2009 in Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2009 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gómez Mont[1]
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa[1]
- Communications Secretary (SCT)[1]
- Luis Téllez, until March 3
- Juan Molinar Horcasitas, starting March 3
- Education Secretary (SEP)[1]
- Josefina Vázquez Mota, until April 4
- Alonso Lujambio, starting April 6
- Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván[1]
- Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza[1]
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón[1]
- Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)[1]
- Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, until December 9
- Heriberto Félix Guerra, starting December 9
- Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres[1]
- Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada[1]
- Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova[1]
- Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna[1]
- Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP)[1]
- Agustín Carstens, until December 9
- Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9
- Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1[1]
- Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA)[1]
- Alberto Cárdenas, until September 7
- Francisco Javier Mayorga Castañeda, starting September 7
- Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): Salvador Vega Casillas[1]
- Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez[1]
- Secretary of Economy (SE): Gerardo Ruiz Mateos[1]
- Attorney General of Mexico (PRG)[1]
- Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, until September 7
- Arturo Chávez Chávez, starting September 24
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso, (National Action Party, PAN)
- Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán, (PAN)
- Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño (Party of the Democratic Revolution, PRD)
- Campeche
- Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), until September 15.
- Fernando Ortega Bernés, (PRI), starting September 16
- Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All)
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila:
- Colima:
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco:
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame (PAN).[2]
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro:
- Quintana Roo:
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas:
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
- Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)
Events
United States President Barack Obama bids farewell to the family of Mexican President Felipe Calderon following their
meeting in Mexico City on April 16, 2009.
- January– A Swine flu pandemic occur right after the U.S. first case of the Flu.
- February 11 – Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of a 16th-century mass grave at the Tlatelolco archaeological site in Mexico City.[3]
- March 4 – 2009 Mexico prison riot: A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.[4]
- March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in a bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.[5]
- April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.[6]
- April 19 – Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico.[7]
- April 25 – Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza.[8]
- April 27 – 2009 Guerrero earthquake: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.[9]
- May 16 – The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico.[10]
- May 22 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico.[11]
- June 6 – 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire: a fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.[12]
- July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico.[13]
- July 5 – Mexico holds its legislative election.[14]
- August 3 – Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hit northwestern Mexico.[15]
- August 7 – 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings: Shootouts leave at least 11 dead in the escalating violence since Mexico's continuing national crackdown on the illegal drug trade.[16]
- August 4 – President Felipe Calderon receives Honduras President Manuel Zelaya in Los Pinos after a coup d'etat.[17]
- August 15 – A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.[18]
- August 21 – Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use".[19]
- September 9 – Aeroméxico Flight 576, a Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from Cancún, and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport.[20]
- September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico.[21]
- December 16 – Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva, leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, is killed by personnel of the Mexican Navy during a shootout in Cuernavaca, Morelos.[22]
- December 21 – Mexico City's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption.[23]
- December 25 – The death by gunshot wound of Expresiones de Tulum journalist Alberto Velázquez, the 12th journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2009, is announced.[24]
Awards
Popular culture
Sports
- 2009 Primera División de México Clausura
- 2009 Primera División de México Apertura
- 2009 InterLiga
- 2009 CONCACAF Champions League Finals
- 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
- 2009 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
- Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2009)
- 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico
- 2009 LATAM Challenge Series season
- 2009 NASCAR Corona Series season
- 2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series season
- 2009 Chihuahua Express
- 2009 Carrera Panamericana
- 2009 International Rally of Nations
- 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Manzanillo)
- 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Puerto Vallarta)
- 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Tijuana)
- 2009 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
- 2009 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship
- Mexico at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
- 2009 Caribbean Series
Film
- All inclusive
- Amar
- Amar a morir
- Cabeza de Buda
- Otra película de huevos y un pollo
- Tlatelolco: México 68
- Recién Cazado
- Sólo quiero caminar
- Secretos de familia
- Nikté
Notable deaths
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- January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.[25]
- January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure.[26]
- February 6 – Claudio Reyes Núñez, politician
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PRI, president of Otáez Municipality, Durango; murdered.[27][28] - February 7 – Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.[29]
- February 22 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez Aceves, politician
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PRD, former president of Petatlán (municipality), Guerrero: murdered.[30] - February 24 – Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, politician PRI, municipal president of Vista Hermosa, Michoacán; murdered.[31][32]
- March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.[33]
- March 7 – |Gonzalo Paz Torres||N/A||Chief of city council||7 March 2009||Tancítaro, Michoacán||[34][35]
- March 14 – Dimas Arzeta Cisneros, politician PRI, former president of Tecpán de Galeana, Guerrero; murdered.[36]
- March 18 – Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).[37]
- March 22 – Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.[38]
- March 23 – Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer.[39]
- March 26 – Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.[40]
- April 3 – Nicolás León Hernández, politician PRI, former municipal president of Isla del Cayacal, Michoacán; murdered.[41][42]
- April 7 – Gustavo Bucio Rodríguez, politician PRD, candidate for Deputy in Michoacán; murdered.[43][44]
- April 20 – Alfonso Rivera Cruz, municipal president pro tempore of Zapotitlán Tablas (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.[45]
- April 23 – Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest.[46]
- April 30 – Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.[47]
- May 5 – Manuel Capetillo, bullfighter, singer, and actor; respiratory illness (b. 1926)
- May 5 – Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.[48]
- June 2 – Luis Carlos Ramírez López, politician
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PAN, president of Ocampo Municipality; murdered.[49][50] - June 11 – Efraín Gutiérrez Arcos, politician PRI, former municipal president of Santa Ana Maya, Michoacán; murdered.[51][52]
- June 23 — Manuel Saval, 53, actor (b. 1956)
- July 14
- Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician PAN, president of Namiquipa Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.[53][54]
- Ismael Rivera, politician, treasurer of the municipality of Namiquipa, Chihuahua; murdered.[55]
- Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician
- July 19 – Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.[56]
- July 22 – Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.[57]
- August 20
- Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman, founder of Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain.[58]
- Armando Chavarría Barrera, politician PRD, Deputy from Chilpancingo, Guerrero; murdered.[59]
- August 29 – Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes.[60]
- September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, politician; shot.[61]
- October 9 – Estanislao García Santelis, politician, municipal president of Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua; murdered.[62]
- October 16 – José Sánchez Chávez, politician PRI, former municipal president of Tiquicheo, Michoacán; murdered.[63]
- October 25 – Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.[64]
- November 6 – Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.[65]
- November 7 – Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.[66]
- November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.[67]
- November 28 – Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes.[68]
- December 4: Leticia Palma (Zoyla Gloria Ruiz Moscoso), 82, actress (En la palma de tu mano), (b. 1926)[69]
- December 7 – Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist.[70]
- December 16 – Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.[71]
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