Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile)

Ministry of the Interior and Public Security
Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública
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Agency overview
Formed	2011
Type	Ministry
Jurisdiction	Government of Chile
Headquarters	Santiago
Ministers responsible	Izkia Siches, Minister of the Interior and Public Security; Juan Francisco Galli, Undersecretary of the Interior; María Paz Troncoso Pulgar, Undersecretary of Regional Development; María José Gómez, Undersecretary of Crime Prevention;
Child agencies	Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia; Carabineros de Chile; Investigations Police of Chile; ONEMI;
Website	Official website (in Spanish)

The Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Spanish: Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública) is the cabinet-level office of home affairs in Chile, in charge of "maintaining public order, security and social peace" within the country. It is also charged with planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling, and informing the domestic policies formulated by the President of Chile. As responsible for local government, the minister supervises all non-elected regional authorities.

The current Minister of the Interior and Public Security is Izkia Siches;^[2]^[1] she is the first woman to hold this position.^[3] Her Undersecretary of the Interior is Juan Francisco Galli and the Undersecretary of Regional Development is María Paz Troncoso Pulgar. In the absence (because of travel, death, or other impediment) of the President of Chile, the Minister of the Interior becomes "Vice President"; however this is not a true Vice Presidential position, but rather a position of a Designated Acting President, as the post of Vice President of Chile has no existence independent from the Ministership of the Interior since 1833.

History[]

During the first days of the independence movements, the senior "secretary" of the respective Junta would function as the Secretary of Government. The office officially first came to be on October 27, 1812, when it was one of the two secretariats created by the approved on that date. It was then named Secretariat of the Interior. It was abolished in 1814 by the Spanish authorities when, after the Battle of Rancagua, they re-asserted royal power.

In 1818, after independence, the secretariat was re-established, but this time as a "Ministry of Government" (1817–18) later renamed "Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs" (1829–71). During this period, its functions normally subsumed the future Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was separated as an independent government administration in 1871. This ministry has undergone several reorganizations during its long history, reflected in its different names:

Ministry of Government (1817–18)
Ministry of Government and Foreign Affairs (1818–29)
Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs (1829–71)
Ministry of the Interior (1871–2011)
Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (2011–present)

The function of chief of government was unofficially assumed by the Minister of the Interior and Public Security (1891–1925).

List of Ministers[]

Patria Vieja period[]

Picture	Name	Entered office	Exited office	Notes	Appointed by
		September 18, 1810	July 4, 1811	Served concurrently	Government Junta of the Kingdom of Chile
		September 18, 1810	July 4, 1811	Served concurrently	Government Junta of the Kingdom of Chile
		August 10, 1811	September 4, 1811		Second Junta
		September 4, 1811	November 15, 1811	Served concurrently
		September 4, 1811	November 15, 1811	Served concurrently
	Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza	December 16, 1811	April 2, 1812		Fifth Junta
		April 2, 1812	October 2, 1812
		October 27, 1812	April 1, 1813	Secretary of the Interior
		April 1, 1813	April 13, 1813	Served concurrently
	Mariano Egaña Fabres	April 1, 1813	April 13, 1813	Served concurrently
	Mariano Egaña Fabres	April 13, 1813	March 9, 1814	Secretary of Government
		March 14, 1814	July 23, 1814	Secretary of Government	Francisco de la Lastra
		July 23, 1814	August 10, 1814	Secretary of Government and Finance
	Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza	August 10, 1814	October 2, 1814	Secretary of Government and Finance

Ministers of Government and Foreign Affairs[]

