1972 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Luis Echeverría
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• José Guadalupe Posada Museum opens.
• The Palace of Iturbide becomes the home of the Banamex Cultural Foundation.
• 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

  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
• August 30 — José Ramón Amieva, acting Mayor of Mexico City 2018
• October 23 - Kate del Castillo, television actress
• October 23 - Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
• November 27 - Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, politician ; first elected female Governor of Yucatán 2007–2012
• Date unknown - Marbella Ibarra, soccer coach and promoter of women's soccer.

  Deaths

• December 7 - Humberto Mariles, equestrian Olympic gold medalist

  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.