2011 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2011 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)
• Francisco Blake Mora, until November 11 (died in office)
• Alejandro Poiré Romero, starting November 17
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa
• Communications Secretary (SCT)
• Juan Molinar Horcasitas, until January 7
• Dionisio Pérez-Jácome Friscione, starting January 7
• Education Secretary (SEP): Alonso Lujambio
• 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, until December 14
• Rosalinda Vélez Juárez, starting December 14
• Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Heriberto Félix Guerra
• Secretary of Public Education (SEP):
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
• Secretary of Health (SALUD)
• José Ángel Córdova, until September 9
• Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, starting September 9
• Secretary of Energy (SENER)
• José Antonio Meade, until September 9
• Jordy Herrera Flores, starting September 9
• Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP)
• Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, until September 9
• José Antonio Meade, starting September 9
• Secretary of Economy (SE): Bruno Ferrari García de Alba
• Secretariat of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre PRI
• Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán PAN
• Baja California Sur
• Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD, until April 5.
• Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor PAN, starting April 5.
• Campeche: Fernando Ortega Bernés PRI
• Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All)
• Chihuahua: César Duarte Jáquez PRI
• Coahuila
• Humberto Moreira PRI, until January 4
• Jorge Torres López PRI, January 4–November 30
• Rubén Moreira PRI, starting December 1
• Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno PRI
• Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera PRI
• Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva PAN
• Guerrero
• Zeferino Torreblanca PRD, until March 31
• Ángel Aguirre Rivero PRD, starting April 1
• Hidalgo
• Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI
• Francisco Olvera Ruiz PRI
• Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez PAN
• State of Mexico
• Enrique Peña Nieto PRI, until September 16
• Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRI, starting September 16
• Michoacán: Leonel Godoy Rangel PRD
• Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame PAN.
• Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
• Nuevo León: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz PRI
• Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo, Convergence
• Puebla
• Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI, until January 31
• Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas PAN, starting February 1
• Querétaro: José Calzada PRI
• Quintana Roo
• Félix González Canto PRI, until April 4
• Roberto Borge Angulo PRI, starting April 5
• San Luis Potosí: Fernando Toranzo Fernández PRI
• Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez, starting January 1
• Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías PAN
• Tabasco: Andrés Granier Melo PRI
• Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú PRI, starting January 1
• Tlaxcala
• Héctor Ortiz Ortiz PAN, untl January 14
• Mariano González Zarur PRI, starting January 15
• Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa PRI
• Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco PRI
• Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
• Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)

Events

January–March

January

• January 6 – the poet and women's rights activist Susana Chávez is murdered in Ciudad Juarez.
• January 14 – Mexican drug war: 14 people are killed in a shootout after 100 soldiers, marines and police in Xalapa, Veracruz, surround a house.
• January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.
• January 30 – State elections in Guerrero.

February

• February 6 – State elections in Baja California Sur.
• February 8 – The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico.
• February 13 – Unidentified gunmen kill eight people in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
• February 15 – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are shot while travelling between Monterrey and Mexico City with one officer dying.
• February 20 – Mexican drug war: 53 people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

March

• March 1 – Seventeen bodies are found in clandestine graves in Mexico's Guerrero state.

April–June

April

• April 6 – 2011 Tamaulipas massacre: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.

May

• May 8 – Bicentennial celebrations in Monterrey.

June

• June 7 – The former Governor of Chiapas state in Mexico Pablo Salazar is arrested on charges on embezzling more than $90 million from hurricane relief funds.

July–September

July

• July 3
• State elections in the State of Mexico.
• State elections in Nayarit.
• Voters in Mexico go to the polls for local elections in the states of Mexico, Coahuila, Nayarit, Puebla and Hidalgo.

August

• August 8 – Monterrey Tech bombing: A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics who was injured along with a guard at the university.
• August 25 – 2011 Monterrey casino attack: more than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
• August 30 – The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.

September

October–December

October

November

• November 13 – State elections in Michoacán.

