Cabinet of Mexico

The Cabinet of Mexico is the informal name given to a group of entities of the Federal Public Administration. It is a group of collaborators who assist, in the fulfillment of their powers and functions, the president of Mexico, who heads it. The heads and structure of the cabinet are responsible for the design, application, evaluation and guarantee of public policies within the scope of their powers in matters of governance, armed forces, public security, economy, foreign relations, public services (education, health, employment, housing, food), infrastructure, environment, comptrollership, among other areas of responsibility of the Federal Government.

The Political Constitution of the United Mexican States contemplates these institutions in five articles of the same section (Title III, Chapter III) that define the federal executive power, which falls solely on the president of the Republic, so the cabinet does not is the repository of said power, but rather a group of entities formalized in different sectors so that it can attend to its governmental tasks, whether for basic, complementary, temporary or emerging functions.

The Federal Public Administration, according to the Magna Carta and its organic law, is divided into centralized and parastatal. The obligations, powers, requirements and restrictions of the different positions are determined by the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration. The main component of the cabinet is the secretariats of State, but there are also agencies, bodies, state companies and public trusts in the that the secretariats may or may not have interference, but that they are also part of the cabinet.

The president is empowered to freely appoint and remove members of the cabinet, as well as to decree the creation of new entities of the Centralized Public Administration. However, the Congress of the Union as a general congress or through one of its two chambers has among its functions the ratification of some officials, the inspection of some public policies and the reforms made to the laws related to the Federal Public Administration.

Historically the cabinet has been divided into the "legal cabinet": composed of the heads of the Secretariats of State, the Legal Department of the Federal Executive and the now defunct Attorney General's Office of the Republic; and in the "extended cabinet": composed of companies with majority state participation, decentralized organizations, deconcentrated administrative bodies and public trusts. Although the Office of the Presidency of the Republic is formally integrated into the Federal Public Administration, it is not commonly considered part of the legal cabinet, as it has its own structure and regulations, working directly with the head of the executive.

History

Background

The Secretariat of the Chamber of the Viceroyalty, established in 1756, was in charge of assisting the viceroy of New Spain. Previously, the only entities that the viceroy could rely on were the Royal Treasury, the Royal Court and the Court of Accounts. The Secretariat allowed the formalization of the public administration career carried out by civil servants. In subsequent years, José de Gálvez y Gallardo, one of the main promoters of the Bourbon reforms, in his assignment as Visitor General (1765-1769) took on the task of giving a legal body to said secretariat.

With the passage of time, the functions that made up the Viceroyalty Chamber became specialised, and by 1797 during the viceroyalty of Juan Vicente de Güemes, it had been organized into four thematic tables, each preceded by a department:

• The Department First attended the works of the Virreinal Palace, the California Piadoso Fund, the postcards from abroad and the municipalities, the Huehuetoca drainage and the management of half of the mayors.
• The Second Department served the finances and incomes of the viceroyalty, as well as the direction of the Mining Court and the San Carlos Academy.
• The Third Department dealt with the courts and ecclesiastical matters, as well as everything related to public assistance (hospitals, mountains of Piedad and the Botanic Garden of the Virreinal Palace).
• The Fourth Department dealt with any military matter.

In the context of the founding or organizational documents of the insurgent movement that occurred within the framework of the War of Independence, some cases can be mentioned. The Constitutional Elements of 1812, the first precedent of Mexican constitutionalism, in accordance with the conception of the Government of a nation State arising from European liberal thought - which conceives the executive branch as responsible for the security and execution of laws; the defense and exercise of sovereignty; and the administration of the economy—was based on the Secretariat of the Chamber of the Viceroyalty to outline three eventual “business offices”: Grace and Justice, War and Treasury.

Later, the Constitutional Decree for the Freedom of Mexican America of 1814 mentioned the power of the Supreme Government (depository of executive power) to form ministries or offices in the exercise of its duties, but except for the section that detailed the Treasury, He did not specify any others.

19th century

After the war of independence was consummated, the Treaties of Córdoba agreed that the new country would be organized under a constitutional monarchy whose crown would be offered to Ferdinand VII of Spain, or failing that, to the successive heirs to the Spanish throne.

