1972 in Mexico

Events in the year 1972 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/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
 * Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
 * Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
 * 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: Israel Nogueda Otero
 * Hidalgo: Donaciano Serna Leal/Manuel Sánchez Vite
 * Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
 * State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
 * Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
 * Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo
 * Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
 * Nuevo León: 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 Mexico City: Octavio Senties Gomez

Events

 * José Guadalupe Posada Museum opens.
 * The Palace of Iturbide becomes the home of the Banamex Cultural Foundation (Fomento Cultural Banamex).
 * The Festival Internacional Cervantino is founded in Guanajuato.
 * June 14–23: Hurricane Agnes.
 * September: Fred Gómez Carrasco is arrested in Guadalajara.
 * September 30-October 7: Hurricane Joanne

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Ignacio Ramos Praslow

Births

 * January 25 – Chantal Andere, actress
 * January 27 – Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress
 * April 23 – Patricia Manterola, actress, fashion designer, singer, and model
 * May 10 – Víctor Noriega, actor, singer, and model
 * June 22 – Miguel del Toro, baseball player
 * August 30 – José Ramón Amieva, acting Mayor of Mexico City 2018
 * October 23 – Kate del Castillo, television actress (La Reina del Sur)
 * October 23 – Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
 * November 27 – Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, politician (PRI); first elected female Governor of Yucatán 2007–2012
 * December 7 – Oliver Fernández, tennis player
 * December 25 – Ricardo Tejedo, actor, voice actor, ADR director, script writer and translator
 * Date unknown – Marbella Ibarra, soccer coach and promoter of women's soccer (d. October 12, 2018).

Deaths

 * December 7 – Humberto Mariles, equestrian Olympic gold medalist

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1972.

Sport

 * 1971–72 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Cafeteros de Córdoba win the Mexican League.
 * Mexico at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
 * Mexico at the 1972 Summer Paralympics.
 * The Adecmac soccer league is founded.