1996 in Mexico

Events in the year 1996 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Ernesto Zedillo
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Emilio Chuayffet.
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): José Ángel Gurría
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
 * Secretary of Navy: José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Antonio González Fernández
 * Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
 * Secretary of Public Education: Miguel Limón Rojas
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Óscar Espinosa Villarreal
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Julia Carabias Lillo
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
 * Baja California: Héctor Terán Terán, (National Action Party PAN).
 * Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero
 * Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
 * Chiapas: Julio César Ruíz Ferro
 * Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio
 * Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
 * Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
 * Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
 * Guanajuato: Vicente Fox Quesada
 * Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer/Ángel Aguirre Rivero
 * Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
 * Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
 * State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz
 * Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco/Ausencio Chávez Hernández
 * Morelos: Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI).
 * Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
 * Nuevo León: Benjamín Clariond
 * Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
 * Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
 * Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García
 * Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid
 * San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta
 * Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado
 * Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
 * Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado
 * Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
 * Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima
 * Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero
 * Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
 * Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez
 * Regent of Mexico City: Oscar Espinosa Villarreal

Events

 * Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey established.
 * Alternative rock group Plastilina Mosh is founded.
 * February 16: the San Andres Accords were signed.
 * June: The Guadalajara Gay Pride is founded.
 * June 28: The Popular Revolutionary Army announces its existence.
 * September 22: Nuestra Belleza México 1996 held in Cancun.
 * October 23: The Law of Protection of Commerce and Investments from Foreign Policies that Contravene International Law is published.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor
 * Griselda Álvarez
 * Alí Chumacero
 * Ohtli Award
 * Gonzalo Barrientos
 * Hector P. Garcia
 * Carlos Truan
 * Edward R. Roybal

Births

 * January 30 : Dafne Navarro, trampoline gymnast
 * March 29 : Juanpa Zurita, Internet personality
 * August 12 : Julio Urías, baseball player

Deaths

 * May 24 – Octavio Sentíes Gómez, 81, politician (PRI), Governor of Veracruz, Secretary of the Interior, Regent of DF (b. February 9, 1915)

Hurricanes

 * July 24 – August 6: Hurricane Cesar–Douglas
 * August 19 – 26: Hurricane Dolly (1996)
 * September 30 – October 4: Hurricane Hernan

Sports

 * 1995–96 Mexican Primera División season
 * 1995–96 Copa Mexico
 * Mexico wins the 1996 U.S. Cup
 * Mexico loses in the final of the Pan American Games football tournament
 * Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics
 * Mexico at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
 * Atlético Hidalgo, C.F. Cuautitlán and Real Sociedad de Zacatecas are founded.