1988 in Mexico

1988 in Mexico
Events in the year 1988 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Miguel de la Madrid (until November 30), Carlos Salinas de Gortari (starting December 1)
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor/Fernando Solana
Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz/Andrés Caso Lombardo
Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui/Antonio Riviello Bazán
Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega/Mauricio Scheleske Sánchez
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
Secretary of Welfare: Manuel Camacho Solís/Gabino Fraga/Patricio Chirinos Calero
Secretary of Public Education: Miguel González Avelar/Manuel Bartlett Díaz
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada/María de los Angeles Moreno
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo/Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez
Governors
Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez/Patrocinio González Garrido
Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala
Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo/Francisco Rodríguez Gómez
State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta
Michoacán: Luis Martínez Villicaña
Morelos
Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), until May 18.
Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), starting May 18.
Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño
Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
San Luis Potosí: no data
Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
Tabasco: José María Peralta López
Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
Veracruz: Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Dante Delgado Rannauro
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco/Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada
Regent of Mexico City
Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
Manuel Camacho Solís
Events
The National Council for Culture and Arts is established.
The Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca is established
July 6: 1988 Mexican general election
August 31 – September 8: Hurricane Debby
September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbert
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Rufino Tamayo
Film
List of Mexican films of 1988
Sport
1987–88 Mexican Primera División season
Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
Atlético Boca del Río and Venados de Yucatán are founded.
1988 Mexican Grand Prix
Mexico at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Mexico at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Mexico at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
1988 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.
Births
February 5 – Karin Ontiveros, beauty queen
April 29 — Elías Hernández, footballer
May 21 — Aída Román, archer
November 23 — Ezequiel Orozco, soccer player (Club Necaxa), (d. 2018)
Deaths
April 25 — Roberto Salido Beltrán, military aviator (b. 1912)
July 11 — Oscar Flores Tapia, journalist, writer, and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1975–1981 (b. 1913)
August 9 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
December 9 – Alfredo Woodward Téllez, businessman and politician (b. 1905)
References
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