1971 in Mexico

Events in the year 1971 in Mexico.

← 1970 1969 1968 1971 in Mexico → 1972 1973 1974
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Luis Echeverría
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
• Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
• Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
• Baja California
  • Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, until October 31
  • Milton Castellanos Everardo starting November 1, 1971
• Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
• Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
• Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
• Colima: Pablo Silva García
• Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
• Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
• Guerrero: Caritino Maldonado Pérez/Roberto Rodríguez Mercado/Israel Nogueda Otero
• Hidalgo: Donaciano Serna Leal
• Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio/Alberto Orozco Romero
• State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
• Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
• Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo
• Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
• Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo/Luis M. Farías
• Oaxaca: Fernando Gómez Sandoval
• Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle
• Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez
• San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero
• Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
• Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna
• Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
• Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize
• Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez
• Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
• Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
• Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
• Regent of the Federal District
  • Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (until June 15)
  • Octavio Sentíes Gómez (starting June 15)^[1]

Events

• Aeronáutica Agrícola Mexicana SA formed.
• June 10: Corpus Christi massacre.
• June 10: Opening of the Metro Observatorio.
• September 3–13: Hurricane Fern.
• September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.
• November 11: National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics is established.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jaime Torres Bodet

Births

February

• February 10 — Lorena Rojas, actress and singer (d. 2015)
• February 22 — Super Caló, wrestler

May

• May 14 − Mónica Arriola Gordillo, politician (New Alliance Party), Deputy (2006-2009); (d. 2016).

June

• June 16 – Alejandro Jano Fuentes, singer
• June 17 — Paulina Rubio, singer

July

• July 12 — Andrea Legarreta, actress and TV host

August

• August 26 — Thalía, singer

November

• November 24 — Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, acting Governor of Puebla 2018-2019

Date unknown

• Emma Laura, soap opera actress

Deaths

• August 11 – Archbishop Manuel Pío López Estrada, 6th bishop of Veracruz, and first archbishop of Xalapa, 1939-1968 (b. May 5, 1891)^[2]

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1971.

Sport

• 1970–71 Mexican Primera División season.
• Charros de Jalisco win the Mexican League.
• September 19: Atlético Español founded.