1997 in Mexico
Events in the year 1997 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
- Head of Government of the Federal District
- *Oscar Espinosa Villarreal
- *Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas First elected leader of Mexico City.
- Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán,
- Baja California: Héctor Terán Terán,.
- Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero/Leonel Cota Montaño
- Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García/José [Antonio González Curi]
- Chiapas: Julio César Ruíz Ferro/Roberto Albores Guillén
- Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
- Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
- Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen/Fernando Moreno Peña
- Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier
- Guanajuato: Vicente Fox Quesada,
- Guerrero: Ángel Aguirre Rivero
- Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
- Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
- State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz
- Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
- Morelos: Jorge Carrillo Olea.
- Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
- Nuevo León: Benjamín Clariond/Fernando Canales
- Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
- Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
- Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García/Ignacio Loyola Vera
- Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid
- San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta/Fernando Silva Nieto
- Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado
- Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera/Armando López Nogales
- 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
Events
- Convergence was founded as a "national political grouping".
- March 13: Phoenix Lights in Sonora.
- June 6: 1997 Mexican legislative election
- September: Nuestra Belleza México 1997
- December 22: Acteal Massacre
Awards
Hurricanes
- June 1–7: Tropical Storm Andres (1997)
- September 16–26: Hurricane Nora (1997)
- September 26 – October 12: Tropical Storm Olaf (1997)
- October 5–10: Hurricane Pauline
Sport
- 1996–97 Mexican Primera División season
- 1996–97 Copa Mexico
- Petroleros de Poza Rica win the Mexican League.
- Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth (1997)
- Atlético Mexiquense and Chivas Tijuana are founded.
- The Chupacabras race is held for the first time.
Births
- October 29 – Ale Müller, actress and singer
Deaths
- October 24 - Luis Aguilar, actor and singer