1989 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
• 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

• 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: Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional and the National Human Rights Commission are founded.
• March 2: FONCA, 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.

  Births

• 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
• October 30 — Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor

  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.