Esteban Moctezuma
Esteban Moctezuma | |
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| Ambassador of Mexico to the United States | |
| Assumed office 16 January 2021 | |
| President | Andrés Manuel López Obrador Claudia Sheinbaum |
| Preceded by | Martha Bárcena Coqui |
| Secretary of Public Education | |
| In office 1 December 2018 – 15 January 2021 | |
| President | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Preceded by | Otto Granados Roldán |
| Succeeded by | Delfina Gómez Álvarez |
| Secretary of Social Development | |
| In office 13 May 1998 – 4 August 1999 | |
| President | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Preceded by | Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Jarque |
| Secretary of the Interior | |
| In office 1 December 1994 – 28 June 1995 | |
| President | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Preceded by | Jorge Carpizo McGregor |
| Succeeded by | Emilio Chuayffet |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 October 1954 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | National Regeneration Movement (2018–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Institutional Revolutionary (1977–2002) |
| Residence | Mexico |
| Education | National Autonomous University of Mexico (BA) University of Cambridge (MA) |
Esteban Moctezuma Barragán (born 21 October 1954) is a Mexican diplomat and politician, formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and currently a member of the National Regeneration Movement (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 Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) insurgents; in February the government pursued a strategy of military intervention, followed by a resumption of peace talks with the insurgents. 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.