1993 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1993 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Patrocinio González Garrido
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales/Manuel Camacho Solís
Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Gamboa Patrón
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Arsenio Farell Cubillas
Secretary of Welfare: Luis Donaldo Colosio/Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
Secretary of Public Education: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León/Fernando Solana Morales
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Guillermo Jiménez Morales
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

Governors

Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido/Elmar Setzer Marseille
Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN)
Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
Guanajuato: Carlos Medina Plascencia
Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu/Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (PRI)
Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco/Jesús Murillo Karam
Jalisco: Carlos Rivera Aceves
State of Mexico: Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza/Emilio Chuayffet (PRI)
Michoacán: Ausencio Chávez Hernández
Morelos
- Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), until May 17.^[1]
- Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI), starting May 18.^[2]^[3]
Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo (PRI)
Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano (PRI)
Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García (PRI)
Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín/Mario Villanueva Madrid (PRI)
San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta (PRI)
Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado (PRI)
Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera (PRI)
Tabasco: Salvador Neme Castillo/Manuel Gurría Ordóñez (PRI)
Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra/Manuel Cavazos Lerma (PRI)
Tlaxcala: Samuel Quiróz de la Vega/José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRD)
Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero (PRD)
Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho/Ricardo Ávila Heredia (PRI)
Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez (PRI)
Regent of Mexico City
- Manuel Camacho Solís^[4]
- Manuel Aguilera Gomez^[4]

Events

The Foro Sol opened
Musical bands La Gusana Ciega and Hocico are founded.
Arqueología Mexicana has its first issue published.
May 14: The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico is founded.
May 21: The Miss Universe 1993 contest was held at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.
May 24: Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport.^[5]
September 3: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte founded per presidential decree.
December 1: The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Ramón Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier.^[6]

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Andrés Henestrosa

Hurricanes

June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)
June 18–21: Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
August 17–27: Hurricane Hilary (1993)
September 8–14: Hurricane Lidia (1993)
September 14–26: Hurricane Gert

Sport

1992–93 Mexican Primera División season
Olmecas de Tabasco win the Mexican League.
1993 Caribbean Series played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán.
1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup
1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Alto Rendimiento Tuzo is founded.

Births

January 21 – Oliver Ortíz, footballer
April 2 – Jaime Romero Móran, artistic gymnast, (d. January 3, 2015).
September 18 – Mariana Avitia, archer^[7]
October 23 – Daniela Álvarez, winner of Nuestra Belleza México 2013 beauty pageant in 2013
December 7 – Brandon Moreno, mixed martial artist^[8]
December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, actress and educator^[9]

Deaths

May 24 – Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Cardinal of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1987-1993 (b. November 11, 1906).^[10]

References

^ Monroy, David (July 15, 2014). "Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos". www.milenio.com (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ Legislatura LV - Año III - Período Ordinario - Fecha 19940517 - Número de Diario 11
^ "Jorge Carrillo Olea ahorra tiene Graco Rámirez Garrido en sus manos" (in Spanish). Zona Centro Noticias. Aug 1, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). 5 December 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "A 25 años, asasinato del Cardinal Posadas sigue en la impunidad" [25 years later, assassination of Cardinal Posadas still unresolved], Excelsior (in Spanish), Mexico City, May 24, 2018, retrieved June 1, 2019
^ Fallece sacerdote que reunió a los Arellano Felix con Prigione [Priest who arranged renunion of Arellano-Felix brothers and Prigione dies] (in Spanish), Proceso, January 13, 2010, retrieved June 1, 2019
^ "Mariana AVITIA - Olympic Archery | Mexico". International Olympic Committee. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
^ "Brandon Moreno (Flyweight) MMA Profile". ESPN. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
^ "Yalitza Aparicio, biografía de la estrella de "Roma"" [Yalitza Aparicio, biography of the star of "Roma"], Heraldo de Mexico (in Spanish), February 23, 2019, archived from the original on March 31, 2019, retrieved February 23, 2019
^ "Mons. Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1983-1987) VIII OBISPO" [Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 8th bishop (1983-1987)] (in Spanish). Diócesis de Cuernavaca. Archived from the original on January 29, 2018. Retrieved Dec 28, 2018.

[1] Monroy, David (July 15, 2014). "Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos". www.milenio.com (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[2] Legislatura LV - Año III - Período Ordinario - Fecha 19940517 - Número de Diario 11

[3] "Jorge Carrillo Olea ahorra tiene Graco Rámirez Garrido en sus manos" (in Spanish). Zona Centro Noticias. Aug 1, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[mayors-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] "A 25 años, asasinato del Cardinal Posadas sigue en la impunidad" [25 years later, assassination of Cardinal Posadas still unresolved], Excelsior (in Spanish), Mexico City, May 24, 2018, retrieved June 1, 2019

[6] Fallece sacerdote que reunió a los Arellano Felix con Prigione [Priest who arranged renunion of Arellano-Felix brothers and Prigione dies] (in Spanish), Proceso, January 13, 2010, retrieved June 1, 2019

[7] "Mariana AVITIA - Olympic Archery | Mexico". International Olympic Committee. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.

[8] "Brandon Moreno (Flyweight) MMA Profile". ESPN. Retrieved 2024-10-11.

[9] "Yalitza Aparicio, biografía de la estrella de "Roma"" [Yalitza Aparicio, biography of the star of "Roma"], Heraldo de Mexico (in Spanish), February 23, 2019, archived from the original on March 31, 2019, retrieved February 23, 2019

[10] "Mons. Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1983-1987) VIII OBISPO" [Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 8th bishop (1983-1987)] (in Spanish). Diócesis de Cuernavaca. Archived from the original on January 29, 2018. Retrieved Dec 28, 2018.

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