The Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (SEDATU) is one of the twenty-one secretaries of State that, together with the Legal Department of the Federal Executive and the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency, make up the legal cabinet of the president of Mexico. It is the office of the executive branch in charge of designing, executing and coordinating public policies regarding land ownership, productive use of the national territory, urban planning and housing.
To achieve this objective, its powers include carrying out plans, programs and projects linked to the use of the national territory - whether rural or urban communities -, extensions of land and water dedicated to agricultural production (which must be coordinated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), government strategies for housing, metropolitan areas and infrastructure; the registration of land ownership; mediate landowner disputes; manage unoccupied and unproductive extensions that are not under public or private ownership of any entity; conduct their strategies based on the concept of sustainable development and collaborate with federal entities and municipalities regarding the Public Property Registry.[2][3].
History
On April 6, 1934, during the Abelardo L. Rodríguez government, the Law of Secretaries of State and Administrative Departments was reformed to create the Agrarian Department, in charge of directing the distribution of land in the context of the Mexican agrarian reform.[4].
With the arrival of Lázaro Cárdenas to power in the formation of his presidential cabinet, a large number of administrative departments were created (dependencies of the president of Mexico that were also part of the cabinet but with less importance than a secretariat of State), to the point that in its last formation eight departments coexisted. At that time, large estates predominated in the agrarian regions of the country, so in 1938 Cárdenas created the legal figure of the ejido and promoted the founding of the National Peasant Confederation (CNC) that integrated the peasantry; During the Cardenista administration, more than one million peasants appropriately received eighteen million ejidal hectares.[5].
In the cabinet of his successor, Manuel Ávila Camacho, the number of departments abruptly dropped from eight to only two, retaining only the Agrarian Department (in addition to the everlasting Department of the Federal District),[6] but the number of agrarian distributions committed—as well as the following administrations—fell precipitously.[5].
Urban territorial justice plan
Introduction
The Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (SEDATU) is one of the twenty-one secretaries of State that, together with the Legal Department of the Federal Executive and the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency, make up the legal cabinet of the president of Mexico. It is the office of the executive branch in charge of designing, executing and coordinating public policies regarding land ownership, productive use of the national territory, urban planning and housing.
To achieve this objective, its powers include carrying out plans, programs and projects linked to the use of the national territory - whether rural or urban communities -, extensions of land and water dedicated to agricultural production (which must be coordinated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), government strategies for housing, metropolitan areas and infrastructure; the registration of land ownership; mediate landowner disputes; manage unoccupied and unproductive extensions that are not under public or private ownership of any entity; conduct their strategies based on the concept of sustainable development and collaborate with federal entities and municipalities regarding the Public Property Registry.[2][3].
History
On April 6, 1934, during the Abelardo L. Rodríguez government, the Law of Secretaries of State and Administrative Departments was reformed to create the Agrarian Department, in charge of directing the distribution of land in the context of the Mexican agrarian reform.[4].
With the arrival of Lázaro Cárdenas to power in the formation of his presidential cabinet, a large number of administrative departments were created (dependencies of the president of Mexico that were also part of the cabinet but with less importance than a secretariat of State), to the point that in its last formation eight departments coexisted. At that time, large estates predominated in the agrarian regions of the country, so in 1938 Cárdenas created the legal figure of the ejido and promoted the founding of the National Peasant Confederation (CNC) that integrated the peasantry; During the Cardenista administration, more than one million peasants appropriately received eighteen million ejidal hectares.[5].
It would not undergo any changes until December 24, 1958, when President Adolfo López Mateos changed its name to Department of Agrarian Affairs and Colonization, to add responsibilities in said area. It would be years until the next significant change.[7].
On December 1, 1970, Luis Echeverría Álvarez elevated two State departments: the Department of Tourism, which became the Secretariat of Tourism "Secretaría de Turismo (Mexico)"), and the Department of Agrarian Affairs and Colonization, which became the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform (SRA), a name it retained for more than forty years. Among its main functions were:
In September 2009, Felipe Calderón announced that, due to the economic crisis of 2008 to 2009 "Economic crisis in Mexico (2008-2009)"), as an austerity measure he would eliminate three secretariats, including the SRA, and that their functions would be transferred to the Secretariat of Social Development (today, Secretariat of Welfare) to create a "supersecretariat".[8] However, in the federal budget of 2010 had been designated a budget, so it continued in office without a specific date of its disappearance.[9].
