Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)

Secretario de Gobernación
Incumbent:	Alejandro Poiré Romero
First:	Manuel Díez de Bonilla
Formation:	1853

The Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 Secretary of the Interior is the head of the Secretariat of the Interior

Secretaría de Gobernación

The Secretaría de Gobernación , often shortened to SEGOB is the Cabinet-level agency of Mexico responsible for administering the country's internal affairs, similar to other country's interior ministries...

, concerned with the country's internal affairs, the presentation of the president's bills to Congress

Congress of Mexico

The Congress of the Union is the legislative branch of the Mexican government...

, their publication and certain issues of national security. The country's main intelligence agency, CISEN, depends directly from this branch. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet

Mexican Executive Cabinet

The cabinet of Mexico is the Executive Cabinet and is a part of the executive branch of the Mexican government. It consists of eighteen Secretaries of State, the head of the federal executive legal office and the Attorney General....

 and the most important cabinet secretary.

From the SEGOB's website:

"Since its creation, the Secretary of the Interior has been entrusted with the suitable conduction of the internal policy of the country that allows through programs, actions and strategies the development of a more and more participative society in the actions of the Government to satisfy its demands; allowing with it a growth in the economic, political and social scope of the country."

History

In 1821, with the integration of the Junta Provisional Gubernativa (Provisional Government Junta), and an urge to organize the country, the regulation that would determine the functions of the so-called Secretariat of Internal and External Relations was published. This newly created organism had the functions of the General Government and its first holder was José Manuel de Herrera (1821-1823).

With the passage of time, it was necessary to specify the nature of actions of the existing institutions and in 1836 the Ministry of the Interior was established, in 1841 it was changed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Government, which changed in 1843 to the Ministry of the Interior and Police. Finally in 1853, the functions were separated and the Secretariat of the Interior was created.

The Secretariat of the Interior as a dependency of the Executive Branch, concerned with internal policy and national governability, has its most remote origin in article 222 of the Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy

Spanish Constitution of 1812

The Spanish Constitution of 1812 was promulgated 19 March 1812 by the Cádiz Cortes, the national legislative assembly of Spain, while in refuge from the Peninsular War...

, promulgated on 19 March 1812, which established among the secretaries of State, those of Government of the Kingdom for the Peninsula and adjacent Islands and Government of the Kingdom for the Overseas
On 22 October 1814, the Constitutional Declaration for the Liberty of the Mexican Americas, known as the Constitution of Apatzingán, anticipated in its article 134, the establishment of a republican government, with an Executive Branch known as the Supreme Government which would have a Secretariat of Government among others.

Antechamber to the Presidency

This position was for long regarded as the antechamber to the office of president, because several secretaries of the interior were chosen as presidential candidates for the following term by the incumbent president, including:

• Plutarco Elías Calles
  Plutarco Elías Calles
  Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato...
  
  
• Emilio Portes Gil
  Emilio Portes Gil
  Emilio Cándido Portes Gil was President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930.-Biography:Portes Gil was born in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico....
  
  
• Lázaro Cárdenas
  Lázaro Cárdenas
  Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.-Early life:Lázaro Cárdenas was born on May 21, 1895 in a lower-middle class family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacán. He supported his family from age 16 after the death of his father...
  
  
• Miguel Alemán Valdés
  Miguel Alemán Valdés
  Miguel Alemán Valdés served as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952.-Life:Alemán was born in Sayula in the state of Veracruz as the son of General Miguel Alemán González and Tomasa Valdés Ledezma...
  
  
• Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
  Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
  Adolfo Ruiz Cortines was President of Mexico from 1952 to 1958, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party he was one of the oldest presidents of Mexico...
  
  
• Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
  Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
  Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.- Political career :Díaz Ordaz was born in San Andrés Chalchícomula . His father, Ramón Díaz Ordaz Redonet, worked as an accountant, while his mother, Sabina Bolaños Cacho de Díaz Ordaz, worked as a school teacher...
  
  
• Luis Echeverría
  Luis Echeverría
  Luis Echeverría Álvarez served as President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976.-Early history:Echeverría joined the faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1947 and taught political theory...
  
  

Francisco Labastida Ochoa, Secretary of the Interior during the latter part of Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party...

's administration, was regarded as the president's candidate during the Institutional Revolutionary Party's

Institutional Revolutionary Party

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution , making Mexico one of the few...

 primaries (the first ones the party had ever held) and during his unsuccessful campaign against former President Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...

.

Fox's Secretary of the Interior, Santiago Creel

Santiago Creel

Santiago Creel Miranda is a Mexican senator representing the right-of-center National Action Party who served as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox....

, participated in the National Action Party's

National Action Party (Mexico)

The National Action Party , is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have PAN pluralities, but the...

 primaries but was defeated by current President Felipe Calderón

Felipe Calderón

Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for a single six-year term through 2012...

.

