# 1993 in Mexico

Events in the year 1993 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Patrocinio González Garrido
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales/Manuel Camacho Solís
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Gamboa Patrón
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
* Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Arsenio Farell Cubillas
* Secretary of Welfare: Luis Donaldo Colosio/Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
* Secretary of Public Education: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León/Fernando Solana Morales
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Guillermo Jiménez Morales
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
* Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
* Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
* Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
* Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido/Elmar Setzer Marseille
* Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN)
* Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
* Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
* Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
* Guanajuato: Carlos Medina Plascencia
* Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu/Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (PRI)
* Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco/Jesús Murillo Karam
* Jalisco: Carlos Rivera Aceves
* State of Mexico: Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza/Emilio Chuayffet (PRI)
* Michoacán: Ausencio Chávez Hernández
* Morelos
** Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), until May 17.
** Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI), starting May 18.
* Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
* Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo (PRI)
* Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano (PRI)
* Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
* Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García (PRI)
* Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín/Mario Villanueva Madrid (PRI)
* San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta (PRI)
* Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado (PRI)
* Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera (PRI)
* Tabasco: Salvador Neme Castillo/Manuel Gurría Ordóñez (PRI)
* Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra/Manuel Cavazos Lerma (PRI)
* Tlaxcala: Samuel Quiróz de la Vega/José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRD)
* Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero (PRD)
* Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho/Ricardo Ávila Heredia (PRI)
* Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez (PRI)
* Regent of Mexico City
** Manuel Camacho Solís
** Manuel Aguilera Gomez

## Events

* The Foro Sol opened
* Musical bands La Gusana Ciega and Hocico are founded.
* Arqueología Mexicana has its first issue published.
* May 14: The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico is founded.
* May 21: The Miss Universe 1993 contest was held at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.
* May 24: Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport.
* September 3: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte founded per presidential decree.
* December 1: The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Ramón Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Andrés Henestrosa

## Hurricanes

* June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)
* June 18–21: Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
* August 17–27: Hurricane Hilary (1993)
* September 8–14: Hurricane Lidia (1993)
* September 14–26: Hurricane Gert

## Sport

* 1992–93 Mexican Primera División season
* Olmecas de Tabasco win the Mexican League.
* 1993 Caribbean Series played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán.
* 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup
* 1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
* Alto Rendimiento Tuzo is founded.

## Births

* January 21 – Oliver Ortíz, footballer
* April 2 – Jaime Romero Móran, artistic gymnast, (d. January 3, 2015).
* September 18 – Mariana Avitia, archer
* October 23 – Daniela Álvarez, winner of Nuestra Belleza México 2013 beauty pageant in 2013
* December 7 – Brandon Moreno, mixed martial artist
* December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, actress and educator

## Deaths

* May 24 – Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Cardinal of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1987-1993 (b. November 11, 1906).