1971 in Mexico

Events in the year 1971 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Luis Echeverría
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
 * Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
 * Baja California
 * Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, until October 31
 * Milton Castellanos Everardo starting November 1, 1971
 * Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
 * Chiapas: 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/Roberto Rodríguez Mercado/Israel Nogueda Otero
 * Hidalgo: Donaciano Serna Leal
 * Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio/Alberto Orozco Romero
 * State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
 * Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
 * Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo
 * Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
 * Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo/Luis M. Farías
 * Oaxaca: 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: Mario Trujillo García
 * Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize
 * Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez
 * Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
 * Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
 * Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
 * Regent of the Federal District
 * Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (until June 15)
 * Octavio Sentíes Gómez (starting June 15)

Events

 * Aeronáutica Agrícola Mexicana SA formed.
 * June 10: Corpus Christi massacre.
 * June 10: Opening of the Metro Observatorio.
 * September 3–13: Hurricane Fern.
 * September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.
 * November 11: National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics is established.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jaime Torres Bodet

February

 * February 10 — Lorena Rojas, actress and singer (d. 2015)
 * February 22 — Super Caló, wrestler

May

 * May 14 − Mónica Arriola Gordillo, politician (New Alliance Party), Deputy (2006-2009); (d. 2016).

June

 * June 16 – Alejandro Jano Fuentes, singer
 * June 17 — Paulina Rubio, singer

July

 * July 12 — Andrea Legarreta, actress and TV host

August

 * August 26 — Thalía, singer

November

 * November 24 — Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, acting Governor of Puebla 2018-2019

Date unknown

 * Emma Laura, soap opera actress

Deaths

 * August 11 – Archbishop Manuel Pío López Estrada, 6th bishop of Veracruz, and first archbishop of Xalapa, 1939-1968 (b. May 5, 1891)

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1971.

Sport

 * 1970–71 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Charros de Jalisco win the Mexican League.
 * September 19: Atlético Español founded.