Melara Morán	6 January 2019	1 May 2021	^[7]
42	Rodolfo Antonio Delgado Montes	2 May 2021	Incumbent

See also

• Justice ministry
• Politics of El Salvador

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Reformed Organic Law Of The General Prosecutor Of The Republic." (El Salvador). www.global-regulation.com. 2018-07-02.
2. Web site: THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR.
3. Web site: Procuraduría General de la República, República de El Salvador en la América Central. https://web.archive.org/web/20101221004224/http://www.pgr.gob.sv/RHistorica.htm. dead. 2010-12-21. 2010-12-21. 2018-07-02.
4. Web site: El nuevo fiscal trabajó con todos los gobiernos de Arena. 4 December 2012. 28 September 2023. El Faro.
5. Web site: Condenan a cinco años de prisión a ex fiscal general. es. 5 December 2018. 28 September 2023. La Prensa Gráfica.
6. Web site: ¿Quién es el nuevo fiscal general de El Salvador?. Gato Encerrado. es. 5 January 2016. 28 September 2023.
7. Web site: Ousting of El Salvador's Top Prosecutor Imperils Rule of Law. en. 3 May 2021. 28 September 2023. InSight Crime.