- Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile)
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The Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Spanish: Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública) is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of "maintaining public order, security and social peace" within Chile. 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 present Minister of the Interior is Rodrigo Hinzpeter (as of March 11, 2010). His Undersecretary of the Interior is Rodrigo Ubilla Mackenney and the Undersecretary of Regional Development is Miguel Flores Vargas. In the absence (because of travel, death, or other impediment) of the President of Chile, the Minister of the Interior becomes Vice-President.
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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 Constitutional Norms 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" (1817-1818) later renamed "Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs" (1829-1871). 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 (1817-1818)
- Ministry of Government and Foreign Affairs (1818-1829)
- Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs (1829-1871)
- Ministry of the Interior (1871 - 2011)
- Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (2011 - present)
The function of chief of government was un-officially assumed by the Minister of the Interior and Public Security (1891-1925).
Titulars
Patria Vieja period
Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by 
José Gaspar Marín Esquivel September 18, 1810 July 4, 1811 Served concurrently Government Junta
of the Kingdom of Chile
José Gregorio Argomedo Montero Manuel Joaquín de Valdivieso Maciel August 10, 1811 September 4, 1811 Second Junta 
Agustín Vial Santelices September 4, 1811 November 15, 1811 Served concurrently Third Junta José Gregorio Argomedo Montero 
Manuel Rodríguez Erdoyza December 16, 1811 April 2, 1812 Fifth Junta Agustín Vial Santelices April 2, 1812 October 2, 1812 Sixth Junta October 27, 1812 April 1, 1813 Secretary of the Interior 
Manuel de Salas Corbalán April 1, 1813 April 13, 1813 Served concurrently Mariano Egaña Fabres April 13, 1813 March 9, 1814 Secretary of Government José María Villareal March 14, 1814 July 23, 1814 Secretary of Government Francisco de la Lastra 
Bernardo de Vera y Pintado July 23, 1814 August 10, 1814 Secretary of Government and Finance Manuel Rodríguez Erdoyza 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 Joaquín Echeverría Larraín 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 Juan de Dios Vial del Río June 18, 1825 October 9, 1825 
Joaquín Campino Salamanca October 9, 1825 March 8, 1826 Ventura Blanco Encalada March 8, 1826 October 20, 1826 
Manuel José Gandarillas Guzmán October 20, 1826 March 8, 1827 Agustín Eyzaguirre José Miguel del Solar Marín March 8, 1827 December 13, 1827 Ramón Freire Carlos Rodríguez Erdoyza 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 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 Reappointed by Fernando Errázuriz 
Ramón Errázuriz Aldunate August 31, 1831 May 17, 1832 José Joaquín Prieto 
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 José Miguel Yrarrázaval Alcalde March 27, 1841 May 19, 1841 
Ramón Luis Yrarrázaval Alcalde May 19, 1841 April 10, 1845 Appointed by 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 Reappointed by Manuel Montt Francisco Javier Ovalle Bezanilla September 29, 1857 September 18, 1856 
Jerónimo Urmeneta García-Abello 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 Manuel Antonio Tocornal y Grez July 9, 1862 May 10, 1864 
Alvaro Covarrubias Ortúzar 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 
Belisario Prats Pérez August 2, 1870 September 18, 1871 Eulogio Altamirano Aracena September 18, 1871 December 2, 1871 Federico Errázuriz Zañartu Ministers of the Interior
Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by Eulogio Altamirano Aracena December 2, 1871 September 18, 1876 Federico Errázuriz Zañartu José Victorino Lastarria Santander September 18, 1876 October 27, 1877 Aníbal Pinto 
Pedro Vicente Reyes Palazuelos October 27, 1877 August 5, 1878 Belisario Prats Pérez 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 Donoso 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 José Ignacio Vergara Urzúa October 22, 1885 September 18, 1886 
Eusebio Lillo Robles September 18, 1886 November 30, 1886 José Manuel Balmaceda 
