1994 in Mexico

Events in the year 1994 in Mexico.

Incumbents

January 1
* The North American Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States goes into effect
* The Zapatista Army of National Liberation goes public in response to NAFTA.
January 16 – The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Benjamín Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier. He had met with Ramón Arellano Félix six weeks earlier.
March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio presidential candidate for the PRI is assassinated in Tijuana, Baja California.
August 11 – Hurricane John starts in southern Mexico
August 21 – Presidential elections
September 28 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, brother-in-law of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former governor of Guerrero, and leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is assassinated.
October 11 – Hurricane Rosa kills four in Nayarit and Durango
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
December 21 – The Popocateptl volcano spewed gas and ash, which was carried as far as away by prevailing winds. The activity prompted the evacuation of nearby towns and scientists to begin monitoring for an eruption.
December
* economic crisis in Mexico with the peso losing a third of its value
* The Fobaproa is applied in response to the economic crisis
* El Barzón is created in response to the economic crisis

July 5 – Mexico loses 1–3 versus Bulgaria and is eliminated from the Football World Cup 1994

June 6 – The XXXVI edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico CityEl callejón de los milagros of Jorge FonsBienvenido-Welcome of Gabriel RetesDos crímenes of Roberto SneiderHasta morir of Fernando SariñanaEl jardín del edén of María NovaroLa reina de la noche of Arturo RipsteinMujeres insumisas of Alberto IsaacDulces compañías of Oscar BlancarteUn volcán con lava de hielo of Valentina LeducEl árbol de la música of Sabina Berman & Isabel TardánDel otro lado del mar of Marcela Arteaga

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