1993 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1993 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT):
• Secretary of Health (SALUD):

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
• Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
• Baja California Sur:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).[1]
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• Quintana Roo:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:
• Regent of Mexico City
  • Manuel Camacho Solís[2]
  • Manuel Aguilera Gomez[2]

Events

• The Foro Sol opened
• Musical bands La Gusana Ciega and Hocico are founded.
• Arqueología Mexicana has its first issue published.
• May 14: The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico is founded.
• May 21: The Miss Universe 1993 contest was held at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.
• May 24: Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport.[3]
• September 3: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte founded per presidential decree.
• December 1: The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Ramón Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier.[4]

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Andrés Henestrosa

Hurricanes

• June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)
• June 18–21: Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
• August 17–27: Hurricane Hilary (1993)
• September 8–14: Hurricane Lidia (1993)
• September 14–26: Hurricane Gert

Sport

• 1992–93 Mexican Primera División season
• Olmecas de Tabasco win the Mexican League.
• 1993 Caribbean Series played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán.
• 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup
• 1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
• Alto Rendimiento Tuzo is founded.

Births

• April 2 – Jaime Romero Móran, artistic gymnast, (d. January 3, 2015).
• September 18 – Mariana Avitia, archer[5]
• October 23 – Daniela Álvarez, winner of Nuestra Belleza México 2013 beauty pageant in 2013
• December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, actress and educator[6]

Deaths

• May 24 – Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Cardinal of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1987-1993 (b. November 11, 1906).[7]

References

1. Monroy, David (July 15, 2014). "Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos". www.milenio.com (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). 5 December 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. "A 25 años, asasinato del Cardinal Posadas sigue en la impunidad" [25 years later, assassination of Cardinal Posadas still unresolved], Excelsior (in Spanish), Mexico City, May 24, 2018, retrieved June 1, 2019
4. Fallece sacerdote que reunió a los Arellano Felix con Prigione [Priest who arranged renunion of Arellano-Felix brothers and Prigione dies] (in Spanish), Proceso, January 13, 2010, retrieved June 1, 2019
5. "Mariana AVITIA - Olympic Archery | Mexico". International Olympic Committee. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
6. "Yalitza Aparicio, biografía de la estrella de "Roma"" [Yalitza Aparicio, biography of the star of "Roma"], Heraldo de Mexico (in Spanish), February 23, 2019, retrieved February 23, 2019
7. "Mons. Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1983-1987) VIII OBISPO" [Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 8th bishop (1983-1987)] (in Spanish). Diócesis de Cuernavaca. Retrieved Dec 28, 2018.