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President: José López Portillo (until November 30), Miguel de la Madrid (starting December 1)
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez (until November 30), Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (starting December 1)
Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya/Rodolfo Félix Valdés
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López/Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara/Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada/Arsenio Farell Cubillas
Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez/Marcelo Javelly Girard
Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/Jesús Reyes Heroles
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Fernando Rafful Miguel/Pedro Ojeda Paullada
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

President of the Supreme Court: Mario G. Rebolledo Fernández then Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

Museo Nacional de Arte is founded.
March – Reino Aventura opens
March 31 – 14 killed, 100 injured, and 15,000 others suffer the effects of the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in Francisco León, Chiapas, 100 km from Villahermosa.^[3]
July 4 – 1982 Mexican general election
August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.
September 1 – During his last government report, president José López Portillo nationalizes banks.

January 9 — Lorenza Morfín, road cyclist
March 7 — Aarón Díaz, model, actor, and singer
March 13 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Presidente Municipal of Temixco, Morelos (January 1-January 2, 2016) (assassinated 2016)
December 19 – Nara Falcón, synchronized swimmer^[4]
Date unknown
- Raúl Castañeda, boxer (d. September 6, 2017).

^ Cinta, Guillermo (24 July 2010). "Aniversario luctuoso de don Lauro". La Unión (in European Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). 5 December 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "14 muertos por la erupción de un volcán en México" [14 killed by the eruption of a volcano in Mexico], El Pais (in Spanish), Mexico City, March 31, 1982, retrieved March 27, 2019
^ "Nara FALCON - Olympic Synchronized Swimming | Mexico". International Olympic Committee. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2019.

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