1971 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Luis Echeverría
• Interior Secretary : Mario Moya Palencia
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Emilio Óscar Rabasa
• Communications Secretary : Eugenio Méndez Docurro
• Education Secretary : Víctor Bravo Ahuja
• Secretary of Defense : Matías Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
• Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
• Baja California
• *Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, until October 31
• *Milton Castellanos Everardo starting November 1, 1971
• Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
• Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
• Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
• Colima: Pablo Silva García
• Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
• Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
• Guerrero: Caritino Maldonado Pérez/Roberto Rodríguez Mercado/Israel Nogueda Otero
• Hidalgo: Donaciano Serna Leal
• Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio/Alberto Orozco Romero
• State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
• Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
• Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo
• Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
• Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo/Luis M. Farías
• Oaxaca: Fernando Gómez Sandoval
• Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle
• Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez
• San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero
• Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
• Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna
• Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
• Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize
• Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez
• Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
• Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
• Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
• Regent of the Federal District
• *Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
• *Octavio Sentíes Gómez

Events

• Aeronáutica Agrícola Mexicana SA formed.
• June 10: Corpus Christi massacre.
• June 10: Opening of the Metro Observatorio.
• September 3–13: Hurricane Fern.
• September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.
• November 11: National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics is established.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jaime Torres Bodet

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February

• February 10 — Lorena Rojas, actress and singer
• February 22 — Super Caló, wrestler

May

• May 14 − Mónica Arriola Gordillo, politician, Deputy ;.

June

• June 16 – Alejandro Jano Fuentes, singer
• June 17 — Paulina Rubio, singer

July

• July 12 — Andrea Legarreta, actress and TV host

August

• August 26 — Thalía, singer

November

• November 24 — Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, acting Governor of Puebla 2018-2019

Date unknown

• Emma Laura, soap opera actress

Deaths

• August 11 - Archbishop Manuel Pío López Estrada, 6th bishop of Veracruz, and first archbishop of Xalapa, 1939-1968

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1971.

Sport

• 1970–71 Mexican Primera División season.
• Charros de Jalisco win the Mexican League.
• September 19: Atlético Español founded.