Carlos Antúnez González 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 Demetrio Lastarria Villarreal June 11, 1889 October 23, 1889 Ramón Donoso Vergara October 23, 1889 November 7, 1889 Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla November 7, 1889 January 21, 1890 Adolfo Ibáñez Gutiérrez January 21, 1890 May 30, 1890 
Enrique Salvador Sanfuentes Andonaegui May 30, 1890 August 7, 1890 Belisario Prats Pérez August 7, 1890 October 15, 1890 Claudio Vicuña Guerrero October 15, 1890 March 12, 1891 Domingo Godoy Cruz March 12, 1891 March 29, 1891 Julio Bañados Espinoza March 29, 1891 August 29, 1891 
Manuel José Yrarrázaval Larraín September 7, 1891 December 31, 1891 Revolutionary Junta of Iquique Ramón Barros Luco December 31, 1891 March 14, 1892 Jorge Montt 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 
Enrique Mac-Iver Rodríguez 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 Osvaldo Rengifo Vial November 24, 1895 September 18, 1896 Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu September 18, 1896 November 26, 1896 Federico Errázuriz Echaurren Carlos Antúnez González November 26, 1896 June 26, 1897 Augusto Orrego Luco June 26, 1897 August 25, 1897 Antonio Valdés Cuevas August 25, 1897 April 14, 1898 
Carlos Walker Martínez April 14, 1898 June 27, 1899 Raimundo Silva Cruz June 27, 1899 September 2, 1899 
Rafael Sotomayor Gaete September 2, 1899 November 27, 1899 
Elías Fernández Albano November 27, 1899 November 3, 1900 Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla November 3, 1900 December 27, 1900 Juan Antonio Orrego December 27, 1900 March 14, 1901 Domingo Amunátegui Rivera March 14, 1901 May 1, 1901 Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu March 14, 1901 July 12, 1901 
Luis Martiniano Rodríguez Herrera July 12, 1901 September 18, 1901 Interim Aníbal Zañartu Ramón Barros Luco September 18, 1901 November 19, 1901 Germán Riesco 
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 
Arturo Besa Navarro October 23, 1903 January 10, 1904 
Rafael Valentín Errázuriz Urmeneta January 10, 1904 March 12, 1904 Manuel Egidio Ballesteros 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 Juan Antonio Orrego August 1, 1905 October 21, 1905 Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal October 21, 1905 March 19, 1906 José Ramón Gutiérrez Martínez March 19, 1906 May 7, 1906 Manuel Salinas González May 7, 1906 September 18, 1906 
Javier Angel Figueroa Larraín September 18, 1906 October 29, 1906 Pedro Montt Vicente Santa Cruz Vargas October 29, 1906 June 12, 1907 Luis Antonio Vergara Ruiz June 12, 1907 October 25, 1907 Rafael Sotomayor Gaete October 25, 1907 August 29, 1908 Javier Angel Figueroa Larraín August 29, 1908 January 22, 1909 
Eduardo Charme Fernández January 22, 1909 June 15, 1909 Enrique Rodríguez Carmona 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 Enrique Rodríguez Carmona November 10, 1910 December 23, 1910 Emiliano Figueroa Maximiliano Ibáñez Ibáñez December 23, 1910 January 11, 1911 Ramón Barros Luco Rafael Orrego González January 11, 1911 August 15, 1911 José Ramón Gutiérrez Martínez August 15, 1911 January 6, 1912 Abraham Ovalle Ovalle January 6, 1912 January 23, 1912 Ismael Tocornal Tocornal January 23, 1912 May 29, 1912 Guillermo Rivera Cotapos May 29, 1912 August 8, 1912 
Guillermo Barros Jara August 8, 1912 June 15, 1913 
Manuel Rivas Vicuña June 15, 1913 November 16, 1913 Rafael Orrego González November 16, 1913 September 6, 1914 Eduardo Charme Fernández September 6, 1914 September 15, 1914 Guillermo Barros Jara September 15, 1914 December 15, 1914 Pedro Nicolás Montenegro December 15, 1914 March 29, 1915 Enrique Rodríguez Carmona March 29, 1915 June 7, 1915 Enrique Villegas Echiburú June 7, 1915 December 15, 1915 Guillermo Barros Jara December 15, 1915 December 23, 1915 
José Elías Balmaceda Fernández December 23, 1915 January 8, 1916 Juan Luis Sanfuentes Maximiliano Ibáñez Ibáñez January 8, 1916 July 1, 1916 Luis Izquierdo Fredes July 1, 1916 November 20, 1916 
Enrique Zañartu Prieto 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 Domingo Amunátegui Solar January 18, 1918 April 22, 1918 
Arturo Alessandri Palma April 22, 1918 September 6, 1918 Pedro García de la Huerta Izquierdo September 6, 1918 November 28, 1918 Armando Quezada Acharán November 28, 1918 May 3, 1919 Anselmo Hevia Riquelme May 3, 1919 July 9, 1919 Luis Serrano Arrieta July 9, 1919 September 23, 1919 
Enrique Bermúdez de la Paz September 23, 1919 November 8, 1919 José Florencio Valdés Cuevas November 8, 1919 March 29, 1920 Pedro Nicolás Montenegro March 29, 1920 June 16, 1920 
