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List of events
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
Governors
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
March
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 or its equivalent to approximately 620 million dollars. No
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
November
Awards
Deaths
January 1:
Ninón Sevilla , 93, Cuban-born Mexican actress (
Aventurera ), heart attack.
[15]
January 3:
Jaime Romero Móran , 22, gymnast, shot.
[16]
January 7 :
Julio Scherer García , 88, journalist (
Excélsior and
Proceso ).
[17]
January 25:
Demetrio González , 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor (
Dos Corazones y un Cielo ) and singer, complications from a stroke.
[18]
January 27:
Rafael Corrales Ayala , 89, politician,
MP for
Guanajuato (1949–1952, 1979–1982),
Governor of Guanajuato (1985–1991).
[19]
February 7:
Gustavo Couttolenc , 93, Mexican translator and academic.
[20]
February 8 :
Mario Vázquez Raña , businessman (b. 1932)
February 16 :
Lorena Rojas , 44, actress.
[21]
February 19:
Rafael Orozco , 92, Mexican footballer (
Guadalajara ).
[22]
February 25:
Ariel Camacho , 22, singer, traffic collision.
[23]
March 12:
Magda Guzmán , 83, actress, heart attack.
[24]
March 19 :
Carlos Mijares Bracho , 84, architect
March 21:
Perro Aguayo Jr. , 35, professional wrestler (
AAA ), stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
[25]
March 22:
Julieta Marín Torres , 71, politician,
MP for
Puebla (2009–2012), lung cancer.
[26]
April 3:
Rocío García Gaytán , 55, politician,
MP (1997–2000), cancer.
[27]
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).
[28]
April 13:
Joselyn Alejandra Niño ,
c. 20, suspected assassin, shot.
[29]
April 23
April 24:
Max Rojas , 74, poet.
[32]
May 1:
María Elena Velasco , 74, actress, comedian and film producer (
La India María ), stomach cancer.
[33]
May 21:
Juan Molinar Horcasitas , 59, Mexican politician,
ALS .
[34]
June 10:
Héctor Pérez Plazola , 81, politician (PAN).
[35]
June 12:
Andrés Mora , 60, baseball player (
Baltimore Orioles ,
Cleveland Indians ), pneumonia.
[36]
June 21:
Juan José Estrada , 51, boxer,
WBA
bantamweight champion (1988–1989), stabbed.
[37]
June 26:
Gustavo Sainz , 74, writer.
[38]
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.
[39]
July 31:
Rubén Espinosa , 31, photographer and journalist. murdered.
[40]
August 15:
Manuel Mendívil , 79, equestrian, Olympic medalist (
1980 ).
[41]
August 16:
Jacob Bekenstein , 68, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist.
[42]
August 23
September 7:
Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes , drug cartel leader (
Los Zetas ), heart attack.
[45]
September 17:
Eraclio Zepeda , 78, author and politician.
[46]
September 19:
Enrique Ballesté , 68, theater director.
[47]
September 25:
Hugo Gutiérrez Vega , 81, poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece (1987–1994).
[48]
October 9:
Blanca Magrassi Scagno , 92, women's rights activist.
[49]
October 11:
Dominga Velasco , 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest-ever verified Mexican-born person.
[50]
October 14:
José Luis García , 91, baseball player and manager (
Tigres de Quintana Roo ).
[51]
October 22:
Tomás Torres Mercado , 54, politician, member of the
Senate (2006–2012), plane crash.[
citation needed ]
November 6:
José Ángel Espinoza , 96, singer, composer and actor.
[52]
November 12:
José Refugio Esparza Reyes , 94, politician,
Governor of Aguascalientes (1974–1980).
[53]
November 21:
Germán Robles , 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
[54]
December 1 :
Xavier Olea Muñoz , 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician;
Governor of Guerrero (1975)
[55]
December 4:
Ricardo Guízar Díaz , 82, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of
Tlalnepantla (1996–2009).
[56]
December 16:
Lizmark , 64, professional wrestler, respiratory failure.
[57]
December 24:
Romeo Anaya , 69, boxer,
WBA Bantamweight Champion (1973).
[58]
See also
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"Salvador Jara nuevo gobernador de Michoacán" . www.milenio.com (in Mexican Spanish). June 20, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2020 .
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"Mexico train, bus crash kills at least 16" .
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"Mexican police capture top cartel capo 'La Tuta' Gomez" .
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"Calendario electoral 2015" (PDF) . INE. Retrieved 31 December 2014 .
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"WHO | Zika virus infection – Mexico" . WHO . 3 Dec 2015. Archived from
the original on December 9, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2020 .
