Esteban Moctezuma

Esteban Moctezuma
Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
Assumed office
16 January 2021
PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byMartha Bárcena Coqui
Secretary of Public Education
In office
1 December 2018 – 15 January 2021
PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byOtto Granados Roldán
Succeeded byDelfina Gómez Álvarez
Secretary of Social Development
In office
13 May 1998 – 4 August 1999
PresidentErnesto Zedillo
Preceded byCarlos Rojas Gutiérrez
Succeeded byCarlos Jarque
Secretary of the Interior
In office
1 December 1994 – 28 June 1995
PresidentErnesto Zedillo
Preceded byJorge Carpizo McGregor
Succeeded byEmilio Chuayffet
Personal details
Born (1954-10-21) 21 October 1954 (age 69)
Mexico City, Mexico
Political partyNational Regeneration Movement
(2018–present)
Other political
affiliations
Institutional Revolutionary (1977–2002)
ResidenceMexico
EducationNational Autonomous University of Mexico (BA)
University of Cambridge (MA)

Esteban Moctezuma Barragán (born 21 October 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican diplomat and politician, formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and is a member of MORENA. He is a former Senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. From that position, early in January 1995, he pursued peace talks in Chiapas with the EZLN insurgents; in February the government pursued a strategy of military intervention, followed by a resumption of peace talks with the insurgents.[1] In 2018, he was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as secretary of education. On 16 December 2020, Moctezuma was nominated ambassador of Mexico to the United States and confirmed by the Senate on 16 January 2021.[2]

  1. ^ Thomas Legler, "Ernesto Zedillo" in Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, p. 1642
  2. ^ Rodriguez Garcia, Arturo (December 16, 2020). "AMLO nombra a Moctezuma Barragán como embajador de México en EU". proceso.com.mx (in Spanish). Proceso. Retrieved December 16, 2020.