1991 in Mexico

Events in the year 1991 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Andrés Caso Lombardo
 * 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/Luis Donaldo Colosio
 * Secretary of Public Education: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): María de los Angeles Moreno/Guillermo Jiménez Morales
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

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: Abelardo Carrillo Zavala/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: José Ramírez Gamero
 * Guanajuato: Rafael Corrales Ayala/Carlos Medina Plascencia
 * Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
 * Hidalgo: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
 * Jalisco: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco
 * State of Mexico: Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri
 * Michoacán: Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio
 * Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI).
 * Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
 * Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo
 * Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
 * Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya
 * Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
 * Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín
 * San Luis Potosí: Fausto Zapata
 * Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
 * Sonora: Mario Morúa Johnson/Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
 * Tabasco: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez
 * Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
 * Tlaxcala: Beatriz Paredes Rangel
 * Veracruz: Dante Delgado Rannauro
 * Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho
 * Zacatecas: Genaro Borrego Estrada/Pedro de León
 * Regent of Mexico City: Manuel Camacho Solís

Events

 * The Amparo Museum is inaugurated.
 * The FIL Award is awarded for the first time, the recipient is Chilean author Nicanor Parra.
 * The Monterrey Metro begins operating.
 * The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey is established.
 * August 18: 1991 Mexican legislative election.
 * September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio (1991).
 * Unknown date: Xcaret Park opens.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán

Sport

 * 1990–91 Mexican Primera División season
 * 1990–91 Copa México
 * Sultanes de Monterrey win the Mexican League.
 * 1991 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics take place in Xalapa, Veracruz.
 * 1991 Mexican Grand Prix
 * 430 km of Mexico City
 * Mexico at the 1991 Pan American Games
 * The Naranjeros de Álamo are founded.

Births

 * May 5 – Raúl Jiménez, footballer
 * June 3 – Natasha Dupeyrón, actress and singer
 * August 2 – Zuleyka Silver, fashion model and actress
 * October 22 – Tatiana Martínez, actress
 * December 15 – Jorge Blanco, musician, singer, dancer, and actor

Deaths

 * February 5 — Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953-1982, and advocate of Liberation theology (b. 1907).
 * June 24 — Rufino Tamayo, painter (b. 1899)
 * October 10 — Nazario S. Ortiz Garza, Governor of Coahuila 1929-1933