1952 in Mexico

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See also:	Other events of 1952 List of years in Mexico

Events in the year 1952 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel Alemán Valdés (until November 30), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ernesto P. Uruchurtu/Ángel Carvajal Bernal
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/Luis Padilla Nervo
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Lazo
• Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Gual Vidal/Jose Angel Ceniceros
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gilberto R. Limón/Matías Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Alberto J. Pawling/Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Manuel Ramírez Vázquez/Adolfo López Mateos

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Roque Estrada Reynoso

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Edmundo Gámez Orozco
• Baja California: Alfonso García González
• Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
• Chiapas: Francisco J. Grajales/Efraín Aranda Osorio
• Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
• Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
• Colima: Jesús González Lugo
• Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
• Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
• Guerrero: Alejandro Gómez Maganda/Darío L. Arrieta Mateos
• Hidalgo: Vicente Aguirre del Castillo/Quintín Rueda Villagrán
• Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo
• State of Mexico: Salvador Sánchez Colín
• Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
• Morelos: Ernesto Escobar Muñoz/Rodolfo López de Nava
• Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
• Nuevo León: Ignacio Morones Prieto/José S. Vivanco
• Oaxaca: Manuel Mayoral Heredia/Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado
• Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
• Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra/Juan C. Gorraéz
• San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres/Manuel Álvarez
• Sinaloa: Enrique Pérez Arce
• Sonora: Ignacio Soto/Álvaro Obregón Tapia
• Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría
• Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
• Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
• Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
• Yucatán: Humberto Esquivel Medina/Tomás Marentes Miranda
• Zacatecas: José Minero Roque

Events

• The Miss Mexico organization is formed.
• The Gorditas Doña Tota restaurant chain is established in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas by Carlota Murillo.
• January 16: The North Territory of Baja California is admitted as the State of Baja California.
• April: The trade union confederation called Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) is founded.
• July 7: 1952 Mexican general election.

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1952.

Sport

• 1951–52 Mexican Primera División season.
• Aguila de Veracruz win the Mexican League.
• Mexico at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Births

• January 22 – Iliana Godoy Patiño, narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (d. 2017). ^[1]
• February 24 — Jesús Aguilar Padilla, politician (PRI) and lawyer; Governor of Sinaloa 2004–2010.
• March 23 — Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), wrestler (d. 2018).
• April 27 — Federico Barbosa Gutiérrez, jurist and politician, member of the Congress of the Union (2003–2006); (d. 2018).
• June 16 — Salvador Pineda, soap opera actor
• October 19 — Verónica Castro, actress, singer, producer, former model, and presenter.
• November 21 – Jorge Arturo García Rubí, lawyer, politician (PRI), Governor of Morelos (May–September 2000).
• November 24 — Laura León, actress and singer
• December 5 — Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, politician (PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2016 - 2018
• Date unknown — Enrique Caballero Vela, actor (d. 2018). ^[2]

Deaths

• 12 June — Genovevo de la O, general of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1876) ^[3]
• 21 July – Pedro Lascuráin, 34th President of Mexico for 45 minutes in 1914 (b. 1856) ^[4]

References

1. "Muere la poeta mexicana Iliana Godoy". 7 December 2017.
2. "Fallece de cáncer el actor guerrerense Enrique Caballero, anoche en Acapulco" [Guerrero actor Enrique Caballero died last night from cancer], El Sur (in Spanish), Acapulco, Jan 7, 2018, archived from the original on January 31, 2018, retrieved Oct 6, 2019
3. Sotelo Inclan, Jesus. "SEMBLANZA DEL GENERAL GENOVEVO DE LA O" [Aspects of General Genovevo de la O] (in Spanish). Bibliotecas TV. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
4. "Pedro Lascuráin Paredes: biografía y aportaciones" [Pedro Lascuráin Paredes: biography and contributions] (in Spanish). Lifeder.com. Retrieved May 29, 2019.