Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Honduras)

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Spanish: Jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras) is the professional head of the Honduran Armed Forces. They are responsible for the administration and operational control of the military. Until 1999, the position was known as Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces.^[1]

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto
Incumbent Roosevelt Leonel Hernández Aguilar since 11 December 2023
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Member of	Board of commanders
Reports to	Minister of Defence
Appointer	National Congress

List of officeholders

Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces (–1999)

No.	Portrait	Name (born–died)	Term of office			Defence branch	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
		Brigadier general Oswaldo López Arellano (1921–2010)	1963	1970	6–7 years	Army
		Brigadier general Oswaldo López Arellano (1921–2010)	1972	1975	2–3 years	Army
		Brigadier general Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (1930–1987)	1975	1978	2–3 years	Army
		Divisional general Policarpo Paz García (1932–2000)	7 August 1978	27 January 1980	1 year, 173 days	Army
		Brigadier general Gustavo Álvarez Martínez (1937–1989)	1981	March 1984	2–3 years	Army	[2]
		Brigadier general Walter López Reyes (1940–2022)	31 March 1984	1 February 1986	1 year, 307 days	Air Force	[3][4]
		Brigadier general Humberto Regalado Hernández [es] (1936–2016)	14 February 1986	January 1990	3 years, 10 months	Navy	[4]
		Brigadier general Arnulfo Cantarero López (–2020)	January 1990	December 1990	11 months	Army	[5]
		Brigadier general Luis Alonso Discua Elvir	December 1990	1995	4–5 years	Army
		Brigadier general Mario Raúl Hung Pacheco	1996	29 January 1999	2–3 years	Army	[1]

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1999–present)

No.	Portrait	Name (born–died)	Term of office			Defence branch	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Brigadier general Eugenio Romero Euceda	29 January 1999	2000	0–1 years	Army
2		Brigadier general Daniel López Carballo	2000	2002	1–2 years	Army
3		Brigadier general José Isaías Barahona Herrera (born 1954)	2002	11 January 2005	2–3 years	Army
4		Brigadier general Romeo Vásquez Velásquez (born 1957)	11 January 2005	10 January 2010[a]	4 years, 165 days	Army
5		Divisional general Carlos Antonio Cuellar	10 January 2010	28 January 2011	1 year, 18 days	Army	[7]
6		Brigadier general René Arnoldo Osorio Canales	28 January 2011	22 December 2013	2 years, 328 days	Army	[8][9]
7		Brigadier general Fredy Santiago Díaz Zelaya	22 December 2013	21 December 2015	1 year, 364 days	Army	[9][10]
8		Brigadier general Francisco Isaías Álvarez Urbina	21 December 2015	21 December 2017	2 years, 0 days	Army	[11]
9		Divisional general René Orlando Ponce Fonseca	21 December 2017	20 December 2019	1 year, 364 days	Army	[11][12]
10		Divisional general Tito Livio Moreno Coello	20 December 2019	21 December 2021	2 years, 1 day	Army	[12][13]
11		Vice admiral José Jorge Fortín Aguilar	21 December 2021	27 December 2023	2 years, 6 days	Navy	[13][14]
12		Divisional general Roosevelt Hernández	27 December 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 18 days	Army	[14]

References

1. Fired on 24 June 2009, during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis. Reinstated after one day by the Supreme Court.^[6]

References

1. "HONDURAS: Militares dicen adiós a su autonomía". IPS (in Spanish). 29 January 1999. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
2. "Biography of Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martínez". Red Honduras. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
3. "Fallece el general Walter López Reyes, exjefe de las FFAA". Proceso Digital (in Spanish). Tegucigalpa. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
4. "El Congreso hondureño nombra a un nuevo jefe de las fuerzas armadas". El Pais (in Spanish). EFE. 14 February 1986. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
5. "Muere ex jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras, Arnulfo Cantarero López". LTV (in Spanish). Diario El País. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
6. Malkin, Elisabeth (28 June 2009). "Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup". New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
7. "Lobo destituye al jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas que encabezó el golpe de Estado contra Zelaya". Nueva Alcarria (in Spanish). Europa Press. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
8. "General René Osorio es el nuevo jefe de las FF.AA". Proceso Digital (in Spanish). 26 January 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
9. "Designada Presidencial asiste a traspaso de mando de jefatura del Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas". El Informativo (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 January 2025.
10. Editorial staff (21 December 2015). "Fredy Díaz Zelaya: 'Los elegidos son los que tienen los méritos"". La Prensa (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 January 2025.
11. El Heraldo Editorial Team (21 December 2017). "Nuevo jefe de EMC promete actuar en 'lo justo, lo legal y lo correcto"". El Heraldo (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 January 2025.
12. Editorial staff (10 December 2019). "General Tito Livio Moreno Coello será el nuevo jefe de las FFAA". La Prensa (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 January 2025.
13. Suazo, Pedro (17 December 2021). "José Jorge Fortín Aguilar, el nuevo jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto de las FFAA". Noti America (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 January 2025.
14. "Roosevelt Hernández, nuevo comandante del Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas Armadas". La Prensa (in Spanish). 27 December 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2025.