Secretariat of National Defense
Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional | |
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Jurisdiction | Mexico |
Headquarters | Boulevard Manuel Ávila Camacho 172, Irrigación, Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, 11200 Mexico City 19°26′25″N 99°12′57″W / 19.44028°N 99.21583°W |
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The Mexican Office for National Defence (SEDENA; Spanish: Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional) is the government department responsible for managing Mexico's Army and Air Forces. Its head is the Director for National Defense who, like the co-equal Director of the Navy, is directly answerable to the President.[1] Before 1937, the position was called the Director for War and of the Navy (Secretaría de Guerra y Marina). The agency has its headquarters in Lomas de Sotelo, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City.[2] Some key figures who answer directly to the Director are the Assistant Director, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, and all military tribunals.
Under the Federal Public Administration Act (Ley Orgánica de la Administración Pública Federal), the Secretary has the following duties:
- Organize, administer and prepare the Army and the Air Force.
- Organize and prepare the National Military Service.
- Management of the Army, Air Force, National Guard and armed contingents which don't belong to state's national guard.
- Plan, direct and handle mobilization of the country in the event of war; formulating and executing, in due case, plans and orders necessary to the country defense, as well as directing and advising civil defense.
- Construct and prepare the forts and all kind of military buildings for Army and Air Force use, as well as administration of barracks, hospitals and other military buildings.
- Administer military justice.
- Acquire and build armaments, ammunition, and all kinds of materials and elements for the use of Army and Air Force.
- Grant permission for an expedition force to enter another country or to allow another country to send their forces to Mexico.
- Manage the issuing of licenses to bear firearms with the aim of preventing the use of arms expressly banned in law and also those types of arms restricted by the state for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and National Guard, with the exception of what is established by the 13th section of Article 30 of the Constitution, as well as the supervision and issuing of permits for the sale, transport and storage of firearms, chemical weapons, explosives and strategic weapons.
List of Directors
No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Time in office | President |
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1 | Pablo Quiroga Escamilla (1875–1948) | General de brigada1934 | 1935 | 0–1 years | Lázaro Cárdenas del Río | |
2 | Andrés Figueroa Figueroa (1884–1936) | 1935 | 1936 † | 0–1 years | Lázaro Cárdenas del Río | |
3 | Manuel Ávila Camacho (1897–1955) | 1936 | 1939 | 2–3 years | Lázaro Cárdenas del Río | |
4 | Jesús Agustín Castro (1887–1953) | General de División1939 | 1940 | 0–1 years | Lázaro Cárdenas del Río | |
5 | Jesús Agustín Castro (1891–1975) | 1940 | 1942 | 1–2 years | Manuel Ávila Camacho | |
6 | Lázaro Cárdenas (1895–1970) | General de División1942 | 1945 | 2–3 years | Manuel Ávila Camacho | |
7 | Francisco L. Urquizo (1891–1969) | General de División1945 | 1946 | 0–1 years | Manuel Ávila Camacho | |
8 | Gilberto R. Limón (1891–1988) | 1946 | 1952 | 5–6 years | Miguel Alemán | |
9 | Matías Ramos (1891–1962) | General de División1952 | 1958 | 5–6 years | Adolfo Ruiz Cortines | |
10 | Agustín Olachea (1890–1974) | General de División1958 | 1964 | 5–6 years | Adolfo López Mateos | |
11 | Marcelino García Barragan (1895–1979) | General de División1964 | 1970 | 5–6 years | Gustavo Díaz Ordaz | |
12 | Hermenegildo Cuenca Díaz (1902–1977) | 1970 | 1976 | 5–6 years | Luis Echeverría Álvarez | |
13 | Félix Galván López (1913–1988) | General de División1976 | 30 November 1982 | 5–6 years | José López Portillo | |
14 | Juan Arévalo Gardoqui (1921–2000) | General de División1982 | 30 November 1988 | 5–6 years | Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado | |
15 | Antonio Riviello Bazán (1926–2017) | General de División1 December 1988 | 30 November 1994 | 5 years | Carlos Salinas de Gortari | |
16 | Enrique Cervantes Aguirre (born 1935) | General de División1 December 1994 | 30 November 2000 | 5 years | Ernesto Zedillo | |
17 | Gerardo Clemente Vega (born 1940) | General de División1 December 2000 | 30 November 2006 | 5 years | Vicente Fox | |
18 | Guillermo Galván Galván (born 1943) | General de División1 December 2006 | 30 November 2012 | 5 years | Felipe Calderón | |
19 | Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda (born 1948) | General Secretario1 December 2012 | Incumbent | 11 years | Enrique Peña Nieto |
See also
- Museo del Enervante - a Sedena museum dedicated to those who have fought drug trafficking in Mexico.
- Zuyaqui - a famous dog who worked for the agency.
Sources
- ^ Mexico's Federal Organic Law of Public AdministrationLey Orgánica de la Administración Pública Federal, Article 29 Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Home." Secretariat of National Defense. Retrieved on February 15, 2011. "Blvd. Manuel Ávila Camacho S/N. Esq. Av. Ind. Mil., Col. Lomas de Sotelo; Deleg. Miguel Hidalgo, D.F. C.P. 11640."