Francisco Roberto Lima

Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera (1917 – 2008) was a Salvadoran lawyer and politician who served as Vice President of El Salvador in the 1960s.

Lima was born on 13 February 1917, He was a lawyer by profession.

Lima was appointed Salvadoran ambassador to United States in May 1961. He was elected as Vice President of El Salvador in the 1962 elections, and served in the presidency of colonel Julio Adalberto Rivera.

In 1990s Lima was a professor of constitutional and administrative law. He was the vice presidential candidate of FMLN–CD ticket in the 1994 presidential elections. He was threatened by a group called Fuerza Nacionalista Mayor Roberto D’Aubuisson in 1996.

In 2008, he was awarded a title of "Distinguished Jurist of El Salvador" by Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. He died soon after in the same year.