1968 in Mexico

1968 in Mexico
Events in the year 1968 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Antonio Carrillo Flores
Communications Secretary (SCT): José Antonio Padilla Segura
Education Secretary (SEP): Agustín Yáñez
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
Secretary of Navy: Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
Secretary of Welfare: Gilberto Valenzuela/Luis Enrique Bracamontes
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Agapito Pozo Balbás
Governors
Aguascalientes
Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30)
Francisco Guel Jiménez (starting December 1)
Baja California: Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
Chiapas: José Castillo Tielemans
Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre
Colima: Pablo Silva García
Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón
Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero
Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio
State of Mexico:
Michoacán: Agustín Arriaga/Carlos Gálvez Betancourt
Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio
Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado
Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo
Oaxaca: Rodolfo Brena Torres
Puebla: Aarón Merino Fernández
Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez
San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero
Sinaloa: Leopoldo Sánchez Celis
Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna
Tabasco: Manuel R. Mora Martínez
Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa
Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes
Veracruz: Fernando López Arias/Rafael Murillo Vidal
Yucatán: Luis Torres Mesías
Zacatecas: José Rodríguez Elías/Pedro Ruiz González
Regent of the Federal District: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
Events
October 2 – around 10,000 university and high school students gathered in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas to protest the government's actions and listen peacefully to speeches then the national guard attacked the demonstrations thus generating the Tlatelolco massacre.
October 12 – October 27 – The Games of the XIX Olympiad are held in Mexico City.
October 16 – In Mexico City, black American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Miguel Angel Cevallos
Notable births
February 9
Ana Colchero, actress and economist
Alejandra Guzman, singer and actress
February 15 – Gloria Trevi, singer and actress
April 18 — Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, politician (Morena); Governor of Veracruz starting 2018
June 30 — Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, Governor of Puebla 2011-2017 (d. 2018)
July 15 – Leticia Calderon, actress
July 27 – Jorge Salinas, actor
August 11 — Rolando Zapata Bello, politician (PRI); Governor of Yucatán 2012–2018
September 22 – Eve Gil, writer
November 7 – Ignacio Padilla, writer, co-founder of Crack Movement (d. August 20, 2016).
November 11 — Miguel Márquez Márquez, Governor of Guanajuato 2012-2018
November 28 – Ana Maria Alvarado, journalist
December 12 – Tatiana, singer
December 17 – Claudio Suarez, former soccer player (FIFA World Cup 1994, 1998, 2006)
Date unknown — Rubén Díaz Alcántara, Catholic priest, (d. 2018).
Notable deaths
January 15 – Firpo Segura, Mexican boxer and wrestler.
October 2 — Deaths related to the Tlatelolco massacre vary between 26 (official figure), and 325 (Octavio Paz)
October 30 – Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (born 1899).
References
External links
Years of the 20th century in Mexico
Mexico