1980 in Mexico
Events in the year 1980 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: José López Portillo
- Interior Secretary : Enrique Olivares Santana, Manuel Bartlett Díaz
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez
- Communications Secretary : Emilio Mújica Montoya
- Secretary of Defense : Félix Galván López
- Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
- Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
- Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
- Tourism Secretary : Guillermo Rossell de la Lama/Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces
Governors
- Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
- Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid
- Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo
- Campeche: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
- Chiapas: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
- Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre/Óscar Ornelas
- Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia/Francisco José Madero González
- Colima: Griselda Álvarez
- Durango: Salvador Gámiz Fernández/Armando del Castillo Franco
- Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
- Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
- Hidalgo: Jorge Rojo Lugo
- Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco
- State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
- Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo/Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
- Morelos: Armando León Bejarano
- Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel
- Nuevo León: Flavio Romero de Velasco
- Oaxaca: Eliseo Jimenez Ruiz/Pedro Vasquez Colmenares
- Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
- Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
- Quintana Roo: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
- San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
- Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
- Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
- Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade
- Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
- Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
- Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
- Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan
- Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
- Regent of Mexico City: Carlos Hank González
Events
- Zeta is founded.
- The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas is established.
- The Centro de Investigaciones en Optica is founded.
- The Ollin Yoliztli Prize is awarded for the first time.
- The Palacio de Lecumberri starts housing the General National Archive
- July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.
- October 24: 1980 Oaxaca earthquake.
Awards
Film
Sport
- 1979–80 Mexican Primera División season.
- Saraperos de Saltillo win the Mexican League.
- Mexico at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
- Mexico at the 1980 Summer Paralympics.
- Correcaminos UAT founded.
Births
- February 4 – Gerardo Alcántara, soccer player
- February 23 – Geovanna Bañuelos de la Torre, politician
- March 18 — Olga Vargas, synchronized swimmer
- March 30 — Mauricio Vila Dosal, Governor of Yucatán 2018–2024
- April 2 – Carlos Salcido, footballer
- November 15 — Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo, Governor of Guanajuato starting 2018
- December 12 — Pablo Baltodano Monroy, diplomat and politician
Deaths
- March 18 — Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher who lived in Cuernavaca from 1956-1976
- May 13 — Carmen García González, wife of President Emilio Portes Gil