1970 in Mexico

Events in the year 1970 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (until 30 November), Luis Echeverría (starting 1 December)
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Antonio Carrillo Flores/Emilio Óscar Rabasa
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): José Antonio Padilla Segura/Eugenio Méndez Docurro
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Agustín Yáñez/Víctor Bravo Ahuja
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Antonio Vázquez del Mercado/Luis M. Bravo Carrera
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco/Rafael Hernández Ochoa
 * 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/Manuel Velasco Suárez
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
 * Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
 * Colima: Pablo Silva García
 * Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
 * Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
 * Guerrero: Caritino Maldonado Pérez
 * Hidalgo: Manuel Sánchez Vite/Donaciano Serna Leal
 * Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio/Alberto Orozco Romero
 * State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
 * Michoacán: Carlos Gálvez Betancourt/Servando Chávez Hernández
 * Morelos
 * Emilio Riva Palacio (PRI), until May 18
 * Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI), starting May 18
 * Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
 * Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo
 * Oaxaca: Víctor Bravo Ahuja/Fernando Gómez Sandoval
 * Puebla: 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: Manuel A. Rabize
 * Tlaxcala: Ignacio Bonillas/Crisanto Cuéllar Abaroa/Luciano Huerta Sánchez
 * Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
 * Yucatán: Luis Torres Mesías/Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
 * Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
 * Regent of the Federal District
 * Alfonso Corona del Rosal (until July 31)
 * Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (starting August 1)

Events

 * The Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología founded.
 * May 23: Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal established.
 * July 5: 1970 Mexican general election.
 * August 31 – September 5: Tropical Storm Norma.
 * November 20: Metro Hospital General opens.
 * November 23: The Boundary Treaty of 1970 is signed.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Rosendo Salazar

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1970

Sport

 * 1969–70 Mexican Primera División season
 * 1970 Mexican Primera División season
 * 1970 FIFA World Cup
 * Rojos del Águila de Veracruz win the Mexican League
 * 1970 Mexican Grand Prix
 * Club Universidad de Guadalajara and Club Jalisco are founded.

Births

 * February 16 — Nailea Norvind, actress
 * April 13 — Eduardo Capetillo, singer and actor
 * June 17 — Sasha Sokol, singer, composer, actress, and television host
 * September 18 — Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís, politician (PRI) and Governor of Coahuila starting 2017
 * September 29 — Ninel Conde, Mexican actress, singer, and television host
 * October 1 — José Ignacio Peralta, Governor of Colima starting 2016
 * October 8 — Mayrín Villanueva, model and actress
 * December 28 — Yolanda Andrade, Mexican actress and television presenter

Deaths

 * October 19 – Lázaro Cárdenas, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895)