# 1996 in Mexico

Events in the year 1996 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Ernesto Zedillo
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Emilio Chuayffet.
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): José Ángel Gurría
* 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
* 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)
* Baja California: Héctor Terán Terán, (National Action Party PAN).
* Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero
* Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
* Chiapas: Julio César Ruíz Ferro
* Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
* Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
* Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
* Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
* Guanajuato: Vicente Fox Quesada
* Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer/Ángel Aguirre Rivero
* Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
* Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
* State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz
* Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco/Ausencio Chávez Hernández
* Morelos: Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI).
* Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
* Nuevo León: Benjamín Clariond
* Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
* Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
* Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García
* Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid
* San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta
* Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado
* Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
* Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado
* Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
* Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima
* Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero
* Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
* Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez
* Regent of Mexico City: Oscar Espinosa Villarreal

## Events

* Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey established.
* Alternative rock group Plastilina Mosh is founded.
* February 16: the San Andres Accords were signed.
* June: The Guadalajara Gay Pride is founded.
* June 28: The Popular Revolutionary Army announces its existence.
* September 22: Nuestra Belleza México 1996 held in Cancun.
* October 23: The Law of Protection of Commerce and Investments from Foreign Policies that Contravene International Law is published.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor
** Griselda Álvarez
** Alí Chumacero
* Ohtli Award
** Gonzalo Barrientos
** Hector P. Garcia
** Carlos Truan
** Edward R. Roybal

## Births

* January 30 : Dafne Navarro, trampoline gymnast
* March 29 : Juanpa Zurita, Internet personality
* August 12 : Julio Urías, baseball player

## Deaths

* May 24 – Octavio Sentíes Gómez, 81, politician (PRI), Governor of Veracruz, Secretary of the Interior, Regent of DF (b. February 9, 1915)

## Hurricanes

* July 24 – August 6: Hurricane Cesar–Douglas
* August 19 – 26: Hurricane Dolly (1996)
* September 30 – October 4: Hurricane Hernan

## Sports

* 1995–96 Mexican Primera División season
* 1995–96 Copa Mexico
* Mexico wins the 1996 U.S. Cup
* Mexico loses in the final of the Pan American Games football tournament
* Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics
* Mexico at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
* Atlético Hidalgo, C.F. Cuautitlán and Real Sociedad de Zacatecas are founded.