1979 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1979 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: José López Portillo
  • • Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Jesús Reyes Heroles/Enrique Olivares Santana Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Santiago Roel García/Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López
• Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
• Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Guillermo Rossell de la Lama

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

Governors

• Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
• Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid
• Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo
• Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera/Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
• Chiapas: Salomón González Blanco
• Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
• Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
• Colima: Salvador Gámiz Fernández/Griselda Álvarez
• Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez/Salvador Gámiz Fernández
• Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra/Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
• Guerrero: Flavio Romero de Velasco
• Hidalgo: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
• Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco
  • State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo
• Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
• Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel
• Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez
• Oaxaca: Eliseo Jiménez Ruiz
• Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
• Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
• Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
• San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
• Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
• Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
• Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade
  • Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
• Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
• Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan
• Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo
• Regent of Mexico City

Carlos Hank González

Events

• Museo Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca opens.
• Colegio Alemán de Guadalajara founded.
• University of the Cloister of Sor Juana established.
• February 5: Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuautitlán established.
  • • • June 3: Ixtoc I oil spill July 1: 1979 Mexican legislative election September 14–21: Hurricane Henri (1979) October 31: Western Airlines Flight 2605

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1979

Sport

• 1978–79 Mexican Primera División season.
• Ángeles de Puebla win the Mexican League.
• 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico City.
• 1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in Guadalajara.
• Club de Fútbol Oaxtepec founded.

Births

• January 28: Melvin Brown, footballer
• February 13: Rafael Márquez, footballer and manager
• February 28: Amat Escalante, film director, producer and screenwriter
• March 1: Fernando Montiel, boxer
• March 16: Adriana Fonseca, actress and dancer.^[1]
• March 16: Daniel Osorno, footballer
• April 30: Gerardo Torrado, footballer
• May 15: Adolfo Bautista, footballer
• June 1: Mario Méndez, Mexican footballer
• July 21: Luis Ernesto Michel, footballer
• July 23: Perro Aguayo Jr., pro wrestler (d. March 21, 2015).
• August 7: Juan Pablo Rodríguez, footballer
• August 28: Michel Franco, film director
• September 25: Karla Luna, actress (Las Lavanderas) and singer (d. September 28, 2017).
• September 29: Jaime Lozano, footballer and Current manager of the Mexican National Association Football team
• October 2: Francisco Fonseca, footballer and analyst
• October 14: Guillermo Pérez, taekwondo practitioner
• November 14, footballer
• November 19: Michelle Vieth, American born Mexican actress and model.
• December 23: Jacqueline Bracamontes, Mexican actress and beauty contest winner (Nuestra Belleza México 2000).
• December 29: Diego Luna, actor, director, producer

Deaths

• January 18 — María Dolores Izaguirre de Ruiz, First Lady of Mexico (1952-1958) (b. 1891)
• July 15 — Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños, President of Mexico 1964-1970 (b. 1911)^[2]

Notes and References

1. News: Adriana Fonseca participará en Tiempo final. 24 May 2010. El Universal. 15 March 2009. es. 8 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121008221117/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/583801.html. dead.
2. Web site: De qué han muerto los ex presidentes de México. Capital Mexico. July 16, 2018. es. March 27, 2019. What have the former presidents of Mexico died of?.