1981 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1981 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): Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
• Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
• Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo/Angel César Mendoza Arámburo
• Campeche: Juan Sabines Gutiérrez
• Chiapas: Oscar Ornelas
• Chihuahua: Francisco José Madero González
• Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
• Colima: Griselda Álvarez
• Durango: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
• Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa/Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Jorge Rojo Lugo/Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco
  • State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú Michoacán: Adán Augusto López Hernández
• Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
• Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría García
• Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
• Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
• Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara/Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
• Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross/Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
• Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
• Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
• Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade
• Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou/Enrique Cárdenas González
• Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
• Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
• Regent of Mexico City

Carlos Hank González

Events

• September 13 — By presidential decree, the Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones opens its doors in Churubusco.^[1]
• October 8 – Tropical Storm Lidia strikes 23miles south of Los Mochis, with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h). Heavy rainfall associated with the cyclone caused moderate damage in northwestern Mexico, and at least seventy-three deaths can be attributed to the storm.^[2]
• November – The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico is founded by a merger of four parties.^[3]

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Luis Alvarez Barret

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1981.

Sport

• 1980–81 Mexican Primera División season.

Births

• August 6 — José Ron, soap opera actor
• December 5 – Adan Canto, actor (d. 2024 in the United States)
• December 21 – Lynda Thomas, singer-songwriter and producer
• Date unknown — Miriam Rivera, transgender model (d. 2019).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones. https://web.archive.org/web/20090721001857/http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=49. dead. July 21, 2009. Spanish. National Intervention Museum. INAH. June 8, 2019.
2. Gunther. Emil B.. Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones of 1981. Monthly Weather Review. July 1982. 110. 7. 839–851. 10.1175/1520-0493(1982)110<0839:ENPTCO>2.0.CO;2 . 1982MWRv..110..839G . free.
3. Barry Carr, "Mexican Communism 1968–1981: Eurocommunism in the Americas?" Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (May 1985), 201–228.