1972 in Mexico
Events in the year 1972 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/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
- Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
- Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
- 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: Israel Nogueda Otero
- Hidalgo: Donaciano Serna Leal/Manuel Sánchez Vite
- Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
- State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
- Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
- Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo
- Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
- Nuevo León: 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 Mexico City: Octavio Senties Gomez
Events
- José Guadalupe Posada Museum opens.
- The Palace of Iturbide becomes the home of the Banamex Cultural Foundation.
- The Festival Internacional Cervantino is founded in Guanajuato.
- June 14–23: Hurricane Agnes.
- September: Fred Gómez Carrasco is arrested in Guadalajara.
- September 30-October 7: Hurricane Joanne
Awards
Births
- January 25 - Chantal Andere, actress
- January 27 - Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress
- April 23 - Patricia Manterola, actress, fashion designer, singer, and model
- May 10 - Víctor Noriega, actor, singer, and model
- June 22 – Miguel del Toro, baseball player
- August 30 - José Ramón Amieva, acting Mayor of Mexico City 2018
- October 23 - Kate del Castillo, television actress
- October 23 - Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
- November 27 - Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, politician ; first elected female Governor of Yucatán 2007–2012
- December 7 - Oliver Fernández, tennis player
- December 25 - Ricardo Tejedo, actor, voice actor, ADR director, script writer and translator
- Date unknown - Marbella Ibarra, soccer coach and promoter of women's soccer.
Deaths
- February - Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist
- December 7 - Humberto Mariles, equestrian Olympic gold medalist
Film
Sport
- 1971–72 Mexican Primera División season.
- Cafeteros de Córdoba win the Mexican League.
- Mexico at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
- Mexico at the 1972 Summer Paralympics.
- The Adecmac soccer league is founded.