Events in the year 1972 in Mexico.
Incumbents Federal government President: Luis Echeverría Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Rafael Hernández Ochoa/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño Colima: Pablo Silva García Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno Guerrero: Israel Nogueda Otero Hidalgo: Donaciano Serna Leal/Manuel Sánchez Vite Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes Nuevo León: Luis M. Farías Oaxaca: Fernando Gómez Sandoval Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González Regent of Mexico City: Octavio Senties Gomez
Events
José Guadalupe Posada Museum opens. The Palace of Iturbide becomes the home of the Banamex Cultural Foundation (Fomento Cultural Banamex). The Festival Internacional Cervantino is founded in Guanajuato. June 14–23: Hurricane Agnes. September: Fred Gómez Carrasco is arrested in Guadalajara. September 30-October 7: Hurricane Joanne
Awards Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Ignacio Ramos Praslow
Births January 25 – Chantal Andere, actress January 27 – Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress April 23 – Patricia Manterola, actress, fashion designer, singer, and model May 10 – Víctor Noriega, actor, singer, and model June 22 – Miguel del Toro, baseball player August 30 – José Ramón Amieva, acting Mayor of Mexico City 2018 October 23 – Kate del Castillo, television actress (La Reina del Sur) October 23 – Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress November 27 – Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, politician (PRI); first elected female Governor of Yucatán 2007–2012 December 7 – Oliver Fernández, tennis player December 25 – Ricardo Tejedo, actor, voice actor, ADR director, script writer and translator Date unknown – Marbella Ibarra, soccer coach and promoter of women's soccer (d. October 12, 2018).
Deaths February – Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist (born 1900 in Spain) December 7 – Humberto Mariles, equestrian Olympic gold medalist (born 1913 in Mexico)
Film
List of Mexican films of 1972.
Sport
1971–72 Mexican Primera División season. Cafeteros de Córdoba win the Mexican League. Mexico at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Mexico at the 1972 Summer Paralympics. The Adecmac soccer league is founded.
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