1938 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1938 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Lázaro Cárdenas
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Silvestre Guerrero; Ignacio García Téllez
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Eduardo Hay
  • Communications Secretary (SCT): Francisco J. Múgica Education Secretary (SEP): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela^[1]
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Manuel Ávila Camacho^[2]

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
• Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
• Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
• Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
• Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
• Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
  • Durango: Enrique R. Calderón Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
• Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
• Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
• Jalisco: Everardo Topete
• State of Mexico: Eucario López
• Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
• Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
• Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
• Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
• Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
• Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
• Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
• San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
• Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
• Sonora: Ramón Ramos
• Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
• Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
  • Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
• Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas/Florencio Palomo Valencia
• Zacatecas: Matías Ramos

Events

• March 18 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.

Popular culture

Sports

• 1938–39 Primera Fuerza season

Film

• Beautiful Mexico, musical directed by and starring Ramón Pereda, with Adriana Lamar and Antonio R. Frausto^[3]

Literature

• José Rubén Romero — La vida inútil de Pito Pérez

Births

• 12 February — Pilar Pellicer, actress (d. 2020)^[4]
• 4 May — Carlos Monsiváis, philosopher (d. 2010)^[5]
  • • 20 August Jacqueline Andere, actress^[6]
  • Irma González, wrestler

Deaths

• 19 October – Niño Fidencio, Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1898)^[7]

Notes and References

1. Book: Neufeld. Stephen. Matthews. Michael. Beezley. William H.. Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power. 2015. University of Arizona Press. 9780816531325. 227. en.
2. LaFrance, David G. "Manuel Ávila Camacho" in Encyclopedia of Mexico, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, p. 116.
3. Andrew Grant Wood. Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography. OUP USA, 2014. Page 285
4. Web site: Pilar Pellicer, la actriz que el Nuevo Cine Mexicano acogió entre sus grandes estrellas. es. 16 May 2020. El Sol de Mexico. 12 November 2022.
5. Web site: Mexican author and activist Carlos Monsivais dies at 72. https://web.archive.org/web/20190620002142/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jun-20-la-me-carlos-monsivais-20100620-story.html. dead. June 20, 2019. Wilkinson. Tracy. June 20, 2010. Los Angeles Times. 20 June 2010.
6. Web site: 20 de agosto de 1938: nace la actriz mexicana de cine, televisión y teatro, Jacqueline Andere. Instituto Mexicano de la Radio. es. 2 January 2020.
7. News: Years After Nino’s Death, Miracle Curer’s Cult Thrives. 5 May 1991. Laura Castaneda. Los Angeles Times. 12 November 2022.