1982 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1982 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: José López Portillo (until November 30), Miguel de la Madrid (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez (until November 30), Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (starting December 1)
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya/Rodolfo Félix Valdés
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López/Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
• Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara/Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada/Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez/Marcelo Javelly Girard
• Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/Jesús Reyes Heroles
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Fernando Rafful Miguel/Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández then Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
• Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
• Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
• Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
• Chiapas: Juan Sabines Gutiérrez/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas
• Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Colima: Griselda Álvarez
• Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
• Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
• Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
• Morelos
  • Armando León Bejarano (PRI), until May 18.
  • Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), starting May 18.[1]
• Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
• Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
• Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
• Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
• Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
• Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
• Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
• Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade/Enrique González Pedrero
• Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou
• Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
• Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan/Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
• Regent of Mexico City
  • Carlos Hank González[2]
  • Ramón Aguirre Velázquez[2]

Events

• Museo Nacional de Arte is founded.
• March – Reino Aventura opens
• March 31 – 14 killed, 100 injured, and 15,000 others suffer the effects of the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in Francisco León, Chiapas, 100 km from Villahermosa.[3]
• July 4 – 1982 Mexican general election
• August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.
• September 1 – During his last government report, president José López Portillo nationalizes banks.

• December 1 – Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – General Raúl Madero González

Sports

• Baseball – The Leones del Caracas team conquest their first Caribbean Series title in Hermosillo Sonora.
• Baseball – Indios de Ciudad Juárez win the Mexican League
• Football – 1981–82 Mexican Primera División season

Births

• January 9 — Lorenza Morfín, road cyclist
• March 7 — Aarón Díaz, model, actor, and singer
• March 13 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Presidente Municipal of Temixco, Morelos (January 1-January 2, 2016) (assassinated 2016)
• December 19 – Nara Falcón, synchronized swimmer[4]
• Date unknown
  • Raúl Castañeda, boxer (d. September 6, 2017).

Deaths

Main article: deaths in 1982

Further information: Category:1982 deaths

References

1. Cinta, Guillermo (24 July 2010). "Aniversario luctuoso de don Lauro". La Unión (in European Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). 5 December 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. "14 muertos por la erupción de un volcán en México" [14 killed by the eruption of a volcano in Mexico], El Pais (in Spanish), Mexico City, March 31, 1982, retrieved March 27, 2019
4. "Nara FALCON - Olympic Synchronized Swimming | Mexico". International Olympic Committee. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2019.