2015 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2015 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Enrique Peña Nieto PRI

• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE)
• José Antonio Meade, until August 25
• Claudia Ruiz Massieu, starting August 27
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
• Education Secretary (SEP)
• Emilio Chuayffet, until August 27
• Aurelio Nuño Mayer, starting August 27
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
• Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS):
• Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR)
• Rosario Robles, until August 27
• José Antonio Meade, starting August 27
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
• Claudia Ruiz Massieu, until August 27
• Enrique de la Madrid Cordero, starting August 27
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
• Juan José Guerra Abud, until August 27
• Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, starting August 27
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Mercedes Juan López
• Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, (SHCP): Luis Videgaray Caso

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre PRI
• Baja California: Francisco Vega de Lamadrid PAN
• Baja California Sur
• Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor PAN, until September 10
• Carlos Mendoza Davis PAN, starting September 10
• Campeche
• Fernando Ortega Bernés PRI, until September 15
• Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas PRI, starting September 16
• Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello PVEM
• Chihuahua: César Horacio Duarte Jáquez PRI
• Coahuila: Rubén Moreira Valdez, PRI
• Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno, PRI
• Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera PAN
• Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez, PAN
• Guerrero
• Rogelio Ortega Martínez, Interim governor, until October 27
• Héctor Astudillo Flores PRI, since October 27
• Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera Ruiz PRI
• Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval PRI
• State of Mexico: Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRI
• Michoacán
• Salvador Jara Guerrero PRI, Substitute governor until September 30
• Silvano Aureoles Conejo PRD, starting October 1
• Morelos: Graco Ramírez PRD.
• Nayarit: Roberto Sandoval Castañeda PRI
• Nuevo León
• Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz PRI, until October 4
• Jaime Rodríguez Calderón ("El Bronco"), Independent, starting October 4
• Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo MC
• Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, PAN
• Querétaro: José Calzada, PRI
• Quintana Roo: Roberto Borge Angulo, PRI
• San Luis Potosí
• Fernando Toranzo Fernández PRI, until September 25
• Juan Manuel Carreras PRI, since September 26
• Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez, PAN
• Sonora
• Guillermo Padrés Elías PAN, until September 12
• Claudia Pavlovich Arellano PRI, starting September 13
• Tabasco: Arturo Núñez Jiménez PRD
• Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú, PRI
• Tlaxcala: Mariano González Zarur PRI
• Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa PRI
• Yucatán: Rolando Zapata Bello PRI
• Zacatecas: Miguel Alonso Reyes PRI
• Head of Government of the Federal District: Miguel Ángel Mancera, Independent

Events

January

• January 7: CENAPRED reported that ash from recent explosions coats the snow on the Popocateptl volcano's upper slopes.
• January 29: An explosion occurred in a maternal hospital in Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, leaving 7 dead and 60 injured.

February

• February 13: A bus crashes with a freight train in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, killing at least sixteen people and injuring 30.
• February 28: Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán.

March

• March 3: During the international tour, in search of foreign investment, President Enrique Peña Nieto, makes various economic, financial and cultural agreements with the Queen Elizabeth II.

April

• April 4: Lunar Eclipse
• April 8: Mexico issues a 100-year bond for 1.5 billion euros, equivalent to 620 million dollars.

May

• May 22: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Covarrubias dies general director of ISSSTE
• May 27: The SCT opens audits on contracts awarded to OHL
• May 27: Nestora Salgado will be transferred to another prison, that of Tepepan.
• May 28: Murder of coordinator of Panista candidate in the delegation Azcapotzalco.
• May 28: The INE agrees to pay $10,000 to Rigoberta Menchú.
• May 31: Santos champion by defeating the team of Querétaro (5–3).

June

• June 5: Legislative elections take place to elect the 63rd Congress of the Union.

July

• July 11: Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug lord and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, escaped from the maximum-security Altiplano Federal Prison in Almoloya de Juárez. This was his second escape from a Mexican prison, his first being in 2001.

November

• November 26 – 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic: The first three cases of Zika fever are reported in Mexico.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Alberto Baillères
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
• King Felipe VI of Spain
• Charles, Prince of Wales
• Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
• National Prize for Arts and Sciences
• National Public Administration Prize
• Ohtli Award
• Hector Ruiz
• John D. Trasviña
• Valentina Alazraki
• Suzy Castor
• Maria Elena Durazo
• Raúl Grijalva
• Ana Recio Harvey
• José Huizar
• Ray Keck
• Eva Longoria
• Spencer MacCallum
• Antonio Olmos

Deaths

• January 1: Ninón Sevilla, 93, Cuban-born Mexican actress (Aventurera), heart attack.
• January 3: Jaime Romero Móran, 22, gymnast, shot.
• January 7: Julio Scherer García, 88, journalist (Excélsior and Proceso).
• January 25: Demetrio González, 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor (Dos Corazones y un Cielo) and singer, complications from a stroke.
• January 27: Rafael Corrales Ayala, 89, politician, MP for Guanajuato (1949–1952, 1979–1982), Governor of Guanajuato (1985–1991).
• February 7: Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic.
• February 8: Mario Vázquez Raña, businessman (b. 1932)
• February 16: Lorena Rojas, 44, actress.
• February 19: Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer (Guadalajara).
• February 25: Ariel Camacho, 22, singer, traffic collision.
• March 12: Magda Guzmán, 83, actress, heart attack.
• March 19: Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, architect
• March 21: Perro Aguayo Jr., 35, professional wrestler (AAA), stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
• March 22: Julieta Marín Torres, 71, politician, MP for Puebla (2009–2012), lung cancer.
• April 3: Rocío García Gaytán, 55, politician, MP (1997–2000), cancer.
• April 10: Raúl Héctor Castro, 98, Mexican-born American politician and diplomat, Governor of Arizona (1975–1977), Ambassador to El Salvador (1964–1968), Bolivia (1968–1969) and Argentina (1977–1980).
• April 13: Joselyn Alejandra Niño, 20, suspected assassin, shot.
• April 23
• Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, comic artist (Memín Pinguín, MAD).
• Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez, 72, academic and politician, Mayor of Xalapa (1988–1991), MP for Veracruz (1994–1997).
• April 24: Max Rojas, 74, poet.
• May 1: María Elena Velasco, 74, actress, comedian and film producer (La India María), stomach cancer.
• May 21: Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, ALS.
• June 10: Héctor Pérez Plazola, 81, politician (PAN).
• June 12: Andrés Mora, 60, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians), pneumonia.
• June 21: Juan José Estrada, 51, boxer, WBA bantamweight champion (1988–1989), stabbed.
• June 26: Gustavo Sainz, 74, writer.
• July 2: Jacobo Zabludovsky, 87, Recognized communicator who directed for more than 20 years the main news on national network; stroke. (b. 1928)
• July 13: Joan Sebastian, 64, Popular singer and composer from Guerrero; bone cancer. (b. 1951)
• July 21: Gelsen Gas, 82, artist and filmmaker.
• July 31: Rubén Espinosa, 31, photographer and journalist. murdered.
• August 15: Manuel Mendívil, 79, equestrian, Olympic medalist (1980).
• August 16: Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist.
• August 23
• Ricardo García Sainz, 85, administrator and politician, Federal deputy (1997–2000).
• Eugenio Méndez Docurro, 92, politician and engineer, Secretary of Communications and Transportation (1970–1976).
• September 7: Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, drug cartel leader (Los Zetas), heart attack.
• September 17: Eraclio Zepeda, 78, author and politician.
• September 19: Enrique Ballesté, 68, theater director.
• September 25: Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece (1987–1994).
• October 9: Blanca Magrassi Scagno, 92, women's rights activist.
• October 11: Dominga Velasco, 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest-ever verified Mexican-born person.
• October 14: José Luis García, 91, baseball player and manager (Tigres de Quintana Roo).
• October 22: Tomás Torres Mercado, 54, politician, member of the Senate (20062012), plane crash.
• November 6: José Ángel Espinoza, 96, singer, composer and actor.
• November 12: José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, politician, Governor of Aguascalientes (1974–1980).
• November 21: Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
• December 1: Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician; Governor of Guerrero (1975)
• December 4: Ricardo Guízar Díaz, 82, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (1996–2009).
• December 16: Lizmark, 64, professional wrestler, respiratory failure.
• December 24: Romeo Anaya, 69, boxer, WBA Bantamweight Champion (1973).

See also

• List of Mexican films of 2015

References

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