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).

[2] With President Carlos Salinas de Gortari economic and political reforms and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was being propelled into the world economy as an important player.

On 5 January 1995, as secretary of interior, Esteban Moctezuma began a series of secret meetings with Subcomandante Marcos, called "Steps Toward Peace", that took place in the village of Guadalupe Tepeyac, belonging to the municipality of Pantelhó, Chiapas.

Important specific agreements were reached to which both parties agreed: that the army withdraw from certain points, such as San Andrés Larráinzar, and that Marcos make a concession that a group of citizens be involved in a formal negotiation to start a couple of weeks later.

He testified that the distance learning program Aprende en casa I had achieved its goals, in that pupil exam results for high school were as good in 2020 as in previous years, despite three months of home education.