Mexico was represented at the OTI Festival 1982 with the song "", written by and Chamín Correa, and performed by Enrique Guzmán. The Mexican participating broadcaster, Televisa, selected its entry through a national televised competition with several phases. The song, that was performed in position 6, placed fourth with 22 points, tying with the entries from Argentina and Costa Rica, out of 21 competing entries.

National stage Televisa held a national competition with four televised qualifying rounds and a final to select its entry for the 11th edition of the OTI Festival. This eleventh edition of the National OTI Festival featured forty songs, of which ten reached the final. In addition to the general competition, awards were given for Best Male Performer, Best Female Performer, Best Musical Arrangement, Breakout Male Artist, Breakout Female Artist, and Breakout Duo among all the competing artists.

The shows were held at Teatro de la Ciudad in Mexico City, were presented by Raúl Velasco, and were broadcast on . The musical director was , who conducted the orchestra when required.

+ Competing entries on the National OTI Festival – Mexico 1982 Song Artist Songwriter(s) Conductor "" Víctor Yturbe Rodrigo Álvarez "" María de los Ángeles Irasema "" Amparo Rubín Amparo Rubín Sergio Andrade "" Enrique Mottola Hernán Rocha "" Massías "" Doris "" Joan Sebastian Joan Sebastian Rodolfo "Popo" Sánchez "" Carminna Francisco Javier Longitud Rodolfo "Popo" Sánchez "" Enrique Guzmán Julio Jaramillo "" Natalia Baeza Sonia Rivas "" Magdalena Guillermo Méndez Guiú "" Gil Rivera Eduardo Magallanes "" Olinsser Olinsser "" Roberto Jordán Roberto Jordán "" Polly "" Valerio "" Roberto Cantoral Roberto Cantoral Eduardo Magallanes "" Héctor and Ernesto "" Ramiro José Esperanza Ramiro José Esperanza "" Johnny Laboriel Eugenio Castillo "" Manuel Cervantes "" Ángeles Ochoa Margarita Saavedra "" Jerónimos "" Hermanos Urbán "" Aurora Roxana Rosas Arturo Castro "" José Alberto Fuentes José Alberto Fuentes Chucho Ferrer "" Jonathán Zarzosa "" Sola Candelario Macedo "" Rossana Resquín Paco Michel "" Hernán Rocha "" Oskar Alfredo Arroyo "" Mario Pintor Mario Pintor Luigi Lazareno "" Crystal Sergio Andrade Sergio Andrade "" Jesús Eduardo Magallanes "" Los Baby's Enrique Neri "" David Haro "" Amparo Rubín Sergio Andrade "" Prisma Candelario Macedo Luigi Lazareno "" Bacará Fernando Acosta Salomón Jiménez "" Óscar Athié Óscar Athié

Qualifying rounds The four qualifying rounds were held on Saturdays 21 and 28 August, and 4 and 11 September 1982. Each round featured ten entries, and the ten highest-scoring entries among the 40 competing advanced to the final. Several expert jurors present in the hall and five remote provincial juries scored all the entries in each round.

+ Result of the qualifying rounds of the National OTI Festival – Mexico 1982 Song Artist Points Result First qualifying round – 21 August 1982 1 "" Polly 88 2 "" Héctor and Ernesto 96 3 "" Óscar Athié 82 4 "" Magdalena 102 5 "" Valerio 102 6 "" Carminna 122 Qualified 7 "" Mario Pintor 111 Qualified 8 "" Natalia Baeza 98 9 "" Olinsser 59 10 "" Roberto Jordán 87 Second qualifying round – 28 August 1982 1 "" Aurora 97 2 "" Bacará 83 3 "" Massías 102 4 "" Jesús 80 5 "" Prisma 95 6 "" 83 7 "" Roberto Cantoral 108 8 "" Los Baby's 86 9 "" 103 10 "" Víctor Yturbe 106 Third qualifying round – 4 September 1982 1 "" Ángeles Ochoa 80 2 "" 84 3 "" Doris 86 4 "" Jerónimos 91 5 "" Rossana Resquín 97 6 "" Oskar 75 7 "" Amparo Rubín 90 8 "" Enrique Guzmán 118 Qualified 9 "" 120 Qualified 10 "" Joan Sebastian 119 Qualified Fourth qualifying round – 11 September 1982 1 "" Ramiro José Esperanza 81 2 "" María de los Ángeles 99 3 "" Hermanos Urbán 105 4 "" Sola 108 Qualified 5 "" José Alberto Fuentes 109 Qualified 6 "" Crystal 111 Qualified 7 "" Gil Rivera 116 Qualified 8 "" 123 Qualified 9 "" Enrique Mottola 82 10 "" Johnny Laboriel 108

+ Detailed Vote of the first qualifying round Song Provincial juries scope="col" rowspan=2 Total scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" 1 "" 5 4 4 3 4 68 88 2 "" 5 5 6 5 6 69 96 3 "" 4 5 3 4 3 63 82 4 "" 6 6 5 5 7 73 102 5 "" 4 4 6 5 4 79 102 6 "" 6 6 7 5 7 91 122 7 "" 5 7 6 4 5 84 111 8 "" 5 5 5 4 4 75 98 9 "" 4 4 4 2 2 43 59 10 "" 5 4 4 4 4 66 87

