# 1972 in Mexico

Events in the year 1972 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Luis Echeverría
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
* Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
* Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Rafael Hernández Ochoa/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
* Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
* Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
* Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
* Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez
* Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
* Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
* Colima: Pablo Silva García
* Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
* Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
* Guerrero: Israel Nogueda Otero
* Hidalgo: Donaciano Serna Leal/Manuel Sánchez Vite
* Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
* State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
* Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
* Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo
* Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
* Nuevo León: Luis M. Farías
* Oaxaca: Fernando Gómez Sandoval
* Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle
* Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez
* San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero
* Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
* Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna
* Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
* Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize
* Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez
* Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
* Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
* Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
* Regent of Mexico City: Octavio Senties Gomez

## Events

* José Guadalupe Posada Museum opens.
* The Palace of Iturbide becomes the home of the Banamex Cultural Foundation (Fomento Cultural Banamex).
* The Festival Internacional Cervantino is founded in Guanajuato.
* June 14–23: Hurricane Agnes.
* September: Fred Gómez Carrasco is arrested in Guadalajara.
* September 30-October 7: Hurricane Joanne

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Ignacio Ramos Praslow

## Births

* January 25 – Chantal Andere, actress
* January 27 – Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress
* April 23 – Patricia Manterola, actress, fashion designer, singer, and model
* May 10 – Víctor Noriega, actor, singer, and model
* June 22 – Miguel del Toro, baseball player
* August 30 – José Ramón Amieva, acting Mayor of Mexico City 2018
* October 23 – Kate del Castillo, television actress (La Reina del Sur)
* October 23 – Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
* November 27 – Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, politician (PRI); first elected female Governor of Yucatán 2007–2012
* December 7 – Oliver Fernández, tennis player
* December 25 – Ricardo Tejedo, actor, voice actor, ADR director, script writer and translator
* Date unknown – Marbella Ibarra, soccer coach and promoter of women's soccer (d. October 12, 2018).

## Deaths

* February – Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist (born 1900 in Spain)
* December 7 – Humberto Mariles, equestrian Olympic gold medalist (born 1913 in Mexico)

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1972.

## Sport

* 1971–72 Mexican Primera División season.
* Cafeteros de Córdoba win the Mexican League.
* Mexico at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
* Mexico at the 1972 Summer Paralympics.
* The Adecmac soccer league is founded.