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.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Felipe Calderón PAN

• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Fernando Gómez Mont
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa
• Communications Secretary (SCT)
• Luis Téllez, until March 3
• Juan Molinar Horcasitas, starting March 3
• Education Secretary (SEP)
• Josefina Vázquez Mota, until April 4
• Alonso Lujambio, starting April 6
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván
• Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón
• Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)
• Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, until December 9
• Heriberto Félix Guerra, starting December 9
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova
• Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna
• Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP)
• Agustín Carstens, until December 9
• Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9
• Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1
• Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA)
• Alberto Cárdenas, until September 7
• Francisco Javier Mayorga Castañeda, starting September 7
• Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): Salvador Vega Casillas
• Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez
• Secretary of Economy (SE): Gerardo Ruiz Mateos
• Attorney General of Mexico (PRG)
• Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, until September 7
• Arturo Chávez Chávez, starting September 24

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia

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: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
• Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Colima:
• Silverio Cavazos, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), until 1 November
• Mario Anguiano Moreno, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI) from 1 November
• Durango: Ismael Hernández, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva, (National Action Party, PAN)
• Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• State of Mexico: Enrique Pena Nieto, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (until 15 February); Leonel Godoy Rangel (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (from 15 February)
• Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame (PAN).
• Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
• Nuevo León:
• José Natividad González Parás, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), until 3 October
• Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), from 3 October
• Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Puebla: Mario Marín Torres, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón (National Action Party, PAN)
• Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• San Luis Potosí:
• Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Fraga, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), until 25 September
• Fernando Toranzo Fernández, Fernando Toranzo Fernández, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), from 25 September
• Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar Padilla, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI)
• Sonora:
• Eduardo Bours, (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), until 12 September
• Guillermo Padrés Elías, (National Action Party, PAN), from 12 September
• Tabasco: Andrés Rafael Granier Melo, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz (National Action Party, PAN)
• Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Zacatecas: Amalia García (Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD)
• Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)

Events

• 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.
• March 4 – 2009 Mexico prison riot: A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.
• March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in a bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
• April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.
• April 19 – Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico.
• April 25 – Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza.
• April 27 – 2009 Guerrero earthquake: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.
• May 16 – The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico.
• May 22 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico.
• June 6 – 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire: a fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.
• July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico.
• July 5 – Mexico holds its legislative election.
• August 3 – Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hit northwestern Mexico.
• 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.
• August 4 – President Felipe Calderon receives Honduras President Manuel Zelaya in Los Pinos after a coup d'etat.
• August 15 – A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.
• August 21 – Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use".
• 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.
• September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico.
• 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.
• December 21 – Mexico City's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption.
• 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.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Javier Barros Sierra (post mortem)
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
• National Prize for Arts and Sciences
• National Public Administration Prize
• Ohtli Award
• Viola Casares
• Jimmie V. Reyna
• Esperanza Andrade
• Gil Cedillo
• Gloria Molina
• Enrique Morones
• Janet Murguía

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

Music

• List of number-one albums of 2009 (Mexico)

Film

• All inclusive
• Alamar
• Amar a morir
• Cabeza de Buda
• Otra película de huevos y un pollo
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• Recién Cazado
• Sólo quiero caminar
• Secretos de familia
• Nikté

Literature

TV

Telenovelas

• Un gancho al corazón
• Mañana es para siempre
• Atrévete a soñar
• Verano de amor
• Mi pecado
• Camaleones
• Hasta que el dinero nos separe
• Sortilegio
• Alma de Hierro
• Pasión Morena
• Eternamente tuya
• Pobre diabla
• Los exitosos Pérez
• Corazón salvaje
• Mujer comprada

Notable deaths

• January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.
• January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, '), heart failure.
• February 6 – Claudio Reyes Núñez, politician PRI, president of Otáez Municipality, Durango; murdered.
• February 7 – Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.
• February 22 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez Aceves, politician PRD, former president of Petatlán (municipality), Guerrero: murdered.
• February 24 – Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, politician PRI, municipal president of Vista Hermosa, Michoacán; murdered.
• March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.
• March 7 – |Gonzalo Paz Torres||N/A||Chief of city council||7 March 2009||Tancítaro, Michoacán||
• March 14 – Dimas Arzeta Cisneros, politician PRI, former president of Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero; murdered.
• March 18 – Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).
• March 22 – Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.
• March 23 – Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer.
• March 26 – Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.
• April 3 – Nicolás León Hernández, politician PRI, former municipal president of Isla del Cayacal, Michoacán; murdered.
• April 7 – Gustavo Bucio Rodríguez, politician PRD, candidate for Deputy in Michoacán; murdered.
• April 20 – Alfonso Rivera Cruz, municipal president pro tempore of Zapotitlán Tablas (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
• April 23 – Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest.
• April 30 – Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.
• May 5 – Manuel Capetillo, bullfighter, singer, and actor; respiratory illness (b. 1926)
• May 5 – Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.
• June 2 – Luis Carlos Ramírez López, politician PAN, president of Ocampo Municipality; murdered.
• June 11 – Efraín Gutiérrez Arcos, politician PRI, former municipal president of Santa Ana Maya, Michoacán; murdered.
• June 23 — Manuel Saval, 53, actor (b. 1956)
• July 14
• Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician PAN, president of Namiquipa Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
• Ismael Rivera, politician, treasurer of the municipality of Namiquipa, Chihuahua; murdered.
• July 19 – Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.
• July 22 – Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• August 20
• Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman, founder of Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain.
• Armando Chavarría Barrera, politician PRD, Deputy from Chilpancingo, Guerrero; murdered.
• August 29 – Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes.
• September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, politician; shot.
• October 9 – Estanislao García Santelis, politician, municipal president of Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua; murdered.
• October 16 – José Sánchez Chávez, politician PRI, former municipal president of Tiquicheo, Michoacán; murdered.
• October 25 – Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.
• November 6 – Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.
• November 7 – Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.
• November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.
• November 28 – Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes.
• December 4: Leticia Palma (Zoyla Gloria Ruiz Moscoso), 82, actress (En la palma de tu mano), (b. 1926)
• December 7 – Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist.
• December 16 – Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.

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