Carlos Humberto Romero
 General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena (born February 29 1924 in Chalatenango) is a former President of El Salvador elected on February 20 1977 in a fraudulent election and inaugurated on July 1 1977. Romero held power until October 1979 when he was deposed with a reformist coup d'état by dissident politically conservative and moderate military officers and civilians. The coup d'état that deposed President-General Humberto Romero was preamble to El Salvador's twelve-year civil war.