Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile)

The Ministry of Home Affairs 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 current Minister of Home Affairs is Jorge Burgos. His Undersecretary of Home Affairs is Mahmud Aleuy Peña y Lillo and the Undersecretary of Regional Development is Ricardo Óscar Cifuentes Lillo. In the absence (because of travel, death, or other impediment) of the President of Chile, the Minister of Home Affairs becomes Vice-President.

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 Home Affairs. 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 Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs" (182971). 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 Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs (1829–71)
• Ministry of Home Affairs (1871–2011)
• Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Security (2011–present)

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

Titulars

Patria Vieja period

Picture	Name	Entered office	Exited office	Notes	Appointed by
70px	José Gaspar Marín Esquivel	September 18, 1810	July 4, 1811	Served concurrently	Government Junta of the Kingdom of Chile
70px	José Gregorio Argomedo Montero
	Manuel Joaquín de Valdivieso Maciel	August 10, 1811	September 4, 1811		Second Junta
70px	Agustín Vial Santelices	September 4, 1811	November 15, 1811	Served concurrently	Third Junta
70px	José Gregorio Argomedo Montero
70px	Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza	December 16, 1811	April 2, 1812		Fifth Junta
70px	Agustín Vial Santelices	April 2, 1812	October 2, 1812		Sixth Junta
		October 27, 1812	April 1, 1813	Secretary of Home Affairs
70px	Manuel de Salas Corbalán	April 1, 1813	April 13, 1813	Served concurrently	Government Junta of Chile (April 1813)
70px	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
70px	Bernardo de Vera y Pintado	July 23, 1814	August 10, 1814	Secretary of Government and Finance	Government Junta of Chile (July 1814)
70px	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
70px	Miguel Zañartu y Santa María	February 18, 1817	August 1, 1818		Bernardo O'Higgins
70px	Antonio José de Irisarri Alonso	August 1, 1818	October 30, 1818
	Joaquín Echeverría Larraín	October 30, 1818	January 28, 1823
70px	Mariano Egaña Fabres	January 28, 1823	July 12, 1824		Government Junta
70px	Francisco Antonio Pinto Díaz	July 12, 1824	February 22, 1825		Ramón Freire
70px	Francisco Ramón Vicuña Larraín	February 22, 1825	June 18, 1825
	Juan de Dios Vial del Río	June 18, 1825	October 9, 1825
70px	Joaquín Campino Salamanca	October 9, 1825	March 8, 1826
	Ventura Blanco Encalada	March 8, 1826	October 20, 1826
70px	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 Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs

Picture	Name	Entered office	Exited office	Notes	Appointed by
70px	Juan Francisco Meneses Echanes	February 20, 1830	April 5, 1830		Francisco Ruiz-Tagle
70px	Diego Portales Palazuelos	April 5, 1830	August 31, 1831	Appointed by	José Tomás Ovalle
				Reappointed by	Fernando Errázuriz
70px	Ramón Errázuriz Aldunate	August 31, 1831	May 17, 1832		José Joaquín Prieto
70px	Joaquín Tocornal Jiménez	May 17, 1832	November 9, 1835
70px	Diego Portales Palazuelos	November 9, 1835	June 6, 1837	Interim
70px	Joaquín Tocornal Jiménez	June 7, 1837	July 25, 1840
70px	Manuel Montt Torres	July 25, 1840	March 27, 1841
	José Miguel Yrarrázaval Alcalde	March 27, 1841	May 19, 1841
70px	Ramón Luis Yrarrázaval Alcalde	May 19, 1841	April 10, 1845	Appointed by
				Reappointed by	Manuel Bulnes
70px	Manuel Montt Torres	April 10, 1845	September 18, 1846
70px	Manuel Camilo Vial Formas	September 18, 1846	June 12, 1849
70px	José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano	June 12, 1849	April 19, 1850
70px	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
70px	Jerónimo Urmeneta García-Abello	September 29, 1857	May 1, 1860
70px	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
70px	Alvaro Covarrubias Ortúzar	May 10, 1864	September 8, 1866	Minister of Home Affairs
		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
70px	Belisario Prats Pérez	August 2, 1870	September 18, 1871
	Eulogio Altamirano Aracena	September 18, 1871	December 2, 1871		Federico Errázuriz Zañartu