+ Detailed Vote of the second qualifying round Song Provincial juries scope="col" rowspan=2 Total scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" 1 "" 3 5 4 2 2 81 97 2 "" 5 3 3 5 3 64 83 3 "" 4 5 5 5 3 80 102 4 "" 4 3 3 3 4 63 80 5 "" 5 4 5 6 4 71 95 6 "" 4 3 3 4 3 66 83 7 "" 5 5 3 7 6 82 108 8 "" 3 3 2 4 4 70 86 9 "" 6 5 5 5 5 77 103 10 "" 3 5 6 6 6 80 106

+ Detailed Vote of the third qualifying round Song Provincial juries scope="col" rowspan=2 Total scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" 1 "" 3 5 3 3 4 62 80 2 "" 5 5 4 2 5 63 84 3 "" 2 4 6 5 6 63 86 4 "" 4 5 3 4 4 71 91 5 "" 3 6 3 2 4 79 97 6 "" 4 5 4 5 4 53 75 7 "" 3 4 4 3 3 73 90 8 "" 4 7 6 6 5 90 118 9 "" 4 7 5 4 5 95 120 10 "" 5 5 6 7 6 90 119

+ Detailed Vote of the fourth qualifying round Song Provincial juries scope="col" rowspan=2 Total scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" 1 "" 4 4 5 3 4 61 81 2 "" 6 6 7 5 6 69 99 3 "" 5 4 6 4 5 81 105 4 ""' 6 3 4 2 4 89 108 5 "" 5 5 5 5 4 85 109 6 "" 6 5 6 5 3 86 111 7 "" 4 5 5 6 4 92 116 8 "" 5 5 7 7 6 93 123 9 "" 4 3 6 3 5 61 82 10 "" 7 7 6 6 5 77 108

Final The ten-song final was held on Sunday 26 September 1982. After all the competing entries were performed, each of the fifteen jurors announced aloud one vote for their favourite entry.

The winner was "", written by and Chamín Correa, and performed by Enrique Guzmán. The three songs with the most votes were awarded first, second, and third prize. The festival ended with a reprise of the winning entry.

+ Result of the final of the National OTI Festival – Mexico 1982 Song Artist Votes Result 1 "" 3 3 2 "" Crystal 0 3 "" Mario Pintor 0 4 "" 3 2 5 "" Joan Sebastian 0 6 "" Carminna 0 7 "" Sola 0 8 "" Enrique Guzmán 7 1 9 "" Gil Rivera 1 4 10 "" José Alberto Fuentes 1 4

Merit awards In the final, the fifteen jurors voted aloud for the Best Male and Female Performer, Best Musical Arrangement, and Breakout Male, Female Artist and Duo among the three shortlisted artist in each category.

Enrique Guzmán received the Best Male Performer Award, the Best Female Performer Award, Sergio Andrade the Best Musical Arrangement Award for "", Gil Rivera the Breakout Male Artist Award, María de los Ángeles the Breakout Female Artist Award, and Jerónimos the Breakout Duo Award.

+ Best Male Performer Artist Votes Result Enrique Guzmán 7 1 Víctor Yturbe 2 3 Johnny Laboriel 6 2

+ Best Female Performer Artist Votes Result Sola 3 3 8 1 Carminna 4 2

+ Best Musical Arrangement Song Arranger Votes Result "" Sergio Andrade 8 1 "" Rodolfo "Popo" Sánchez 5 2 "" Enrique Neri 2 3

+ Breakout Male Artist Artist Votes Result Valerio 3 2 Jesús 2 3 Gil Rivera 10 1

+ Breakout Female Artist Artist Votes Result Crystal 3 2 Ángeles Ochoa 3 2 María de los Ángeles 9 1

+ Breakout Duo Artist Votes Result Bacará 0 3 Jerónimos 8 1 Hermanos Urbán 7 2

Official album Las 10 triunfadoras del Festival OTI 82 is the official compilation album of the eleventh edition of the Mexican National OTI Festival, released by Gamma in 1982. The vinyl LP features the studio version of the ten songs qualified for the final.

At the OTI Festival On 27 November 1982, the OTI Festival was held at the Coliseo Amauta in Lima, Peru, hosted by Panamericana Televisión, and broadcast live throughout Ibero-America. Enrique Guzmán performed "" in position 6, with Julio Jaramillo conducting the event's orchestra, and placing fourth with 22 points, tying with the entries from Argentina and Costa Rica, out of 21 competing entries.

Voting Each participating broadcaster appointed a juror who awarded 5–1 points to his five favourite songs in order of preference. The Mexican juror was Raúl Velasco.

+ Points awarded to Mexico Score Country 5 points United States 4 points 3 points 2 points Netherlands Antilles 1 point

+ Points awarded by Mexico Score Country 5 points Venezuela 4 points United States 3 points Dominican Republic 2 points Chile 1 point Colombia

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