1991 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: 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 Amparo Museum is inaugurated.
• The FIL Award is awarded for the first time, the recipient is Chilean author Nicanor Parra.
• The Monterrey Metro begins operating.
• The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey is established.
• August 18: 1991 Mexican legislative election.
• September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio.
• Unknown date: Xcaret Park opens.

  Sport

• 1990–91 Mexican Primera División season
• 1990–91 Copa México
• Sultanes de Monterrey win the Mexican League.
• 1991 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics take place in Xalapa, Veracruz.
• 1991 Mexican Grand Prix
• 430 km of Mexico City
• Mexico at the 1991 Pan American Games
• The Naranjeros de Álamo are founded.

  Births

• August 2 – Zuleyka Silver, fashion model and actress

  Deaths

• February 5 — Sergio Méndez Arceo, 7th Mexican bishop of Cuernavaca 1953-1982, and advocate of Liberation theology.
• June 24 — Rufino Tamayo, painter
• October 10 — Nazario S. Ortiz Garza, Governor of Coahuila 1929-1933