1998 in Mexico
Events in the year 1998 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Ernesto Zedillo
- Interior Secretary : Emilio Chuayffet ; Francisco Labastida
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : María del Rosario Green Macías
- 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/Esteban Moctezuma
- 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,, until November 30
- *Felipe [González González], PAN, starting December 1
- Baja California:
- *Héctor Terán Terán,, died in office, October 4.
- *Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, PAN
- Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño /Guillermo Mercado Romero
- Campeche: José [Antonio González Curi]
- Chiapas: Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro/Roberto Albores Guillén
- Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio/Patricio Martínez García
- Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
- Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña
- Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier
- Guanajuato: Vicente Fox
- Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero
- Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam/Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
- Jalisco: Humberto Lugo Gil/Manuel Angel Nunez Soto
- State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz/Arturo Montiel Rojas
- Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
- Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio López/Jorge Morales Barud.
- Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
- Nuevo León: Fernando Canales
- Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
- Puebla: Melquiades Morales Flores/Manuel Bartlett Díaz
- Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera
- Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid/Joaquín Hendricks Díaz
- San Luis Potosí: Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Silva Nieto
- Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado/Juan S. Millán
- Sonora: Armando López Nogales
- Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado
- Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
- Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima
- Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero/Miguel Alemán Velasco
- Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
- Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal Ávila
- Head of Government of the Federal District
- *Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD),
- *Rosario Robles
Events
- El diario de Daniela begins airing on television.
- March 18: The TV channel Canal del Congreso is launched.
- April 21: the Pinacoteca Diego Rivera is inaugurated.
- August 30: 1998 Mexican Fobaproa funds referendum
- September 14: Camila (telenovela) begins.
- September 19: Nuestra Belleza México 1998
Awards
- Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – José Angel Conchello Dávila
- Ohtli Award
- *Burton E. Grossman
- * Dolores Huerta
- * Pete Rodriguez
- * Guadalupe Reyes
Hurricanes
- August 21–24: Tropical Storm Charley (1998)
- September 1–3: Hurricane Isis (1998)
- October 15–26: Hurricane Lester (1998)
- October 16–20: Hurricane Madeline (1998)
- October 22 – November 9: Hurricane Mitch
Sport
- 1997–98 Mexican Primera División season.
- Guerreros de Oaxaca win the Mexican League.
- March 20: Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth (1998)
- July 18: Ruleta de la Muerte (1998)
- December 13: Guerra de Titanes (1998)
Births
Deaths
- September 5 – Fernando Balzaretti, actor
- December 13 – Ariadna Welter, actress