1999 in Mexico

1999 in Mexico
Events in the year 1999 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Ernesto Zedillo
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Francisco Labastida (until 21 May); Diódoro Carrasco (from 21 May)
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): María del Rosario Green Macías
Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
Education Secretary (SEP): Miguel Limón Rojas
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/Mariano Palacios Alcocer
Secretary of Welfare: Esteban Moctezuma (until 4 August); Carlos Jarque (from 4 August)
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 (until 30 November); José Antonio González Fernández (from 30 November)
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán then Genaro David Góngora Pimentel
Governors
Aguascalientes: Felipe González González, (National Action Party, PAN)
Baja California: Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, (PAN)
Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño (PRD)/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
Chiapas: Roberto Albores Guillén
Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García (PRI)
Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña (PRI)
Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PRI)
Guanajuato: Vicente Fox/Ramon Martin Huerta (PAN)
Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero/René Juárez Cisneros (PAN)
Hidalgo: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez (PAN)
Jalisco: Humberto Lugo Gil/Manuel Angel Nunez Soto (PAN)
State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz/Arturo Montiel Rojas (PRI)
Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
Morelos: Jorge Morales Barud (Substitute—PRI).
Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza/Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales (PRI)
Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López (PRI)
Puebla: Melquiades Morales Flores/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera (PRI)
Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid/Joaquín Hendricks Díaz (PRI)
San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto (PRI)
Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán (PRI)
Sonora: Armando López Nogales (PRI)
Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado (PRI)
Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma/Tomás Yarrington
Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima/Alfonso Sánchez Anaya (PRI)
Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco (PRI)
Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal Ávila (PRI)
Head of Government of the Federal District
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), (until September 29)
Rosario Robles (PRD) (starting September 29)
Events
The banderas monumentales program is initiated.
January: 1999 UNAM strike
March 21: 1999 Mexican referendums
June 15: 1999 Tehuacán earthquake
August 18–25: Hurricane Bret
September 5–9: Hurricane Greg
September 12: Nuestra Belleza México 1999
September 30: 1999 Oaxaca earthquake
September – October: 1999 Mexico floods
November: Mexico hosts the first Parapan American Games
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Carlos Fuentes
Order of the Aztec Eagle
National Prize for Arts and Sciences
National Public Administration Prize
Ohtli Award
Deborah V. Ortiz
David R. Maciel
Sport
Primera División de México Verano 1999.
Primera División de México Invierno 1999.
1999 FIFA Confederations Cup Final.
Mexico participate in the 1999 Copa América and become 3rd.
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (1999).
Ruleta de la Muerte (1999).
1999 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Monterrey.
Television
Debuted
Alma Rebelde
Catalina y Sebastián
Háblame de amor
Laberintos de pasión
Mujeres engañadas
Nunca Te Olvidaré
Por tu amor
Rosalinda
Tres mujeres
Yacaranday
Ended
Alma Rebelde
Camila
Catalina y Sebastián
El diario de Daniela
Nunca Te Olvidaré
Por tu amor
El Privilegio de Amar
Rosalinda
Yacaranday
Births
Deaths
March 19: Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Horal, 1950) and Tarumba in Mexico City (b. 1926).
May 15: Gutierre Tibón, Italian-Mexican writer (b. 1905)
July 22: Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, governor of Morelos 1982-1988 (b. 1910)
See also
List of Mexican films of 1999
References
External links