The proposal was maintained in the Chamber of Deputies "Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)"), but the Agrarian Reform Commission during the LXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union, as well as various agrarian groups in the country, refused to continue with it since they considered that the agency was the last bastion of Mexican agrarian reform and one that most threatened poverty in the country, and also that its elimination would reduce the support received by the peasants.[10][11].
During the 2012 presidential campaign, various academics and political scientists pointed out the need for the Government of Mexico to have a Secretary of State in charge of Urban Development, due to the poverty of concern in the cities and especially the metropolitan areas of the country in the Federal Public Administration.[12].
One month after the beginning of Enrique Peña Nieto's government, on January 3, 2013, reform 39 of the Organic Law of Public Administration was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, which, among other things, disappeared the SRA and created the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (SEDATU), whose most obvious change was adding territorial planning and urban planning powers.[13].
Features
According to article 41 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, it is responsible for the dispatch of the following matters:[2].
Organization chart
Central sector
The General Organization Manual of the secretariat organizes it as follows:[14][15].
Budget
According to the Federal Budget and Fiscal Responsibility Law, it is the exclusive responsibility of the Chamber of Deputies "Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)") to approve the Expenditure Budget of the Federation (which is valid from January 1 to December 31 of the following year in which it is published) according to the proposal sent by the President of the Republic through the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, which may change to the original if it deems appropriate.
References
[2] ↑ Como Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria.
[3] ↑ Con su nombre actual.
In the cabinet of his successor, Manuel Ávila Camacho, the number of departments abruptly dropped from eight to only two, retaining only the Agrarian Department (in addition to the everlasting Department of the Federal District),[6] but the number of agrarian distributions committed—as well as the following administrations—fell precipitously.[5].
It would not undergo any changes until December 24, 1958, when President Adolfo López Mateos changed its name to Department of Agrarian Affairs and Colonization, to add responsibilities in said area. It would be years until the next significant change.[7].
On December 1, 1970, Luis Echeverría Álvarez elevated two State departments: the Department of Tourism, which became the Secretariat of Tourism "Secretaría de Turismo (Mexico)"), and the Department of Agrarian Affairs and Colonization, which became the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform (SRA), a name it retained for more than forty years. Among its main functions were:
In September 2009, Felipe Calderón announced that, due to the economic crisis of 2008 to 2009 "Economic crisis in Mexico (2008-2009)"), as an austerity measure he would eliminate three secretariats, including the SRA, and that their functions would be transferred to the Secretariat of Social Development (today, Secretariat of Welfare) to create a "supersecretariat".[8] However, in the federal budget of 2010 had been designated a budget, so it continued in office without a specific date of its disappearance.[9].
The proposal was maintained in the Chamber of Deputies "Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)"), but the Agrarian Reform Commission during the LXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union, as well as various agrarian groups in the country, refused to continue with it since they considered that the agency was the last bastion of Mexican agrarian reform and one that most threatened poverty in the country, and also that its elimination would reduce the support received by the peasants.[10][11].
During the 2012 presidential campaign, various academics and political scientists pointed out the need for the Government of Mexico to have a Secretary of State in charge of Urban Development, due to the poverty of concern in the cities and especially the metropolitan areas of the country in the Federal Public Administration.[12].
One month after the beginning of Enrique Peña Nieto's government, on January 3, 2013, reform 39 of the Organic Law of Public Administration was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, which, among other things, disappeared the SRA and created the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (SEDATU), whose most obvious change was adding territorial planning and urban planning powers.[13].
Features
According to article 41 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, it is responsible for the dispatch of the following matters:[2].
Organization chart
Central sector
The General Organization Manual of the secretariat organizes it as follows:[14][15].
Budget
According to the Federal Budget and Fiscal Responsibility Law, it is the exclusive responsibility of the Chamber of Deputies "Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)") to approve the Expenditure Budget of the Federation (which is valid from January 1 to December 31 of the following year in which it is published) according to the proposal sent by the President of the Republic through the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, which may change to the original if it deems appropriate.