Picture	Name	Entered office	Exited office	Notes	Appointed by
	Miguel Zañartu y Santa María	February 18, 1817	August 1, 1818		Bernardo O'Higgins
	Antonio José de Irisarri Alonso	August 1, 1818	October 30, 1818
		October 30, 1818	January 28, 1823
	Mariano Egaña Fabres	January 28, 1823	July 12, 1824		Government Junta
	Francisco Antonio Pinto Díaz	July 12, 1824	February 22, 1825		Ramón Freire
	Francisco Ramón Vicuña Larraín	February 22, 1825	June 18, 1825
		June 18, 1825	October 9, 1825
		October 9, 1825	March 8, 1826
	Ventura Blanco Encalada	March 8, 1826	October 20, 1826
		October 20, 1826	March 8, 1827		Agustín Eyzaguirre
		March 8, 1827	December 13, 1827		Ramón Freire
		December 13, 1827	July 16, 1829		Francisco Antonio Pinto
	Melchor José Ramos Font	July 16, 1829	November 9, 1829		Francisco Ramón Vicuña
	José Nicolás de la Cerda Santiago Concha	November 9, 1829	December 7, 1829		Francisco Ramón Vicuña

Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs[]

Picture	Name	Entered office	Exited office	Notes	Appointed by
	Juan Francisco Meneses Echanes	February 20, 1830	April 5, 1830		Francisco Ruiz-Tagle
	Diego Portales Palazuelos	April 5, 1830	August 31, 1831	Appointed by	José Tomás Ovalle
	Diego Portales Palazuelos	April 5, 1830	August 31, 1831	Reappointed by	Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate
		August 31, 1831	May 17, 1832		José Joaquín Prieto Vial
	Joaquín Tocornal Jiménez	May 17, 1832	November 9, 1835
	Diego Portales Palazuelos	November 9, 1835	June 6, 1837	Interim
	Joaquín Tocornal Jiménez	June 7, 1837	July 25, 1840
	Manuel Montt Torres	July 25, 1840	March 27, 1841
		March 27, 1841	May 19, 1841
		May 19, 1841	April 10, 1845	Appointed by
		May 19, 1841	April 10, 1845	Reappointed by	Manuel Bulnes
	Manuel Montt Torres	April 10, 1845	September 18, 1846
	Manuel Camilo Vial Formas	September 18, 1846	June 12, 1849
	José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano	June 12, 1849	April 19, 1850
	Antonio Varas de la Barra	April 19, 1850	September 18, 1856	Appointed by
	Antonio Varas de la Barra	April 19, 1850	September 18, 1856	Reappointed by	Manuel Montt
		September 29, 1857	September 18, 1856
		September 29, 1857	May 1, 1860
	Antonio Varas de la Barra	May 1, 1860	September 18, 1861
	Manuel Alcalde Velasco	September 18, 1861	July 9, 1862		José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano
	Manuel Antonio Tocornal y Grez	July 9, 1862	May 10, 1864
		May 10, 1864	September 8, 1866	Minister of the Interior
		September 8, 1866	September 26, 1867
	Francisco Vargas Fontecilla	September 26, 1867	November 13, 1868
	Miguel Luis Amunátegui Aldunate	November 13, 1868	August 2, 1870
		August 2, 1870	September 18, 1871
		September 18, 1871	December 2, 1871		Federico Errázuriz Zañartu

Ministers of the Interior[]

