← 1979 1978 1977 1980 in Mexico → 1981 1982 1983
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Events in the year 1980 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: José López Portillo
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Enrique Olivares Santana (until November 30), Manuel Bartlett Díaz (starting December 1)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López
• Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
• Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Guillermo Rossell de la Lama/Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

Governors

Events

• Zeta is founded.
• The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas is established.
• The Centro de Investigaciones en Optica is founded.
• The Ollin Yoliztli Prize is awarded for the first time.
• The Palacio de Lecumberri starts housing the General National Archive
• July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.
• October 24: 1980 Oaxaca earthquake.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Luis Padilla Nervo

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1980.

Sport

• 1979–80 Mexican Primera División season.
• Saraperos de Saltillo win the Mexican League.
• Mexico at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
• Mexico at the 1980 Summer Paralympics.
• Correcaminos UAT founded.

Births

• February 4 – Gerardo Alcántara, soccer player
• February 23 – Geovanna Bañuelos de la Torre, politician
• March 18 — Olga Vargas, synchronized swimmer^[1]
• March 30 — Mauricio Vila Dosal, Governor of Yucatán 2018–2024
• April 2 – Carlos Salcido, footballer
• November 15 — Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo, Governor of Guanajuato starting 2018
• December 12 — Pablo Baltodano Monroy, diplomat and politician

Deaths

• March 18 — Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher who lived in Cuernavaca from 1956-1976 (b. 1900)^[2]
• May 13 — Carmen García González, wife of President Emilio Portes Gil (1928-1930) (b. 1905)