On November 8, 1821, the Provisional Government Board (with legislative powers) promulgated the Regulations for its Interior and Exterior Government of the Secretariats of State, where it was formally established that the Regency of the Empire (in charge of the executive, until the appointment of the emperor) had four "secretariats of State and Office": Secretariat of State and Office of Foreign and Interior Relations, Secretariat of State and Office of War and Navy, Secretary of State and of the Office of the Treasury and Secretary of State and the Office of Justice and Ecclesiastical Business. Respectively in charge: of the basic functions of the government, including relations with the other central powers and provincial governments, as well as foreign policy; of the creation and organization of armed forces, made up of a land army and a navy; of the administration of the income and expenditure of the empire; and the attention and connection of judicial and clerical matters.

The characteristics and obligations of each of these offices were ratified in the Provisional Political Regulations of the Mexican Empire of February 23, 1822, which deposited its powers with the category of ministries, already with the reign of Emperor Augustine I. These being primarily:

State Secretariat and the Office of Foreign and Internal Relations.

• 1.- The State Secretariat and the Office of Foreign and Internal Relations touch and belong to all the diplomatic relations of the foreign courts. -
  • 2nd general direction of mails, compositions of roads, roadways, bridges and other...... with the provision of all the employees of this vast bouquet, even the cabinet mails:...
  • 3rd and last; all that is purely state.
• 2.- All the economic and political branches of the kingdom, such as the political leaders of the provinces, the constitutional councils, the stewardships of their own and the general provision of all the employees of these branches.

Secretariat of State and the Universal Office of Justice and Ecclesiastical Business.

• 1.- To the Secretary of State and the Universal Court of Justice and Ecclesiastical Business, all the business of the councils there are, supreme courts, judges and other civil authorities of the kingdom, whose consultations of lawsuits, causes and others must be dispatched by it, as well as the places of all the individuals of which they are composed, even the scribes of all kinds.
• 2.- Generally ecclesiastical matters, the presentation of archbishops, bishops, canongies, heals, benefits and other jobs of this vast bouquet.
• 3.- What belongs to all secular and regular religions, includes the provision of their jobs and definitions of their chapters.
• 4.- All that corresponds to the three supreme joints that must be surgery, medicine and pharmacy, with the albeiter, and the jobs of these vowels and their subbalterns.
• 5.- All employees of the general servitude of the imperial palace, both ecclesiastical and secular, even the custodial judge who must have these individuals: their affairs of all kinds and the provision of all their jobs.

Secretary of State and the War and Navy Office.

• 1.- All matters pertaining to weapons and war of the sea and land are dealt with by the Secretary of State and the War and Navy.
• 2.- The general provision of the jobs of this vast bouquet.

Secretary of State and the Office of the Treasury.

• 1.- All businesses belonging to the Public Treasury in their various incomes are covered by the State Secretariat and the Universal Treasury Office.
• 2.- The immediate provision or approval in your case of all income jobs.

With the dissolution of the First Empire and the eventual formation of a federal republic, there was no change in the organization of the cabinet, other than the change in the name of the ministries from "Secretary of State and Office" to simply "Secretary of State", which brought with it the shortening of three secretariats.

The number of new members in the presidential cabinet certainly grew throughout the century xix but rather slowly. The next time the cabinet organization was disturbed was in 1837 with the Seven Laws with the establishment of the Centralist Republic (Mexico), a centralist system, in which the name was changed from "secretary of state" to "ministry." to reflect this change, and there was a short-lived attempt to divide the Secretariat of State and the Office of Foreign and Interior Relations into two: the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of domestic and foreign policy, respectively; However, due to the political instability of the time, the change was annulled in 1841 when it was reunited into a single ministry: first with the name of Ministry of Interior and Foreign Affairs (1841-1842) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government and Police (1842-1853). Among the significant changes, was the expansion of powers in the area of Justice and Ecclesiastical Business, when in 1841 it was called the Ministry of Justice, Ecclesiastical Business, Public Instruction and Industry.

In 1853, during the last government of Antonio López de Santa Anna, the fifth department of the national government emerged. The then called Ministry of Development, Colonization and Industry and Commerce, was established based on specific functions, and until then little assisted, from the rest of the offices, such as support for industry, inventiveness and the entrepreneurship of private businesses; That is, its area of public policies corresponded to organizing the development of the country. Another attempt that did not materialize to separate the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also stands out. In 1855 with the Plan of Ayutla and the exile of Santa Anna, the name from "ministry" was changed to "secretariat of State" again.

