1988 in Mexico

Events in the year 1988 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid (until November 30), Carlos Salinas de Gortari (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor/Fernando Solana
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz/Andrés Caso Lombardo
• Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui/Antonio Riviello Bazán
• Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega/Mauricio Scheleske Sánchez
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Manuel Camacho Solís/Gabino Fraga/Patricio Chirinos Calero
• Secretary of Public Education: Miguel González Avelar/Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada/María de los Angeles Moreno
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo/Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
• Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
• Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
• Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
• Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez/Patrocinio González Garrido
• Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
• Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
• Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
• Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
• Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala
• Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
• Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
• Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo/Francisco Rodríguez Gómez
• State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta
• Michoacán: Luis Martínez Villicaña
• Morelos
• Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), until May 18.
• Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), starting May 18.
• Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
• Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño
• Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
• Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
• Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
• Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
• San Luis Potosí: no data
• Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
• Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
• Tabasco: José María Peralta López
• Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
• Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
• Veracruz: Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Dante Delgado Rannauro
• Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco/Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
• Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada
• Regent of Mexico City
• Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
• Manuel Camacho Solís

Events

• The National Council for Culture and Arts is established.
• The Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca is established
• July 6: 1988 Mexican general election
• August 31 – September 8: Hurricane Debby
• September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbert

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Rufino Tamayo

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1988

Sport

• 1987–88 Mexican Primera División season
• Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
• Atlético Boca del Río and Venados de Yucatán are founded.
• 1988 Mexican Grand Prix
• Mexico at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• Mexico at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Mexico at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
• 1988 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.

Births

• February 5 – Karin Ontiveros, beauty queen
• April 29 — Elías Hernández, footballer
• May 21 — Aída Román, archer
• November 23 — Ezequiel Orozco, soccer player (Club Necaxa), (d. 2018)

Deaths

• April 25 — Roberto Salido Beltrán, military aviator (b. 1912)
• July 11 — Oscar Flores Tapia, journalist, writer, and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1975–1981 (b. 1913)
• August 9 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
• December 9 – Alfredo Woodward Téllez, businessman and politician (b. 1905)

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