He is a former researcher at the
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). He served twice in the
Chamber of Deputies (1985–1988 and 1991–1994). After López Obrador resigned to run for president in
2006, Encinas became head of government, serving from 1 August 2005 to 4 December 2006. Encinas provided official support for López Obrador's unsuccessful presidential campaign in the
2006 general election, and later supported the blockade of avenues in Mexico City. He ran for the
governorship of the State of Mexico in 2011 but lost to
Eruviel Ávila Villegas of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He later represented the
State of Mexico in the
Senate from 2012 to 2018. He was appointed acting
secretary of the interior on 16 June 2023 by President López Obrador. He was succeeded in the position on 19 June 2023 by
Luisa María Alcalde Luján. In December 2025 he took office as Mexico's
permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS). ==References==