# 1969 in Mexico

Events in the year 1969 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez (until 10 November), Mario Moya Palencia (starting 11 November)
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Antonio Carrillo Flores
* Communications Secretary (SCT): José Antonio Padilla Segura
* Education Secretary (SEP): Agustín Yáñez
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
* Secretary of Navy: Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
* Secretary of Welfare: Gilberto Valenzuela/Luis Enrique Bracamontes

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

### Governors

* Aguascalientes:Francisco Guel Jiménez
* Baja California: Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
* Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
* Chiapas: José Castillo Tielemans
* Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
* Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre/Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
* Colima: Pablo Silva García
* Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
* Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
* Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón/Caritino Maldonado Pérez
* Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero/Manuel Sánchez Vite
* Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio
* State of Mexico: Juan Fernández Albarrán/Carlos Hank González
* Michoacán: Carlos Gálvez Betancourt
* Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio
* Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado
* Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo
* Oaxaca: Víctor Bravo Ahuja
* Puebla: Aarón Merino Fernández/Rafael Moreno Valle
* Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez
* San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero
* Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
* Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna
* Tabasco: Manuel R. Mora Martínez
* Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa/Manuel A. Rabize
* Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes/Ignacio Bonillas
* Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
* Yucatán: Luis Torres Mesías
* Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
* Regent of the Federal District: Alfonso Corona del Rosal

## Events

* Allende meteorite falls in Allende, Chihuahua.
* The Universidad Regiomontana, the Autonomous University of Nayarit and the University of Monterrey are established.
* Treaty of Tlatelolco
* Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean
* March 31: Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster
* June 4: Mexicana Flight 704
* June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.
* September 4: Opening of the Mexico City Metro Line 1

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Cámara Vales

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1969

## Sport

* 1968–69 Mexican Primera División season
* 1969 Mexican Grand Prix
* May 31 – June 21: 1970 FIFA World Cup
* October 3 – 5: 1969 World Judo Championships held in Mexico City.

## Births

* January 13 — Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
* January 31 — Urbano Zea, swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics; (d. 2018)
* June 17 — Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, lawyer and first female Governor of Sonora starting 2015
* June 29 — Guillermo Padrés Elías, Governor of Sonora 2009–2015. Arrested for embezzlement on November 10, 2016 and released on February 2, 2019
* April 21 — Carlos Mendoza Davis, lawyer and Governor of Baja California Sur starting 2015
* May 9 — Benjamín Rivera, voice actor
* July 9 — Eduardo Santamarina, actor
* August 5 — Diego Schoening, singer, actor, television host
* September 1 — Armando Araiza, actor
* September 28 — Pedro Fernández, singer, songwriter, actor
* October 24 — Adela Noriega, actress
* Date unknown
** Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, Governor of Tlaxcala starting 2017.
** Armando Mendoza Duarte, politician.

## Deaths

* September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)