# 1980 in Mexico

Events in the year 1980 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: José López Portillo
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López
* Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
* Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
* Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Guillermo Rossell de la Lama/Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
* Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
* Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo (PRI)
* Campeche: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
* Chiapas: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot (PRI)
* Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre/Óscar Ornelas (PRI)
* Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia/Francisco José Madero González (PRI)
* Colima: Griselda Álvarez (PRI)
* Durango: Salvador Gámiz Fernández/Armando del Castillo Franco (PRI)
* Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra (PRI)
* Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa (PRI)
* Hidalgo: Jorge Rojo Lugo (PRI)
* Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco (PRI)
* State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
* Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo/Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
* Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
* Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel (PRI)
* Nuevo León: Flavio Romero de Velasco
* Oaxaca: Eliseo Jimenez Ruiz/Pedro Vasquez Colmenares (PRI)
* Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara (PRI)
* Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán (PRI)
* Quintana Roo: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona (PRI)
* San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios (PRI)
* Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón (PRI)
* Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García (PRI)
* Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade (PRI)
* Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González (PRI)
* Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras (PRI)
* Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa (PRI)
* Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan (PRI)
* Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona (PRI)
* Regent of Mexico City: Carlos Hank González

## Events

* Zeta is founded.
* The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas is established.
* The Centro de Investigaciones en Optica is founded.
* The Ollin Yoliztli Prize is awarded for the first time.
* The Palacio de Lecumberri starts housing the General National Archive
* July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.
* October 24: 1980 Oaxaca earthquake.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Luis Padilla Nervo

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1980.

## Sport

* 1979–80 Mexican Primera División season.
* Saraperos de Saltillo win the Mexican League.
* Mexico at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
* Mexico at the 1980 Summer Paralympics.
* Correcaminos UAT founded.

## Births

* February 4 – Gerardo Alcántara, soccer player
* February 23 – Geovanna Bañuelos de la Torre, politician
* March 18 — Olga Vargas, synchronized swimmer
* March 30 — Mauricio Vila Dosal, Governor of Yucatán 2018–2024
* April 2 – Carlos Salcido, footballer
* November 15 — Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo, Governor of Guanajuato starting 2018
* December 12 — Pablo Baltodano Monroy, diplomat and politician

## Deaths

* March 18 — Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher who lived in Cuernavaca from 1956-1976 (b. 1900)
* May 13 — Carmen García González, wife of President Emilio Portes Gil (1928-1930) (b. 1905)