1993 in Mexico

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See also:	Other events of 1993 List of years in Mexico

Events in the year 1993 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT):
• Secretary of Health (SALUD):

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Baja California Sur:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• Quintana Roo:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

Events

• The Foro Sol opened
• Musical bands La Gusana Ciega and Hocico are founded.
• Arqueología Mexicana has its first issue published.
• May 14: The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico is founded.
• May 21: The Miss Universe 1993 contest was held at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.
• May 24: Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport.[1]
• September 3: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte founded per presidential decree.
• December 1: The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Ramón Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier.[2]

Hurricanes

• June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)
• June 18–21: Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
• August 17–27: Hurricane Hilary (1993)
• September 8–14: Hurricane Lidia (1993)
• September 14–26: Hurricane Gert

Sport

• 1992–93 Mexican Primera División season
• Olmecas de Tabasco win the Mexican League.
• 1993 Caribbean Series played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán.
• 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup
• 1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
• Alto Rendimiento Tuzo is founded.

Births

• April 2 – Jaime Romero Móran, artistic gymnast, (d. January 3, 2015).
• September 18 – Mariana Avitia, archer[3]
• October 23 – Daniela Álvarez, winner of Nuestra Belleza México 2013 beauty pageant in 2013
• December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, actress and educator[4]

Deaths

• May 24 – Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Cardinal of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1987-1993 (b. November 11, 1906).[5]

References

1. "A 25 años, asasinato del Cardinal Posadas sigue en la impunidad" [25 years later, assassination of Cardinal Posadas still unresolved], Excelsior (in Spanish), Mexico City, May 24, 2018, retrieved June 1, 2019
2. Fallece sacerdote que reunió a los Arellano Felix con Prigione [Priest who arranged renunion of Arellano-Felix brothers and Prigione dies] (in Spanish), Proceso, January 13, 2010, retrieved June 1, 2019
3. "Mariana AVITIA - Olympic Archery | Mexico". International Olympic Committee. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
4. "Yalitza Aparicio, biografía de la estrella de "Roma"" [Yalitza Aparicio, biography of the star of "Roma"], Heraldo de Mexico (in Spanish), February 23, 2019, retrieved February 23, 2019
5. "Mons. Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1983-1987) VIII OBISPO" [Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 8th bishop (1983-1987)] (in Spanish). Diócesis de Cuernavaca. Retrieved Dec 28, 2018.