# 1998 in Mexico

Events in the year 1998 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Ernesto Zedillo
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Emilio Chuayffet (until 3 January); Francisco Labastida (from 21 May)
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): María del Rosario Green Macías
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
* 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
* Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez/Esteban Moctezuma
* 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

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán

### Governors

* Aguascalientes
** Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), until November 30
** Felipe González González, PAN, starting December 1
* Baja California:
** Héctor Terán Terán, (National Action Party (PAN)), died in office, October 4.
** Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, PAN
* Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño (PRD)/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
* Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
* Chiapas: Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro/Roberto Albores Guillén (PRI)
* Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio/Patricio Martínez García (PRI)
* Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
* Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña (PRI)
* Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PRI)
* Guanajuato: Vicente Fox (PAN)
* Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero (PAN)
* Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam/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: Antonio Riva Palacio López/Jorge Morales Barud (Substitute—PRI).
* Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
* 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: Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Silva Nieto (PRI)
* Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado/Juan S. Millán (PRI)
* Sonora: Armando López Nogales (PRI)
* Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado (PRI)
* Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
* Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRI)
* Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero/Miguel Alemán Velasco (PRI)
* 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

* El diario de Daniela begins airing on television.
* March 18: The TV channel Canal del Congreso is launched.
* April 21: the Pinacoteca Diego Rivera is inaugurated.
* August 30: 1998 Mexican Fobaproa funds referendum
* September 14: Camila (telenovela) begins.
* September 19: Nuestra Belleza México 1998

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – José Angel Conchello Dávila (post mortem)
* Ohtli Award
** Burton E. Grossman
** Dolores Huerta
** Pete Rodriguez
** Guadalupe Reyes

## Hurricanes

* August 21–24: Tropical Storm Charley (1998)
* September 1–3: Hurricane Isis (1998)
* October 15–26: Hurricane Lester (1998)
* October 16–20: Hurricane Madeline (1998)
* October 22 – November 9: Hurricane Mitch

## Sport

* 1997–98 Mexican Primera División season.
* Guerreros de Oaxaca win the Mexican League.
* March 20: Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth (1998)
* July 18: Ruleta de la Muerte (1998)
* December 13: Guerra de Titanes (1998)

## Births

* April 3 - Humberto Castellanos, baseball player
* November 10 – Karen Villanueva, rhythmic gymnast

## Deaths

* September 5 – Fernando Balzaretti, actor (b. 1946)
* December 13 – Ariadna Welter, actress (b. 1930)