1933 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1933 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Abelardo L. Rodríguez
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Eduardo Vasconcelos
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): José Manuel Puig Casauranc^[1]
Communications Secretary (SCT): Miguel M. Acosta Guajardo
Education Secretary (SEP): Narciso Bassols^[2]
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena (PNR)
Campeche: Benjamín Romero Esquivel
Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales
Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
Coahuila: Salvador Saucedo
- Nazario S. Ortiz Garza (until October 10)
- Jesús Valdez Sánchez (from October 10)
Colima:
Durango: Carlos Real Félix^[3]
Guanajuato: Melchor Ortega
Guerrero:
- Adrián Castrejón
- Gabriel R. Guevara
Hidalgo:
- Bartolomé Vargas Lugo
- Ernesto Viveros
Jalisco:
State of Mexico
- Filiberto Gómez (PNR, 1929–1933)
- José Luis Solórzano, (PNR, 1933–1935)
Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas
Morelos: Vicente Estrada Cajigal (Socialist Revolutionary Party of Morelos, PSRM)
Nayarit
- Luis Castillo Ledón, Constitutional governor (1930–1933)
- Rafael Ibarra Trujillo, Interim governor (1931)
- Juventino Espinoza Sánchez, Interim governor (1933)
- Gustavo B. Azcárraga, Interim governor (1933)
Nuevo León:
- Francisco A. Cárdenas
- Pablo Quiroga^[4]
Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo
Puebla
- Juan Crisóstomo Bonilla (PNR, 1933–1937)
- José Mijares Palencia (1933)
- Gustavo Ariza (1933–1937)
Querétaro: Saturnino Osornio
San Luis Potosí: Ildefonso Turrubiartes
Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
Sonora: Rodolfo Elías Calles (PNR)
Tabasco: Tomás Garrido Canabal (PRST)
Tamaulipas: Albino Hernández (interim)^[5]
Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla (PNR)
Veracruz: Gonzalo Vázquez Vela (PNR)
Yucatán: Bartolomé García Correa (PNR)
Zacatecas: Matías Ramos (PNR)

Events

August 4 – 1933 Florida–Mexico hurricane: Having passed over Florida, the storm regains hurricane status on August 4, a day before striking northern Mexico with winds of 90 mph. It damages buildings and crops in Tamaulipas, while heavy rains lead to flooding that kills at least 31 people, particularly affecting the city of Monterrey.^[6]^[7]
September 5 – The Mexican Stock Exchange is established.

Popular culture

Literature

Walter Krickeberg – Los totonaca contribución a la etnografía histórica de la América Central (translation of German work)

Notable births

May 10 – Antonio González Orozco, muralist (died 2020)
July 4 – La Prieta Linda, singer and actress (died 2021)^[9]
October 12 – Florencio Olvera Ochoa, bishop (died 2020)^[10]

Notable deaths

November 18 - Francisco Javier Gaxiola, diplomat, lawyer and politician (born 1870)^[11]

References

↑ United States. Department of State (1934). United States Statutes at Large: 1933-1934. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1670.
↑ Nathan W. Clarke (2001). Modernizing the Countryside: Agrarian Education, the Mexican Revolution and the Hacienda de Roque, Celaya, Guanajuato. University of California, San Diego. p. 85.
↑ British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Mexico, Central and South America, May 1934-January 1935. University Publications of America. 1989. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-89093-607-8.
↑ Roderic Ai Camp; Roderic A Camp (1991). Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934. University of Texas Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-292-75119-4.
↑ Juan Fidel Zorrilla (1989). Gobernadores, obispos y rectores: cronología-notas. M.A. Porrúa. ISBN 9789688421741.
↑ "Seven Persons Killed in Flood after Storm". St. Petersburg Times. Vol. 51, no. 60. Associated Press. August 7, 1933. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
↑ "11 Drown in Flood". St. Petersburg Times. Vol. 51, no. 62. Associated Press. August 9, 1933. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
↑ "El Vuelo De La Muerte". Película. Archived from the original on 18 August 2025. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
↑ Jiménez, Enriqueta (La Prieta Linda) (9 September 2016). ""Hasta siempre, ojos buenos": La Prieta Linda". Excelsior. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
↑ "Bishop Florencio Olvera Ochoa". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
↑ C. Valadés: Obras (Spanish), 1992, p. XI.

[1] United States. Department of State (1934). United States Statutes at Large: 1933-1934. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1670.

[2] Nathan W. Clarke (2001). Modernizing the Countryside: Agrarian Education, the Mexican Revolution and the Hacienda de Roque, Celaya, Guanajuato. University of California, San Diego. p. 85.

[3] British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Mexico, Central and South America, May 1934-January 1935. University Publications of America. 1989. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-89093-607-8.

[4] Roderic Ai Camp; Roderic A Camp (1991). Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934. University of Texas Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-292-75119-4.

[5] Juan Fidel Zorrilla (1989). Gobernadores, obispos y rectores: cronología-notas. M.A. Porrúa. ISBN 9789688421741.

[6] "Seven Persons Killed in Flood after Storm". St. Petersburg Times. Vol. 51, no. 60. Associated Press. August 7, 1933. Retrieved November 29, 2015.

[7] "11 Drown in Flood". St. Petersburg Times. Vol. 51, no. 62. Associated Press. August 9, 1933. Retrieved November 29, 2015.

[8] "El Vuelo De La Muerte". Película. Archived from the original on 18 August 2025. Retrieved 21 December 2020.

[9] Jiménez, Enriqueta (La Prieta Linda) (9 September 2016). ""Hasta siempre, ojos buenos": La Prieta Linda". Excelsior. Retrieved 20 April 2017.

[10] "Bishop Florencio Olvera Ochoa". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 21 December 2020.

[11] C. Valadés: Obras (Spanish), 1992, p. XI.

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