1959 in Mexico

Events in the year 1959 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Adolfo López Mateos
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
 * Education Secretary (SEP): José Ángel Ceniceros
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors
Every governor was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI.


 * Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
 * Baja California
 * Braulio Maldonado Sández (until November 12, 1959) Eligio Esquivel Méndez (starting November 13, 1959)
 * Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
 * Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis
 * Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda
 * Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
 * Durango: Francisco González de la Vega
 * Guanajuato: J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
 * Guerrero: Raúl Caballero Aburto
 * Hidalgo: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
 * Jalisco
 * Agustín Yáñez (until February 28, 1959) Juan Preciado (starting March 1, 1959)
 * State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz Prada
 * Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez
 * Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
 * Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
 * Nuevo León: José S. Vivanco
 * Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca
 * Puebla: Fausto M. Ortega
 * Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
 * San Luis Potosí
 * Agustín Olivo Monsiváis (Interim) Francisco Martínez De La Vega (Substitute)
 * Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
 * Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
 * Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo
 * Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
 * Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
 * Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco
 * Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar
 * Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
 * Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

Events

 * January 1
 * The Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) is formed.
 * President Adolfo López Mateos informs the nation that three Mexican fishermen were killed and 14 wounded by the Armed Forces of Guatemala on December 31, 1958.
 * January 2 – The Foreign Ministry of Guatemala declares that the three Mexican fishermen killed on December 31, 1958, were "pirates."
 * February 12 – Martín Luis Guzmán is named president of the Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos (Commission of Free Textbooks, CONALITEG) to provide books for elementary schools.
 * May 23 – Pope John XXIII creates the dioceses of Diócesis de Tlaxcala and San Andrés Tuxtla.
 * August 12 – The Mexican Academy of Sciences is founded.
 * September 10 – MASA is founded when the state-owned investment bank, SOMEX acquired the private company, Sheppard Hnos.
 * September 15 – Cry of Dolores: President López Mateos announces the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Guatemala.
 * October 10 – The Autonomous University of Zacatecas is established.
 * October 23 to 29 – 1959 Mexico hurricane: An estimated 1,500 people died, principally in Colima.
 * Date unknown – The motorcycle club Solo Angeles is formed.

Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heriberto Jara Corona

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1959

Births

 * April 16 – Gran Apache, wrestler (d. 2017).
 * May 24 – José Trinidad Zapata Ortiz, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla (starting 2014).
 * August 27 — Daniela Romo, actress, singer, TV host
 * September 6 — Fernando Ciangherotti, soap opera actor
 * September 30 — Miguel Barbosa Huerta, Governor of Puebla starting 2019 (d. 2022).
 * October 5 — Ernesto Laguardia, soap opera actor
 * October 7 – Brazo de Oro (wrestler) (d. 2017)
 * October 10 — Marcelo Ebrard, politician (PRD) and Mayor of Mexico City 2006-2012; Secretary of Foreign Affairs starting 2018.
 * November 16 — Rafael Flores, soccer player (defender) who played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup; (d. 2018)
 * November 25 — José Antonio Gali Fayad, Governor of Puebla 2017-2018
 * December 17 – Felicia Mercado, actress.
 * Date unknown
 * Agustín Bernal, actor (d. 2018).
 * Tedi López Mills, poet.
 * Fernando Maiz Garza, businessman, builder, and philanthropist (d. 2017).
 * Gustavo Nakatani Ávila ("Yoshio"), singer (d. 2020)

Deaths

 * June 30 — José Vasconcelos, writer, philosopher, and politician (b. 1882)
 * July 30 – María Natividad Venegas de la Torre ("María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament"), 90, Roman Catholic nun, first female Mexican saint.
 * December 27 — Alfonso Reyes, writer, philosopher, and diplomat (b. 1889)

Sport

 * 1958–59 Mexican Primera División season
 * The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League
 * Mexico ends up 3rd out of 4 during the Panamerican Championship 1960 in Costa Rica.
 * Club San Sebastián de León dissolves.