1986 in Mexico
# 1986 in Mexico

Events in the year 1986 in Mexico.

## Incumbents

### Federal government

* President: Miguel de la Madrid
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz
* Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): 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 (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): 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 (PRI)
* 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 (PRI).
* 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; (d. November 21, 2018).

## Deaths

* July 9: Nellie Campobello, writer. (b. 1900)
* August 6: Emilio Fernández, movie director, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
