1952 in Mexico

Events in the year 1952 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Miguel Alemán Valdés (until November 30), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (starting December 1)
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ernesto P. Uruchurtu/Ángel Carvajal Bernal
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/Luis Padilla Nervo
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Lazo
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Gual Vidal/Jose Angel Ceniceros
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gilberto R. Limón/Matías Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Alberto J. Pawling/Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Manuel Ramírez Vázquez/Adolfo López Mateos

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Roque Estrada Reynoso

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Edmundo Gámez Orozco
 * Baja California: Alfonso García González
 * Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
 * Chiapas: Francisco J. Grajales/Efraín Aranda Osorio
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
 * Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
 * Colima: Jesús González Lugo
 * Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
 * Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
 * Guerrero: Alejandro Gómez Maganda/Darío L. Arrieta Mateos
 * Hidalgo: Vicente Aguirre del Castillo/Quintín Rueda Villagrán
 * Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo
 * State of Mexico: Salvador Sánchez Colín
 * Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
 * Morelos: Ernesto Escobar Muñoz/Rodolfo López de Nava
 * Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
 * Nuevo León: Ignacio Morones Prieto/José S. Vivanco
 * Oaxaca: Manuel Mayoral Heredia/Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado
 * Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
 * Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra/Juan C. Gorraéz
 * San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres/Manuel Álvarez
 * Sinaloa: Enrique Pérez Arce
 * Sonora: Ignacio Soto/Álvaro Obregón Tapia
 * Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría
 * Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
 * Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
 * Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
 * Yucatán: Humberto Esquivel Medina/Tomás Marentes Miranda
 * Zacatecas: José Minero Roque

Events

 * The Miss Mexico organization is formed.
 * The Gorditas Doña Tota restaurant chain is established in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas by Carlota Murillo.
 * January 16: The North Territory of Baja California is admitted as the State of Baja California.
 * April: The trade union confederation called Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) is founded.
 * July 7: 1952 Mexican general election.

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1952.

Sport

 * 1951–52 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Aguila de Veracruz win the Mexican League.
 * Mexico at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Births

 * January 22 – Iliana Godoy Patiño, narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (d. 2017).
 * February 24 — Jesús Aguilar Padilla, politician (PRI) and lawyer; Governor of Sinaloa 2004–2010.
 * March 23 — Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), wrestler (d. 2018).
 * April 27 — Federico Barbosa Gutiérrez, jurist and politician, member of the Congress of the Union (2003–2006); (d. 2018).
 * June 16 — Salvador Pineda, soap opera actor
 * October 19 — Verónica Castro, actress, singer, producer, former model, and presenter.
 * November 21 – Jorge Arturo García Rubí, lawyer, politician (PRI), Governor of Morelos (May–September 2000).
 * November 24 — Laura León, actress and singer
 * December 5 — Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, politician (PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2016 - 2018
 * Date unknown — Enrique Caballero Vela, actor (d. 2018).

Deaths

 * 12 June — Genovevo de la O, general of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1876)
 * 21 July – Pedro Lascuráin, 34th President of Mexico for 45 minutes in 1914 (b. 1856)