# 1976 in Mexico

Events in the year 1976 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Luis Echeverría (until 30 November), José López Portillo (starting 1 December)
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia/Jesús Reyes Heroles
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Alfonso García Robles/Santiago Roel García
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
* Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Hermenegildo Cuenca Díaz/Félix Galván López
* Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
* Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes/Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Julio Hirschfeld Almada/Guillermo Rossell de la Lama

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
* Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
* Baja California Sur: Ángel César Mendoza Arámburo
* Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
* Chiapas
** Manuel Velasco Suárez (until November 30)
** Jorge de la Vega Domínguez (starting December 1)
* Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
* Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
* Colima: Arturo Noriega Pizano
* Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez
* Guanajuato: Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
* Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
* Hidalgo:
* Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
* State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
* Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo
* Morelos
** Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI), until May 18
** Armando León Bejarano (PRI), starting May 18
* Nayarit:
* Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez
* Oaxaca: Miguel Zárate Aquino
* Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
* Querétaro: Antonio Calzada Urquiza
* Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
* San Luis Potosí: Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
* Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
* Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
* Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
* Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
* Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
* Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
* Yucatán
** Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz (until January 31)
** Francisco Luna Kan (starting February 1)
* Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo
* Regent of Mexico City
** Octavio Senties Gomez
** Carlos Hank González

## Events

* Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Campus Estado de México) founded.
* Organizacion Editorial Mexicana founded.
* Universidad Intercontinental established.
* March 15: Autonomous University of Baja California Sur established.
* July 4: 1976 Mexican general election
* September 7 – 11: Hurricane Kathleen
* September 29 – October 8: Hurricane Madeline
* October 1: Instituto Tecnológico de Nuevo León established.
* November 6: first issue of Proceso (magazine) published.
* December 15: The Trolleybuses in Guadalajara start operating.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jesús Romero Flores

## Births

* June 7: Nora Salinas, actress
* June 10: Mariana Seoane, model, singer, and actress
* July 8: Grettell Valdez, television and film actress and former fashion model
* December 3: Arleth Terán, soap opera actress

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1976

## Sport

* 1975–76 Mexican Primera División season
* Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League
* Mexico at the 1976 Summer Olympics
* Mexico at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
* 1976 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Xalapa.