title: 1976 in Mexico
text: # 1976 in Mexico
  
  Events in the year 1976 in Mexico.
  
  ## 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
  
  * 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)
  * Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
  * Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
  * Colima: Arturo Noriega Pizano
  * Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez
  * Guanajuato: Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
  * Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
  * Hidalgo:
  * Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
  * State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
  * Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo
  * Morelos
     * Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI), until May 18
     * Armando León Bejarano (PRI), starting May 18
  * Nayarit:
  * Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez
  * Oaxaca: Miguel Zárate Aquino
  * Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
  * Querétaro: Antonio Calzada Urquiza
  * Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
  * San Luis Potosí: Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
  * Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
  * Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
  * Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
  * Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
  * Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
  * 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
     * 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
  * 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.
  