2009 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2009 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Incumbents

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.

Awards

Popular culture

Sports

Music

List of number-one albums of 2009 (Mexico)

Film

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Notable deaths

January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.
January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor, heart failure.
February 6 – Claudio Reyes Núñez, politician PRI, president of Otáez Municipality, Durango; murdered.
February 7 – Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician, heart attack.
February 22 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez Aceves, politician PRD, former president of Petatlán (municipality), Guerrero: murdered.
February 24 – Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, politician PRI, municipal president of Vista Hermosa, Michoacán; murdered.
March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.
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March 14 – Dimas Arzeta Cisneros, politician PRI, former president of Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero; murdered.
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 3 – Nicolás León Hernández, politician PRI, former municipal president of Isla del Cayacal, Michoacán; murdered.
April 7 – Gustavo Bucio Rodríguez, politician PRD, candidate for Deputy in Michoacán; murdered.
April 20 – Alfonso Rivera Cruz, municipal president pro tempore of Zapotitlán Tablas (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
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 2 – Luis Carlos Ramírez López, politician PAN, president of Ocampo Municipality; murdered.
June 11 – Efraín Gutiérrez Arcos, politician PRI, former municipal president of Santa Ana Maya, Michoacán; murdered.
June 23 — Manuel Saval, 53, actor
July 14
*Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician PAN, president of Namiquipa Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
*Ismael Rivera, politician, treasurer of the municipality of Namiquipa, Chihuahua; murdered.
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.
*Armando Chavarría Barrera, politician PRD, Deputy from Chilpancingo, Guerrero; murdered.
August 29 – Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes.
September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, politician; shot.
October 9 – Estanislao García Santelis, politician, municipal president of Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua; murdered.
October 16 – José Sánchez Chávez, politician PRI, former municipal president of Tiquicheo, Michoacán; murdered.
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.