1986 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid
• 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:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary :
• Secretary of the Environment :
• Secretary of Health :

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

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

  Events

• The girl band Fandango is established.
• The Museo de la Estampa and the Franz Mayer Museum are founded.
• The Colegio Nautilus is established.
• Vacation resort Rancho Leonero is established.
• Conni Carranza from Sonora becomes Señorita México 1986.
• The Xochimilco Light Rail starts operating after being upgraded from a streetcar line.
• March 31: Mexicana Flight 940
• September 11: Centro Escolar el Encino established.

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1986

  Sport

• 1985–86 Mexican Primera División season
• Ángeles Negros de Puebla win the Mexican League
• 1986 FIFA World Cup
• 1986 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.
• 1986 Mexican Grand Prix

  Births

• August 7: Altaír Jarabo, actress and model
• November 22: Sebastián Zurita, actor.
• Date unknown: Luis Trujillo Llame, Catholic priest;.

  Deaths

• July 9: Nellie Campobello, writer.
• August 6: Emilio Fernández, movie director, actor, and screenwriter