1976 in Mexico
Events in the year 1976 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Luis Echeverría, José López Portillo
- Interior Secretary : Mario Moya Palencia/Jesús Reyes Heroles
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Alfonso García Robles/Santiago Roel García
- Communications Secretary : Emilio Mújica Montoya
- Education Secretary : Víctor Bravo Ahuja/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
- Secretary of Defense : Hermenegildo Cuenca Díaz/Félix Galván López
- Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
- Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes/Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
- Tourism Secretary : Julio Hirschfeld Almada/Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández
Governors
- Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
- Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
- Baja California Sur: Ángel César Mendoza Arámburo
- Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
- Chiapas
- *Manuel Velasco Suárez
- *Jorge de la Vega Domínguez
- Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
- Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
- Colima: Arturo Noriega Pizano
- Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez
- Guanajuato: Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
- Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
- State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
- Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo
- Morelos
- *Felipe Rivera Crespo, until May 18
- *Armando León Bejarano, starting May 18
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez
- Oaxaca: Miguel Zárate Aquino
- Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
- Querétaro: Antonio Calzada Urquiza
- Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
- San Luis Potosí: Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
- Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
- Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
- Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
- Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
- Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
- Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
- Yucatán
- *Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
- *Francisco Luna Kan
- Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo
- Regent of Mexico City
- *Octavio Senties Gomez
- *Carlos Hank González
Events
- Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Campus Estado de México) founded.
- Organizacion Editorial Mexicana founded.
- Universidad Intercontinental established.
- March 15: Autonomous University of Baja California Sur established.
- July 4: 1976 Mexican general election
- September 7 – 11: Hurricane Kathleen
- September 29 – October 8: Hurricane Madeline
- October 1: Instituto Tecnológico de Nuevo León established.
- November 6: first issue of Proceso (magazine) published.
- December 15: The Trolleybuses in Guadalajara start operating.
Awards
Births
- June 7: Nora Salinas, actress
- June 10: Mariana Seoane, model, singer, and actress
- July 8: Grettell Valdez, television and film actress and former fashion model
- December 3: Arleth Terán, soap opera actress