1997 in Mexico

Events in the year 1997 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

 * Head of Government of the Federal District
 * Oscar Espinosa Villarreal (PRI) (until December 4)
 * Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (PRD) (starting December 5) First elected leader of Mexico City.
 * Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (PRI)
 * Baja California: Héctor Terán Terán, (PAN).
 * Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero/Leonel Cota Montaño
 * Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García/José Antonio González Curi
 * Chiapas: Julio César Ruíz Ferro/Roberto Albores Guillén
 * Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN)
 * Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PAN)
 * Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen/Fernando Moreno Peña (PAN)
 * Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PAN)
 * Guanajuato: Vicente Fox Quesada (PAN),
 * Guerrero: Ángel Aguirre Rivero
 * Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
 * Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
 * State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz
 * Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
 * Morelos: Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI).
 * Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
 * Nuevo León: Benjamín Clariond/Fernando Canales
 * Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
 * Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
 * Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García/Ignacio Loyola Vera
 * Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid
 * San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta/Fernando Silva Nieto
 * Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado
 * Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera/Armando López Nogales
 * 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

Events

 * Convergence was founded as a "national political grouping".
 * March 13: Phoenix Lights in Sonora.
 * June 6: 1997 Mexican legislative election
 * September: Nuestra Belleza México 1997
 * December 22: Acteal Massacre

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heberto Castillo

Hurricanes

 * June 1–7: Tropical Storm Andres (1997)
 * September 16–26: Hurricane Nora (1997)
 * September 26 – October 12: Tropical Storm Olaf (1997)
 * October 5–10: Hurricane Pauline

Sport

 * 1996–97 Mexican Primera División season
 * 1996–97 Copa Mexico
 * Petroleros de Poza Rica win the Mexican League.
 * Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth (1997)
 * Atlético Mexiquense and Chivas Tijuana are founded.
 * The Chupacabras race is held for the first time.

Births

 * October 29 – Ale Müller, actress and singer

Deaths

 * October 24 – Luis Aguilar, actor and singer (b. 1918)