1993 in Mexico

Events in the year 1993 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios/Patrocinio González Garrido
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Fernando Solana Morales/Manuel Camacho Solís
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Gamboa Patrón
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán
 * Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Arsenio Farell Cubillas
 * Secretary of Welfare: Luis Donaldo Colosio/Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
 * Secretary of Public Education: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León/Fernando Solana Morales
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Guillermo Jiménez Morales
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
 * Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
 * Baja California Sur: Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
 * Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
 * Chiapas: Patrocinio González Garrido/Elmar Setzer Marseille
 * Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN)
 * Coahuila: Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
 * Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
 * Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
 * Guanajuato: Carlos Medina Plascencia
 * Guerrero: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu/Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (PRI)
 * Hidalgo: Adolfo Lugo Verduzco/Jesús Murillo Karam
 * Jalisco: Carlos Rivera Aceves
 * State of Mexico: Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza/Emilio Chuayffet (PRI)
 * Michoacán: Ausencio Chávez Hernández
 * Morelos
 * Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), until May 17.
 * Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI), starting May 18.
 * Nayarit: Celso Humberto Delgado Ramírez
 * Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo (PRI)
 * Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano (PRI)
 * Puebla: Mariano Piña Olaya/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
 * Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García (PRI)
 * Quintana Roo: Miguel Borge Martín/Mario Villanueva Madrid (PRI)
 * San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta (PRI)
 * Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado (PRI)
 * Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera (PRI)
 * Tabasco: Salvador Neme Castillo/Manuel Gurría Ordóñez (PRI)
 * Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra/Manuel Cavazos Lerma (PRI)
 * Tlaxcala: Samuel Quiróz de la Vega/José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRD)
 * Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero (PRD)
 * Yucatán: Dulce María Sauri Riancho/Ricardo Ávila Heredia (PRI)
 * Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez (PRI)
 * Regent of Mexico City
 * Manuel Camacho Solís
 * Manuel Aguilera Gomez

Events

 * The Foro Sol opened
 * Musical bands La Gusana Ciega and Hocico are founded.
 * Arqueología Mexicana has its first issue published.
 * May 14: The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico is founded.
 * May 21: The Miss Universe 1993 contest was held at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.
 * May 24: Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport.
 * September 3: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte founded per presidential decree.
 * December 1: The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Ramón Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Andrés Henestrosa

Hurricanes

 * June 18–20: Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)
 * June 18–21: Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
 * August 17–27: Hurricane Hilary (1993)
 * September 8–14: Hurricane Lidia (1993)
 * September 14–26: Hurricane Gert

Sport

 * 1992–93 Mexican Primera División season
 * Olmecas de Tabasco win the Mexican League.
 * 1993 Caribbean Series played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán.
 * 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup
 * 1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
 * Alto Rendimiento Tuzo is founded.

Births

 * January 21 – Oliver Ortíz, footballer
 * April 2 – Jaime Romero Móran, artistic gymnast, (d. January 3, 2015).
 * September 18 – Mariana Avitia, archer
 * October 23 – Daniela Álvarez, winner of Nuestra Belleza México 2013 beauty pageant in 2013
 * December 11 – Yalitza Aparicio, actress and educator

Deaths

 * May 24 – Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Cardinal of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1987-1993 (b. November 11, 1906).