Secretariat of the Navy

Secretary of the Navy

Secretaría de Marina
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Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Federal government of Mexico
Agency executive	José Rafael Ojeda Durán, Secretary
Website	www.semar.gob.mx

The Secretary of the Navy (Spanish: Secretaría de Marina, SEMAR) is a member of the federal executive cabinet as well as the highest-ranking Mexican naval officer with the responsibility of commanding the Mexican Navy (including the Mexican Naval Infantry or ‘marines,’ as well as the Mexican merchant marine service ) and managing the Secretariat of the Navy (the naval ministry and naval civil service). The secretary is appointed by the President of the Republic.

• Organizes, administers and prepares the Navy.
• Exercising sovereignty in territorial seas, its air space and Mexico's coasts.

Functions

Based on article 30 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, among other actions the Secretariat is mandated to:

• Organize and administer the affairs of the Mexican Navy
• Manage the assets and reserves of the Navy in all its aspects
• Grant licenses and withdrawals, and intervene in the pensions of Navy service personnel
• Exercise sovereignty in territorial waters, as well as monitoring the coast of the territory, waterways, national islands and the exclusive economic zone
• Organize, administer and operate the naval aviation service
• Conduct naval public education
• Organize and administer the maritime police service
• Inspect the services of the Navy
• Build, rebuild and conserve the port works required by the Navy
• Establish and manage the stores and fuel stations and lubricants of the Navy
• Execute the topohydrographic works of the coasts, islands, ports and waterways, as well as organize the maritime chart file and relative statistics
• Intervene in the granting of permits for expeditions or scientific explorations abroad or international in national waters
• Build, maintain and operate, shipyards, dams, boatyards and naval establishments destined to the ships of the Mexican Navy
• Organize and provide naval health services
• Integrate the national oceanographic information archive
• Help in the organization and enforcement of National Naval Military Service
• Organize Maritime SAR operations
• Administer and operate the Mexican Merchant Marine Fleets

List of secretaries

President Manuel Ávila Camacho (1940–1946) : Heriberto Jara President Miguel Alemán (1946–1948) : Luis F. Schaulfelberger (1948–1949) : David Coello (1949–1952) : Alberto J. Pawling President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1952–1955) : Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (1955–1958) : Roberto Gómez Maqueo (1958–1958) : Héctor Meixueiro President Adolfo López Mateos (1958–1964) : Manuel Zermeño Araico President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964–1970) : Antonio Vázquez del Mercado President Luis Echeverría (1970–1976) : Luis M. Bravo Carrera

President José López Portillo (1976–1982) : Ricardo Cházaro Lara President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1988) : Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988–1990) : Mauricio Scheleske Sánchez (1990–1994) : Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–2000) : José Ramón Lorenzo Franco President Vicente Fox (2000–2006) : Marco Antonio Peyrot González President Felipe Calderón (2006–2012) : Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012–2018) : Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018–present) : José Rafael Ojeda Durán

External links

• Official Website of the Navy
• Official site of the President's Cabinet Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine