# 1952 in Mexico

Events in the year 1952 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Miguel Alemán Valdés (until November 30), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (starting December 1)
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ernesto P. Uruchurtu/Ángel Carvajal Bernal
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/Luis Padilla Nervo
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Lazo
* Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Gual Vidal/Jose Angel Ceniceros
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gilberto R. Limón/Matías Ramos
* Secretary of Navy: Alberto J. Pawling/Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Manuel Ramírez Vázquez/Adolfo López Mateos

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Roque Estrada Reynoso

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Edmundo Gámez Orozco
* Baja California: Alfonso García González
* Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
* Chiapas: Francisco J. Grajales/Efraín Aranda Osorio
* Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
* Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
* Colima: Jesús González Lugo
* Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
* Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
* Guerrero: Alejandro Gómez Maganda/Darío L. Arrieta Mateos
* Hidalgo: Vicente Aguirre del Castillo/Quintín Rueda Villagrán
* Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo
* State of Mexico: Salvador Sánchez Colín
* Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
* Morelos: Ernesto Escobar Muñoz/Rodolfo López de Nava
* Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
* Nuevo León: Ignacio Morones Prieto/José S. Vivanco
* Oaxaca: Manuel Mayoral Heredia/Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado
* Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
* Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra/Juan C. Gorraéz
* San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres/Manuel Álvarez
* Sinaloa: Enrique Pérez Arce
* Sonora: Ignacio Soto/Álvaro Obregón Tapia
* Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría
* Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
* Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
* Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
* Yucatán: Humberto Esquivel Medina/Tomás Marentes Miranda
* Zacatecas: José Minero Roque

## Events

* The Miss Mexico organization is formed.
* The Gorditas Doña Tota restaurant chain is established in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas by Carlota Murillo.
* January 16: The North Territory of Baja California is admitted as the State of Baja California.
* April: The trade union confederation called Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) is founded.
* July 7: 1952 Mexican general election.

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1952.

## Sport

* 1951–52 Mexican Primera División season.
* Aguila de Veracruz win the Mexican League.
* Mexico at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

## Births

* January 22 – Iliana Godoy Patiño, narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (d. 2017).
* February 24 — Jesús Aguilar Padilla, politician (PRI) and lawyer; Governor of Sinaloa 2004–2010.
* March 23 — Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), wrestler (d. 2018).
* April 27 — Federico Barbosa Gutiérrez, jurist and politician, member of the Congress of the Union (2003–2006); (d. 2018).
* June 16 — Salvador Pineda, soap opera actor
* October 19 — Verónica Castro, actress, singer, producer, former model, and presenter.
* November 21 – Jorge Arturo García Rubí, lawyer, politician (PRI), Governor of Morelos (May–September 2000).
* November 24 — Laura León, actress and singer
* December 5 — Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, politician (PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2016 - 2018
* Date unknown — Enrique Caballero Vela, actor (d. 2018).

## Deaths

* 12 June — Genovevo de la O, general of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1876)
* 21 July – Pedro Lascuráin, 34th President of Mexico for 45 minutes in 1914 (b. 1856)