Alfonso Navarrete Prida

Alfonso Navarrete Prida
Poncho
Secretary of the Interior
In office
10 January 2018 – 30 November 2018
PresidentEnrique Peña Nieto
Preceded byMiguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Succeeded byOlga Sánchez Cordero
Secretary of Labor
In office
1 December 2012 – 10 January 2018
PresidentEnrique Peña Nieto
Preceded byRosalinda Vélez Juárez
Succeeded byRoberto Campa Cifrián
Personal details
Born (1963-10-13) 13 October 1963 (age 61)
Mexico City, Mexico
Political partyPRI
SpouseLorena Ramirez Gutierrez
ProfessionPolitician

Alfonso Navarrete Prida (born 13 October 1963) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as the Secretary of the Interior in 2018. He previously served as the Secretary of Labor of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.[1]

Navarrete was on board the helicopter which crashed in February 2018 while surveying the damage done by a recent earthquake. 14 people were killed in the crash, but Navarrete and fellow politician Alejandro Murat Hinojosa escaped with comparatively minor injuries.[2]

  1. ^ "Perfil del legislador". Legislative Information System. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  2. ^ Narayan, Chandrika & Gallón, Natalie (17 February 2018). "13 killed in Mexico after helicopter crashes as officials tour quake area". CNN. Retrieved 17 February 2018.