1991 in Mexico

1991 in Mexico
Events in the year 1991 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales
Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo
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/Luis Donaldo Colosio
Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): María de los Angeles Moreno/Guillermo Jiménez Morales
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez
Governors
Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
Baja California Sur: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido
Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco/Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
Durango: José Ramírez Gamero
Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala/Carlos Medina Plascencia
Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
Hidalgo: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
Jalisco: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
State of Mexico: Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).
Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo
Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
San Luis Potosí: Fausto Zapata
Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
Sonora: Mario Morúa Johnson/Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
Tabasco: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez
Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
Veracruz: Dante Delgado Rannauro
Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho
Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada/Pedro de León
Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís
Events
The Amparo Museum is inaugurated.
The FIL Award is awarded for the first time, the recipient is Chilean author Nicanor Parra.
The Monterrey Metro begins operating.
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey is established.
August 18: 1991 Mexican legislative election.
September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio (1991).
Unknown date: Xcaret Park opens.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán
Sport
1990–91 Mexican Primera División season
1990–91 Copa México
Sultanes de Monterrey win the Mexican League.
1991 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics take place in Xalapa, Veracruz.
1991 Mexican Grand Prix
430 km of Mexico City
Mexico at the 1991 Pan American Games
The Naranjeros de Álamo are founded.
Births
June 3 – Natasha Dupeyrón, actress and singer
August 2 – Zuleyka Silver, fashion model and actress
October 22 – Tatiana Martínez, actress
Deaths
February 5 — Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953-1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (b. 1907).
June 24 — Rufino Tamayo, painter (b. 1899)
October 10 — Nazario S. Ortiz Garza, Governor of Coahuila 1929-1933
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