1938 in Mexico

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

Events in the year 1938 in Mexico.

## Incumbents

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### Federal government

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* President: Lázaro Cárdenas
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Silvestre Guerrero; Ignacio García Téllez
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Eduardo Hay
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Francisco J. Múgica
* Education Secretary (SEP): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela[1]
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Manuel Ávila Camacho[2]

### Supreme Court

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See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

* President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

### Governors

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* Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
* Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
* Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
* Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
* Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
* Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
* Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
* Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
* Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
* Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
* Jalisco: Everardo Topete
* State of Mexico: Eucario López
* Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
* Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
* Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
* Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
* Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
* Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
* Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
* San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
* Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
* Sonora: Ramón Ramos
* Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
* Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
* Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
* Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
* Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas/Florencio Palomo Valencia
* Zacatecas: Matías Ramos

## Events

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* March 18 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.

## Popular culture

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### Sports

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* 1938–39 Primera Fuerza season

### Music

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### Film

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* Beautiful Mexico, musical directed by and starring Ramón Pereda, with Adriana Lamar and Antonio R. Frausto[3]

### Literature

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* José Rubén Romero — La vida inútil de Pito Pérez

## Births

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* 12 February — Pilar Pellicer, actress (d. 2020)[4]
* 4 May — Carlos Monsiváis, philosopher (d. 2010)[5]
* 20 August
* Jacqueline Andere, actress[6]
* Irma González, wrestler

## Deaths

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* 19 October – Niño Fidencio, Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1898)[7]

## References

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1. ^ Neufeld, Stephen; Matthews, Michael; Beezley, William H. (2015). Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power. University of Arizona Press. p. 227\. ISBN 9780816531325.
2. ^ LaFrance, David G. "Manuel Ávila Camacho" in Encyclopedia of Mexico, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, p. 116.
3. ^ Andrew Grant Wood. Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography. OUP USA, 2014. Page 285
4. ^ "Pilar Pellicer, la actriz que el Nuevo Cine Mexicano acogió entre sus grandes estrellas". El Sol de Mexico (in Spanish). 16 May 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
5. ^ Wilkinson, Tracy (June 20, 2010). "Mexican author and activist Carlos Monsivais dies at 72". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
6. ^ "20 de agosto de 1938: nace la actriz mexicana de cine, televisión y teatro, Jacqueline Andere" (in Spanish). Instituto Mexicano de la Radio. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
7. ^ Laura Castaneda (5 May 1991). "Years After Nino's Death, Miracle Curer's Cult Thrives". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

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