Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional

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SEDENA

The Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) is the political "secretariat (of the government) for national defense" in Mexico , comparable to a Ministry of Defense .

It was founded in 1884 as the "War and Navy Secretariat" ( Spanish : Secretaría de Guerra y Marina ) and has its seat in Mexico City . In 1937 it was renamed Secretaría de la Defensa . Since then, the Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR) has been responsible for the Mexican Navy, the Armada de México .

The office is in Mexico City . There are the following areas, the “Undersecretariat for National Defense” (Spanish: Subsecretaría de la Defensa Nacional ), the “ General Staff for National Defense” (Spanish: Estado Mayor de la Defensa Nacional ) and the organs for martial law, the so-called Órganos del Fuero de Guerra .

Previous secretaries

The office of a “secretario” / a “secretaria” of the government in Mexico is comparable to that of a minister in a state government.

Official Term of office president Period
Secretario / Secretaria de Guerra y Marina
Pedro Hinojosa 1884-1896 Porfirio Díaz 1884–1911
(second
presidency)
Felipe Berriozábal 1896-1900
Bernardo Reyes 1900-1902
Francisco Z. Mena 1903-1905
Manuel González Cosío 1905-1911
Eugenio Rascón 1911 Francisco Leon de la Barra 1911
José González Salas 1911
José González Salas 1911-1912 Francisco I. Madero 1911-1913
Ángel García Peña 1912-1913
Manuel Mondragón 1913 Victoriano Huerta 1913-1914
Aureliano Blanquet 1913-1914
José Refugio Velasco 1914
1914 Francisco S. Carvajal 1914
José Isabel Robles 1914-1915 Eulalio Gutiérrez 1914-1915
Alfredo Serratos 1915 Roque González Garza 1915
Francisco V. Pacheco 1915
Eduardo Hay 1914 Venustiano Carranza 1917-1920
Jacinto B. Treviño 1914
Ignacio L. Pesqueira 1914-1916
Álvaro Obregón 1916-1917
Jesús Agustín Castro 1917-1918
Juan José Ríos 1918-1920
Francisco L. Urquizo 1920
Plutarco Elías Calles 1920 Adolfo de la Huerta 1920
Benjamin Hill 1920 Álvaro Obregón 1920-1924
Enrique Estrada 1920-1922
Francisco R. Serrano 1922-1924
Joaquín Amaro 1924-1928 Plutarco Elías Calles 1924-1928
1928-1930 Emilio Portes Gil 1928-1930
1930-1931 Pascual Ortiz Rubio 1930-1932
Plutarco Elías Calles 1931-1932
Abelardo L. Rodríguez 1932
Pablo Quiroga Escamilla 1932-1933 Abelardo L. Rodríguez 1932-1934
Lázaro Cardenas del Río 1933
Pablo Quiroga Escamilla 1933-1934
1934-1935 Lázaro Cardenas del Río 1934-1940
Andrés Figueroa 1935-1936
Secretario / Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional
Manuel Avila Camacho 1936-1939
Jesús Agustín Castro 1939-1940
Pablo Macías Valenzuela 1940-1942 Manuel Avila Camacho 1940-1946
Lázaro Cardenas del Río 1942-1945
Francisco L. Urquizo 1945-1946
Gilberto R. Limón 1946-1952 Miguel Alemán Valdés 1946-1952
Matias Ramos 1952-1958 Adolfo Ruiz Cortines 1952-1958
Agustin Olachea 1958-1964 Adolfo López Mateos 1958-1964
Marcelino García Barragán 1964-1970 Gustavo Díaz Ordaz 1964-1970
Hermenegildo Cuenca Díaz 1970-1976 Luis Echeverría 1970-1976
Félix Galván López 1976-1982 José López Portillo 1976-1982
Juan Arévalo Gardoqui 1982-1988 Miguel de la Madrid 1982-1988
Antonio Riviello Bazan 1988-1994 Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1988-1994
Enrique Cervantes Aguirre 1994-2000 Ernesto Zedillo 1994-2000
Gerardo Clemente Ricardo Vega García 2000-2006 Vicente Fox 2000-2006
Guillermo Galván Galván 2006–2012 Felipe Calderón Hinojosa 2006–2012
Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda 2012– Enrique Peña Nieto 2012-

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Coordinates: 19 ° 26 ′ 25.5 ″  N , 99 ° 12 ′ 57.6 ″  W.