# 1999 in Mexico

Events in the year 1999 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Ernesto Zedillo
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Francisco Labastida (until 21 May); Diódoro Carrasco (from 21 May)
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): María del Rosario Green Macías
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
* Education Secretary (SEP): Miguel Limón Rojas
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
* Secretary of Navy: José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Antonio González Fernández/Mariano Palacios Alcocer
* Secretary of Welfare: Esteban Moctezuma (until 4 August); Carlos Jarque (from 4 August)
* Secretary of Public Education: Miguel Limón Rojas
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Óscar Espinosa Villarreal
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Julia Carabias Lillo
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Juan Ramón de la Fuente (until 30 November); José Antonio González Fernández (from 30 November)

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán then Genaro David Góngora Pimentel

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Felipe González González, (National Action Party, PAN)
* Baja California: Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, (PAN)
* Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño (PRD)/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
* Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
* Chiapas: Roberto Albores Guillén
* Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García (PRI)
* Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
* Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña (PRI)
* Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PRI)
* Guanajuato: Vicente Fox/Ramon Martin Huerta (PAN)
* Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero/René Juárez Cisneros (PAN)
* Hidalgo: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez (PAN)
* Jalisco: Humberto Lugo Gil/Manuel Angel Nunez Soto (PAN)
* State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz/Arturo Montiel Rojas (PRI)
* Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
* Morelos: Jorge Morales Barud (Substitute—PRI).
* Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza/Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
* Nuevo León: Fernando Canales (PRI)
* Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López (PRI)
* Puebla: Melquiades Morales Flores/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
* Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera (PRI)
* Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid/Joaquín Hendricks Díaz (PRI)
* San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto (PRI)
* Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán (PRI)
* Sonora: Armando López Nogales (PRI)
* Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado (PRI)
* Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma/Tomás Yarrington
* Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima/Alfonso Sánchez Anaya (PRI)
* Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco
* Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco (PRI)
* Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal Ávila (PRI)
* Head of Government of the Federal District
** Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), (until September 29)
** Rosario Robles (PRD) (starting September 29)

## Events

* The banderas monumentales program is initiated.
* January: 1999 UNAM strike
* March 21: 1999 Mexican referendums
* June 15: 1999 Tehuacán earthquake
* August 18–25: Hurricane Bret
* September 5–9: Hurricane Greg
* September 12: Nuestra Belleza México 1999
* September 30: 1999 Oaxaca earthquake
* September – October: 1999 Mexico floods
* November: Mexico hosts the first Parapan American Games

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Carlos Fuentes
* Order of the Aztec Eagle
* National Prize for Arts and Sciences
* National Public Administration Prize
* Ohtli Award
** Deborah V. Ortiz
** David R. Maciel

## Sport

* Primera División de México Verano 1999.
* Primera División de México Invierno 1999.
* 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup Final.
* Mexico participate in the 1999 Copa América and become 3rd.
* Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (1999).
* Ruleta de la Muerte (1999).
* 1999 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Monterrey.

## Television
### Debuted

* Alma Rebelde
* Catalina y Sebastián
* Háblame de amor
* Laberintos de pasión
* Mujeres engañadas
* Nunca Te Olvidaré
* Por tu amor
* Rosalinda
* Tres mujeres
* Yacaranday

### Ended

* Alma Rebelde
* Camila
* Catalina y Sebastián
* El diario de Daniela
* Nunca Te Olvidaré
* Por tu amor
* El Privilegio de Amar
* Rosalinda
* Yacaranday

## Deaths

* March 19: Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Horal, 1950) and Tarumba in Mexico City (b. 1926).
* May 15: Gutierre Tibón, Italian-Mexican writer (b. 1905)
* July 22: Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, governor of Morelos 1982-1988 (b. 1910)