1976 in Mexico

Events in the year 1976 in Mexico.

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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

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

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• 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

• 1975–76 Mexican Primera División season
• Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League
• Mexico at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Mexico at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
• 1976 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Xalapa.