1972 in Mexico

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Last updated November 19, 2024

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Luis Echeverría
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Rafael Hernández Ochoa/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

Events

José Guadalupe Posada Museum opens.
The Palace of Iturbide becomes the home of the Banamex Cultural Foundation (Fomento Cultural Banamex).
The Festival Internacional Cervantino is founded in Guanajuato.
June 14–23: Hurricane Agnes.
September: Fred Gómez Carrasco is arrested in Guadalajara.
September 30-October 7: Hurricane Joanne

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Ignacio Ramos Praslow

Births

January 25 – Chantal Andere, actress^[2]
January 27 – Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress^[3]
April 23 – Patricia Manterola, actress, fashion designer, singer, and model
May 10 – Víctor Noriega, actor, singer, and model
June 22 – Miguel del Toro, baseball player
August 30 – José Ramón Amieva, acting Mayor of Mexico City 2018 ^[4]
October 23 – Kate del Castillo, television actress (La Reina del Sur)^[5]
October 23 – Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
November 27 – Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, politician (PRI); first elected female Governor of Yucatán 2007–2012
December 7 – Oliver Fernández, tennis player
December 25 – Ricardo Tejedo, actor, voice actor, ADR director, script writer and translator
Date unknown – Marbella Ibarra, soccer coach and promoter of women's soccer (d. October 12, 2018).

Deaths

February – Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist (born 1900 in Spain)
December 7 – Humberto Mariles, equestrian Olympic gold medalist (born 1913 in Mexico)

Film

List of Mexican films of 1972.

Sport

1971–72 Mexican Primera División season.
Cafeteros de Córdoba win the Mexican League.
Mexico at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Mexico at the 1972 Summer Paralympics.
The Adecmac soccer league is founded.

References

↑ "Octavio Sentíes Gómez 1915-1996, veracruzano distinguido | Versiones" (in Spanish). Versiones. September 30, 2016. Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
↑ "Chantal Andere", Biografias.es (in Spanish), retrieved August 24, 2019
↑ "Biografía de Bibi Gaytán - Quién es" [Bibi Gaytán, Who she is], Quien.net (in Spanish), retrieved August 24, 2019
↑ "La-historia desconocida Jose Ramon Amieva biografia/" [The unknown story of Jose Ramon Amieva, biography], Cuna de Grillos (in Spanish), retrieved Aug 31, 2019
↑ "Kate del Castillo", Buscabiografias.com (in Spanish), retrieved August 24, 2019

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[1] "Octavio Sentíes Gómez 1915-1996, veracruzano distinguido | Versiones" (in Spanish). Versiones. September 30, 2016. Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[2] "Chantal Andere", Biografias.es (in Spanish), retrieved August 24, 2019

[3] "Biografía de Bibi Gaytán - Quién es" [Bibi Gaytán, Who she is], Quien.net (in Spanish), retrieved August 24, 2019

[4] "La-historia desconocida Jose Ramon Amieva biografia/" [The unknown story of Jose Ramon Amieva, biography], Cuna de Grillos (in Spanish), retrieved Aug 31, 2019

[5] "Kate del Castillo", Buscabiografias.com (in Spanish), retrieved August 24, 2019

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