1997 in Mexico

Events in the year 1997 in Mexico.

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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Incumbents

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

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán

Governors

• Head of Government of the Federal District
  • Oscar Espinosa Villarreal (PRI) (until December 4)^[1]
  • Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (PRD) (starting December 5) First elected leader of Mexico City.^[2]
• Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (PRI)
• Baja California: Héctor Terán Terán, (PAN).^[3]
• 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).^[4]
• 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

Luis Aguilar

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