1980 in Mexico

Events in the year 1980 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: José López Portillo
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): 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/Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
 * Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
 * Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo (PRI)
 * Campeche: José Refugio Esparza Reyes/Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
 * Chiapas: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot (PRI)
 * Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre/Óscar Ornelas (PRI)
 * Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia/Francisco José Madero González (PRI)
 * Colima: Griselda Álvarez (PRI)
 * Durango: Salvador Gámiz Fernández/Armando del Castillo Franco (PRI)
 * Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra (PRI)
 * Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa (PRI)
 * Hidalgo: Jorge Rojo Lugo (PRI)
 * Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco (PRI)
 * State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
 * Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo/Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
 * Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
 * Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel (PRI)
 * Nuevo León: Flavio Romero de Velasco
 * Oaxaca: Eliseo Jimenez Ruiz/Pedro Vasquez Colmenares (PRI)
 * Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara (PRI)
 * Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán (PRI)
 * Quintana Roo: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona (PRI)
 * San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios (PRI)
 * Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón (PRI)
 * Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García (PRI)
 * Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade (PRI)
 * Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González (PRI)
 * Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras (PRI)
 * Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa (PRI)
 * Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan (PRI)
 * Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo/José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona (PRI)
 * Regent of Mexico City: Carlos Hank González

Events

 * Zeta is founded.
 * The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas is established.
 * The Centro de Investigaciones en Optica is founded.
 * The Ollin Yoliztli Prize is awarded for the first time.
 * The Palacio de Lecumberri starts housing the General National Archive
 * July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.
 * October 24: 1980 Oaxaca earthquake.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Luis Padilla Nervo

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1980.

Sport

 * 1979–80 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Saraperos de Saltillo win the Mexican League.
 * Mexico at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
 * Mexico at the 1980 Summer Paralympics.
 * Correcaminos UAT founded.

Births

 * February 4 – Gerardo Alcántara, soccer player
 * February 23 – Geovanna Bañuelos de la Torre, politician
 * March 18 — Olga Vargas, synchronized swimmer
 * March 30 — Mauricio Vila Dosal, Governor of Yucatán 2018–2024
 * April 2 – Carlos Salcido, footballer
 * November 15 — Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo, Governor of Guanajuato starting 2018
 * December 12 — Pablo Baltodano Monroy, diplomat and politician

Deaths

 * March 18 — Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher who lived in Cuernavaca from 1956-1976 (b. 1900)
 * May 13 — Carmen García González, wife of President Emilio Portes Gil (1928-1930) (b. 1905)