1976 in Mexico

Events in the year 1976 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Luis Echeverría (until 30 November), José López Portillo (starting 1 December)
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia/Jesús Reyes Heroles
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Alfonso García Robles/Santiago Roel García
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja/Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Hermenegildo Cuenca Díaz/Félix Galván López
 * Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
 * Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes/Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Julio Hirschfeld Almada/Guillermo Rossell de la Lama

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
 * Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
 * Baja California Sur: Ángel César Mendoza Arámburo
 * Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
 * Chiapas
 * Manuel Velasco Suárez (until November 30)
 * Jorge de la Vega Domínguez (starting December 1)
 * Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
 * Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
 * Colima: Arturo Noriega Pizano
 * Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez
 * Guanajuato: Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
 * Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
 * Hidalgo:
 * Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
 * State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
 * Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo
 * Morelos
 * Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI), until May 18
 * Armando León Bejarano (PRI), starting May 18
 * Nayarit:
 * Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez
 * Oaxaca: Miguel Zárate Aquino
 * Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
 * Querétaro: Antonio Calzada Urquiza
 * Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
 * San Luis Potosí: Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
 * Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
 * Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
 * Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
 * Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
 * Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
 * Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
 * Yucatán
 * Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz (until January 31)
 * Francisco Luna Kan (starting February 1)
 * Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo
 * Regent of Mexico City
 * Octavio Senties Gomez
 * Carlos Hank González

Events

 * Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Campus Estado de México) founded.
 * Organizacion Editorial Mexicana founded.
 * Universidad Intercontinental established.
 * March 15: Autonomous University of Baja California Sur established.
 * July 4: 1976 Mexican general election
 * September 7 – 11: Hurricane Kathleen
 * September 29 – October 8: Hurricane Madeline
 * October 1: Instituto Tecnológico de Nuevo León established.
 * November 6: first issue of Proceso (magazine) published.
 * December 15: The Trolleybuses in Guadalajara start operating.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jesús Romero Flores

Births

 * June 7: Nora Salinas, actress
 * June 10: Mariana Seoane, model, singer, and actress
 * July 8: Grettell Valdez, television and film actress and former fashion model
 * December 3: Arleth Terán, soap opera actress

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1976

Sport

 * 1975–76 Mexican Primera División season
 * Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League
 * Mexico at the 1976 Summer Olympics
 * Mexico at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
 * 1976 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Xalapa.