The Constitution of 1857 brought with it a series of changes in public administration. In 1858 the two changes made by the Santa Anna dictatorship were annulled. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Interior met again. The Secretariat of Development, Colonization, Industry and Commerce was eliminated, in which all its powers were assigned to those that had originated it.

During the Empire of Maximilian of Habsburg, and with the promulgation of the Provisional Statute of the Mexican Empire in 1865, nine ministerial departments were established, these being in accordance with its article 5:

• Minister of the Imperial House:
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• “Go to Justice;
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• “Go from War;
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However, in 1867 with the Restored Republic, Benito Juárez, nothing of the nine imperial departments was preserved. In that year, the final division of the Secretariats of the Interior and Foreign Relations was finalized, the names they currently have. In addition, the Secretariat of Development, Colonization, Industry and Commerce, which had been extinct in 1858, was re-created.

At the beginning of the Porfiriato, significant changes occurred. The first was in 1876, the first time that Porfirio Díaz assumed the presidency, in which the name was simplified to the Ministry of Public Works. The second occurred in the context of the drive for economic development typical of this period, on May 13, 1891, when the functions of developing and directing public infrastructure were removed from the Ministry of Public Works, to create the seventh area in the organization chart of the federal government: the Ministry of Communications and Public Works.

Another significant change came with the rearrangement of functions in the system of tariffs and taxes linked to trade, which when moving from the Ministry of Development to that of Finance, ended up definitively configuring the current structure and name of this last.

20th century

On May 22, 1900, the first department of a State Secretariat was born: the Attorney General's Office. It was created as a body born directly from a constitutional reform and whose head, like a Secretary of State, would be freely appointed and removed by the President of the Republic, but would be dependent on the Ministry of Justice and Public Instruction.

On May 18, 1905, the eighth secretariat of the federal government was created. The Secretariat of Justice and Public Instruction was divided into two: Secretariat of Justice and Secretariat of Public Instruction and Fine Arts.

With the events of the Mexican Revolution, a series of changes occurred that were a reflection of the political instability of the second decade of the xx century.

Once the Tragic Decade was over, on February 19, 1913, Victoriano Huerta decreed two reforms of the presidential cabinet in economic matters. The Ministry of Development changed its name to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and created the ninth secretariat of State: the Ministry of Agriculture and Colonization, in charge of rural development and the colonization of new territories for productive purposes.

Once Huerta was deposed, there were two parallel governments: the conventionalist one (emanated from the Aguascalientes Convention) and the constitutionalist one (led by Venustiano Carranza). On August 26, 1914, Carranza, the first head of the Constitutionalist Army, as "in charge of the executive power of the United Mexican States" merged the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce with the newly created Secretariat of Agriculture and Colonization to create a secretariat that would bring together the main economic activities, under the name of the Ministry of Agriculture and Development.

The promulgation of the 1917 Constitution marked a breakthrough in creating a more stable legal order. At the constitutional level, the figure of "administrative department" was created, in charge of essentially temporary functions, which did not require more elaborate regulatory or political structures, but part of the presidential cabinet, whose heads would be called "heads of the department." In addition, the Attorney General's Office of the Republic was recognized as the head of the Public Ministry of the Federation (responsible for prosecuting federal crimes), and with the same rank as a secretary of state or an administrative department, so it was extinguished. the Ministry of Justice, the first Secretary of State to disappear from national political life.

Carranza decreed a law that organized the cabinet on April 14, 1917, which however would only be in force until the president-elect took office in the federal elections of 1917. On December 31, 1917, Carranza was already constitutional president promulgated the Law of Secretariats of State and Administrative Departments, which organized the presidential cabinet, in addition to the Attorney General's Office of the Republic, in the already traditional seven secretariats of State and five administrative departments, adding twelve dependencies of the cabinet:

• Ministry of the Interior
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
• Ministry of Agriculture and Development
• Secretariat for Communications and Public Works
• Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour
• War and Navy Secretariat
• University Department and Fine Arts
• Department of Public Health
• Department of Comptrollers
• Department of General Provisions
• Department of Fabrile Establishments and Military Provisions.

