2009 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Felipe Calderón
• Interior Secretary : 1853–present
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs : 1880–present
• Communications Secretary : 1917–present
• Education Secretary : 1921–present
• Secretary of Defense : 1934–present
• Secretary of Navy: 1940–present
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: 1941–present
• Secretary of Welfare: 1959–present
• Secretary of Public Education: 1975–present
• Tourism Secretary : 1975–present
• Secretary of the Environment : 1982–present
• Secretary of Health : 1982–present

  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– 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.
• March 4 – 2009 Mexico prison riot: A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.
• March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in a bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
• April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.
• April 19 – Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico.
• April 25 – Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza.
• April 27 – 2009 Guerrero earthquake: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.
• May 16 – The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico.
• May 22 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico.
• June 6 – 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire: a fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.
• July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico.
• July 5 – Mexico holds its legislative election.
• August 3 – Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hit northwestern Mexico.
• 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.
• August 4 – President Felipe Calderon receives Honduras President Manuel Zelaya in Los Pinos after a coup d'etat.
• August 15 – A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.
• August 21 – Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use".
• 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.
• September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico.
• 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.
• December 21 – Mexico City's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption.
• 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.

  Popular culture

Sports

• 2009 Primera División de México Clausura
• 2009 Primera División de México Apertura
• 2009 InterLiga
• 2009 CONCACAF Champions League Finals
• 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
• 2009 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
• Homenaje a Dos Leyendas
• 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico
• 2009 LATAM Challenge Series season
• 2009 NASCAR Corona Series season
• 2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series season
• 2009 Chihuahua Express
• 2009 Carrera Panamericana
• 2009 International Rally of Nations
• 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit
• 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit
• 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit
• 2009 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
• 2009 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship
• Mexico at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
• 2009 Caribbean Series

  Music

• List of number-one albums of 2009

  Film

• All inclusive
• Amar
• Amar a morir
• Cabeza de Buda
• Otra película de huevos y un pollo
• Recién Cazado
• Sólo quiero caminar
• Secretos de familia
• Nikté

  Literature

TV

Telenovelas

• Un gancho al corazón
• Mañana es para siempre
• Atrévete a soñar
• Verano de amor
• Mi pecado
• Camaleones
• Hasta que el dinero nos separe
• Sortilegio
• Alma de Hierro
• Pasión Morena
• Eternamente tuya
• Pobre diabla
• Los exitosos Pérez
• Corazón salvaje
• Mujer comprada

  Notable deaths

• January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.
• January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor, heart failure.
• February 7 – Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician, heart attack.
• March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.
• March 18 – Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán.
• March 22 – Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.
• March 23 – Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer.
• March 26 – Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima, natural causes.
• April 23 – Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest.
• April 30 – Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.
• May 5 – Manuel Capetillo, bullfighter, singer, and actor; respiratory illness
• May 5 – Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.
• June 23 — Manuel Saval, 53, actor
• July 19 – Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, natural causes.
• July 22 – Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• August 20 – Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman, founder of Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain.
• August 29 – Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes.
• September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot.
• October 25 – Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.
• November 6 – Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.
• November 7 – Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.
• November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.
• November 28 – Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes.
• December 4: Leticia Palma, 82, actress,
• December 7 – Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist.
• December 16 – Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.