1999 in Mexico

Events in the year 1999 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Ernesto Zedillo
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Francisco Labastida (until 21 May); Diódoro Carrasco (from 21 May)
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): María del Rosario Green Macías
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Miguel Limón Rojas
 * 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/Mariano Palacios Alcocer
 * Secretary of Welfare: Esteban Moctezuma (until 4 August); Carlos Jarque (from 4 August)
 * 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 (until 30 November); José Antonio González Fernández (from 30 November)

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán then Genaro David Góngora Pimentel

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Felipe González González, (National Action Party, PAN)
 * Baja California: Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, (PAN)
 * Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño (PRD)/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
 * Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
 * Chiapas: Roberto Albores Guillén
 * Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García (PRI)
 * Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez/Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
 * Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña (PRI)
 * Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PRI)
 * Guanajuato: Vicente Fox/Ramon Martin Huerta (PAN)
 * Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero/René Juárez Cisneros (PAN)
 * Hidalgo: 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: Jorge Morales Barud (Substitute—PRI).
 * Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza/Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
 * 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: Fernando Silva Nieto (PRI)
 * Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán (PRI)
 * Sonora: Armando López Nogales (PRI)
 * Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado (PRI)
 * Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma/Tomás Yarrington
 * Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima/Alfonso Sánchez Anaya (PRI)
 * Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco
 * 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

 * The banderas monumentales program is initiated.
 * January: 1999 UNAM strike
 * March 21: 1999 Mexican referendums
 * June 15: 1999 Tehuacán earthquake
 * August 18–25: Hurricane Bret
 * September 5–9: Hurricane Greg
 * September 12: Nuestra Belleza México 1999
 * September 30: 1999 Oaxaca earthquake
 * September – October: 1999 Mexico floods
 * November: Mexico hosts the first Parapan American Games

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor	– Carlos Fuentes
 * Order of the Aztec Eagle
 * National Prize for Arts and Sciences
 * National Public Administration Prize
 * Ohtli Award
 * Deborah V. Ortiz
 * David R. Maciel

Sport

 * Primera División de México Verano 1999.
 * Primera División de México Invierno 1999.
 * 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup Final.
 * Mexico participate in the 1999 Copa América and become 3rd.
 * Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (1999).
 * Ruleta de la Muerte (1999).
 * 1999 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Monterrey.

Debuted

 * Alma Rebelde
 * Catalina y Sebastián
 * Háblame de amor
 * Laberintos de pasión
 * Mujeres engañadas
 * Nunca Te Olvidaré
 * Por tu amor
 * Rosalinda
 * Tres mujeres
 * Yacaranday

Ended

 * Alma Rebelde
 * Camila
 * Catalina y Sebastián
 * El diario de Daniela
 * Nunca Te Olvidaré
 * Por tu amor
 * El Privilegio de Amar
 * Rosalinda
 * Yacaranday

Deaths

 * March 19: Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Horal, 1950) and Tarumba in Mexico City (b. 1926).
 * May 15: Gutierre Tibón, Italian-Mexican writer (b. 1905)
 * July 22: Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, governor of Morelos 1982-1988 (b. 1910)