# 1988 in Mexico

Events in the year 1988 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Miguel de la Madrid (until November 30), Carlos Salinas de Gortari (starting December 1)
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor/Fernando Solana
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz/Andrés Caso Lombardo
* Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui/Antonio Riviello Bazán
* Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega/Mauricio Scheleske Sánchez
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
* Secretary of Welfare: Manuel Camacho Solís/Gabino Fraga/Patricio Chirinos Calero
* Secretary of Public Education: Miguel González Avelar/Manuel Bartlett Díaz
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada/María de los Angeles Moreno
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo/Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
* Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
* Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
* Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
* Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez/Patrocinio González Garrido
* Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
* Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
* Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
* Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
* Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala
* Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
* Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
* Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo/Francisco Rodríguez Gómez
* State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta
* Michoacán: Luis Martínez Villicaña
* Morelos
** Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), until May 18.
** Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), starting May 18.
* Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
* Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño
* Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
* Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
* Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
* Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
* San Luis Potosí: no data
* Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
* Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
* Tabasco: José María Peralta López
* Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
* Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
* Veracruz: Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Dante Delgado Rannauro
* Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco/Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
* Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada
* Regent of Mexico City
** Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
** Manuel Camacho Solís

## Events

* The National Council for Culture and Arts is established.
* The Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca is established
* July 6: 1988 Mexican general election
* August 31 – September 8: Hurricane Debby
* September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbert

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Rufino Tamayo

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1988

## Sport

* 1987–88 Mexican Primera División season
* Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
* Atlético Boca del Río and Venados de Yucatán are founded.
* 1988 Mexican Grand Prix
* Mexico at the 1988 Winter Olympics
* Mexico at the 1988 Summer Olympics
* Mexico at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
* 1988 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.

## Births

* February 5 – Karin Ontiveros, beauty queen
* April 29 — Elías Hernández, footballer
* May 21 — Aída Román, archer
* November 23 — Ezequiel Orozco, soccer player (Club Necaxa), (d. 2018)

## Deaths

* April 25 — Roberto Salido Beltrán, military aviator (b. 1912)
* July 11 — Oscar Flores Tapia, journalist, writer, and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1975–1981 (b. 1913)
* August 9 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
* December 9 – Alfredo Woodward Téllez, businessman and politician (b. 1905)