1980 in Mexico

Events in the year 1980 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: José López Portillo
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López
• Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
• Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Guillermo Rossell de la Lama/Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

Governors

• Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
• Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
• Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo (PRI)
• Campeche: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
• Chiapas: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot (PRI)
• Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre/Óscar Ornelas (PRI)
• Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia/Francisco José Madero González (PRI)
• Colima: Griselda Álvarez (PRI)
• Durango: Salvador Gámiz Fernández/Armando del Castillo Franco (PRI)
• Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra (PRI)
• Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa (PRI)
• Hidalgo: Jorge Rojo Lugo (PRI)
• Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco (PRI)
• State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
• Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo/Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
• Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
• Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel (PRI)
• Nuevo León: Flavio Romero de Velasco
• Oaxaca: Eliseo Jimenez Ruiz/Pedro Vasquez Colmenares (PRI)
• Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara (PRI)
• Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán (PRI)
• Quintana Roo: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona (PRI)
• San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios (PRI)
• Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón (PRI)
• Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García (PRI)
• Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade (PRI)
• Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González (PRI)
• Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras (PRI)
• Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa (PRI)
• Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan (PRI)
• Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona (PRI)
• Regent of Mexico City: Carlos Hank González

Events

• Zeta is founded.
• The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas is established.
• The Centro de Investigaciones en Optica is founded.
• The Ollin Yoliztli Prize is awarded for the first time.
• The Palacio de Lecumberri starts housing the General National Archive
• July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.
• October 24: 1980 Oaxaca earthquake.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Luis Padilla Nervo

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1980.

Sport

• 1979–80 Mexican Primera División season.
• Saraperos de Saltillo win the Mexican League.
• Mexico at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
• Mexico at the 1980 Summer Paralympics.
• Correcaminos UAT founded.

Births

• February 4 – Gerardo Alcántara, soccer player
• February 23 – Geovanna Bañuelos de la Torre, politician
• March 18 — Olga Vargas, synchronized swimmer
• March 30 — Mauricio Vila Dosal, Governor of Yucatán 2018–2024
• April 2 – Carlos Salcido, footballer
• November 15 — Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo, Governor of Guanajuato starting 2018
• December 12 — Pablo Baltodano Monroy, diplomat and politician

Deaths

• March 18 — Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher who lived in Cuernavaca from 1956-1976 (b. 1900)
• May 13 — Carmen García González, wife of President Emilio Portes Gil (1928-1930) (b. 1905)

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