2008 in Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico.
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Incumbents
Federal government
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- Interior Secretary (SEGOB)[1]
- Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, until January 16
- Juan Camilo Mouriño, January 16-November 4 (died in office)
- Fernando Gómez Mont, starting November 10
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa[1]
- Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez[1]
- Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota[1]
- Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván[1]
- Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza[1]
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón[1]
- Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)[1]
- Beatriz Zavala, until December 9
- Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9
- Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres[1]
- Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada[1]
- Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova[1]
- Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna[1]
- Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP): Agustín Carstens[1]
- Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1[1]
- Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas[1]
- Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): Salvador Vega Casillas[1]
- Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez[1]
- Secretary of Economy (SE)[1]
- Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, until August 6
- Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, starting August 6
- Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza[1]
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- 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: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
- Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All)
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila:
- Colima:
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco:
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame (PAN).[2]
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro:
- Quintana Roo:
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas:
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
- Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)
Events
- Macrolimosna
- June 1–2: Tropical Storm Arthur 2008
- July 20–21: Hurricane Dolly 2008
- August 3–8: XVII International AIDS Conference, 2008
- September: Riots in the La Mesa Prison
- September 15: 2008 Morelia grenade attacks
- October 6–7: Tropical Storm Marco 2008
- November 4: 2008 Mexico City plane crash
- November 26: Premios Oye! 2008
Elections
Awards
Popular culture
Sports
- Primera División de México Clausura 2008
- 2008 Primera División de México Apertura
- 2008 North American SuperLiga
- 2008 InterLiga
- 2008 Carrera Panamericana
- 2008 NASCAR Corona Series season
- 2008 Rally México
- 2008 LATAM Challenge Series season
- 2008 Centrobasket
- 2008 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
- 2008 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
- Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2008)
- 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Manzanillo)
- 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Guadalajara)
- 2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Turkey
- 2008 NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics
- 2008 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships
- 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships
- 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
- Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Mexico at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Film
Telenovelas
Notable deaths
- January 10 – Andrés Henestrosa
- January 17 – Alejandro Illescas
- January 30 – Marcial Maciel
- February 11 – Emilio Carballido
- February 25 – Alan Ledesma, 30, actor, stomach cancer.
- March 22 – Adolfo Antonio Suarez Rivera
- April 8 – Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, actress, melanoma.
- April 10 – Ernesto Corripio Ahumada
- April 14 – Miguel Galvan, 50, actor, renal failure.
- May 8 – Leopoldo Juárez Urbina, politician (Convergence), former municipal president of Cherán, Michoacán; murdered.[3][4][5]
- May 24 – Eugenio Garza Lagüera
- June 1 – Marcelo Ibarra Villa, politician
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PRI, municipal president of Villa Madero, Michoacán; murdered.[6] - June 4 – Manuel de Jesús Angulo Torres, politician PRI, municipal president of Topia, Durango; murdered[nb 1][7]
- June 21 – Adalberto Almeida y Merino
- July 24 – Juan Manuel Orozco Serrano, politician PRI, former municipal president of Cuautitlán, Jalisco; murdered.[8][9]
- July 25 — Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila (born 1955)
- July 27 – Isaac Saba Raffoul
- July 30 – Alejandro Aura
- August 30 – Gilberto Rincón Gallardo
- September 24 – Héctor Lorenzo Ríos, politician
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PRD, municipal president of Ayutla, Guerrero; murdered.[10][11] - September 29 – Miguel Córcega, 78, actor and director, stroke.
- October 4 – Servando González
- October 8 – Salvador Vergara Cruz, politician PRI, municipal president of Ixtapan de la Sal, State of Mexico; murdered.[12]
- November 4 – Juan Camilo Mouriño
- December 2 – Carlos Abascal
- December 12 – Amalia Solórzano, First Lady of Mexico (1934-1940) (b. 1911)
Notes
- Angulo Torres was kidnapped with his brother at a restaurant on 4 June 2008. His body has not been found and he is not reported as dead.
References
- "Este fue el gabinete de Felipe Calderón". www.capitalmexico.com.mx (in Spanish). Capital México. Feb 6, 2018. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
- "Marco Antonio Adame Castillo". Líderes Mexicanos (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- Magaña, Javier (10 May 2011). "Impunidad y muerte tienen a comunidad autóctona en estado de sitio". CNNMéxico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 June 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- "Ejecutan a Leopoldo Juárez; pobladores señalan al alcalde de Cherán y al síndico como responsables". La Jornada (in Spanish). 10 May 2008. Archived from the original on 21 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- "Se agudiza el conflicto en Cherán; continúa desaparecido el ex alcalde Leopoldo Juárez". La Jornada (in Spanish). 9 May 2008. Archived from the original on 21 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- Martínez Eloriiaga, Ernesto (3 June 2008). "Asesinan al edil de Villa Madero". La Jornada (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- "Presidentes municipales de Durango están a merced del crimen organizado". La Jornada (in Spanish). 24 February 2010. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- "Sicarios ejecutan a exalcalde de Cuatlitlán, en Jalisco". Proceso (in Spanish). 25 July 2008. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- "Ex alcalde de Cuautitlán de García Barragán fue ejecutado". El Informador (Mexico) (in Spanish). July 2010. Archived from the original on 28 November 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- Ordaz, David (31 January 2011). "Claves: los alcaldes asesinados de México". El Economista (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- Briseño, Héctor (12 June 2012). "Candidatos del PRD "están en riesgo", dice dirigente". La Jornada (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 June 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- Wilkinson, Tracy (8 October 2008). "Killing of Mexico mayor sends message". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
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