1986 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid
• Interior Secretary : Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Secretary of [Foreign Affairs (Mexico)|Secretary of Foreign Affairs] : Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
• Communications Secretary : Daniel Díaz Díaz
• Education Secretary : Manuel Bartlett
• Secretary of Defense : Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
• Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena/Manuel Camacho Solís
• Secretary of Public Education: Miguel González Avelar
• Tourism Secretary : Carlos Hank González
• Secretary of the Environment : Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Health : Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez

  Governors

• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos/José Refugio Esparza Reyes
• Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera
• Baja California Sur|Baja California Sur]: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
• Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
• Chiapas: Gustavo Armendáriz/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas/Saúl González Herrera/Fernando Baeza Meléndez
• Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
• Durango: José Ramírez Gamero
• Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
• Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas/Luis Martínez Villicaña
• Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez.
• Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
• Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño
• Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
• Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
• Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• San Luis Potosí: Florencio Salazar Martínez
• Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
• Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
• Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
• Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
• Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes/Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
• Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona/Genaro Borrego Estrada
• Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

  Events

• The girl band Fandango is established.
• The Museo de la Estampa and the Franz Mayer Museum are founded.
• The Colegio Nautilus is established.
• Vacation resort Rancho Leonero is established.
• Conni Carranza from Sonora becomes Señorita México 1986.
• The Xochimilco Light Rail starts operating after being upgraded from a streetcar line.
• March 31: Mexicana Flight 940
• September 11: Centro Escolar el Encino established.

  Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Salvador Zubirán

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1986

  Sport

• 1985–86 [Mexican Primera División season]
• Ángeles Negros de Puebla win the Mexican League
• 1986 FIFA World Cup
• 1986 [Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics] in Mexico City.
• 1986 Mexican Grand Prix

  Births

• July 8: Jaime Garcia, baseball player
• November 22: Sebastián Zurita, actor.
• Date unknown: Luis Trujillo Llame, Catholic priest;.

  Deaths

• July 9: Nellie Campobello, writer.
• August 6: Emilio Fernández, movie director, actor, and screenwriter