1952 in Mexico

1952 in Mexico
Events in the year 1952 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Miguel Alemán Valdés (until November 30), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (starting December 1)
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ernesto P. Uruchurtu/Ángel Carvajal Bernal
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/Luis Padilla Nervo
Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Lazo
Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Gual Vidal/Jose Angel Ceniceros
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gilberto R. Limón/Matías Ramos
Secretary of Navy: Alberto J. Pawling/Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Manuel Ramírez Vázquez/Adolfo López Mateos
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Roque Estrada Reynoso
Governors
Aguascalientes: Edmundo Gámez Orozco
Baja California: Alfonso García González
Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
Chiapas: Francisco J. Grajales/Efraín Aranda Osorio
Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
Colima: Jesús González Lugo
Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
Guerrero: Alejandro Gómez Maganda/Darío L. Arrieta Mateos
Hidalgo: Vicente Aguirre del Castillo/Quintín Rueda Villagrán
Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo
State of Mexico: Salvador Sánchez Colín
Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
Morelos: Ernesto Escobar Muñoz/Rodolfo López de Nava
Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
Nuevo León: Ignacio Morones Prieto/José S. Vivanco
Oaxaca: Manuel Mayoral Heredia/Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado
Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra/Juan C. Gorraéz
San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres/Manuel Álvarez
Sinaloa: Enrique Pérez Arce
Sonora: Ignacio Soto/Álvaro Obregón Tapia
Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría
Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
Yucatán: Humberto Esquivel Medina/Tomás Marentes Miranda
Zacatecas: José Minero Roque
Events
The Miss Mexico organization is formed.
The Gorditas Doña Tota restaurant chain is established in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas by Carlota Murillo.
January 16: The North Territory of Baja California is admitted as the State of Baja California.
April: The trade union confederation called Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) is founded.
July 7: 1952 Mexican general election.
Film
List of Mexican films of 1952.
Sport
1951–52 Mexican Primera División season.
Aguila de Veracruz win the Mexican League.
Mexico at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Births
January 22 – Iliana Godoy Patiño, narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (d. 2017).
February 24 — Jesús Aguilar Padilla, politician (PRI) and lawyer; Governor of Sinaloa 2004–2010.
March 23 — Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), wrestler (d. 2018).
April 27 — Federico Barbosa Gutiérrez, jurist and politician, member of the Congress of the Union (2003–2006); (d. 2018).
June 16 — Salvador Pineda, soap opera actor
October 19 — Verónica Castro, actress, singer, producer, former model, and presenter.
November 21 – Jorge Arturo García Rubí, lawyer, politician (PRI), Governor of Morelos (May–September 2000).
November 24 — Laura León, actress and singer
December 5 — Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, politician (PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2016 - 2018
Date unknown — Enrique Caballero Vela, actor (d. 2018).
Deaths
12 June — Genovevo de la O, general of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1876)
21 July – Pedro Lascuráin, 34th President of Mexico for 45 minutes in 1914 (b. 1856)
References
Mexico