1970 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• The Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología founded.
• May 23: Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal established.
• July 5: 1970 Mexican general election.
• August 31 – September 5: Tropical Storm Norma.
• November 20: Metro Hospital General opens.
• November 23: The Boundary Treaty of 1970 is signed.

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1970

  Sport

• 1969–70 Mexican Primera División season
• 1970 Mexican Primera División season
• 1970 FIFA World Cup
• Rojos del Águila de Veracruz win the Mexican League
• 1970 Mexican Grand Prix
• Club Universidad de Guadalajara and Club Jalisco are founded.

  Births

• February 16 — Nailea Norvind, actress
• April 13 — Eduardo Capetillo, singer and actor
• June 17 — Sasha Sokol, singer, composer, actress, and television host
• September 18 — Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís, politician and Governor of Coahuila starting 2017
• September 29 — Ninel Conde, Mexican actress, singer, and television host
• October 1 — José Ignacio Peralta, Governor of Colima starting 2016
• October 8 — Mayrín Villanueva, model and actress
• December 28 — Yolanda Andrade, Mexican actress and television presenter

  Deaths

• October 19 – Lázaro Cárdenas, 44th President of Mexico