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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Events in the year 1986 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz
• Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
• Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena/Manuel Camacho Solís
• Secretary of Public Education: Miguel González Avelar
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Carlos del Río Rodríguez

Governors

Events

• The girl band Fandango is established.
• The Museo de la Estampa and the Franz Mayer Museum are founded.
• The Colegio Nautilus is established.
• Vacation resort Rancho Leonero is established.
• Conni Carranza from Sonora becomes Señorita México 1986.
• The Xochimilco Light Rail starts operating after being upgraded from a streetcar line.
• March 31: Mexicana Flight 940
• September 11: Centro Escolar el Encino established.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Salvador Zubirán

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1986

Sport

• 1985–86 Mexican Primera División season
• Ángeles Negros de Puebla win the Mexican League
• 1986 FIFA World Cup
• 1986 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Mexico City.
• 1986 Mexican Grand Prix

Births

• July 8: Jaime Garcia, baseball player
• November 22: Sebastián Zurita, actor.
• Date unknown: Luis Trujillo Llame, Catholic priest; (d. November 21, 2018).

Deaths

• July 9: Nellie Campobello, writer. (b. 1900)
• August 6: Emilio Fernández, movie director, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1904)