1989 in Mexico

Events in the year 1989 in Mexico.

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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

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.
  • 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.