1994 in Mexico

Events in the year 1994 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari (until November 30), Ernesto Zedillo (starting December 1)
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Patrocinio González Garrido/Jorge Carpizo McGregor/Esteban Moctezuma
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Camacho Solís/José Ángel Gurría
Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Gamboa Patrón/Guillermo Ortiz Martínez/Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán/Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo/José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Arsenio Farell Cubillas/Manuel Gómez Peralta/Santiago Oñate Laborde
Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez
Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/José Ángel Pescador/Fausto Alzati/Miguel Limón Rojas
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Guillermo Jiménez Morales/Julia Carabias Lillo
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez/Juan Ramón De La Fuente

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

Governors

Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN)
Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero
Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García
Chiapas: Elmar Setzer Marseille/Javier López Moreno/Eduardo Robledo Rincón
Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN)
Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen
Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza
Guanajuato: Carlos Medina Plascencia
Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (PRI)
Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam
Jalisco: Carlos Rivera Aceves
State of Mexico: Emilio Chuayffet (PRI)
Michoacán: Ausencio Chávez Hernández
Morelos
- Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), until May 17.^[1]
- Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI), starting May 18.^[2]^[3]
Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo (PRI)
Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano (PRI)
Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García (PRI)
Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid (PRI)
San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta (PRI)
Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado (PRI)
Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera (PRI)
Tabasco: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez (PRI)
Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma (PRI)
Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRD)
Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero (PRD)
Yucatán: Ricardo Ávila Heredia/Federico Granja Ricalde (PRI)
Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez (PRI)
Regent of Mexico City
- Manuel Aguilera Gomez^[4]
- Oscar Espinosa Villarreal^[4]

Events

January 1
- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, Canada and the United States goes into effect
- The Zapatista Army of National Liberation goes public in response to NAFTA.
January 16 – The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Benjamín Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier. He had met with Ramón Arellano Félix six weeks earlier.^[5]
March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio presidential candidate for the PRI is assassinated in Tijuana, Baja California.^[6]
August 11 – Hurricane John starts in southern Mexico
August 21 – Presidential elections
September 28 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, brother-in-law of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former governor of Guerrero, and leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is assassinated.^[7]
October 11 – Hurricane Rosa kills four in Nayarit and Durango
December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
December 21 – The Popocateptl volcano spewed gas and ash, which was carried as far as 25 km (16 mi) away by prevailing winds. The activity prompted the evacuation of nearby towns and scientists to begin monitoring for an eruption.
December
- economic crisis in Mexico with the peso losing a third of its value
- The Fobaproa is applied in response to the economic crisis
- El Barzón is created in response to the economic crisis

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jaime Sabines

Popular culture

Sports

July 5 – Mexico loses 1–3 versus Bulgaria and is eliminated from the Football World Cup 1994

Film

June 6 – The XXXVI edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
El callejón de los milagros of Jorge Fons
Bienvenido-Welcome of Gabriel Retes
Dos crímenes of Roberto Sneider
Hasta morir of Fernando Sariñana
El jardín del edén of María Novaro
La reina de la noche of Arturo Ripstein
Mujeres insumisas of Alberto Isaac
Dulces compañías of Oscar Blancarte
Un volcán con lava de hielo (short) of Valentina Leduc
El árbol de la música (short) of Sabina Berman & Isabel Tardán
Del otro lado del mar (short) of Marcela Arteaga

TV

Telenovelas

Dos mujeres, un camino, on Televisa
Marimar, on Televisa
Volver a empezar, on Televisa

Births

August 13 – Andrea Meza, model, Miss Universe 2020
October 17 – Alejandra Valencia, archer^[8]
November 8 – Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez, footballer; (d. 2017).^[9]

Deaths

February 3 – Raúl Padilla (75), actor and comedian (b. 1918)^[10]
March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio (43), candidate to the Presidency of Mexico (b. 1950)^[6]
March 25 – Angelines Fernández (69), actress and comedian (b. 1924)^[11]
September 28 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu (48), politician, assassinated (b. 1946)^[7]

References

↑ Monroy, David (July 15, 2014). "Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos". www.milenio.com (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
↑ Legislatura LV – Año III – Período Ordinario – Fecha 19940517 – Número de Diario 11
↑ "Jorge Carrillo Olea ahorra tiene Graco Rámirez Garrido en sus manos" (in Spanish). Zona Centro Noticias. August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
1 2 "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). December 5, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
↑ Fallece sacerdote que reunió a los Arellano Felix con Prigione [Priest who arranged renunion of Arellano-Felix brothers and Prigione dies] (in Spanish), Proceso, January 13, 2010, retrieved June 1, 2019
1 2 "Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
1 2 Puig, Carlos (September 1, 2014). "Ruiz Massieu. El crimen perfecto" [Ruiz Massieu. The Perfect Crime] (in Spanish). Nexos. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
↑ "20 October 2011 – Athlete of the Week: Alejandra VALENCIA (MEX)". World Archery. March 29, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
↑ "Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez". Ascenso Mx (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
↑ Clarín, Redacción (August 4, 2020). ""El Chavo del 8": la inesperada muerte de "Jaimito, el cartero" en el set de grabación". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved August 15, 2026.
↑ "El Chavo del 8: así lucía "La Bruja del 71″ antes de volverse famosa por la serie". LA NACION (in Spanish). May 11, 2023. Retrieved August 15, 2026.

[1] Monroy, David (July 15, 2014). "Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos". www.milenio.com (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[2] Legislatura LV – Año III – Período Ordinario – Fecha 19940517 – Número de Diario 11

[3] "Jorge Carrillo Olea ahorra tiene Graco Rámirez Garrido en sus manos" (in Spanish). Zona Centro Noticias. August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[mayors-4] 1 2 "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). December 5, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[5] Fallece sacerdote que reunió a los Arellano Felix con Prigione [Priest who arranged renunion of Arellano-Felix brothers and Prigione dies] (in Spanish), Proceso, January 13, 2010, retrieved June 1, 2019

[colosio-6] 1 2 "Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. Retrieved May 30, 2019.

[nexos-7] 1 2 Puig, Carlos (September 1, 2014). "Ruiz Massieu. El crimen perfecto" [Ruiz Massieu. The Perfect Crime] (in Spanish). Nexos. Retrieved May 30, 2019.

[8] "20 October 2011 – Athlete of the Week: Alejandra VALENCIA (MEX)". World Archery. March 29, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2019.

[9] "Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez". Ascenso Mx (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.

[10] Clarín, Redacción (August 4, 2020). ""El Chavo del 8": la inesperada muerte de "Jaimito, el cartero" en el set de grabación". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved August 15, 2026.

[11] "El Chavo del 8: así lucía "La Bruja del 71″ antes de volverse famosa por la serie". LA NACION (in Spanish). May 11, 2023. Retrieved August 15, 2026.

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