Picture	Name	Entered office	Exited office	Notes	Appointed by
		December 2, 1871	September 18, 1876		Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
	José Victorino Lastarria Santander	September 18, 1876	October 27, 1877		Aníbal Pinto Garmendia
	Pedro Vicente Reyes Palazuelos	October 27, 1877	August 5, 1878
		August 5, 1878	April 17, 1879
	Antonio Varas de la Barra	April 17, 1879	August 20, 1879
	Domingo Santa María González	August 20, 1879	June 16, 1880
	Manuel José Recabarren Rencoret	June 16, 1880	September 18, 1881
	José Francisco Vergara	September 18, 1881	April 12, 1882		Domingo Santa María
	José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández	April 12, 1882	September 3, 1885
	Ramón Barros Luco	September 3, 1885	October 22, 1885
		October 22, 1885	September 18, 1886
	Eusebio Lillo Robles	September 18, 1886	November 30, 1886		José Manuel Balmaceda
		November 30, 1886	June 28, 1887
	Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu	June 28, 1887	April 13, 1888
	Pedro Lucio Cuadra Luque	April 13, 1888	November 2, 1888
	Ramón Barros Luco	November 2, 1888	June 11, 1889
		June 11, 1889	October 23, 1889
		October 23, 1889	November 7, 1889
		November 7, 1889	January 21, 1890
	Adolfo Ibáñez Gutiérrez	January 21, 1890	May 30, 1890
		May 30, 1890	August 7, 1890
		August 7, 1890	October 15, 1890
		October 15, 1890	March 12, 1891
		March 12, 1891	March 29, 1891
		March 29, 1891	August 29, 1891
		September 7, 1891	December 31, 1891		Revolutionary Junta of Iquique
	Ramón Barros Luco	December 31, 1891	March 14, 1892		Jorge Montt Álvarez
	Eduardo Matte Pérez	March 14, 1892	July 9, 1892
	Ramón Barros Luco	July 9, 1892	April 22, 1893
	Pedro Montt Montt	April 22, 1893	April 26, 1894
		April 26, 1894	December 7, 1894
	Ramón Barros Luco	December 7, 1894	August 1, 1895
	Manuel José Recabarren Rencoret	August 1, 1895	November 24, 1895
		November 24, 1895	September 18, 1896
	Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu	September 18, 1896	November 26, 1896		Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
		November 26, 1896	June 26, 1897
		June 26, 1897	August 25, 1897
		August 25, 1897	April 14, 1898
	Carlos Walker Martínez	April 14, 1898	June 27, 1899
		June 27, 1899	September 2, 1899
	Rafael Sotomayor Gaete	September 2, 1899	November 27, 1899
	Elías Fernández Albano	November 27, 1899	November 3, 1900
		November 3, 1900	December 27, 1900
		December 27, 1900	March 14, 1901
		March 14, 1901	May 1, 1901
	Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu	March 14, 1901	July 12, 1901
		July 12, 1901	September 18, 1901	Interim	Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu
	Ramón Barros Luco	September 18, 1901	November 19, 1901		Germán Riesco Errázuriz
	Ismael Tocornal Tocornal	November 19, 1901	May 6, 1902
	Ramón Barros Luco	May 6, 1902	November 20, 1902
	Elías Fernández Albano	November 20, 1902	April 4, 1903
	Ramón Barros Luco	April 4, 1903	June 10, 1903
	Rafael Sotomayor Gaete	June 10, 1903	September 1, 1903
	Ricardo Matte Pérez	September 1, 1903	October 23, 1903
		October 23, 1903	January 10, 1904
	Rafael Valentín Errázuriz Urmeneta	January 10, 1904	March 12, 1904
		March 12, 1904	April 12, 1904
	Rafael Sotomayor Gaete	April 12, 1904	October 30, 1904
	Emilio Bello Codesido	October 30, 1904	March 18, 1905
	José Rafael Balmaceda Fernández	March 18, 1905	August 1, 1905
		August 1, 1905	October 21, 1905
		October 21, 1905	March 19, 1906
		March 19, 1906	May 7, 1906
		May 7, 1906	September 18, 1906
	Javier Ángel Figueroa Larraín	September 18, 1906	October 29, 1906		Pedro Montt
		October 29, 1906	June 12, 1907
		June 12, 1907	October 25, 1907
	Rafael Sotomayor Gaete	October 25, 1907	August 29, 1908
	Javier Ángel Figueroa Larraín	August 29, 1908	January 22, 1909
	Eduardo Charme Fernández	January 22, 1909	June 15, 1909
		June 15, 1909	September 15, 1909
	Ismael Tocornal Tocornal	September 15, 1909	June 25, 1910
	Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure	June 25, 1910	July 8, 1910
	Elías Fernández Albano	July 8, 1910	August 9, 1910
	Luis Izquierdo Fredes	August 9, 1910	November 10, 1910	Interim	Elías Fernández Albano
		November 10, 1910	December 23, 1910		Emiliano Figueroa Larraín
		December 23, 1910	January 11, 1911		Ramón Barros Luco
		January 11, 1911	August 15, 1911
		August 15, 1911	January 6, 1912
		January 6, 1912	January 23, 1912
	Ismael Tocornal Tocornal	January 23, 1912	May 29, 1912
		May 29, 1912	August 8, 1912
		August 8, 1912	June 15, 1913
		June 15, 1913	November 16, 1913
		November 16, 1913	September 6, 1914
