# 1991 in Mexico

Events in the year 1991 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
* Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
* Secretary of Welfare: Patricio Chirinos Calero/Luis Donaldo Colosio
* Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): María de los Angeles Moreno/Guillermo Jiménez Morales
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
* Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
* Baja California Sur: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
* Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
* Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido
* Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
* Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
* Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco/Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
* Durango: José Ramírez Gamero
* Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala/Carlos Medina Plascencia
* Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
* Hidalgo: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
* Jalisco: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
* State of Mexico: Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
* Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
* Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).
* Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
* Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo
* Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
* Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
* Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
* Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
* San Luis Potosí: Fausto Zapata
* Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
* Sonora: Mario Morúa Johnson/Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
* Tabasco: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez
* Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
* Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
* Veracruz: Dante Delgado Rannauro
* Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho
* Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada/Pedro de León
* Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís

## Events

* The Amparo Museum is inaugurated.
* The FIL Award is awarded for the first time, the recipient is Chilean author Nicanor Parra.
* The Monterrey Metro begins operating.
* The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey is established.
* August 18: 1991 Mexican legislative election.
* September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio (1991).
* Unknown date: Xcaret Park opens.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán

## Sport

* 1990–91 Mexican Primera División season
* 1990–91 Copa México
* Sultanes de Monterrey win the Mexican League.
* 1991 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics take place in Xalapa, Veracruz.
* 1991 Mexican Grand Prix
* 430 km of Mexico City
* Mexico at the 1991 Pan American Games
* The Naranjeros de Álamo are founded.

## Births

* May 5 – Raúl Jiménez, footballer
* June 3 – Natasha Dupeyrón, actress and singer
* August 2 – Zuleyka Silver, fashion model and actress
* October 22 – Tatiana Martínez, actress
* December 15 – Jorge Blanco, musician, singer, dancer, and actor

## Deaths

* February 5 — Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953-1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (b. 1907).
* June 24 — Rufino Tamayo, painter (b. 1899)
* October 10 — Nazario S. Ortiz Garza, Governor of Coahuila 1929-1933