Federico Puga Borne June 16, 1920 July 1, 1920 Pedro García de la Huerta Izquierdo July 1, 1920 December 23, 1920 Pedro Aguirre Cerda December 23, 1920 August 16, 1921 Arturo Alessandri Héctor Arancibia Lazo August 16, 1921 November 3, 1921 Ismael Tocornal Tocornal November 3, 1921 March 22, 1922 
Jorge Matte Gormaz March 22, 1922 April 1, 1922 
Armando Jaramillo Valderrama April 1, 1922 August 29, 1922 
Antonio Huneeus Gana August 29, 1922 October 16, 1922 Luis Izquierdo Fredes October 16, 1922 December 21, 1922 Manuel Rivas Vicuña December 21, 1922 January 12, 1923 Francisco Garcés Gana January 12, 1923 March 16, 1923 
Cornelio Saavedra Montt March 16, 1923 June 15, 1923 Carlos Ruiz Bahamonde June 15, 1923 July 2, 1923 Domingo Amunátegui Solar July 2, 1923 January 4, 1924 Pedro Aguirre Cerda January 4, 1924 February 1, 1924 José Maza Fernández February 1, 1924 March 25, 1924 Cornelio Saavedra Montt March 25, 1924 July 22, 1924 Pedro Aguirre Cerda July 22, 1924 September 5, 1924 
Luis Altamirano Talavera September 5, 1924 September 12, 1924 Alcibíades Roldán Alvarez September 12, 1924 December 19, 1924 September Junta Rafael Luis Barahona San Martín December 19, 1924 January 23, 1925 Armando Jaramillo Valderrama January 29, 1925 August 27, 1925 January Junta Francisco Mardones August 27, 1925 October 1, 1925 Arturo Alessandri Luis Barros Borgoño October 1, 1925 October 2, 1925 Manuel Véliz October 2, 1925 December 23, 1925 Luis Barros Borgoño Maximiliano Ibáñez Ibáñez December 23, 1925 November 20, 1926 Emiliano Figueroa Manuel Rivas Vicuña 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 Guillermo Edwards Matte June 5, 1928 September 3, 1929 Enrique Bermúdez de la Paz September 3, 1929 February 26, 1930 David Hermosilla 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 Miguel Letelier Espínola 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 Luis Gutiérrez Allende July 27, 1931 August 7, 1931 Minister of the Interior and Justice Juan Esteban Montero Manuel Trucco Franzani August 7, 1931 August 20, 1931 Horacio Hevia Labbé August 20, 1931 September 3, 1931 Manuel Trucco Marcial Mora Miranda September 3, 1931 April 7, 1932 Víctor Robles Valenzuela April 7, 1932 June 4, 1932 Juan Esteban Montero 
Arturo Puga Osorio June 4, 1932 June 6, 1932 Socialist Junta Rolando Merino Reyes June 6, 1932 June 13, 1932 Arturo Ruiz Maffei June 13, 1932 June 17, 1932 Juan Antonio Ríos Morales June 17, 1932 July 13, 1932 Eliseo Peña Villalón July 13, 1932 August 1, 1932 Carlos Dávila Joaquín Fernández y Fernández August 1, 1932 September 12, 1932 
Bartolomé Blanche Espejo September 12, 1932 September 13, 1932 Ernesto Barros Jarpa September 14, 1932 October 2, 1932 Bartolomé Blanche Javier Angel Figueroa Larraín October 3, 1932 December 24, 1932 Abraham Oyanedel Horacio Hevia Labbé December 24, 1932 May 7, 1933 Minister of the Interior and Public Health Arturo Alessandri Alfredo Piwonka Jilabert May 7, 1933 April 19, 1934 Minister of the Interior and Public Health Luis Salas Romo April 19, 1934 August 26, 1935 Minister of the Interior and Public Health Luis Cabrera Negrete August 26, 1935 September 12, 1936 Matías Silva Sepúlveda September 12, 1936 May 18, 1938 Luis Salas Romo May 18, 1938 December 24, 1938 
Pedro Alfonso Barrios December 24, 1938 December 26, 1939 Pedro Aguirre Cerda Guillermo Labarca Hubertson December 26, 1939 February 8, 1940 Humberto Alvarez Suárez February 8, 1940 July 30, 1940 Guillermo Labarca Hubertson July 30, 1940 December 23, 1940 Arturo Olavarría Bravo December 23, 1940 September 16, 1941 Carlos Valdovinos Valdovinos September 16, 1941 October 6, 1941 Leonardo Guzmán Cortés October 6, 1941 November 10, 1941 Jerónimo Méndez Arancibia November 10, 1941 November 10, 1941 Leonardo Guzmán Cortés November 10, 1941 November 21, 1941 Interim Jerónimo Méndez Alfredo Rosende Verdugo November 21, 1941 April 2, 1942 Raúl Morales Beltramí April 2, 1942 April 2, 1942 Juan Antonio Ríos Additional information
See also
Sources
- República de Chile (1942). "VI. Poder Ejecutivo - Nómina de Gobernantes, Presidentes y Ministros desde la Independencia." (in Spanish). Manual del Senado. 1810-1942. Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria. http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0027508.pdf. (Spanish)
- Valencia Avaria, Luis (1986) (in Spanish). Anales de la República: textos constitucionales de Chile y registro de los ciudadanos que han integrado los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo desde 1810 (2ª edición ed.). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. (Spanish)
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