	Eduardo Charme Fernández	September 6, 1914	September 15, 1914
		September 15, 1914	December 15, 1914
		December 15, 1914	March 29, 1915
		March 29, 1915	June 7, 1915
	Enrique Villegas Echiburú	June 7, 1915	December 15, 1915
		December 15, 1915	December 23, 1915
		December 23, 1915	January 8, 1916		Juan Luis Sanfuentes
		January 8, 1916	July 1, 1916
	Luis Izquierdo Fredes	July 1, 1916	November 20, 1916
		November 20, 1916	July 14, 1917
	Ismael Tocornal Tocornal	July 14, 1917	October 13, 1917
	Eliodoro Yáñez Ponce de León	October 13, 1917	January 18, 1918
		January 18, 1918	April 22, 1918
	Arturo Alessandri Palma	April 22, 1918	September 6, 1918
		September 6, 1918	November 28, 1918
		November 28, 1918	May 3, 1919
		May 3, 1919	July 9, 1919
		July 9, 1919	September 23, 1919
		September 23, 1919	November 8, 1919
		November 8, 1919	March 29, 1920
		March 29, 1920	June 16, 1920
		June 16, 1920	July 1, 1920
		July 1, 1920	December 23, 1920
	Pedro Aguirre Cerda	December 23, 1920	August 16, 1921		Arturo Alessandri
		August 16, 1921	November 3, 1921
	Ismael Tocornal Tocornal	November 3, 1921	March 22, 1922
		March 22, 1922	April 1, 1922
		April 1, 1922	August 29, 1922
		August 29, 1922	October 16, 1922
	Luis Izquierdo Fredes	October 16, 1922	December 21, 1922
		December 21, 1922	January 12, 1923
		January 12, 1923	March 16, 1923
		March 16, 1923	June 15, 1923
		June 15, 1923	July 2, 1923
		July 2, 1923	January 4, 1924
	Pedro Aguirre Cerda	January 4, 1924	February 1, 1924
		February 1, 1924	March 25, 1924
		March 25, 1924	July 22, 1924
	Pedro Aguirre Cerda	July 22, 1924	September 5, 1924
	Luis Altamirano Talavera	September 5, 1924	September 12, 1924
		September 12, 1924	December 19, 1924		September Junta
		December 19, 1924	January 23, 1925		September Junta
		January 29, 1925	August 27, 1925		January Junta
		August 27, 1925	October 1, 1925		Arturo Alessandri
	Luis Barros Borgoño	October 1, 1925	October 2, 1925		Arturo Alessandri
		October 2, 1925	December 23, 1925		Luis Barros Borgoño
		December 23, 1925	November 20, 1926		Emiliano Figueroa
		November 20, 1926	February 22, 1927
	Carlos Ibáñez del Campo	February 22, 1927	April 8, 1927
	Carlos Frödden Lorenzen	April 8, 1927	May 23, 1927		Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
	Enrique Balmaceda Toro	May 23, 1927	June 5, 1928
		June 5, 1928	September 3, 1929
		September 3, 1929	February 26, 1930
		February 26, 1930	August 5, 1930
	Carlos Frödden Lorenzen	August 5, 1930	July 13, 1931
	Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez	July 13, 1931	July 22, 1931	Minister of the Interior and Social Welfare
		July 22, 1931	July 23, 1931	Minister of the Interior and Public Education
	Carlos Frödden Lorenzen	July 23, 1931	July 26, 1931
	Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez	July 26, 1931	July 27, 1931		Pedro Opazo
		July 27, 1931	August 7, 1931	Minister of the Interior and Justice	Juan Esteban Montero
	Manuel Trucco Franzani	August 7, 1931	August 20, 1931		Juan Esteban Montero
		August 20, 1931	September 3, 1931		Manuel Trucco
	Marcial Mora Miranda	September 3, 1931	April 7, 1932		Manuel Trucco
		April 7, 1932	June 4, 1932		Juan Esteban Montero
	Arturo Puga Osorio	June 4, 1932	June 6, 1932		Socialist Junta
	Rolando Meriño Reyes	June 6, 1932	June 13, 1932
		June 13, 1932	June 17, 1932
	Juan Antonio Ríos Morales	June 17, 1932	July 13, 1932
		July 13, 1932	August 1, 1932		Carlos Dávila
		August 1, 1932	September 12, 1932
	Bartolomé Blanche Espejo	September 12, 1932	September 13, 1932
		September 14, 1932	October 2, 1932		Bartolomé Blanche
	Javier Ángel Figueroa Larraín	October 3, 1932	December 24, 1932		Abraham Oyanedel
		December 24, 1932	May 7, 1933	Minister of the Interior and Public Health	Arturo Alessandri
		May 7, 1933	April 19, 1934	Minister of the Interior and Public Health
		April 19, 1934	August 26, 1935	Minister of the Interior and Public Health
		August 26, 1935	September 12, 1936
	Matías Silva Sepúlveda	September 12, 1936	May 18, 1938
		May 18, 1938	December 24, 1938
	Pedro Alfonso Barrios	December 24, 1938	December 26, 1939		Pedro Aguirre Cerda
		December 26, 1939	February 8, 1940
	Humberto Alvarez Suárez	February 8, 1940	July 30, 1940
		July 30, 1940	December 23, 1940
		December 23, 1940	September 16, 1941
	Carlos Valdovinos Valdovinos	September 16, 1941	October 6, 1941
		October 6, 1941	November 10, 1941
	Jerónimo Méndez Arancibia	November 10, 1941	November 10, 1941
		November 10, 1941	November 21, 1941	Interim	Jerónimo Méndez
		November 21, 1941	April 2, 1942		Jerónimo Méndez
		April 2, 1942	April 2, 1942		Juan Antonio Ríos

