1999 in Mexico

Events in the year 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|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: Guerrero Mier">Governor of Guerrero">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 ,
*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: Oaxaca earthquake">Governor of Oaxaca">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 .
Ruleta de la Muerte .
1999 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Monterrey.
Television

Debuted

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