1988 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid, Carlos Salinas de Gortari
• 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 National Council for Culture and Arts is established.
• The Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca is established
• July 6: 1988 Mexican general election
• August 31 – September 8: Hurricane Debby
• September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbert

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1988

  Sport

• 1987–88 Mexican Primera División season
• Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
• Atlético Boca del Río and Venados de Yucatán are founded.
• 1988 Mexican Grand Prix
• Mexico at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• Mexico at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Mexico at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
• 1988 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.

  Births

• February 5 – Karin Ontiveros, beauty queen
• May 21 — Aída Román, archer
• November 23 — Ezequiel Orozco, soccer player,

  Deaths

• July 11 — Oscar Flores Tapia, journalist, writer, and politician ; Governor of Coahuila 1975–1981