1969 in Mexico

Events in the year 1969 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez (until 10 November), Mario Moya Palencia (starting 11 November)
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Antonio Carrillo Flores
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): José Antonio Padilla Segura
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Agustín Yáñez
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
 * Secretary of Welfare: Gilberto Valenzuela/Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

 * Aguascalientes:Francisco Guel Jiménez
 * Baja California: Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
 * Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
 * Chiapas: José Castillo Tielemans
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
 * Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre/Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
 * Colima: Pablo Silva García
 * Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
 * Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
 * Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón/Caritino Maldonado Pérez
 * Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero/Manuel Sánchez Vite
 * Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio
 * State of Mexico: Juan Fernández Albarrán/Carlos Hank González
 * Michoacán: Carlos Gálvez Betancourt
 * Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio
 * Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado
 * Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo
 * Oaxaca: Víctor Bravo Ahuja
 * Puebla: Aarón Merino Fernández/Rafael Moreno Valle
 * Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez
 * San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero
 * Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
 * Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna
 * Tabasco: Manuel R. Mora Martínez
 * Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa/Manuel A. Rabize
 * Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes/Ignacio Bonillas
 * Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
 * Yucatán: Luis Torres Mesías
 * Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
 * Regent of the Federal District: Alfonso Corona del Rosal

Events

 * Allende meteorite falls in Allende, Chihuahua.
 * The Universidad Regiomontana, the Autonomous University of Nayarit and the University of Monterrey are established.
 * Treaty of Tlatelolco
 * Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean
 * March 31: Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster
 * June 4: Mexicana Flight 704
 * June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.
 * September 4: Opening of the Mexico City Metro Line 1

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Cámara Vales

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1969

Sport

 * 1968–69 Mexican Primera División season
 * 1969 Mexican Grand Prix
 * May 31 – June 21: 1970 FIFA World Cup
 * October 3 – 5: 1969 World Judo Championships held in Mexico City.

Births

 * January 13 — Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
 * January 31 — Urbano Zea, swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics; (d. 2018)
 * June 17 — Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, lawyer and first female Governor of Sonora starting 2015
 * June 29 — Guillermo Padrés Elías, Governor of Sonora 2009–2015. Arrested for embezzlement on November 10, 2016 and released on February 2, 2019
 * April 21 — Carlos Mendoza Davis, lawyer and Governor of Baja California Sur starting 2015
 * May 9 — Benjamín Rivera, voice actor
 * July 9 — Eduardo Santamarina, actor
 * August 5 — Diego Schoening, singer, actor, television host
 * September 1 — Armando Araiza, actor
 * September 28 — Pedro Fernández, singer, songwriter, actor
 * October 24 — Adela Noriega, actress
 * Date unknown
 * Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, Governor of Tlaxcala starting 2017.
 * Armando Mendoza Duarte, politician.

Deaths

 * September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)