1990 in Mexico

Events in the year 1990 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 (until 4 January), Pedro Joaquín Coldwell (starting 5 January)
 * 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: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
 * Baja California Sur: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
 * Campeche: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
 * Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido
 * Chihuahua: Fernando Baeza Meléndez
 * Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto
 * Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco/Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
 * Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco/José Ramírez Gamero
 * Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala/Carlos Medina Plascencia
 * Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
 * Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
 * Jalisco: Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
 * State of Mexico: Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
 * 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: Salvador Neme Castillo
 * 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

 * Fobaproa is created to attempt to resolve liquidity problems of the banking system.
 * May 20: The Federal Electoral Tribunal is created as a guarantor of the constitutionality of the electoral process.
 * August 4–9: Hurricane Diana
 * September 29 : Miss Mexico 1990 held in Boca del Rio, Veracruz.
 * December 8: The Labor Party is founded.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Andrés Serra Rojas

Sport

 * 1989–90 Mexican Primera División season
 * 1989–90 Copa Mexico
 * Bravos de León win the Mexican League.
 * 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Mexico City.
 * 1990 Mexican Grand Prix
 * 1990 480 km of Mexico City
 * 1990 World Karate Championships held in Mexico City.
 * 1990 Pan American Race Walking Cup in Xalapa, Veracruz.

Births

 * January 26 – Sergio Pérez, racing driver
 * January 30 – Eiza González, actress and singer
 * February 11 – Javier Aquino, footballer
 * March 29 – Carlos Peña, footballer
 * April 19 – Héctor Herrera, footballer
 * April 26 – Jonathan dos Santos, footballer
 * July 4 – Melissa Barrera, actress
 * July 9 – Nataly Michel, fencer
 * July 18 – Canelo Álvarez, boxer
 * August 28 – Isaác Brizuela, footballer
 * November 29 – Diego Boneta, actor and singer