# 1928 in Mexico

Events from the year 1928 in Mexico

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President:
** Plutarco Elías Calles (until November 30)
** Emilio Portes Gil (starting December 1)
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
* Communications Secretary (SCT):
* Education Secretary (SEP):

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court:

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Isaac Díaz de León (1926-1928), Alberto Díaz de León Bocanegra (1928), Benjamín de la Mora (1928), Manuel Carpio Velázquez (1928-1929)
* Campeche: Silvestre Pavón Silva (1927-1928), Pedro Tello Andueza (1928), Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo (1928-1931)
* Chiapas: Federico Martínez Rojas (1927–1928), Amador Coutiño (1928), Rosendo Delabre Santeliz (1928), Raymundo E. Enríquez (1928-1929)
* Chihuahua: Fernando Orozco (1927-1928), Marcelo Caraveo (1928-1929)
* Coahuila: Manuel Pérez Treviño
* Colima: Laureano Cervantes
* Durango:
* Guanajuato: Agustín Arroyo
* Guerrero: Héctor F. López (1925–1928), Enrique Martínez (1928), Adrián Castrejón National Revolutionary Party (1928–1933)
* Hidalgo: Matías Rodríguez
* Jalisco:
* State of Mexico: Carlos Riva Palacio
* Michoacán: : Enrique Ramírez Aviña (1924–1928), Lázaro Cárdenas (1928–1929)
* Morelos: Ambrosio Puente (interim)
* Nayarit: José de la Peña Ledón
* Nuevo León: José Benítez
* Oaxaca: Genaro V. Vázquez (1925–1928), Francisco López Cortés (1928–1932)
* Puebla: Donato Bravo Izquierdo
* Querétaro: Abraham Araujo
* San Luis Potosí: Saturnino Cedillo
* Sinaloa: vacant
* Sonora: Fausto Topete
* Tabasco: Tomás Taracena Hernández
* Tamaulipas: Juan Rincón
* Tlaxcala:
* Veracruz: Abel S. Rodríguez (1927-1928), Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (Second Term, 1928-1932)
* Yucatán: Álvaro Torre Díaz
* Zacatecas: Leobardo C. Ruiz

## Events

* July 1: 1928 Mexican general election: Álvaro Obregón is elected president for a second time.
* July 17: Cristero War: José de León Toral, a Roman Catholic who supported the Cristeros, assassinates Álvaro Obregón.
* December 1: Emilio Portes Gil becomes president.

## Sports

* 1927–28 Primera Fuerza season, won by Club América.
* Mexico at the 1928 Summer Olympics
* Mexico at the 1928 Winter Olympics

## Births

* March 19 – Josefina Leiner, actress (d. 2017).
* March 30 – Lilia Prado, actress during the Golden Age of Mexican Cine; (d. 2006)
* April 23 – Olga Harmony, playwright and drama teacher at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria; (d. 2018).
* April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, actress (Premio Arlequín 2014; voice of Cinderella in the Walt Disney film), (d. October 2, 2017).
* May 24 – Jacobo Zabludovsky, television anchor (24 Horas), (d. July 2, 2015).
* July 21 – Josefina Echánove, actress, model and journalist
* August 23 – Heberto Castillo, civil engineer and politician from Veracruz; (d. 1997)
* October 5 – Enrique González Rojo Jr., poet, philosopher and teacher (d. March 5, 2021)
* October 7 – Sergio Corona, actor from Hidalgo
* October 24 – Rafael Barraza Sánchez, bishop of Mazatlan (1981-2005), born in Durango; (d. 2020)
* December 25 – Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora (d. 2017).
* Date unknown
** Jacinto Contreras Martínez, polítician (d. May 20, 2018).
** Melquiades Sánchez Orozco, journalist and radio announcer (d. November 4, 2018)
** Luisa Josefina Hernández, writer and playwright

## Deaths

* February 10 – José Sánchez del Río, Mexican Cristero (b. 1913)
* February 25 – Toribio Romo González, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1900)
* April 22 – José Mora y del Río, Archbishop of Mexico, died in exile in San Antonio, TX; (b. 1854 in Michoacan)
* July 1 – Atilano Cruz Alvarado, Saint of the Cristero War (b. 1901)
* July 12 – Emilio Carranza, pilot (b. Coahuila 1905)
* July 17 – Álvaro Obregón, 39th President of Mexico; assassinated after being reelected in 1928 (b. 1880)