2015 in Mexico

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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

See also: Cabinet of Mexico

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre PRI ^[1]
• Baja California: Francisco Vega de Lamadrid PAN
• Baja California Sur
  • Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor PAN, until September 10 ^[2]
  • 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 ^[3]
  • 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 ^[4]
  • Silvano Aureoles Conejo PRD, starting October 1
• Morelos: Graco Ramírez PRD. ^[5]
• 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 ^[6]
• 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. ^[7]
• February 28: Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán. ^[8]

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. ^[9]

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. ^[10]

November

• November 26 – 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic: The first three cases of Zika fever are reported in Mexico. ^[11]

Awards

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Alberto Baillères ^[12]
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
  • King Felipe VI of Spain ^[13]
  • Charles, Prince of Wales ^[14]
  • Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil ^[15]
• 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. ^[16]
• January 3: Jaime Romero Móran, 22, gymnast, shot. ^[17]
• January 7: Julio Scherer García, 88, journalist ( Excélsior and Proceso ). ^[18]
• January 25: Demetrio González, 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor ( Dos Corazones y un Cielo ) and singer, complications from a stroke. ^[19]
• January 27: Rafael Corrales Ayala, 89, politician, MP for Guanajuato (1949–1952, 1979–1982), Governor of Guanajuato (1985–1991). ^[20]
• February 7: Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic. ^[21]
• February 8: Mario Vázquez Raña, businessman (b. 1932)
• February 16: Lorena Rojas, 44, actress. ^[22]
• February 19: Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer (Guadalajara). ^[23]
• February 25: Ariel Camacho, 22, singer, traffic collision. ^[24]
• March 12: Magda Guzmán, 83, actress, heart attack. ^[25]
• March 19: Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, architect
• March 21: Perro Aguayo Jr., 35, professional wrestler (AAA), stroke from vertebral artery dissection. ^[26]
• March 22: Julieta Marín Torres, 71, politician, MP for Puebla (2009–2012), lung cancer. ^[27]
• April 3: Rocío García Gaytán, 55, politician, MP (1997–2000), cancer. ^[28]
• 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). ^[29]
• April 13: Joselyn Alejandra Niño, c. 20, suspected assassin, shot. ^[30]
• April 23
  • Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, comic artist ( Memín Pinguín , MAD ). ^[31]
  • Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez, 72, academic and politician, Mayor of Xalapa (1988–1991), MP for Veracruz (1994–1997). ^[32]
• April 24: Max Rojas, 74, poet. ^[33]
• May 1: María Elena Velasco, 74, actress, comedian and film producer ( La India María ), stomach cancer. ^[34]
• May 21: Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, ALS. ^[35]
• June 10: Héctor Pérez Plazola, 81, politician (PAN). ^[36]
• June 12: Andrés Mora, 60, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians), pneumonia. ^[37]
• June 21: Juan José Estrada, 51, boxer, WBA bantamweight champion (1988–1989), stabbed. ^[38]
• June 26: Gustavo Sainz, 74, writer. ^[39]
• 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. ^[40]
• July 31: Rubén Espinosa, 31, photographer and journalist. murdered. ^[41]
• August 15: Manuel Mendívil, 79, equestrian, Olympic medalist (1980). ^[42]
• August 16: Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist. ^[43]
• August 23
  • Ricardo García Sainz, 85, administrator and politician, Federal deputy (1997–2000). ^[44]
  • Eugenio Méndez Docurro, 92, politician and engineer, Secretary of Communications and Transportation (1970–1976). ^[45]
• September 7: Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, drug cartel leader (Los Zetas), heart attack. ^[46]
• September 17: Eraclio Zepeda, 78, author and politician. ^[47]
• September 19: Enrique Ballesté, 68, theater director. ^[48]
• September 25: Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece (1987–1994). ^[49]
• October 9: Blanca Magrassi Scagno, 92, women's rights activist. ^[50]
• October 11: Dominga Velasco, 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest-ever verified Mexican-born person. ^[51]
• October 14: José Luis García, 91, baseball player and manager (Tigres de Quintana Roo). ^[52]
• October 22: Tomás Torres Mercado, 54, politician, member of the Senate (2006–2012), plane crash. ^[53]
• November 6: José Ángel Espinoza, 96, singer, composer and actor. ^[54]
• November 12: José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, politician, Governor of Aguascalientes (1974–1980). ^[55]
• November 21: Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor. ^[56]
• December 1: Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician; Governor of Guerrero (1975) ^[57]
• December 4: Ricardo Guízar Díaz, 82, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (1996–2009). ^[58]
• December 16: Lizmark, 64, professional wrestler, respiratory failure. ^[59]
• December 24: Romeo Anaya, 69, boxer, WBA Bantamweight Champion (1973). ^[60]

See also

• Mexico portal

• List of Mexican films of 2015

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