1979 in Mexico

Events in the year 1979 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: José López Portillo
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Jesús Reyes Heroles/Enrique Olivares Santana
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Santiago Roel García/Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López
 * Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
 * Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
 * Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Guillermo Rossell de la Lama

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
 * Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid
 * Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo
 * Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera/Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
 * Chiapas: Salomón González Blanco
 * Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
 * Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
 * Colima: Salvador Gámiz Fernández/Griselda Álvarez
 * Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez/Salvador Gámiz Fernández
 * Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra/Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
 * Guerrero: Flavio Romero de Velasco
 * Hidalgo: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
 * Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco
 * State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
 * Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo
 * Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
 * Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel
 * Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez
 * Oaxaca: Eliseo Jiménez Ruiz
 * Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
 * Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
 * Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
 * San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
 * Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
 * Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
 * Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade
 * Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
 * Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
 * Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
 * Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan
 * Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo
 * Regent of Mexico City: Carlos Hank González

Events

 * Museo Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca opens.
 * Colegio Alemán de Guadalajara founded.
 * University of the Cloister of Sor Juana established.
 * February 5: Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuautitlán established.
 * June 3: Ixtoc I oil spill
 * July 1: 1979 Mexican legislative election
 * September 14–21: Hurricane Henri (1979)
 * October 31: Western Airlines Flight 2605

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1979

Sport

 * 1978–79 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Ángeles de Puebla win the Mexican League.
 * 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico City.
 * 1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in Guadalajara.
 * Club de Fútbol Oaxtepec founded.

Births

 * January 28: Melvin Brown, footballer
 * February 13: Rafael Márquez, footballer and manager
 * February 28: Amat Escalante, film director, producer and screenwriter
 * March 1: Fernando Montiel, boxer
 * March 16: Adriana Fonseca, actress and dancer.
 * March 16: Daniel Osorno, footballer
 * April 30: Gerardo Torrado, footballer
 * May 15: Adolfo Bautista, footballer
 * June 1: Mario Méndez, Mexican footballer
 * July 21: Luis Ernesto Michel, footballer
 * July 23: Perro Aguayo Jr., pro wrestler (d. March 21, 2015).
 * August 7: Juan Pablo Rodríguez, footballer
 * August 28: Michel Franco, film director
 * September 25: Karla Luna, actress (Las Lavanderas) and singer (d. September 28, 2017).
 * September 29: Jaime Lozano, footballer and Current manager of the Mexican National Association Football team
 * October 2: Francisco Fonseca, footballer and analyst
 * October 14: Guillermo Pérez, taekwondo practitioner
 * November 14 Miguel Sabah, footballer
 * November 19: Michelle Vieth, American born Mexican actress and model.
 * December 23: Jacqueline Bracamontes, Mexican actress and beauty contest winner (Nuestra Belleza México 2000).
 * December 29: Diego Luna, actor, director, producer

Deaths

 * January 18 — María Dolores Izaguirre de Ruiz, First Lady of Mexico (1952-1958) (b. 1891)
 * July 15 — Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños, President of Mexico 1964-1970 (b. 1911)