Additional information[]

Sources[]

República de Chile (1942). "VI. Poder Ejecutivo - Nómina de Gobernantes, Presidentes y Ministros desde la Independencia.". Manual del Senado. 1810-1942 (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria. (in Spanish)
Valencia Avaria, Luis (1986). Anales de la República: textos constitucionales de Chile y registro de los ciudadanos que han integrado los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo desde 1810 (in Spanish) (2ª edición ed.). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. (in Spanish)

References[]

^ ^a ^b Cambero, Fabian (11 March 2022). "Explainer: Migration, inflation and mining: Chile's Boric faces full in-tray". Reuters. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b . BBC Mundo. 11 March 2022 https://www-bbc-com.translate.goog/mundo/noticias-america-latina-60712199?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc. Retrieved 11 March 2022. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Chile's president-elect unveils young, woman-majority cabinet". France 24. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.

External links[]

Official Website of the Ministry of the Interior of Chile (in Spanish)

[womanminister-1] Cambero, Fabian (11 March 2022). "Explainer: Migration, inflation and mining: Chile's Boric faces full in-tray". Reuters. Retrieved 11 March 2022.

[femaleminister-2] . BBC Mundo. 11 March 2022 https://www-bbc-com.translate.goog/mundo/noticias-america-latina-60712199?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc. Retrieved 11 March 2022. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[3] "Chile's president-elect unveils young, woman-majority cabinet". France 24. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.

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