title: 1934 in Mexico
text: # 1934 in Mexico
  
  Events in the year 1934 in Mexico.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Federal government
  
  * President: Abelardo L. Rodríguez (until November 30), Lázaro Cárdenas (starting December 1)
  * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Juan Rios then Eduardo Vasconcelos then Narciso Bassols then Juan D. Cabral then Juan de Dios Bojorquez
  * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Portes Gil then Eduardo Hay
  * Communications Secretary (SCT): Miguel M. Acosta Guajardo then Rodolfo Elias Calles
  * Education Secretary (SEP): Narciso Bassols then Eduardo Vasconcelos then Ignacio Garcia Tellez
  * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Pablo Quiroga Escamilla
  
  ### Supreme Court
  
  * President of the Supreme Court: Francisco H. Ruiz then Daniel V. Valencia
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Aguascalientes: Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
  * Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
  * Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales
  * Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
  * Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
  * Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
  * Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
  * Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
  * Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
  * Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
  * Jalisco: Everardo Topete
  * State of Mexico: Eucario López
  * Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica
  * Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
  * Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
  * Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez
  * Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo
  * Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
  * Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
  * San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
  * Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
  * Sonora: Ramón Ramos
  * Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
  * Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
  * Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
  * Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
  * Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas
  * Zacatecas: Matías Ramos
  
  ## Events
  
  * February 5 – the bandera militar flag of Mexico is adopted.
  * November 30 – Lázaro Cárdenas becomes president of Mexico after winning the federal elections.
  
  ## Popular culture
  
  ### Film
  
  * Dos monjes
  * Janitzio
  * Mujeres sin alma
  
  ## Notable births
  
  * February 7 – Juan Corona, serial killer (d. 2019)
  * February 17 — Salvador Flores Huerta, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (1993–2006) (d. 2018).
  * March 28 – Sixto Valencia Burgos, caricaturist
  * May 1 – Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, politician, founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution.
  * May 4 — Humberto Lugo Gil, Governor of Hidalgo 1998–1999
  * June 15 – Rubén Aguirre, television actor
  * June 20 — Rius (Eduardo Humberto del Río García), political cartoonist and writer (d. 2017)
  * June 25 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress, director (d. 2006)
  * July 22 — Eric del Castillo, actor
  * September 21 — Maria Rubio, actress (d. 2018).
  * December 12
     * Leopoldo Flores, artist, member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (d. April 3, 1934).
     * Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, president of Mexico (1982–1988)
     * Guadalupe Robledo (José Lothario), wrestler and manager (NWA, WWE, CWF).(d. 2018)
  