1989 in Mexico

Events in the year 1989 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
 * Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
 * Secretary of Welfare: Patricio Chirinos Calero
 * Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): María de los Angeles Moreno
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
 * Baja California
 * Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI), until January 5
 * Oscar Baylón Chacón, (PRI), January 6 to October 31.
 * Ernesto Ruffo Appel, National Action Party (PAN), starting November 1. Ruffo Appel was the first governor who was not a member of PRI since 1929.
 * Baja California Sur:
 * Campeche: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
 * Chiapas: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
 * Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
 * 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: Francisco Rodríguez Gómez/Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
 * State of Mexico: Mario Ramón Beteta/Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza
 * Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
 * Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).
 * 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: Dante Delgado Rannauro
 * Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
 * Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada
 * Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís

Events

 * Music group Café Tacuba is founded.
 * Newspaper El Economista is founded.
 * The Guadalajara light rail system begins operating.
 * The Santa Teresa la Antigua Alternative Art Center opens its doors.
 * February 13: Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (México) and the National Human Rights Commission (Mexico) are founded.
 * March 2: FONCA, (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes) is founded.
 * March 3: Miss Latin America 1989 held in Hermosillo, Sonora.
 * May 5: The Party of the Democratic Revolution is founded.
 * May 23: Miss Universe 1989 held in Cancún, Quintana Roo.
 * August 10: The San Rafael River train disaster
 * August 25–29: Hurricane Kiko
 * October 19: The Autonomous University of Campeche is established.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Raúl Castellano Jiménez

Births

 * January 10: Zuria Vega, actress and singer
 * June 7: Sofía Sisniega, actress
 * September 14: Miriam Zetter, ten-pin bowler

Deaths

 * August 7 — Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963–1968 (b. 1916)
 * October 30 — Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1906)

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1989

Sport

 * 1988–89 Mexican Primera División season.
 * 1989 Caribbean Series in Mazatlan at the Estadio Teodoro Mariscal.
 * Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League.
 * 1989 Tournament of the Americas in Mexico City.
 * 1989 Mexican Grand Prix.
 * 1989 480 km of Mexico.