1989 in Mexico

1989 in Mexico
Events in the year 1989 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana
Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo
Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
Secretary of Welfare: Patricio Chirinos Calero
Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): María de los Angeles Moreno
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez
Governors
Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
Baja California
Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI), until January 5
Oscar Baylón Chacón, (PRI), January 6 to October 31.
Ernesto Ruffo Appel, National Action Party (PAN), starting November 1. Ruffo Appel was the first governor who was not a member of PRI since 1929.
Baja California Sur:
Campeche: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
Chiapas: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
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: Francisco Rodríguez Gómez/Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta/Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza
Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).
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: Dante Delgado Rannauro
Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada
Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís
Events
Music group Café Tacuba is founded.
Newspaper El Economista is founded.
The Guadalajara light rail system begins operating.
The Santa Teresa la Antigua Alternative Art Center opens its doors.
February 13: Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (México) and the National Human Rights Commission (Mexico) are founded.
March 2: FONCA, (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes) is founded.
March 3: Miss Latin America 1989 held in Hermosillo, Sonora.
May 5: The Party of the Democratic Revolution is founded.
May 23: Miss Universe 1989 held in Cancún, Quintana Roo.
August 10: The San Rafael River train disaster
August 25–29: Hurricane Kiko
October 19: The Autonomous University of Campeche is established.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Raúl Castellano Jiménez
Births
January 10: Zuria Vega, actress and singer
June 7: Sofía Sisniega, actress
September 14: Miriam Zetter, ten-pin bowler
Deaths
August 7 — Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963–1968 (b. 1916)
October 30 — Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1906)
Film
List of Mexican films of 1989
Sport
1988–89 Mexican Primera División season.
1989 Caribbean Series in Mazatlan at the Estadio Teodoro Mariscal.
Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League.
1989 Tournament of the Americas in Mexico City.
1989 Mexican Grand Prix.
1989 480 km of Mexico.
External links
References
Mexico