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