1991 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1991 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
• Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Patricio Chirinos Calero/Luis Donaldo Colosio
• Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): María de los Angeles Moreno/Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
• Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
• Baja California Sur: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
• Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
• Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido
• Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
• Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
• Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco/Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
• Durango: José Ramírez Gamero
• Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala/Carlos Medina Plascencia
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
• Jalisco: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
  • State of Mexico: Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
• Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).^[1]
• Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
• Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo
• Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
• Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
• Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
• Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
• San Luis Potosí: Fausto Zapata
• Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
• Sonora: Mario Morúa Johnson/Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
• Tabasco: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez
  • Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
• Veracruz: Dante Delgado Rannauro
• Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho
• Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada/Pedro de León
• Regent of Mexico City

Manuel Camacho Solís^[2]

Events

• The Amparo Museum is inaugurated.
• The FIL Award is awarded for the first time, the recipient is Chilean author Nicanor Parra.
• The Monterrey Metro begins operating.
• The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey is established.
• August 18: 1991 Mexican legislative election.
• September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio (1991).
• Unknown date: Xcaret Park opens.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán

Sport

• • • 1990–91 Mexican Primera División season 1990–91 Copa México Sultanes de Monterrey win the Mexican League.
• 1991 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics take place in Xalapa, Veracruz.
• 1991 Mexican Grand Prix
  • • 430 km of Mexico City Mexico at the 1991 Pan American Games The Naranjeros de Álamo are founded.

Births

• May 5 – Raúl Jiménez, footballer
• June 3 – Natasha Dupeyrón, actress and singer^[3]
• August 2 – Zuleyka Silver, fashion model and actress
• October 22 – Tatiana Martínez, actress
• December 15 – Jorge Blanco, musician, singer, dancer, and actor

Deaths

• February 5 — Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953-1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (b. 1907).^[4]
• June 24 — Rufino Tamayo, painter (b. 1899)^[5]
• October 10 — Nazario S. Ortiz Garza, Governor of Coahuila 1929-1933

Notes and References

1. Web site: Monroy . David . Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos . www.milenio.com . August 28, 2020 . es . July 15, 2014.
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: Natasha Dupeyrón :: Entretenimiento . esmas.com . 29 July 2014 . 4 August 2014 . 21 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200121152428/http://www2.esmas.com/entretenimiento/biografias/013208/natasha-dupeyron/ . dead .
4. Web site: Mons. Sergio Méndez Arceo (1952-1983) Septimo Obispo . Diócesis de Cuernavaca . Jan 14, 2019 . Spanish . Mons. Sergio Mendez Arceo, seventh bishop (1952-1983) . January 29, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004035/http://www.diocesisdecuernavaca.org.mx/Diocesis_de_Cuernavaca/Mendez.html . dead .
5. Web site: Rufino Arellanes Tamayo. El Colegio Nacional. June 1, 2019. Spanish.