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
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. 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 Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
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. 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 Date unknown Raúl Castañeda, boxer (d. September 6, 2017).
Deaths
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