Alfonso Navarrete Prida

Alfonso Navarrete Prida (born 13 October 1963) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Navarrete and the second or maternal family name is Prida.

Alfonso Navarrete Prida
Poncho
Secretary of the Interior
In office 10 January 2018 – 30 November 2018
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Succeeded by	Olga Sánchez Cordero
Secretary of Labor
In office 1 December 2012 – 10 January 2018
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Rosalinda Vélez Juárez
Succeeded by	Roberto Campa Cifrián
Personal details
Born	(1963-10-13) 13 October 1963 (age 61) Mexico City, Mexico
Political party	PRI
Spouse	Lorena Ramirez Gutierrez
Profession	Politician

In the 2009 mid-terms he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the State of Mexico's 18th district.^[1]

In 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto appointed him to serve in his cabinet as Secretary of Labor. He remained in that position until 2018, when he replaced Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong as Secretary of the Interior.

In his capacity as Secretary of the Interior, Navarrete was on board the Air Force helicopter that crashed in February 2018 while surveying the damage done by a recent earthquake. 14 people were killed in the crash, but Navarrete and Governor of Oaxaca Alejandro Murat Hinojosa escaped with comparatively minor injuries.^[2]