2005 in Mexico

Events in the year 2005 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Vicente Fox PAN

• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Ernesto Derbez
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Pedro Cerisola
• Education Secretary (SEP): Reyes Tamez
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gerardo Clemente Vega
• Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Marco Antonio Peyrot González
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS)
• José Carlos María Abascal Carranza (date of resignation not available)
• Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz (date of appointment not available)
• Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
• Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, until June 23
• José Luis Luege Tamargo, starting June 23
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
• Attorney General of Mexico (PRG)
• Rafael Macedo de la Concha, until April 27
• Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, starting April 28

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso PAN
• Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
• Baja California Sur
• Leonel Cota Montaño PRD, until April 5.
• Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD, starting April 5.
• Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PRI
• Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD
• Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas PRI
• Coahuila
• Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI, until February 15
• Humberto Moreira PRI, starting February 17
• Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes PRI
• Durango: Ismael Hernández PRI
• Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN
• Guerrero
• René Juárez Cisneros PRI, date not available
• Zeferino Torreblanca PRD, date not available
• Hidalgo
• Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI, until March 31
• Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI, starting April 1
• Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN
• State of Mexico
• Arturo Montiel PRI, until September 16
• Enrique Peña Nieto PRI, starting September 16
• Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
• Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN
• Nayarit
• Antonio Echevarría Domínguez, until September
• Ney González Sánchez, starting September
• Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
• Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz PRI
• Puebla
• Melquíades Morales PRI, until January 31
• Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI, starting February 1
• Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN
• Quintana Roo
• Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI, until April 4
• Félix González Canto PRI, starting April 5
• San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN
• Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI, until December 31
• Sonora: Eduardo Bours PRI
• Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1
• Tamaulipas
• Tomás Yarrington PRI, until February 1
• Eugenio Hernández Flores PRI, starting February 5
• Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
• Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán PRI
• Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
• Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
• Head of Government of the Federal District: Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez PRD

Events

• CUMEX is formed.
• The Socialist Alliance (Mexico) is formed.
• The Centro de Investigaciones Cientifícas de las Huastecas 'Aguazarca' is founded.
• January 30 – New Alliance Party founded.
• March 23 – The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is signed by the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States in Waco, Texas.
• March 29 – Ariel Award in 2005
• April 7 – The Chamber of Deputies votes to lift Andrés Manuel López Obrador's constitutional immunity against prosecution (desafuero).
• April 16–17 – National Assembly of the Socialist Left
• May 8 – 2005 Denver police officer shooting
• June 8: Alejandro Domínguez Coello is murdered.
• July 18 – Hurricane Emily (category 4) hits the Yucatán Peninsula.
• September 2 – Nuestra Belleza México 2005
• September 8 – The Mexican Army is received with honors at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas in response to Hurricane Katrina.
• October 4 – Hurricane Stan (category 1) hits the state of Veracruz.
• October 21 – Hurricane Wilma (category 4) hits the Yucatán Peninsula.
• November 4 – Start of the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas.
• November 7 – radio program El Weso starts airing.
• November 10 – Beginning of the 2005 Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis.
• December 9 – the Mesoamerican Energy Integration Program was signed between by Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Central America.
• December 25 — The Popocateptl volcano's crater produced an explosion which ejected a large column of smoke and ash about into the atmosphere and expulsion of lava.

Elections

• 2005 Coahuila state election
• 2005 Colima gubernatorial election
• 2005 State of Mexico election

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Gilberto Borja Navarrete
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
• National Prize for Arts and Sciences
• National Public Administration Prize
• Ohtli Award
• Marylou Olivarez Mason
• Miguel D. Wise
• Blanca Alvarado
• Ruben Barrales

Popular culture

Sports

• Primera División de México Clausura 2005
• Primera División de México Apertura 2005
• 2005 InterLiga
• Fútbol Americano
• 2005 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
• 2005 Gran Premio Telmex/Tecate
• 2005 Desafío Corona season
• 2005 Rally México
• 2005 Caribbean Series in Mazatlán
• Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2005)
• 2005 IIHF World Championship Division III won by Mexico in Mexico.

Music

Film

• March 29 – The XLVII edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
• November 4 – La mujer de mi hermano

Literature

Carlos Monsiváis won the National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes)

TV

Telenovelas

• July 18 – Amor en custodia on TV Azteca
• July 18 – La esposa virgen on Televisa
• September 26 – El Amor No Tiene Precio on Televisa
• October 3 – Machos on TV Azteca

Notable deaths

• January 5 – Eduardo Hay (89), International Olympic Committee
• January 14 – Ofelia Guilmain (83), Spanish -born film and stage actress
• January 18 – Teodoro Herrera Sosa, politician PRI, former municipal president, Soto la Marina, Tamaulipas;murdered along with wife and two children.
• January 22 – Consuelo Velázquez (88), songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song Bésame Mucho
• February 24 – Gustavo Vázquez Montes (42), incumbent governor of Colima
• March 27 – Rigo Tovar (58), popular singer and composer
• April 10 – Raúl Gibb Guerrero (53), newspaper editor
• April 16 – Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla (39), journalist
• April 16 – Jaime Fernández (67), actor
• April 29 – Mariana Levy (39), actress
• May 5 – Édgar Ponce (30), actor
• June 5 – Oscar Morelli (59), actor
• June 5 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (55), scholar, diplomat and politician
• June 8 – Alejandro Domínguez (52), chief of police of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
• July 2 – Martin Sanchez (26), boxer
• July 6 – Marga López (81), Argentine -born screen and television actress
• August 6 – Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine (86), trade union leader
• September 21 – Ramón Martín Huerta (48), minister of public security of the federal government
• November 6 – Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela (87), lawyer and professor

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