1958 in Mexico

Events in the year 1958 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (until November 30), Adolfo López Mateos (starting December 1)
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ángel Carvajal Bernal (until November 30), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (starting December 1)
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Padilla Nervo/Manuel Tello Baurraud
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
 * Education Secretary (SEP): José Ángel Ceniceros
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Roberto Gómez Maqueo/Héctor Meixueiro/Manuel Zermeño Araico
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Agapito Pozo Balbás

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
 * Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sández
 * Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
 * Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio/Samuel León Brindis
 * Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda
 * Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
 * Colima: Rodolfo Chávez Carrillo
 * Durango: Francisco González de la Vega
 * Guanajuato: J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
 * Guerrero: Raúl Caballero Aburto
 * Hidalgo: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
 * Jalisco: Agustín Yáñez
 * State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz Prada
 * Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez
 * Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
 * Nayarit: Francisco García Montero
 * Nuevo León: Raúl Rangel Frías
 * Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca
 * Puebla: Fausto M. Ortega
 * Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
 * San Luis Potosí: Manuel Álvarez
 * Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
 * Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
 * Tabasco: Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
 * Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
 * Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
 * Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco
 * Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo/Agustín Franco Aguilar
 * Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
 * Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

Events

 * Diego Rivera donates Frida Kahlo's childhood home and its contents in order to turn it into the Frida Kahlo Museum.
 * The Aurrerá grocery chain starts operating.
 * Hotel chain Camino Real Hotels is founded.
 * July 6: 1958 Mexican general election.
 * Conflicto_entre_Guatemala_y_M%C3%A9xico_(1958-1959)

Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heriberto Jara Corona

Births

 * February 16 — Fernando Ortega Bernés, 16th Governor of Campeche 2009-2015
 * April 30 — Guillermo Capetillo, bullfighter and voice actor
 * May 3 — Rutilio Escandón, lawyer and Governor of Chiapas 2018-2024
 * May 17 – Gus Rodríguez, Mexican writer, director and video game journalist (d. April 11, 2020)
 * June 10 — Alfredo Adame, actor and producer
 * June 22 — Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress
 * July 3 — Héctor Astudillo Flores, lawyer and politician (PRI), Governor of Guerrero starting 2015
 * July 26 – Jesús Barrero, actor and voice actor (Saint Seiya) (d. 2016).
 * September 27 – Faustino López Vargas, politician (d. 2022)
 * October 3 — Francisco Rojas San Román, politician (Deputy from the State of Mexico, 2009-2012) (d. 2018).
 * October 5 — Manuel Landeta, singer and soap opera actor
 * October 24 — José Manuel Mireles Valverde, doctor and paramilitary leader (d. 2020)
 * November 14 — Sergio Goyri, actor
 * Date unknown
 * Abril Campillo, actress; breast cancer (d. 2017).

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1958

Sport

 * 1957–58 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Leones de Yucatán win the Mexican League.
 * Salamanca F.C. and Alacranes de Durango are founded.