The new law brought important changes. He restored the separation of the Secretariats of Agriculture and Development and Industry, Commerce and Labor (where he also added labor development as a faculty). It replaced the Secretariat of Public Instruction and Fine Arts with the University and Fine Arts Department, to comply with article 3 of the Political Constitution (on educational matters). The departments of Public Health (in charge of public health), Comptroller's Office (in the homonymous matter), General Supplies (product of a split of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor) and Factory Establishments and Military Supplies (product of of a split of the Secretary of War and Navy).

In the government of Álvaro Obregón, on October 3, 1921, he decreed the extinction of the University and Fine Arts Department to raise its status and create the Secretariat of Public Education, the name it currently has.

In the government of Plutarco Elías Calles, the first Mexican organization dedicated entirely to water policy was born: on January 27, 1926, Calles decreed the Law on Irrigation with Federal Waters in which the National Irrigation Commission, an organization whose head was appointed by the President of the Republic but dependent on the Ministry of Agriculture and Development.

In the government of Emilio Portes Gil, the political reform of the Federal District occurred in 1928. On December 31, 1928, the Department of the Federal District was created. Previously, the holders of executive power (called "governors", as well as than the states) of the Federal District - as well as the federal territories -, but with this reform he became part of the presidential cabinet, and in turn, the head of the Department of the Federal District (commonly called regent of the City) was empowered to freely appoint and remove delegates.

On November 1, 1937, the Ministry of War and Navy changed its name to the Ministry of National Defense and subsequently the Department of the Navy was created on September 30, 1939. In 1937, it had created the Secretaría de Asistencia Pública, which when merged in 1943 with the Department of Health created the Secretariat of Health and Assistance. While in 1943 the Departments of Labor and the Navy were elevated to the rank of Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare and Secretary of the Navy respectively. Finally, in 1946, the Secretariat of Hydraulic Resources was created to replace the National Irrigation Commission.

In the framework of Stabilizing Development, the structure of the cabinet was directed so that all areas collaborated, within the scope of their responsibilities, to promote said economic policy. For this reason, the Secretariat of the Presidency was created, a kind of Chief of Staff; since said office was, in practice, responsible for organizing and coordinating the activities of the others on an annual basis, taking into account the greatest obligation that was given to it: managing the public budget of the federal government. The changes in the six-year term of Adolfo López Mateos (in which said secretariat was created) included that the Secretariat of National Assets and Administrative Inspection became the Secretariat of National Heritage; the Ministry of Economy became the Ministry of Industry and Commerce; Communications and Public Works was separated into two different entities (corresponding to the names of the aforementioned activities).

In 1974 the administrative departments of Tourism and Agrarian Reform were elevated to the rank of secretariats. In the government of José López Portillo, the following changes occurred: the creation of the Department of Fisheries; the merger of the Secretariats of Agriculture and that of Hydraulic Resources; and the expansion of powers of the Secretariat of the Presidency, which transformed it into the Secretariat of Programming and Budget. During the period of Miguel de la Madrid, and in the context of his campaign platform called Moral Renewal, the Secretariat of the Comptroller General of the Federation was created, in charge of the correct functioning of the Public Administration Federal, in an attempt to combat corruption. In addition, the Secretariats of Human Settlements and Public Works, and Health and Assistance, became the Secretariat of Urban Development and Ecology, and the Secretariat of Health respectively.

During the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari in 1992, the responsibility for managing the budget was returned to the Treasury and Public Credit, thus the Programming and Budget office disappeared. That same year, the powers of the Urban Development and Ecology area changed to create the Secretariat of Social Development; The change was at the same time as the strong boost received by the axis of the government's social policy, the Solidarity program; leaving this position of this secretariat.

At the beginning of Ernesto Zedillo's six-year term in 1994, the Secretary of Fisheries received powers from the area of Ecology, to become the Secretary of the Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries; With this, the Ministry of Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources became the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development. In addition, the areas of energy, mines and parastatal industry were promoted to the rank of secretary of state with the name of Secretary of Energy.

On December 5, 1997, the Department of the Federal District disappeared, the last one to retain that category, when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas assumed the role of Head of Government of the Federal District and, as established in a constitutional reform in 1995, was able to grant him a autonomy limited to the local powers of the capital.

