1996 in Mexico
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Events in the year 1996 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Ernesto Zedillo
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Emilio Chuayffet.
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): José Ángel Gurría
- Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
- Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
- Secretary of Navy: José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Antonio González Fernández
- Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
- Secretary of Public Education: Miguel Limón Rojas
- Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Óscar Espinosa Villarreal
- Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Julia Carabias Lillo
- Secretary of Health (SALUD): Juan Ramón de la Fuente
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
- Baja California: Héctor Terán Terán, (National Action Party PAN).[1]
- Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero
- Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
- Chiapas: Julio César Ruíz Ferro
- Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
- Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
- Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
- Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
- Guanajuato: Vicente Fox Quesada
- Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer/Ángel Aguirre Rivero
- Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
- Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
- State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz
- Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco/Ausencio Chávez Hernández
- Morelos: Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI).[2]
- Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
- Nuevo León: Benjamín Clariond
- Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
- Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
- Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García
- Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid
- San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta
- Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado
- Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
- Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado
- Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
- Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima
- Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero
- Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
- Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez
- Regent of Mexico City: Oscar Espinosa Villarreal[3]
Events
- Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey established.
- Alternative rock group Plastilina Mosh is founded.
- February 16: the San Andres Accords were signed.
- June: The Guadalajara Gay Pride is founded.
- June 28: The Popular Revolutionary Army announces its existence.
- September 22: Nuestra Belleza México 1996 held in Cancun.
- October 23: The Law of Protection of Commerce and Investments from Foreign Policies that Contravene International Law is published.
Awards
Births
- January 30 : Dafne Navarro, trampoline gymnast[5]
- March 29 : Juanpa Zurita, Internet personality
- August 12 : Julio Urías, baseball player
Deaths
Hurricanes
- July 24 – August 6: Hurricane Cesar–Douglas
- August 19 – 26: Hurricane Dolly (1996)
- September 30 – October 4: Hurricane Hernan
Sports
- 1995–96 Mexican Primera División season
- 1995–96 Copa Mexico
- Mexico wins the 1996 U.S. Cup
- Mexico loses in the final of the Pan American Games football tournament
- Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Mexico at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Atlético Hidalgo, C.F. Cuautitlán and Real Sociedad de Zacatecas are founded.