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.(BBC)(IOL) January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.(CNN) 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.(AP via Houston Chronicle) 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.(AP via Buffalo News)
April–June April April 6 – 2011 Tamaulipas massacre: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.Mexico Tamaulipas body count rises to 177, Business Recorder, April 22, 2011
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.10 datos de la explosión en el Tec Estado de México: Multimedia 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.Guardado Méndez was abducted on 4 February 2011 and is currently disappeared. He is not reported as dead. 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.Valdez Llanos was intercepted by gunmen and has not been found. He is not reported as dead. February 13 — Manuel Esperón, composer (d. 2011)Manuel Esperón González 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.Cartel members broke into Galván's house and kidnapped him. He remains disappeared. 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. (Spanish) 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
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