2005 in Mexico

Events in the year 2005 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Vicente Fox PAN
Interior Secretary : Santiago Creel
Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Luis Ernesto Derbez
Communications Secretary : Pedro Cerisola
Education Secretary : Reyes Tamez
Secretary of Defense : Gerardo Clemente Vega
Secretary of Navy : Marco Antonio Peyrot González
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare
*José Carlos María Abascal Carranza
*Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz
Secretary of Welfare : Josefina Vázquez Mota
Tourism Secretary : Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
Secretary of the Environment
*Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, until June 23
*José Luis Luege Tamargo, starting June 23
Secretary of Health : Julio Frenk
Attorney General of Mexico
*Rafael Macedo de la Concha, until April 27
*Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, starting April 28

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón

Governors

Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso PAN
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
Baja California Sur
*Leonel Cota Montaño PRD, until April 5.
*Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD, starting April 5.
Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PRI
Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD
Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas PRI
Coahuila
*Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI, until February 15
*Humberto Moreira PRI, starting February 17
Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes PRI
Durango: Ismael Hernández PRI
Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN
Guerrero
*René Juárez Cisneros PRI, date not available
*Zeferino Torreblanca PRD, date not available
Hidalgo
*Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI, until March 31
*Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI, starting April 1
Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN
State of Mexico
*Arturo Montiel PRI, until September 16
*Enrique Peña Nieto PRI, starting September 16
Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN
Nayarit
*Antonio Echevarría Domínguez, until September
*Ney González Sánchez, starting September
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz PRI
Puebla
*Melquíades Morales PRI, until January 31
*Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI, starting February 1
Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN
Quintana Roo
*Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI, until April 4
*Félix González Canto PRI, starting April 5
San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN
Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI, until December 31
Sonora: Eduardo Bours PRI
Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1
Tamaulipas
*Tomás Yarrington PRI, until February 1
*Eugenio Hernández Flores PRI, starting February 5
Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán PRI
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
Head of Government of the Federal District: Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez PRD

Events

CUMEX is formed.
The Socialist Alliance (Mexico) is formed.
The Centro de Investigaciones Cientifícas de las Huastecas 'Aguazarca' is founded.
January 30 – New Alliance Party founded.
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

Awards

Popular culture

Sports

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

Carlos Monsiváis won the National Prize for Arts and Sciences

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 18 - Teodoro Herrera Sosa, politician PRI, former municipal president, Soto la Marina, Tamaulipas;murdered along with wife and two children.
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