1938 in Mexico

Events in the year 1938 in Mexico.

← 1937 1936 1935 1938 in Mexico → 1939 1940 1941
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Incumbents

Federal government

• 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

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

Governors

• 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

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

Popular culture

Sports

• 1938–39 Primera Fuerza season

Music

Film

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

Literature

• José Rubén Romero — La vida inútil de Pito Pérez

Births

• 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

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