1928 in Mexico

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "1928 in Mexico" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

* 1927
* 1926
* 1925
*   *

|  | 1928

Mexico |

* 1929
* 1930
* 1931
*   *

|
|
|

Decades:|

* 1900s
* 1910s
* 1920s
* 1930s
* 1940s

See also:|

* History of Mexico
* List of years in Mexico
* Timeline of Mexican history

Events from the year 1928 in Mexico

## Incumbents

[edit]

### Federal government

[edit]

* President:
* Plutarco Elías Calles (until November 30)
* Emilio Portes Gil (starting December 1)
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Adalberto Tejeda then Gonzalo Vázquez Vela then Emilio Portes Gil then Felipe Canales
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Ramón Ross then Javier Sánchez Mejorada
* Education Secretary (SEP): José Manuel Puig Casauranc then Moisés Sáenz then Ezequiel Padilla

### Supreme Court

[edit]

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

* President of the Supreme Court:

### Governors

[edit]

* Aguascalientes: Isaac Díaz de León (1926-1928), Alberto Díaz de León Bocanegra (1928), Benjamín de la Mora (1928), Manuel Carpio Velázquez (1928-1929)
* Campeche: Silvestre Pavón Silva (1927-1928), Pedro Tello Andueza (1928), Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo (1928-1931)
* Chiapas: Federico Martínez Rojas (1927–1928), Amador Coutiño (1928), Rosendo Delabre Santeliz (1928), Raymundo E. Enríquez (1928-1929)
* Chihuahua: Fernando Orozco (1927-1928), Marcelo Caraveo (1928-1929)
* Coahuila: Manuel Pérez Treviño
* Colima: Laureano Cervantes
* Durango:
* Guanajuato: Agustín Arroyo
* Guerrero: Héctor F. López (1925–1928), Enrique Martínez (1928), Adrián Castrejón National Revolutionary Party (1928–1933)
* Hidalgo: Matías Rodríguez
* Jalisco: Margarito Ramírez
* State of Mexico: Carlos Riva Palacio
* Michoacán: : Enrique Ramírez Aviña (1924–1928), Lázaro Cárdenas (1928–1929)
* Morelos: Ambrosio Puente (interim)[1]
* Nayarit: José de la Peña Ledón
* Nuevo León: José Benítez
* Oaxaca: Genaro V. Vázquez (1925–1928), Francisco López Cortés (1928–1932)
* Puebla: Donato Bravo Izquierdo
* Querétaro: Abraham Araujo
* San Luis Potosí: Saturnino Cedillo
* Sinaloa: vacant
* Sonora: Fausto Topete
* Tabasco: Tomás Taracena Hernández
* Tamaulipas: Juan Rincón
* Tlaxcala: Ignacio Mendoza
* Veracruz: Abel S. Rodríguez (1927-1928), Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (Second Term, 1928-1932)
* Yucatán: Álvaro Torre Díaz
* Zacatecas: Leobardo C. Ruiz

## Events

[edit]

* July 1: 1928 Mexican general election: Álvaro Obregón is elected president for a second time.[2]
* July 17: Cristero War: José de León Toral, a Roman Catholic who supported the Cristeros, assassinates Álvaro Obregón.[2]
* December 1: Emilio Portes Gil becomes president.

## Sports

[edit]

* 1927–28 Primera Fuerza season, won by Club América.
* Mexico at the 1928 Summer Olympics
* Mexico at the 1928 Winter Olympics

## Births

[edit]

* March 19 – Josefina Leiner, actress (d. 2017).
* March 30 – Lilia Prado, actress during the Golden Age of Mexican Cine; (d. 2006)
* April 23 – Olga Harmony, playwright and drama teacher at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria; (d. 2018).
* April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, actress (Premio Arlequín 2014; voice of Cinderella in the Walt Disney film), (d. October 2, 2017).
* May 24 – Jacobo Zabludovsky, television anchor (24 Horas), (d. July 2, 2015).
* July 21 – Josefina Echánove, actress, model and journalist
* August 23 – Heberto Castillo, civil engineer and politician from Veracruz; (d. 1997)
* October 5 – Enrique González Rojo Jr., poet, philosopher and teacher (d. March 5, 2021)[3]
* October 7 – Sergio Corona, actor from Hidalgo
* October 24 – Rafael Barraza Sánchez, bishop of Mazatlan (1981-2005), born in Durango; (d. 2020)
* December 25 – Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora (d. 2017).
* Date unknown
* Jacinto Contreras Martínez, polítician (d. May 20, 2018).
* Melquiades Sánchez Orozco, journalist and radio announcer (d. November 4, 2018)
* Luisa Josefina Hernández, writer and playwright

