title: 1986 in Mexico
text: # 1986 in Mexico
  
  Events in the year 1986 in Mexico.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Federal government
  
  * President: Miguel de la Madrid
  * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
  * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
  * Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz
  * Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
  * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
  * Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
  * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
  * Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena/Manuel Camacho Solís
  * Secretary of Public Education: Miguel González Avelar
  * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
  * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
  * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo
  
  ### Supreme Court
  
  * President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos/José Refugio Esparza Reyes
  * Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
  * Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
  * Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
  * Chiapas: Gustavo Armendáriz/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
  * Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas/Saúl González Herrera/Fernando Baeza Meléndez
  * Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
  * Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
  * Durango: José Ramírez Gamero
  * Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala
  * Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
  * Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
  * Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
  * State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
  * Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas/Luis Martínez Villicaña
  * Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI).
  * Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
  * Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño
  * Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
  * Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
  * Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
  * Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
  * San Luis Potosí: Florencio Salazar Martínez
  * Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
  * Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
  * Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
  * Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
  * Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
  * Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes/Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
  * Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
  * Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona/Genaro Borrego Estrada
  * Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
  
  ## Events
  
  * The girl band Fandango is established.
  * The Museo de la Estampa and the Franz Mayer Museum are founded.
  * The Colegio Nautilus is established.
  * Vacation resort Rancho Leonero is established.
  * Conni Carranza from Sonora becomes Señorita México 1986.
  * The Xochimilco Light Rail starts operating after being upgraded from a streetcar line.
  * March 31: Mexicana Flight 940
  * September 11: Centro Escolar el Encino established.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Salvador Zubirán
  
  ## Film
  
  * List of Mexican films of 1986
  
  ## Sport
  
  * 1985–86 Mexican Primera División season
  * Ángeles Negros de Puebla win the Mexican League
  * 1986 FIFA World Cup
  * 1986 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.
  * 1986 Mexican Grand Prix
  
  ## Births
  
  * July 8: Jaime Garcia, baseball player
  * November 22: Sebastián Zurita, actor.
  * Date unknown: Luis Trujillo Llame, Catholic priest; (d. November 21, 2018).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * July 9: Nellie Campobello, writer. (b. 1900)
  * August 6: Emilio Fernández, movie director, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
  