1959 in Mexico
# 1959 in Mexico

Events in the year 1959 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): José Ángel Ceniceros
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
* Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

### Governors

Every governor was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI.

* Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
* Baja California
   * Braulio Maldonado Sández (until November 12, 1959) Eligio Esquivel Méndez (starting November 13, 1959)
* Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
* Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis
* Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda
* Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
* Durango: Francisco González de la Vega
* Guanajuato: J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
* Guerrero: Raúl Caballero Aburto
* Hidalgo: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
* Jalisco
   * Agustín Yáñez (until February 28, 1959) Juan Preciado (starting March 1, 1959)
* State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz Prada
* Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez
* Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
* Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
* Nuevo León: José S. Vivanco
* Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca
* Puebla: Fausto M. Ortega
* Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
* San Luis Potosí
   * Agustín Olivo Monsiváis (Interim) Francisco Martínez De La Vega (Substitute)
* Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
* Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
* Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo
* Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
* Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
* Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco
* Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar
* Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
* Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

## Events

* January 1
   * The Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) is formed.
   * President Adolfo López Mateos informs the nation that three Mexican fishermen were killed and 14 wounded by the Armed Forces of Guatemala on December 31, 1958.
* January 2 – The Foreign Ministry of Guatemala declares that the three Mexican fishermen killed on December 31, 1958, were "pirates."
* February 12 – Martín Luis Guzmán is named president of the Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos (Commission of Free Textbooks, CONALITEG) to provide books for elementary schools.
* May 23 – Pope John XXIII creates the dioceses of Diócesis de Tlaxcala and San Andrés Tuxtla.
* August 12 – The Mexican Academy of Sciences is founded.
* September 10 – MASA is founded when the state-owned investment bank, SOMEX acquired the private company, Sheppard Hnos.
* September 15 – Cry of Dolores: President López Mateos announces the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Guatemala.
* October 10 – The Autonomous University of Zacatecas is established.
* October 23 to 29 – 1959 Mexico hurricane: An estimated 1,500 people died, principally in Colima.
* Date unknown – The motorcycle club Solo Angeles is formed.

## Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heriberto Jara Corona

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1959

## Births

* April 16 – Gran Apache, wrestler (d. 2017).
* May 24 – José Trinidad Zapata Ortiz, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla (starting 2014).
* August 27 — Daniela Romo, actress, singer, TV host
* September 6 — Fernando Ciangherotti, soap opera actor
* September 30 — Miguel Barbosa Huerta, Governor of Puebla starting 2019 (d. 2022).
* October 5 — Ernesto Laguardia, soap opera actor
* October 7 – Brazo de Oro (wrestler) (d. 2017)
* October 10 — Marcelo Ebrard, politician (PRD) and Mayor of Mexico City 2006-2012; Secretary of Foreign Affairs starting 2018.
* November 16 — Rafael Flores, soccer player (defender) who played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup; (d. 2018)
* November 25 — José Antonio Gali Fayad, Governor of Puebla 2017-2018
* December 17 – Felicia Mercado, actress.
* Date unknown
   * Agustín Bernal, actor (d. 2018).
   * Tedi López Mills, poet.
   * Fernando Maiz Garza, businessman, builder, and philanthropist (d. 2017).
   * Gustavo Nakatani Ávila ("Yoshio"), singer (d. 2020)

## Deaths

* June 30 — José Vasconcelos, writer, philosopher, and politician (b. 1882)
* July 30 – María Natividad Venegas de la Torre ("María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament"), 90, Roman Catholic nun, first female Mexican saint.
* December 27 — Alfonso Reyes, writer, philosopher, and diplomat (b. 1889)

## Sport

* 1958–59 Mexican Primera División season
* The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League
* Mexico ends up 3rd out of 4 during the Panamerican Championship 1960 in Costa Rica.
* Club San Sebastián de León dissolves.
