1938 in Mexico
Events in the year 1938 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Lázaro Cárdenas
- Interior Secretary : Silvestre Guerrero; Ignacio García Téllez
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Eduardo Hay
- Communications Secretary : Francisco J. Múgica
- Education Secretary : Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
- Secretary of Defense : Manuel Ávila Camacho
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
- Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
- Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
- Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
- Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
- Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
- Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
- Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
- Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
- Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
- Jalisco: Everardo Topete
- State of Mexico: Eucario López
- Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
- Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
- Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
- Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
- Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
- Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
- Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
- San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
- Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
- Sonora: Ramón Ramos
- Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
- Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
- Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
- Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
- Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas/Florencio Palomo Valencia
- Zacatecas: Matías Ramos
Events
- March 18 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
Popular culture
Sports
Film
- Beautiful Mexico, musical directed by and starring Ramón Pereda, with Adriana Lamar and Antonio R. Frausto
Literature
- José Rubén Romero — ''La vida inútil de Pito Pérez''
Births
- 12 February — Pilar Pellicer, actress
- 4 May — Carlos Monsiváis, philosopher
- 20 August
- *Jacqueline Andere, actress
- *Irma González, wrestler
Deaths
- 19 October – Niño Fidencio, Roman Catholic priest and saint