1962 in Mexico
# 1962 in Mexico

Events in the year 1962 in Mexico.

## Incumbents

### Federal government

* President: Adolfo López Mateos
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
* Education Secretary (SEP): Jaime Torres Bodet
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Agustín Olachea
* Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico/Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
* Secretary of Welfare: Javier Barros Sierra

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

### Governors

* Aguascalientes
   * Luis Ortega Douglas (until November 30)
   * Enrique Olivares Santana (starting December 1)
* Baja California: Eligio Esquivel Méndez
* Campeche: José Ortiz Avila
* Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis
* Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda/Práxedes Ginér Durán
* Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
* Colima: Francisco Velasco Curiel
* Durango: Francisco González de la Vega/Rafael Hernández Piedras/Enrique Dupré Ceniceros
* Guanajuato: Juan José Torres Landa
* Guerrero: Arturo Martínez Adame
* Hidalgo: Oswaldo Cravioto Cisneros
* Jalisco: Juan Gil Preciado
* State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz
* Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez/Agustín Arriaga
* Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
* Nayarit: Francisco García Montero
* Nuevo León: Eduardo Livas Villarreal
* Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca/Rodolfo Brena Torres
* Puebla: Arturo Fernández Aguirre
* Querétaro: Manuel González Cosío
* San Luis Potosí: Manuel López Dávila
* Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
* Sonora: Luis Encinas Johnson
* Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo Becerra
* Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
* Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
* Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco/Fernando López Arias
* Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar/José Rodríguez Elías
* Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
* Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

## Events

* March 21: Beginning of the 1962 Mexico City radiation accident
* April 30: Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan established.
* May 23: Rubén Jaramillo is assassinated in Morelos by the Mexican Army.

## Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Tereza Montoya

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1962

## Sport

* 1961–62 Mexican Primera División season
* 1962 Mexican Grand Prix
* Mexico defeats Yugoslavia in the Americas Zone final of the 1962 Davis Cup
* 1962 World Modern Pentathlon Championships are held in Mexico City.

## Births

* April 24 — Juan Manuel Carreras, Governor of San Luis Potosí starting 2015.
* May 7 — Ari Telch, soap opera actor
* May 13 — Eduardo Palomo, actor (d. 2003)
* May 17 — Arturo Peniche, soap opera actor
* May 31 — Victoria Ruffo, soap opera actress
* June 24 — Claudia Sheinbaum, scientist and Mayor of Mexico City starting 2018
* August 7 – Miroslava Breach, journalist (La Jornada and El Norte de Chihuahua) (d. 2017).
* August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, actor
* August 15 — Mario Anguiano Moreno, Governor of Colima 2009-2015
* August 18 – Felipe Calderón, 56th President of Mexico (2006-2012)
* August 26 — Omar Fayad, Governor of Hidalgo starting 2016
* September 23 — Alberto Estrella, actor
* October 23 — Quirino Ordaz Coppel, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Sinaloa 2017–2021

## Deaths

* May 23 — Rubén Jaramillo, military and peasant leader in Morelos, assassinated (b. 1900)
