1999 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1999 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Ernesto Zedillo
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Francisco Labastida (until 21 May); Diódoro Carrasco (from 21 May)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): María del Rosario Green Macías
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
• Education Secretary (SEP): Miguel Limón Rojas
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
• Secretary of Navy: José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
  • Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Antonio González Fernández/Mariano Palacios Alcocer Secretary of Welfare: Esteban Moctezuma (until 4 August); Carlos Jarque (from 4 August)
• Secretary of Public Education: Miguel Limón Rojas
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Óscar Espinosa Villarreal
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Julia Carabias Lillo
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Juan Ramón de la Fuente (until 30 November); José Antonio González Fernández (from 30 November)

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán then Genaro David Góngora Pimentel

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Felipe González González, (National Action Party, PAN)
• Baja California: Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, (PAN)
• Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño (PRD)/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
• Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
• Chiapas: Roberto Albores Guillén
• Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García (PRI)
• Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
• Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña (PRI)
• Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PRI)
• Guanajuato: Vicente Fox/Ramon Martin Huerta (PAN)
• Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero/René Juárez Cisneros (PAN)
• Hidalgo: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez (PAN)
• Jalisco: Humberto Lugo Gil/Manuel Angel Nunez Soto (PAN)
• State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz/Arturo Montiel Rojas (PRI)
• Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
• Morelos: Jorge Morales Barud (Substitute—PRI).^[1]
• Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza/Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
• Nuevo León: Fernando Canales (PRI)
• Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López (PRI)
• Puebla: Melquiades Morales Flores/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
• Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera (PRI)
• Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid/Joaquín Hendricks Díaz (PRI)
• San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto (PRI)
• Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán (PRI)
• Sonora: Armando López Nogales (PRI)
• Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado (PRI)
• Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma/Tomás Yarrington
• Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima/Alfonso Sánchez Anaya (PRI)
• Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco
• Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco (PRI)
• Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal Ávila (PRI)
• Head of Government of the Federal District
  • Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), (until September 29)^[2]
  • Rosario Robles (PRD) (starting September 29)

Events

• The banderas monumentales program is initiated.
  • • • • • • • January: 1999 UNAM strike March 21: 1999 Mexican referendums June 15: 1999 Tehuacán earthquake August 18–25: Hurricane Bret September 5–9: Hurricane Greg September 12: Nuestra Belleza México 1999 September 30: 1999 Oaxaca earthquake September – October: 1999 Mexico floods
• November: Mexico hosts the first Parapan American Games^[3]

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Carlos Fuentes^[4]
  • • • Order of the Aztec Eagle National Prize for Arts and Sciences National Public Administration Prize Ohtli Award
  • Deborah V. Ortiz
  • David R. Maciel

Sport

• Primera División de México Verano 1999.
• Primera División de México Invierno 1999.
• 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup Final.
• Mexico participate in the 1999 Copa América and become 3rd.
• .
• Ruleta de la Muerte (1999).
• 1999 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Monterrey.

Television

Debuted

• Alma Rebelde
• Catalina y Sebastián
• Háblame de amor
• Laberintos de pasión
• Mujeres engañadas
• Nunca Te Olvidaré
• Por tu amor
• Rosalinda
• Tres mujeres
• Yacaranday

Ended

• Alma Rebelde
• Camila
• Catalina y Sebastián
• El diario de Daniela
• Nunca Te Olvidaré
• Por tu amor
• El Privilegio de Amar
• Rosalinda
• Yacaranday

Deaths

• March 19: Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Horal, 1950) and Tarumba in Mexico City (b. 1926).
• May 15: Gutierre Tibón, Italian-Mexican writer (b. 1905)
• July 22: Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, governor of Morelos 1982-1988 (b. 1910)

See also

• List of Mexican films of 1999

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frikas . Javier Jaramillo . El doctor Morales Barud . La Unión . August 28, 2020 . es-es . Nov 12, 2012.
2. Web site: Biografia de Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas . www.biografiasyvidas.com . August 28, 2020 . es.
3. Web site: Mexico 1999 Parapan American Games . International Paralympic Committee . 28 August 2020 . en.
4. Web site: Medalla Belisario Domínguez . Senado de la Republica . August 28, 2020 . es . 7 Oct 1999.