1996 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Ernesto Zedillo
• Interior Secretary : Emilio Chuayffet.
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs : José Ángel Gurría
• Communications Secretary : Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
• Secretary of Defense : Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
• Secretary of Navy: José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare : José Antonio González Fernández
• Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
• Secretary of Public Education: Miguel Limón Rojas
• Tourism Secretary : Óscar Espinosa Villarreal
• Secretary of the Environment : Julia Carabias Lillo
• Secretary of Health : Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán,
• Baja California: Héctor Terán Terán,.
• Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero
• Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
• Chiapas: Julio César Ruíz Ferro
• Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
• Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
• Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
• Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
• Guanajuato: Vicente Fox Quesada
• Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer/Ángel Aguirre Rivero
• Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
• Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
• State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz
• Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco/Ausencio Chávez Hernández
• Morelos: Jorge Carrillo Olea.
• Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
• Nuevo León: Benjamín Clariond
• Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
• Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García
• Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid
• San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta
• Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado
• Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
• Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado
• Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
• Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima
• Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero
• Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
• Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez
• Regent of Mexico City: Oscar Espinosa Villarreal

Events

• Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey established.
• Alternative rock group Plastilina Mosh is founded.
• February 16: the San Andres Accords were signed.
• June: The Guadalajara Gay Pride is founded.
• June 28: The Popular Revolutionary Army announces its existence.
• September 22: Nuestra Belleza México 1996 held in Cancun.
• October 23: The Law of Protection of Commerce and Investments from Foreign Policies that Contravene International Law is published.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor
• *Griselda Álvarez
• *Alí Chumacero
• Ohtli Award
• * Gonzalo Barrientos
• * Hector P. Garcia
• * Carlos Truan
• * Edward R. Roybal

Births

• January 30 : Dafne Navarro, trampoline gymnast
• March 29 : Juanpa Zurita, Internet personality
• August 12 : Julio Urías, baseball player

Deaths

• May 24 – Octavio Sentíes Gómez, 81, politician, Governor of Veracruz, Secretary of the Interior, Regent of DF

Hurricanes

• July 24 – August 6: Hurricane Cesar–Douglas
• August 19 – 26: Hurricane Dolly (1996)
• September 30 – October 4: Hurricane Hernan

Sports

• 1995–96 Mexican Primera División season
• 1995–96 Copa Mexico
• Mexico wins the 1996 U.S. Cup
• Mexico loses in the final of the Pan American Games football tournament
• Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Mexico at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
• Atlético Hidalgo, C.F. Cuautitlán and Real Sociedad de Zacatecas are founded.