1998 in Mexico

Events in the year 1998 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Ernesto Zedillo
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Emilio Chuayffet (until 3 January); Francisco Labastida (from 21 May)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): María del Rosario Green Macías
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
• Secretary of Navy: José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Antonio González Fernández
• Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez/Esteban Moctezuma
• Secretary of Public Education: Miguel Limón Rojas
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Óscar Espinosa Villarreal
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Julia Carabias Lillo
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán

Governors

• Aguascalientes
• Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), until November 30
• Felipe González González, PAN, starting December 1
• Baja California:
• Héctor Terán Terán, (National Action Party (PAN)), died in office, October 4.
• Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, PAN
• Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño (PRD)/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
• Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
• Chiapas: Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro/Roberto Albores Guillén (PRI)
• Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio/Patricio Martínez García (PRI)
• Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
• Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña (PRI)
• Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PRI)
• Guanajuato: Vicente Fox (PAN)
• Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero (PAN)
• Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam/Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez (PAN)
• Jalisco: Humberto Lugo Gil/Manuel Angel Nunez Soto (PAN)
• State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz/Arturo Montiel Rojas (PRI)
• Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
• Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio López/Jorge Morales Barud (Substitute—PRI).
• Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
• Nuevo León: Fernando Canales (PRI)
• Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López (PRI)
• Puebla: Melquiades Morales Flores/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
• Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera (PRI)
• Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid/Joaquín Hendricks Díaz (PRI)
• San Luis Potosí: Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Silva Nieto (PRI)
• Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado/Juan S. Millán (PRI)
• Sonora: Armando López Nogales (PRI)
• Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado (PRI)
• Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
• Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRI)
• Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero/Miguel Alemán Velasco (PRI)
• Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco (PRI)
• Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal Ávila (PRI)
• Head of Government of the Federal District
• Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), (until September 29)
• Rosario Robles (PRD) (starting September 29)

Events

• El diario de Daniela begins airing on television.
• March 18: The TV channel Canal del Congreso is launched.
• April 21: the Pinacoteca Diego Rivera is inaugurated.
• August 30: 1998 Mexican Fobaproa funds referendum
• September 14: Camila (telenovela) begins.
• September 19: Nuestra Belleza México 1998

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – José Angel Conchello Dávila (post mortem)
• Ohtli Award
• Burton E. Grossman
• Dolores Huerta
• Pete Rodriguez
• Guadalupe Reyes

Hurricanes

• August 21–24: Tropical Storm Charley (1998)
• September 1–3: Hurricane Isis (1998)
• October 15–26: Hurricane Lester (1998)
• October 16–20: Hurricane Madeline (1998)
• October 22 – November 9: Hurricane Mitch

Sport

• 1997–98 Mexican Primera División season.
• Guerreros de Oaxaca win the Mexican League.
• March 20: Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth (1998)
• July 18: Ruleta de la Muerte (1998)
• December 13: Guerra de Titanes (1998)

Births

• April 3 - Humberto Castellanos, baseball player
• November 10 – Karen Villanueva, rhythmic gymnast

Deaths

• September 5 – Fernando Balzaretti, actor (b. 1946)
• December 13 – Ariadna Welter, actress (b. 1930)

References