1983 in Mexico

Events in the year 1983 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Miguel de la Madrid
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Rodolfo Félix Valdés
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
 * Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
 * Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena
 * Secretary of Public Education: Jesús Reyes Heroles
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
 * Baja California
 * Roberto de la Madrid (PRI), until October 31
 * Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI), starting November 1
 * Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
 * Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
 * Chiapas: 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: Lauro Ortega Martínez
 * Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
 * Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez/Jorge Treviño
 * 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: Enrique González Pedrero
 * Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou
 * Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
 * Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
 * Yucatán: Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
 * Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
 * Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

Events

 * The Mexican company INEGI is founded.
 * Mónica Rosas from Durango is crowned Señorita México by outgoing titleholder Alba Cervera.
 * Benedetti's Pizza is founded by Felipe Baeza.
 * Galería OMR founded by its principals Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra.
 * April 3 – The 2nd festival of the popular Juguemos a Cantar series begins; it ends five weeks later on May 1.
 * August 23–29: Hurricane Barry.
 * December 2: The Mexico City Mexico Temple is founded.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jesús Silva Herzog

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1983

Sport

 * 1982–83 Mexican Primera División season
 * 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship
 * Football Club Chapulineros de Oaxacais founded.
 * September 4: Football Club Santos Laguna is founded.

Births

 * March 1
 * Elán, singer-songwriter
 * Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-Kenyan actress
 * March 9 — Maite Perroni, actress, singer, and model.
 * March 11 – Renato López, television presenter, actor, musician (d. November 23, 2016).
 * July 14 — Tomas Villa, featherweight boxer (d. 2018)
 * November 29 – Rubén Espinosa, photojournalist (Proceso and Cuartoscuro), (d. July 31, 2015).

Deaths

 * April 11 - Dolores del Río, actress (b. 1904)
 * May 14 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1903)