1982 in Mexico

Events in the year 1982 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: José López Portillo (until November 30), Miguel de la Madrid (starting December 1)
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez (until November 30), Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (starting December 1)
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya/Rodolfo Félix Valdés
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López/Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
 * Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara/Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada/Arsenio Farell Cubillas
 * Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez/Marcelo Javelly Girard
 * Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/Jesús Reyes Heroles
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Fernando Rafful Miguel/Pedro Ojeda Paullada
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández then Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
 * Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid (PRI)
 * Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
 * Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
 * Chiapas: Juan Sabines Gutiérrez/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas
 * Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
 * Colima: Griselda Álvarez
 * Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
 * Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
 * Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
 * Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
 * Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
 * State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
 * Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
 * Morelos
 * Armando León Bejarano (PRI), until May 18.
 * Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), starting May 18.
 * Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
 * Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
 * Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
 * Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
 * Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
 * Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
 * San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
 * Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
 * Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
 * Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade/Enrique González Pedrero
 * Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou
 * Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
 * Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
 * Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan/Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
 * Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
 * Regent of Mexico City
 * Carlos Hank González
 * Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

Events

 * Museo Nacional de Arte is founded.
 * March – Reino Aventura opens
 * March 31 – 14 killed, 100 injured, and 15,000 others suffer the effects of the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in Francisco León, Chiapas, 100 km from Villahermosa.
 * July 4 – 1982 Mexican general election
 * August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.
 * September 1 – During his last government report, president José López Portillo nationalizes banks.


 * December 1 – Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – General Raúl Madero González

Sports

 * Baseball – The Leones del Caracas team conquest their first Caribbean Series title in Hermosillo Sonora.
 * Baseball – Indios de Ciudad Juárez win the Mexican League
 * Football – 1981–82 Mexican Primera División season

Births

 * January 9 — Lorenza Morfín, road cyclist
 * March 7 — Aarón Díaz, model, actor, and singer
 * March 13 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Presidente Municipal of Temixco, Morelos (January 1-January 2, 2016) (assassinated 2016)
 * December 19 – Nara Falcón, synchronized swimmer
 * Date unknown
 * Raúl Castañeda, boxer (d. September 6, 2017).