1968 in Mexico
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Events in the year1968 in Mexico.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- President:Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
- Interior Secretary(SEGOB):Luis Echeverría Álvarez
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs(SRE):Antonio Carrillo Flores
- Communications Secretary(SCT):José Antonio Padilla Segura
- Education Secretary(SEP):Agustín Yáñez
- Secretary of Defense(SEDENA): Matías Ramos
- Secretary of Navy:Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:Salomón González Blanco
- Secretary of Welfare:Gilberto Valenzuela/Luis Enrique Bracamontes
Supreme Court
[edit]- President of the Supreme Court: Agapito Pozo Balbás
Governors
[edit]- Aguascalientes
- Enrique Olivares Santana(until November 30)[1]
- Francisco Guel Jiménez(starting December 1)
- Baja California:Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
- Campeche:Carlos Sansores Pérez
- Chiapas:José Castillo Tielemans
- Chihuahua:Oscar Flores Sánchez
- Coahuila:Braulio Fernández Aguirre
- Colima:Pablo Silva García
- Durango:Alejandro Páez Urquidi
- Guanajuato:Manuel M. Moreno
- Guerrero:Raymundo Abarca Alarcón
- Hidalgo:Carlos Ramírez Guerrero
- Jalisco:Francisco Medina Ascencio
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:Agustín Arriaga/Carlos Gálvez Betancourt
- Morelos:Emilio Riva Palacio
- Nayarit:Julián Gazcón Mercado
- Nuevo León:Eduardo Elizondo
- Oaxaca:Rodolfo Brena Torres
- Puebla:Aarón Merino Fernández
- Querétaro:Juventino Castro Sánchez
- San Luis Potosí:Antonio Rocha Cordero
- Sinaloa:Leopoldo Sánchez Celis
- Sonora:Faustino Félix Serna
- Tabasco:Manuel R. Mora Martínez
- Tamaulipas:Praxedis Balboa
- Tlaxcala:Anselmo Cervantes
- Veracruz:Fernando López Arias/Rafael Murillo Vidal
- Yucatán:Luis Torres Mesías
- Zacatecas:José Rodríguez Elías/Pedro Ruiz González
- Regent of the Federal District:Alfonso Corona del Rosal[2]
Events
[edit]- October 2 – around 10,000 university and high school students gathered in thePlaza de las Tres Culturasto protest the government's actions and listen peacefully to speeches then the national guard attacked the demonstrations thus generating theTlatelolco massacre.
- October 12 – October 27 – The Games of theXIX Olympiadare held in Mexico City.
- October 16 – In Mexico City, black American athletesTommie SmithandJohn Carlosraise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres.
Awards
[edit]Notable births
[edit]- February 9
- Ana Colchero,actress and economist
- Alejandra Guzman,singer and actress[3]
- February 15 –Gloria Trevi,singer and actress[4]
- April 18 —Cuitláhuac García Jiménez,politician (Morena);Governor of Veracruzstarting2018
- June 30 —Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas,Governor of Puebla2011-2017 (d.2018)
- July 15 –Leticia Calderon,actress
- July 27 –Jorge Salinas,actor
- August 11 —Rolando Zapata Bello,politician (PRI);Governor of Yucatán2012–2018
- September 22 –Eve Gil,writer
- November 7 –Ignacio Padilla,writer, co-founder ofCrack Movement(d. August 20, 2016).
- November 11 —Miguel Márquez Márquez,Governor of Guanajuato2012-2018
- November 28 –Ana Maria Alvarado,journalist
- December 12 –Tatiana,singer[5]
- December 17 –Claudio Suarez,former soccer player (FIFA World Cup1994, 1998, 2006)[6]
- Date unknown — Rubén Díaz Alcántara, Catholic priest, (d.2018).
Notable deaths
[edit]- January 15 –Firpo Segura,Mexican boxer and wrestler.
- October 2 — Deaths related to theTlatelolco massacrevary between 26 (official figure), and 325 (Octavio Paz)[7]
- October 30 –Ramon Novarro,Mexican actor (born 1899).
References
[edit]- ^Rodriguez Medina, Carolos Sinoe (7 November 2018)."» Enrique Olivares Santana: el hombre del siglo en Aguascalientes".Crisol Hoy(in Mexican Spanish).RetrievedAugust 28,2020.
- ^"Falleció Alfonso Corona del Rosal, ex líder del PRI".El Universal(in Spanish). 31 Dec 2000.RetrievedAugust 28,2020.
- ^Thom Jurek."Alejandra Guzman".All Music.com.RetrievedAugust 24,2019.
- ^"Gloria Trevi".Biography.com.Apr 17, 2019.RetrievedAugust 24,2019.
- ^"tatiana".Musica.com(in Spanish).RetrievedAugust 24,2019.
- ^"Los 10 de Marca Claro, #8 Claudio Suarez"[The 10 best of Marca Claro, #8 Claudio Suarez].Marca Claro(in Spanish).RetrievedAugust 24,2019.
- ^"¿Cuántos muertos hubo el 2 de octubre de 1968 en Tlatelolco?"[How many deaths were there on October 2, 1968 in Tlatelolco?].Publimetro.com.mx(in Spanish). Oct 2, 2018.RetrievedAug 24,2019.