1994 in Mexico

1994 in Mexico
Events in the year 1994 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari (until November 30), Ernesto Zedillo (starting December 1)
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Patrocinio González Garrido/Jorge Carpizo McGregor/Esteban Moctezuma
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Camacho Solís/José Ángel Gurría
Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Gamboa Patrón/Guillermo Ortiz Martínez/Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán/Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo/José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Arsenio Farell Cubillas/Manuel Gómez Peralta/Santiago Oñate Laborde
Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/José Ángel Pescador/Fausto Alzati/Miguel Limón Rojas
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Guillermo Jiménez Morales/Julia Carabias Lillo
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez/Juan Ramón De La Fuente
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez
Governors
Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero
Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
Chiapas: Elmar Setzer Marseille/Javier López Moreno/Eduardo Robledo Rincón
Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN)
Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
Guanajuato: Carlos Medina Plascencia
Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (PRI)
Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
Jalisco: Carlos Rivera Aceves
State of Mexico: Emilio Chuayffet (PRI)
Michoacán: Ausencio Chávez Hernández
Morelos
Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), until May 17.
Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI), starting May 18.
Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo (PRI)
Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano (PRI)
Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García (PRI)
Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid (PRI)
San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta (PRI)
Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado (PRI)
Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera (PRI)
Tabasco: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez (PRI)
Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma (PRI)
Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRD)
Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero (PRD)
Yucatán: Ricardo Ávila Heredia/Federico Granja Ricalde (PRI)
Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez (PRI)
Regent of Mexico City
Manuel Aguilera Gomez
Oscar Espinosa Villarreal
Events
January 1
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, Canada and the United States goes into effect
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation goes public in response to NAFTA.
January 16 – The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Benjamín Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier. He had met with Ramón Arellano Félix six weeks earlier.
March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio presidential candidate for the PRI is assassinated in Tijuana, Baja California.
August 11 – Hurricane John starts in southern Mexico
August 21 – Presidential elections
September 28 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, brother-in-law of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former governor of Guerrero, and leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is assassinated.
October 11 – Hurricane Rosa kills four in Nayarit and Durango
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
December 21 – The Popocateptl volcano spewed gas and ash, which was carried as far as away by prevailing winds. The activity prompted the evacuation of nearby towns and scientists to begin monitoring for an eruption.
December
economic crisis in Mexico with the peso losing a third of its value
The Fobaproa is applied in response to the economic crisis
El Barzón is created in response to the economic crisis
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jaime Sabines
Popular culture
Sports
July 5 – Mexico loses 1–3 versus Bulgaria and is eliminated from the Football World Cup 1994
Music
Film
June 6 – The XXXVI edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
El callejón de los milagros of Jorge Fons
Bienvenido-Welcome of Gabriel Retes
Dos crímenes of Roberto Sneider
Hasta morir of Fernando Sariñana
El jardín del edén of María Novaro
La reina de la noche of Arturo Ripstein
Mujeres insumisas of Alberto Isaac
Dulces compañías of Oscar Blancarte
Un volcán con lava de hielo (short) of Valentina Leduc
El árbol de la música (short) of Sabina Berman & Isabel Tardán
Del otro lado del mar (short) of Marcela Arteaga
Literature
TV
Telenovelas
Dos mujeres, un camino, on Televisa
Marimar, on Televisa
Volver a empezar, on Televisa
Births
August 13 – Andrea Meza, model, Miss Universe 2020
October 17 – Alejandra Valencia, archer
November 8 – Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez, footballer; (d. 2017).
Deaths
March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio (43), candidate to the Presidency of Mexico (b. 1950)
September 28 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu (48), politician, assassinated (b. 1946)
References
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