1999 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Ernesto Zedillo
• Interior Secretary : Francisco Labastida ; Diódoro Carrasco
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs : María del Rosario Green Macías
• Communications Secretary : Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
• Education Secretary : Miguel Limón Rojas
• Secretary of Defense : Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
• Secretary of Navy: José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare : José Antonio González Fernández/Mariano Palacios Alcocer
• Secretary of Welfare: Esteban Moctezuma ; Carlos Jarque
• 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 ; José Antonio González Fernández

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán then Genaro David Góngora Pimentel

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Felipe González González,
• Baja California: Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute,
• Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño /Guillermo Mercado Romero
• Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
• Chiapas: Roberto Albores Guillén
• Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García
• Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
• Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña
• Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier
• Guanajuato: Vicente Fox/Ramon Martin Huerta
• Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero/René Juárez Cisneros
• Hidalgo: 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: Jorge Morales Barud.
• Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza/Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
• 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: Fernando Silva Nieto
• Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán
• Sonora: Armando López Nogales
• Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado
• Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma/Tomás Yarrington
• Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima/Alfonso Sánchez Anaya
• Veracruz: 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

• The banderas monumentales program is initiated.
• January: 1999 UNAM strike
• March 21: 1999 Mexican referendums
• June 15: 1999 Tehuacán earthquake
• August 18–25: Hurricane Bret
• September 5–9: Hurricane Greg
• September 12: Nuestra Belleza México 1999
• September 30: 1999 Oaxaca earthquake
• September – October: 1999 Mexico floods
• November: Mexico hosts the first Parapan American Games

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Carlos Fuentes
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
• National Prize for Arts and Sciences
• National Public Administration Prize
• Ohtli Award
• * Deborah V. Ortiz
• * David R. Maciel

Sport

• Primera División de México Verano 1999.
• Primera División de México Invierno 1999.
• 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup Final.
• Mexico participate in the 1999 Copa América and become 3rd.
• Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (1999).
• Ruleta de la Muerte (1999).
• 1999 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Monterrey.

Television

Debuted

• Alma Rebelde
• Catalina y Sebastián
• Háblame de amor
• Laberintos de pasión
• Mujeres engañadas
• Nunca Te Olvidaré
• Por tu amor
• Rosalinda
• Tres mujeres
• Yacaranday

Ended

• Alma Rebelde
• Camila
• Catalina y Sebastián
• El diario de Daniela
• Nunca Te Olvidaré
• Por tu amor
• El Privilegio de Amar
• Rosalinda
• Yacaranday

Deaths

• March 19: Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet and Tarumba in Mexico City.
• May 15: Gutierre Tibón, Italian-Mexican writer
• July 22: Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, governor of Morelos 1982-1988