1988 in Mexico

Events in the year 1988 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Miguel de la Madrid (until November 30), Carlos Salinas de Gortari (starting December 1)
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor/Fernando Solana
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz/Andrés Caso Lombardo
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui/Antonio Riviello Bazán
 * Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega/Mauricio Scheleske Sánchez
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
 * Secretary of Welfare: Manuel Camacho Solís/Gabino Fraga/Patricio Chirinos Calero
 * Secretary of Public Education: Miguel González Avelar/Manuel Bartlett Díaz
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada/María de los Angeles Moreno
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo/Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
 * Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
 * Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
 * Campeche: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
 * Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez/Patrocinio González Garrido
 * Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
 * Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
 * Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
 * Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
 * Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala
 * Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
 * Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
 * Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo/Francisco Rodríguez Gómez
 * State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta
 * Michoacán: Luis Martínez Villicaña
 * Morelos
 * Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI), until May 18.
 * Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), starting May 18.
 * Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
 * Nuevo León: Jorge Treviño
 * Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
 * Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
 * Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
 * Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
 * San Luis Potosí: no data
 * Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
 * Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
 * Tabasco: José María Peralta López
 * Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
 * Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
 * Veracruz: Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Dante Delgado Rannauro
 * Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco/Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
 * Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada
 * Regent of Mexico City
 * Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
 * Manuel Camacho Solís

Events

 * The National Council for Culture and Arts is established.
 * The Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca is established
 * July 6: 1988 Mexican general election
 * August 31 – September 8: Hurricane Debby
 * September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbert

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Rufino Tamayo

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1988

Sport

 * 1987–88 Mexican Primera División season
 * Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
 * Atlético Boca del Río and Venados de Yucatán are founded.
 * 1988 Mexican Grand Prix
 * Mexico at the 1988 Winter Olympics
 * Mexico at the 1988 Summer Olympics
 * Mexico at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
 * 1988 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.

Births

 * February 5 – Karin Ontiveros, beauty queen
 * April 29 — Elías Hernández, footballer
 * May 21 — Aída Román, archer
 * November 23 — Ezequiel Orozco, soccer player (Club Necaxa), (d. 2018)

Deaths

 * April 25 — Roberto Salido Beltrán, military aviator (b. 1912)
 * July 11 — Oscar Flores Tapia, journalist, writer, and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1975–1981 (b. 1913)
 * August 9 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
 * December 9 – Alfredo Woodward Téllez, businessman and politician (b. 1905)