1996 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: 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

• Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey established.
• Alternative rock group Plastilina Mosh is founded.
• February 16: the San Andres Accords were signed.
• June: The Guadalajara Gay Pride is founded.
• June 28: The Popular Revolutionary Army announces its existence.
• September 22: Nuestra Belleza México 1996 held in Cancun.
• October 23: The Law of Protection of Commerce and Investments from Foreign Policies that Contravene International Law is published.

  Births

• August 12 : Julio Urías, baseball player

  Deaths

Hurricanes

• July 24 – August 6: Hurricane Cesar–Douglas
• August 19 – 26: Hurricane Dolly
• September 30 – October 4: Hurricane Hernan

  Sports

• 1995–96 Mexican Primera División season
• 1995–96 Copa Mexico
• Mexico wins the 1996 U.S. Cup
• Mexico loses in the final of the Pan American Games football tournament
• Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Mexico at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
• Atlético Hidalgo, C.F. Cuautitlán and Real Sociedad de Zacatecas are founded.