1983 in Mexico

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)
References
External links
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