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List of events
This is a list of events that happened in
2009 in
Mexico . The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.
Aguascalientes :
Luis Armando Reynoso , (
National Action Party , PAN)
Baja California :
José Guadalupe Osuna Millán , (PAN)
Baja California Sur :
Narciso Agúndez Montaño (
Party of the Democratic Revolution , PRD)
Campeche
Chiapas :
Juan Sabines Guerrero , (
Coalition for the Good of All )
Chihuahua :
José Reyes Baeza Terrazas (
Institutional Revolutionary Party , PRI)
Coahuila :
Humberto Moreira Valdés , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Colima :
Durango :
Ismael Hernández , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Guanajuato :
Juan Manuel Oliva , (
National Action Party , PAN)
Guerrero :
René Juárez Cisneros , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Hidalgo :
Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Jalisco :
Emilio González Márquez , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
State of Mexico :
Enrique Pena Nieto , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Michoacán :
Lázaro Cárdenas Batel , (
Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (until 15 February);
Leonel Godoy Rangel (
Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (from 15 February)
Morelos :
Marco Antonio Adame (PAN).
[2]
Nayarit :
Ney González Sánchez
Nuevo León :
Oaxaca :
Ulises Ruiz Ortiz , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Puebla :
Mario Marín Torres , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Querétaro :
Francisco Garrido Patrón (
National Action Party , PAN)
Quintana Roo :
Félix González Canto , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
San Luis Potosí :
Sinaloa :
Jesús Aguilar Padilla , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party , PRI)
Sonora :
Tabasco :
Andrés Rafael Granier Melo , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Tamaulipas :
Eugenio Hernández Flores , (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Tlaxcala :
Héctor Ortiz Ortiz (
National Action Party , PAN)
Veracruz :
Fidel Herrera Beltrán (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Yucatán :
Ivonne Ortega Pacheco (
Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Zacatecas :
Amalia García (
Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD)
Head of Government of the Federal District :
Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)
United States President
Barack Obama bids farewell to the family of Mexican President Felipe Calderon following their meeting in Mexico City on April 16, 2009.
January– A
Swine flu pandemic occur right after the U.S. first case of the
Flu .
February 11 –
Mexico 's
National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of a 16th-century
mass grave at the
Tlatelolco
archaeological site in Mexico City.
[3]
March 4 –
2009 Mexico prison riot : A riot at a prison near
Ciudad Juárez ,
Mexico , kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.
[4]
March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in a
bus accident outside
Saltillo ,
Coahuila , Mexico.
[5]
April 10 –
Mexico City
closes
freshwater
supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.
[6]
April 19 – Eight
corrections officers are killed in an
ambush during a
prisoner transfer in
Nayarit , Mexico.
[7]
April 25 –
Mexico 's
government declares a
state of emergency to
combat the
outbreak of
swine influenza .
[8]
April 27 –
2009 Guerrero earthquake : A
5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near
Chilpancingo ,
Guerrero , Mexico.
[9]
May 16 – The
Gulf
drug cartel
liberates 59 inmates from a prison in
Zacatecas , Mexico.
[10]
May 22 – A
5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes
Chiautla de Tapia ,
Puebla , Mexico.
[11]
June 6 –
2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire : a fire at a
day-care center kills at least 40 people in
Hermosillo , Mexico.
[12]
July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the
Sea of Cortez shakes western
Mexico .
[13]
July 5 –
Mexico holds its
legislative election .
[14]
August 3 – Several earthquakes, including
one of 6.9 magnitude , hit northwestern
Mexico .
[15]
August 7 –
2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings : Shootouts leave at least 11 dead in the escalating violence since
Mexico 's continuing
national crackdown on the illegal drug trade.
[16]
August 4 – President
Felipe Calderon receives
Honduras President
Manuel Zelaya in Los Pinos after a coup d'etat .
[17]
August 15 – A
prison riot in the Mexican state of
Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.
[18]
August 21 –
Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of
marijuana ,
cocaine , heroin and other drugs for "personal use".
[19]
September 9 –
Aeroméxico Flight 576 , a
Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from
Cancún , and forced to land at
Mexico City International Airport .
[20]
September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in
Mexico .
[21]
December 16 – Mexican drug lord
Arturo Beltrán Leyva , leader of the
Beltrán-Leyva Cartel , is killed by personnel of the
Mexican Navy during a shootout in
Cuernavaca, Morelos .
[22]
December 21 –
Mexico City 's
Legislative Assembly legalizes
same-sex marriage and
LGBT adoption .
