1982 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1982 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: José López Portillo (until November 30), Miguel de la Madrid (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez (until November 30), Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (starting December 1)
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya/Rodolfo Félix Valdés
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López/Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
• Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara/Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada/Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez/Marcelo Javelly Girard
• Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/Jesús Reyes Heroles
  • Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Fernando Rafful Miguel/Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández then Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
• Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
• Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
• Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
• Chiapas: Juan Sabines Gutiérrez/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas
• Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Colima: Griselda Álvarez
• Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
• Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
• Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
• Morelos
  • Armando León Bejarano (PRI), until May 18.
  • Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), starting May 18.^[1]
• Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
• Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
• Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
• Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
• Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
• Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
• Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
• Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade/Enrique González Pedrero
  • Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
• Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan/Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
• Regent of Mexico City
  • Carlos Hank González^[2]
  • Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

Events

• Museo Nacional de Arte is founded.
• March  - Reino Aventura opens
• March 31  - 14 killed, 100 injured, and 15,000 others suffer the effects of the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in Francisco León, Chiapas, 100 km from Villahermosa.
  • July 4  - 1982 Mexican general election August 12  - Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.
• September 1  - During his last government report, president José López Portillo nationalizes banks.
• December 1  - Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – General Raúl Madero González

Sports

• Baseball  - The Leones del Caracas team conquest their first Caribbean Series title in Hermosillo Sonora.
• Baseball  - Indios de Ciudad Juárez win the Mexican League
• Football  - 1981–82 Mexican Primera División season

Births

• January 9 — Lorenza Morfín, road cyclist
• March 7 — Aarón Díaz, model, actor, and singer
• March 13 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Presidente Municipal of Temixco, Morelos (January 1-January 2, 2016) (assassinated 2016)
• December 19 – Nara Falcón, synchronized swimmer^[3]
• Date unknown
  • Raúl Castañeda, boxer (d. September 6, 2017).

Deaths

See main article: deaths in 1982.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cinta . Guillermo . Aniversario luctuoso de don Lauro . La Unión . August 28, 2020 . es-es . 24 July 2010.
2. Web site: ¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX . Sopitas.com . August 28, 2020 . es . 5 December 2018.
3. Web site: Nara FALCON - Olympic Synchronized Swimming Mexico . International Olympic Committee . 22 July 2019 . en . 19 June 2016.