The Mexican Secretariat of Agrarian Reform (Spanish: ''Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria'', ''SRA'') was a Secretariat in the

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. It was created under the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, where Article 41 corresponds to the exercise of the functions and powers expressly stated in Article 27 of the

Constitution of Mexico The Constitution of Mexico, formally the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States ( es, Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the current constitution of Mexico. It was drafted in Santiago de Querétaro, in th ...

, which establishes the right of farm workers to own the land they work on. By 2013, the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform was replaced by the Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development.

Organization chart

To carry out these functions, the Agrarian Reform Secretariat has the following units: * Undersecretariat for Rural Property Management * Undersecretariat for Sector Policy * Legal Affairs Unit

Decentralized administrative bodies and entities

To carry out these functions, the Secretariat has the following units: * National Agrarian Registry * Agrarian Attorney's Office * National Trust Fund for Popular Rooms * National Land Development Fund Trust * Commission for the Regularization of Land Tenure * National Housing Commission * Support Fund for Unregulated Agrarian Nuclei

List of secretaries of agrarian reform of Mexico

* Government of

Luis Echeverría Luis Echeverría Álvarez (; 17 January 1922 – 8 July 2022) was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Previously, ...

(1970–1976) ** (1975):

Augusto Gómez Villanueva Augusto Gómez Villanueva (born 23 July 1929) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party i ...

** (1975–1976): Félix Barra García * Government of

José López Portillo José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 t ...

(1976–1982) ** (1976–1978): Jorge Rojo Lugo ** (1978–1980):

Antonio Toledo Corro Antonio Toledo Corro (1 April 1919 – 6 July 2018) was a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Born in Escuinapa de Hidalgo, he served as municipal president of Mazatlán from 1959 to 1962. Toledo ran a ...

** (1980–1981):

Javier García Paniagua Javier García Paniagua (February 13, 1935 – November 25, 1998) was a Mexican politician who ran for the presidency of Mexico in 1981. References Politicians from Jalisco 1935 births 1998 deaths Mexican Secretaries of the Agrarian Ref ...

** (1981–1982):

Gustavo Carvajal Moreno Gustavo Carvajal Moreno (1939 – 25 February 2017) was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), of which he became president. He also served as secretariat of agrarian reform, a senator, and a federal rep ...

* Government of

Miguel de la Madrid Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (; 12 December 1934 – 1 April 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988. Inheriting a severe economic an ...

(1982–1988) ** (1982–1986):

Luis Martínez Villicaña Luis Martínez Villicaña (April 1, 1939 – March 2, 2011) was a Mexican politician. He served as the Secretary of Agrarian Reform under Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid from December 1, 1982, until 1986. He left the Cabinet in 1986 upon ...

** (1986–1988):

Rafael Rodríguez Barrera Rafael Rodríguez Barrera (February 1, 1937 – December 3, 2011) was a Mexican politician, lawyer and ambassador. He held office as the Governor of the Mexican state of Campeche from 1973 until 1979. Rodríguez also served as the President of ...

* Government of

Carlos Salinas de Gortari Carlos Salinas de Gortari CYC DMN (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician who served as 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he wor ...

(1988–1994) ** (1988–1994): Víctor Cervera Pacheco * Government of

Ernesto Zedillo Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was 61st president of Mexico from 1 December 1994 to 30 November 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from t ...

(1994–2000) ** (1994–1995): Miguel Limón Rojas ** (1995–1999): Arturo Warman Gryj ** (1999–2000): Eduardo Robledo Rincón * Government of

Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elec ...

(2000–2006) ** (2000–2003): María Teresa Herrera Tello ** (2003–2006): Florencio Salazar Adame ** (2006)

Abelardo Escobar Prieto Abelardo Escobar Prieto (19 January 1938 – 11 February 2019) was a Mexican politician and cabinet minister who served as Minister of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (then the Ministry of Agrarian Reform) from April 2006 to December 2012 u ...

* Cabinet of

Felipe Calderón Hinojosa Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy p ...

(2006–2012) ** (2006–2012):

* Cabinet of

Enrique Peña Nieto Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...

(2012–2018) ** (2012–2013):

Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín (born August 14, 1961) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who since September 2018, serves as a Senator to the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress for the state of Yucatá ...

References

External links

Official site of the President's Cabinet

Agrarian Reform Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural land (see land reform) or, broadly, to an overall redirection of the agrarian system of the country, which often includes land re ...

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