2005 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

• CUMEX is formed.
• The Socialist Alliance is formed.
• The Centro de Investigaciones Cientifícas de las Huastecas 'Aguazarca' is founded.
• January 30 – New Alliance Party founded.
• March 3 – Víctor Trujillo presents videos showing proof of corruption by government officials of the Federal District, initiating the scandal labeled videoescándalos.
• March 23 – The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is signed by the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States in Waco, Texas.
• March 29 – Ariel Award in 2005
• April 7 – The Chamber of Deputies votes to lift Andrés Manuel López Obrador's constitutional immunity against prosecution.
• April 16–17 – National Assembly of the Socialist Left
• May 8 – 2005 Denver police officer shooting
• June 8: Alejandro Domínguez Coello is murdered.
• July 18 – Hurricane Emily hits the Yucatán Peninsula.
• September 2 – Nuestra Belleza México 2005
• September 8 – The Mexican Army is received with honors at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas in response to Hurricane Katrina.
• October 4 – Hurricane Stan hits the state of Veracruz.
• October 21 – Hurricane Wilma hits the Yucatán Peninsula.
• November 4 – Start of the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas.
• November 7 – radio program El Weso starts airing.
• November 10 – Beginning of the 2005 Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis.
• December 9 – the Mesoamerican Energy Integration Program was signed between by Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Central America.
• December 25 — The Popocateptl volcano's crater produced an explosion which ejected a large column of smoke and ash about into the atmosphere and expulsion of lava.

  Elections

• 2005 Coahuila state election
• 2005 Colima gubernatorial election
• 2005 State of Mexico election

  Popular culture

Sports

• Primera División de México Clausura 2005
• Primera División de México Apertura 2005
• 2005 InterLiga
• Fútbol Americano
• 2005 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
• 2005 Gran Premio Telmex/Tecate
• 2005 Desafío Corona season
• 2005 Rally México
• 2005 Caribbean Series in Mazatlán
• Homenaje a Dos Leyendas
• 2005 IIHF World Championship Division III won by Mexico in Mexico.

  Music

Film

• March 29 - The XLVII edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
• November 4 - La mujer de mi hermano

  Literature

TV

Telenovelas

• July 18 - Amor en custodia on TV Azteca
• July 18 - La esposa virgen on Televisa
• September 26 - El Amor No Tiene Precio on Televisa
• October 3 - Machos on TV Azteca

  Notable deaths

• January 5 - Eduardo Hay, International Olympic Committee
• January 14 - Ofelia Guilmain, Spanish -born film and stage actress
• January 22 - Consuelo Velázquez, songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song Bésame mucho
• February 24 - Gustavo Vázquez Montes, incumbent governor of Colima
• March 27 - Rigo Tovar, popular singer and composer
• April 10 - Raúl Gibb Guerrero, newspaper editor
• April 16 - Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla, journalist
• April 16 - Jaime Fernández, actor
• April 29 - Mariana Levy, actress
• May 5 - Édgar Ponce, actor
• June 5 - Oscar Morelli, actor
• June 5 - Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, scholar, diplomat and politician
• June 8 - Alejandro Domínguez, chief of police of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
• July 2 - Martin Sanchez, boxer
• July 6 - Marga López, Argentine -born screen and television actress
• August 6 - Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, trade union leader
• September 21 - Ramón Martín Huerta, minister of public security of the federal government
• November 6 - Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela, lawyer and professor