## Deaths

[edit]

* February 10 – José Sánchez del Río, Mexican Cristero (b. 1913)
* February 25 – Toribio Romo González, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1900)
* April 22 – José Mora y del Río, Archbishop of Mexico, died in exile in San Antonio, TX; (b. 1854 in Michoacan)[4]
* July 1 – Atilano Cruz Alvarado, Saint of the Cristero War (b. 1901)[5]
* July 12 – Emilio Carranza, pilot (b. Coahuila 1905)
* July 17 – Álvaro Obregón, 39th President of Mexico; assassinated after being reelected in 1928 (b. 1880)[6]

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Gobernadores". Gobierno de Morelos. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
2. ^ a b "Álvaro Obregón" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
3. ^ "Fue homenajeado el poeta Enrique González Rojo por cumplir 80 años". LIBRO CLUB @ Ecatepec. 5 October 2008. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
4. ^ "Archbishop José Mora y del Rio [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
5. ^ "San Atilano Cruz Alvarado, Pbro | El Camino de los Mártires" (in Spanish). Camino de los Martires. Archived from the original on April 13, 2020. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
6. ^ "Álvaro Obregón" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved May 29, 2019.

* v
* t
* e

Years in Mexico (1810–present)

19th century|

* Pre-1810
* 1810
* 1811
* 1812
* 1813
* 1814
* 1815
* 1816
* 1817
* 1818
* 1819
* 1820
* 1821
* 1822
* 1823
* 1824
* 1825
* 1826
* 1827
* 1828
* 1829
* 1830
* 1831
* 1832
* 1833
* 1834
* 1835
* 1836
* 1837
* 1838
* 1839
* 1840
* 1841
* 1842
* 1843
* 1844
* 1845
* 1846
* 1847
* 1848
* 1849
* 1850
* 1851
* 1852
* 1853
* 1854
* 1855
* 1856
* 1857
* 1858
* 1859
* 1860
* 1861
* 1862
* 1863
* 1864
* 1865
* 1866
* 1867
* 1868
* 1869
* 1870
* 1871
* 1872
* 1873
* 1874
* 1875
* 1876
* 1877
* 1878
* 1879
* 1880
* 1881
* 1882
* 1883
* 1884
* 1885
* 1886
* 1887
* 1888
* 1889
* 1890
* 1891
* 1892
* 1893
* 1894
* 1895
* 1896
* 1897
* 1898
* 1899
* 1900

20th century|

* 1901
* 1902
* 1903
* 1904
* 1905
* 1906
* 1907
* 1908
* 1909
* 1910
* 1911
* 1912
* 1913
* 1914
* 1915
* 1916
* 1917
* 1918
* 1919
* 1920
* 1921
* 1922
* 1923
* 1924
* 1925
* 1926
* 1927
* 1928
* 1929
* 1930
* 1931
* 1932
* 1933
* 1934
* 1935
* 1936
* 1937
* 1938
* 1939
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1947
* 1948
* 1949
* 1950
* 1951
* 1952
* 1953
* 1954
* 1955
* 1956
* 1957
* 1958
* 1959
* 1960
* 1961
* 1962
* 1963
* 1964
* 1965
* 1966
* 1967
* 1968
* 1969
* 1970
* 1971
* 1972
* 1973
* 1974
* 1975
* 1976
* 1977
* 1978
* 1979
* 1980
* 1981
* 1982
* 1983
* 1984
* 1985
* 1986
* 1987
* 1988
* 1989
* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000

21st century|

* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

Mexico portal

* v
* t
* e

1928 in North America

Sovereign states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Canada
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States

Dependencies and
other territories

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Martin
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Saba
* Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* United States Virgin Islands

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template