1980 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1980 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: José López Portillo
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): 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/Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

Governors

Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo (PRI)
Campeche: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
Chiapas: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot (PRI)
Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre/Óscar Ornelas (PRI)
Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia/Francisco José Madero González (PRI)
Colima: Griselda Álvarez (PRI)
Durango: Salvador Gámiz Fernández/Armando del Castillo Franco (PRI)
Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra (PRI)
Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa (PRI)
Hidalgo: Jorge Rojo Lugo (PRI)
Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco (PRI)
State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo/Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel (PRI)
Nuevo León: Flavio Romero de Velasco
Oaxaca: Eliseo Jimenez Ruiz/Pedro Vasquez Colmenares (PRI)
Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara (PRI)
Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán (PRI)
Quintana Roo: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona (PRI)
San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios (PRI)
Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón (PRI)
Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García (PRI)
Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade (PRI)
Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González (PRI)
Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras (PRI)
Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa (PRI)
Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan (PRI)
Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona (PRI)
Regent of Mexico City

Carlos Hank González

Events

Zeta is founded.
The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas is established.
The Centro de Investigaciones en Optica is founded.
The Ollin Yoliztli Prize is awarded for the first time.
The Palacio de Lecumberri starts housing the General National Archive
July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.
October 24: 1980 Oaxaca earthquake.

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Luis Padilla Nervo

Film

List of Mexican films of 1980.

Sport

1979–80 Mexican Primera División season.
Saraperos de Saltillo win the Mexican League.
Mexico at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Mexico at the 1980 Summer Paralympics.
Correcaminos UAT founded.

Births

February 4 – Gerardo Alcántara, soccer player
February 23 – Geovanna Bañuelos de la Torre, politician
March 18 — Olga Vargas, synchronized swimmer^[1]
March 30 — Mauricio Vila Dosal, Governor of Yucatán 2018–2024
April 2 – Carlos Salcido, footballer
November 15 — Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo, Governor of Guanajuato starting 2018
December 12 — Pablo Baltodano Monroy, diplomat and politician

Deaths

March 18 — Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher who lived in Cuernavaca from 1956-1976 (b. 1900)^[2]
May 13 — Carmen García González, wife of President Emilio Portes Gil (1928-1930) (b. 1905)

Notes and References

Web site: Olga VARGAS - Olympic Synchronized Swimming Mexico . International Olympic Committee . 22 July 2019 . en . 19 June 2016.
Web site: Fromm: Otro volcán en Cuernavaca.