The Secretary of Foreign Affairs ( es, Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores) is the

foreign secretary The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, known as the foreign secretary, is a minister of the Crown of the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Seen as ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

, responsible for implementing the country's foreign policy. The secretary is appointed by the

President of Mexico The president of Mexico ( es, link=no, Presidente de México), officially the president of the United Mexican States ( es, link=no, Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico. Under the Co ...

to head the

Secretariat of Foreign Affairs The Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs ( es, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, ''SRE'', lit: Secretariat of External Relations) is the government department responsible for Mexico's foreign affairs. Mexico currently has 80 embassies, 3 ...

( es, links=no, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores) and is a member of the federal executive cabinet. The Secretary is commonly referred to as ''Canciller'' (Spanish for ''Chancellor'') in Mexico. The Secretary of Foreign Affairs is

Marcelo Ebrard Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón (; born 10 October 1959) is a Mexican politician who is serving as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. Affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) since 2018, he was appointed to lead the f ...

List of Secretaries of Exterior Relations

Ignacio Mariscal Ignacio Mariscal (Oaxaca, Mexico July 5, 1829 – Mexico City April 17, 1910) was a Mexican liberal lawyer, politician, writer, and diplomat. He was named Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1871–72, for the first time during the Benito Juárez ...

1880–1883, 1885–1910 *

Enrique Creel Enrique Clay Creel Cuilty, sometimes known as Henry Clay Creel (30 August 1854 – 18 August 1931) was a Mexican businessman, politician and diplomat, member of the powerful Creel-Terrazas family of Chihuahua. He was a member of the Cientí ...

1910–1911 *

Francisco León de la Barra Francisco León de la Barra y Quijano (June 16, 1863 – September 23, 1939) was a Mexican political figure and diplomat who served as 36th President of Mexico from May 25 to November 6, 1911. He was known to conservatives as "The White Presid ...

1911, 1913 *

Victoriano Salado Álvarez Victoriano Salado Álvarez (30 September 1867 – 13 October 1931) was a Mexican writer, a prominent figure on the debate about Modernism in Mexican literature. He also served as secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Porfiri ...

1911 * Bartolomé Carvajal y Rosas 1911 * Manuel Calero y Sierra 1911–1912 * Pedro Lascuráin Paredes 1912–1913 *

Federico Gamboa Iglesias Federico Gamboa Iglesias (22 December 1864 in Mexico City – 15 August 1939 in Mexico City) was a writer and diplomat from Mexico. He has been considered as one of the top representatives of Naturalism in México. Gamboa wrote novels, thea ...

1913 * Francisco Escudero 1913 * Querido Moheno Tabares 1913–1914 * José López Portillo y Rojas 1914 * Francisco S. Carvajal 1914 * Ignacio Borrego 1915 * Cándido Aguilar 1916, 1916–1917, 1918 * Miguel Covarrubias Acosta 1920 * Cutberto Hidalgo Téllez 1920–1921 * Alberto J. Pani Arteaga 1921-1924 *

Aarón Sáenz Garza Aarón Sáenz Garza (1 June 1891 – 26 February 1983) was a Mexican politician. Biography He was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Sáenz Garza served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs during Calles' time as president. During his tenure, he co ...

1924–1927 *

Genaro Estrada Genaro Estrada (June 2, 1887 – September 29, 1937) was a Mexican statesman, academic, and writer. He was Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico between 1930 and 1932 and the architect of the Estrada Doctrine, which stated that the Mexican govern ...

1930–1932 * Manuel C. Téllez 1932 (interim) *

José Manuel Puig Casauranc José Manuel Puig Casauranc (31 January 1888 – 5 May 1939) was a Mexican politician, diplomat and journalist who served as Secretary of Public Education, Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Labor, Secretary of Foreign Affairs and federal le ...

1933–1934 *

Emilio Portes Gil Emilio Cándido Portes Gil (; 3 October 1890 – 10 December 1978) was President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930, one of three to serve out the six-year term of President-elect General Álvaro Obregón, who had been assassinated in 1928. Since th ...

1934–1935 *

Eduardo Hay Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to: Association football * Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator * Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footbal ...

1935–1940 * Ezequiel Padilla Peñaloza 1940–1945 * Francisco Castillo Nájera 1945–1946 *

Jaime Torres Bodet Jaime Mario Torres Bodet (17 April 1902 – 13 May 1974) was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico. Life Torres Bodet was born in Mexico City. His mother was Emilia Bodet ...

1946–1951 *

Manuel Tello Baurraud Manuel Tello Baurraud (1 November 1898 – 27 November 1971) was a Mexican politician and diplomat, who represented his country at the League of Nations (1938–1941) and served twice as Secretary of Foreign Affairs; first in the cabinet of Pre ...

1951–1952 * Luis Padilla Nervo 1952–1958 *

1958–1964 * José Gorostiza 1964 (interim) *

Antonio Carrillo Flores Antonio Carrillo Flores (June 23, 1909 – March 20, 1986) was a Mexican statesman, born in Mexico City. He was the second son of composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo, and older brother of Nabor Carrillo, rector of the National University and ...

1964–1970 * Emilio Óscar Rabasa 1970–1975 *

Alfonso García Robles Alfonso García Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. García Robles was born in Zamora, Michoacán, and trained ...

1975–1976 * Santiago Roel García 1976–1979 * Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez 1979–1982 * Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor 1982–1988 *

Fernando Solana Morales Fernando Solana Morales (February 8, 1931 – March 23, 2016) was a Mexican diplomat, politician and businessman. He served as the Mexican Secretary of Public Education, of Commerce and of Foreign Affairs. Biography Born in Mexico City, Fer ...

1988–1993 *

Manuel Camacho Solís Víctor Manuel Camacho Solís (March 30, 1946 – June 5, 2015) was a Mexican politician who served in the cabinets of presidents Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas. Born in Mexico City to Manuel Camacho López and Luz Solís, he belonged ...

1993–1994 * Manuel Tello Macías 1994 (interim) * José Ángel Gurría 1994–1998 * María del Rosario Green Macías 1998–2000 * Jorge Germán Castañeda Gutman 2000–2003 *

Luis Ernesto Derbez Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista (born April 1, 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician and Rector (academia), rector of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). He served as Mexico's Secretariat of Economy (Mexico), Secretary of Econ ...

2003–2006 * Patricia Espinosa Cantellano 2006–2012 *

José Antonio Meade Kuribreña José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

2012–2015 *

Claudia Ruiz Massieu Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, (born 10 July 1972) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs following her appointment by President Enrique Peña Nieto in ...

2015–2017 *

Luis Videgaray Caso Luis Videgaray Caso (born August 10, 1968) is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018. Previously he was the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, also in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto, from ...

2017-2018 *

2018-''present''

List of doctrines

Estrada Doctrine The Estrada Doctrine is the name of Mexico's core foreign policy ideal from 1930 to the early 2000s, and again since 2018. Its name derives from Genaro Estrada, Secretary of Foreign Affairs during the presidency of Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1930–193 ...

Castañeda Doctrine The Castañeda Doctrine is a term used as reference to Mexico's foreign policy during the presidency of Vicente Fox. Its name derives from its proponent, Jorge Castañeda Gutman. Fox appointed Castañeda to be his Secretary of Foreign Affairs In ma ...

References

External links

{{Commons category, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
Secretariat of Exterior Relations website
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