December

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solorzano
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
• National Prize for Arts and Sciences
• National Public Administration Prize
• Ohtli Award
• Alexander Gonzalez
• Charlie Gonzalez
• Carlos Gutierrez
• Salud Carbajal
• Francisco G. Cigarroa
• Paddy Moloney
• Mel Martínez
• David J. Schmidly
• Richard A. Tapia
• Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
• Edward James Olmos

Notable deaths

January to June

• January 5 – Saúl Vara Rivera, politician PRI, Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila; shot. (body found on this date)
• January 11
• Abraham Ortíz Rosales, politician PVEM, Mayor of Temoac, Morelos; shot.
• Susana Chávez, poet and human rights activist, strangled. (death confirmed on this date)
• January 13 – Luis Jiménez Mata, politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec; shot.
• February 4 – Juan Carlos Guardado Méndez, politician PT, former municipal president of Fresnillo, Zacatecas; murdered.
• February 9 – Rodolfo Ochoa Moreno, journalist (Grupo Multimedios Laguna), Torreón, Coahuila; killed.
• February 12 – Saturnino Valdez Llanos, politician ||PRI, municipal president of Tampico Alto, Veracruz; murdered.
• February 13 — Manuel Esperón, composer (d. 2011)
• February 22 – José Luis Prieto Torres, politician, former president of Allende Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
• February 28 – Enrique Chávez Gómez, politician PRD, former candidate for municipal president of Saucillo, Chihuahua; murdered.
• March 10 – Mario Chuc Aguilar, politician, former municipal president of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo; murdered.
• March 25 – José Luis Cerda Meléndez & Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo, journalists (La Prensa), Guadalupe, Nuevo León; killed.
• April 7 – Enterbio Reyes Bello, politician, former president of Copanatoyac (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
• May 14 – Silvia Moreno Leal, politician, former president of Balleza Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
• May 18 – Fernando Duarte Flores, politician, former municipal president of Hidalgo, Coahuila; murdered.
• May 31 – Noel López Olguín, journalist (La Verdad de Jáltipan), Chinameca, Veracruz; killed.
• June 7 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician PAN, former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango, Puebla; murdered.
• June 14 – Pablo Ruelas Barraza, journalist (Diario del Yaqui & El Regional de Sonora), Huatabampo, Sonora; killed.
• June 20 – Miguel Ángel López Velasco, journalist (Notiver), Veracruz; killed.
• June 24 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician PAN, former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango, Puebla; murdered.

July to December

• July 3 – Ángel Castillo Corona, journalist (Puntual and Diario de México), Ocuilan State of Mexico; killed.
• July 21 – Ernesto Cornejo Valenzuela, politician PAN, former candidate for deputy; state delegate for the PAN in Benito Juárez Municipality, Sonora; murdered.
• July 26 – Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, journalist (Notiver), Veracruz, Veracruz; killed.
• July 28 – Fortino Cortés Sandoval, politician, municipal president of Florencia de Benito Juárez, Zacatecas; murdered.
• August 20 – José Eduviges Nava Altamirano, politician PT, municipal president of Zacualpan, State of Mexico; murdered.
• August 24 – Luz María García Villagrán, politician, president of Gran Morelos Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.||
• September 1
• Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros, journalist (Contralínea), Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.
• Rocío González Trápaga, journalist (Televisa Mexico City), Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.
• September 15 – Gustavo Pacheco Villaseñor, politician PRI, former municipal president of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca; murdered.
• September 17 – Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, politician PRI,Deputy from Tlapa de Comonfort (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
• September 24 – María Elizabeth Macías Castro, journalist (Primera Hora), Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed.
• August 25 – Humberto Millán Salazar, journalist (A Discusión and Radio Fórmula Culiacán), Culiacán, Sinaloa; killed.
• October 8 — José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician PRI; Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987 (b. 1920)
• November 2 – Ricardo Guzmán Romero, politician PAN, municipal president of La Piedad, Michoacán; murdered.
• November 19 – Roberto Miguel Galván, politician, former municipal president of Tepetzintla, Veracruz; murdered.
• December 3 – Hugo César Muruato Flores, journalist (La Caliente 90.9), Chihuahua, Chihuahua; killed.
• December 12 – Fortunato Ruiz Blázquez, politician, former municipal president of Ixhuacán, Veracruz; murdered.
• December 21 – José Martínez Mendoza, politician, former municipal president of Cosalá, Sinaloa; murdered.
• December 24 – José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (1992-2011); heart attack.
• December 26 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, actor (Zorro series); cancer, died in New York City, United States.
• December 31 – Porfirio Flores Ayala, politician PRI||former president of Cuernavaca Municipality, Morelos; murdered.

See also

• 2011 Mexican fire season
• List of Mexican films of 2011

Notes

References

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