1993 in Mexico

Events in the year 1993 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Patrocinio González Garrido
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales/Manuel Camacho Solís
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Gamboa Patrón
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
• Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Luis Donaldo Colosio/Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
• Secretary of Public Education: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León/Fernando Solana Morales
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
• Secretary of Fisheries (SEPESCA): Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
• Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
• Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
• Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
• Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido/Elmar Setzer Marseille
• Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN)
• Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
• Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
• Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
• Guanajuato: Carlos Medina Plascencia
• Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu/Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (PRI)
• Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco/Jesús Murillo Karam
• Jalisco: Carlos Rivera Aceves
• State of Mexico: Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza/Emilio Chuayffet (PRI)
• Michoacán: Ausencio Chávez Hernández
• Morelos
• Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), until May 17.
• Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI), starting May 18.
• Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
• Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo (PRI)
• Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano (PRI)
• Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
• Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García (PRI)
• Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín/Mario Villanueva Madrid (PRI)
• San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta (PRI)
• Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado (PRI)
• Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera (PRI)
• Tabasco: Salvador Neme Castillo/Manuel Gurría Ordóñez (PRI)
• Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra/Manuel Cavazos Lerma (PRI)
• Tlaxcala: Samuel Quiróz de la Vega/José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRD)
• Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero (PRD)
• Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho/Ricardo Ávila Heredia (PRI)
• Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez (PRI)
• Regent of Mexico City
• Manuel Camacho Solís
• Manuel Aguilera Gomez

Events

• The Foro Sol opened
• Musical bands La Gusana Ciega and Hocico are founded.
• Arqueología Mexicana has its first issue published.
• May 14: The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico is founded.
• May 21: The Miss Universe 1993 contest was held at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.
• May 24: Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport.
• September 3: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte founded per presidential decree.
• December 1: The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Ramón Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Andrés Henestrosa

Hurricanes

• June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)
• June 18–21: Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
• August 17–27: Hurricane Hilary (1993)
• September 8–14: Hurricane Lidia (1993)
• September 14–26: Hurricane Gert

Sport

• 1992–93 Mexican Primera División season
• Olmecas de Tabasco win the Mexican League.
• 1993 Caribbean Series played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán.
• 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup
• 1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
• Alto Rendimiento Tuzo is founded.

Births

• January 21 – Oliver Ortíz, footballer
• April 2 – Jaime Romero Móran, artistic gymnast, (d. January 3, 2015).
• September 18 – Mariana Avitia, archer
• October 23 – Daniela Álvarez, winner of Nuestra Belleza México 2013 beauty pageant in 2013
• December 7 – Brandon Moreno, mixed martial artist
• December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, actress and educator

Deaths

• May 24 – Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Cardinal of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1987-1993 (b. November 11, 1906).

References