1994 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Ernesto Zedillo
• 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

• January 1
• * The North American Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States goes into effect
• * The Zapatista Army of National Liberation goes public in response to NAFTA.
• January 16 — The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Benjamín Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier. He had met with Ramón Arellano Félix six weeks earlier.
• March 23 – Luis Donaldo Colosio presidential candidate for the PRI is assassinated in Tijuana, Baja California.
• August 11 – Hurricane John starts in southern Mexico
• August 21 – Presidential elections
• September 28 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, brother-in-law of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former governor of Guerrero, and leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is assassinated.
• October 11 – Hurricane Rosa kills four in Nayarit and Durango
• December 1 - Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
• December 21 — The Popocateptl volcano spewed gas and ash, which was carried as far as away by prevailing winds. The activity prompted the evacuation of nearby towns and scientists to begin monitoring for an eruption.
• December
• * economic crisis in Mexico with the peso losing a third of its value
• * The Fobaproa is applied in response to the economic crisis
• * El Barzón is created in response to the economic crisis

  Popular culture

Sports

• July 5 - Mexico loses 1–3 versus Bulgaria and is eliminated from the Football World Cup 1994

  Music

Film

• June 6 - The XXXVI edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
• El callejón de los milagros of Jorge Fons
• Bienvenido-Welcome of Gabriel Retes
• Dos crímenes of Roberto Sneider
• Hasta morir of Fernando Sariñana
• El jardín del edén of María Novaro
• La reina de la noche of Arturo Ripstein
• Mujeres insumisas of Alberto Isaac
• Dulces compañías of Oscar Blancarte
• Un volcán con lava de hielo of Valentina Leduc
• El árbol de la música of Sabina Berman & Isabel Tardán
• Del otro lado del mar of Marcela Arteaga

  Literature

TV

Telenovelas

• Dos mujeres, un camino, on Televisa
• Marimar, on Televisa
• Volver a empezar, on Televisa

  Births

• October 17 – Alejandra Valencia, archer
• November 8 – Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez, soccer player;.

  Deaths

• March 23 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, candidate to the Presidency of Mexico
• September 28 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, politician, assassinated