1952 in Mexico

Federal government • President: Miguel Alemán Valdés (until November 30), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (starting December 1) • Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ernesto P. Uruchurtu/Ángel Carvajal Bernal • Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/Luis Padilla Nervo • Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Lazo • Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Gual Vidal/Jose Angel Ceniceros • Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gilberto R. Limón/Matías Ramos • Secretary of Navy: Alberto J. Pawling/Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada • Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Manuel Ramírez Vázquez/Adolfo López Mateos Supreme Court • President of the Supreme Court: Roque Estrada Reynoso Governors • Aguascalientes: Edmundo Gámez Orozco • Baja California: Alfonso García González • Campeche: Manuel López Hernández • Chiapas: Francisco J. Grajales/Efraín Aranda Osorio • Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez • Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López • Colima: Jesús González Lugo • Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez • Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya • Guerrero: Alejandro Gómez Maganda/Darío L. Arrieta Mateos • Hidalgo: Vicente Aguirre del Castillo/Quintín Rueda Villagrán • Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo • State of Mexico: Salvador Sánchez Colín • Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río • Morelos: Ernesto Escobar Muñoz/Rodolfo López de Nava • Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán • Nuevo León: Ignacio Morones Prieto/José S. Vivanco • Oaxaca: Manuel Mayoral Heredia/Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado • Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho • Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra/Juan C. Gorraéz • San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres/Manuel Álvarez • Sinaloa: Enrique Pérez Arce • Sonora: Ignacio Soto/Álvaro Obregón Tapia • Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría • Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán • Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza • Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull • Yucatán: Humberto Esquivel Medina/Tomás Marentes Miranda • Zacatecas: José Minero Roque ==Events==

• The Miss Mexico organization is formed. • The Gorditas Doña Tota restaurant chain is established in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas by Carlota Murillo. • January 16: The North Territory of Baja California is admitted as the State of Baja California. • April: The trade union confederation called Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) is founded. • July 7: 1952 Mexican general election. ==Film==

• List of Mexican films of 1952. ==Sport==

• 1951–52 Mexican Primera División season. • Aguila de Veracruz win the Mexican League. • Mexico at the 1952 Summer Olympics. ==Births==

• January 22 – Iliana Godoy Patiño, narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (d. 2017). • February 24 — Jesús Aguilar Padilla, politician (PRI) and lawyer; Governor of Sinaloa 2004–2010. • March 23 — Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), wrestler (d. 2018). • April 27 — Federico Barbosa Gutiérrez, jurist and politician, member of the Congress of the Union (2003–2006); (d. 2018). • June 16 — Salvador Pineda, soap opera actor • October 19 — Verónica Castro, actress, singer, producer, former model, and presenter. • November 21 – Jorge Arturo García Rubí, lawyer, politician (PRI), Governor of Morelos (May–September 2000). • November 24 — Laura León, actress and singer • December 5 — Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, politician (PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2016 - 2018 • Date unknown — Enrique Caballero Vela, actor (d. 2018). ==Deaths==

• 12 June — Genovevo de la O, general of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1876) • 21 July – Pedro Lascuráin, 34th President of Mexico for 45 minutes in 1914 (b. 1856) ==References==