Events in the year 1983 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): Rodolfo Félix Valdés 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 Secretary of Public Education: Jesús Reyes Heroles 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: Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar
Governors
Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI) Baja California Roberto de la Madrid (PRI), until October 31 Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI), starting November 1 Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez Colima: Griselda Álvarez Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez/Jorge Treviño Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes Yucatán: Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
Events The National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) is founded. Mónica Rosas from Durango is crowned Señorita México by outgoing titleholder Alba Cervera. Benedetti's Pizza is founded by Felipe Baeza. Galería OMR founded by its principals Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra. April 3 – The 2nd festival of the popular Juguemos a Cantar series begins; it ends five weeks later on May 1. August 23–29: Hurricane Barry. December 2: The Church of Latter Day Saints founds its Mexico City Mexico Temple.
Awards Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jesús Silva Herzog
Film
List of Mexican films of 1983
Sport
1982–83 Mexican Primera División season 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship Football Club Chapulineros de Oaxacais founded. September 4: Football Club Santos Laguna is founded.
Births March 1 Elán, singer-songwriter Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-Kenyan actress March 9 – Maite Perroni, actress, singer, and model. March 11 – Renato López, television presenter, actor, musician (d. November 23, 2016). May 14 – Anahí, singer, songwriter, and actress. July 14 – Tomas Villa, featherweight boxer (d. 2018) November 29 – Rubén Espinosa, photojournalist (Proceso and Cuartoscuro; d. July 31, 2015).
Deaths April 11 - Dolores del Río, actress (b. 1904) May 14 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1903)
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