1928 in Mexico
Events from the year '''1928 in Mexico'''
Incumbents
Federal government
- President:
- *Plutarco Elías Calles
- *Emilio Portes Gil
- Interior Secretary : Adalberto Tejeda then Gonzalo Vázquez Vela then Emilio Portes Gil then Felipe Canales
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
- Communications Secretary : Ramón Ross then Javier Sánchez Mejorada
- Education Secretary : José Manuel Puig Casauranc then Moisés Sáenz then Ezequiel Padilla
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Isaac Díaz de León, Alberto Díaz de León Bocanegra, Benjamín de la Mora, Manuel Carpio Velázquez
- Campeche: Silvestre Pavón Silva, Pedro Tello Andueza, Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo
- Chiapas: Federico Martínez Rojas, Amador Coutiño, Rosendo Delabre Santeliz, Raymundo E. Enríquez
- Chihuahua: Fernando Orozco, Marcelo Caraveo
- Coahuila: Manuel Pérez Treviño
- Colima: Laureano Cervantes
- Durango:
- Guanajuato: Agustín Arroyo
- Guerrero: Héctor F. López, Enrique Martínez, Adrián Castrejón National Revolutionary Party
- Hidalgo: Matías Rodríguez
- Jalisco: Margarito Ramírez
- State of Mexico: Carlos Riva Palacio
- Michoacán: : Enrique Ramírez Aviña, Lázaro Cárdenas
- Morelos: Ambrosio Puente
- Nayarit: José de la Peña Ledón
- Nuevo León: José Benítez
- Oaxaca: Genaro V. Vázquez, Francisco López Cortés
- Puebla: Donato Bravo Izquierdo
- Querétaro: Abraham Araujo
- San Luis Potosí: Saturnino Cedillo
- Sinaloa: vacant
- Sonora: Fausto Topete
- Tabasco: Tomás Taracena Hernández
- Tamaulipas: Juan Rincón
- Tlaxcala: Ignacio Mendoza
- Veracruz: Abel S. Rodríguez, Adalberto Tejeda Olivares
- Yucatán: Álvaro Torre Díaz
- Zacatecas: Leobardo C. Ruiz
Events
- July 1: 1928 Mexican general election: Álvaro Obregón is elected president for a second time.
- July 17: Cristero War: José de León Toral, a Roman Catholic who supported the Cristeros, assassinates Álvaro Obregón.
- December 1: Emilio Portes Gil becomes president.
Sports
- 1927–28 Primera Fuerza season, won by Club América.
- Mexico at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Mexico at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Births
- March 19 – Josefina Leiner, actress.
- March 30 – Lilia Prado, actress during the Golden Age of Mexican Cine;
- April 23 – Olga Harmony, playwright and drama teacher at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria;.
- April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, actress,.
- May 24 – Jacobo Zabludovsky, television anchor,.
- July 21 – Josefina Echánove, actress, model and journalist
- August 23 – Heberto Castillo, civil engineer and politician from Veracruz;
- October 5 – Enrique González Rojo Jr., poet, philosopher and teacher
- October 7 – Sergio Corona, actor from Hidalgo
- October 24 – Rafael Barraza Sánchez, bishop of Mazatlan, born in Durango;
- December 25 – Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora.
- Date unknown
- *Jacinto Contreras Martínez, polítician.
- *Melquiades Sánchez Orozco, journalist and radio announcer
- *Luisa Josefina Hernández, writer and playwright
Deaths
- February 10 – José Sánchez del Río, Mexican Cristero
- February 25 – Toribio Romo González, Roman Catholic priest
- April 22 – José Mora y del Río, Archbishop of Mexico, died in exile in San Antonio, TX;
- July 1 – Atilano Cruz Alvarado, Saint of the Cristero War
- July 12 – Emilio Carranza, pilot
- July 17 – Álvaro Obregón, 39th President of Mexico; assassinated after being reelected in 1928