1993 in Mexico
Events in the year 1993 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- Interior Secretary : Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Patrocinio González Garrido
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Fernando Solana Morales/Manuel Camacho Solís
- Communications Secretary : Emilio Gamboa Patrón
- 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: Luis Donaldo Colosio/Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
- Secretary of Public Education: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León/Fernando Solana Morales
- Tourism Secretary : Silvia Hernández Enríquez
- Secretary of Fisheries : Guillermo Jiménez Morales
- Secretary of Health : Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
Supreme Court
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán,
- Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel,
- Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal/Guillermo Mercado Romero
- Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
- Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido/Elmar Setzer Marseille
- Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
- Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
- Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
- Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
- Guanajuato: Carlos Medina Plascencia
- Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu/Rubén Figueroa Alcocer
- Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco/Jesús Murillo Karam
- Jalisco: Carlos Rivera Aceves
- State of Mexico: Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza/Emilio Chuayffet
- Michoacán: Ausencio Chávez Hernández
- Morelos
- *Antonio Riva Palacio, until May 17.
- *Jorge Carrillo Olea, starting May 18.
- Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
- Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo
- Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
- Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya/Manuel Bartlett Díaz
- Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García
- Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín/Mario Villanueva Madrid
- San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta
- Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado
- Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
- Tabasco: Salvador Neme Castillo/Manuel Gurría Ordóñez
- Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra/Manuel Cavazos Lerma
- Tlaxcala: Samuel Quiróz de la Vega/José Antonio Álvarez Lima
- Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero
- Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho/Ricardo Ávila Heredia
- Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez
- Regent of Mexico City
- *Manuel Camacho Solís
- *Manuel Aguilera Gomez
Events
- The Foro Sol opened
- Musical bands La Gusana Ciega and Hocico are founded.
- Arqueología Mexicana has its first issue published.
- May 14: The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico is founded.
- May 21: The Miss Universe 1993 contest was held at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.
- May 24: Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport.
- September 3: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte founded per presidential decree.
- December 1: The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Ramón Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier.
Awards
Hurricanes
- June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)
- June 18–21: Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
- August 17–27: Hurricane Hilary (1993)
- September 8–14: Hurricane Lidia (1993)
- September 14–26: Hurricane Gert
Sport
- 1992–93 Mexican Primera División season
- Olmecas de Tabasco win the Mexican League.
- 1993 Caribbean Series played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán.
- 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup
- 1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
- Alto Rendimiento Tuzo is founded.
Births
- January 21 - Oliver Ortíz, footballer
- April 2 - Jaime Romero Móran, artistic gymnast,.
- September 18 - Mariana Avitia, archer
- October 23 - Daniela Álvarez, winner of Nuestra Belleza México 2013 beauty pageant in 2013
- December 7 - Brandon Moreno, mixed martial artist
- December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, actress and educator
Deaths
- May 24 – Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Cardinal of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1987-1993.