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

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Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Secretary of the Interior of Mexico
In office 1 December 2012 – 10 January 2018
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Alejandro Poiré Romero
Succeeded by	Alfonso Navarrete Prida
Governor of Hidalgo
In office 1 April 2005 – 31 March 2011
Preceded by	Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto
Succeeded by	Francisco Olvera Ruiz
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Hidalgo′s 6th district
In office 1 September 2003 – 28 October 2004
Preceded by	Juan Manuel Sepúlveda Fayad
Succeeded by	Alfredo Bejos Nicolás
Personal details
Born	(1964-08-05) 5 August 1964 (age 59) Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party (1991-2023)
Alma mater	Autonomous University of Hidalgo State
Profession	Lawyer, Politician

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Born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, he is a graduate of the Autonomous University of Hidalgo State Law School.^[1] He is of Chinese descent through his mother's family.

In 2003, Osorio was elected to serve as a Representative in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, hence he served during the LIX Legislature.^[1] 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.^[2]

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 1 April 2005, through to 31 March 2011.^[3]

He was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Enrique Peña Nieto.^[4] After assuming office, the Ministry absorbed the functions of two former ministries, that of Government and the one which was in charge of Homeland Security. Besides, he assumed the responsibility of being the coordinator of the whole cabinet.^[5] 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 which he was involved with El Chapo for a long time.^[6]

In response to questions about inconsistencies in his declaration of wealth, Senator Osorio presented four boxes of documents to the Secretariat of the Civil Service (SFP) in August 2020. The newspaper Reforma had published an article in July questioning his supposed home ownership in Mexico City.^[7]