[23]
December 25 – The death by gunshot wound of
Expresiones de Tulum journalist
Alberto Velázquez , the 12th journalist to be killed in
Mexico in 2009, is announced.
[24]
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January 11 –
Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos , 90, Mexican painter,
pneumonia .
[25]
January 14 –
Ricardo Montalbán , 88, Mexican-born American actor (
Fantasy Island ,
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ), heart failure.
[26]
February 6 – Claudio Reyes Núñez, politician
PRI , president of
Otáez Municipality , Durango; murdered.
[27]
[28]
February 7 –
Jorge Reyes , 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.
[29]
February 22 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez Aceves, politician
PRD , former president of
Petatlán (municipality) , Guerrero: murdered.
[30]
February 24 – Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, politician
PRI , municipal president of
Vista Hermosa, Michoacán ; murdered.
[31]
[32]
March 3 –
Luis Mena Arroyo , 88, Mexican prelate,
Auxiliary Bishop of
Mexico .
[33]
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[34]
[35]
March 14 – Dimas Arzeta Cisneros, politician
PRI , former president of
Tecpan de Galeana , Guerrero; murdered.
[36]
March 18 –
Luis Rojas Mena , 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of
Culiacán (1969–1993).
[37]
March 22 –
Abismo Negro , 37, Mexican
lucha libre
professional wrestler ,
drowned .
[38]
March 23 –
Raúl Macías , 74, Mexican
boxer , cancer.
[39]
March 26 –
Griselda Álvarez , 95, Mexican politician and writer,
Governor of Colima (1979–1985),
natural causes .
[40]
April 3 – Nicolás León Hernández, politician
PRI , former municipal president of
Isla del Cayacal, Michoacán ; murdered.
[41]
[42]
April 7 – Gustavo Bucio Rodríguez, politician
PRD , candidate for Deputy in Michoacán; murdered.
[43]
[44]
April 20 – Alfonso Rivera Cruz, municipal president pro tempore of
Zapotitlán Tablas (municipality) , Guerrero; murdered.
[45]
April 23 –
Felipe Solís Olguín , 64, Mexican
archaeologist , curator of the
National Anthropology Museum , cardiac arrest.
[46]
April 30 –
Amparo Arozamena , 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.
[47]
May 5 –
Manuel Capetillo ,
bullfighter , singer, and actor; respiratory illness (b. 1926)
May 5 –
Benjamín Flores , 24, Mexican
boxer ,
brain injury during a match.
[48]
June 2 – Luis Carlos Ramírez López, politician
PAN , president of
Ocampo Municipality ; murdered.
[49]
[50]
June 11 – Efraín Gutiérrez Arcos, politician
PRI , former municipal president of
Santa Ana Maya , Michoacán; murdered.
[51]
[52]
June 23 —
Manuel Saval , 53, actor (b. 1956)
July 14
Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician
PAN , president of
Namiquipa Municipality , Chihuahua; murdered.
[53]
[54]
Ismael Rivera, politician, treasurer of the municipality of Namiquipa, Chihuahua; murdered.
[55]
July 19 –
Guillermo Schulenburg , 93, Mexican
Abbot of the
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996),
natural causes .
[56]
July 22 –
Marco Antonio Nazareth , 23, Mexican
boxer ,
cerebral hemorrhage .
[57]
August 20
August 29 –
Yolanda Varela , 79, Mexican film actress,
natural causes .
[60]
September 6 –
Jose Francisco Fuentes , 43, politician;
shot .
[61]
October 9 – Estanislao García Santelis, politician, municipal president of
Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua ; murdered.
[62]
October 16 – José Sánchez Chávez, politician
PRI , former municipal president of
Tiquicheo , Michoacán; murdered.
[63]
October 25 –
Lázaro Pérez Jiménez , 66, Mexican
Roman Catholic Bishop of
Celaya .
[64]
November 6 –
Manuel Arvizu , 90, Mexican
Roman Catholic Bishop of
Jesús María del Nayar .
[65]
November 7 –
Bernardo Garza Sada , 79, Mexican businessman, founder of
ALFA .
[66]
November 16 –
Antonio de Nigris , 31, Mexican
football player, heart failure.
[67]
November 28 –
Joaquín Vargas Gómez , 84, Mexican media owner, founder of
MVS Comunicaciones ,
natural causes .
[68]
December 4:
Leticia Palma (Zoyla Gloria Ruiz Moscoso), 82, actress (En la palma de tu mano ), (b. 1926)
[69]
December 7 –
Lorenzo Ochoa Salas , Mexican
archeologist .
[70]
December 16 –
Arturo Beltrán Leyva , 48, Mexican
drug lord ,
shot .
[71]
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