1982 in Mexico
Events in the year 1982 in Mexico.Incumbents
Federal government
- President: José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid
- 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:
- Secretary of Public Education:
- Tourism Secretary :
- Secretary of the Environment :
- Secretary of Health :
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes:
- Baja California:
- Baja California Sur:
- Campeche:
- Chiapas:
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila:
- Colima:
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco:
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos:
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro:
- Quintana Roo:
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas:
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
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 decrease the bank nationalization.
- December 1 - Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.
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
- Football - 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship
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
- December 19 – Nara Falcón, synchronized swimmer
- Date unknown
- *Raúl Castañeda, boxer.
Deaths
