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Events in the year 1938 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Lázaro Cárdenas
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Silvestre Guerrero; Ignacio García Téllez
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Eduardo Hay
Communications Secretary (SCT): Francisco J. Múgica
Education Secretary (SEP): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela^[1]
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Manuel Ávila Camacho^[2]

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

Governors

Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
Jalisco: Everardo Topete
State of Mexico: Eucario López
Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
Sonora: Ramón Ramos
Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas/Florencio Palomo Valencia
Zacatecas: Matías Ramos

Events

March 18 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.

Popular culture

Sports

1938–39 Primera Fuerza season

Music

Film

Beautiful Mexico, musical directed by and starring Ramón Pereda, with Adriana Lamar and Antonio R. Frausto^[3]

Literature

José Rubén Romero — La vida inútil de Pito Pérez

Births

12 February — Pilar Pellicer, actress (d. 2020)^[4]
4 May — Carlos Monsiváis, philosopher (d. 2010)^[5]
20 August
- Jacqueline Andere, actress^[6]
- Irma González, wrestler

Deaths

19 October – Niño Fidencio, Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1898)^[7]

References

^ Neufeld, Stephen; Matthews, Michael; Beezley, William H. (2015). Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power. University of Arizona Press. p. 227. ISBN 9780816531325.
^ LaFrance, David G. "Manuel Ávila Camacho" in Encyclopedia of Mexico, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, p. 116.
^ Andrew Grant Wood. Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography. OUP USA, 2014. Page 285
^ "Pilar Pellicer, la actriz que el Nuevo Cine Mexicano acogió entre sus grandes estrellas". El Sol de Mexico (in Spanish). 16 May 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
^ Wilkinson, Tracy (June 20, 2010). "Mexican author and activist Carlos Monsivais dies at 72". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
^ "20 de agosto de 1938: nace la actriz mexicana de cine, televisión y teatro, Jacqueline Andere" (in Spanish). Instituto Mexicano de la Radio. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
^ Laura Castaneda (5 May 1991). "Years After Nino's Death, Miracle Curer's Cult Thrives". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

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