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The Mexican Secretary of the Interior (Spanish: Secretaría de Gobernación) is the head of the Secretariat of the Interior, concerned with the country's internal affairs, the presentation of the president's bills to Congress, 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 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 pass 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, promulgated on 19 March 1812, which established among the secretaries of State, those of Government of the Kingdom for the Peninsula and adyacent 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
• Emilio Portes Gil
• Lázaro Cárdenas
• Miguel Alemán Valdés
• Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
• Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Luis Echeverría

Francisco Labastida Ochoa, Secretary of the Interior during the latter part of Ernesto Zedillo's administration, was regarded as the president's candidate during the Institutional Revolutionary Party's primaries (the first ones the party had ever held) and during his unsuccessful campaign against former President Vicente Fox.

Fox's Secretary of the Interior, Santiago Creel, participated in the National Action Party's primaries but was defeated by current President Felipe Calderón.

List of Secretaries of the Interior

Photo	Secretary of the Interior	Term		President(s) served under
	Fernando Gómez-Mont	10 November 2008	Incumbent	Felipe Calderón
	Juan Camilo Mouriño	15 January 2008	4 November 2008	Felipe Calderón
	Francisco Ramírez Acuña	1 December 2006	15 January 2008	Felipe Calderón
	Carlos Abascal	1 June 2005	30 November 2006	Vicente Fox
	Santiago Creel	1 December 2000	1 June 2005	Vicente Fox
	Diódoro Carrasco	1999	30 November 2000	Ernesto Zedillo
	Francisco Labastida	1998	1999	Ernesto Zedillo
	Emilio Chuayffet	1995	1998	Ernesto Zedillo
	Esteban Moctezuma	1 December 1994	1995	Ernesto Zedillo
	Jorge Carpizo McGregor	1994	30 November 1994	Carlos Salinas
	Patrocinio González Garrido	1993	1994	Carlos Salinas
	Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios	1 December 1988	1993	Carlos Salinas
	Manuel Bartlett Díaz	1 December 1982	30 November 1988	Miguel de la Madrid
	Enrique Olivares Santana	1978	30 November 1982	José López Portillo
	Jesús Reyes Heroles	1 December 1976	1978	José López Portillo
	Mario Moya Palencia	1 December 1970 1969	30 November 1976 1970	Luis Echeverría Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
	Luis Echeverría	1 December 1964 1963	1969 30 November 1964	Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Adolfo López Mateos
	Gustavo Díaz Ordaz	1 December 1958	1963	Adolfo López Mateos
	Angel Carvajal	1 December 1952	30 November 1958	Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
	Ernesto P. Uruchurtu	1951	1952	Miguel Alemán
	Adolfo Ruiz Cortines	1948	1951	Miguel Alemán
	Ernesto P. Uruchurtu	1948	1948	Miguel Alemán
	Héctor Pérez Martínez	1946	1948	Miguel Alemán
	Primo Villa Michel	1945	1946	Manuel Ávila Camacho
	Miguel Alemán Valdés	1940	1945	Manuel Ávila Camacho
	Ignacio García Téllez	1938	1940	Lázaro Cárdenas
	Silvestre Guerrero	1935	1938	Lázaro Cárdenas
	Silvano Barba González	1935	1935	Lázaro Cárdenas
	Juan de Dios Bojórquez	1934	1935	Lázaro Cárdenas
	Juan D. Cabral	1934	1934	Abelardo L. Rodríguez
	Narciso Bassols	1934	1934	Abelardo L. Rodríguez
	Eduardo Vasconcelos	1932	1934	Abelardo L. Rodríguez
	Juan José Ríos	1932	1932	Pascual Ortiz Rubio
	Manuel C. Téllez	1931	1932	Pascual Ortiz Rubio
	Lázaro Cárdenas del Río	1931	1932	Pascual Ortiz Rubio
	Octavio Mendoza González	1931	1931	Pascual Ortiz Rubio
	Carlos Riva Palacio	1930	1931	Pascual Ortiz Rubio
	Emilio Portes Gil	1930	1930	Pascual Ortiz Rubio
	Felipe Canales	1 December 1928	4 February 1930	Emilio Portes Gil
	Emilio Portes Gil	1928	1928	Plutarco Elías Calles
	Gonzalo Vázquez Vela	1928	1928	Plutarco Elías Calles
	Adalberto Tejeda	1925	1928	Plutarco Elías Calles
	Gilberto Valenzuela	1925	1925	Plutarco Elías Calles
	Romeo Ortega	1924 1924	1925 1924	Plutarco Elías Calles Alvaro Obregón
	Enrique Colunga	1923	1924	Alvaro Obregón
	Gilberto Valenzuela	1923	1923	Alvaro Obregón
	Plutarco Elías Calles	1920	1923	Alvaro Obregón
	José Inocencio Lugo	1920	1920	Adolfo de la Huerta
	Gilberto Valenzuela	1920	1920	Adolfo de la Huerta
	Manuel Aguirre Berlanga	1917	1920	Venustiano Carranza

References

- Article about death in airplane crash of Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño

External links

• (Spanish) Official site