1998 in Mexico

Events in the year 1998 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Ernesto Zedillo
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Emilio Chuayffet (until 3 January); Francisco Labastida (from 21 May)
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): María del Rosario Green Macías
 * 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/Esteban Moctezuma
 * 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), until November 30
 * Felipe González González, PAN, starting December 1
 * Baja California:
 * Héctor Terán Terán, (National Action Party (PAN)), died in office, October 4.
 * Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, PAN
 * Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño (PRD)/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
 * Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
 * Chiapas: Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro/Roberto Albores Guillén (PRI)
 * Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio/Patricio Martínez García (PRI)
 * Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
 * Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña (PRI)
 * Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PRI)
 * Guanajuato: Vicente Fox (PAN)
 * Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero (PAN)
 * Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam/Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez (PAN)
 * Jalisco: Humberto Lugo Gil/Manuel Angel Nunez Soto (PAN)
 * State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz/Arturo Montiel Rojas (PRI)
 * Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
 * Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio López/Jorge Morales Barud (Substitute—PRI).
 * Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
 * Nuevo León: Fernando Canales (PRI)
 * Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López (PRI)
 * Puebla: Melquiades Morales Flores/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
 * Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera (PRI)
 * Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid/Joaquín Hendricks Díaz (PRI)
 * San Luis Potosí: Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Silva Nieto (PRI)
 * Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado/Juan S. Millán (PRI)
 * Sonora: Armando López Nogales (PRI)
 * Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado (PRI)
 * Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
 * Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRI)
 * Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero/Miguel Alemán Velasco (PRI)
 * Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco (PRI)
 * Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal Ávila (PRI)
 * Head of Government of the Federal District
 * Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), (until September 29)
 * Rosario Robles (PRD) (starting September 29)

Events

 * El diario de Daniela begins airing on television.
 * March 18: The TV channel Canal del Congreso is launched.
 * April 21: the Pinacoteca Diego Rivera is inaugurated.
 * August 30: 1998 Mexican Fobaproa funds referendum
 * September 14: Camila (telenovela) begins.
 * September 19: Nuestra Belleza México 1998

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – José Angel Conchello Dávila (post mortem)
 * Ohtli Award
 * Burton E. Grossman
 * Dolores Huerta
 * Pete Rodriguez
 * Guadalupe Reyes

Hurricanes

 * August 21–24: Tropical Storm Charley (1998)
 * September 1–3: Hurricane Isis (1998)
 * October 15–26: Hurricane Lester (1998)
 * October 16–20: Hurricane Madeline (1998)
 * October 22 – November 9: Hurricane Mitch

Sport

 * 1997–98 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Guerreros de Oaxaca win the Mexican League.
 * March 20: Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth (1998)
 * July 18: Ruleta de la Muerte (1998)
 * December 13: Guerra de Titanes (1998)

Births

 * April 3 - Humberto Castellanos, baseball player
 * November 10 – Karen Villanueva, rhythmic gymnast

Deaths

 * September 5 – Fernando Balzaretti, actor (b. 1946)
 * December 13 – Ariadna Welter, actress (b. 1930)