# 1958 in Mexico

Events in the year 1958 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (until November 30), Adolfo López Mateos (starting December 1)
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ángel Carvajal Bernal (until November 30), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (starting December 1)
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Padilla Nervo/Manuel Tello Baurraud
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
* Education Secretary (SEP): José Ángel Ceniceros
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
* Secretary of Navy: Roberto Gómez Maqueo/Héctor Meixueiro/Manuel Zermeño Araico
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Agapito Pozo Balbás

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
* Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sández
* Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
* Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio/Samuel León Brindis
* Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda
* Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
* Colima: Rodolfo Chávez Carrillo
* Durango: Francisco González de la Vega
* Guanajuato: J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
* Guerrero: Raúl Caballero Aburto
* Hidalgo: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
* Jalisco: Agustín Yáñez
* State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz Prada
* Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez
* Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
* Nayarit: Francisco García Montero
* Nuevo León: Raúl Rangel Frías
* Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca
* Puebla: Fausto M. Ortega
* Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
* San Luis Potosí: Manuel Álvarez
* Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
* Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
* Tabasco: Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
* Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
* Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
* Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco
* Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo/Agustín Franco Aguilar
* Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
* Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

## Events

* Diego Rivera donates Frida Kahlo's childhood home and its contents in order to turn it into the Frida Kahlo Museum.
* The Aurrerá grocery chain starts operating.
* Hotel chain Camino Real Hotels is founded.
* July 6: 1958 Mexican general election.
* Conflicto_entre_Guatemala_y_M%C3%A9xico_(1958-1959)

## Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heriberto Jara Corona

## Births

* February 16 — Fernando Ortega Bernés, 16th Governor of Campeche 2009-2015
* April 30 — Guillermo Capetillo, bullfighter and voice actor
* May 3 — Rutilio Escandón, lawyer and Governor of Chiapas 2018-2024
* May 17 – Gus Rodríguez, Mexican writer, director and video game journalist (d. April 11, 2020)
* June 10 — Alfredo Adame, actor and producer
* June 22 — Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress
* July 3 — Héctor Astudillo Flores, lawyer and politician (PRI), Governor of Guerrero starting 2015
* July 26 – Jesús Barrero, actor and voice actor (Saint Seiya) (d. 2016).
* September 27 – Faustino López Vargas, politician (d. 2022)
* October 3 — Francisco Rojas San Román, politician (Deputy from the State of Mexico, 2009-2012) (d. 2018).
* October 5 — Manuel Landeta, singer and soap opera actor
* October 24 — José Manuel Mireles Valverde, doctor and paramilitary leader (d. 2020)
* November 14 — Sergio Goyri, actor
* Date unknown
** Abril Campillo, actress; breast cancer (d. 2017).

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1958

## Sport

* 1957–58 Mexican Primera División season.
* Leones de Yucatán win the Mexican League.
* Salamanca F.C. and Alacranes de Durango are founded.