1994 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1994 in Mexico.

Incumbents

January 1
- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, Canada and the United States goes into effect
- The Zapatista Army of National Liberation goes public in response to NAFTA.
January 16 – The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Benjamín Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier. He had met with Ramón Arellano Félix six weeks earlier.
March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio presidential candidate for the PRI is assassinated in Tijuana, Baja California.
August 11 – Hurricane John starts in southern Mexico
August 21 – Presidential elections
September 28 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, brother-in-law of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former governor of Guerrero, and leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is assassinated.^[5]
October 11 – Hurricane Rosa kills four in Nayarit and Durango
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
December 21 – The Popocateptl volcano spewed gas and ash, which was carried as far as 25km (16miles) away by prevailing winds. The activity prompted the evacuation of nearby towns and scientists to begin monitoring for an eruption.
December
- economic crisis in Mexico with the peso losing a third of its value
- The Fobaproa is applied in response to the economic crisis
- El Barzón is created in response to the economic crisis

July 5 – Mexico loses 1–3 versus Bulgaria and is eliminated from the Football World Cup 1994

June 6 – The XXXVI edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
El callejón de los milagros of Jorge Fons
Bienvenido-Welcome of Gabriel Retes
Dos crímenes of Roberto Sneider
Hasta morir of Fernando Sariñana
El jardín del edén of María Novaro
La reina de la noche of Arturo Ripstein
Mujeres insumisas of Alberto Isaac
Dulces compañías of Oscar Blancarte
Un volcán con lava de hielo (short) of Valentina Leduc
El árbol de la música (short) of Sabina Berman & Isabel Tardán
Del otro lado del mar (short) of Marcela Arteaga

- August 13 – Andrea Meza, model, Miss Universe 2020 October 17 – Alejandra Valencia, archer^[6]
November 8 – Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez, footballer; (d. 2017).^[7]

March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio (43), candidate to the Presidency of Mexico (b. 1950)^[8]
September 28 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu (48), politician, assassinated (b. 1946)

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