Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)

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Francisco Ramirez Acuña (2006–present)

The Secretary of the Interior (formally Secretario de Gobernación) is the head of the Secretariat of the Interior of Mexico. The secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

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:

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 (PRI) primaries (the first ones the party had ever held) and during his unsuccessful campaign against current president Vicente Fox.

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

[edit] List of Secretaries of the Interior

Carlos Maria Abascal (2005–2006)

Santiago Creel (2000–2005)

Francisco Labastida Ochoa (1998–1999)

Luis Echeverria (1963–1969)

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1948–1951)

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1958–1963)

Miguel Alemán Valdés (1940–1945)

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