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"La Medalla de Honor Belisario Domínguez 2015: un premio a la desigualad" . La Jornada de San Luis (in Spanish). 12 November 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
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"DOF - Diario Oficial de la Federación" . dof.gob.mx (in Spanish). Secretariat de Relaciones Exteriores. 26 June 2015. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
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"HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS AWARDED WITH THE MEXICAN ORDER OF THE AZTEC EAGLE" . embamex.sre.gob.mx (in Spanish). Secretariat de Relaciones Exteriores. 4 Mar 2015.
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"Otorga Peña Orden del Águila Azteca a Rousseff; recibe la Cruz del Sur" . Quadratín CDMX (in Spanish). 26 May 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2020 .
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"Ninón Sevilla dies of a heart attack" . Archived from
the original on 2015-01-02. Retrieved 2019-10-28 .
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Jaime Humberto Romero Morán Death: Mexican Gymnast, Olympic Hopeful Murdered at 22
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"Influential Mexican Journalist Julio Scherer Garcia, Dead At 88" .
NBC News . 7 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015 .
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Muere Demetrio González "El Charro Español"
Archived 2018-10-05 at the
Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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Fallece Rafael Corrales Ayala
Archived 2015-02-06 at the
Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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Fallece sacerdote que sirvió 60 años en el Seminario Conciliar de México (in Spanish)
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"Lorena Rojas dies: Actress loses battle to cancer at 44" .
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Chivas está de luto, fallece Rafael 'Rafles' Orozco (in Spanish)
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Ariel Camacho Dies in Car Crash; Mexican Singer Was 22
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Magda Guzmán Dies: Mexican Actress Dead At 83 Following Heart Attack
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Perro Aguayo Jr.'s cause of death confirmed as cardiac arrest caused by cervical spine trauma
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Fallece Julieta, hermana del exgobernador Mario Marín (in Spanish)
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Fallece Rocío García Gaytán, ex titular de Inmujeres (in Spanish)
^
Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro dies at 98
Archived 2015-07-08 at the
Wayback Machine
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Hallan descuartizada en una hielera a 'La Flaca', sicaria del Cártel del Golfo
Archived 2018-03-21 at the
Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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Fallece Sixto Valencia, el creador artístico de 'Memín Pinguín' (in Spanish)
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Fallece Guillermo Zúñiga, rector de la UPAV y ex alcalde de Xalapa (in Spanish)
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Fallece el poeta mexicano Max Rojas (in Spanish)
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"Mexican Slapstick Comedy Icon 'La India Maria' Dies at 74" . The Hollywood Reporter .
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Muere Juan Molinar Horcasitas (in Spanish)
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Fallece el panista Héctor Pérez Plazola (in Spanish)
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LMB de luto por muerte de Andrés Mora (in Spanish)
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Asesinan al "Dinamita" Estrada (in Spanish)
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Murió Gustavo Sainz, pieza esencial de la “Literatura de la onda” (in Spanish)
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Gelsen Gas in memoriam (in Spanish)
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"Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa found dead in capital" .
The Guardian . 2015-08-02.
Archived from the original on 2023-07-27.
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Fallece el jinete mexicano Manuel Mendívil, ganador de bronce en JO (in Spanish)
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In Memoriam Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015) and Black Hole Entropy
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Muere Ricardo García Sainz
Archived 2015-08-25 at the
Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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Fallece el ingeniero y político Eugenio Méndez Docurro
Archived 2015-08-25 at the
Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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Zetas Drug Cartel Leader Dies in Mexican Prison
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Eraclio Zepeda’s passing, tourists’ return, Mexico’s Oscar choice
Archived September 23, 2015, at the
Wayback Machine
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Rinden homenaje a Enrique Ballesté, "maestro del teatro en libertad" (in Spanish)
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Conaculta lamenta muerte del poeta Hugo Gutiérrez Vega (in Spanish)
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Muere Blanca Magrassi, promotora de la participación política de las mujeres (in Spanish)
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Dominga Velasco, American supercentenarian, Died at 114
Archived October 16, 2015, at
archive.today
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Muere José Luis "Chito" García (in Spanish)
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Muere el compositor y actor José Ángel Espinoza 'Ferrusquilla' (in Spanish)
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Muere ex gobernador de Aguascalientes (in Spanish)
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Muere el actor Germán Robles (in Spanish)
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"Murió en Taxco el ex gobernador Xavier Olea Muñoz, a los 92 años" .
Diario de Guerrero . 2015-12-02. Archived from
the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved 2015-12-28 .
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Archbishop Ricardo Guízar Díaz
Archived 2015-12-08 at the
Wayback Machine
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Falleció Lizmark, el 'Geniecillo Azul' (in Spanish)
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"Romeo Anaya dies" . supersport.com .
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