1982 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid
• Interior Secretary : Enrique Olivares Santana, Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez, Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
• Communications Secretary : Emilio Mújica Montoya/Rodolfo Félix Valdés
• Secretary of Defense : Félix Galván López/Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
• Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara/Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada/Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez/Marcelo Javelly Girard
• Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/Jesús Reyes Heroles
• Tourism Secretary : Carlos Hank González
• Secretary of the Environment : Fernando Rafful Miguel/Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Health : Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández then Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
• Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid
• Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
• Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
• Chiapas: Juan Sabines Gutiérrez/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas
• Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Colima: Griselda Álvarez
• Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
• Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
• Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
• Morelos
• *Armando León Bejarano, until May 18.
• *Lauro Ortega Martínez, starting May 18.
• Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
• Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
• Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
• Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
• Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
• Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
• Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
• Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade/Enrique González Pedrero
• Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou
• Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
• Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan/Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
• Regent of Mexico City
• *Carlos Hank González
• *Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

Events

• Museo Nacional de Arte is founded.
• March - Reino Aventura opens
• March 31 - 14 killed, 100 injured, and 15,000 others suffer the effects of the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in Francisco León, Chiapas, 100 km from Villahermosa.
• July 4 - 1982 Mexican general election
• August 12 - Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.
• September 1 - During his last government report, president José López Portillo nationalizes banks.
• December 1 - Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – General Raúl Madero González

Sports

• Baseball - The Leones del Caracas team conquest their first Caribbean Series title in Hermosillo Sonora.
• Baseball - Indios de Ciudad Juárez win the Mexican League
• Football - 1981–82 Mexican Primera División season

Births

• January 9 — Lorenza Morfín, road cyclist
• March 7 — Aarón Díaz, model, actor, and singer
• March 13 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Presidente Municipal of Temixco, Morelos
• December 19 – Nara Falcón, synchronized swimmer
• Date unknown
• *Raúl Castañeda, boxer.