title: 1982 in Mexico
text: # 1982 in Mexico
  
  Events in the year 1982 in Mexico.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Federal government
  
  * President: José López Portillo (until November 30), Miguel de la Madrid (starting December 1)
  * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
  * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez (until November 30), Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (starting December 1)
  * Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya/Rodolfo Félix Valdés
  * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López/Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
  * Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara/Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
  * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada/Arsenio Farell Cubillas
  * Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez/Marcelo Javelly Girard
  * Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/Jesús Reyes Heroles
  * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
  * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Fernando Rafful Miguel/Pedro Ojeda Paullada
  * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo
  
  ### Supreme Court
  
  * President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández then Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
  * Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
  * Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
  * Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
  * Chiapas: Juan Sabines Gutiérrez/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
  * Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas
  * Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
  * Colima: Griselda Álvarez
  * Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
  * Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
  * Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
  * Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
  * Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
  * State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
  * Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
  * Morelos
     * Armando León Bejarano (PRI), until May 18.
     * Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), starting May 18.
  * Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
  * Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
  * Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
  * Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
  * Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
  * Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
  * San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
  * Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
  * Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
  * Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade/Enrique González Pedrero
  * Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou
  * Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
  * Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
  * Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan/Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
  * Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
  * Regent of Mexico City
     * Carlos Hank González
     * Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
  
  ## Events
  
  * Museo Nacional de Arte is founded.
  * March – Reino Aventura opens
  * March 31 – 14 killed, 100 injured, and 15,000 others suffer the effects of the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in Francisco León, Chiapas, 100 km from Villahermosa.
  * July 4 – 1982 Mexican general election
  * August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.
  * September 1 – During his last government report, president José López Portillo nationalizes banks.
  * December 1 – Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – General Raúl Madero González
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Baseball – The Leones del Caracas team conquest their first Caribbean Series title in Hermosillo Sonora.
  * Baseball – Indios de Ciudad Juárez win the Mexican League
  * Football – 1981–82 Mexican Primera División season
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 9 — Lorenza Morfín, road cyclist
  * March 7 — Aarón Díaz, model, actor, and singer
  * March 13 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Presidente Municipal of Temixco, Morelos (January 1-January 2, 2016) (assassinated 2016)
  * December 19 – Nara Falcón, synchronized swimmer
  * Date unknown
     * Raúl Castañeda, boxer (d. September 6, 2017).
  