2008 in Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Felipe Calderón PAN
- Interior Secretary
- *Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, until January 16
- *Juan Camilo Mouriño, January 16-November 4
- *Fernando Gómez Mont, starting November 10
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Patricia Espinosa
- Communications Secretary : Luis Téllez
- Education Secretary : Josefina Vázquez Mota
- Secretary of Defense : Guillermo Galván Galván
- Secretary of Navy : Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare : Javier Lozano Alarcón
- Secretary of Welfare
- *Beatriz Zavala, until December 9
- *Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9
- Tourism Secretary : Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
- Secretary of the Environment : Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
- Secretary of Health : José Ángel Córdova
- Secretary of Public Security : Genaro García Luna
- Secretary of Finance and Public Credit : Agustín Carstens
- Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) : Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1
- Secretary of Agriculture : Alberto Cárdenas
- Secretary of Public Function : Salvador Vega Casillas
- Secretary of Agrarian Reform : Germán Martínez
- Secretary of Economy
- *Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, until August 6
- *Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, starting August 6
- Attorney General of Mexico : Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso,
- Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán,
- Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño,
- Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez,
- Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero,
- Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas,
- Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés,
- Colima: Silverio Cavazos,
- Durango: Ismael Hernández,
- Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva,
- Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros,
- Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong,
- Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez,
- State of Mexico: Enrique Pena Nieto,
- Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, ; Leonel Godoy Rangel
- Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame.
- Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
- Nuevo León: José Natividad González Parás,
- Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz,
- Puebla: Mario Marín Torres,
- Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón
- Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto,
- San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Fraga,
- Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar,
- Sonora: Eduardo Bours,
- Tabasco: Andrés Rafael Granier Melo,
- Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores,
- Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz
- Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán
- Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco
- Zacatecas: Amalia García
- Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard
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
- Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
- Order of the Aztec Eagle
- National Prize for Arts and Sciences
- National Public Administration Prize
- Ohtli Award
- * Eliseo Medina
- * David Coss
- * Monica C. Lozano
- * Patricia Torres-Ray
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
TV
Telenovelas
Fuego en la SangreLas Tontas No Van al CieloAlma de HierroQuerida EnemigaCuidado con el ángelJuro Que Te AmoUn Gancho al CorazónEn Nombre del AmorNotable deaths
- January 10 – Andrés Henestrosa
- January 30 – Marcial Maciel
- February 2 – Francisco de Santiago Silva, visual artist
- 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, former municipal president of Cherán, Michoacán; murdered.
- May 24 – Eugenio Garza Lagüera
- June 1 – Marcelo Ibarra Villa, politician PRI, municipal president of Villa Madero, Michoacán; murdered.
- June 4 – Manuel de Jesús Angulo Torres, politician PRI, municipal president of Topia, Durango; murdered
- June 21 – Adalberto Almeida y Merino
- July 24 – Juan Manuel Orozco Serrano, politician PRI, former municipal president of Cuautitlán, Jalisco; murdered.
- July 25 — Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila
- July 27 – Isaac Saba Raffoul
- July 30 – Alejandro Aura
- August 30 – Gilberto Rincón Gallardo
- September 24 – Héctor Lorenzo Ríos, politician PRD, municipal president of Ayutla, Guerrero; murdered.
- 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.
- November 4 – Juan Camilo Mouriño
- December 2 – Carlos Abascal
- December 12 – Amalia Solórzano, First Lady of Mexico