1976 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1976 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Luis Echeverría (until 30 November), José López Portillo (starting 1 December)
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia/Jesús Reyes Heroles
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Alfonso García Robles/Santiago Roel García
Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Hermenegildo Cuenca Díaz/Félix Galván López
Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes/Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Julio Hirschfeld Almada/Guillermo Rossell de la Lama

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández

Governors

Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
Baja California Sur: Ángel César Mendoza Arámburo
Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
Chiapas
- Manuel Velasco Suárez (until November 30)
- Jorge de la Vega Domínguez (starting December 1)^{[citation needed]}
Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
Colima: Arturo Noriega Pizano^{[citation needed]}
Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez^{[citation needed]}
Guanajuato: Luis H. Ducoing Gamba^{[citation needed]}
Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa^{[citation needed]}
Hidalgo:
Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero^{[citation needed]}
State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo^{[citation needed]}
Morelos
- Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI), until May 18
- Armando León Bejarano (PRI), starting May 18
Nayarit:
Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez^{[citation needed]}
Oaxaca: Miguel Zárate Aquino^{[citation needed]}
Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara^{[citation needed]}
Querétaro: Antonio Calzada Urquiza
Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
San Luis Potosí: Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez^{[citation needed]}
Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón^{[citation needed]}
Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor^{[citation needed]}
Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras^{[citation needed]}
Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
Yucatán
- Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz (until January 31)
- Francisco Luna Kan (starting February 1)
Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo
Regent of Mexico City
- Octavio Senties Gomez^[1]
- Carlos Hank González

Events

Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Campus Estado de México) founded.
Organizacion Editorial Mexicana founded.
Universidad Intercontinental established.
March 15: Autonomous University of Baja California Sur established.
July 4: 1976 Mexican general election
September 7 – 11: Hurricane Kathleen
September 29 – October 8: Hurricane Madeline
October 1: Instituto Tecnológico de Nuevo León established.
November 6: first issue of Proceso (magazine) published.
December 15: The Trolleybuses in Guadalajara start operating.

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jesús Romero Flores

Births

June 7: Nora Salinas, actress
June 10: Mariana Seoane, model, singer, and actress
July 8: Grettell Valdez, television and film actress and former fashion model^[2]
December 3: Arleth Terán, soap opera actress

Film

List of Mexican films of 1976

Sport

References

^ "Octavio Sentíes Gómez 1915-1996, veracruzano distinguido | Versiones" (in Spanish). Versiones. September 30, 2016. Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "Grettell Valdez", Las Noticias Mexico.com (in Spanish), retrieved Aug 24, 2019

External links

[1] "Octavio Sentíes Gómez 1915-1996, veracruzano distinguido | Versiones" (in Spanish). Versiones. September 30, 2016. Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[2] "Grettell Valdez", Las Noticias Mexico.com (in Spanish), retrieved Aug 24, 2019

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