1938 in Mexico

Events in the year 1938 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Lázaro Cárdenas
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Silvestre Guerrero; Ignacio García Téllez
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Eduardo Hay
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Francisco J. Múgica
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Manuel Ávila Camacho

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
 * Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
 * Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
 * 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/Gildardo Magaña
 * Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
 * Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
 * Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
 * Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
 * 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/Florencio Palomo Valencia
 * Zacatecas: Matías Ramos

Events

 * March 18 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.

Sports

 * 1938–39 Primera Fuerza season

Film

 * Beautiful Mexico, musical directed by and starring Ramón Pereda, with Adriana Lamar and Antonio R. Frausto

Literature

 * José Rubén Romero — La vida inútil de Pito Pérez

Births

 * 12 February — Pilar Pellicer, actress (d. 2020)
 * 4 May — Carlos Monsiváis, philosopher (d. 2010)
 * 20 August
 * Jacqueline Andere, actress
 * Irma González, wrestler

Deaths

 * 19 October – Niño Fidencio, Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1898)