2006 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2006 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President

President
*Vicente Fox PAN, until November 30
*Felipe Calderón PAN, starting December 1

Cabinet

Interior Secretary
*Santiago Creel, until November 30
*Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, starting December 1
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
*Luis Ernesto Derbez, until November 30
*Patricia Espinosa, starting December 1
Communications Secretary
*Pedro Cerisola, until November 30
*Luis Téllez, starting December 1
Education Secretary
*Reyes Tamez, until November 30
*Josefina Vázquez Mota, starting December 1
Secretary of Defense
*Gerardo Clemente Vega, until November 30
*Guillermo Galván Galván, starting December 1
Secretary of Navy
*Marco Antonio Peyrot González, until November 30
*Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza, starting December 1
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare
*Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz, until November 30
*Javier Lozano Alarcón, starting December 1
Secretary of Welfare
*Josefina Vázquez Mota, until November 30
*Beatriz Zavala, starting December 1
Tourism Secretary : Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
Secretary of the Environment
*José Luis Luege Tamargo, until November 30
*Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, starting December 1
Secretary of Health
*Julio Frenk, until November 30
*José Ángel Córdova, starting December 1
Secretary of Public Security
*Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, until November 30
*Genaro García Luna, starting December 1
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
*Francisco Gil Díaz, until November 30
*Agustín Carstens, starting December 1
Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) : Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1
Secretary of Agriculture : Alberto Cárdenas, starting December 1
Secretary of Public Function : German Martínez Cázares, starting December 1
Secretary of Agrarian Reform : Germán Martínez, starting December 1
Attorney General of Mexico
*Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, until November 30
*Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, starting December 1

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: Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD
Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PAN
Chiapas
*Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD, until December 7
*Juan Sabines Guerrero, starting December 8
Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas PRI
Coahuila: Humberto Moreira PRI
Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes PRI
Durango: Ismael Hernández PRI
Guanajuato
*Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN, until September 25
*Juan Manuel Oliva PAN, starting September 26
Guerrero: Zeferino Torreblanca PRD
Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI
Jalisco
*Alberto Cárdenas PAN, until November 20
*Gerardo Solís Gómez PAN, substitute governor
State of Mexico: Enrique Peña Nieto PRI
Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
Morelos
*Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN, until October 1.
*Marco Antonio Adame PAN, starting October 1.
Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz PRI
Puebla: Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI
Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN
Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto PRI
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, until December 31
Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores PRI
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, until December 4
*Marcelo Ebrard PRD, starting December 5

Events

The Broad Progressive Front is founded
The Garros Galería is established.
The Televisa Law is approved.
The Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve is declared by the UNESCO in Morelos.
The Biosphere Reserve of Huatulco is declared by the UNESCO in Oaxaca.
January: The Other Campaign
January 25: Juana Barraza is apprehended.
February 4: Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and Towers incident.
February 19: Pasta de Conchos mine disaster
March 2: Cumbres case
March: Santiago Mexquititlán raid
April 10: 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust
May: Jojutla crater discovered on Mars by astronomer Andres Eloy Martínez Rojas.
May 3: 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco
May 27: Eutelsat 113 West A is launched.
June 17: Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
June 27: Ángel Albino Corzo International Airport inaugurated.
June 28: Miss Latin America 2006 held in Riviera Maya.
September 2: Nuestra Belleza México 2006
September 16: the Faro del Comercio is re-inaugurated.
November 10: The government of Mexico City approves a law on civil unions, becoming the first local government to allow same sex unions in Mexico.
December 11: Beginning of the Mexican drug war
unknown date: Galia Moss, a Latin American sailor crosses the Atlantic Ocean alone.

Elections

Awards

Popular culture

Sports

Film

Una película de huevosEfectos secundarios – September 1PretendiendoPan's Labyrinth – October 2Así del precipicioCansada de besar sapos – December

TV

Telenovelas

Heridas de amorLa fea más bellaCódigo postal – May 22

Notable deaths

January 1 - Mapita Cortés, 75, Puerto Rican -born actress of the cinema of Mexico
January 13 - Raúl Anguiano, 90, painter and muralist, heart failure.
February 10 - Juan Soriano, 85, painter and sculptor.
February 12 - Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, entrepreneur and co-founder of the PAN.
March 7 - Ludwik Margules, 72, theatre director, cancer.
March 29 - Salvador Elizondo, 73, writer.
April 5 - Armando Labra, 62, economist.
April 20 - Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, film director.
April 30 - Beatriz Sheridan, 71, actress and director, heart attack.
May 4 - Valentin Trujillo, 55, actor, heart attack.
May 22 - Lilia Prado, 78, actress, multiple organ failure.
May 23 - Ángel Fernández, 80, sports broadcaster, renal failure.
July 15 - Raúl Delgado Benavides, politician, Municipal president ; murdered
August 4 - Julio Galán, 47, painter
September 15 - Pablo Santos, 19, actor
October 9 - Mario Moya Palencia, 73, politician, heart attack.
October 24 - Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, writer, lung cancer.
November 1 - Daniel García "Huracán Ramírez", 80, wrestler, heart attack.
November 6 - Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, singer, bronchitis.
November 19 - Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, General. Cancer.
November 23 - Jesús Blancornelas, 70, journalist, cancer.