Ministers of Home Affairs

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
70px	Pedro Vicente Reyes Palazuelos	October 27, 1877	August 5, 1878
70px	Belisario Prats Pérez	August 5, 1878	April 17, 1879
70px	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
70px	Ramón Barros Luco	September 3, 1885	October 22, 1885
	José Ignacio Vergara Urzúa	October 22, 1885	September 18, 1886
70px	Eusebio Lillo Robles	September 18, 1886	November 30, 1886		José Manuel Balmaceda
70px	Carlos Antúnez González	November 30, 1886	June 28, 1887
	Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu	June 28, 1887	April 13, 1888
70px	Pedro Lucio Cuadra Luque	April 13, 1888	November 2, 1888
70px	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
70px	Enrique Salvador Sanfuentes Andonaegui	May 30, 1890	August 7, 1890
70px	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
70px	Manuel José Yrarrázaval Larraín	September 7, 1891	December 31, 1891		Revolutionary Junta of Iquique
70px	Ramón Barros Luco	December 31, 1891	March 14, 1892		Jorge Montt
	Eduardo Matte Pérez	March 14, 1892	July 9, 1892
70px	Ramón Barros Luco	July 9, 1892	April 22, 1893
70px	Pedro Montt Montt	April 22, 1893	April 26, 1894
70px	Enrique Mac-Iver Rodríguez	April 26, 1894	December 7, 1894
70px	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
70px	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
70px	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
70px	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
70px	Ramón Barros Luco	September 18, 1901	November 19, 1901		Germán Riesco
	Ismael Tocornal Tocornal	November 19, 1901	May 6, 1902
70px	Ramón Barros Luco	May 6, 1902	November 20, 1902
70px	Elías Fernández Albano	November 20, 1902	April 4, 1903
70px	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
70px	Javier Ángel 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
70px	Javier Ángel Figueroa Larraín	August 29, 1908	January 22, 1909
70px	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
70px	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
70px	Guillermo Barros Jara	August 8, 1912	June 15, 1913
70px	Manuel Rivas Vicuña	June 15, 1913	November 16, 1913
	Rafael Orrego González	November 16, 1913	September 6, 1914
70px	Eduardo Charme Fernández	September 6, 1914	September 15, 1914
70px	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
70px	Guillermo Barros Jara	December 15, 1915	December 23, 1915
70px	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
70px	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
70px	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
70px	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
70px	Manuel Rivas Vicuña	December 21, 1922	January 12, 1923
	Francisco Garcés Gana	January 12, 1923	March 16, 1923
70px	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
70px	Cornelio Saavedra Montt	March 25, 1924	July 22, 1924
	Pedro Aguirre Cerda	July 22, 1924	September 5, 1924
70px	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
70px	Manuel Rivas Vicuña	November 20, 1926	February 22, 1927
70px	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
70px	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
70px	Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez	July 13, 1931	July 22, 1931	Minister of Home Affairs and Social Welfare
	Miguel Letelier Espínola	July 22, 1931	July 23, 1931	Minister of Home Affairs and Public Education
	Carlos Frödden Lorenzen	July 23, 1931	July 26, 1931
70px	Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez	July 26, 1931	July 27, 1931		Pedro Opazo
	Luis Gutiérrez Allende	July 27, 1931	August 7, 1931	Minister of Home Affairs 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
70px	Arturo Puga Osorio	June 4, 1932	June 6, 1932		Socialist Junta
	Rolando Meriño 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
70px	Bartolomé Blanche Espejo	September 12, 1932	September 13, 1932
	Ernesto Barros Jarpa	September 14, 1932	October 2, 1932		Bartolomé Blanche
70px	Javier Ángel Figueroa Larraín	October 3, 1932	December 24, 1932		Abraham Oyanedel
	Horacio Hevia Labbé	December 24, 1932	May 7, 1933	Minister of Home Affairs and Public Health	Arturo Alessandri
	Alfredo Piwonka Jilabert	May 7, 1933	April 19, 1934	Minister of Home Affairs and Public Health
	Luis Salas Romo	April 19, 1934	August 26, 1935	Minister of Home Affairs 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
70px	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

• Foreign relations of Chile
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile

Sources

• (Spanish)
• (Spanish)

External links

• Official Website of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Chile (Spanish)