1986 in Mexico

Events in the year 1986 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): Daniel Díaz Díaz
 * 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/Manuel Camacho Solís
 * Secretary of Public Education: Miguel González Avelar
 * 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: Carlos del Río Rodríguez

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos/José Refugio Esparza Reyes
 * Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
 * Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
 * Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
 * Chiapas: Gustavo Armendáriz/Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas/Saúl González Herrera/Fernando Baeza Meléndez
 * Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
 * Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
 * Durango: José Ramírez Gamero
 * Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala
 * Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
 * Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
 * Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
 * State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
 * Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas/Luis Martínez Villicaña
 * Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI).
 * Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
 * Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño
 * Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
 * Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
 * Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
 * Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
 * San Luis Potosí: Florencio Salazar Martínez
 * Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
 * Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
 * Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
 * Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
 * Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
 * Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes/Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
 * Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
 * Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona/Genaro Borrego Estrada
 * Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

Events

 * The girl band Fandango is established.
 * The Museo de la Estampa and the Franz Mayer Museum are founded.
 * The Colegio Nautilus is established.
 * Vacation resort Rancho Leonero is established.
 * Conni Carranza from Sonora becomes Señorita México 1986.
 * The Xochimilco Light Rail starts operating after being upgraded from a streetcar line.
 * March 31: Mexicana Flight 940
 * September 11: Centro Escolar el Encino established.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Salvador Zubirán

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1986

Sport

 * 1985–86 Mexican Primera División season
 * Ángeles Negros de Puebla win the Mexican League
 * 1986 FIFA World Cup
 * 1986 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.
 * 1986 Mexican Grand Prix

Births

 * July 8: Jaime Garcia, baseball player
 * November 22: Sebastián Zurita, actor.
 * Date unknown: Luis Trujillo Llame, Catholic priest; (d. November 21, 2018).

Deaths

 * July 9: Nellie Campobello, writer. (b. 1900)
 * August 6: Emilio Fernández, movie director, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1904)