Events in the year 1994 in Mexico. Incumbents Federal government President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari (until November 30), Ernesto Zedillo (starting December 1) Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Patrocinio González Garrido/Jorge Carpizo McGregor/Esteban Moctezuma Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Camacho Solís/José Ángel Gurría Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Gamboa Patrón/Guillermo Ortiz Martínez/Carlos Ruiz Sacristán Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Antonio Riviello Bazán/Enrique Cervantes Aguirre Secretary of Navy: Luis Carlos Ruano Angulo/José Ramón Lorenzo Franco Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas/Manuel Gómez Peralta/Santiago Oñate Laborde Secretary of Welfare: Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales/José Ángel Pescador/Fausto Alzati/Miguel Limón Rojas Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Silvia Hernández Enríquez Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Guillermo Jiménez Morales/Julia Carabias Lillo Secretary of Health (SALUD): Jesús Kumate Rodríguez/Juan Ramón De La Fuente Supreme Court President of the Supreme Court: Ulises Schmill Ordóñez Governors Aguascalientes: Otto Granados Roldán, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI) Baja California: Ernesto Ruffo Appel, (National Action Party PAN) Baja California Sur: Guillermo Mercado Romero Campeche: Jorge Salomón Azar García Chiapas: Elmar Setzer Marseille/Javier López Moreno/Eduardo Robledo Rincón Chihuahua: Francisco Barrio (PAN) Coahuila: Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (PRI) Colima: Carlos de la Madrid Virgen Durango: Maximiliano Silerio Esparza Guanajuato: Carlos Medina Plascencia Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (PRI) Hidalgo: Jesús Murillo Karam Jalisco: Carlos Rivera Aceves State of Mexico: Emilio Chuayffet (PRI) Michoacán: Ausencio Chávez Hernández Morelos Antonio Riva Palacio (PRI), until May 17. Jorge Carrillo Olea (PRI), starting May 18. Nayarit: Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza Nuevo León: Sócrates Rizzo (PRI) Oaxaca: Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano (PRI) Puebla: Manuel Bartlett Díaz (PRI) Querétaro: Enrique Burgos García (PRI) Quintana Roo: Mario Villanueva Madrid (PRI) San Luis Potosí: Horacio Sánchez Unzueta (PRI) Sinaloa: Renato Vega Alvarado (PRI) Sonora: Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera (PRI) Tabasco: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez (PRI) Tamaulipas: Manuel Cavazos Lerma (PRI) Tlaxcala: José Antonio Álvarez Lima (PRD) Veracruz: Patricio Chirinos Calero (PRD) Yucatán: Ricardo Ávila Heredia/Federico Granja Ricalde (PRI) Zacatecas: Arturo Romo Gutiérrez (PRI) Regent of Mexico City Manuel Aguilera Gomez Oscar Espinosa Villarreal Events January 1 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, Canada and the United States goes into effect The Zapatista Army of National Liberation goes public in response to NAFTA. January 16 – The Apostolic Nunciature to Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, has a secret meeting with drug lord Benjamín Arellano Félix, who was implicated in the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas six months earlier. He had met with Ramón Arellano