1962 in Mexico

Events in the year 1962 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo López Mateos
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
• Education Secretary (SEP): Jaime Torres Bodet
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Agustín Olachea
• Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico/Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
• Secretary of Welfare: Javier Barros Sierra

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

• Aguascalientes
• Luis Ortega Douglas (until November 30)
• Enrique Olivares Santana (starting December 1)
• Baja California: Eligio Esquivel Méndez
• Campeche: José Ortiz Avila
• Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis
• Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda/Práxedes Ginér Durán
• Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
• Colima: Francisco Velasco Curiel
• Durango: Francisco González de la Vega/Rafael Hernández Piedras/Enrique Dupré Ceniceros
• Guanajuato: Juan José Torres Landa
• Guerrero: Arturo Martínez Adame
• Hidalgo: Oswaldo Cravioto Cisneros
• Jalisco: Juan Gil Preciado
• State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz
• Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez/Agustín Arriaga
• Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
• Nayarit: Francisco García Montero
• Nuevo León: Eduardo Livas Villarreal
• Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca/Rodolfo Brena Torres
• Puebla: Arturo Fernández Aguirre
• Querétaro: Manuel González Cosío
• San Luis Potosí: Manuel López Dávila
• Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
• Sonora: Luis Encinas Johnson
• Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo Becerra
• Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
• Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
• Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco/Fernando López Arias
• Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar/José Rodríguez Elías
• Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
• Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

Events

• March 21: Beginning of the 1962 Mexico City radiation accident
• April 30: Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan established.
• May 23: Rubén Jaramillo is assassinated in Morelos by the Mexican Army.

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Tereza Montoya

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1962

Sport

• 1961–62 Mexican Primera División season
• 1962 Mexican Grand Prix
• Mexico defeats Yugoslavia in the Americas Zone final of the 1962 Davis Cup
• 1962 World Modern Pentathlon Championships are held in Mexico City.

Births

• April 24 — Juan Manuel Carreras, Governor of San Luis Potosí starting 2015.
• May 7 — Ari Telch, soap opera actor
• May 13 — Eduardo Palomo, actor (d. 2003)
• May 17 — Arturo Peniche, soap opera actor
• May 31 — Victoria Ruffo, soap opera actress
• June 24 — Claudia Sheinbaum, scientist and Mayor of Mexico City starting 2018
• August 7 – Miroslava Breach, journalist (La Jornada and El Norte de Chihuahua) (d. 2017).
• August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, actor
• August 15 — Mario Anguiano Moreno, Governor of Colima 2009-2015
• August 18 – Felipe Calderón, 56th President of Mexico (2006-2012)
• August 26 — Omar Fayad, Governor of Hidalgo starting 2016
• September 23 — Alberto Estrella, actor
• October 23 — Quirino Ordaz Coppel, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Sinaloa 2017–2021

Deaths

• May 23 — Rubén Jaramillo, military and peasant leader in Morelos, assassinated (b. 1900)

References