# 1989 in Mexico

Events in the year 1989 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo
* Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
* 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
* Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): María de los Angeles Moreno
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
* Baja California
** Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI), until January 5
** Oscar Baylón Chacón, (PRI), January 6 to October 31.
** Ernesto Ruffo Appel, National Action Party (PAN), starting November 1. Ruffo Appel was the first governor who was not a member of PRI since 1929.
* Baja California Sur:
* Campeche: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
* Chiapas: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
* Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
* 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: Francisco Rodríguez Gómez/Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
* State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta/Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza
* Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
* Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).
* 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: Dante Delgado Rannauro
* Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
* Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada
* Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís

## Events

* Music group Café Tacuba is founded.
* Newspaper El Economista is founded.
* The Guadalajara light rail system begins operating.
* The Santa Teresa la Antigua Alternative Art Center opens its doors.
* February 13: Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (México) and the National Human Rights Commission (Mexico) are founded.
* March 2: FONCA, (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes) is founded.
* March 3: Miss Latin America 1989 held in Hermosillo, Sonora.
* May 5: The Party of the Democratic Revolution is founded.
* May 23: Miss Universe 1989 held in Cancún, Quintana Roo.
* August 10: The San Rafael River train disaster
* August 25–29: Hurricane Kiko
* October 19: The Autonomous University of Campeche is established.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Raúl Castellano Jiménez

## Births

* January 10: Zuria Vega, actress and singer
* June 7: Sofía Sisniega, actress
* September 14: Miriam Zetter, ten-pin bowler

## Deaths

* August 7 — Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963–1968 (b. 1916)
* October 30 — Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1906)

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1989

## Sport

* 1988–89 Mexican Primera División season.
* 1989 Caribbean Series in Mazatlan at the Estadio Teodoro Mariscal.
* Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League.
* 1989 Tournament of the Americas in Mexico City.
* 1989 Mexican Grand Prix.
* 1989 480 km of Mexico.