Events in the year 1989 in Mexico.
Incumbents Federal government President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett 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 Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): María de los Angeles Moreno Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez
Governors
Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI) Baja California Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI), until January 5 Oscar Baylón Chacón, (PRI), January 6 to October 31. Ernesto Ruffo Appel, National Action Party (PAN), starting November 1. Ruffo Appel was the first governor who was not a member of PRI since 1929. Baja California Sur: Campeche: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega Chiapas: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco Jalisco: Francisco Rodríguez Gómez/Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta/Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI). Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín San Luis Potosí: no data Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés Tabasco: José María Peralta López Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel Veracruz: Dante Delgado Rannauro Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís
Events Music group Café Tacuba is founded. Newspaper El Economista is founded. The Guadalajara light rail system begins operating. The Santa Teresa la Antigua Alternative Art Center opens its doors. February 13: National Intelligence Centre (Mexico) and the National Human Rights Commission (Mexico) are founded. March 2: FONCA, (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes) is founded. March 3: Miss Latin America 1989 held in Hermosillo, Sonora. May 5: The Party of the Democratic Revolution is founded. May 23: Miss Universe 1989 held in Cancún, Quintana Roo. August 10: The San Rafael River train disaster August 25–29: Hurricane Kiko October 19: The Autonomous University of Campeche is established.
Awards Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Raúl Castellano Jiménez
Births January 8: Sandra Ramírez, FIFA assistant referee January 10: Zuria Vega, actress and singer June 7: Sofía Sisniega, actress September 14: Miriam Zetter, ten-pin bowler
Deaths August 7 — Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963–1968 (b. 1916) October 30 — Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1906)
Film
List of Mexican films of 1989
Sport
1988–89 Mexican Primera División season. 1989 Caribbean Series in Mazatlan at the Estadio Teodoro Mariscal. Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League. 1989 Tournament of the Americas in Mexico City. 1989 Mexican Grand Prix. 1989 480 km of Mexico.
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