21st century

During the government of Vicente Fox, the most important change was to direct the powers in matters of security, from the Ministry of the Interior to the new Ministry of Public Security. The Office of Commerce and Industrial Development was renamed the Ministry of Economy. Different changes in the faculties brought about the modification in the names of some secretariats.

In the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, the disappearance of the Ministry of Public Security was presented as modifications to reintegrate it into the Interior; the creation of the Secretariat of Culture and the transformation of the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform into the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development; and the most important was the constitutional reform that separated the Attorney General's Office from the cabinet to create the Attorney General's Office, whose head would now be appointed by the Senate of the Republic by nomination of the president.

Finally, and before taking office as president of the republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador promoted reforms to the organic law of the federal public administration, to expand powers or modify the names and strategies of some secretariats. The most relevant changes being the creation of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, which among its new functions is to administer everything related to the intelligence service of the Mexican State; the change in the name of the Secretariats of Social Development and that of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, the first to be called the Secretariat of Welfare, and the second to be simplified as the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development, changes that came into effect on December 1, 2018. On October 20, 2021, the Ministry of Communications and Transportation was renamed as the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation.

Features

The general characteristics that the different secretariats must maintain are established in articles 10 to 17 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration.

• Article 10.- The State Secretariats will have equal rank and among them there will therefore be no preeminence. Without prejudice to the above, by agreement of the President of the Republic, the Ministry of the Interior shall coordinate the actions of the Federal Civil Service to comply with its agreements and orders.
• Article 11. The incumbents of the State Secretariat shall exercise the functions of their competence by agreement of the President of the Republic.
• Article 12. Each State Secretariat shall formulate, in respect of matters falling within its competence; draft laws, regulations, decrees, agreements, and orders of the President of the Republic.
• Article 13.- Regulations, decrees and agreements issued by the President of the Republic shall, for their constitutional validity and observance, be signed by the Secretary of State concerned and, when they relate to matters of competence of two or more Secretariats, shall be endorsed by all holders of the same.
  • In the case of promulgatory decrees of the laws or decrees issued by the Congress of the Union, only the endorsement of the holder of the Ministry of the Interior shall be required.
• Article 14.- At the head of each Secretariat there will be a Secretary of State, who for the conduct of the affairs of his or her competence, will be assisted by the Assistant Secretaries, Senior Officers, Directors, Deputy Directors, Heads and Deputy Chiefs of Department, Office, Section and Table, and by other officials who establish the respective internal rules and other legal provisions. In the amparo proceedings, the President of the Republic may be represented by the holder of the unit to which the matter corresponds, according to the distribution of powers. Administrative remedies promoted against acts of the State Secretaries shall be resolved within the scope of their Secretariat in the terms of applicable legal systems.
• Article 15. (Derogated)
• Article 16.- The holders of the State Secretariats are originally responsible for the processing and resolution of the affairs of their competence, but for the best organization of work they may delegate to the officials referred to in article 14 of this Law, any of their powers, except those which, by provision of law or of the respective internal regulations, should be exercised precisely by those holders.
  • The incumbents of the State Secretariats may also organically attach the administrative units established in the respective internal regulations, the Undersecretariats, the Senior Officials, and the other equivalent administrative units specified in the same internal regulations.
  • Agreements deleting powers or attaching administrative units shall be issued in the Official Journal of the Federation.
• Article 17. For the most effective care and efficient dispatch of the affairs of their competence, the State Secretariats may have unconcentrated administrative bodies that will be subordinated to them hierarchically and have specific powers to resolve the matter and within the territorial scope determined in each case, in accordance with applicable legal provisions

While for their holders, their characteristics are established in article 91 of the constitution.

To be secretary of the Office it is required: to be a Mexican citizen by birth, to be in exercise of their rights and to be twenty-five years old.

