1989 in Mexico
Events in the year 1989 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- Interior Secretary : Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Fernando Solana
- Communications Secretary : Andrés Caso Lombardo
- Education Secretary : Manuel Bartlett
- Secretary of Defense : Antonio Riviello Bazán
- Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
- Secretary of Welfare: Patricio Chirinos Calero
- Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
- Tourism Secretary : Carlos Hank González
- Secretary of the Environment : María de los Angeles Moreno
- Secretary of Health : Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
Supreme Court
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega,
- Baja California
- *Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera, until January 5
- *Oscar Baylón Chacón,, January 6 to October 31.
- *Ernesto Ruffo Appel, National Action Party (PAN), starting November 1. Ruffo Appel was the first governor who was not a member of PRI since 1929.
- Baja California Sur:
- Campeche: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
- Chiapas: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
- Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
- Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
- Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
- Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
- Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala
- Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
- Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
- Jalisco: Francisco Rodríguez Gómez/Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
- State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta/Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza
- Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
- Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio.
- Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
- Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño
- Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
- Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
- Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
- Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
- San Luis Potosí: no data
- Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
- Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
- Tabasco: José María Peralta López
- Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
- Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
- Veracruz: Dante Delgado Rannauro
- Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
- Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada
- Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís
Events
- Music group Café Tacuba is founded.
- Newspaper El Economista is founded.
- The Guadalajara light rail system begins operating.
- The Santa Teresa la Antigua Alternative Art Center opens its doors.
- February 13: Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (México) and the National Human Rights Commission (Mexico) are founded.
- March 2: FONCA, is founded.
- March 3: Miss Latin America 1989 held in Hermosillo, Sonora.
- May 5: The Party of the Democratic Revolution is founded.
- May 23: Miss Universe 1989 held in Cancún, Quintana Roo.
- August 10: The San Rafael River train disaster
- August 25–29: Hurricane Kiko
- October 19: The Autonomous University of Campeche is established.
Awards
- Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Raúl Castellano Jiménez
Births
- January 10: Zuria Vega, actress and singer
- June 7: Sofía Sisniega, actress
- September 14: Miriam Zetter, ten-pin bowler
Deaths
- August 7 — Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963–1968
- October 30 — Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor