1969 in Mexico

Events in the year 1969 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez (until 10 November), Mario Moya Palencia (starting 11 November)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Antonio Carrillo Flores
• Communications Secretary (SCT): José Antonio Padilla Segura
• Education Secretary (SEP): Agustín Yáñez
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
• Secretary of Welfare: Gilberto Valenzuela/Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

• Aguascalientes:Francisco Guel Jiménez
• Baja California: Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
• Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
• Chiapas: José Castillo Tielemans
• Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
• Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre/Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
• Colima: Pablo Silva García
• Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
• Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
• Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón/Caritino Maldonado Pérez
• Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero/Manuel Sánchez Vite
• Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio
• State of Mexico: Juan Fernández Albarrán/Carlos Hank González
• Michoacán: Carlos Gálvez Betancourt
• Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio
• Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado
• Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo
• Oaxaca: Víctor Bravo Ahuja
• Puebla: Aarón Merino Fernández/Rafael Moreno Valle
• Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez
• San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero
• Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
• Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna
• Tabasco: Manuel R. Mora Martínez
• Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa/Manuel A. Rabize
• Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes/Ignacio Bonillas
• Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
• Yucatán: Luis Torres Mesías
• Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
• Regent of the Federal District: Alfonso Corona del Rosal

Events

• Allende meteorite falls in Allende, Chihuahua.
• The Universidad Regiomontana, the Autonomous University of Nayarit and the University of Monterrey are established.
• Treaty of Tlatelolco
• Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean
• March 31: Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster
• June 4: Mexicana Flight 704
• June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.
• September 4: Opening of the Mexico City Metro Line 1

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Cámara Vales

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1969

Sport

• 1968–69 Mexican Primera División season
• 1969 Mexican Grand Prix
• May 31 – June 21: 1970 FIFA World Cup
• October 3 – 5: 1969 World Judo Championships held in Mexico City.

Births

• January 13 — Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
• January 31 — Urbano Zea, swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics; (d. 2018)
• June 17 — Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, lawyer and first female Governor of Sonora starting 2015
• June 29 — Guillermo Padrés Elías, Governor of Sonora 2009–2015. Arrested for embezzlement on November 10, 2016 and released on February 2, 2019
• April 21 — Carlos Mendoza Davis, lawyer and Governor of Baja California Sur starting 2015
• May 9 — Benjamín Rivera, voice actor
• July 9 — Eduardo Santamarina, actor
• August 5 — Diego Schoening, singer, actor, television host
• September 1 — Armando Araiza, actor
• September 28 — Pedro Fernández, singer, songwriter, actor
• October 24 — Adela Noriega, actress
• Date unknown
• Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, Governor of Tlaxcala starting 2017.
• Armando Mendoza Duarte, politician.

Deaths

• September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)

References