Presidential Cabinet

Legal office

Article 26 of the Federal Public Administration Law establishes the existence and numbers in the following order the official names of the twenty agencies of the President of the Republic for the dispatch of his administrative affairs:

Unit	Background	Owner	Summary
Ministry of the Interior	Secretary of State and the Office for Foreign and Internal Affairs (1821-1837) Ministry of the Interior (1837-1841) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Interiors (1841-1842) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government and Police (1842-1853) Ministry of the Interior (1853-1855) Ministry of the Interior (1855-1857) Secretariat for Foreign Affairs and Governance (1858-1867) Ministry of the Interior (since 1867)	Luisa Maria Mayor Luján	See
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Secretary of State and the Office for Foreign and Internal Affairs (1821-1837) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1837-1841) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Interiors (1841-1842) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government and Police (1842-1853) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1853-1855) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1855-1857) Secretariat for Foreign Affairs and Governance (1858-1867) Secretariat for Foreign Affairs (since 1867)	Alicia Bárcena	See
Ministry of Defence	War and Navy Secretariat (1821-1837) Ministry of War and Marina (1837-1855) War and Navy Secretariat (1855-1936) Ministry of Defence (since 1936)	Luis Cresencio Sandoval	See
Marine Secretariat	Department of the National Navy (1940) Marine Secretariat (since 1940)	José Rafael Ojeda Durán	See
Citizen Security and Protection Secretariat	Ministry of Public Security (2000-2013) Citizen Security and Protection Secretariat (since 2018)	Rosa Icela Rodríguez	See
Ministry of Finance and Public Credit	Ministry of Public Finance (1821-1837) Ministry of Finance (1837-1853) Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (1853-1855) Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (since 1855)	Rogelio Ramírez de la O	See
Welfare Secretariat	Secretariat of Public Works (1959-1976) Human Settlements and Public Works (1976-1982) Secretariat for Social Development and Ecology (1982-1998) Social Development Secretariat (1998-2018) Welfare Secretariat (since 2018)	Ariadna Montiel Reyes	See
Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat	Department of Fisheries (1976-1982) Fisheries Secretariat (1982-1994) Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries Secretariat (1994-2000) Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (since 2000)	María Luisa Albores González	See
Energy Secretariat	Ministry of National Property and Administrative Inspection (1946-1958) National Heritage Secretariat (1958-1976) Ministry of Heritage and Industrial Development (1976-1982) Ministry of Energy, Mines and Parastatal Industry (1982-1994) Energy Secretariat (since 1994)	Miguel Ángel Maciel Torres	See
Ministry of Economy	Ministerio de Fomento, Colonización, Industria y Comercio (1853-1855) Promotion, Colonization, Industry and Trade Secretariat (1855-1857) Development Secretariat (1876-1913) Industry and Trade Secretariat (1914) Ministry of Agriculture and Development (1914-1917) Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour (1917-1932) Secretariat of the National Economy (1932-1946) Economics Secretariat (1946-1958) Industry and Trade Secretariat (1958-1976) Trade Secretariat (1976-1982) Trade and Industrial Development Secretariat (1982-2000) Economics Secretariat (since 2000)	Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez	See
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development	Ministry of Agriculture and Colonization (1913-1914) Ministry of Agriculture and Development (1914-1917) Ministry of Agriculture and Development (1917-1946) Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (1946-1976) Ministry of Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources (1976-1994) Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development (1994-2000) Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (2000-2018) Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (since 2018)	Victor Villalobos Arámbula	See
Infrastructure, Communications and Transport Secretariat	Secretariat for Communications and Public Works (1891-1958) Secretariat for Communications and Transport (1958-2021) Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation Secretariat (from 2021)	Jorge Nuño Lara	See
Public Service Secretariat	Federation General Control Secretariat (1982-1994) Ministry of Control and Administrative Development (1994-2003) Public Service Secretariat (since 2003)	Roberto Salcedo Aquino	See
Ministry of Public Education	Ministry of Public Education and Fine Arts (1905-1917) University and Fine Arts Department (1917-1921) Ministry of Public Education (since 1921)	Leticia Ramírez Amaya	See
Ministry of Health	Social Welfare Secretariat (1938) Ministry of Health and Assistance (1940-1982) Ministry of Health (since 1982)	Jorge Alcocer Varela	See
Ministry of Labour and Social Security	Department of Labour (1932-1941) Ministry of Labour and Social Security (since 1941)	Marath Baruch Bolaños López	See
Ministry of Agricultural, Territorial and Urban Development	Agrarian Department (1934-1958) Department of Agricultural Affairs and Colonization (1958-1970) Agrarian Reform Secretariat (1974-2013) Ministry of Agricultural, Territorial and Urban Development (since 2013)	Román Meyer Falcón	See
Ministry of Culture	Ministry of Culture (since 2015)	Alejandra Frausto Guerrero	See
Ministry of Tourism	Department of Tourism (1958-1970) Ministry of Tourism (since 1970)	Miguel Torruco Marqués	See
Legal Counseling of the Federal Executive	Legal Counsel of the Federal Executive (since 1996)	María Estela Ríos González	See

