1989 in Mexico

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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

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• 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. ^[1]
  • 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. ^[2]
• 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). ^[3]
• 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 ^[4]

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 ^[5]

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.

References

1. "Fallece Óscar Baylón, último gobernador del PRI en el Estado". ELIMPARCIAL.COM | Noticias de Tijuana, México (in European Spanish). 11 August 2008. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. "¿Quién es Ernesto Ruffo Appel? - Historia". culturacolectiva.com (in Spanish). 27 March 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. Monroy, David (July 15, 2014). "Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos". www.milenio.com (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
4. "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). 5 December 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
5. "Bowling | Athlete Profile: ZETTER VELAZCO Miram Aseret - Pan American Games Lima 2019". wrsd.lima2019.pe. Retrieved 22 June 2020.