The Secretaría de Gobernación (Secretariat of Governance, often loosely (mis)translated as Secretariat of the Interior), often shortened to SEGOB is the 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....

-level agency of Mexico

Mexico

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 responsible for administering the country's internal affairs, similar to other country's interior ministries. It is administered by the Secretary of Governance,On 2011-11-11 the incumbent Secretary, 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...

, was killed in a air crash and the post is vacant.

It is headquartered in the Cobián Building at 99 Bucareli St., in the Cuauhtémoc

Cuauhtémoc, D.F.

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 borough of México, D.F.

History

At the end of the armed face of the Mexican War of Independence

Mexican War of Independence

The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial authorities which started on 16 September 1810. The movement, which became known as the Mexican War of Independence, was led by Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos and Amerindians who sought...

 with the signing of the Treaty of Córdoba on September 28, 1821, the Supreme Government Junta designated a Council of the Regency which ruled until Agustín de Iturbide

Agustín de Iturbide

Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Aramburu , also known as Augustine I of Mexico, was a Mexican army general who built a successful political and military coalition that was able to march into Mexico City on 27 September 1821, decisively ending the Mexican War of Independence...

 proclaimed himself emperor. By a royal decree of November 8, 1821 the government was organized in four Secretariats. One of them was called Secretariat of Internal and External Affairs. Among other functions, it was in charge "of anything purely State matter and in case of the emperor's absence, of the proper dispatch of the empire's affairs".

The Secretariat of Internal and External Affairs continued to exist during the federal republican governments, until the creation of the first centralist republic; the position of a Minister of the Interior was created, separating internal and external affairs.
General Antonio López de Santa Anna

Antonio López de Santa Anna

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón , often known as Santa Anna or López de Santa Anna, known as "the Napoleon of the West," was a Mexican political leader, general, and president who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government...

 reorganized the Executive Power based on the Constitution of April 22, 1853. In its First Section, five State secretaries were created. One of them called the Secretariat of Internal Affairs, Justice, Ecclesiastic Business and Public Instruction.

During the Second Mexican Empire

Second Mexican Empire

The Second Mexican Empire was the name of Mexico under the regime established from 1864 to 1867. It was created by Napoleon III of France, who attempted to use the Mexican adventure to recapture some of the grandeur of earlier Napoleonic times...

, according to its Provisional Statute of April 10, 1865, a Ministry of the Imperial House for Government handled the internal affairs for Emperor Maximilian I

Maximilian I of Mexico

Maximilian I was the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire.After a distinguished career in the Austrian Navy, he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on April 10, 1864, with the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican monarchists who sought to revive the Mexican monarchy...

.

By a December 9, 1913 Decree by 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...

, a reorganization of the Public Administration was made. Eight secretariats were created, including a Secretariat of the Interior with government, police, labor and charity attributions.
The dependency began to properly develop its attributions as being responsible for the internal policy and governability, it institutionalized the national political process in terms of the revolutionary project established by the constitution.

Organization

There are several sub-secretariats:

• Government Secretariat (Subsecretaría de Gobierno)
• Legislative Liaison Secretariat (Subsecretaría de Enlace Legislativo)
• Political Development Unit (Unidad para el Desarrollo Político)
• Secretariat for Legal Affairs and Human Rights (Subsecretaría de Asuntos Jurídicos y Derechos Humanos)
• Secretariat of Population, Migration and Religious Affairs (Subsecretaría de Población, Migración y Asuntos Religosos)
• Secretariat of Standards Media (Subsecretaría de Normatividad de Medios)
• Administrative Office (Oficialía Mayor)
• General Coordination of Civil Protection (Coordinación General de Protección Civil)

A number of decentralised agencies come under the overall responsibility of SEGOB, including Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal (INAFED), Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional

Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional

Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional is a Mexican intelligence agency controlled by the Office of Coordination of the Presidency. CISEN was established in 1989 after its predecessors ceased to operate...

 (CISN), Instituto Nacional de Migración, and the Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de las Revoluciones de México.

External links

• SEGOB, official website