Overthrow of Carlos Romero

Date: October 15, 1979 • Location: Rome, Italy

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1979–1980.

President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.

Carlos Humberto Romero Mena was a Salvadoran general and politician who served as the 34th President of El Salvador from 1 July 1977 until his overthrow on 15 October 1979. Romero was the final president of the El Salvador's military dictatorship that had ruled since 1931.