2002 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Vicente Fox
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary :
• Secretary of the Environment :
• Secretary of Health :

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Baja California Sur:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• Quintana Roo:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• January 23 – La Espuela Coal Mine disaster caused the death of 13 miners
• February 28 – The El Heraldo de Mexico Awards took place.
• March 18 – The Monterrey Consensus from the International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Nuevo Leon.
• September 20 – Hurricane Isidore reaches the Yucatán Peninsula
• October 25 – Hurricane Kenna reaches Puerto Vallarta
• October 30 – Banco Azteca begins operations
• November 10 – The ITU World Triathlon Series take place in Cancún.

  Popular culture

• March 3 – Beginning of the reality show Big Brother
• May 15 – The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2002 take place in Mexico City
• June 30 – The reality show La Academia begins.
• July 4 – The TV y Novelas Awards take place in Mexico City.

  Sports

• Primera División de México Verano 2002
• Primera División de México Apertura 2002

  Music

Film

Documentaries

• Gabriel Orozco
• Niños de la calle
• Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados
• Acosada

  Fiction

• Amar te duele
• Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
• Dark Cites
• El crimen del padre Amaro
• eXXXorcismos
• Francisca
• El gavilán de la sierra
• La habitación azul
• Seres humanos
• El tigre de Santa Julia
• Una de dos
• La virgen de la lujuria

  Literature

TV

Notable deaths

• January 3 - Juan García Esquivel, musician
• February 10 - Ramón Arellano Félix, drug lord
• April 8 - María Félix, 88, Mexican actress
• October 11 - Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic
• October 19 - Manuel Alvarez Bravo, photographer
• November 6 - Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, politician
• November 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena
• December 2 - Ivan Illich, Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca.