2014 in Mexico

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This is a list of events that happened in 2014 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
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
• Education Secretary (SEP): Emilio Chuayffet
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
• Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Alfonso Navarrete Prida
• Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR): Rosario Robles
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Claudia Ruiz Massieu
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan José Guerra Abud
• 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 ^[2]
• Campeche: Fernando Ortega Bernés,   PAN
• Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello PVEM
• Chihuahua: César Duarte Jáquez   PRI
• Coahuila: Rubén Moreira Valdez   PRI
• Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno   PRI
• Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera   PRI
• Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez   PAN
• Guerrero
  • Ángel Aguirre Rivero PRD, until October 23 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}
  • Rogelio Ortega Martínez, Interim governor starting October 27
• Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera Ruiz   PRI
• Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval   PRI
• State of Mexico: Eruviel Ávila Villegas   PRI
• Michoacán
  • Fausto Vallejo   PRI, until June 19 ^{[lower-alpha 2] [4]}
  • Salvador Jara Guerrero, Substitute starting June 20 ^[5]
• Morelos: Graco Ramírez PRD. ^[6]
• Nayarit: Roberto Sandoval Castañeda   PRI
• Nuevo León: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz   PRI
• Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo MC ^[7]
• Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas   PAN ^[8]
• Querétaro: José Calzada   PRI ^[9]
• Quintana Roo: Roberto Borge Angulo   PRI
• San Luis Potosí: Fernando Toranzo Fernández   PRI
• Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez   PAN
• Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías   PAN
• Tabasco: Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRD
• Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú   PRI ^[10]
• 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 PRD

Events

February

• February 22 – Alpine skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe-Langenburg sets the record for the longest span of competing at the Winter Olympic Games, at 30 years. ^[11]

March

• March 2–9 – The 2014 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament take place in Mexico City.

April

• April 13 – 36 people are killed after the bus in which they were travelling crashed in Acayucan, Veracruz.
• April 18 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Petatlán, Guerrero. ^{[12] [13]}

May

• May 12 – Galindo Mellado Cruz, one of the founding members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, and four other armed men are killed in a shootout with Mexican security forces after they raided Cruz's hideout in the city of Reynosa.

August

• 27 August–September: CENAPRED reported explosions of Popocateptl, accompanied by steam-and-gas emissions with minor ash and ash plumes that rose 800-3,000 m above the volcano's crater, which drifted west, southwest, and west-southwest. On most nights incandescence was observed, increasing during times with larger emissions.
• 29 and 31 August 2014: The Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) reported discrete ash emissions from Popocateptl.

September

• September 2 – Plans for a new Mexico City international airport are announced at the President's State of the Union Address.
• September 14 – Hurricane Odile reaches Category 4 strength as it nears Mexico's Baja California coast.
• September 19 – The biographical film Cantinflas , about the Mexican actor of the same name, is released in Mexico.
• September 26 – 6 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa are killed and 43 more disappear after a protest and a confrontation with Iguala, Guerrero police officers. ^[14]

October

• October 4 – A mass grave is found outside Iguala, Guerrero, southern Mexico, during the search of the students from Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa. ^[15]
• October 25 – Nuestra Belleza México 2014 takes place.

November

• November 4 – Mexican Federal Police arrest a mayor and his wife, the alleged masterminds of the kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero.
• November 7 – Parents of Mexico's missing students say authorities found 6 bags containing unidentified corpses; investigations are underway to determine if they are of the missing students. Three people confess their involvement in the massacre.
• November 11 – A mob angry at the kidnapping and murder of 43 students torches the regional headquarters of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and briefly holds a police commander hostage.
• November 12 – Protesters attack the State Congress building in Guerrero setting alight five vehicles.
• November 17 – Former Beltrán Leyva Cartel leader Alfredo Beltrán Leyva is extradited to the United States from Mexico, facing drug trafficking and money laundering offences.
• November 20 – Thousands of protestors gather in Mexico City for a national rally in memory of the 43 missing students. Demonstrators have also called for a nationwide strike.
• November 26 – Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD founder Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigns amid internal political crisis resulting from the disappearance of the 43 students in September.

December

• December 2 – The number of Chikungunya cases in Chiapas increases from 14 to 39 in one week. Between 17,000 and 18,000 cases have been reported by the Pan American Health Organization. ^[16]

Awards

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Eraclio Zepeda ^[17]
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
  • José Mujica, President of Uruguay ^[18]
• National Public Administration Prize
• Ohtli Award
  • Bismarck Lepe
  • Hispanic Heritage Foundation
  • Denise Moreno Ducheny
  • Alma Flor Ada
  • Fernando Valenzuela
  • Jonathan Rothschild
• National Prize for Arts and Sciences ^[19]
  • Linguistics and literature – María de los Dolores Castro Varela and Eraclio Zepeda Ramos
  • Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences – Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz and Mauricio Hernández Ávila
  • History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy – Néstor García Canclini and Enrique Semo Calev
  • Technology and Design – José Mauricio López Romero
  • Popular Arts and Traditions – Carlomagno Pedro Martínez and Alberto Vargas Castellano
  • Fine arts – Arnaldo José Coen Ávila

Deaths

See also: List of politicians killed in the Mexican Drug War and List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico

José Emilio Pacheco.

Chespirito.

• January 23 – Miguel Ángel Guzmán Garduño, journalist (Vértice) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero; killed. ^[20]
• January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, notable writer.
• February 5 – Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, journalist (Notisur & Liberal del Sur) in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz; killed. ^[21]
• February 16 – Omar Reyes Fabiánjournalist (Oaxaca Tiempo) in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca; killed. ^[22]
• February 28 – Benjamín Galván Gómez, journalist ( Última Hora & Primera Hora ) in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed. ^{[23] [24]}
• June 2 – Jorge Torres Palacios, journalist (El Dictamen de Guerrero) in Acapulco, Guerrero; killed. ^[25]
• July 14 – Antonio Riva Palacio, politician   PRI, Governor of Morelos (1988-1994), Ambassador to Ecuador (b. 1926)
• July 30 – Nolberto Herrera Rodríguez, journalist (Canal 9) in Guadalupe, Zacatecas; killed. ^[26]
• August 12 – Murder of Octavio Rojas Hernández: Journalist (El Buen Tono) in Cosolapa Oaxaca; killed. ^[27]
• August 21 – Marlén Valdez García, journalist (La Última Palabra) in Juárez, Nuevo León; killed. ^{[28] [29]}
• August 27 – Adrián Gaona Belmonte, journalist (La Comadrita 97.3 FM Radio) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas; killed. ^{[29] [30]}
• September 3 – Víctor Pérez Pérez, journalist (Sucesos) in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; killed. ^[31]
• October 12 – Octavio Atilano Román Tirado, journalist (ABC Radio) in Mazatlán, Sinaloa; killed. ^[32]
• September 23 (approx.) – Gabriel Gómez Michel, politician   PRI, Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from Zacatecas. ^[33]
• October 16 – María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, journalist (Valor por Tamaulipas) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas; killed. ^{[34] [35]}
• October 22 – Jesús Antonio Gamboa Urías, journalist (Nueva Prensa) in Los Mochis, Sinaloa; killed. ^[36]
• November 28 – Chespirito "Roberto Gómez Bolaños", actor and writer.
• December 15 — Fausto Zapata, lawyer, politician   PRI, diplomat, Governor of San Luis Potosí in 1991

See also

• Mexico portal

• List of Mexican films of 2014

References

Footnotes

1. Governor Aguirre Rivero resigned after allegations of his involvement in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping.
2. Governor Vallejo resigned for health reasons after his son was accused of having ties to drug dealers. ^[3]

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