Incumbents

Federal government

President: Ernesto Zedillo
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Emilio Chuayffet (until 3 January); Francisco Labastida (from 21 May)
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): María del Rosario Green Macías
Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Ruiz Sacristán
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Enrique Cervantes Aguirre
Secretary of Navy: José Ramón Lorenzo Franco
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Antonio González Fernández
Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez/Esteban Moctezuma
Secretary of Public Education: Miguel Limón Rojas
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Óscar Espinosa Villarreal
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Julia Carabias Lillo
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán

Governors

Aguascalientes
- Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), until November 30
- Felipe González González, PAN, starting December 1
Baja California:
- Héctor Terán Terán, (National Action Party (PAN)), died in office, October 4.^[1]
- Alejandro González Alcocer, Substitute, PAN
Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño (PRD)/Guillermo Mercado Romero (PRI)
Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
Chiapas: Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro/Roberto Albores Guillén (PRI)
Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio/Patricio Martínez García (PRI)
Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI)
Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña (PRI)
Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier (PRI)
Guanajuato: Vicente Fox (PAN)
Guerrero: Angel Aguirre Rivero (PAN)
Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam/Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez (PAN)
Jalisco: Humberto Lugo Gil/Manuel Angel Nunez Soto (PAN)
State of Mexico: César Camacho Quiroz/Arturo Montiel Rojas (PRI)
Michoacán: Víctor Manuel Tinoco
Morelos: Antonio Riva Palacio López/Jorge Morales Barud (Substitute—PRI).^[2]
Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales (PRI)
Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López (PRI)
Puebla: Melquiades Morales Flores/Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI)
Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera (PRI)
Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid/Joaquín Hendricks Díaz (PRI)
San Luis Potosí: Manuel Bartlett Díaz/Fernando Silva Nieto (PRI)
Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado/Juan S. Millán (PRI)
Sonora: Armando López Nogales (PRI)
Tabasco: Roberto Madrazo Pintado (PRI)
Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma
Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRI)
Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero/Miguel Alemán Velasco (PRI)
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco (PRI)
Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal Ávila (PRI)
Head of Government of the Federal District
- Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), (until September 29)^[3]
- Rosario Robles (PRD) (starting September 29)

Events

El diario de Daniela begins airing on television.
March 18: The TV channel Canal del Congreso is launched.
April 21: the Pinacoteca Diego Rivera is inaugurated.
August 30: 1998 Mexican Fobaproa funds referendum
September 14: Camila (telenovela) begins.
September 19: Nuestra Belleza México 1998

Hurricanes

August 21–24: Tropical Storm Charley (1998)
September 1–3: Hurricane Isis (1998)
October 15–26: Hurricane Lester (1998)
October 16–20: Hurricane Madeline (1998)
October 22 – November 9: Hurricane Mitch

Births

April 3 - Humberto Castellanos, baseball player
November 10 – Karen Villanueva, rhythmic gymnast^[5]

Deaths

September 5 – Fernando Balzaretti, actor (b. 1946)
December 13 – Ariadna Welter, actress (b. 1930)

References

^ "Baja California: La sucesión anticipada". www.nexos.com.mx (in Spanish). 1 Nov 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
^ Frikas, Javier Jaramillo (Nov 12, 2012). "El doctor Morales Barud". La Unión (in European Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "Biografia de Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas". www.biografiasyvidas.com (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "DIARIO DE LOS DEBATES" (PDF) (in Spanish). Senado de la Republica. 8 Oct 1998. p. 5. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics | Athlete Profile: VILLANUEVA Karen - Pan American Games Lima 2019". wrsd.lima2019.pe. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

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