# 1983 in Mexico

Events in the year 1983 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Miguel de la Madrid
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Rodolfo Félix Valdés
* Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
* Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
* Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena
* Secretary of Public Education: Jesús Reyes Heroles
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
* Baja California
** Roberto de la Madrid (PRI), until October 31
** Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI), starting November 1
* Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
* Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
* Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
* Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas
* Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
* Colima: Griselda Álvarez
* Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
* Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
* Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
* Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
* Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
* State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
* Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
* Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez
* Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
* Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez/Jorge Treviño
* Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
* Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
* Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
* Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
* San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
* Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
* Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
* Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
* Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou
* Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
* Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
* Yucatán: Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
* Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
* Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

## Events

* The Mexican company INEGI is founded.
* Mónica Rosas from Durango is crowned Señorita México by outgoing titleholder Alba Cervera.
* Benedetti's Pizza is founded by Felipe Baeza.
* Galería OMR founded by its principals Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra.
* April 3 – The 2nd festival of the popular Juguemos a Cantar series begins; it ends five weeks later on May 1.
* August 23–29: Hurricane Barry.
* December 2: The Mexico City Mexico Temple is founded.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jesús Silva Herzog

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1983

## Sport

* 1982–83 Mexican Primera División season
* 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship
* Football Club Chapulineros de Oaxacais founded.
* September 4: Football Club Santos Laguna is founded.

## Births

* March 1
** Elán, singer-songwriter
** Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-Kenyan actress
* March 9 — Maite Perroni, actress, singer, and model.
* March 11 – Renato López, television presenter, actor, musician (d. November 23, 2016).
* July 14 — Tomas Villa, featherweight boxer (d. 2018)
* November 29 – Rubén Espinosa, photojournalist (Proceso and Cuartoscuro), (d. July 31, 2015).

## Deaths

* April 11 - Dolores del Río, actress (b. 1904)
* May 14 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1903)