Expanded cabinet

The expanded cabinet is made up of all entities dependent on the federal executive that are not integrated into the legal cabinet, which in total are a total of 299 decentralized agencies and organizations:

• State productive enterprises. They are state enterprises in which the State is the owner of all its production, and which constitutionally are allowed to exercise the monopoly in its functions. There are two: Mexican oils — oil and natural gas — and the Federal Electricity Commission — electrical energy. Its headlines are the main director of the company and the president of them is the Energy Secretary in turn. They are part of the State Public Service.
• Decentralized agencies. It is the main and most common type of entity within the Parastatal Public Administration. Their names usually start by institute or commission. In most cases they are sectored to a secretariat, and are immediately inferior to the secretary of State within the organigrams; but they may also not be sectored and depend directly on the president without any secretary through.
• Main State Participation Companies. They are those companies in which the State owns at least 50% of the capital. Its purpose is to meet the needs of goods or services that the laws establish, while ensuring the continuity of the productive-commercial structure and its necessary investments. Historically, the Mexican state was an active participant and owner of a large number of companies, within the framework of the Estatismo, which is owned by the PRI regime of the centuryXX.; but from the sexenium of Miguel de la Madrid, a period of privatization began that almost entirely decreased these companies, however, some still remain today, such as Telecomm-Telegrafos, Mexico Posts, Airports and Auxiliary Services, Notimex and the National Lottery. They are part of the State Public Service.
• Public trust. They are trustees created to save money and meet in a specific area (especially some where a strong investment is required, either to solve population deficiencies or to promote an emerging market. They are dependent on the State secretariats to which they are sectored, however, in all cases the trustee is the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. They are part of the State Public Service.

The most important entities of the expanded cabinet due to their relevance in national political and daily life are the following:

Cargo	Type	Dependant on / sectorized to	Owner
Mexican Oils	Productive company of the State	Energy Secretariat	Octavio Romero Oropeza
Federal Electricity Commission	Productive company of the State		Manuel Bartlett Díaz
National Water Commission	Deconcentrated administrative body	Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat	Germán Arturo Martínez Santoyo
Institute for the Safety and Social Services of State Workers	Decentralized	Ministry of Health	Pedro Mario Zenteno Santaella
Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social	Decentralized		Zoé Robledo Aburto
Institute of Health for Welfare	Decentralized		Juan Antonio Ferrer Águila
Tax Administration Service	Deconcentrated administrative body	Ministry of Finance and Public Credit	Antonio Martínez Dagnino
National Housing Fund Institute for Workers	Decentralized	-	Carlos Martínez Velázquez
National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family	Decentralized	Ministry of Health	Nuria Fernández Espresate
National Council for Science and Technology	Decentralized	-	María Elena Álvarez-Buylla
National Commission on Physical and Sports Culture	Decentralized	Ministry of Public Education	Ana Gabriela Guevara
National Institute of Indigenous Peoples	Decentralized	-	Adelfo Regino Montes
National Women ' s Institute	Decentralized		Nadine Gasman
National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination	Decentralized	Ministry of the Interior	Claudia Morales Reza
Federal Consumer Procurator	Decentralized	Ministry of Economy	Ricardo Sheffield
Federal Office for Environmental Protection	Decentralized	Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat	Blanca Alicia Mendoza Vera
National Migration Institute	Decentralized	Ministry of the Interior	Francisco Garduño Yáñez
Federal Ways and Bridges	Decentralized	Infrastructure, Communications and Transport Secretariat	Elsa Julieta Veites Arévalo
National Finance	Major State Participation Company	Ministry of Finance and Public Credit	Luis Antonio Ramírez Pineda
National Tourism Development Fund	Public trust	Ministry of Tourism	Javier May Rodríguez

Former offices of the presidential cabinet

List of cabinets

Councils of ministers of the First Empire and the Provisional Government

Cabinets of the First Federal Republic

Cabinets of the Centralist Republic

Cabinets of the Second Federal Republic and the Second Empire

Cabinets of the Restored Republic and the Porfiriato

Cabinets of the Revolution and Post-Revolution

Sexennial Cabinets