# 1982 in Mexico

Events in the year 1982 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: José López Portillo (until November 30), Miguel de la Madrid (starting December 1)
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez (until November 30), Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (starting December 1)
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya/Rodolfo Félix Valdés
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López/Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
* Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara/Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada/Arsenio Farell Cubillas
* Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez/Marcelo Javelly Girard
* Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/Jesús Reyes Heroles
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Fernando Rafful Miguel/Pedro Ojeda Paullada
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández then Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
* Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
* Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
* Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
* Chiapas: Juan Sabines Gutiérrez/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
* Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas
* Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
* Colima: Griselda Álvarez
* Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
* Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
* Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
* Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
* Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
* State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
* Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
* Morelos
** Armando León Bejarano (PRI), until May 18.
** Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), starting May 18.
* Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
* Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
* Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
* Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
* Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
* Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
* San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
* Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
* Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
* Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade/Enrique González Pedrero
* Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou
* Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
* Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
* Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan/Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
* Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
* Regent of Mexico City
** Carlos Hank González
** Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

## Events

* Museo Nacional de Arte is founded.
* March – Reino Aventura opens
* March 31 – 14 killed, 100 injured, and 15,000 others suffer the effects of the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in Francisco León, Chiapas, 100 km from Villahermosa.
* July 4 – 1982 Mexican general election
* August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.
* September 1 – During his last government report, president José López Portillo nationalizes banks.
* December 1 – Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – General Raúl Madero González

## Sports

* Baseball – The Leones del Caracas team conquest their first Caribbean Series title in Hermosillo Sonora.
* Baseball – Indios de Ciudad Juárez win the Mexican League
* Football – 1981–82 Mexican Primera División season

## Births

* January 9 — Lorenza Morfín, road cyclist
* March 7 — Aarón Díaz, model, actor, and singer
* March 13 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Presidente Municipal of Temixco, Morelos (January 1-January 2, 2016) (assassinated 2016)
* December 19 – Nara Falcón, synchronized swimmer
* Date unknown
** Raúl Castañeda, boxer (d. September 6, 2017).