# 1997 in Mexico

Events in the year 1997 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

* Head of Government of the Federal District
** Oscar Espinosa Villarreal (PRI) (until December 4)
** Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (PRD) (starting December 5) First elected leader of Mexico City.
* Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (PRI)
* Baja California: Héctor Terán Terán, (PAN).
* Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero/Leonel Cota Montaño
* Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García/José Antonio González Curi
* Chiapas: Julio César Ruíz Ferro/Roberto Albores Guillén
* Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN)
* Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PAN)
* Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen/Fernando Moreno Peña (PAN)
* Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PAN)
* Guanajuato: Vicente Fox Quesada (PAN),
* Guerrero: Ángel Aguirre Rivero
* Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
* Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
* State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz
* Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
* Morelos: Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI).
* Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
* Nuevo León: Benjamín Clariond/Fernando Canales
* Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
* Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
* Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García/Ignacio Loyola Vera
* Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid
* San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta/Fernando Silva Nieto
* Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado
* Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera/Armando López Nogales
* 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

## Events

* Convergence was founded as a "national political grouping".
* March 13: Phoenix Lights in Sonora.
* June 6: 1997 Mexican legislative election
* September: Nuestra Belleza México 1997
* December 22: Acteal Massacre

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heberto Castillo

## Hurricanes

* June 1–7: Tropical Storm Andres (1997)
* September 16–26: Hurricane Nora (1997)
* September 26 – October 12: Tropical Storm Olaf (1997)
* October 5–10: Hurricane Pauline

## Sport

* 1996–97 Mexican Primera División season
* 1996–97 Copa Mexico
* Petroleros de Poza Rica win the Mexican League.
* Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth (1997)
* Atlético Mexiquense and Chivas Tijuana are founded.
* The Chupacabras race is held for the first time.

### Births

* October 29 – Ale Müller, actress and singer

## Deaths

* October 24 – Luis Aguilar, actor and singer (b. 1918)