Romeo Orlando Vásquez Velásquez (born 20 January 1957) is a Honduran politician and retired brigadier general.

[5] Zelaya denied the referendum was intended to extend term limits but claimed that it was to ask the people if they wanted to add the question of a constitutional assembly to the November ballot.

Later the same day, however, all five judges of the Supreme Court acted in favor of a ruling chief of staff, restoring him to office after they declared his removal unconstitutional.

The resolution cited Article 40 of the Constitutive Act of the Armed Forces, Decree 39-2001: "The head of the Joint Chiefs will run for three years in office and only be removed by resignation, incapacity absolute disqualification from office for final decision and loss or suspension of citizenship decreed by competent authority in accordance with the law and by the end of his time on active duty in the armed forces.

[8] On March 9, 2010, President Porfirio Lobo Sosa appointed Vásquez Velásquez as head of the state-owned telecom company Hondutel.