1938 in Mexico

Events in the year 1938 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Lázaro Cárdenas
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Silvestre Guerrero; Ignacio García Téllez
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Eduardo Hay
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Francisco J. Múgica
• Education Secretary (SEP): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Manuel Ávila Camacho

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
• Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
• Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
• Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
• Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
• Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
• Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
• Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
• Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
• Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
• Jalisco: Everardo Topete
• State of Mexico: Eucario López
• Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
• Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
• Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
• Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
• Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
• Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
• Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
• San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
• Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
• Sonora: Ramón Ramos
• Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
• Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
• Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
• Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
• Yucatán: /
• Zacatecas: Matías Ramos

Events

• March 18 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.

Popular culture

Sports

• 1938–39 Primera Fuerza season

Music

Film

• Beautiful Mexico, musical directed by and starring Ramón Pereda, with Adriana Lamar and Antonio R. Frausto

Literature

• José Rubén Romero — La vida inútil de Pito Pérez

Births

• 12 February — Pilar Pellicer, actress (d. 2020)
• 4 May — Carlos Monsiváis, philosopher (d. 2010)
• 20 August
• Jacqueline Andere, actress
• Irma González, wrestler

Deaths

• 19 October – Niño Fidencio, Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1898)

References