Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Osorio and the second or maternal family name is Chong.

Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Secretary of the Interior
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 December 2012
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Alejandro Poiré Romero
Governor of Hidalgo
In office April 1, 2005 – March 31, 2011
Preceded by	Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto
Succeeded by	Francisco Olvera Ruiz
Personal details
Born	(1964-08-05) August 5, 1964 Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
Alma mater	Autonomous University of Hidalgo State
Profession	Lawyer

Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong (Spanish pronunciation: [miɣeˈlaŋxel oˈsoɾjo tʃoŋɡ]; August 5, 1964) is a Mexican politician who serves as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto. He was Governor of Hidalgo until April 2011.

Early life

Born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, he is a graduate of the Autonomous University of Hidalgo State Law School. He is of Chinese descent through his mother's family.

Political career

In 2003 Osorio was elected to serve as a Representative in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, hence he served during the LIX Legislature. He left his seat in order to become the Institutional Revolutionary Party's candidate for Governor of the State of Hidalgo, which he won by a wide margin of votes, defeating José Guadarrama Márquez, candidate of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, Antonio Haghenbeck Cámara, of the National Action Party, and Arturo Aparicio Ramos, of the Labor Party.

Before being elected Governor he held several public positions in the administration of the state of Hidalgo, mainly performing in the portfolios of Government and Social Development. He was elected Governor of the state of Hidalgo in 2005, for the period April 1, 2005 through March 31, 2011.

He was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Enrique Peña Nieto. After assuming office, the Ministry absorbed the functions of two former ministries, that of Government and the one which was in charge of the Homeland Security. Besides, he assumed the responsibility of being the coordinator of the whole cabinet. His wife, Laura Vargas, is national Director of DIF, the National System for Integral Family Development. In July, 2015, while on a state visit to France with President Nieto, notorious drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera escaped from a federal prison; he was dispatched back to Mexico to lead the effort at recapture.

External links

• Biography by CIDOB

Political offices
Preceded by Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto	Governor of Hidalgo 2005 - 2011	Succeeded by Francisco Olvera Ruiz
Preceded by Alejandro Poiré Romero	Secretary of the Interior 1 December 2012 – present	Incumbent