List of Secretaries of the Interior

Picture	Name	Term of Office		President(s) President of Mexico The President of the United Mexican States is the head of state and government of Mexico. Under the Constitution, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces...  served under
	Alejandro Poiré Romero	17 November 2011	incumbent	Felipe Calderón Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for a single six-year term through 2012...
	Francisco Blake Mora Francisco Blake Mora José Francisco Blake Mora was a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón from 2010 to 2011. He was Mexico's top cabinet secretary and key figure in the battle against the drug cartels and corruption in the country...	14 July 2010	11 November 2011
	Fernando Gómez-Mont Fernando Gómez-Mont Fernando Francisco Gómez Mont Urueta is a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Interior. He was appointed by President Felipe Calderón on November 10, 2008, following the death of secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño in a plane crash on November 4...	10 November 2008	14 July 2010
	Juan Camilo Mouriño Juan Camilo Mouriño Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo was a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón...	15 January 2008	4 November 2008
	Francisco Ramírez Acuña	1 December 2006	15 January 2008
	Carlos Abascal	1 June 2005	30 November 2006	Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...
| Santiago Creel Santiago Creel Santiago Creel Miranda is a Mexican senator representing the right-of-center National Action Party who served as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox....	1 December 2000	1 June 2005
	Diódoro Carrasco	1999	30 November 2000	Ernesto Zedillo Ernesto Zedillo Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party...
	Francisco Labastida Francisco Labastida Francisco Labastida Ochoa is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party , who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which he did in the 2000 presidential election to Vicente Fox.He was born to Gloria Ochoa...	1998	1999
	Emilio Chuayffet	1995	1998
	Esteban Moctezuma Esteban Moctezuma Esteban Moctezuma Barragán is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He is a former senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León...	1 December 1994	1995
	Jorge Carpizo McGregor Jorge Carpizo McGregor Jorge Carpizo Mac Gregor is a Mexican jurist who has occupied various high rank positions in the government of Mexico.Carpizo is the son of Óscar Carpizo Berrón and Luz María Mac Gregor Dondé...	1994	30 November 1994	Carlos Salinas Carlos Salinas Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Earlier in his career he worked in the Budget Secretariat all the way up to Secretary...
	Patrocinio González Garrido	1993	1994
	Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios was a controversial Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party...	1 December 1988	1993
	Manuel Bartlett Díaz	1 December 1982	30 November 1988	Miguel de la Madrid Miguel de la Madrid Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.-Biography:...
	Enrique Olivares Santana	1978	30 November 1982	José López Portillo José López Portillo José López Portillo y Pacheco was the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.Born in Mexico City, López Portillo studied Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before beginning his political career with the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1959.He held several positions in the...
	Jesús Reyes Heroles	1 December 1976	1978
	Mario Moya Palencia Mario Moya Palencia Mario Moya Palencia was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He served Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Presidents Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverría....	1 December 1970 1969	30 November 1976 1970	Luis Echeverría Luis Echeverría Luis Echeverría Álvarez served as President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976.-Early history:Echeverría joined the faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1947 and taught political theory... Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.- Political career :Díaz Ordaz was born in San Andrés Chalchícomula . His father, Ramón Díaz Ordaz Redonet, worked as an accountant, while his mother, Sabina Bolaños Cacho de Díaz Ordaz, worked as a school teacher...
	Luis Echeverría Luis Echeverría Luis Echeverría Álvarez served as President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976.-Early history:Echeverría joined the faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1947 and taught political theory...	1 December 1964 1963	1969 30 November 1964	Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.- Political career :Díaz Ordaz was born in San Andrés Chalchícomula . His father, Ramón Díaz Ordaz Redonet, worked as an accountant, while his mother, Sabina Bolaños Cacho de Díaz Ordaz, worked as a school teacher... Adolfo López Mateos Adolfo López Mateos Adolfo López Mateos was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964...
	Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.- Political career :Díaz Ordaz was born in San Andrés Chalchícomula . His father, Ramón Díaz Ordaz Redonet, worked as an accountant, while his mother, Sabina Bolaños Cacho de Díaz Ordaz, worked as a school teacher...	1 December 1958	1963	Adolfo López Mateos Adolfo López Mateos Adolfo López Mateos was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964...
	Angel Carvajal	1 December 1952	30 November 1958	Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Adolfo Ruiz Cortines was President of Mexico from 1952 to 1958, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party he was one of the oldest presidents of Mexico...
	Ernesto P. Uruchurtu	1951	1952	Miguel Alemán Miguel Alemán Valdés Miguel Alemán Valdés served as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952.-Life:Alemán was born in Sayula in the state of Veracruz as the son of General Miguel Alemán González and Tomasa Valdés Ledezma...
	Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Adolfo Ruiz Cortines was President of Mexico from 1952 to 1958, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party he was one of the oldest presidents of Mexico...	1948	1951
	Ernesto P. Uruchurtu	1948	1948
	Héctor Pérez Martínez	1946	1948
	Primo Villa Michel	1945	1946	Manuel Ávila Camacho Manuel Ávila Camacho Manuel Ávila Camacho served as the President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946.Manuel Ávila was born in the city of Teziutlán, a small town in Puebla, to middle-class parents, Manuel Ávila Castillo and Eufrosina Camacho Bello. He had several siblings, among them sister María Jovita Ávila Camacho and...
	Miguel Alemán Valdés Miguel Alemán Valdés Miguel Alemán Valdés served as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952.-Life:Alemán was born in Sayula in the state of Veracruz as the son of General Miguel Alemán González and Tomasa Valdés Ledezma...	1940	1945
	Ignacio García Téllez	1938	1940	Lázaro Cárdenas Lázaro Cárdenas Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.-Early life:Lázaro Cárdenas was born on May 21, 1895 in a lower-middle class family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacán. He supported his family from age 16 after the death of his father...
	Silvestre Guerrero	1935	1938
	Silvano Barba González	1935	1935
	Juan de Dios Bojórquez	1934	1935
	Juan D. Cabral	1934	1934	Abelardo L. Rodríguez Abelardo L. Rodríguez Abelardo Rodríguez Luján, commonly known as Abelardo L. Rodríguez was the interim president of Mexico from 1932–1934, completing the term of Pascual Ortiz after his resignation.-Early life:...
	Narciso Bassols Narciso Bassols Narciso Bassols García was a Mexican lawyer, socialist politician, ambassador to France, Russia, and the United Kingdom, and professor of law at the National University of Mexico. He co-founded the Popular Party , and the League of Political Action...	1934	1934
	Eduardo Vasconcelos Eduardo Vasconcelos Eduardo Vasconcelos was Governor of Oaxaca from 1947 to 1950. In addition, he was also Secretary of Public Education in 1934 and Secretary of the Interior from 1932 to 1934.-External links:**...	1932	1934
	Juan José Ríos	1932	1932	Pascual Ortiz Rubio Pascual Ortiz Rubio Pascual Ortiz Rubio was a Mexican politician. He was born in Morelia, Michoacán as the son of Pascual Ortiz de Ayala y Huerta and Lenor Rubio Cornelis...
	Manuel C. Téllez	1931	1932
	Lázaro Cárdenas del Río	1931	1932
	Octavio Mendoza González	1931	1931
	Carlos Riva Palacio	1930	1931
	Emilio Portes Gil Emilio Portes Gil Emilio Cándido Portes Gil was President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930.-Biography:Portes Gil was born in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico....	1930	1930
	Felipe Canales	1 December 1928	4 February 1930	Emilio Portes Gil Emilio Portes Gil Emilio Cándido Portes Gil was President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930.-Biography:Portes Gil was born in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico....
	Emilio Portes Gil Emilio Portes Gil Emilio Cándido Portes Gil was President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930.-Biography:Portes Gil was born in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico....	1928	1928	Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato...
	Gonzalo Vázquez Vela Gonzalo Vázquez Vela Gonzalo Vázquez Vela was a Mexican politician....	1928	1928	Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato...
	Adalberto Tejeda	1925	1928	Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato...
	Gilberto Valenzuela	1925	1925	Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato...
	Romeo Ortega	1924 1924	1925 1924	Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato... Alvaro Obregón Álvaro Obregón General Álvaro Obregón Salido was the President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. He was assassinated in 1928, shortly after winning election to another presidential term....
	Enrique Colunga	1923	1924	Alvaro Obregón Álvaro Obregón General Álvaro Obregón Salido was the President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. He was assassinated in 1928, shortly after winning election to another presidential term....
	Gilberto Valenzuela	1923	1923	Alvaro Obregón Álvaro Obregón General Álvaro Obregón Salido was the President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. He was assassinated in 1928, shortly after winning election to another presidential term....
	Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato...	1920	1923	Alvaro Obregón Álvaro Obregón General Álvaro Obregón Salido was the President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. He was assassinated in 1928, shortly after winning election to another presidential term....
	José Inocencio Lugo	1920	1920	Adolfo de la Huerta Adolfo de la Huerta Felipe Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor was a Mexican politician and interim President of Mexico from June 1 to December 1, 1920....
	Gilberto Valenzuela	1920	1920	Adolfo de la Huerta Adolfo de la Huerta Felipe Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor was a Mexican politician and interim President of Mexico from June 1 to December 1, 1920....
	Manuel Aguirre Berlanga	1917	1920	Venustiano Carranza Venustiano Carranza Venustiano Carranza de la Garza, was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted...
	Rafael Zubirán Capmany Rafael Zubirán Capmany Rafael Zubirán Capmany was a Mexican lawyer from Campeche who acted as the Mexican Minister of Interior and a representative for the ABC nations in 1914 during the Niagara Falls peace conference. He was Mexican Secretary of Economy from 1920 to 1922....	1914	1914
	Ignacio Alcocer Ignacio Alcocer Ignacio Alcocer Rodríguez was the Governor of Coahuila from April 13 - November 1913taking over from Venustiano Carranza He was Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1914...	1913	1914

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