1991 in Mexico

Events in the year 1991 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
• Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Patricio Chirinos Calero/Luis Donaldo Colosio
• Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
• Secretary of Fisheries (SEPESCA): María de los Angeles Moreno/Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
• Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
• Baja California Sur: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
• Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
• Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido
• Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
• Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
• Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco/Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
• Durango: José Ramírez Gamero
• Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala/Carlos Medina Plascencia
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
• Jalisco: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
• State of Mexico: Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
• Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
• Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).
• Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
• Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo
• Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
• Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
• Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
• Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
• San Luis Potosí: Fausto Zapata
• Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
• Sonora: Mario Morúa Johnson/Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
• Tabasco: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez
• Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
• Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
• Veracruz: Dante Delgado Rannauro
• Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho
• Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada/Pedro de León
• Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís

Events

• The Amparo Museum is inaugurated.
• The FIL Award is awarded for the first time, the recipient is Chilean author Nicanor Parra.
• The Monterrey Metro begins operating.
• The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey is established.
• August 18: 1991 Mexican legislative election.
• September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio (1991).
• Unknown date: Xcaret Park opens.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán

Sport

• 1990–91 Mexican Primera División season
• 1990–91 Copa México
• Sultanes de Monterrey win the Mexican League.
• 1991 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics take place in Xalapa, Veracruz.
• 1991 Mexican Grand Prix
• 430 km of Mexico City
• Mexico at the 1991 Pan American Games
• The Naranjeros de Álamo are founded.

Births

• May 5 – Raúl Jiménez, footballer
• June 3 – Natasha Dupeyrón, actress and singer
• August 2 – Zuleyka Silver, fashion model and actress
• October 22 – Tatiana Martínez, actress
• December 15 – Jorge Blanco, musician, singer, dancer, and actor

Deaths

• February 5 — Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953–1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (b. 1907).
• June 24 — Rufino Tamayo, painter (b. 1899)
• October 10 — Nazario S. Ortiz Garza, Governor of Coahuila 1929-1933

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